A new Panem

It has been 5 years since the war, Panem is thriving under president Paylor, and the districts are no more, she and her government decided that they were simply too painful a reminder of snows sadistic dictatorship. In their wake have sprung up states, each one retaining the boundaries of the district that once stood there. Paylor thought of renaming 12 "Everdeen" , apparently in my honour, but the notion was tossed aside after all it succeeded in doing was reminding me that I was once a scarred, war battered mockingjay who had been used as a tool in a selfish game of thrones. Coin didn't care who she hurt or killed, as long as she ended up being president at the end of it, and that is why I ended her, and not snow.

Besides, Paylor is a great leader, she knows what the people want, coming from one of the districts herself she had experienced firsthand what living under snow was like, and being a victor she knew how it felt to have been a pawn in his games. Panem has come a long way under her, every state has its own council, made up of 20 or so members who make the bulk of day-to-day decisions. Housing areas have been built for all of Panem's residents, and almost everyone has a paid job of their choosing. The capitol itself is nothing like it was before the war, it is a normal city filled with normal people, just like the rest of the country, of course there is still the extravagant dress sense and crazy culture, but they aren't savages anymore, they don't marvel at the hunger games and they don't overindulge on exotic foods whilst the rest of Panem starve.

As for the people, Gale and I still keep in touch, even though he lives and works in the capitol now, with his new girlfriend I haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet. He seems happy, we got over the whole him killing prim thing about a year ago now, I realized how selfish I was being and we opened up to each other, coming to the conclusion that the only person to blame for Prim's death was Coin. Me and Peeta have grown back together, he still has the occasional episode where he has to leave the room for a minute or two, but they are few and far between, and have grown less severe. Dr. Aurelius said he will never properly be rid of the capitol's evil, but neither of us mind, we both know Peeta would never hurt me, and they don't happen often enough for it to be an issue.

As for Finnick , his body was never recovered, and it turned out that the mutts were only out to kill me, somehow he managed to escape the detonation from the communicuff, but was taken by the peacekeepers and imprisoned in a secret dungeon within the bowels of snows palace, where he remained for about a month, presumed dead until the secret entrance was discovered and they pulled him out, in a rough state but alive, and thankful. He and Annie have continued married life in peace, in 12, and their little boy is as adorable as any child can be, he has deep sea green eyes just like his father, and spends most of his days chasing girls around the victors village, it is obvious that he is going to grow up to be a womanizer, just as his father did before him. Johanna stayed in 12, unable to return to district 7 because of the bad memories. She got a house next to Haymitch in the victors village, and hasn't stopped complaining about the noise from his geese yet. That's right, Haymitch sobered up and went back to raising geese, and even got himself a spot on the district council. The new Haymitch is kinda strange, but I'm getting used to him, he's cleaner, funnier and less grumpy on the whole, an improvement on the lethargic drunkard we knew and loved.

Beetee is here in 12 too, he set up a technology stall at the hob, which is now a trading centre for the entire district, and before he knew it he was the mastermind behind a business empire, creating some kind of device that allowed avoxes to talk again by picking up vibrations from their throat and translating it into speech. This has helped Pollux massively, with his new found voice he is now the most sought after cameraman in the capitol. Plutarch went on to do what he wanted all along, to be a television and film director. We still keep in touch, and he is constantly nagging me to feature on some new singing programme he dreamt up. My prep team now work religiously with Plutarch designing the makeup and costumes for his over elaborate shows. Although Cinna is no more, he continues to live on through my prep team, Flavius in particular since he took up the reigns and is now a well respected stylist in his own right. Everyone has changed since the rebellion, but the biggest change was in me, Katniss Everdeen, my old dismissive, selfish and serious self died with the war, and was replaced with a happy, love struck young woman. The mockingjay it seems, spread her wings and took flight.