Hi All: So I kinda redid this chapter because I realized there was more to this story, when I sat down to write the end. It just got to be slightly longer and lots of fun. I'll be posting the Next chapter should be up next week, hooooray!

Please kindly review and let me know what you guys think, PS. I do not own the HG!


Katniss arrived and found her best friend Gale sitting outside of the tree house. Never Island was a lush green garden that was beautifully dangerous. Just the type of a place a Pan could have wild adventures. Katniss loved it here. It was filled with dozens of happy memories. Memories that included Peeta, Katniss sighed as she fixed a look n her face, something Gale would recognize.

Gale was one of the first lost boys. He was tall and lanky even for a boy of eleven. Gale was whittling away at a piece of wood. He was a hunter and had the ability to sense when she approached. He once told her the north wind seemed to accompany her whenever she was near. When he heard her approach he greeted "Hey Catnip."

"Gale" Katniss greeted. Gale was the only one who gave her a nickname.

"Did you go on an adventure with out us?" Gale questioned looking at Katniss.

"Nah, just came back from...looking into some windows." Katniss said watching the way Gale worked with his hands. This was not as appealing or interesting as when Peeta worked with dough. Katniss loved the way Peeta worked with his hands.

"Anything new" Gale asked nonchalantly.

Katniss braced her hands on her knees. A thought came to her. Gale was the one of her first recruits. She wondered if he ever missed his home, if he ever wanted to grow up.

"Gale do you miss your home?"

Gale paused looking at Katniss. It was a strange question coming from her. Katniss was never this retrospective. Though he thought about it, and one thing became clear. "I miss my mom, my family."

Katniss blinked. The words mom and family jumped out at her. Family was important to the humans, especially to Peeta. She looked at him and blurted out. "Gale, have you ever wanted to grow up?"

Gale scoffed "No."

This was interesting; he missed his family but did not want to grow up. Katniss asked "Why not?"

Gale looked to Katniss. Katniss was forgetful, but this was his past and they had been friends for a very long time. "Life was hard where I came from. Don't you remember my family died of sickness?"

Katniss nodded, she had forgotten that Gale came from the medieval times.

"I don't ever want to grow up. I like the fun we have. Besides I want to teach Ol'Snow a lesson."

Katniss smiled. Gale would never ever grow up. He should be the next Pan. "If something happened to me would you be the next Pan?"

"Really you mean it?" Gale was excited at the thought of becoming the next Pan that he did not take into consideration that Katniss would have to leave in order for that to happen.

Sadly Katniss lifted herself from her sitting position. She looked around at her home. "You never know Gale."

Gale nodded but in his mind he was already plotting what he would do to Snow.

Katniss went into the tree house where their club house was. She looked around inside, at the organized chaos they lived in. It was a contrast to Peeta's simple room. She saw Bogss, Mitchell, Thresh and Thom playing a game with their swords. Each one of her Lost Boys had a story some she forgot. Others she could not. She questioned if she could leave all this behind.

Her hand slipped into her pocket and her fingers curled around the thimble. It reminded her of Peeta.

Thom stopped playing and watched their leader. She had come from the main land again. He could tell, she always had a look after she came back from visiting Peeta. Thom was quiet about his suspicions, Peeta affected Katniss far more than what everyone thought. Thom knew Katniss for far longer than anyone else. He was the first, shortly after came Gale. The three of them accidentally brought Snow and his crew here. Thom was the one who brought Coin the Crocodile here.

Nothing they had ever done had changed them. They were a tight group. The dynamic changed upon the arrival of the blond haired boy with the kind blue eyes. It was then Thom noted the difference in Katniss. She grinned differently, she sought his side. He became her partner in their adventures. It was when he left Thom noted the changes. Katniss became reserved. She became easily distracted and hardly found herself with them. She increasingly spent the past three years going to him.

Thom had noted how Katniss grew. She did not fit the clothing she wore and Jo had to make adjustments. Thom however did not say anything. Katniss was her own person and she dictated her future but Thom wondered if their leader missed Peeta just a bit too much. Besides him Thresh knocked him over.

"Katniss come and play." Thresh asked thrusting his sword forward.

"Thanks but not now." Katniss greeted them then frowned.

Boggs shook his head "You look ridiculous."

"Do not" Thresh spat.

"Do too," Bogs shot back.

Suddenly there was heap of boys fighting with each other.

She wondered over to her cot thinking about what she just spoke to Gale about. There was only one lost boy who she could speak to. She waited until the boys were done with their spat and asked "Has anyone seen Finnick?"

"He's by the mermaids." Castor one of the twins shouted before he and his brother Pollux jumped in.

Mitchell was pushed out.

"You wanna play?" Mitchell asked with a toothless grin. He was the baby of all the lost boys, he was missing his two front teeth.

"No thanks" Katniss uttered she could hear Jo approaching and wanted to get out. "Lost boy's Jo is in a fowl mood."

Katniss did not need to say more. The boys scattered. Jo could be a handful when upset. Katniss went up out through one of the hidden entrances in the tree limbs. She glanced down to see even Gale had abandoned his post. She narrowly escaped Jo. Katniss flew until she spotted Finnick from the air. She slowly approached, wondering what Finnick was thinking of.

Finnick was the boy whom had joined them a few days ago. He was beloved by everyone except for Gale. Even Jo liked him. However Gale could not stand Finnick and opposed him becoming one of them. Katniss found Finnick to be funny charming but she noticed he was a loner. Finnick had a long sad history. He lived in a home and his only friend was a girl named Annie.

Katniss floated down.

Finnick was sitting by the pool of water where the mermaids often surfaced. She sat down next to him. Finnick had always a perspective that Katniss had never had. He was the oldest lost boy ever. He had his reasons for accepting the invitation to stay. Katniss never questioned them.

"Have I ever told you how pretty this place is" Finnick said as he wove together the strong rope out of some plant he found.

"No."

"Well it reminds me of home, I used to live by the water." Finnick said his eyes were a myriad of hidden emotions.

His conversation played perfectly within her conversation parameters. "Finnick, do you regret coming here?"

"No, it's a lot of fun. Last week when Gale pulled down Snow's pants to reveal he had pink rabbit shorts underneath was hilarious." Finnick burst out laughing.

The game was inventive. The first one to pull down Snow's pants won the title of King of the Lost Boys.

"That was rather fun" Katniss said.

Finnick looked a Katniss who had a strange look about her face. Inquisitively he questioned this side. "Why do you ask?"

Katniss shrugged "I don't know. I just…" Katniss paused looking out toward the distance. "I have wondered if you ever thought of going back."

Finnick turned to Katniss and without much preamble answered "Yes I have."

Katniss wrinkled her nose. "Why?"

"I miss Annie."

Annie was the girl that Finnick left behind at the home.

Katniss looked at Finnick and contemplated his words. "Would you go to her you if you could?"

"Yes." Finnick loved Annie.

His answer was immediate. "Why would you want to grow up?"

"I have always wanted to have a family, with Anne. I mean, we are a family here but you know I always pictured myself as a father."

Katniss repeated "A father?"

This was another word added to her lexicon. Mother. Father. Family. These three words whirled in her brain. They caused her stress and infinite attraction. These were important in the human world.

"Annie would be a great mother. We would be a family." Finnick could see the impact of his words on Katniss. She might be older than he but she was naively unaware of the things from the human realm. He often thought of her as a little sister.

"I do not think I ever had a family. How does a family come to be, Finnick?" Katniss did not remember her family. She could not recall what that was. But the recollection of Peeta holing Prim made her heart comprehend. Peeta wanted to be a parent for his niece Prim. This was as close to a family she would ever see.

"Where I come from a family normally consists of people who love each other and spend their time on earth together. The do not necessarily have to be related. The common bond is love."

"Do you love your Annie?" Katniss questioned.

"I love her."

Katniss wrapped her arms around her legs. Together they sat for a long time. Him weaving and she thinking as she stared at her reflection in the still water. There was a lot to think about.

"Thank you Finnick."

Finnick nodded and watched Katniss fly away.

Katniss sighed as she went to her bed later that night. There alone in her bed she pulled out the thimble. The words mother, father, children, family and love were all associated with growing up. Something ancient and deep awoke within her. She wanted to be loved like Finnick loved his Annie. A tear escaped from her eye and rolled down her cheek. It was becoming more and more apparent Katniss was beginning to long for other things, things her childhood home could never offer her. Yet in Peeta's world she could find what she lacked. She thought of Peeta sitting in his room with the drawing. It was then Katniss understood Peeta could love her like that. Warmth spread within her chest.

A small smile played on her lips. Katniss came to the conclusion growing up could not have been that bad if Peeta chose it. There were benefits to growing up she never considered. He appeared happy something Katniss was not.

Jo silently floated over to Katniss. Katniss was not asleep. Curiously she hid watching Katniss. Jo was not surprised Katniss held the thimble. Katniss twirled it between her fingers. She saw the way she pressed the thimble to her lips. Katniss sighed. Then Katniss silently uttered that human boy's name. Jo knew she had to speak up.

"Don't think about it Katniss, you do not have to grow up."

"Why can't I?"

"You are Katniss the Pan, leader of the Lost Boys. You are the defender against horrible Captain Snow." Jo said but she was too late. Jo saw it in Katniss' face. She was losing Katniss to a human boy.

"Not good enough any more." Katniss said as she stood with the thimble in her hand. Katniss got up and shouted "LOST BOYS!"

At her shout the boys woke up.

Gale questioned "Catnip?"

There was a determined look on her face. It dawned on him the earlier conversation he had with Katniss. She was leaving them. No sooner than he thought this than Katniss made the announcement.

"I am leaving."

The room was in shock.

One of the boys uttered. "You can't leave."

"This is where you belong. You cannot up and go." Jo smartly snickered.

"I have to" Katniss swallowed.

"You can't leave." Jo crossed her arms across her chest.

"I am already growing up." Katniss said.

Gale could not believe it. "You are my friend."

Thom looked to Katniss he was in shock just like everyone else. He had never could have foreseen that Katniss the Pan would leave them. It was no shock Gale knew, Gale and Katniss were close. Actually Gale looked wilder than Katniss did. This was strange and Thom puzzled over this.

"I have to leave Gale." She could see it in his face the disbelief the inability to believe what was going on with her.

"No you're not." Heatedly Gale said. "Are you doing this for him?" Gale pointed to Finnick.

"No!" Finnick raised his hands up.

"Not for him Gale. For me I want to grow up."

Jo got close to Katniss. Finally she saw what she had been denying. Katniss was transforming into a human adult female. It left her shocked and stunned.

"She is growing up." Jo said sadly her light diminished.

Katniss opened her hand and Jo landed in the palm of her hand.

"Don't be sad Jo. I will always believe." Katniss uttered.

Jo looked to Katniss she could sense Katniss was speaking the truth. She felt it from the inside out. Katniss believed. Though it still hurt to know Katniss had to leave them.

"I will never forget you any of you. But I have to go."

"Where are you going to go?" Mitchell asked.

"She's going to see Peeta, in Scotland." Thom said looking at Katniss. He figured it out. Gale was the easy puzzle he was fully embracing the island they lived on and was beginning to resemble it. While Katniss was becoming human and only love could bring about that change. Katniss loved Peeta.

"How did you know?"

"You have never been the same since he left." Thom said, "Besides every time you come back Jo goes on a rampage about Seagate, Scotland and that blue eyed monster who lives there. I figured that's where he lives.

"Who is going to lead us?" Boggs asked.

"Gale, he is going to be the Pan." Katniss took her sword from beside her bed and gave it to Gale. "Have great adventures."

She went to Finnick and said "Do you want to go to Annie?"

"Yeah" Finnick grinned.

Katniss looked to Jo and smiled "Jo one more time?"

Jo nodded sprinkling fairy dust all over Katniss and Finnick.

"Come on." Katniss said as she and Finnick flew away.

They picked up Annie from the orphanage in the United States and were headed to Peeta's home. Fortunately Annie was asleep when they flew to Scotland, Katniss had sprinkled her with some of her dust from her pouch while the girl was sleeping in her cot. Finnick flew with her encased in his arms.

"Are you sure he is going to help all of you." Jo questioned skeptically.

"I have faith in him." Katniss said as they flew.

The night was midway through by the time Katniss flew in through the window. There on the bed slept Peeta. Katniss' heart raced as she crept to his bed. She became so filled with joy at the sight of him that she floated. For a few moments she paused staring down at his perfect form. In her pocket she held the thimble Peeta called a kiss. On Peeta's roof when they landed, Annie woke up Katniss witnessed two lovers greet each other. Annie pressed her lips to Finnick's mouth. This fascinated Katniss because they both seemed to enjoy pressing their lips together. Finnick called it kissing.

She left them on the roof, Annie was too busy listening to Finnick to see Katniss or Jo for that matter come to Peeta's window. He looked so peaceful in his bed. Katniss wondered if Peeta would not mind this pressing of lips type of kiss. Boldly she wanted to find out.

Jo watched from the window as Katniss leaned her head forward and paused before she kissed Peeta.

Katniss closed her eyes at the contact and her feet curled in her boots. His lips were warm and firm. Katniss did not realize a sigh escaped from her lips as she lifted her head.

At the contact of her lips Peeta woke up.

"Katniss" Peeta said surprised and wrapped his arm around Katniss' neck. The move caused them both to lose their balance. They both fell off the bed. Peeta fell on top of Katniss. They laughed then Peeta gently cupped her chin.

All laughter stopped as they were engrossed in each other's eyes.

Peeta stood unaware that Katniss was openly gawking at him. He was not wearing his shirt and her mouth went dry. Katniss did not know how to control these impulses.

"Katniss" Peeta called out to her once more. She seemed dazed and Peeta wondered if she was hurt.

Katniss focused and saw that he held his hand out to her. She gave it to him for the sheer need to have physical contact with him. She felt embarrassed and awkward suddenly because she did not know how to act.

Peeta helped her up. They both sat on the bed facing each other. Peeta could not believe she was here. He blue gaze took her in slowly. He touched her face with his fingers. "I can't believe you are here."

Katniss swallowed wanting to tell him everything but words failed her. She could fly and fight a treacherous Captain but she could not say two words to him.

"You're growing up." Peeta said looking at her. She was taller and she lost her elfin ears but her eyes were still that silvery gray.

"I am," Katniss croaked out then smiled crookedly.

"You're prettier."

Katniss blinked pretty was not something she had ever been called. She blushed. "I am."

Peeta took her hand in his. "You are, you always have been."

There a million fluttering wings inside of her stomach. She blurted. "Can I stay?"

Peeta could not believe his ears "Really?"

Katniss nodded.

"You want to stay with me?" Peeta grasped her by the arms.

"Can I?"

"Always, you can stay with me always." Peeta said leaning into kiss her. He dreamt of this moment so many times. He was afraid his dreams would only stay a fantasy.

"I have friends who want to grow up too."

Peeta paused to stare into her eyes. "That's easy. Mags our next door neighbor can take care of you and your friends. She is always taking in orphaned kids. I work for her at the bakery."

Katniss was relived.

Peeta desired to have his second kiss. He whispered "A kiss?"

"Wait, I have something for you." Katniss smiled and pulled out the thimble and gave it to him. She wanted to show him she kept it.

Peeta smiled brightly glad she kept his token. He covered her hand with his and kissed her. Lips melded as they both yielded to each other.

Out of the corner of her eyes Katniss saw Jo's small light slowly move away from the window until it was gone in the darkened sky. This was her new and final adventure.