Hey! I'm doing the epilogue! Cause I had hardly any homework tonight and otherwise I might not do it till next month! So, here goes. Wish me luck! Oh, and in case you didn't know, Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games. Not me. If I had, it would've ended up like this.

They play in the meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten years for us to agree. But we both wanted them, even if we didn't know it at first. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it. Carrying him was a little easier, but not much.

The questions are just beginning. The arenas have been completely destroyed, the memorials built, there are no more Hunger Games. But they teach about them in school, and the girl knows we played a role in them. The boy will know in a few years. How can I tell them about the world without frightening them to death?

Deep in the meadow, under the willow

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes

And when again they open, the sun will rise

Here it's safe, here it's warm

Here the daisies guard you from every harm

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings

them true

Here is the place where I love you.

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

Gale tells me, every day, that it will be okay. We have each other. And I have him. And the book. We can make them understand in a way that will make them braver. But one day I will have to explain about my nightmares. Why they came. Why they won't ever really go away.

I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than fifteen years.

But there are much worse games to play.

Don't you love that last line? It's just so eerie! Anyway, we all know that Katniss and Gale both look alike. And neither of them has blond hair or blue eyes. But I left that in there because, scientifically, it's possible that the recessive gene of blond hair or blue eyes came out in them. Mrs. Everdeen and Prim both had the blond hair/blue eyes, didn't they? Ha! I'm right! Anyway, I pretty much left the epilogue alone. Except that I changed it to her having kids after ten years, not fifteen. Because I think that the prime age to have children is mid-to-late twenties. Nothing's wrong with thirty-two, but I liked it better this way. The only other thing I changed was that she's with Gale (duh!) and he doesn't seem to be the I-want-to-have-kids type, so I fudged that a bit, too. Okay. The only other thing is this, something I think should've been in the book. I can't think of what to call it. It's like a bunch of mini-epilogues of a bunch of people who didn't die.

Katniss Everdeen/Hawthorne: She had two kids, a boy and a girl, and lives in District 12 with Gale and Gale hunt together often and sell their kills.

Gale Hawthorne: (See above)

Peeta Mellark: He has two daughters, both with blond hair and blue eyes. He lives in District 12 with Delly Cartwright. He is good friends with Katniss and Gale, and their children are friends as well. He and Delly own a bakery.

Delly Cartwright: (See above)

Haymitch Abernathy: Eventually became sober, although he occasionally drinks at formal events and such. Lives with Effie Trinket, who keeps him decent and presentable. He is not married, and denies having any romantic relationship with Effie, but is very, very close to her.

Effie Trinket: (See above)

Mrs. Everdeen: Lives in District Four and runs a hospital. She never remarried. She keeps in contact with Katniss by phone.

Hazelle Hawthorne: Lives in District Four with Mrs. Everdeen and washes clothes at the hospital. She also never remarried. She keeps in contact with her sons by phone.

Rory Hawthorne: Lives in District Three with his wife, who is pregnant with their first child.

Vick Hawthorne: Lives in District Three near Rory. He is not married.

Posy Hawthorne: Lives in District Four with her mother. She helps at the hospital and intends to go into medicine.

Thom: After cleanup, he moved to District Seven, where he works at a lumber company.

President Paylor: She is still in her position as President. She has a son, who will most likely become the next president.

Snow's Granddaughter: She is sixteen, the same age as Paylor's son. After the assassination of Coin, she was proven to be nothing like her grandfather, and very much against the Hunger Games. She is dating Paylor's son.

Plutarch Heavensbee: Retains his position as Secretary of Communications. Lives alone in the Capitol.

Venia, Flavius, and Octavia: Remained in the Capitol. Have done away with their interesting fashion choices and were discovered to be very beautiful when looking normal. They are still a prep team and keep in touch with Katniss.

Enobaria: Returned to District 2, where she lives with her husband. She has no kids.

Johanna Mason: Returned to District 7, where she lives near her family. Keeps in touch with Katniss, Peeta, and Annie, and they visit often.

Annie Cresta: Lives alone with her son in District Four. She is still somewhat insane, but when she isn't having flashbacks and such, she is quite normal.

Greasy Sae: Owns a restaurant in District 12. She is well known around the districts for her cooking. Her granddaughter helps with the cooking sometimes.

Dr. Aurelius: Lives in the Capitol and runs the hospital there.

Cressida: Is the main reporter for television. She's quite famous.

Pollux: Is the main cameraman for television. He now owns a device which allows him to easily communicate since Castor died.

Beetee: Returned to District Three after the rebellion, where he has invented many useful gadgets. He also keeps in touch with everyone.

That's all I can think of right now. But PM me or review/comment or whatever if you can think of others who are still alive and I'll put them in. I imagine I forgot a few. And obvious I don't care how minor they are. I mean, I put in Snow's granddaughter! Well, that's it. I feel better already. I no longer despise Suzanne Collins for her misjudgment of who Katniss belongs with, so I'm happy. And once you start writing, apparently you get hooked. So I've come up with a bazillion ideas for new stories, which I intend to write. So, keep checking in and you might see something else.