Peeta's POV

I wake up to find Katniss still snoring softly beside me, which surprises me. She's usually up long before I am. I decide to take advantage of this. It's not like she sleeps in every day.

I get up, careful not to wake her and sneak off to Willow's room. When I get there I find out that she's already awake and playing happily with one of her toys.

"Hey Cupcake," I say picking her up. "How are you this morning?" she giggles and I kiss her cheek. "You wanna go get Momma?" she laughs again and I carry her into our room where Katniss is still sleeping soundly. I set Willow on the bed and she sits there staring at me.

"Go get Momma," I whisper as I point to Katniss. Willow looks at her for a moment before rolling over and crawling towards Katniss. She's slow since she's still learning, but she moves around pretty well.

When she gets to Katniss' face, somehow not waking her, she reaches out and touches her mothers cheek. Well, more she slaps it. It's not like Willow has fine motor skills yet.

Katniss rolls over and Willow giggles. She tries to crawl over Katniss' shoulder but ends up toppling over her onto her back. Willow rolls back over and crawls back up to Katniss' face and starts batting at it again, squealing.

"Peeta, Stop it," Katniss groans, still half asleep.

"Are my hands really that tiny?" I ask her and she sits up and notices Willow practically sitting on top of her.

"You got her to do your dirty work?" She asks.

"Yes, yes I did," I say with a smirk.

"And you're proud of that aren't you?" she says.

"Yes, yes I am," I say.

"You're such a child sometimes," she says.

"Yeah but I know you like it," I say crawling onto the bed next to her.

"You need to grow up," she says.

"Come on admit it," I say, "You like when I'm childish."

"Sometimes, but not when you use our daughter to wake me up when I'm trying to sleep in," she says. Willow crawls across Katniss' legs and up between us. Katniss gives me a look. "You taught it to move?"

"What? She's got to move around sometime," I say.

"I already have enough trouble keeping track of her without her crawling around the house," Katniss says.

"Luca will watch her. He already follows us wherever we take her," I say. When he hears his name, Luca sticks his head up and when he sees us jumps up on the bed and curling up on Katniss' legs.

"Yeah, let the dog do what the unstable mother can't do right," she jokes but I see a tear run down her cheek.

"Katniss, you are a terrific mother. Willow loves you so much, she absolutely adores you," I say. "I know it's hard because of what we've been through and because we're so young, but Willow couldn't ask for a better mother."

Katniss looks at Willow, who's rolled onto her back and is biting on her fist happily. When she sees Katniss looking at her, she reaches her arms up to her, showing she wants to get picked up. Katniss smiles and lifts Willow onto her chest and kisses her cheek.

"I never wanted this," Katniss says smiling as she runs her hand gently down Willow's back,"I know I keeping saying that but I just can't help but think it. I didn't want anyone to lay next to me while I sleep, yet I can't imagine not laying in your arms at night. I didn't want children yet I wouldn't give Willow up for anything."

"We've changed a lot Katniss," I say. "We aren't who we were before the war."

"I know," she says, "God I know." she looks down at Willow and then back at me. "Peeta?"

"Yeah?" I say.

"When you pictured us together, was it like this?" she asks.

"Well," I say. "I wasn't hijacked and missing a leg and we weren't this young, like more in our late twenties. But I always saw that smile on your face as you held our children and the warmth of your arms and the way your eyes shine when you look at me." I smile at her. "What about you? I know you didn't see your life like this, but you did see something didn't you?"

"I saw myself alone," she says. "Mother was dead, and I was living with Prim and her husband and their kids. I was an alcoholic, like Haymitch and I'm not gonna go any further because you aren't gonna wanna hear the rest." I nod and gently rub her back.

"We're okay now Katniss," I tell her, "You don't have to think about that anymore."

"Peeta, you're right and wrong," she says.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"We don't have to think about that stuff anymore. We get to raise our daughter and watch her fill our lives with joy as she grows bigger and bigger everyday," she says. "But we will never be okay, Peeta. We have been through way to much to ever be okay, ever again."

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