Hello! So this is my first fanfiction for Hunger Games, let my know what you think. R&R, Thanks.
Just to let you all know this is a Prologue, Hope you enjoy. :)
The tired mother looks out the window at her two children playing happily on the lush green grass in the back yard. Where did the time go? She remembered when they were so little she would be sitting out there with them, watching them play with the father, laughing and giggling. Small dark curls bouncing up and down as her daughter runs across the hill, her small blond son tripping over as he learned to walk and their wonderful, loving and patient father playing with them. Her singing songs that they would take for granted as they got older and her children learning about her dark past through school. The explaining that had to come with why the nightmares came and why they wont ever go away.
Her kids now ages 16 and 14 got to grow up in a better society, and with a better childhood. No worrying about starvation, no worrying about the Hunger Games and no worrying about living life under the rule of President Snow and Panem. It was the life they deserved after all they had been through.
"Hey beautiful." Her husband walked through the front day after a long day at work and kissed her on the cheek. Her husband was the town baker and they had a small town house near the river. He was gentle and kind, caring and selfless. He was her world and without him she would have surely gone insane. They both had those times when flash backs would hit them and they would be unable to comprehend anything for a few hours. With her husband they were more sever and would last longer since he was held captive by President Snow all those years during the MockingJay war. That's what they named it a few years later. The name Panem was quickly discarded, people went off to travel to different districts that were also taken down. Now there are many different cities in the free country of Panem.
Most people stuck to the area that they new and everyone gathered to help clean up the remains of District 12 after the war finished, they said it gave them something to do but they thought is served a different purpose. For her it gave her a sense of rehabilitation and if the burned of grass and town start to flourish again then she also had a chance to heal and live a normal life with the people she loves. He was not able to join in with most of the festivities as after the war he was kept in the capital for therapy.
Once he was released and sent home they healed together and started to regain some normality in their lives but also keeping track of their times, the good and the bad, in a book that all the living victors had contributed to, even if it was just a photo. The book kept them sane and it gave
them a safe way to talk about their fears and nightmares.
The grass in the meadow grew back and the star-crossed lovers reopened their relationship and comforted each other during the aftermath, eventually starting a family together after many years of him asking.
"Hey mom? Can ask you a question?" Her daughter ask coming inside from outside.
She puts down the book that she had been reading before getting lost in her thoughts and looks up at the beautiful smile her daughter is wearing.
"Mom I was wondering if it would be alright if at the victors meet up tonight i wear one of your old dresses?" The young girl asks.
"Why you trying to impress someone?" She jokingly pokes her daughter in the stomach before staning up and opening a closet that hold a vast majority of dresses, that she had worn before the war.
"Here try one of the blue ones they really bring your eyes out." She smiles at the memory of seeing these dresses for the first time knowing Cinna had made them especially for her. Her daughter looks s much like her except she has her fathers eyes, which just adds to her beauty. She has the same fire as her mother but same gentleness as her father, the perfect mach up of the two lover's.
Her daughter enter's the room wearing a gorgeous blue evening dress that has the dress slightly off the shoulders. She calls her husband into the room, he takes one look and smiles at his beautiful girl.
"Ebony Primrose Mellark, you are the prettiest girl in the entire world." He said to her then hugs his wife, "How did we get so lucky?"
"Peeta…" She smiles and gives him a kiss. "Now go get ready for the victors meet up. We have less then an hour until we leave."
"Yes, Ma'am" He says and heads off taking her son with him.
Thanks for reading. :)