11 years later

Today begins the first day of our son Noah's first day of the sixth grade. This is also the day of the beginning of the year in which the Hunger Games are first introduced to the class. Strangely enough, he's twelve years old. Eleven years ago, this would've been the day we took him to get signed up for the reaping.

Annie sends him out the door and into the streets of Benyu or district four as it was called. All the districts were renamed after the rebellion was over. District 4 had been mostly destroyed in a series of bomb attacks at the very end of the war, but was now the rebuilding has been almost complete.

"We should probably head off to work now," Annie says as she wipes down the breakfast table.

"Yep," I say. As I pass, I give her a quick kiss on the cheek, wrapping my arm around her waist. We collect our things and head through the streets.

Once everything was rebuilt, we were given first choice on where to live, what job we wanted. We moved as far away from the Victor's Village as possible, across town into some land that was taken from nine. This does mean that going to work every morning is quite a stretch, but it gives us some time to talk.

"I need to tell you something," Annie says as we walk. Her voice quavers and breaks halfway through.

"What? You know you can tell me anything," I say. We don't stop on our path yet. We've been taking consoling for three years until we were considered healthful enough to live amongst the people. It was with the same doctor that helped Johanna, who is now a big government official, eagerly protesting bills with harsh insults and a handful of curse words. That meant we had to live in Knia, district seven.

"Okay, then." Annie pauses. "I don't really have a good intro to this, so I'll just tell you. I'm pregnant, again!"

"Really? Annie, that's great! Noah's going to have a sibling, a younger brother or sister!" I shout. It's probably loud enough for the whole town to know, but I don't care.

"Actually, I've been seeing the doctor for a while now," Annie explains, biting her lip. If anything remains after the games, it's the paranoia. Annie goes to the doctor almost obsessively and any announcement comes only after long periods of making sure that what we think will happen will. Stability is important. "And it's not only one… it's two. I'm having twins."

"That's…great! Fantastic!" I say, hoping I can cover my slight fear. Yes, I'm happy, but I'm also a little daunted by the idea of two babies and three children. Noah can be a handful sometimes.

"I've been thinking about names, if you don't mind."

"Oh, yeah. You know how terrible I am with names anyway!"

"You did want to name our boy Finnick Junior," Annie laughs.

"The name was significant!" I protest, laughing with her.

"And sounds terrible. So, the names. What about Dylan and Audrey?"

"Dylan, Audrey, and Noah. I like it," I say. Annie nods.

"Good."

We arrive at the candy store and Annie unlocks the door. One thing that we asked to be kept the same was the candy store where we met. It looks exactly the same, from the color of the walls to the font on the sign outside, to the organization of candies on the wall.

"I happen to have some news too," I tell her. We enter into the backroom with our two desks and begin to spread out the day's work. "Katniss and Peeta are coming in this weekend!" Annie's face lights up at first, then tones down.

"You should've told me sooner. Where will we put them in the house?" She asks, taking a seat at her desk on the opposite side of the room.

"I don't know. It will work out. I promise," I say. I push my chair over to that end of the room, just as the bell rings at the front of the store that Daniel is here to work. Daniel Jr. is Daniel's son. He got away with the junior names.

"Good," Annie breathes. I give her another long kiss, before we break apart with the announcement of another person.

"I should probably go see what's up," I tell her, getting up to go over to the door.

"Stay? Please?" She asks. Even with my back turned to her, I can hear the want in her voice. And who would I be to say no?

"Of course. I'll always stay."

There it is, the official last chapter! I would like to thank parachute hearts for the name of their son, Noah! I hope you enjoyed this AU.

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...and I'm sad again for ending this...