Many, many, MANY years later...
"And that is how Effie was always trying to keep everything on time," Haymitch concluded.
Effie had a slight blush over the memory, but a feeling of sadness washed over remembering more than half of the crew including Sapphire and her manager was killed in the bombings.
"Did you have that job when you know... we were around?" Peeta asked while he was bouncing his baby girl on his lap to amuse her.
"Oh, heavens no, Peeta. My co-workers encouraged me to quit my job two months before my second year as escort, even though they will miss me a lot,"
She stared at her teacup lost in her thoughts. Katniss felt Effie's discomfort and turned to Haymitch.
"Hey Haymitch, how did the peacekeepers decide not to barbecue you alive after finding out you were gone?" Katniss asked hoping to chase away the bad aura.
"They didn't have anything against me anymore, after..." Haymitch trailed off.
Peeta coughed while Katniss replied him with a guilty stare. Haymitch felt awkward and hated it. So, he decided to lighten up the mood.
"Well, they did find me completely passed out outside a bar. They were all probably too lazy to give me punishment. My mentor, the first District 12 victor of the Hunger Games was too old to be a repalcement, so taking me out would be too much work,"
Everyone started to smile, even the baby girl was laughing.
"How could you get drunk over six glasses of liquor, Haymitch? You've had more than one dozen bottles when you mentored us and you were still able to give us good advice," Katniss joked.
"Yeah... even though I had to bathe you," Peeta added and shuddered at the memory.
"Well, I was new to it okay? What was in that liquor, Eff?" Haymitch asked.
"Don't ask me. I wasn't the one who made it. I was just your waitress,"
Katniss laughed. "I would've loved to see Effie polite to Haymitch in a maid dress,"
Haymitch curled his lips into his signature smirk.
"Well..." he mumbled.
Effie glared at Haymitch.
"Haymitch, what are you thinking?" Effie bit her lip with worry.
Haymitch pulled out something from under the table. Effie's eyes grew wide. In front of her was her old maid outfit and Haymitch was waving it in front of Peeta and Katniss.
"W-where did you get that?" Effie screeched.
"I stole it when I helped you move out years ago,"
"But... That was almost ten years ago, and why take it out now?"
Effie was pounding her fists in the air, screaming insults while Haymitch stood on the chair, holding out the dress away from her.
"Just so I could annoy you,"
"HAYMITCH!"
"Hey, princess, thought that Maid Latte taught you a thing or two about holding your temper,"
"I'm not a maid or an escort anymore, so I don't care about temper tantrums as much as I used to,"
"Really? Good. Cause I can keep doing this all the time,"
Haymitch continued to stand on the chair. Effie continued to yell at him. Katniss took the baby and left them to put her to sleep. Peeta cleaned up the table. He would pause at some point to look at the two arguing over a girl's ancient artifact and tried his best to tame his thoughts of ideas.