Journey to Happiness

by fanaticd12

Katniss Everdeen has resided herself to live the remainder of her life in a miserable and depressed haze . When Peeta Mellark comes back to District 12 she must decide to either ignore her feelings or let him in. How did Peeta and Katniss grow back together once they had returned to District 12? and What obstacles did they meet on their journey to happiness?

1. Prolouge

I'm walking back from the woods carrying a disappointing amount of game in my bag. This will never be enough to provide for my family .I feel like a failure as I trudge through the ramshackle houses in the Seam. The streets are eerily empty this evening and there's a chill in the air. I have an uneasy feeling as I continue on my path but I press on knowing that my family is relying on me.

As I approach my house I can see Prim sitting at the table. She's waiting for a meal that is sure to only wet her appetite. A rush of shame floods over me. She needed me and I failed. Just as I am approaching the path that leads to our front door I begin to feel an unsettling rumbling around me. It starts out low and begins to grow stronger and stronger. Prim feels it too and races to the door to run to me but it will not open. She goes to the window next trying to escape the house but she's trapped. Her terrified eyes burn a hole right through me.

Panic fills my soul as I run to her, my arms outstretched. I'm running at full speed but no matter how fast I go the house stays out of my reach. Finally I reach the window and Prim is screaming for me to help her. The house is shaking now and I can see cracks forming in the walls that surround my sister, the only person I' m really sure that I love. I begin hysterically punching at the window until my hands bleed but it doesn't budge.

The shaking has become overwhelming, I feel angry and helpless. I look away from my bloody fists just in time to focus in on the rest of the room that surrounds Prim. As my eyes come into focus I see the room is filling with bodies, hundreds of them in a piled heap. The faces I can make out are filled with terror. Their mouths hang open as if to ask why this happened to them. I can spot Rue's brown curly hair at the bottom of one pile and Finnick's sea green eyes in another. The sickening smell of blood fills the air and I watch helplessly as the rumble grows into an explosion that obliterates my home with Prim inside.

I jump up from my bed & find I'm reaching at the open air in front of me screaming Prim's name at the top of my lungs. It was just another nightmare. I race to the bathroom and make it just in time for the vomit to reach the toilet.