SUMMER! OH MY GOD I'M SO EXCITED!

Haha, sorry it's been a couple days. Finals had me more stressed out than I'd anticipated so I didn't spend much time writing. My best final grade was an A+ and my worst was a D+, so . . . yeah.

This is the final chapter of 'In A Faraway Place.' Don't you fear, I'll be posting another story soon that is the third installment to this series. It'll be the life of Peeta and Katniss ten or fifteen years in the future. I'll try to get it out in the next couple of days. I probably will. I have nothing to do haha.

Anyway, enjoy and review! Love you all!

Annie is screaming as I hold Audree and start running. I run up the stairs and out of the house. I run out of Victor's Village. Peeta and Haymitch are right behind me. "Where the hell are you going?" shouts Haymitch.

"Where's the hospital?" I ask. Haymitch is wheezing when they catch up to us. Peeta takes Audree from me and looks at her.

"Is she breathing?" he asks.

"Barely," I say.

Haymitch points in the direction of the hospital. "I'll meet you there," he says, taking a seat on a bench. Peeta and I take off in the direction of the hospital. It's about two miles down. By the time we reach it, we're both about to die of exhaustion, but we don't stop until we reach the front desk.

"Hello," says the woman at the desk. "Oh my God, I know you two–"

"She's dying," Peeta says. "Get her a room."

"I'm afraid I'm going to need some ID–"

"You just said you knew us," I say. "She's dying."

The woman nods and calls for a nurse. She takes Audree away from Peeta (who doesn't let her go happily) and they take her in immediately for surgery. Apparently, all the moisture in the basement had completely destroyed her respiratory system – hence the issue with breathing. Knowing District 4, though, she'd probably be fine. They see respiratory problems all the time, according to the nurse, because of how heavy the moisture is in the air from the sea. I don't trust her, but the logic seems correct. A half an hour or so after Audree goes into surgery, Haymitch arrives.

"Sorry it took so long," he says. "I was having some problems breathing. Must be all the moisture in the air."

Despite everything, I laugh at him. Good old Haymitch. "What's going on, anyway?"

Peeta describes the situation. Over the next hellish hours, we wait. Finnick shows up after a couple hours, saying that he'd left Annie with her parents and he wanted to know what was going on. Peeta fills him in, as well. We all wait in silence. I squeeze Peeta's hand so hard that he must be losing feeling. But he doesn't let go and when the doctor walks out and asks for Audree Mellark's parents, I squeeze even harder. We stand and walk over to him.

"Are you the parents of Audree Mellark?" he asks. We nod. "I'm very pleased to inform you that she's going to be okay."

I breathe a sigh of relief. "Thank God," I say.

"Her respiratory is back to normal," he says. "Well, as back to normal as it could be after that. Whenever she gets a cold, her cough is going to sound like . . . well, like a hack. Like she's about to cough up a lung."

"That can't be healthy," Peeta says.

"It really isn't," the doctor says. "But it's not going to kill her."

"When can we see her?" I ask.

"Now, if you like," he says. "She'll be free to go once the medicine wears off."

"That soon?" I ask.

"It's a Career district, Katniss," Peeta says. "They've got the finest doctors and medicines that the Capitol can offer."

"Could offer," I correct. "That Capitol's gone."

"Technically it's still there," he says. "It's just not . . . what it was."

When we see Audree, she's asleep but looks completely healthy. It's been weeks since I've gotten a good look at her.

"She looks older," I point out.

"She's four months now," he says.

"I missed her so much," I say.

"She isn't going anywhere anymore," Peeta promises. "I'm never letting her out of my sight."

"Look at her hair," I say. "It's so much longer."

"She's gorgeous," Peeta says.

We're home early the next morning. We don't even bother to see my mother; I'm still fuming about what she called Audree. Haymitch crashes on our couch, too lazy to walk the extra twenty feet to his own home. Audree sleeps in our bed that night, and every night for the next month. Peeta and I are too frightened to let her out of our sight. It's finally Haymitch who steps in and says we're being ridiculous. The Capitol's fallen and she's safe. The first night I don't sleep at all. The second, I sleep very little. I'm so paranoid about everything that's happened to me that I can't seem to grasp the fact that we're safe. We're finally safe.

My mother visits us about a month after we get back. I think she was too frightened of how Peeta talked to her to even come near us. My relationship with her will never recover to what it was before my father died, but she's more like a mother than she's ever been. Prim is the same – perfect, beautiful, and one of the three lights of my life. Her, Peeta, and Audree make my life complete.

When Audree turns five, Peeta starts hinting at having another baby. We're only twenty-two, but he insists that if we're going to have more, they should be close in age. By the time Audree's six, I'm pregnant and about to burst. When I do go into labor, my mother delivers the baby. It's a boy and he has dark Seam hair and bright blue eyes. His name is Xander.

Haymitch finds love in someone I never thought he would. Actually, Peeta and I are kind of disturbed at first, but I realize that, deep down in my subconscious, I always knew it would happen. They get married shortly after Xander's born and she moves in. I'm slightly annoyed by our new neighbor; she's around all the time and her frightening hair colors and freaky skin tones are too much to take all the time. But I get used to her being around and I decide that I do actually like her. I never thought I liked her, seeing as how she was always chaperoning people to slaughter. That's right. Haymitch and Effie got married.

Finnick and Annie have a set of twins at the same time we have Xander. And although it's hard to believe, Johanna marries a man from 3, Niles, and they have their first child about six months after the wedding. Think about that for two seconds and you'll realize why they actually got married. But they do love each other, in a very . . . angry way. Not the way Peeta and I love each other. I don't think any couple loves each other like Peeta and I do. Every time I see him, I remember the boy whose handshake, before I even knew him, could comfort me. I remember how boyish he was when we won the Games and how scared he looked when we had our first baby together. I remember how fiercely protective he was of Audree when Haymitch wanted to use her in the rebellion and how he terrified my mother for calling Audree an illegitimate. Every time I see him, I notice how much different he looks from the sixteen year old boy I remember from the first Games. Although it's only been eight years, I feel like it's been much longer. I love him so much more than I did when we first had Audree. I didn't even think that was possible. And every time I see him, I realize that, ideally, we could still have eighty years left together. And that thought brings me nothing but pure joy.