I seat on the from porch braiding my 10 year old daughter's dark, long wavy hair while watching my husband trying to teach our 5 year old son how to swim. I never thought I would change my mind about having kids but I it is different now. There is no more hunger, no more kids dying of starvation, but mainly there are no more Hunger Games. The kids are not force to kill each other while the whole country is force to watch. Those painful memories are in the past.

Gale and I were married 5 years before our daughter came into our lives. He never asked me for children but I knew he wanted them. It was the day I saw him playing with Peeta's and Madge's toddler son that I knew there was something missing in our lives.

Peeta and Madge got married three years after me and Gale. Unlike us, they got pregnant right away and within a year they had their first son. Madge said that it was her wish to see her house full of little Mellarks running around and since Peeta can't deny her anything, he is happy to comply with her wish. I know Peeta can't deny anything for Madge because she is the one who was able to bring peace into his life. She gave him a reason to continue. She was able to scare the nightmare away. I can see it in his eyes. The love, the admiration and the appreciation he feels. She put him back together and for that he will love her forever.

I know how Peeta feels because that is the way I feel for Gale. That is why, the day I saw him playing with Peeta's son, I decided to give him what he wanted so much. The day I told him I was pregnant with his child he looked at me with worried but I could also see his excitement. He remembered me telling him I never wanted children. I wanted him to know that I was fine with it, that I also wanted this child. I took his hand, put it on my stomach and said "It's our baby, I'm not scare because I know I have you with me" with that, he relax and showed me his excitement of the news. He protected her from the beginning. Making sure I was eating right, not overdoing my body, and listening when my emotions were too much to handle.

Eight months later, we had a healthy baby girl. My little girl who came out looking like her mother. Gale was the only one who helped me with the delivery. Their connection was instant. His voice was the only thing that would calm her down on many occasions and she became his girl the moment he saw her. Four years later Gale asked me if we could have another one because our daughter needed company. I agree because just like Peeta can't deny Madge anything, I can't deny Gale anything. And so our son was born on a cold winter night, looking exactly like his father. He follows Gale around everywhere, trying to be as quite as his father.

I'm not afraid anymore because I know Gale would give his life to protect our children as well as I would. They have two fighters as parents and they are both born hunters, protectors and leaders. I can see those characteristics in the way they protect each other. I'm not afraid to tell my kids about the Games either. The girl is starting to learn about the Games and she is starting to ask questions. I want them to know their parents played a big role in their freedom. I want them to know many lost their lives, I want them to know they don't have to be scare because their parents would always protect them and fight for their freedom. More than anything, I wanted to know how much their parents love each other and how much they fought to be together. I want them to know that love is stronger than evil. That is why I tell them about the boy and the girl who met in the woods during a time where both their lives seem so chaotic. I tell them how they worked together to keep their families alive. I tell them how destiny brought them together because he was meant to love her and she was meant to be only his. I also tell them about the moment she almost lost him but their favorite part is when I tell them how she got him back. I got him back, and I'm never letting him go.

THE END.