AN; I know i shouldn't start a new story when i have a couple of unfinished ones still laying around, but i'll get back to that. This was too good to not write down :D

The canon isn't absolute, as you'll notice, the ages of Katniss and Peeta's children are wrong, but for the purposes of the story, they were born a lot sooner after the war.

I breathed silently through my mouth, watching the young buck closely and it's nose twitched slightly before it trotted out into the clearing, bowing it's head in order to take a drink from the small lake where my mother and I used to harvest katniss roots. Taking an arrow from the sheath on my back I loaded it into the bow. Keeping my eye on the young buck I aimed the arrow to it's eye before pulling back on the string. Silently I allowed the arrow to fly ,straight towards it's target, hitting it dead center. I smirked as I walked towards the buck with my knife and slit it's throat just to make sure It was really dead.

I had often been told my hunting skills could rival my mother's as she never got a dear dead in the eye, it was always in it's neck or heart. I prided myself on my hunting, it was the most talent I had. My dad and brother could paint the skies and the trees with so much life you felt like you could touch them. My mother and I could hunt with so much precision we would never go hungry. Not that we would anyway, we were well off enough that we never had to worry about starvation or going without but my mother, being the paranoid person she was, decided she at least needed to teach one of us how to hunt. Since my brother was a lot like dad and Aunt Prim in demeanor, it was decided I would be the hunter of the two of us. Jacob was just too nice to actually kill anything.

A loud clapping from behind me made me jump. Spinning around to face whoever was there, an arrow loaded and pulled back ready to shoot, I was surprised to see my long time friend, Finn Odair, stood there, a large smirk on his face.

"Now, Rosie. You wouldn't actually shoot me would you?" he asked in his cocky drawl. No matter how long we had been friends, his cockiness always ticked me off. And he knew it.

"Keep pressing my buttons, Odair, and we will find out," I said shooting him a glare at his obvious quest to annoy me.

Laughing heartily he immediately dropped his demeanor and put both his hands in the air in surrender. "Sorry, Rosie. You just make it too easy." I glared at him whilst lowering my bow. He walked closer to me and hugged me tightly. "How are you? I haven't seen you in forever."

I shrugged in response. "Same old. I thought you were supposed to be in Four for the summer?"

"I was, I think Gale wanted to make a pit stop here first to see your mum before we went to Four. Bit out of the way though so it must have been important. I didn't even need to ask your mum where you had gone off too," he replied with the smirk making it's reappearance again. I smiled a little at the mention of Finn's step-dad. I remembered once when I was younger, before Jacob was born even when my mum used to take me to Four to visit Annie and Finn. I was probably only around six at the time but Annie was so broken sometimes and Finn always got really upset. He was only ten at the time and still didn't understand why his mum wouldn't get out of bed or why she was so broken at times. When Finn was about twelve Gale and Annie were introduced by my mum who was fed up of seeing them both so depressed and thought they could help each other. They were married within the year and had a baby not long after that. Finn's little sister was now six, Finn being 21.

"Whatever, can you just help me with this deer? I wanna get it to the butcher before it starts going stale." Finn nodded happily, happy to help, as always. He may be the cockiest guy I know at times but he is actually the sweetest person ever once you get underneath his hard exterior. Learning that your father was forced into prostitution at the age of 16 probably contributed to the fact that he liked to play around with the ladies a little. Just to show that you can have fun with girls without being forced. I felt sorry for him in a way, but then, it was his own choice to fool around with every girl he ever met. I swear, I'm the only person he never tried it on with. Purely because he knows I would shoot him faster than he could say arrow.

After helping me take the deer to the butcher and getting a fair price for it with a few venison steaks thrown in I decided to take Finn to the Hob. I sat down immediately crossed legged on Greasy Sae's counter top. I swear, the woman is almost 100, apparently she was quite old back in my parent's day. "Two bowls on stew please, Sae," I say smiling sweetly and tossing a couple of coins her way. Smiling a toothy grin and ladled out two bowls and Finn and I before sitting back down on her stool to finish conversing with Thom, the manager of the medicine factory. I turned to Fin with a toothy grin, noticing him looking at the concoction wearily. "Beef stew today," I say brightly. "Though, you never really can tell with Sae."

Tentatively Finn brought the spoon to his lips, taking a small bite before shrugging and shoveling it in afterwards. Laughing I finished my own bowl before dropping it down on the counter, with a thankyou to Sae. "Good?" I ask Finn who is practically licking the bowl for good measure. He nods grinning. "So when do you think you'll be heading out to four? I haven't seen you in what feels like forever." I try to sound nonchalant about my question but I think I fail miserably. The truth is, I have missed him quite a lot. I don't have many friends here in Twelve. At least, not many I think I can be myself around. Most of them just think I'm too moody.

"Hopefully tonight. I can't wait to smell the sea air again. I hate the mustiness of Two. It's too polluted." I nod slowly, understanding what he means. The few times I have been to Two I have felt rather suffocated by the heavy air there. "We should probably get back to your house, just in case they are waiting for me." I nod before hopping off the counter and begin the trek back to victors village, laughing and joking with Finn the whole way there.

As soon as I opened the door I could tell something wasn't right. I opened the door to the living room slowly, my ears being met with two pairs of hysterical sobbing. Walking into the living room, Finn behind me, I was immediately assaulted by Azure, Finn's little sister, who began sobbing into my stomach, hysterical over the fact that her mother was in between sobbing and screaming with her hands over her ears and rocking back and forth. I looked towards my parents for an explanation but just saw them staring at the TV in horror. Grabbing the remote I turned it up at the same time as trying to calm Azure by running my fingers through her dark locks.

"... Public reaping will take place for what was supposed to be the fourth Quarter Quell and this time, the reapings will be purely from the children of victors, no matter their age. In other news Peacekeepers will be sent back into the districts t..."

I stood there shell shocked. Children of victors... at any age. I looked down at tiny six year old Azure... Jacob at 11... Me at 16... Finn at 21... Any one of us could be reaped... All of us could be reaped since we are from different districts. I looked over at Finn who was sat beside his mother, trying to comfort her. He stared back at me, his sea green eyes holding nothing but fear. We could be going back into the Hunger Games. Just like our parents. Except, we were probably going to die.

"No." I heard Mum's voice ring out loud and clear, defiance in her tone making everyone turn to look at her. Even Annie stopped screaming for the moment to watch her. "I did not fight my teenage years for this to happen again. No. I won't let it happen."

"Katniss, we don't have a choice. The reapings are in less than a week. We don't have time to stop this one," Dad said bravely I thought considering the anger in Mum's eyes. I had never seen her this angry or defiant before. Suddenly, the whole Mockingjay thing made sense. I can see exactly why she was chose as the face of the rebellion. She was strong, defiant and damn scary when she wanted to be.

"LIKE HELL AM I SENDING MY CHILDREN OFF TO CERTAIN DEATH, PEETA!" She took a deep breath to calm down, seeming to feel a little guilty that she had yelled at him. "I won't have them go into that arena. We are the only victors living in Twelve. That means both of them are going in whether we like it or not. Well I say screw them. It's time to be rebellious. It's time to break the rules again."

I looked at my mother with a new found respect in that moment. She was a natural rule breaker and I loved it. "So what do you suppose we do, Katniss? Start another rebellion?"

"Yes, Peeta, that's exactly what we are going to do." The whole room suddenly fell silent as we all stared at her as though she had two heads. "But first, we need to get the kids out of here. You two need to take your siblings and get as far away from here as possible."

"But, Mum, I-" What was I supposed to say to that? Of course I knew how to live in the woods, that wasn't the problem. She came to kneel in front of me. "Listen to me, Rosie. You can do this, I know you can. You know how to live in the woods. About five or six miles in there is a little house. It's not much, but it will fit the four of you in it. It's past the house and lake I've taken you to before but it's almost identical. You need to find it. You need to keep your brother safe. Both you and Finn can do this, okay? I know you can. You know how to survive." I looked into my mother's eyes, feeling all her confidence and defiance seep into me from her eyes. I nodded my head slowly, feeling the burden drop onto my shoulders. "Go pack yourself and your brother a bag of clothes. I will get you some food to take with you and you need to go. Tonight, before the peacekeepers arrive." I nodded running up the stairs quickly. I heard footsteps behind me and turned in the doorway to my room to see Finn there.

"Need some help?" he asked sweetly. I nodded feeling a little better that he was willing to help me. After all, we were in this together from now on.

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