Dear Prim

I miss you. I miss your cute smiles that you show when you think no-one is looking. I miss plaiting your blonde hair every night before bed, braiding in flowers I'd collected in the meadow during the day. I miss you laughing and squealing when we played during the summer months. I miss telling you to tuck in your tail, little duck.

Please come back. The world is but a play without a story with you not here.

I love you forever Prim

Katniss

Only one tear escaped Katniss' eye as she folded the letter. As she went to deliver it in her usual way, she found herself only staining the page with teardrops a few times, rather than the thick torrent that was more common. Overall, this week had been better than the last.

Haymitch had visited in the last week, with great hilarity. He had phoned their house and when Katniss answered he asked to talk straight away to Peeta, rather than having some idle chit-chat which would normally be very uncomfortable for the both of them. During the phone conversation, Katniss heard Peeta exclaiming things such as "Are you trying to kill her?" "She'll never look at you in the same way again" and Katniss' personal favourite "She could probably knock you out with her hair, so never mind dodging the razor heels". It sounded like Haymitch had a lady problem.

When Haymitch had hung up in despair after Peeta had had a laughing fit and Peeta had calmed down, Katniss asked what that was all about.

"Haymitch has been invited to a party with work and he has to bring a +1" Peeta said. "He was trying to ask me for dating advice, so I told him that forcing a relationship in a life-or-death situation for the benefit of Panem worked for me."

"What did he do after that?" Katniss asked.

"He hung up."

"Oh. Did he say who he was trying to court?"

"It sounds like Haymitch is smitten with our dear Effie Trinket, but he wouldn't say so directly." Peeta sighed empathetically. "I'm off to check the bakery stock, and I'll be back after dark. I love you." Peeta left for the bakery, and the room lost its bright demeanour as soon as he left. Fed up of the memories and darkness that hung over the house in the Victors' village, Katniss left and walked to the place their old house had been. At some point after the fighting, someone had re-built it, but it wasn't their house anymore. There were none of the same memories, there was no furniture, and it didn't look like home. Katniss technically still owned the place, but since the number of people still alive in District 12 after the war was shockingly low no-one had any need for it.

She soon returned to the Victors' Village after taking a short detour to Gale's family's old house. They had all left with Gale after the war, going off to support him in his new job (as they claimed) but they weren't fooling anyone. Gale made the sacrifice not to see Katniss again because of what happened to Prim, and his family respected that choice by following him. Anything that reminded Katniss of Gale made her well up, but as the old District had been re-built from ashes there was not much left there to remind her of him.

The only thing that reminded Katniss of Gale was when she went out hunting. She still kept her old bow in the same place, and followed the same tracks to the best animals. She would never set any traps, in memory of Prim, but other than that hunting was one of the only things that seemed untouched by the recent events.

As the light was still with them when Katniss reached her front door, she knew Peeta would still be out. However, as she pushed on the front door she found it unlocked. Alarm bells began to ring in her head, screaming 'Intruder!' Thoughts pounded in her mind, thoughts of President Snow, the Capitol, and District 13. She grabbed her Mockingjay bow that she kept by the door and raised it, her hands shaking. She trod carefully through the house, going into each room in turn and finding no-one, until at last she reached Prim's room. She carefully opened the door, heart pounding, and was faced with the one person she never expected to see again.

"Hello Katniss" said a voice.

"Mother?"

A/N really sorry for the formatting issue yesterday, I think this was due to the way I uploaded it. Anyway, here it is now and I will try to upload a chapter every other day, but because of exams and being a huge procrastinator this may not happen- however I will try my best. Thank you to my reviewer, maybe a few more would be nice?