1. Katniss
My Son's blonde hair shone in the sunlight his grey eyes lit up with mischief. My Daughter's dark hair hung loosely around her shoulders and her bright blue eyes fixated on the blue butterflies flying around her head. Peeta painted the trees which lead to District 12's boundary, were many years ago I would've hunted. Me, I sat looking at the evening Primrose bushes, I still haven't got over the death of my sister but each day the pain eased slightly. Prim, if she hadn't been picked at the reaping would the rebellion even have happened? Would my children Rue and Finnick even exist? Would I have married Gale? "Mummy?" My Daughters wind chime voice interrupted my thoughts "Yes?"
"Sing for me?" I felt the look of confusion cross my face, Peeta looked up questioningly even my Son stopped chasing the birds. "I just like hearing you sing, you have a beautiful voice"
"Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree." I hadn't sung that song in a while, it was like a foreign language to me. My Daughter smiled briefly and went back to braiding her hair with daisy flowers. Peeta checked his watch from the Capitol, "Katniss? It's the Government announcement in half an hour. We better leave; we can wake Haymitch on the way home."
Haymitch's house still gave off the unwelcoming look it always has since Hazelle didn't need a job anymore. Everyone who helped in the rebellion earned a huge pay off from the Capitol, Gale earned enough to look after him and his family. "Haymitch! Get up! Get up right now!" He was sat bolt upright asleep, his clothes plastered to him with sweat and an empty liquor bottle in his hand. Peeta grabbed his shoulders and literally shook him awake. He had finally stopped sleeping with a knife. Rue's hand cleared the coffee table and found the golden remote for the television. She clicked the button and the seal and anthem of Panem filled the screen. A news reporter stood outside President Paylor's mansion. "The President is dead and has been replaced by Lucinda Snow, granddaughter of Coriolanus Snow who was murdered 25 years previously by a botched assassination. She has ordered The Hunger Games be reinstated as punishment for her grandfather's death. The Hunger Games will have the same rules as before except that there will be four tributes from each district and District 13 will also be entered into the games. Reaping's will take place in two days." Seal of Panem. End of programming. I lot sense of time and space and my legs buckled from beneath me. How long I was unconscious I don't know. All I know is that my worst fears have come true. My children are going into the reaping balls. Rue twice, Finnick once. When I finally wake I'm in my bed. Which is warm and soft the quilt was green like the grass from the Meadow. Somebody perhaps Rue had brushed and braided my hair. "Katniss? It's nice to see you again"
"How long have I been unconscious? Where's Finnick and Rue? Are you okay? Have you spoken to anyone?"
"Calm down there sweetheart" I have a million and one questions but apparently none can be answered now. Peeta runs me a hot bath and helps me dress. I feel slightly embarrassed at how I reacted to the newly instated Games however Peeta never mentions it. "Finnick and Rue are at your Mothers in the Apothecary shop." My Mother whom I can never fix my relationship with since Prim's death, who left me in my darkest time. I saw Peeta leaning against the doorway watching me; I smiled at him and turned. He crossed the room, when he kissed me I felt warmth spread around my whole body warming my toes and finger tips. Peeta brushed the hair out of my face and whispered "I love you." I sat on the bed and felt him unbutton my shirt. I felt myself go to the special place that included me and Peeta.