Hey, so it's been a really long time. All I can say is life got busy and I had no inspiration. I've been meaning to write forever.

Katniss POV

This can't actually be happening. That's the first thought that comes to mind as I watch my baby sister with my three kids. None of that sentence even makes sense to me. Prim in the real timeline is thirteen, here she
looks to be about thirty. And there's three kids-well two kids and a teenager-who look like an exact mix of Peeta and I. Which also makes no sense. Peeta may be more advanced in his progress than I was led to believe
but he's no where near being cured. That moment we had before I left was just a moment when he was free from his hijacked confusion. He reverted back to Snow's version of him not even five minutes after I left.
But the more pressing matter is how I ended up here. I didn't use the time machine I passed out and ended up here. That will be a real problem if I don't figure out how it happened and how to get back. This is way
too much for me to be thinking about right now.

"Mom are you okay?" the teenager calling me mom just proves it. I'm lightheaded and leaning against the wall. I feel myself slide down in a heap as I take in the familiar, yet unfamiliarness that is my home in the Victor's
Village. My eyes lock on a little girl who's eyes are constantly changing color. She's beautiful, and looks-a lot like me. Well duh Katniss she's your kid. I look up at my
sister just taking her in and taking in the fact that she's real, she's alive, and she's here. My little duck is alive and safe, and that's all that matters. I pull myself up and
sit down on the couch next to Prim.

"You're alive" Those two words. The only ones I can manage to get out, that happen to be the only words I could get out when I found out Peeta was alive. They come
out as a whisper so soft I'm not sure she heard me. So I say it louder, clearer

"You're alive" Prim smiles and hugs me. The sense of relief is overwhelming and I can't contain myself when Peeta himself walks through the front door. I nearly knock him off his feet how fast I run into his arms. He wraps his arms around me and I start making those hideous choking noises I make when I sob. The entire situation is so overwhelming, I can't help it. I'm just so relieved to see him free of the hijacking. I think I'm really
starting to scare him. He pulls me away to look me in the eyes and the shock that he feels is evident. It takes me a minute to remember that he's seeing the seeing the seventeen year old me. I look down and realize I'm wearing the same dress I had been wearing when I passed out.

"Katniss, why are you seventeen instead of thirty-five?" He asks in a very measured tone, like he's not completely sure what to do. I look around and see five pairs of eyes trained on me.

"Let's talk about this in the living room. And maybe those two- I gesture to the two children staring at the scene with wide eyes on the couch-should go in the other like lightning realizes what I'm referring to
and leads them upstairs into their rooms. She returns five minutes later with something in her hands-a book. As she gets closer I realize it's the plant book. Her and Peeta sit on either side of me and the girl sits next to
Prim.

"So I believe some introductions are needed, how about you start" I say gesturing to the girl who fell off her bed less than ten minutes ago.

"Well my name is Willow Anne Mellark. I'm fifteen years old, I like painting and hunting and you're my mom. Why don't we go youngest to oldest so Katniss you go next."

"Okay...well I'm Katniss Everdeen but within the next year if everything had gone to plan like it was supposed to and Snow hadn't rigged the Quell I'd be Katniss Mellark." Willow sits out her water and starts choking on it.

"You and dad got married at seventeen!" I look at Peeta

"She's gonna lose it when she finds out about the baby." I manage to say without laughing

"BABY!" She splutters. Now Prim, Peeta, and I are dying of laughter.

"That was mom's exact reaction when Peeta announced your pregnancy on live T.V" Prim laughs.

"Anyways, Prim I believe it's your turn."

"My name is Prim, I have an unhealthy obsession with cats, I'm married to Rory Hawthorne, and the amount of times I would've died without Katniss and Peeta between the ages of 7 and 14 is crazy." She says it so casually like she's talking about what she likes on her salad. "Alright Peeta you're up"

"Hello, my name is Peeta, and I professed my love for your mother on live T.V"

"So onto the more serious conversation, I'll start and then Peeta and Prim can go. So... Willow I'm assuming you know what the Hunger games were correct."

"Yes"

"So when the 74th Hunger Games Reaping rolled around your father and I were sixteen and up until this point had only ever had one interaction five years prior to the Reaping where he had saved my life, and Prim was
twelve. I hadn't bothered worrying about her since she only had one slip out of thousands in the bowl. I thought she was safe. I was dead wrong. Prim was reaped and naturally I volunteered in her because there
was no way in hell I was ever going to let anything bad happen to my sister. But as fate would have it Peeta was reaped as well..." I tell her the story up to when they rescued Peeta. "So I'm running-literally running
through the hospital demanding to know where he is. And despite all that had happened I hadn't realized I was in love with him yet. I was so close to realizing it when of course since the odds where never in our favor I
run through the doors and I call your fathers name he runs to me and thinking he's going to touch my cheek I run faster to meet him in the middle and BAM is fingers locked around my throat," Cue gasp of shock from
Willow. " Turns out during his time in captivity Snow had brainwashed him into thinking I was trying to kill him. Now this is where things get confusing. Now what would have happened is Finnick and Annie get married I
don't go anywhere near Peeta and then we end up on a mission together, Peeta starts having an episode I kissed him, we storm the capital and Prim gets killed when a bunch of bombs go off. What happened instead
was Beetee finished a time machine a month or so before Peeta was rescues and I went back to the 73rd reaping to save Prim and Finnick, and keep Peeta from getting hijacked which brings us to why I'm here," A look
of recognition starts to cross Peeta's face. "So I woke up on the reaping this morning which is why I'm wearing this dress I wasn't taking any chances. I started talking to him right away and after the reaping I was
walking home and started to feel really lightheaded passed out, and the next thing I know I'm in Willow's room." Everyone takes a minute to process everything I've told them. I have one more question for Prim.

"Prim, how'd you survive?" She gets a really sad look on her face and I have a really bad feeling in the core of my stomache.

"Well I tried to refuse Coin, but she wasn't having any of it and forced me to go. The morning of the mission I slept in late. I quickly got dressed in my uniform but when I got down there the hovercraft was already gone and I found out someone had pretended to be me."

"Who?" I ask

"You know who Katniss" And she's right I do know who. Mom. I get that lightheadedness and feel myself slipping away. I manage to hug everyone, especially Prim before I completely slip away.

I wake up back in District 12 with two pairs of blue eyes peering at me. An eleven year old Prim and a fifteen year old Peeta. I start to sit up and the first thing Peeta does is pull me to him and hold me tightly

"You have no idea how bad you scared me." Then he lets go and looks guilty like he thinks he crossed some sort of line. But he didn't and I laugh and say

"Well I'm alive."

Yayyy happy chapter ending! Once again I'm very sorry for the wait. By the way Doppelganger, and Mjenney21, thank you both so much for your friendship and support! Don't know what I'd do w/out you guys.

~TheRealPrimroseEverdeen