I smiled as we crossed the lawn, hand in hand. He was here and that was all that mattered. I was smiling like never before. He was back from the Quell, we booth made it back along with Finnick and Bette. Johanna and Emborsia however were captured by the Capitol. Old Peeta too was missing for days but he was just plain lucky. No one told me he was here in the hospital but here. When heard that I lost him, that is when I realized the depth of his feelings. All the districts are on our side now.
Tomorrow we attack the Capital, but today was ours. Finnick will not come due to Annie who was captured.
The war is done, we have won and now years have passed.
I laugh as I see them playing but then my eyes travel from my children to a single primrose in bloom and the pain and fire are back but so are the happy memories.
It is a tedious game even after more than twenty years.
But there are worse games to play.