Healing Scars

Chapter Fifteen (Warning Birth Scene)

Katniss's POV

           I hold onto the corner of the counter as I start getting dizzy. My hearing is muffled but I can hear a lot of people shouting. I'm angry and I have no idea why... And my stomach is hurting. I look up to see Peeta staring at me with wide eyes and I grimace. I look down to see I'm standing in a puddle of pink water, then I remember everything. A pang goes through me and I scream, almost falling to my knees but Peeta  grabbed me. I gasp as he shushes me.

                  "Easy Katniss, it's time." I nod slowly with fear and he scoops me up carrying me upstairs with everyone following. He helps me on the bed, rubbing the small of my back where it always hurts. "Everyone needs to leave besides Peeta." My mother says sternly and Peeta kisses my lips. "You guys don't need me." He says walking out but I grab his hand. "I-I do, I need you." He looks down with a smile, remembering what I said on the beach.

                    He sits down on a chair by the bedside and kisses my hand. "I'll stay... You guys can wait." They nod and leave the room. Another pang goes through me and I tilt my head back and moan. My mother shushes me as I squeeze my eyes shut. "Katniss the pangs you are feeling are called contractions, those mean the baby is wanting out... You are about three centimeters which means you are still in the first stage of labor." I groan and Peeta kisses my sweaty four head. "But thankfully I have some ways to get you to ten centimeters."

                   These things are not fun at all. Pacing the room with Peeta there to hold me when contractions hit. Then there's one where my mother brings in a big rubber ball which she makes me sit on, which I don't want to but Peeta helps me sit on it and my mother sits in front of me on a chair and wraps her arms around me.

                 Tears roll down my face with sweat and a contraction washes over me and I gasp. "Mama-" "I'm right here sweetheart, I'm not going anywhere." I nestle my face into her shoulder and moan softly. She holds me like this for a few hours until we move to a chair. She gets up after checking me and smiles. "We're down to eight centimeters Katniss, I'm going to get some coffee and Peeta will help you until I get back." She walks out of the room and I hear her talking softly to Haymitch and Effie. Peeta sits in front of me and wraps his arms around my trembling body. He rests his chin on my shoulder.

           "Hey." "Hi." I whisper as he rubs little circles on my back. "How's the pain?" "Bad." He nods as I can feel and he kisses my sweaty neck and moves the dark hair sticking to my four head. "Just think, we'll have a baby in our arms soon." I nod and he grins. "Are you excited?" I shake my head and his smile drops. "It's okay if you aren't, I understand." I nod and then I cry out loudly, being taken back by the contraction. Peeta holds me and I start gasping. "Peeta, I need to push." He nods and helps me back to the bed quickly, with my feet pading on the tile.

                   He lays me down and calls for my mother. She rushes in and looks at me. She sits at my legs and looks down with a nod. "Push." That push is the start of my living hell. For hours I push without nothing and I am soaked in sweat, crying. "P-Peeta I can't d-do it!" I cry and he kisses my flooded cheeks, not saying anything.

                 Then someone bursts through the door and we see Johanna Mason with her cheeks red from the cold with her face angry. "Jo-" I say but she storms over to me and sits me up and sits behind me and wraps her arms around me. "Johanna let go!" "I'm not until you push that baby out!" I groan and grip the bedsheets. "PUSH GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!" "I'M PUSHING!!!!!!" I screams through my cleanched teeth. "The head is out Katniss! One more push!" I push again with Johanna screaming with me and then we hear a little cry of life.

                 I rest the back of my head on Johanna's chest that is heaving and I can hear the grin in her voice. "Look Katniss, look at your daughter." I look down as Peeta cuts the cord and see her dark hair, angry red skin, and my mouth drops at her cries as Peeta comes over and pats my face with a cool cloth. "What do you want to name her?" Peeta asks and I let tears roll down my face. "Weeping Willow Mellark, but we'll call her Willow." He grins and kisses me.

            Flashbacks of the  Quarter Quell go through my mind... Good and bad. I look down at her as my mother pats off my blood from her body and wraps her in a towel. "I'm horrified, scared, worried, but when she puts her in my arms all of those worries wash away." Then she opens her eyes and I see one color, blue.

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