hello! so i'm going to be really fast, here is a story i've wanted to do for a while now and i'm finally uploading it!
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Ready Prim?" asked Katniss, bending to smooth the jacket of the little girl in front of her.

"Ready mum!" the little girl chirped with a large grin, exposing the small gap where a tooth should be. Katniss smiled gently, and then placed a light kiss on her forehead.

"Go say 'bye' to dad and I'll start the car"

"Kay!" the little girl ran quickly down the hall of their beautiful two-story home. Katniss turned away from the door, and stared into the house with a sigh. She remembered the day she first entered this home. Years ago, after the horrible war, when Peeta's mind was brought back to normal and the ashes of the war between district and Capitol were gone with the wind. Peeta surprised Katniss with this beautiful home on the outskirts of the Capitol, after their honeymoon. She remembered clutching his hand, holding on for dear life as they entered past the threshold and into the beginning of their new lives, leaving the memories of the past behind. Memories of the war, of the games, of Gale…

"Mummy, mummy!" a little voice called, startling Katniss from her thoughts. She laughed slightly in attempt to hide her previous thoughts, wincing as she heard the shake in her laugh. She coughed, trying to hide it again.

"Prim, Prim!" Prim giggled, so did someone else. That's when Katniss noticed Peeta coming down the hall.

"You sure you don't need me to come?" he asked, snaking an arm around Katniss' waist and kissing her gently on the lips. Katniss allowed herself to savor this feeling for a moment before she broke the kiss.

"I'm a big girl, I can handle myself" she joked, but Peeta's face stayed straight. It was an unspoken dark joke, Katniss being able to handle herself. And what she said was a dark reminder to Peeta of when he belonged to the capitol and Katniss had to fight, isolated in her own world.

Katniss realized his thoughts, and her expression grew soft "Peeta. I'm just taking her to school, I'll be fine" she ensured him, holding his gaze. "Okay?" she asked, he grinned.

"Okay" he answered, remembering he was married to Katniss Everdeen, toughest girl known the man, the girl on fire. Only he couldn't help being protective of the girl he'd loved his whole life. "I love you," he said

"I love you too" the two smiled warmly into each other's eyes.

"Wait mummy wait!" they suddenly heard a little voice call. Katniss turned in time to see a small boy running right at her, then hugging her legs tight, Katniss laughed.

"Hi Cinna," she giggled down at him.

"We're going to be late!" called a little voice between Katniss, the little boy, and Peeta. The couple looked down at the little blonde haired girl between them, arms crossed face scrunched in anger. She stuck her tongue out at they little brown haired boy and he the same.

"Sorry sweetie" said Katniss, smiling down at the little girl "let's go!" with a quick kiss and reassuring squeeze on Peeta's shoulder, and a kiss on her little boy's forehead, the two girls left. Waving goodbye to Peeta and Cinna standing together, the little boy clutched to his father's good leg.


The tall man walked with confidence into the school's office. He never would have imagined he would be back here, back in the Capitol. Well I suppose he had never literally been here, here, but since all the districts pretty much merged together, this felt somewhat like home.

He didn't know what made him come here. Everything was going just fine in district two; maybe he just needed a change. Needed a little adventure. He wasn't kidding anyone. Sure he had been a little homesick and wanted to see everyone from his childhood, but there was one someone in particular he really wanted to see. And he hoped and prayed that he would fined her, and be granted one last chance at fixing what had been broken.

"Hi" he said once he reached the main desk, a large grin on his face.

"Oh, hello" said the women behind the desk in a singsong voice, as she analyzed the young man, up and down.

"I'm the new teacher, I was told to report here first thing for a meeting with principle Dawn?"

"Right" purred the women "what did you say your name was again?"

"I didn't. Gale Hawthorne ma'am"

"Well Gale, I'm afraid it's going to be a few minutes. You'll just have to sit out here for a while and talk to me to pass the time" the women smiled a sly grin. Gale suppressed a laugh; this wasn't unusual behavior for him. He was very used to women acting like this around him. He would never admit it, but he quite liked the attention, and he liked to use it to his advantage. Always being able to get his way.

"I'm actually on a very tight schedule, are you sure there's… no way, I could get in right now?" he widened his eyes slightly and flashed a smile that showed a good amount of perfect, sparkling white teeth.

"Oh! What do you know, he's all done, you can go right in," she said pretending to check the time.

"Thank you…?"

"Manson! Sparkle Manson" said the women fluttering her eyelashes

"Thank you, Sparkle" Gale winked devilishly as he began towards the Principles office, making the poor young secretary swoon. Honestly, the names of people in the capitol… he thought.

Gale entered the decent sized room, briefcase in one hand, and a stack of papers from principle Dawn in the other.

He released a sigh of relief as he set his briefcase and papers on the desk and slumped down into the chair behind him. He looked around, taking in his surroundings.

Four large windows off to the right of his desk, about nine tables, all set up in nice rows. Two chairs sat at each table, and each table had two nametags taped to the top, ready for the young children to scribble their names down once they chose their seats. There was a banister at the very top of all four walls in the room, spelling the ABCs over and over. A large white bored stretched across the wall behind Gale's desk, and there was a closet on the far left side of the room.

Gale sighed. Who would of thought he would be here right now, in this room, about to teach a bunch of first grade students.

He checked the time and realized kids would be arriving at any moment. Quickly, he scribbled 'Mr. Hawthorne' across the whiteboard, with the very odd pen that seemed to have no ink, or whatever exactly was in a whiteboard marker, but instead a white ball that somehow made the words you spell appear in blue.

He unloaded his briefcase, shoving things into random drawers and then grinning when he realized there was a very nice high-tech computer placed to the right of his desk. Maybe the Capitol isn't such a bad place after all… he thought as he turned the flat hovering screen on, and his desktop appeared immediately.


"Mommy…" Prim whined as her mother parked the car.

"What's wrong sweetie?" asked Katniss, her eyebrows knitting together as she looked to her little girl.

"You're going to come in with me right?" the little girl asked, tears welling up in her eyes. Katniss almost smiled at this, she reached over and grabbed her hand.

"Of course I am"

"Good, because I'm scared"

"Scared? Of what?" she turned the engine off, so to better hear her daughter whose voice seemed to be getting quieter.

"I don't know I'm just scared. What if no body likes me"

"Honey, you've been to school here before, remember? Kindergarten? You already know everybody, you have lots of friends"

"I know, but what if the new kids don't like me! And Aphrodite said there's a new teacher this year! What if the new teacher doesn't like me?" Katniss smiled warmly at her daughter as she reached over to wipe away the tear that found it's way out and rolled down her cheek.

"You're going to be fine. You're an Everdeen for crying out loud! Where's your ruthless spirit kid?"

"I thought my last name was Mellark…"

"It is" Katniss leaned in to whisper to her daughter "but Everdeen's are much tougher than Mellark's and you lucky kid got some Everdeen blood in you" she said poking the little girl's sides and giggling along with her.

"Okay. But you still have to come in with me!" said the little girl sternly.

"Of course, but we should hurry, don't want to be late on your first day!" said Katniss, unbuckling her seat belt, then leaning over to help Prim with hers.

Grabbing her daughter's bag from the trunk in one hand, and the little girl's hand in the other, they began into the school.