CHAPTER 14: THE END.
10 YEARS LATER
"Mum?" Eliza burst through the door, her long hair back in a braid just like her mothers, a bow in one hand and a dead squirrel in the other. The underground hideout in District 13 was long abandoned but after searching the place from top to bottom they discovered left over clothes for all sizes, some canned foods, beds, weapons, medicine and a generator for electricity. They hadn't used the whole space, only the rooms close to the main hall where they would eat and spend most their time if they weren't outside hunting and collecting herbs. Katniss stood from the table and walked over to hug her daughter before taking the squirrel in the kitchen.
"How was the hunt?" Abaigael questioned caressing her swollen stomach.
"Brilliant, it's like the animals just ran at me" Eliza's face lit up as she spoke.
"And yet you brought back only one squirrel?" Kaleb teased his little sister with his arm around Annabella. Everyone was sitting at the table eating soup that Angel made.
"Well once I killed that one the rest ran"
"That's why you have to be inconspicuous"
"That's a big word for you"
"Well I'm a big boy" Kaleb winked at Annabella trying to joke around.
"Eww!" Eliza swatted her brother's head as she passed them and sat down at the table.
"You'd think now that you're a father yourself you would be more mature Kaleb" Peeta chuckled at his children's antics "Speaking of, where is Angel?" They all looked around the room searching for the youngest member of the group. Annabella and Kaleb ended up having a small, perfectly healthy little girl, she had her father's blonde hair, cheekbones and cute little nose and she had her mother's waves, lips and eyes, everyone loved her she was the light in the never ending darkness in the war. Gale loved being a Grandfather as did Peeta and Katniss loved being a Grandmother.
But unfortunately not everyone was still here.
Annie and Daniel had gone rogue and left the group 3 years after they made it to District 13, they didn't want to stay still anymore, they wanted to continue in the rebellion and recruit more soldiers that they would strike at the right moment; to this very day they still weren't successful.
Haymitch had drank himself to death a year after, he had gone through too much pain and couldn't take it anymore, he claimed he wasn't strong enough to handle all the pain and that alcohol numbed his pain, unfortunately he did not know his limit very well.
5 years earlier Effie was sick of being the 'odd one out' as she claimed in the family so she left to go back to the Capitol and try to get a job; she was successful in getting a job. On one condition, she would go on air and explain to everyone how wrong the rebellion was and how she wishes that her 'mid-life crisis' was not that extreme, she is now the new host of the tribute interviews since Caesar had mysteriously disappeared. Yes, the games are still going; unfortunately we were not able to stop them, we have tried not to watch them but curiosity gets the better of us sometimes. But Annabella and Kaleb would not let Angel watch it, they refused to even let her know about the games, little did they know that every year Angel would sneak out of bed and hide behind whatever she could and secretly watch, she was especially interested in the re-runs and the reports of the old rebellion of her parents and grandparents.
"There's my little princess" Kaleb ran over and scooped Angel up in his arms swinging her around and making dramatic noises, Angel giggled loudly and screamed clutching onto her father tightly so she wouldn't fall.
"No daddy, I'm not a princess, princesses are too girly. I'm a warrior like you" Angel smiled brightly and kissed Kaleb on the cheek.
"Awee, I can't wait to have that with my princess" Ryder watched Kaleb and Angel with awe.
Ryder and Kaleb had become best friends, after Kaleb went back for him things have been different with them, it was a defining moment in their friendship, Ryder saw that as an invitation and now they are pretty inseparable.
"Prince" Abaigael said, "HE is going to be a strong warrior and he will be mummy's boy" Abaigael drew circles on her stomach with her fingers and kissed Ryder's chin.
"You will love it" Annabella said placing her hands on her own slightly swollen stomach.
"Have you got any names picked?" Gale asked breaking the silence.
"We want to name him or her Billie" Abaigael said in a dreamy voice. Ever since she was pregnant she turned all lovey dovey, Ryder couldn't wait until she returned to her natural snarky self.
"That's a beautiful name" Gale spoke, he had become somewhat of a father to Abaigael since he was close to Johanna and saw it fit to take her under his wing "And you Bell?"
"If it's a girl Lily, and if it's a boy Beau" Kaleb spoke up, he and Annabella have been very happy together and barely fought, ever since 3 years after Angel was born they had been trying to get pregnant again, it took so long but they finally succeeded.
Ryder and Abaigael got together officially not long after everything had settled down and waited to get 'married' to do the deed and another few years for them to get pregnant but they were as happy as ever, fighting frequently but never turning it into something bigger than a small tiff.
Gale took a while to warm up to Annabella being pregnant but when he did he acted like a little child at Christmas time, he was excited to meet his grandchild and when he did he never let her leave his sight. He held a grudge against Kaleb for a long time but he let up when Annabella yelled at him.
"Who would have ever predicted that all of us would end up like this, together" Peeta said "If I was told this was going to happen when I didn't eat the night lock I would have called them a liar, but now look at us"
"Yeah" Annabella agreed "One big happy family"
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