Prologe
Panem was finally settling into a rhythm. The residents were getting used to no more Districts, and most of all, no more Hunger Games. With a new President, and a Democracy in place, the whole country could start to heal. Or at least, most of them. The pain for some was still all too real and fresh, and it would take years to feel slightly normal. Katniss, Peta, and Haymitch were some of those few.
Peta ended up in the hospital a few months after President Snow was killed, because his mind was so messed up, and nothing anyone did could pull him out. So the safest place for him was the hospital, where nurses and doctors could keep a close eye on him. They work with him everyday, trying to help him remember who he is, and what has happened to him. Some days are good, but most are bad, and whatever the Capitol had done to him wins. Peta still has the strongest desire to kill Katniss, so she hasn't been to visit since those first few months.
Katniss is still trying to cope with everything that has happened since the first time she entered the Games. Including losing Prim, having Peta's mind messed with, and having Gale leave her to work in a different part of the country. She has held up better than Peta, but her days have turned bad a lot of the times. She has starting to understand how Haymitch has turned too drinking for all these years, though she tries not to fall into the same patterns he had. The bad thing is, she's been spending more and more time with him in his house, because her's has become to quiet and lonely.
Haymitch has been, well Haymitch. Nothing much has changed for him, though losing Effie to another man hasn't helped his drinking any. His only solace has been the alcohol and Katniss. Always Katniss. She has seemed to be his one constant since that first Games when he became her mentor. How that happened, he'll never know, but he's grateful for that. But he'll never let her know that. She couldn't know that. It would be so wrong. Wouldn't it?
Everything has changed in suck a short amount of time, and no one knows how any of it happened. Two years after the fall of the way things used to be, more things than just how the country is run has changed. Unlikely love stories, heart wrenching pain, and enough confusion to last a few lifetimes. All of this was unplanned, but could end up being the sweetest thing ever. Or it could turn everything on its head and turn angry.