God's POV
"Well, as you both know, you'll both get a chance to go back to life on earth just one day during all of the time that you'll be up here. That time has arrived." I said looking down at Joseph Everdeen and Steven Hawthorne. I had sent a message to them this morning, they needed to see me before I could bring them back to earth.
"So, y-you mean, we're going back? We can meet our families again?" Joseph asked, with a hopeful expression in his face.
"Can we meet them, can we talk to them?" Steven asked, exited.
"Both yes and no" I said. "You'll be able to see them, you can walk around just like a human, but no one will see you. You will be totally invisible for everybody."
"Even our families?"
"Yes" I sighed, this was the only bad thing with this whole trip - they weren't going to be able to touch or speak with their loved ones. But how would it look, a dead person walking around the street like nothing has ever happened and looking exactly the same as it did on the day it died.
"When are we leaving?" Steven asked.
"What about now? Remember, you have exactly 24 hours to spend on earth. It's been five years since you died, so, Steven, your eldest son should be about nineteen and Joseph, your eldest daughter should be seventeen."
They looked surprised when I said this, apparently they hadn't thought of their kids ages.
Stevens POV
God left, saying that he'll come back in a few minutes to bring us back to earth. I couldn't really take the thought of my children of my mind.
"Oh, man" Joseph said, with a distant look in his eyes. "My little daughter, seventeen, and Prim, she must be thirteen. It's a lot to take in."
"I know" I answered him. "Gale is nineteen, Rory's thirteen, Vick's eleven and Posy must five." I smiled sadly to myself at the thought of the little girl I never had a chance to meet, whom's name we'd decided long before she was born. Actually, I don't even know if it is a girl, it's just a feeling that I have. I could just imagine her with Hazelle's red hair in two braids, running around and being chased by Gale, who must have been some kind of father to her since I haven't been there in all of her life. It makes me sad, both that we never got a chance to meet, but also that Gale got so much on his small, fourteen year old shoulders after I died. I don't know how they survived without the money I got from the mines, but since I haven't seen them here, I guess they made it. On Gale's hunting, I guess. That boy could catch anything in his snares.
It'll be nice to see how everything worked out since my death. I see Joseph tapping his foot lightly on the floor and find myself doing the same, I guess we both want to leave. We two had always been best friends, since first grade in class, to be exact. On earth, we had both loved to be out hunting in the forest together. Joseph had amazing skills on the bow, and according to him, his daughter was the same. My skill had always been the snares, and Gale was like me too. He always came up with new snare and new variations on mine. Maybe he and Katniss are friends now, who knows? Oh, well, God probably knows, but I'm not going to ask him.
A moment later I see God arriving from whatever he was doing. He asks us to come and stand by him, and we do. Suddenly a white, bright light appears and a second later I feel myself landing on the soft forest floor. I hear the birds around me and smell the trees, I had almost forgotten how they smelled. I look around to see Joseph and see that he's in similar daze. We hear a snap of a twig and suddenly realise that we're not alone. Before us stands a young woman with a long black braid hanging over her shoulder. She has a beautiful bow in her hand and a quiver of arrows on her back. I take a deep breath, waiting for her to scream or something, but then I remember that she can't see us. I look at Steven, only to see him staring at her. It clicks in my head. I just figured out who she is. Katniss Everdeen.
