Hijacked

Chapter Forty Nine

Chapter Forty Nine

PEETA'S POV

I wake slowly and feel the morning sun warming my bare chest as the sheets are now on my lap. I crane my neck to Katniss and Willow standing in front of the mirror, Katniss in slacks and her bra, Willow lifting her shirt. Katniss lets her stomach stick out making me giggle.

"Fat." Then she sucks back in. "Skinny." Willow let's her plump belly stick out. "Fat." Then she tries sucking in but her belly stays plump. "Still fat mama." Katniss laughs. "I need to loose some weight." "I need to stop eating so much cookies dada makes." Willow says and I get up slowly, with a slight wince from the pain in my stomach and then wrap my arms around both of them, with both of them squealing.

"Both of my girls are absolutely beautiful." I say, then putting my hand on Katniss's firm stomach. "You're beautiful." I kiss her cheek and then pick Willow up who giggles loudly. "And you're too my beautiful princess!" She laughs and I rest my forehead against hers. "And you can eat all the cookies you want, but not too much or you'll get a tummy ache."

Willow nods still giggling. I set her down. "Go downstairs and play with your toys." She toddles downstairs and I wrap my arms around Katniss's waist, resting my chin on her scarred shoulder. "You're so stunning." She chuckles. "I'm not." "But you are." She turns, planting a kiss on my lips and smiles, resting her hands on my stomach.

"We need to get you in a shower, you're nasty." She says looking at my greasy hair. "I can get in myself." She huffs. "I don't want you to make yourself bleed more than you need to and or get soap into the wound so get moving Mellark." She says shoving me into the bathroom.

I get in first and turn on the water. I look down at my feet. Then the door opens and I feel her body get under the water with me. I look up at her and she smiles a little bit. She puts a washcloth over the open wound and presses it there to keep soap from getting into it. I wince a little. "Sorry I know it hurts." I shrug as I put shampoo in my hair. "It's fine." Her hand stays firmly planted to where the wound is and I look into her grey eyes.

She's so beautiful, the warm rain from the shower head making her body glisten, her dark hair sticking to her cheekbones. I frown as I wash out my hair and she raises an eyebrow. "What?" I bring her closer to me, her body pressed against mine. "Katniss... How do you survive?" She looks confused.

"What do you mean honey?" "I mean, how do you survive everyday, a woman who cared so much about the people she loved and yet got so little... How do you do it." She smiles a little. "Well at first it wasn't really living, but now I have you,Willow, Haymitch, Emily, and Rye... Life goes on." She kisses my lips slowly and I smile.

I push her against the wall and this kiss gets much more heated. My hands wander, my thoughts jumble, but I know that when we get out the waters going to be ice cold.

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Katniss helps me put on my shirt and I smile down at her. She put her wet hair in her normal braid, she has her slacks and boots on with a shirt, her leather jacket waiting to be slipped on.

Her cheeks are still flushed from our shower and so are mine. She buttons the last button of my shirt and smiles. "There you go, very handsome." She runs her hands through my now clean hair and kisses my cheek, resting her burning her cheek against mine. "We should do that more often." She rests her forehead against my shoulder and laughs. I chuckle.

"I couldn't agree more." She takes my hand as she grabs her jacket and we walk down the stairs together. When we make it down I look and see Gale and Haymitch playing a game of checkers and Gale looks up. "Hey Peeta, it's good to see ya up." I nod and Haymitch raises a eyebrow. I know what he's thinking, I giggle. Katniss kisses my cheek and puts on her jacket.