Welcome to the 10th Annual Hunger Games

[peeta_bread]

[The body beside Peeta is warm, familiar, right. So it takes a few minutes for him to realize that he should not have his arm wrapped around her.
He gasps. When did Katniss come into his room? In the middle of the night? Or had it been the castle? Peeta quietly slips his arm away from her and climbs out of bed, looking for his journal.

He flips it open and looks through the entries. Babies? But-

And then he spots her. A beautiful little girl with olive skin and dark hair, just lying in the armchair in the corner of his room. He hurries over to her, scooping her up in his arms. She has the same strong jaw line as him. And her eyes. Her eyes are a deep blue, just like his. He presses his lips to her forehead.

He walks back over to his table and sits with her in his lap, flipping the journal open again. His voice is a whisper.]

Please don’t speak very loudly or just write. Katniss is asleep. It’s Peeta. I have a baby. She’s beautiful.

[And then, after a long time, their baby is hungry. Peeta tries to calm her, but he knows it’s coming. And finally, the little girl lets out a shriek. He sighs.]

Never mind.

[ooc: Open over the journals!]

Comments

dictated

[valuedstrength]

Better luck next time, Peeta.

forever!

[peeta_bread]

[He laughs.] I tried. Hey, Steve? You know what I'm supposed to feed a one year-old? I wished up a ton of books but I haven't gotten very far yet.

[blue_sniper]

[Bucky is trying hard not to snicker at that. Very hard.]

So. You have a kid now too.

[peeta_bread]

Bucky, she's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[Wait, 'too'? Excitedly:] You have a kid?

Not Actually Here

[accidentalrebellion]

[...

... And this is why Peeta needs to learn to shut his mouth B|]

dictated

[tyingknots]

[And this is the sound of Finnick laughing.]

What's Katniss think?

forever!

[peeta_bread]

[Quietly:] She's still asleep. And why are you laughing?

dictated... later on

[accidentalrebellion]

[Finnick Odair, if you are over there laughing, she is going to kick your ass. Or point an arrow at you and finish the job B|]

He told you everything?

Action!

[accidentalrebellion]

[Nights in Paradisa have never been easy for Katniss. If she ever manages to sleep, it's never for more than a few hours. The nightmares, more graphic and horrific than ever, more than see to that.

But for once, tonight, she's been sleeping peacefully. Dreamlessly. In some state of semi-awareness, she knows that the space beside her is comfortable and warm, maybe slightly familiar. At some point, she's shifted closer to it, but for the most part, she's been completely dead to the world.

Just like everything else, though, such good things aren't meant to last.

That shriek provides a much ruder awakening than any nightmare ever could. It pierces straight through her eardrums and sends a jolt all the way through her body, causing her to sit bold upright in a panic, breathing hard, desperately scanning her surroundings for the source of it.]

[peeta_bread]

[Peeta jumps at that. He grabs the little girl up in her arms and immediately goes to Katniss, an instant reaction.

But his daughter needs comforting, too, so when he reaches the bed, he rocks her back and forth in his cradled arms, talking to her softly.]

Katniss, you okay?

Peeta

[prettyknives]

You know I can see this, don't you? [is she helping him out? who knows]

Clove

[peeta_bread]

[He stares at the journal in horror. How had he forgotten? He'd gotten lazy, too carefree. But he takes a breath.]

Don't bother hunting us down. We're nowhere you would find us.

[And now he's quietly packing up his girl's things, hoping Clove can't hear him.]

Dictated forever

[wastheexample]

[Well, Haymitch is going to speak. And loudly. If he has to suffer, you are all going to suffer with him]

Oh you mean Katniss who went home over a month ago? THAT Katniss?

[You are the worst secret keeper on the planet, get out Peeta :/]

Haymitch

[peeta_bread]

[...Really? He'll throw up a filter now. Also, his baby is crying now thanks to Haymitch. :/]

You really think that's going to work when Katniss has been walking around the castle?

Threadjack - Filtered away from Katniss's enemies especially Clove

[wizard_redfive]

[Also loudly, but filtered. Aren't you proud of her.]

Oh, sod off, Haymitch!

[Sorry Peeta, but she's still quite pissed at your mentor.]

Haymitch

[accidentalrebellion]

[... Later...

As if the whole discovery-of-having-a-child wasn't bad enough. Now she's discovering that Peeta announced it over the journal. If that in and of itself wasn't sufficient enough to be irritating, there's this little message.]

Drop it.

text

[starhipped]

Y-You had a baby?!

[She misunderstood. He had a baby all by himself? It's a miracle!]

[peeta_bread]

[Ahaha... he doesn't catch her misunderstanding.]

Yeah! She's the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.

Dictated - Peeta

[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine isn't sure what she thinks about all these baby shenanigans yet (other than being relieved she didn't get one). But this one is so sweet. She's glad that if the castle had to give Peeta a kid, it was with Katniss.

...Yet at the same time it worries her. They're only a year or two older than her big sister, which is a little scary to consider. Are they really ready to handle a baby?]

You too, huh. What's she like?

Dictated- Dairine

[peeta_bread]

Yeah. Dairine, she's beautiful. She has olive skin and dark hair like Katniss, but she has my eyes. And she's a good baby, but she's not afraid to tell you when she's upset.

[Can you tell how proud he is?]

Dictated

[i_got_this]

Congratulations. You want a parade or something?

[Crying in stereo on the background.]

forever!

[peeta_bread]

You don't sound happy.

Dictated..... later

[accidentalrebellion]

[Peeta Needs to Shut His Mouth: Exhibit #I Lost Count. Katniss has mostly been skimming the responses she can see here, becoming progressively more annoyed as she goes, but there's something about this one that takes the cake. She's never even met this person, but it's enough to garner a response out of her.]

Funny.

[fly_little_bird]

[... what]

You have a baby?

[peeta_bread]

Rue. Yeah, the castle made one appear. She looks just like Katniss and me.

[stalkershiki]

[Shiki's rather... harried at the moment, and doesn't have a lot of time to be going through the journal, but she hears Peeta, and she can't help but at least answer him a little bit.]

Oh right, you haven't been here for this before! I'm glad you're so in love with her~

[peeta_bread]

Yeah, she's just beautiful, Shiki. How about you? Any kids?