Katniss's POV
Peeta runs as fast as he can and runs in to get some stuff. He comes back with the picture of us at our wedding and one of Prim and Finick when they are babies. I kiss him and he also pulls a letter out of his pocket and hands it to me. "Read it, I'll take the kids to my parents so I can find another house for us. That house had all of our stuff in it. Dammit!" I scowl at Peeta "watch it." I tell him and he walks away with each kids hand in his.
I take the letter and open it.
We are coming back. I will be president. You have been warned.
-Francis
I crumple it up and walk to my burning house and with a soft flick of my wrist the paper is in the fire burning. Did they really just warn me they're gonna take me again, there's no way that they have the upper hand now. I sit with my back facing the fire and chin in my hands. The heat in the fall was nice and I end up watching the sun set over the tree tops.
Peeta takes long but shows up eventually and asks what was on the letter. "They said they're coming to get me. Again." Peeta rolls his eyes and then takes my hand and pulls me upwards. I see the red orange sunset behind Peeta's head and sigh. He takes my hand and then walks to a house that's three doors down from Haymitch's and I frown. "Three doors away?" He shrugs. "Well this was the only house that's nice. I mean there's others but…" I could tell he wasn't going to say something after but so I just open the door and walk in.
It was nice. Probably as nice as it'll get, and that's just fine. It was bright and warm and two stories. The kids will have a hard time with that but they'll learn. There is four bedrooms upstairs. The baby… I forgot. I walk back outside and Peeta sighs and sits on the curb. "Why us? Gosh sometimes I just get so tired of all this bullshit!" I sit next to him and rest my head on his shoulder. "Well part of the reason is because we broke the rules, another is because I kinda killed President Snow, and another is because we killed Cato. The list goes on." He chuckles and then sighs again. We get up and hours and hours later our house has toys for the kids, furniture, and food.
We bring the kids back to the house and they ran around it inspecting everything like a pair of dogs. They go to bed soon after, that wore them out I guess. Later Peeta brings some hot tea and cookies out. "Long day." He tells me as he sets the tray of tea and cookies on the wooden coffee table. I nod and he takes a cup and hands it to me. "Tell me, Katniss, why it is you went with a mahogany coffee table." I laugh and he does too, we both know why. One of the funniest moments of the Hunger Games nightmare was when I stabbed the table and Effie said "that is mahogany!"
Two hours later we both started getting sleepy and I fell asleep right there on the couch next to Peeta, cuddled against him. I wake up to a cold metal on my face. I don't want to open my eyes, I'm too wore out for that. All I wanted to do was go back to bed. And eventually I did.
I know that it took me forever to write this, and I know it's not much at all. School has been very troubling and it might be like this all the school year so sorry in advance.