A/N: And the scene is (drum roll)… The wedding scene! Kudos to KelsNicole92 for guessing right. She gets cupcakes (as you can tell, I love sending virtual food).

Peeta's POV

I wake up, for the last time, in my own bedroom. I'm moving out today. This will be the last day that I'll be alone.

I am marrying Katniss today.

Stretching, I look at Finn in his crib beside my bed. He looks so peaceful while he's sleeping. I'm so jealous of Annie that she's able to have a baby. I know Katniss is still scared to have kids. But I shouldn't be complaining. Katniss is marrying me. That's the more than I ever could have hoped for.

Flavius and Haymitch barge loudly into my room. I can't wait to see Katniss today, after they kept her away from me all yesterday. I guess I can't blame her mother for wanting one more day alone with her.

"Can I finally see Katniss yet?" I ask, hoping that they're here to take me to her, so that I can be with my fiancé up until the moment I die.

"Have some patience, boy," Haymitch growls. "You'll see her at the altar, you can wait that long. We still have orders to keep you under house arrest until they're done with her over there."

Done with her? What, did Plutarch give orders to redo her entire face in layers of makeup? I want Katniss to be comfortable. I want her to look like her.

Flavius holds up a suit, and I see it's the one that Cinna and Portia made for me. Grabbing it, I throw it on quickly, like if I got ready faster, I'd be able to marry Katniss faster.

I go into the kitchen and look at the cake that I spent all day baking yesterday. I add a couple more flowers in the frosting to pass the time. The cake looks perfect to me, but will Katniss like it? What will she think of me putting our faces into the cake?

Lost in thought, I barely notice Haymitch grabbing my arm and leading me into Katniss' house. He doesn't let me go any farther than the living room, where Thom is standing there with a makeshift altar, with a few primroses and dandelions on it. Beatrice and Aradia are in the room, but they go upstairs, where I assume Katniss is getting ready. Is everyone allowed to see her but me?

I start drumming my fingers against the altar. And suddenly everything stops.

There is a monster upstairs, waiting to seduce me. She will kill me once she gets the chance. I must kill her.

No. I grip the edge of the altar, trying to fight off the shiny memories. Katniss will not hurt me. Katniss will not hurt me. Katniss will not hurt me.

I open my eyes, and not everything is shiny. The memories are fading. I sit down for a couple minutes, eyes closed, until all the shininess has gone. I'm glad that's over. I would HATE to have an attack while Katniss is with me.

Haymitch notices, and smirks at me. "You better not be having second thoughts. Or that girl is going to give you hell for the rest of your life," he says. I know he's just bitter about losing his bottle for a while.

"Like I could ever leave Katniss, Haymitch," I tell him, rolling my eyes. He grins at me.

"Well that's good because I'm going to get her right now. Then I can have my bottle!" he says, and then trudges up the stairs.

Katniss is coming down in just a few minutes. I hear heavy footsteps at the top of the stairs, and I see Tereska ordering everyone down. She seems to have taken charge of this wedding. Now the only ones who aren't downstairs are Haymitch and Katniss.

"You're in luck. We made that girl look magnificent," Johanna says to me.

Katniss always looks magnificent.

And suddenly, I see the hem of a white dress at the top of the stairs. Stair by stair, I begin to see more of Katniss, until there she is, at the end of the room. Johanna has not lied about how beautiful she looks. Her hair is put up in a complicated braided style, and the dress accentuates her natural beauty. There is only a light layer of makeup on her face, just enough to play up her features, as Portia once put it.

She tries to pull Haymitch down the aisle, but he is bent on walking slowly. He smirks at me when Katniss isn't watching, and I know he's just trying to get one final act of torture in before he gives her away.

Finally, after what seems like years, Haymitch places Katniss' hand in mine. Thom begins reading, but all I can see is Katniss. She is the most beautiful thing I've ever laid eyes on. And she is about to become mine.

Thom is talking about the symbolism of rings. When he pauses, I take Katniss' ring that I made for her, and slip it onto her finger. Blinking, she reaches behind her, and takes a very simple ring. She slides it onto the fourth finger on my left hand. I marvel at the sight. For the first time, we seem in complete unity with each other.

"Peeta Mellark, do you promise to love, serve, and protect Katniss Everdeen, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad, as long as you both shall live?" Thom asks me.

"I do," I say. I've wanted to marry this girl ever since I was five years old. Mere words can't express how in love I am.

Thom turns to Katniss. "Katniss Everdeen, do you promise to love, serve, and protect Peeta Mellark, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad, as long as you both shall live?"

"I do," Katniss says, and whatever small doubts I still had are gone. I hear the love in her voice. It's the same kind of love I use when I speak to her. She could have had anyone. She knew that. She knew she could have picked Gale, or anyone else. But she picked me. And she means it when she says she loves me.

"Then I now pronounce you husband and wife," Thom says. "You may kiss your bride."

Katniss is married to me. She is mine. So I take her face in my hands and I kiss her, unaware of whatever Thom said.

I can tell Katniss is having a hard time restraining herself. I can't say I'm having an easier time. She opens her mouth, and it takes all my will power to pull her gently away. I want her. But now, in front of everyone, doesn't seem like a good time.

"We have all the time in the world for that," I whisper to her, fully intending to make our marriage night spectacular. If only she wasn't so against children…

Annie comes up to hug Katniss, and I see my wife give Finn a kiss on his head. She looks at Finn with love in her eyes, and I can't help but wonder if Katniss will change her mind someday.

Annie comes and hugs me next, and I too kiss Finn on the top of his head. In a matter of minutes, Katniss and I are passed through everyone's arms. The first break I get, I run into the kitchen, where Plutarch has brought in the cake.

I bring the cake out and people gasp in awe as they see it for the first time. Not caring about anything but Katniss' reaction, I set it down in front of her. Her face lights up as she sees the dandelions and primroses, and then she sees our faces. She looks like she's going to start tearing up. I can read her enough to know that they would be tears of happiness.

"Oh, Peeta," she gasps. "It's beautiful. When did you do this?"

"What, do you think I spent my imprisonment yesterday making small talk with Haymitch?" I ask, grinning as she places her hand over mine, which is grasped around a knife. We cut two slices in the cake, and we eat them together. Things get pretty interesting when Flavius decides it's a good idea to smear a little bit of cake in Johanna's face. She glares at him, then dumps the rest of her slice down his shirt.

"I swear, that guy gets on my nerves more than any single other person on this planet," she grumbles, causing Katniss to laugh.

"You just met him a couple days ago," Katniss snickers. Johanna turns her glare to Katniss.

"So? Doesn't mean he doesn't annoy the crap out of me," Johanna says, shrugging. Katniss continues to laugh, but her mother quickly pulls us over to a mirror when she sees the look on Johanna's face.

Katniss hasn't seen herself yet. When she first looks in the mirror, her eyes widen, and her mouth opens slightly in a happy confusion. My eyes never leave her face, and I frequently find her eyes tearing themselves away from the mirror to meet mine.

I'm just about to lean in and kiss her when Haymitch comes barreling into the room. He's obviously been drinking, and there is another bottle swinging in his hand.

"Well, well, well, if we don't have the star-crossed lovers from District 12!" Haymitch yells, slurring his words. "They're so in love, and you better believe it, or they're going to PEW" he says, making sound effects that sound like explosions. "Blow up the whole worlds with their kids and everything like that." And with that he passes out.

For a minute, there is dead silence. Then everyone bursts out laughing.

As if to distract from Haymitch, Katniss and I are lead back into the living room. A warm, comforting fire roars in our fireplace. This is the moment that I've always dreamed of having with Katniss. Toasting with her.

I toast my bread first, and I tell Katniss what I've been meaning to say to her for a long time.

"Katniss, I have loved you from the moment I saw you. You have brought me through so much, I owe you my sanity, and I owe you my life. I know that you hate it when debts go unpaid, so I promise you, I will love you more than anything for the rest of my life. I love you, Katniss Mellark."

I see her eyes sparkle as I say her new name for the first time. I put the piece of toasted bread in her mouth, and linger my fingers on her lips longer than necessary.

Katniss picks up the tongs and toasts her piece of bread. She takes a deep breath before speaking, as if she's been waiting to say this for a long time.

"Peeta, I'm very ashamed to say I haven't loved you for that long. But now, I love you more than my own life. You aren't the only one whose life has been saved. Ever since you took pity on that starving girl, wasting away in your backyard, there has been a connection. I can't deny it anymore. I love you, because you are my dandelion, the promise that things can grow back, the promise that things can be good again. I love you, Peeta Mellark," she says, placing the toast in my mouth.

I am truly married to Katniss. The toasting has finalized that more than anything else. She truly loves me. I am no longer Peeta Mellark, one of the star crossed lover from District 12, the boy who was hijacked. I am Peeta Mellark, the man who is married to Katniss Everdeen, now Katniss Mellark.

I pull her in for one more kiss, not wanting to waste any minute of our new life.

A/N: And that's the very end! I can finally put complete on this! Thanks again to anyone who has read 'til the very end, and an even bigger thanks to, as always, KelsNicole92 and TheSoggyBug. The sequels coming up in one week. March 10, you'll have the first chapter of that! For now, I'm working on my two other stories, Clove Unsuspected and This Time in Our Lives.