Love From Duck

*Spoilers for Mockingjay*

Katniss finds a letter that Prim had written.

Katniss,

If you are reading this, then I am dead. I know, totally cliché, but what can you do about it? Absolutely nothing.

Anyway, I am sitting here with mom and Gale's family, we're watching your face dance across the screen while Posy dances on the floor, totally unaware of what is going on in the Capital. She's so adorable and naïve, no one wants to tell her what the program is saying right now.

They say that you are dead, you and Gale and the whole team. I don't believe it for a second. I think I would feel something inside of me if you were dead, gone for good. I think I would feel my heart breaking, my eyes would swell up with tears and my brain would tell me it was nonsense. But only my brain is working, my heart isn't breaking, and my eyes aren't tearing. So I think you're still alive out there.

I know you're still alive, and soon President Snow will realize it too, he will see that you're stubborn and hard to kill, that you will do anything to protect me. So I know you're alive, but it got me thinking. Life is short and fragile, easily taken away.

I've never felt so terrified for you. I always saw you as my protector, my guardian. You've always been there for me, you will always be there for me. Even when you took my place at the reaping and went to the games to save me from death, I knew that you would be back for me. You promised after all, and you never break a promise.

This time is different. This time everyone's life is at stake, even mine, even mom's, even Buttercup's.

Which is why I'm writing this letter. They're sending me out to the front line. They say they need my help. I won't tell you who the they is, because I know you'll take revenge if anything happens to me, you probably will even if nothing happens to me.

Between you and me, I'm scared, terrified, but I don't let them know. I am not weak Katniss, but I'm not as strong as you are.

Don't worry about me, I know you will anyway, but I'll be fine, I will be careful, I want to come back home to you, and mom and buttercup and everyone else. I want there to be a future for everyone where there are no games, where everyone is safe and happy, where no one is starving and near death.

I love you, now and always.

Love,

Prim.