Hijacked

Chapter Twenty Eight

Chapter Twenty Eight

Peeta's POV

Katniss is getting to the phase in the pregnancy where she is so uncomfortable she can't sit still and she thinks she can do anything. I listen to her as she chats on the phone with her mother about the baby as I make breakfast and then all of the sudden I hear her stand.

"Mom as much as I love you, I gotta get moving... Thank you for the advice I love you." She hangs up and I hear her walk into the kitchen and I turn to see her with a hand on her lower back. "God I hate this." She says and I smile. "I know." She sits quietly at the table reading a magazine and then all of the sudden she goes pale. "Katniss?" She looks up with tears in her eyes, her bottom lip quivering. I quickly walk over to her.

"Honey?" "Something, something moved." "Katniss what are you talking about?" She lifts her shirt quickly and puts my hands on the tight skin of her belly and I feel a hard thump which makes her gasps. I kiss her lips and grin. "Katniss honey that's the baby kicking, it's the babies first kick!" Her grey eyes are glassed over and wide as she looks up into my eyes.

Her bottom lip quivers and tears begin to pour down her cheeks. I keep my hands gently on her distended stomach. "Katniss?" "Let go of me, I don't want it to move." She whispers. I chuckle slightly. "Katniss the baby has to move, that's like you telling me to stop moving because you don't like me to." She stays quiet and just looks at her growing stomach.

"I'm just not use to this, I'm scared." I kiss her forehead. "I know honey." "I want it to be safe, I want it to like me, I want it to love me, I don't want it to ever feel pain I'm just so worried." I look into her eyes. "Katniss you know that it's going to love you and it will feel some sort of pain at some point in life. It maybe from a broken heart, or a scrape, or even a little bump on the head... You can't prevent things like that." Her shoulders slump. I smile.

"How about you and I grab some food from the pantry that we don't need and go to the Hob and hand some things out." She smiles and nods a little. I help her up with a chuckle. I grab her jacket and slip it onto her achy shoulders and smile. I grab my jacket and slip it on and walk over to the pantry with her as I stretch for a can Katniss hums as she shoves them into her satchel. After we get a good amount of the can goods into her satchel I grab it and we walk hand in hand to the Hob with our boots sloshing in the slush.

Katniss looks over after a few moments and we see the Hobs warm light. We walk in through the large doors and shut them tightly so no one will catch the cold. Everyone looks over at us and we grin and wave. We go over to Sae's first and she grins. "Hey you two." She says and I smile. "Hey Sae, want some canned soup to take home?" She grins. "Well thank you, I would love some." I hand her four cans and she looks at Katniss.

"Look how big you're getting honey!" She says and puts a wrinkly hand on Katniss's bump. "Oh I know, I've noticed... Sooner or later I won't be able to see my feet." She laughs. "That's going to be a good sized baby I tell ya." I nod laughing. "Mellark babies are usually pretty big." I say and she grins. "Well I appreciate you guys coming and helping me out-" then the doors are kicked open and five men with guns as they wear black with bandanas over their nose and mouths.

"Nobody move or I'll blow all of your heads off." I tense up and I feel Katniss do the same. I know what's going to happen, they are going to go for Ripper, or Sae, or they will go for Katniss. One of their eyes fall on Katniss and he laughs. "You've gotta be kidding me! The MockingJay here and pregnant?" He walks over and roughly grabs Katniss, wrapping one arm around her neck and the other around her distended belly with his gun still in hand.

"Don't touch her." I growl, my fists clenching "What are you going to do, beat me with a loaf of bread?" He glares and pulls down his bandana, kissing Katniss's cheek and gently tickling her nose with her braid. "I think I'll keep this MockingJay and clip her wings." "You wouldn't dare." Katniss hisses and he jabs the gun into her stomach hard, making her cry out. Sae looses it, throwing a can at him. "Don't you hurt that girl!" "Shut up you old hag, she's fine, just a little sore." Katniss is looking for something, anything to get away I can tell because her eyes are frantically searching for something.