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My name is Katniss Everdeen, my home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. Peeta and I survived. Snow is dead. Coin is dead.
It’s a new world.
Annie returned to live in district 4. After spending time in the capitol hospital she was moved to the one in 4 where she gave birth to a brilliant baby boy, Finn, with eyes of sea green and hair a rich rosey honey. The perfect combination of his parents.
My mother also lives in 4. She couldn’t leave me quick enough. She works at the hospital in 4. From what I’ve heard from Annie she’s happy.
Johanna is back in 7. I know she hates it there but her capitol doctors thought that getting her to stay in a place she remembers would help with her recovery. Speaking of her recovery she’s doing better, each week she tells me how she can’t wait to leave, that I’ll be her first stop. ‘The sick fucks want to see me take a full bath, bubbles and all before they let me go’ her words not mine.
Effie, sweet, irreverent, effervescent Effie currently lives in the Capitol. She runs a school for young aspiring fashion designers. She wants to move however, claiming she has out grown the capitol life, I think it has more to do with her relationship with a certain ex drunk victor. She’s very different to the person she once was, she seems better for it.
Haymitch. Well he lives in 12 with me. He raises Geese, a gaggle of them that shit and squawk and escape every five minutes. He doesn’t drink like he used too, a glass of wine once or twice a week with dinner, none of that white liquor that he used to love so much. He started talking with Effie on the phone months ago and I can see the happiness in him. It’s in the small things. The way he stops by more than once a week to have dinner, in how he brings up his life before his games, in the way he seems to just generally care about his life now. It’s heartwarming to see.
Peeta.
Peeta is good.
We talk on the phone each day. Always before bed when we both are scared of the things that lurk in our subconscious, but also during the day as well. Those calls are more sporadic, times when we both have a brief moment, where we talk about anything and everything. He lives in the Capitol under Dr Aurelius’s care. His flashbacks are few and far between. He works on the rebuild of the capitol, a group he’s in work on bringing more green spaces to the city. He’s doing better. He tells me he misses home. That he’s waiting till it feels right to come back.
He’s good. He’s safe.
We’re friends.
And me.
Well.
My name is Katniss Everdeen, my home is district 12. I survived the Hunger Games. It’s a new world. I’m happy, I’m safe.
And I’m a mother.