TRIGGER: Tell Johanna About The Party.

"So, I ran into one of our neighbors today at the store," Katniss started as the steady rhythm of a knife on plastic paused.

"Which one?"

"She said her name was Enobaria? She's a darker skinned woman, black hair,"

"Grins like a shark?" Johanna added as she turned to Katniss who gave her a quick nod of her head, "I think I saw her husband on the way to work. He's this really huge bald dude."

"She remembered seeing us move in and she wanted to know if we wanted to attend this party she was having next weekend. She said all the neighbors do some party every year."

"You want to go?" Johanna asked as the metal on plastic sound started up again,

"I told her I would talk to Hannah about it." Katniss stated, "We are trying to attract a killer, and the victims did have healthy social lives, it would be good for the cover."

"Sounds good to me," Johanna shrugged, "I can show off my wife to all the neighbors."

"You sound like your enjoying this a little too much," Katniss rolled her eyes as she fished out bowls from the top cabinets.

"Says the girl who went out of her way to prepare a dinner she knew I'd like." Johanna shot back teasingly, Katniss would give her that. As much as she was nervous about this case, she really was enjoying Johanna's company. Part of her wondered if she enjoyed being her wife as well.

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By the time the part came around, Katniss had gotten used to walking around as Katherine Deans. She got used to their routine of Johanna coming home from work, eating dinner together, taking separate showers and crawling into the warm master bed together to sleep. She got used to waking up every morning in Johanna's arms surrounded by her scent and the dull buzzing of the alarm. She got used to making coffee for two and seeing Johanna off to her fake job and watching the news the rest of the morning while she cleaned the coffee pot and did laundry. During to leisure time she would read through some files for the case in the office off the dinning room or sit outside on the back deck and drink coffee. Before Katniss knew it, it was time to put their covers to the test, to really throw themselves in a public setting.

Johanna was right about one thing, Enobaria's husband was huge. He was a very tall man, easily over six feet tall and looked like a body builder with a bald head and dark eyes. He stood at the grill making food while the other men gathered around him talking sports and other things that Katniss didn't care about enough about to listen in on.

"Glad you two could make it," Enobaria greeted as she placed appetizers on the large serving table in the backyard, "Most of the girls are in the kitchen, men are outside talking sports, can I get you guys anything to drink?"

"Oh no, thank you," Katniss declined politely, "Maybe a little later,"

Enobaria turned to Johanna before her husband called her over,

"If you change your mind, beer's in the fridge, wine in the cooler," Enobaria smiled before walking off toward her husband.

"Well, lets go meet the neighbors" Johanna sighed as they walked towards the open backdoor leading into the large kitchen were women were gathered around sipping wine. A few younger children were playing in the living area.

Introductions are one after another, Katniss couldn't remember any of the women's names, she was too focused on Johanna, flashing a kilowatt smile and being more polite than Katniss ever remembers her being. Happy housewives and proud mothers introduce themselves and point out what child is theirs. A few children walked up to say hi, some of them ignored the adults completely and continued playing amongst themselves. Katniss almost missed the young boy who looked to be around four sitting at the island in the kitchen by himself.

"Why's he all by himself?" Johanna asks as one of the women turns to the boy.

"Oliver likes to play by himself, he doesn't really play with the other kids." One of the women offered, "He's a kid Enobaria and Brutus foster. He doesn't talk, doesn't show any interest in interacting with other children. I think he's autistic."

Katniss watches as Johanna walks over and glances at what the boy is doing, she walks around the island so she standing across from him and watches for a few moments.

"Don't expect him to talk to you." Another women starts, "Enobaria's been trying to adopt him, but because of Brutus's work, the agency has been on the fence for a year now. It's really sad."

"Honestly I don't think they could deal with an autistic child, It's simply too much work."

Katniss watches as Johanna tilts her head before pulling some of the packets out of the sugar container and moving around some of the small toys in the shoebox off to the side where the boy had been pulling toys, pulling up a barstool to sit across from the young boy. Katniss walks over and sees that Johanna had mimicked the layout on Oliver's side, the young boy looking up at her with curious brown eyes.

"He's a cutie," Katniss smiled over at the women most of them focused on what Johanna was doing. She wasn't lying, the boy had brown eyes that were much lighter then Johanna's and light brown, blondish hair that was in a shaggy cut and covered his eyes a bit. Soft pale skin and eyelashes that girls would kill each other for.

"So what about you and Hannah?" A tall blonde woman asks, "You two ever think of starting a family?"

Johanna's ears perk up at the question, and Katniss swore she looked just like her sister's cat back home, Buttercup, only Johanna wasn't nearly as ugly as the tomcat her sister had insisted that they keep.

"It would be nice to start a family," The sincerity in Johanna's voice makes butterflies form in Katniss's stomach and she doesn't understand why. Her tone is so gentle right now and she wished she could hear that tone more. It was like audible silk. Katniss felt a slight warmth as Johanna intertwines their fingers and turns back to her game with Oliver, keeping their hands connected.

Katniss sees what Katherine's future looks like in that moment, in this nice neighborhood with a beautiful wife. Three children, two boys and a girl, maybe a dog. White picket fence and garden in the backyard that goes all kinds of vegetables. Primroses growing in the front yard, a few trees. Hannah helping the boys with their math homework while Katherine cooked cucumber soup or tomato barley risotto or any of the other vegetarian recipes she had learned over the past week and the aromas would fill the house. The boys would set the table and the little girl would feed their dog. After the boys were asleep they would crawl into bed and Katherine would fall asleep wrapped in the smell of sandalwood.

"Bedrooms are upstairs" A male voice grumbled as a blonde man with a stocky build entered the kitchen and made his way over to the fridge to grab a cold beer. "There are children here,"

"You didn't tell me there were children here Oliver," Johanna directs to the boy causing a huge smile to spread across his face. He covers his mouth with his hands to hide it and in only makes a smile appear on Johanna's.

"You trying to be funny?" The man asks with a voice that could start a bar fight.

"I thought I was funny," Johanna smirked and moved her hand that was holding Katniss's to wrap around her waist and pulled her close. The housewives are silent as the blonde gets his beer out of the oven and looks over at Oliver,

"Don't waste your time with some special needs kid."

"Cato" One of the women, an older brunette chided. The man now dubbed Cato only snorts.

"I'm not," Johanna's voice is firm and she looks over at Oliver before turning back to Cato, "He's pretty smart."

Cato looks like he's going to laugh at her, Enobaria and Brutus walk in, Brutus looking sternly at Cato and it's clear one of the housewives waved them to come inside.

"How is that kid smart?"

Johanna matches Cato's scoff with one of her own, "You don't get the game."

Katniss looks over at the rows of stuff, sugar packets and small toys moved around in some kind of logical pattern.

"The sugar packets are Pawns," Johanna starts as Enobaria and Brutus look over at her curiously, "The little horses are the Knights, marbles are the Bishops, Legos are the rooks, and the salt and pepper shakers are the King and Queen."

The kitchen is silent, Cato looks so unamused Katniss could laugh.

"He was playing chess?" Brutus asked confused as he walked over and looked over Oliver's shoulder at the board, "He's only four."

"He's really smart," Johanna repeated and Katniss could see the adoration in her eyes. Katniss had never seen Johanna interact with children, but this was a good indication that she would be very good with them.

"How did you know?"

"Because, My stepbrother Nick and I would play makeshift chess when we were bored at restaurants." Nick was code for Finnick, Johanna had told her before in case she had to bring up some sort of family member. Nick was a common cover name Finnick used and Katniss knew that him and Johanna were close since they met when Johanna was seventeen. Finnick and her worked together on a few arsonist cases when she was a fighter fighter back in 7 and Finnick was just starting out as an agent.

Everything starts to settle, Cato leaves and Brutus looks over at Oliver and gives the kid a kind smile. For a really big guy he almost seemed gentle in that moment. He ruffles the boy's hair before going back outside, Enobaria sits beside the boy and watches as he and Johanna continue their game.

"Do you work with children, Hannah?" Enobaria comments and Katniss looks over at the older woman. Johanna lifts her head from her game with Oliver,

"I'm a photographer at Capitol Capture magazine. I work in Caesar Flickerman's fashion department."

The women started chatting up again, most of them talking about different issues of this Capitol Capture magazine.

"Where oh where did you find her Katherine?"

"How ever did you stand out against all those beautiful models?"

Katniss wants to take the second one as an insult.

"We grew up together," Johanna starts and Katniss remembers her story when she took the case. "We played hide and seek all the time when we were kids."

"She always found me," Katniss added in with an eye roll.

"I always looked for you," Katniss down at the girl sitting off to her side, "Even back then, I always looked for you. I didn't want any of the other kids finding you."

"Dork," Katniss accuses fondly as she rests an arm around Johanna's shoulders she leans down to lean her forehead against Johanna's. She had remembered her mother doing it with her father when a moment like this arose between the two. Johanna however had different ideas.

Before Katniss can really think to act, Johanna moves so she meets Katniss's lips in a soft kiss. Her lips are warm and move against Katniss's so naturally that Katniss forgets they are in a kitchen surrounded by people. She forgets they're undercover, she forgets that she was supposed to be Katherine Deans and forgets that she's supposed to be kissing Hannah Madison. When Johanna pulls away far too soon Katniss is only sure of one thing: Katherine is a pretty luck bitch.

"Your all red," Johanna laughs and Katniss is sure if she was blushing then it had darkened a few shades.

"To be young and in love," She hears on of the women swoon, The other women agree and go back to talking between themselves.

The rest of the night goes by quickly, all Katniss can focus on is Johanna. How Johanna constantly had her hand in hers, or how her arm was around her shoulders are waist. In the back of Katniss's mind, she really thinks this Hannah is far too sweet, not like the Johanna at home to teased and taunted her. She suddenly wants to go home, she wants Johanna to accompany her, that Hannah, not someone who didn't really exist.

Her mind is swimming slightly when they say their good-byes to the neighbors and head home.

"Geez, I've never seen a bigger bunch of gossipy house-wives." Johanna grunts and Katniss is almost thrilled to hear it. Thrilled to have Johanna be herself here. "It's pretty late, I'll try to be quick in the shower."

Or we could take a long shower together Katniss thinks herself before she shakes it off. She needed water, ice water, to get these thoughts out of her head.

"Before I forget," Johanna called over her shoulder, "I have an assignment Friday. Flickerman wants me to take photos of animals and nature to go along with next issue's natural fashion issue. The directors want real animal and nature photos to display with the corresponding inspired outfits."

"Sounds interesting."

"Yeah well, they're giving me Friday off to go to one of the shooting places, some zoo outside of town, the local aquarium, or this national park that just opened up." Johanna continues, "We could go together?"

Like a date? Katniss hopes slightly but dismissed the thought, as a fake married couple. That's how they would go.

"Sure," Katniss smiled,

"You can pick the one we go to, I really don't care which." Johanna added, "What do you say?"

LIVE TRIGGER

Zoo

Aquarium

National Park

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YAY Thanks so much for all the support guys, It's really amazing! I added Oliver after watching /Scorpio and really couldn't help added that bit of inspiration. Also Katniss starting to fall for Johanna was fun!