Sparks

Chapter 18

CHAPTER 18

"I'm going to be a mother." I say again, still not believing it.

"Your going to be a fantastic mom, Katniss." Peeta smiles and kisses my lips gently.

We hear a clatter outside followed by a bunch of cursing and grunts.

"It's probably Haymitch." Peeta walks to the window then looks at me and points to the ground. "Stay here, Katniss." He commands.

"No, Peeta I'm coming too. Its just Haymitch. What's he going to do to me?"

"Remember what he did to Hazelle?"

"Peeta he was only drinking so hard because of Snow."

"I don't want to take any chances. Your staying here." He commands this time more cold and cross.

"Alright." I say gritting my teeth.

His face goes soft and leans in to kiss my cheek. "I'll be right back. Go back to bed."

"Fine." I say and head upstairs. When I'm in the hallway, I look out the window to see Haymitch and Peeta arguing. Haymitch throws a punch and Peeta ducks, grabbing Haymitches legs and pinning him to the floor Then Hazelle walks in. Haymitch calms down and Peeta lets him go. He gets off the ground and talks with Hazelle.

I walk back to my room and climb back into bed. I wait until Peeta walks in with bruises on his arms and face. "Peeta!" I yell and stand up. I run to his side and take him back downstairs. He doesn't say anything except for the faint moans that escape his lips every now and then. I get some snow from outside and put it in a small bag. I saw Prim do this with Gale when he was badly whipped.

I dab Peetas cuts and wrap bandages. "Peeta, what happened?"

"Haymitch." he tries to get out of his lips. "He's crazy. This is beyond normal Katniss. There is something wrong with him." he says.

"I'll talk to him tomorrow." I say.

"No." he shakes his head. "No, Katniss I forbid you to go over there." he says.

"Peeta I can take care of myself." I say insulted.

"I know you can Katniss. But please, for me don't go over there. It would make me feel better if you didn't go. Please Katniss." he pleads.

"Okay. I won't go." I say.

The rest of the night I attend to Peetas injuries. At some point my mom came down and helped so I could go back to bed. I didn't tell her about the baby because we aren't a hundred percent sure yet, but that's why I'm visiting a doctor in the Capitol tomorrow. Peeta will stay here due to his lack of energy, but Effie's going to come with me because she said I needed a girl friend to accompany me as I embark on this new journey.

"Where are you going?" my mom asks me the next morning.

"To see Paylor. She wanted to talk with me about somethings." I say.

"What kind of things?" she asks.

"I'm not sure yet." I say.

"Okay, have fun. And if you have a chance can you get any of those fancy bandages from the Capitol. I'm running low." she asks.

"Sure." I say.

I walk down the stairs to see Peeta on the couch sketching on his pad. "What are you drawing?" I ask him.

"Nothing." he lies.

I grab the pad and survey it. It was me. I look up at him and he smiles. It was me in my wedding dress. Not the Capitol dress, the one I wore to our real wedding. I flipped through his pad finding more pictures of me. Me shooting a deer, in the games on the beach when I told him I needed him. "Peeta." I whisper in disbelief. They looked exactly like me.

"Like I said, its nothing. I was just doodeling." he says.

"Peeta if this is doodeling then I would like to see a steady drawn pitcure." I say still flipping through his pad.

"Don't you have a train to get to?" He teases grabbing his pad back.

"Yes." I smile. I lean down and kiss his lips then leave.

I walk outside and head for the train station where I meet Effie. "Hello hello! Ready to go?" she claps.

"Yes." I say smileing. "Thank you Effie for coming, really."

She smiles. "Of course."

We board the train and I go immediately to my cart where I throw myself on the bed and fall asleep. When I wake up its the next day and we are stopping for fuel in District 7.

I throw on some clothes and step off the train not even bothering to let anyone know I slipped out. I breath in the fresh air I've been longing to breath. District 12 doesn't have very clean air like the other Districts. I make sure to hide myself from other hijacked citizens.

"Katniss!" I hear a familiar voice call. I turn and see Johanna running my way.

"Johanna." I smile.

When Johanna reaches me she just stands there and doesn't bother to embrace me or even give me a slight smile.

"So, what's the occasion, where's the train?" she asks.

"Johanna I think I'm pregnant. I'm on my way to the Capitol to find out for sure." I say.

"Alright I'm tagging along." she says.

"Johanna-" I hesitate.

"Katniss, I'm bored out of my mind in this ghost town. Hearing that you've been knocked up is the highlight of my week. Last weeks highlight was some old man choking in the square. It was hilarious." she laughs.

"I'm not su-" I start.

"Katniss!" Effie sings from the train. "It's time to get going. Oh, hello Johanna." she sings gleefully.

"Yeah hey." she says.

"Katniss! We have a schedule!" Effie snaps.

"Fine, come on." I say taking Johanna onto the train.