Bring Him Home – Chapter 3
Song – "No Sound but The Wind" by Editors
A /N – I do not own The Hunger Games, or the song above (or the twilight: new moon soundtrack that it's from)
KPOV
"I love you" I say as I walk into the room. Peeta is looking at himself in the mirror.
"I love you too" he says as he turns to face me, "you mean the world to me – you know that, right?"
"I know." I walk over to him and straighten his tie. "You mean the world to me too". Cinna walks into the room,
"Don't touch that tie" Cinna looks at me. "I placed it crooked for a reason. It accents the glowing embers on his jacket" I laughed lightly. Some things never change. "Your prep team is looking for you, missy" he playfully glares at me. I smile sheepishly and quickly leave the room to find them.
After finding my prep team, they quickly dressed me in a black pantsuit that accentuated my baby bump and a pin that read "District 12 – Mentor – Katniss Mellark" they also added some black eyeliner and mascara with a light pink lipstick, it was classy but not overdone.
I soon found myself sitting in the swarm of people watching the parade of districts with all the other mentors, many of which were staring at me.
"From District 11 – Rue and Thresh"
"From District 12 – Madge and Peeta" I started lightly clapping, looking straight ahead, purposefully ignoring the stares or the fact that the camera had just flashed to my face. Somewhere, I knew that Caesar Flickerman was talking to the entirety of Panem about our marriage and my pregnancy but I couldn't stand to listen to him. Suddenly the entire stadium rose and started cheering, so I followed along and quickly made my way up to the training tower and the 12th level to meet Peeta.
Effie was sitting down at the table over a tablet looking at the other tribute's profiles and comparing them to ours. I found some food on the table, a roll and some hot chocolate. I sat at the table and dunked my roll in the hot chocolate. Soon, I heard the elevator open and knew that Haymitch and Peeta had finally made it up after the ceremony. I stood up and walked over to greet them, still holding the roll and hot chocolate.
"Well at least you're eating something" Peeta looks at me. I nod and rip a piece off of the roll to offer to him, but he just shakes his head.
"I'll get my own – you eat that one" he heads towards the dining room and I look up at Haymitch,
"So how did it go?" I ask after Madge walks down the hallway.
" I'd worry about the careers and maybe the boy from eleven, he's pretty built. I think that the careers will be your biggest issue though. Don't worry too much, there's nothing we can do right now, sweetheart." Haymitch looks at me, "why don't you go take a nap, you've had a stressful day, and it's only going to get worse." I look him in the eye,
"I'm fine, I slept some on the train after we talked" I then left and went to find Peeta who was enjoying his hot chocolate with a roll and some berries. I sat down next to him and laced my fingers through the hand he had under the table. He squeezes my hand tightly and looks at me. He takes a break from his snack to mouth 'I love you' to me and I nod. 'I love you too'. I finish the hot chocolate I had gotten earlier in one gulp as Haymitch calls me over.
"We have to go to the mentor room to get our tablets and set them up" I follow him as he leads me to a large white room covered in screens. There's 12 desks set up, 6 on each side. They are all labeled with our district's symbols so Haymitch and I go to the one marked as "12". Behind the desk there's two chairs, and on the desk sits two tablets in front of them. On the screen of the tablet I see our district symbol with the word "mentor" and name. I pick up the one that has my name on it and tap the screen. I grab the pair of earbuds that had laid next to the tablet when I see a video pop up. The video basically explained how to use the system, and how to interact with sponsors.
After watching the video that Beetee (another victor who now works for the capitol) had made I start up the application that would allow me to send things to my tributes. Figuring that I should make sure that I know how to use the system I showed myself around it. A screen popped up that had a bunch of items. When I would click on an item it asked me to select which tribute to send it to. It also showed me the price of the item and how much the tribute had in their account. I exit the app after I feel that I have sufficiently explored it and then open the "Manage Tribute" app, which showed me how much Madge and Peeta have been donated and their popularity ratings. Peeta's rated number 1. I click his name and his profile comes up, and I change his photo to a picture from our wedding where he is smiling at the camera. Hopefully it'll bring in even more sponsors. I can also check his status from this app and see his top sponsors and their donations. I turn the tablet off as Haymitch tells me that it is almost dinner time. I follow him back to our floor and sit down at the table.
Dinner was quiet. Effie had tried to make small talk, but none of us where in the mood for it. Peeta had one hand on my belly the entire time, which was comforting. After dinner, we let the avoxs take away our plates before we all scattered. I saw Haymitch and Effie move to the sitting room and I saw Madge go into her room before I drew Peeta into my room.
As soon as we entered, he drew me into a searing kiss, full of love and passion. We made our way over to the bed before we fell onto it, our lips never leaving each other. Our hands were roaming each other's body. Then slowly, our clothes were coming off.
HPOV:
I saw Katniss pull Peeta into her room, as sadness filled me. She deserved happiness, she had been happy, then The Capitol took it away from her. I wasn't rooting for Madge to die, but I was rooting for Peeta to make it out. He had a family waiting for him.
I sighed and moved my focus to the television where the parade of districts was being replayed. I saw Peeta and Madge enter, before the camera flickered over to Katniss and I's faces, focusing on Katniss face I listened as Ceaser Flickerman spoke;
" Here's District 12, again carrying with the fire theme. Madge Undersee and Peeta Mellark. They will be mentored by Haymitch Abernathy '50 and Katniss Mellark '73. Katniss and Peeta are married, and she is currently pregnant with their first child. May the odds be ever in their favor." Yes, I agreed. May the odds be ever in their favor indeed.
