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"So…um…" I mumbled as I woke up entangled in Katniss's arms on the couch that we must have fallen asleep on.

Her eyes blinked open and she slowly came back into consciousness. She was adorable. "Oh, good morning, Gale," she said with a sleepy smile, as if she woke up next to me every morning.

Normally, I would have lost my ability to speak, but thankfully my brain wasn't awake enough to remember that. Instead it went back to one of the reflexes that I adopted from Annie. "Good morning, Katniss. Did you sleep well?"

"Best night I have had since I married that moron," she grumbled. I had a feeling she didn't really pay attention to what she was saying, because I am sure that she wouldn't really say something like that out loud normally, even in front of me when we were the best of friends way back whenever.

Of course I finally was out of things to say. I mean what is the normal thing to say after something like that? But I never do know what to say so I went out on a limb and said, "I guess it's not that fun marrying someone who no longer loved you unconditionally after he had done it for so long, huh."

"Says the one who wanted to help rebuild the government," she pointed out, with reason of course.

"I wanted the world to be better for everyone," I said in my defense, "Plus aren't you the really the one who caused the whole uprising?"

It was her turn to go into defensive mode. "I didn't do it one purpose!" she said in a loud voice that could have been compared to a shout. Okay, it was a shout.

"I know, I know, sorry for teasing you," I told her, not wanting to ruin the dream that I had stepped into yesterday. I pet her hair very awkwardly trying to calm her down. And when I said that I was awkwardly petting her, I mean that it was awkward enough for her to start laughing at me.

Then there was a knock on the basement door. "Can I come down?" Little Catnip asked. I couldn't believe that Rose actually asked something, but I think she was probably more scared of what she might walk in on.

"You can come down," her mom called to her as she extracted herself from me, but didn't walk away until she placed a quick kiss on the tip of my nose. I wasn't sure if that was too weird, but I just smiled anyway and waited for Rose to take her place in front of me and tell me what was going on. And in seconds, she was there.

She promptly handed me the phone before I knew what was going on. "It's your boss; he wants to talk to you."

I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk to him or not, since he was sending an assassin after me, but since he did call me I guess I had nothing to lose.

"Hello?" I asked timidly into the phone. I was worried about what he was going to say and Katniss and Little Catnip looked the same.

"Hello, Gale, how have you been?" my boss, William T. Spears asked. I almost forgot that we were really good friends, though mostly just drinking buddies.

I felt a quick smile come onto my lips, even though it quickly passed. "I'm good. To what do I owe the pleasure of you calling?"

He sounded surprised, as if he would actually call the person he was trying to eradicate from the planet. "Actually that little girl, Rose was her name, called me. She said that one of my employees was trying to kill innocent civilians to get to you. It didn't really get to me at first because, well civilians as expendable as you know."

I nodded my head even though I know that he couldn't see me doing it. "Yes, I remember quite well."

William continued, "Then the girl said that Sebastian tried to kill Katniss Everdeen or whatever her name is, and well, I have always admired her. And then I remembered one of the times when you got like really drunk, I'm assuming you don't remember. And usually you aren't a bad drunk, but you must have been really upset about something. I mean you were horrible. But you know what you complained about the most?"

I remembered waking up the day after feeling like I did something really bad, but I wasn't really sure what went on that night. "No, sir, I do not remember what I complained about the most."

"Well, you when on about how cure life was because you couldn't marry the girl that you had loved since forever. So I asked you who it was and you told me, 'the great and wonderful Katniss Everdeen. Oh, how I love her more than my own life. I would do anything to live with her, who is more radiant than a thousand suns. She is the light of my world and she had to go and marry that useless Peeta.' And so I said, 'Well, if you love her that much, then the day she falls in love with you back, then I will let you work your job long distance.' And if I am correct it sound=ds to me like to slept with her last night."

I blushed like a tomato and stammered for a minute. "We didn't go that far!"

Or course Katniss and Rose knew exactly what I was yelling about. Katniss joined me in the tomato impression contest. Rose just laughed.

"Either way," William continued, "my deal still stands. And since I can't have Sebastian killing Katniss, we have to get rid of him, since he seems to be leaking more information that you ever could, considering how love-struck you clearly are at the moment."

It was another stammering moment for me. Was he really going to let me off the hook and just erase my black-haired problem from the world and let me live with my dream girl? "Sure…"

"So I am sending the Red-Haired Reaper down to get that liability away from society contact. And you get to keep you job, life, and possibly future wife. Now good bye."

"Thank you, sir," was all I managed to say before he hung up on me, off to continue his life of doing nothing but something productive.

I told the two girls the good news. Katniss engulfed me in a lung-crushing hug and Rose quickly clapped and cheered and snuck off somewhere, probably to find Ceil so she could get some hugs too.

I was worried about the Red-Haired Reaper coming. He was a strange character. In fact he was the one who judged who we killed and who we let live… and he was a strange character.

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When I take out the trash, I usually either have a major fangirl moment or sing loudly. Well thankfully last night I didn't do either, because my hot neighbor was outside and walking his dog and didn't see me acting like an idiot.