Healing Scars

Chapter Forty Four

Chapter Forty Four

PEETA'S POV

Three days, three long days of tests, surgeries, stitches, screaming, and crying. katniss woke up remembering me, the games, and all of the rebellion, us being married which was a blessing.

I hold her hand as she tries concentrating on the doctors pen he is moving back an fourth so she can follow them with her damaged eyes. She fails the tests, her eye sight is worse than before and her migraines are as well.

"Katniss, it looks like you are going to need more physical therapy on your eyes okay." "Okay." She says and I look into her grey eyes where the outside of her iris's is suppose to be white are bloodshot red.

She remembers briefly of her father, her mother she really remembers, hunting well I don't know... We're still pending on if she remembers or not. She looks into my eyes. "When will I be able to go home Peeta?" "When you are ready... Which might be tomorrow or next month we don't know." Tears roll down her cheeks.

"I don't like being in the Capitol." I shush her, trying to calm her down because when she starts crying she has horrible flashbacks. When she does calm down Gale comes in with a hologram and a head set.

"Katniss, this will show the men who hurt you in the arena and you will tell them their verdict." She nods and I put the headset on for her. It turns on and we see them standing in front of a grey building with the firing squad standing in front of them with their guns aimed.

"Your verdicts for trying to bring the games back and try killing four victors is... Death." "You sure MockingJay?" One says and she swallows and nods. "Blow the heads off of those bastards." Then she takes off the headset and closes her eyes as they all get shot, one by one of the five men who were in the operation.

Later that night I walk back inside her room after taking a shower and I see Gale holding onto her hand with a smile, talking about how they hunted when they were little... She says she even remembers how to shoot a bow.

His smiles and he swallows. "Katniss you get to go home tomorrow okay." She grins and nods. Johanna comes in with her whole torso wrapped in gauze and she grins. "Hey look what I found floating around." She pulls out our list of things to do and Katniss's face gets red with embarrassment.

"Jo, come on." I say and she plops onto Chips lap who sat down when he came in and she gives him a kiss on the jaw and smiles. "Well you guys have to do at least one of these things." She hands the list to Gale who reads it quickly and looks down at Katniss and smiles.

"I'll be back." Later as I am doodling with Katniss trying to watch the movements with her eyes Gale knocks on the door. "Hey you guys go up on the roof there's a surprise." I smile at Gale. "You didn't have to do anything Gale." I say and he puts a hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah I did." Then he walks away. I help Katniss walk to the elevator with my arm around her hip, she's still a little weak. I feel all the scabbed stitches from the JabberJays talons and beaks on her arms as we go up to the roof.

She's only in her hospital gown and when the door opens the draft of cool air makes her jump a little which makes me giggle. What we see is beautiful. Soft music plays with a guitar, candles around a soft plush blanket on the ground with a few pillows.

I see the list on one of the pillows with one circled. "Make love on top of the roof." I look at Katniss and kiss her lips. At first she hesitates but then kisses me back I scoop her up and lay her on the blanket and pillows, straddling her with a smile and she giggles like a little kid and kisses me harder and then everything is off, new scars shine in the candle light, yellowing bruises blossom on her arms, her eyes now a faint pink, making hey grey eyes explode like rain clouds rolling in over the meadow.

This is the woman I love to death, I don't see her with the scars of pain and agony... I see something bigger, survival. After we made love that was filled with laughter and jokes, tears and whispers of apologies she lays on top of me, her lips brushing my neck as she drifts in and out of sleep.

Her breasts are full and warm against my chest where I feel her beating heart which makes me smile I put my lips to her dark curly hair and whisper one thing.

"You better not leave me on this earth again." She sighs and smiles. "I won't." The next day as we walk down the gravel road in District Twelve I see a tired Effie Trinket with the kids holding in their bubbling excitement.

"Mommy! Daddy!" They start running over us and Willow with Kaden wrap their arms around Katniss who looks kinda awkward to be hugging them. I smile and then she looks up at me.

"Peeta?" "Yeah Katniss?" She looks blankly at her children. "Whose kids are they?" "Mommy that's silly you're our mommy." She shakes her head. "I don't have kids, I'm not your mommy."

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