Here's the epilogue! Enjoy and review! I'm ditching my usual heading for this..cause it's an epilogue and I feel lazy right now :{

Denver's POV (five years after last chapter ended):

"GALE HAWTHORNE I HATE YOU!" I scream as loud as I can as another contraction rips through my body. His answer to my statement is only his loud laughter. He takes my hand and squeezes it gently.

"You don't hate me" he grins at me from where he's standing, the side of my hospital bed. I've been in labor for the past six hours and I really am ready for this to be over with, well, I've been ready for the past five hours.

"It's your fault! If you weren't so, so-"

"Sexy, handsome, amazing?" he asks, cutting me off while I searched for the right word.

"Yeah!" I say through gritted teeth.

I still remember the day we found out I was pregnant; it was a bit of a shocker. A bit, I mean, I didn't really complain when Gale would come home from work and pick me up and start kissing me against a wall and a few minutes later carry me to our bedroom. But right now, I'm in too much pain, even with the stupid shot they gave me.

Gale kisses me softly on the cheek. "You're doing great Den" he croons to me; I turn my head to glare at him.

"You have no idea how great I'm doing." This makes him laugh again. I put another death grip on his hand as my body causes pain to shoot through itself again. "Gale!" I gasp.

"Denver now!" the doctor instruct me. "Push!" I do as I'm told; I just want this baby out of me. Now.

I let out an exasperated sigh of relief and fall back onto the pillows when I finally know it's over. One, because I feel a lot less fat, and two, I can hear the cries of my baby now. I glance right at the clock. 12:02 A.M. I laugh, that's ironic. Twelve, our old home District, and then Two, our new home District.

I look back to the doctor and put my arms out towards her. She smiles at me and holds out the bundle. "It's a boy." She smiles as she puts my child, Gale and I's child, in my arms. I look down at the little baby boy and then back at Gale. His eyes are shining; he looks up at me and kisses me. Then he goes and kisses our child. "What's his name?" the doctor asks. I look back to Gale and smile.

"Dane Pine Hawthorne" Gale says proudly. It's a name we agreed on weeks before. I look from Dane to Gale, my family. My boys. I pull Dane closer to me and kiss his forehead as he settles down. As I look down at him he opens his eyes for the first time to look at us. Gray eyes. Seam eyes. I look to Gale and see that glint in his eyes that I know is mirrored in my own. That hopefully will appear in our son's. Because Gale and I have the same kind of heart, which has been passed down to our son from us, from our fathers, and from our father's fathers. The heart of determination, the heart to stand up for what you believe in.

A miner's heart.

I like the ending..i always try and put the book title in the last chapter somehow so I thought this fit nicely. So ANYWAYS now I can finally tell you my big idea!

So I was thinking of making a kinda sequel to this, note the kinda. Like a story that has Dane in it and he goes off and meets like Peeta and Katniss's daughter and ya see where that goes from there ;). I couldn't mention it earlier cause then that would've given away that Denver and Gale end up together. So, I'll probably end up writing it anyways, either before or after this other idea I've had due to my recent obsession with Cato(much of which comes from the help of Alexander Ludwig). I want to do one kind of an AU where District Two has like an academy where kids train from age twelve for the Games and then if they want volunteer at age eighteen and like follow Cato through that along with his roommate, which is the same the whole time the kids are at the academy, through their story from age twelve up until eighteen. And it would be like training for the games isn't illegal and Two is really big and high tech and professional with it and such. So, theres a poll on my profile if you want to vote for which one to see next! Thanks to everyone who read this story, it is my best story so far according to its stats which I'm proud to announce:

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