Epilogue

Our return was indeed a big deal, but life settled down about a year afterwards. Katniss and I are happily living together, engaged to be married in a month, and raising our dog, Sniff, who we consider our first child. Gale got a job in the mines and is still good friends with Katniss and I, and Prim is constantly bugging us about having children, so she can be an aunt. Haymitch is our neighbor, and he drops by regularly to make sure we are okay, and to grab the bottles of whiskey shipped every week, Effie is now mentoring the next group of tributes, so we can have a break for our engagement gift, and Ryan is our other neighbor, who has found himself a girlfriend, and owns a cat, who he named buttercup, after Prim's cat. I guess that you could say that life really is good.

Katniss finally got over her nightmares, but does wake. When she does I comfort her just as I did in the capitol. We both know we dread the moment when we have to let go.