This doesn't follow the epilogue
Background - Katniss's thoughts
My name is Katniss Everdeen. It's been 6 years since the war ended. And I still hate thinking of my past. Like I hate thinking of Gale. He's a loyal friend, Well he was. But that was before he killed Prim. My younger and only sister. I never speak to him any more. I know it hurts him but I can never forgive him. I live with Peeta now. We have two great kids. Both boys, Finn (after my fallen friend Finnick) and Castor (name might sound familiar). We live in a hidden forest, away from everyone. Only a few people know where we are hiding.
Katniss's POV
It's 3:00 in the morning and Finn my 5 1/2 year-old is already in my room saying what he wants for breakfast today. "Finn." I say quietly. Trying not to wake his father, Peeta, on the other side of the bed. "You need to go back to bed." I whisper. "Can I sleep with you and daddy?" I look over to see if Peeta is still sleeping, which he is. "Fine, but be quite." Finn climbs up to me and snuggles close, under the warm blanket on top of all three of us. After Finn finally goes to sleep I'm able to pass out again. The next time I wake up it's way pass 8 am. I climb out of the now empty bed and start digging through my top drawers to find something to wear. I choose on some brown leather pants and a thin light green wool shirt. It's perfect for this chilly fall season. I go across the hall and go into my Kid's room. I walk to the wooden crib. I pick up Castor who is still asleep. He's only 2 years-old. I walk down the stairs since our bedrooms are on the second floor down into the family room. It has 3 soft white wool chairs. As I carry Castor into the kitchen which is to the left of the family room, I see Peeta. He's trying to get Finn to pick a red apple out of the dozen or so Peeta picked from the apple tree right in front of our house. When he finally coaxed Finn into choosing one he noticed me. He walks over and takes Castor out of my hands and places a gentle kiss on my forehead. He walks back over to the oak wood table where Finn is slowly eating his apple. He sits Castor down in his wooden high chair. He grabs some of the carrots I mushed last night. He grabs one of the metal spoons and starts feeding the mushed carrots to Castor. "I'm going hunting, anything in particular you want?" Finn yells "Goose!" "One goose coming up." I grab my bow and arrows, as I walk out the door. I walk out on to our porch. Our house is on a small meadow. Past the meadow you can see the woods surrounding the house. I walk about 75 paces into the forest. I load my bow and walk down to the stream. I hunt at the stream the most because all the animals come for the water. I throw a pebble into the stream and a squirrel goes running. I shoot the squirrel right through the right eye. It drops to the ground dead. I walk down along the stream. Through and opening in the trees I see over ten geese. I string another arrow and shot one. I repeat this two more times. "Finn is gonna be happy with this." I say to myself. I start walking back and end up shooting another squirrel. I start walking back home. As I walk back into the house I see Finn is sitting on top of Peeta as he tries to rock Castor to sleep. "Having some trouble?" I say with a slight smirk. He looks at me and gives a small smile. At that moment Castor starts crying. "Can you please help me?" Peeta pleads. I laugh and nod. I grab Castor and take him up to his and Finn's room. I sit in the rocking chair across from his crib. My leg starts falling asleep after 20 minutes of rocking. He finally falls asleep and as slowly as I can I get up from the chair and gently set him down in his crib. As I come back down stairs I see Finn reading a book. "What are you reading?" I ask Finn. "Some history book I found in under your bed." He says. "Well then..." I grab the book from him. "It's nap time." I say in a silly tone. "Fine..." he sighs. He tiptoes up the stairs so he doesn't wake his brother. I set his book on the oak coffee table. I walk into the kitchen and see Peeta looking in a cabinet. "Hey honey." He says with out looking away from the cabinet. I walk over to him. "What are you looking at?" I ask in a slightly flirty voice. He notices and smirks a bit as he says " I just found a new recipe but I'm missing a spice I need for it." "Oh wow that's huge." I say mockingly. He shuts the cabinet and turns around in playful defense "I'll have you know..." I cut him off with a kiss to his lips. I can feel his smile. "So I've been thinking..." he says. "What's up?" He pauses. "Come on you can tell me anything." He smiles as he says "well... I've been thinking...what if we had another kid?" I stare at him. "Please you know I've always wanted a girls, you said you wanted a girl too right?" It takes me a moment to regain my posture. "Well yeah I do but I just had Castor." "Please...I'll help you anyway I can..." he says in a very pleading way. "can I sleep on it?" I ask. "Sure." He says with a smile. "Did you see the book Finn was reading?" I say. "Yeah I'm the one that found it." He says. I laugh as I walk into the family room. He follows me. We both sit down on a chair. He turn to me and says "so I convinced Haymitch to watch the boys all of next week." "Good I need a break so badly." He laughs and I have to cover his mouth with my hand so he didn't wake up the kids. I yawn and turn in my chair. He sees this and picks me up in his arms. He carries me up to our room and sets me on our bed. "Thank you." I mumble. He smiles and lays down next to me. I wake up and this time I still see Peeta next to me. I hear a knock on the door and go open it to see Finn. "Someone is knocking on the door outside." I pick him up and I walk down stairs to the door. I set Finn down as I say "why don't you read your book?" "Sure!" I laugh as he scampers away to the family room. I open the door and see Haymitch standing there. He's wearing a black and red checkered shirt and dark blue jeans. His hair is combed and unlike before the war he doesn't smell like wine. "Haymitch." I say as I wrap him into a hug. "Hey Katniss." I let him into the house. "Finn why don't you tell Haymitch about yourself." He instantly starts talking about himself. I go up stairs and walk into the kids room and I grab the now awake Castor. I pick him up and bring him down to Haymitch. "Sure you can handle these two?" I ask him. "Yeah I have Effie helping me out this week." I hand him Castor. "I think we are gonna head out now." I laugh. "You never were one to wait." He grabs Finn's hand and while holding Castor walks outside. He puts them in the makeshift "train" it's like a car but with 8 wheels. After about a minute their gone. "Man that was fast of him." I say to myself. I look around the now quite and empty kitchen. I know I'm forgetting something but I don't know what. I go to put Finn's book back in his room when it hits me. Peeta is still asleep. He has no idea that Haymitch came and left already. I put Finn's book back in his room and go across the hall to my room. I open the door slowly. I see that Peeta, who is a very heavy sleeper is unsurprisingly still asleep. I walk over to our bed. The covers are a soft orange. I shake Peeta with a bit of force because otherwise he wouldn't wake up. He turns over so he's facing me. He opens his eyes but then closes them again. Slightly annoyed with him, I sit on the bed. I shake him again, but this time he's just shrugs me off. I don't know how else to wake him.
