Healing Scars

Chapter Thirty Seven

Chapter Thirty Seven

Katniss's POV

I get Willow up and make her breakfast. It's been a few weeks sense her birthday and last night Peeta went out with a few of his friends from the bakery and he told me that I would wake up with him next to me and so far... He hasn't made a appearance.

As I braid my hair, sitting on the counter I watch Willow eat her cereal sleepily and I smile. She really is beautiful, she's gorgeous, I wouldn't take any other little girl rather than her. Her dark thick curls are combed and put up in a low pony tail to show off a birthmark on her neck.

It makes me smile seeing that for some reason. I look at the time and hop off the counter and grab her shoes and her bag. She looks into my eyes, her blue ones showing how tired she is.

"Mommy?" I look up as I am tying her shoes. "Yeah baby?" She yawns, rubbing her eyes. "Where's daddy?" I smile, trying to reassure her and myself. "Daddy is working okay? He's fine." She smiles a little.

"I stayed up all night for him to read me my bedtime story." I furrow my eyebrows. "Willow I could've read you your story, you didn't have to wait for daddy." She shrugs as I tie the last lace. I put her backpack on her shoulders and kiss her four head.

"Have a good day at school okay? I love you." She smiles. "I love you too mama." She walks out the door and closes it gently.

I sent her back to school because now I don't have time to homeschool her with Kaden to worry about, not like he's a bother or anything but Peeta and I weren't planning on having another one, he just kinda happened.

He isn't up yet so I start doing the dishes. After a hour or so I hear the door open and someone stumble in. Thinking it's Haymitch I ignore the sounds and keep doing the dishes.

Then I feel a firm grip on my shoulder and someone spins me around. I see Peeta and I look into his eyes and see the dark pupils consuming the blue, he's having a attack... The first one in almost eight or nine years.

He throws me into the counter and I yelp. He grabs a knife from the dirty dishes and tries thrusting it into my neck but I grab his wrist and look into his eyes. "It's me Peeta, calm down it's me." His eyes glare into mine.

"You never loved me." He growls and starts pushing against my grip so he can make the fatal cut. "I do love you Peeta, I do love you." Then my grip slips and I duck, he stabs the counter.

My senses and body are telling me to go in survival mode, it's weird because I haven't been on my toes sense the games and it starts making the memories flood into my mind.

He lunges and tackles me to the floor. I bring my feet to his chest and kick him off, making him fly into the table with a cry of pain. "You bitch!" He screams and I stand quickly. He storms over and goes to punch and he swings hard.

I grab his fist, twist his arm behind his back. He then jabs his elbow in my stomach, making me wheeze and let go. Then his fist goes flying to my face and it makes contact.

I hear my nose and jaw make a horrible crack and I fly backwards and hit my head on the stove where the glass breaks and goes into my skin.

Then in moments the knife is to my neck and I put my hands over his while blood pours from my mouth and nose. I look into his eyes. "Sh, Peeta it's me, it's Katniss, I'm your wife, we have two beautiful kids together, you gotta remember."

I let one of my shaky hands brush a blond lock of hair from his sweaty four head and his lip twitches. "Do you remember when we made love Peeta? Do you remember at the end you promised you would love me forever? Do you remember how gentle you were with me? Do you, or did it mean nothing to you?" Tears are running down my cheeks and his eyes still stay dark.

"Because it meant the world to me to know you were the one to finally let me free from my past, from the games, the rebellion." His eyes drift to the scars going up my arms and I swallow as my voice becomes shaky.

"You see the scars don't you Peeta?" His eyes start to soften. "It's just me Peeta... Just relax and everything will stop." Then his eyes go back to completely dark and he drops the knife, grabs my head an bangs it hard against the broken glass of the stove, making me black out.

___________That Night______

I open my eyes slowly and my vision swirls and blurs in front of me. I put my hand on my four head and moan softly. My jaw is hurting unbearably and my nose does as well.

I then hear soft sobbing coming from the corner of the room I'm in. It feels like I'm laying on the couch so I open my eyes and my vision clears a little at this and I see Peeta in the corner of the living room sobbing with his hands over his face.

I roll off the couch and start crawling to him like I'm a infant. As I get to him I fall on the carpet from the pain and just burst into tears. He grabs my broken body and brings me into his lap and kisses my lips. "I'm so sorry Katniss, I got drunk and that's why my attack happened... I'm so sorry." I nod and leave a peck on his neck.

"It's okay." I can feel a few of his ribs poking out in weird directions and I notice I broke a few of his ribs. I look at his wrist and see he has a brace on it so I must of broke that as well.

One part of me is proud of myself and the other part feels absolutely horrible. "You fought back well." He says and I giggle. "I still have some fire left." He kisses the top of my head once more. "Where's the kids?"

"Haymitch's... I didn't want them to see you like this." I nod a little and he kisses my lips. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to get drunk." "Well you should've known better Peeta." I mumble and he nods.

We are huddled into a corner with our memories trying to get to us but we make sure we stay in that corner all night and fight off the nightmares.

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(IMPORTANT INFORMATION)

The next update will be the ending of Katniss's and Peeta's journey and I'll make sure it's extra long... But don't get upset! Part two will be the beginning of Kaden's story twenty years later! Now I'm going to be extremely upset to let this part go because I had so much fun writing it, but new characters are in part two and Kaden May find a love interest ;) but let me know what you thought of this chapter!

Maddie Homoelle