A/N: Thanks for reading that last chapter! I hope you enjoyed it! This chapter will be about them getting back to District 12! Enjoy! I love you all!
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Katniss's POV - Back again
From my bedroom, I looked out the window watching trees and hills move past us in impressive speed as the train hurried by. I sighed. Effie came into my bedroom about an hour ago to say with positivity that we would be getting back to District 12 by one o'clock today. The time was eleven.
Peeta wrapped his arms around me and I lead back against his chest.
"What's wrong?" He asked me and I couldn't help smile; not getting over the fact that I was safe and Peeta and I were out of the Games forever.
"Nothing." I smiled and turned my head to kiss his chest. "Nothing at all."
Peeta kissed my forehead, "Are you excited to be getting back to District 12 today?" He asked.
I shrugged and looked back out of the window, "I don't know. I am excited to see everyone again and to get back to normal but... something tells me that I am going to be looked at differently."
Peeta tightened his around me, "Honey, of course they are going to look at you differently. You won twice, but don't worry, if you feel uncomfortable we can go back to your house." Peeta kissed my shoulder as he rested his head there.
I rested my temple against his head and sighed, "How do you always know the right things to say?"
I could see Peeta smile in the reflection of the window, "Because I love you too much."
I smiled, chuckling slightly, "I suppose I need to love you more, but there is a problem; I didn't know that was possible."
Peeta sighed contently at my words and paused at moment, "I'm sorry; sometimes I have to just absorb those words because I waited so long to here them. For us to be like this." Peeta wrapped his arms tighter for emphasis.
I rubbed my hand over his strong forearm, "Peeta Mellark, I love you, I love you, I love you. Thank you for choosing me." I thanked him from the bottom of my heart.
Peeta shook his head and closed his eyes, "You shouldn't be thanking me, love. You should be thanking yourself for being so beautiful and singing so well."
I laughed, "I wish I had known sooner. So we could be like this earlier." I pushed my back against him in a loving matter.
Peeta kissed my temple, "Me too, but don't worry; we have forever." Peeta smiled contently again as he whispered that in my ear.
"Forever." I whispered back, smiling.
A life with Peeta, forever, well if I had him I didn't know what Heaven would be like. Peeta is my whole entire world and just the thought of us being married, with him sleeping beside me every night, holding me in my sleep, while the nightmares rage on. Well, that was an excellent life if I knew one.
"I am so ready to be married to you." Peeta whispered, breaking my thoughts.
I nodded, "Now, I can finally start planning it. Nothing is stopping us. We are finally free." I smiled again, free was never a word in my vocabulary but suddenly it took a meaning.
Peeta smiled and opened his eyes to look at me in the reflection, "You are the change, Katniss Everdeen."
After he whispered those words, I had to halt my tears because he knew that both Ty and Cecilia told me to be before they both were killed. That meant everything to me. I brought my hand up to stroke Peeta's cheek, before I moved it under his jaw and guided his lips to mine in what I hoped was the most soft, loving, caring kiss we ever had.
"Thank you, Peeta. I love you so much." I whispered against him as he kissed me. I stroked his cheek as we kissed while he rubbed my arm. Nothing could break this perfect moment.
Peeta placed his forehead on mine, "I can't wait to call you my wife, for you to be fully mine." I brought my hands up to stroke his cheeks again.
"I already am fully yours." I whispered.
Peeta grabbed my wrist with one of his hands, "I am fully yours." He breathed.
Our lips met again.
"This is so perfect." I broke away. "This moment right now; is perfect." I smiled.
Peeta smiled as well and nodded, "I suppose it is pretty romantic." He grinned a wolfish grin at me.
I laughed, tackled him to the bed, and straddled him, "Don't ruin it."
Peeta laughed and looked up at me, "Ruin it? Katniss, I just made it better. Look at us." He wrapped his arms around the back of my head and kissed me again.
I smiled into the kiss as a fire started to build in my stomach. We kept kissing and Peeta pulled the jacket off of me, and I started to raise his shirt over his head. As soon as it was over his head, I ran my hands all over his chest; while we were still kissing.
"Katniss is so good at this. She is so sexy and beautiful. I love her so much. Her hands are so soft. As much as I want to continue, I believe we should wait until our wedding night." Peeta's thoughts were making me realize what we were doing.
"Katniss, I think we need to stop." Peeta panted out against my lips.
I sighed my voice still cracking on and off, "You are probably right."
Peeta rubbed my bare arms before grinning, "This only means that our wedding night will be that much more fun." He whispered.
I laughed against him, "I think we should focus on something else that day."
Peeta smiled, "Yes, I know I can't wait to profess my love for you and for you to be fully mine finally. We have been over this Katniss." He grinned and chuckled.
I giggled and laid down next to him, "It is still nice to hear you say it."
"Katniss Everdeen, I love you, I love you, and I love you." Peeta whispered kissing me softly once more.
"Thank you. I love you too." I told him before getting out of the bed and pulling my jacket back on over my outfit.
"Katniss," Peeta whined getting up and following me, "Where are you going?"
"To eat something, I am hungry." I shrugged, "Plus, we haven't been out of the room all morning."
Peeta grinned and wrapped his arms around me, "Love, you know that is alright with me." He grinned before pouting, "Please, come back to bed."
I looked up at my adorable Peeta and kissed his pouting lips, "Peeta, I have to eat."
Peeta moved his hands so that we were swaying and he brought me closer to his chest, "I can feed your sexual desires." He smirked at me sexily. "She won't be able to resist me now."
I giggled at his thoughts, "Peeta, you just told us to stop." I replied.
Peeta seemed stumped for a second, "You win this round, Everdeen." He kissed me once and kept his face very close to mine.
"Thank you." I whispered kissing him again, "By the way, honey," I pushed my body so that I was completely shaped to him and Peeta moaned, "keep your thoughts to yourself." I patted his cheek before walking from the room.
I left Peeta stunned in my bedroom as I walked out to the dinning cart of the train. Haymitch was in there indulging a quart of alcohol and eating chicken. Cinna was watching him eat it all with a look of disgust on his face. I sat down beside him after getting some food.
"Katniss, what did you mean about my thoughts? What did you hear?" Peeta asked loudly coming into the room.
We all turned to him and Haymitch had a piece of chicken hanging out of his mouth. Peeta gaped at him.
"Sweetheart can now read thoughts without difficulty? This is vey interesting. Wait... how long has that chicken been there?" Haymitch was thinking.
"I am glad Katniss is getting better a reading people's thoughts. Why are you looking at me! Get out of my head, Katniss!" Cinna yelled at me; I smiled at him.
"Haymitch that is disgusting! I can't think about that right now, I wonder what Katniss heard. I suppose she didn't hear anything bad, because all I was thinking about how much I loved her, right?" Peeta was so cute when he was worrying.
I started eating my food as they all scrambled around me. Cinna hit my arm and Peeta sat down beside me and started eating as well as he stared at me and started to question me with his mind.
"Love, what did you hear? I won't be mad, just tell me, please. I love you." Peeta told me as I smiled at him.
"All you told me was that you loved me." I replied. Peeta nodded looking relieved.
Then, he grinned, "You are getting so good reading people's minds."
Haymitch interrupted, "Too good. It is making me nervous."
A smile creped on my face before I could stop it, but Peeta answers.
"Why?" He asks.
"Because, I don't want her reading my thoughts!" Haymitch yelled as he pointed at me, "Sorry, sweetheart."
I shrugged, "At least I can control it."
Cinna stroked my hair for a second, "As if you need any more power." He huffed before getting up and taking his food to the trash.
After that, Effie, my prep team, and Peeta's prep team all filled in. They all sat down on either side of the table, Peeta and I gave up our seats; as we were finished eating.
We moved to the corner of the room where there was a love seat and Peeta pulled me down on his lap. I laid my head on his shoulder as Peeta played with my hair; another perfect moment.
Peeta paused, "I love you, Katniss." He kissed my cheek.
"I love you too, Peeta." I whispered, turning my head to kiss him but he pulled away. I looked at Peeta; shocked.
"Sorry, love." He explained, "But you resisted me when I tried to get you back in bed and then read my thoughts. No kisses for you for awhile." Peeta smiled trying to look apologetic but turned out sneering.
I looked at him doubtfully, "Oh really?" I asked, moving my head so that it was an inch away from his, and my lips were tantalizingly close.
"Really." Peeta gulped; moving forwards an inch as if to kiss me. I moved away quickly.
"You know, what, you are right. No more kisses. I think I need to learn my lesson." I whispered in his ear, blowing it for good measure, and then walking back into my bedroom before walking into my room I looked back at my love.
Peeta's face looked bewildered as he watched me walk away. He rose at the speed of a cheetah and ran into my room behind me. He wrapped his arms around me from behind and started to softly rub my back, stomach, and arms.
"Two can play at that game, beautiful." Peeta thought rubbing his nose along my shoulders. I held in a moan.
"Peeta, did you rethink your decision?" I asked turning in his arms to take off his shirt again and kiss his chest. Peeta couldn't hold in his moan.
He looked down at me, then my hands, then my lips, before his lips crashed down on mine and I wrapped around my arms around his neck and kissed him back. We kissed passionately for a long heated moment.
"I thought I was in trouble." I panted out as his lips started to kiss my neck. I moaned.
"Nope, I realized that I am not your parent and that I need to teach you in a different way," Peeta's azure eyes flashed up to mine wickedly, "I am going to make you want to kiss me every minute of every day." Peeta's lips returned to mine.
"I already want to kiss you every minute of every day." I gasped out, he started to pepper kisses all over my face and he slid off my jacket again.
"Well, then I will make you want to kiss me every second of every day." Peeta said seductively; pushing me to sit on the bed.
After a thirty minute kissing session, I finally admitted that I did want to kiss him every second of every day. Then, after we stopped ourselves again, my prep team knocked on the door after that and shooed Peeta away as they started to cover my bruises and scars again. They kept me in my outfit, however. Since, it wasn't a fashion show or an interview.
"There is only five minutes until we pull up at District 12." Cinna informed me as they let me go.
He led me out of the bedroom and into the dinning cart where Peeta, Effie, and Haymitch were in new outfits. Effie ran over to me.
"You look fantastic!" Effie hugged me. "Your powers should be able to pull off anything!" Effie started to jump up and down against me.
"Why does everyone insist on hugging her?" Cinna pulled Effie away from me, "She is my masterpiece!"
Peeta walked forwards looking me up and down, "You are a masterpiece. Excellent work, Cinna." He whispered only looking at me.
"You look alright." Haymitch grunted.
"Attention, passengers, attention!" The pilot yelled at us, "We are approaching District 12." I looked at Peeta before we both walked toward the window.
A crowd of people chanting, 'Haymitch, Peeta, Katniss!' was all I saw. There were banners of us, hanging from tall buildings that I did not recognize. I'm sure I looked horrified as Peeta squeezed my hand.
"I'm right here." He whispered but before I could respond Haymitch pulled me away and put me in front of the now open door. I stepped out of it to see the chanting people suddenly scream when they saw me.
Haymitch threw an arm around my shoulders as the crowd went wild, "It is your time, sweetheart." Haymitch thought before we started walking into the crowd of people that made a hallway for us.
Peeta was behind us, I could tell by his thoughts, "I hope Katniss can handle this. She is strong, but not good with cameras..."
Seeing my sister completely distracted me from Peeta's thoughts, I didn't realized that we walked all the way to Victors' Village, but Prim was in my houses front lawn and I ran to her; engulfing her in my arms.
As I held her, I could hear the crowd 'aww' and Prim crying against my stomach. I pulled away, crutched down, and looked at her.
"You've grown." I could feel tears come to my eyes as I moved some hair out of her eyes.
"Yes, I am fourteen now." She replies through her tears.
"Fourteen?" I asked amazed. Could she really be already fourteen? I suppose so, her birthday was in May the first and it was currently June the first. I missed her birthday.
"Yes, Katniss. I am fourteen." Prim replied nodding.
"I'm sorry," I told her, deeply sorry, "I wasn't here."
"It's okay, I knew you were." She touched my heart.
Before I can respond, I see my mother, she hugs me. Before I know it, I am being tossed around between my family and Peeta's family. The crowd starts to disperse. We walk into my house and I have to walk through it; my thoughts running wild.
"We kept it nice, didn't we?" A male voice asked from behind me in my bathroom; but it wasn't Peeta. I turned around and jumped into the males arms.
"Gale!" I yelled hugging him. "Yes, you did keep it very nice!" I answered his question.
Gale laughed, "Are you okay? I figured you would have more scars and what is wrong with your voice!" He asked taking a step back to look at me.
I nodded, "I do have a lot of scars actually, but Cinna covered them up with all of his make-up. My voice," It cracked when I called attention to it, "I have a little sickness. Nothing to worry about actually it is a lot better today."
"I saw you fight the lion, there should be two scars right here." Gale traced two fingers over my biceps.
"Yes. I should. Are you okay?" I asked looking at him oddly.
"I suppose I am just happy to see you. That I am getting a little weird." Gale shrugged.
I nodded, "I'm happy to see you too." I hugged him again.
Peeta walked in the room then and I could hear his... jealous thoughts. I stared at him as he wrapped an arm around me.
"Gale," He held out an arm, "It is... nice to see you again."
"Mellark," Gale replied shaking the hand stiffly.
I looked between the two, "Well, shouldn't we join the others downstairs?" I asked, trying to get them to stop glaring at each other.
Peeta looked at me, "Yes, I believe we should." He smiled.
I smiled back, "Alright, lets get downstairs then." I looked at Gale who glanced at me and then turned back to go downstairs without a word.
I sighed shaking my head and looked at Peeta, "Let's go."
Peeta nodded but as we entered the bedroom connected to the bathroom he paused and I looked back at him. Peeta said nothing but he kissed me again with a smile.
"I am happy to be home." Peeta whispered against my lips and I wrapped my arms around his neck once again.
"I am as well." I replied. "I am also happy you are here with me and not someone else." I whispered.
Peeta broke the kiss, "And not Gale?"
I kissed him softly again, "I would never be with Gale." I whispered.
"Why not?" He asked, sounding to curious.
"Because he is the opposite of you." I told him shrugging.
Peeta seemed to understand, "I love you." He wrapped his arms around me to give me a hug.
"I love you too." I replied. "Peeta, can I ask you something?" I asked.
"Anything, love." Peeta whispered contently against me.
"Why are you jealous of Gale?" I asked hesitantly, hugging him tighter so he didn't look at me.
"What?" Peeta asked, pulling me out of the embrace anyway.
"Peeta, your thoughts they were jealous of Gale when I was hugging him." I whispered looking away from him. "Please don't yell at me because I could see it on your face as well, I love you Peeta. You. Gale is just a friend."
"Katniss!" Peeta stopped me during my speech, "Katniss, I am a teenage boy of course I am going to get jealous of any man that touches you aside from me."
I paused, looking at him for a long while, "What? Why?"
Peeta huffed and stared back at me, "Are you telling me that if you walk into a bathroom and saw me hugging a woman? You wouldn't feel jealous?"
I thought about that, "Yes. I suppose I would, but you should be jealous of Gale. He is just my friend." I paused and smiled at Peeta, "Besides, there is only one place I want to be."
Peeta smiled, "Where is that, love?"
I walked into Peeta's arms and kissed him, "Right here." I whispered parting from him slightly.
"Good, because this is the only place I want you to be." Peeta wrapped his arms around me.
After that, we walked down to go see our families until they had to go home; giving us our privacy. My mother and Raiko knew we wouldn't do anything because Peeta is the ultimate gentlemen and I am horribly uncomfortable with nudity. Gale left without a word on the matter.
Peeta started to cook dinner as I walked up stairs to take a shower, change, and unpack some clothes Cinna bought for me.
"Katniss! It is ready!" Peeta called up the stairs.
"I'm coming!" I replied. I put down the last of the clothes in a drawer and ran downstairs to eat some dinner.
As I walked into the dining room, I saw that Peeta had beautifully set the bed and made me a plate. He was standing behind my chair. I walked towards him, gave him a kiss, and then sat down in the chair and he pushed it in. He sat across from me at the table.
"Peeta, this is beautiful." I whispered not wanting to break the beauty of it all with my voice.
"I just wanted to make your first night back memorable." Peeta replied, grabbing my hand across the table. I smiled and we started to eat.
After we finished, I brought up another conversation.
"Peeta! Guess what?" I asked excitedly.
"What, love?" Peeta asked looking up at me with a smile.
"Cinna, Venia, and Octavia said they would plan the wedding that will be in December." I told him, smiling broadly. "In eight months, we will be married!"
"That is fantastic news!" Peeta smiles at me and walks around the table to sit beside me, on top of the table. "Eight months, that is the best news I have heard since I heard you had won again."
I stood up, walked between his legs, and hugged him. "I hope eight months goes by fast."
Peeta hugged me back, "I do too." He kissed my cheek.
The next day, Peeta and I sat in the tattoo shop looking at the stencil of 'be the change' on my left wrist. I was seated on the chair where my tattoo artist was getting ready with the gun. Peeta wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
"How do you like it?" He asked.
"I love it. Do you like it?" I asked looking up at him.
"Yes, I love it as well." Peeta smiled nodding.
The tattoo artist, Tyler turned to me then. He smiled.
"Do you like it?" Tyler asked me.
"Yes, it is perfect." I laid down my wrist.
Tyler was a bald heavily tattooed man. His full arms were done and so was some of his neck. Other than that, he was a nice man with a good smile and blue eyes.
"Ready?" Tyler asked.
I looked up at Peeta, who nodded, before answering, "Yes."
Tyler placed the gun against my skin and started to fill in the stencil. Peeta rubbed my arm in comfort, but it didn't hurt.
"Does it hurt?" Peeta asked, grabbing my right hand.
"No." I replied. "But it is a weird feeling."
"How does it feel?" He asked.
"... Like I am scratching a sunburn." I told him.
"I get that a lot." Tyler laughed but kept working.
"It's an odd feeling. Ow!" I almost flinched before Peeta caught me.
"What's wrong? Honey, it's okay I'm right here, squeeze my hand." Peeta cooed in my ear so that Tyler couldn't hear.
"We are near the bone. It is going to hurt for a minute." Tyler stopped momentarily to warn me and get more black ink. I nodded.
Tyler brought the gun back to my wrist and I squeezed Peeta's hand very hard. He doesn't whine or show any discomfort, however, because he was a gentlemen and he wanted me to know that I was the only one in his mind. Not pain or hurt. I smiled at him; wanting very badly to kiss him and never let go.
When Peeta smiled back, it only made me want to embrace him that much more. I couldn't though, because first of all my left wrist was under the needle and second, we still had to get married in eight months so I couldn't exactly be kissing him all throw the wedding. I almost laughed at that thought.
"I love you." I mouthed to him.
Peeta mouthed, "I love you too."
"It's done! Excellent work, Katniss!" Tyler congratulated me and I looked at my new tattooed skin.
I smiled, "be the change" was written in a clever font on my left wrist. I was small enough that, if I needed to, I could hide it with a watch or bracelet. Peeta kissed my cheek.
"Thank you, Tyler." I hugged him, before I could stop myself. "Sorry." I stepped away.
"That's alright, I actually like you," Tyler whispered, "other than some of my clients I tattoo." Tyler started to give me all the supplies needed to take care of it while it healed.
While Peeta and Tyler talked, probably about the best way to take care of me, I blew on it as it was still stinging. I then thought of something, my best friend Jennifer Bates, worked right around here. I wondered if she would still be working, it was only three o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe I would bring this up to Peeta.
Just then, Peeta walked over to me and grabbed my right hand to bring me with him over to Tyler again. Tyler placed a large bandage over my wrist and told me to take it off in three hours. I nodded, took the instruction sheet, and Peeta took the lotion.
As we started to walk out, Tyler told us to come visit again. We hugged once more and Peeta shook his hand as we walked outside into the heat of the June day. Peeta took my right hand and started to walk back to Victors' Village.
"Peeta?" I asked, wanting to see my friend.
"Yes, love? I am very proud of you, your bravery, and your strength today." Peeta kissed the hand he was holding.
"Thank you, I couldn't have done it without you." I replied honestly. "Can we go to visit Jennifer?" I asked quickly.
Peeta looked at me, "Of course, honey. Where does she work?" He asked smiling.
I had to kiss him because he was so adorable and spoiled me, "In the T-shirt shop around this corner." I told him pointing around the next left corner.
"Well let's go then." Peeta kissed me once more before we turned the corner.
I was practically skipping beside him as I was so excited to see Jennifer, "Thank you for letting me see her! I'm sure she will love to meet you!"
Peeta laughed, "Of course, Katniss! How many times doe I have to tell you that you can do whatever you want? I would love to meet your friend." He kissed my temple.
I opened the door to the T-shirt shop and saw Jennifer immediately, she was arranging a row of clothes with hangers. When she had her back turned, I led Peeta over to the isle and then ran up to hug Jennifer when she turned to face us.
"Jennifer!" I yelled hugging her. Not knowing who I was, she pulled me away for a second then she almost broke my back when she pulled me to her.
"Katniss! I thought you were dead!" Jennifer cried into my shoulder, "I stopped watching when you fought the big huge Ty! I thought you were dead! Oh, Katniss!" She embraced me in a bone crushing hug as she cried.
"I'm sorry." I whispered.
After we hugged for a long while, I remembered Peeta, and I toughly pulled my way out of Jennifer's arms. I walked over to Peeta.
"Jennifer this is Peeta Mellark, Peeta this is Jennifer Bates." I introduced them.
Jennifer looked Peeta up and down before hugging him, "It's lovely to finally meet you, Peeta."
Peeta seemed shocked but hugged her back tentatively, "It is great to meet you too, Jennifer. Katniss talks about you all the time."
Jennifer let go of Peeta and wrapped an arm around me, "Well, she is my best friend." She smiled at both of us.
"Look!" I interrupted them by showing her my engagement ring. Jennifer seemed too shocked to speak, but then after her momentary shock she screamed and hugged us both.
"I am so happy for you two!" Jennifer rubbed our backs with her hands.
"Thank you, Jennifer." Peeta pulled out of the hug and grabbed my hand again; while smiling lovingly down at me. Jennifer squealed again.
Peeta's POV
Jennifer hugged my Katniss again, "I am so happy to see you. Let's go to dinner tonight." She offered, Katniss glanced at me, and I nodded.
"Sure." Katniss responded.
After that, Jennifer told us where to meet at seven, hugged us both again but as she was pulling away; she winked at me?
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