The next morning I woke up, Katniss was gone.
Instantly I got up and went searching for her, her old apartment, the control room, even the training area. I eventually ended up in the hall where breakfast was being served. I grabbed a plate of whatever was on offer and sat at a table. Then I heard her magical laugh.
I looked over to the door to see her coming in with Gale, his arm around her shoulder, not quite intimate but still too close for my liking. He whispered something in her ear and she broke out into more peals of laughter. I watched them as they went over to the counter and he got two plates, one for both of them. There was more laughing as they walked over and sat at their own table. I was about to go over to them, just as Prim walked in. I heard she had died. I looked at Katniss, she hadn't noticed her yet. She started doing a little dance, wiggling her bottom whilst waving at me, I waved back and smiled. She was waiting for Katniss to notice, she finally had. The laughter stopped, tears had sprung into her eyes and her mouth was wide, Primrose laughed and went over to her, hugging her. Katniss still hadn't said a word. Katniss' mother came in tentatively, spotted me and smiled, coming to sit at my table with me. 'How is she doing? Prim wanted to see her first'
'I thought she was dead' I said, then realised how heartless it sounded, I went to make it right but her mother stopped me 'no, it's fine. We all did, then after all the panic in the capitol had subsided, we found her hiding in someone's basement with a baby in her arms, she had been protecting that baby for weeks, finding food and water and clothes. She had a few burns and injuries but over all she was ok. The hospital wanted to keep her in case she had been hijacked; she only got out this morning. The baby's mother has been located' she said, trailing off. As she spoke I watched Katniss and her sister and could tell Primrose was telling her the story. When she had finished, Katniss grabbed her hand and pressed it to her stomach, Prim's eyes went wide and she grinned, bending down to press her face against her sister's enlarged stomach. I had never seen them interact together before and it was amazing to see the bond between them now, even after we had thought Prim was dead. Primrose suddenly sat up straight and asked Katniss something, she answered and Prim smiled and pointed at me. Katniss only just noticed I was here, something flickered across her eyes, but she smiled and got up, with Prim's help and waddled over to me 'Katniss is having a baby' Prim grinned at me, whilst sliding into the chair next to me. 'I know, silly' I said, brushing hair out of her eyes and kissing the top of her head, she smelt like strawberries. 'You're going to have a baby' she stated again, I laughed and nudged her arm. 'What's this I hear about you and a baby?' I asked her, smiling. She looked up at me and grinned 'well, after the bomb went off, all the surviving children ran off to wherever they went and whilst I was trying to find Katniss, I found this adorable little baby and I couldn't just let her die, could I? So I took her and found a house on the outskirts of the capitol and lived in there. I stayed in the basement in case there were peace keepers around and they would probably recognise me because of all of those interviews I had to do when you two were in the games. Luckily the house that I had chosen must've had a baby in it at some point because there were plenty of necessities and by the time they found me, I still hadn't run out! I named the baby Rue, because of the tribute from eleven, but I don't know what her real name was.' She said, taking very few breaths 'what are you going to call your baby?' she asked excitably, looking between Katniss and I. 'ah, er, well, we haven't quite got a name yet..' Katniss said, trailing off whilst looking at me, I smiled and nodded, unsure of what to say. 'I like the name River, or Rain, or Aeron, is it a girl or a boy?' she squealed, I looked at Katniss, expecting an answer, but she had none. 'well lets go find out!' Prim said, jumping up, taking both of us by the hand, then putting our hands together, then lead us to the hospital wing of District 13.