Chapter 8: Let's Get Hitched

Three years later, the Mellarks went down to Chapel Hill. Two celebrations were held. The first was Prim finishing her residency and officially beginning her practice as a nurse. The donning of her white lab coat was part of the ceremony.

Mere days after her graduation, Prim traded her coat for a white dress of a very different kind - a bridal dress - as she and Rory finally wed in an intimate church service. The couple had agreed to marry once they were settled: Prim done with school, and Rory's new handy-man business was off the ground. When the preacher pronounced them husband and wife, Primrose Everdeen Hawthorne pushed Rory up against the altar and kissed him until he could barely breathe.

All eight Mellarks - Peeta, Katniss, Olivia, Ella, Tess, Bristow, Toler and Silas, the caboose - whooped and hollered. Rory looked thoroughly pleased with himself.

"Now, I just gotta convince her to have a baby!" Prim playfully slapped him.

But it wasn't long before Prim became pregnant. She had twins and cared for them as only a master nurse would. In the meantime, the two families would go back and forth between North Carolina and West Virginia.

Both the Mellarks and the Hawthornes felt more complete than they ever had.

A/N: There! Official closure for Prim and Rory. So cute! Review!