Dances with the Farway Girl [The 28th Hunger Games]

The day was rainiy and dark. Thunder and lightning had took it upon themselves to cause such a racket that it shook the house to it's core. Fog covered in windows in layers of misty white and happy faces were drawn on them. It was dark and deserted outside. Everybody was inside, laying in the warm, comfortable bed of District 12.

Katniss Everdeen shifted uncomfortably. Her hair was out and practically everywhere in a big dark messy. She hated thunderstorms. They reminded her of all of the people she had known, everybody that she had lost, the people that she had once loved had gone forever...
Rue...Finnick...Cinna...Prim...

Don't think of that! she thought and turned over pulling the her blanket up to her chin. Even after all of this hate, all of the loss, all of the things that had happened, every single possible odd against she had managed to pull through and she still had him, Peeta.

Peeta was fast asleep, twitching occasionally. Katniss supposed it was the bad dreams, nightmares. Just like hers. After all, he had been there with her. Through all that she had and maybe even more. The boy with the bread.

She smiled slightly at the name. Katniss moved closer to him. Her husband now. For a few days anway. She smelt the scent of freshly baked bread and wrinkled her nose. Why did he have to always smell of bread? She shook her head in mock laughter, remembering back to all of those times she had slept next to him before the Quater Quell. He had always taken the nightmare's away, maybe he could work his magic once again.

And that's when she heard the knock. First she thought it was just a trick by her imagination but as it got louder and more frequent, she realised that it couldn't of been.

It's probably just Buttercup Katniss thought.
"Stupid cat.." she muttered and pulled the bed sheets back. She looked back at Peeta who was flinching at every knock caused. And then it struck her.
How the hell could a cat knock?.

Katniss jumped out of bed. She attempted to sneak quietley downstairs to the door. She quickly put on her jackset and made her way in the dark towards the steps, trying not to wake Peeta up.

As the knock grew louder, Katniss grew suspicous. Who would come here at the dead of night and start knocking on her door like some big drunk idiot?

Haymitch!

***

If wealth was measured in the speed you could run in the next five seconds, Katniss may as well been the richest person alive.

She threw the door open, fumbling with the lock and the key around her neck. Katniss thought quickly and looked up to find that she was indeed facing the legendary and drunk, Haymitch Abernathy.

Haymitch was in no state to even be walking. He was more sobber then usual but his eyes were still bloodshot and red. He had a mess of stubble on his chin and his visible skin was uneven and patchy with a slightly green tint.Haymitch's dark hair was plastered to his face because of the rain and dripped with water. He was carrying a bottle of alcahol in one hand while the other was shaking uncontrolabbly. When Haymitch layed eyes on her, he smiled widley and threw up on the door step. Then he looked back up at her horrified face.

"Hey Sweetheart."

* * *
Katniss and Haymitch sat around the dining table.A bottle of red wine was placed infront of the man while she had a small glass of orange juice. After a lot of slapping and about a ton of water, the man had nearly got his senses back.

"Haymitch Abernathy..." There was a pause. "WHERE IN HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" yelled Katniss. Haymitch just looked midley amused and slightly dreamy.

"Don't yell too loudly Sweetie...Peeta might wake up...and how's the kid been anyway?"

"He's been fine, completley and utterly fine!." snapped Katniss in a deathley whispear. "But I want to know about you...where did you go after the wedding?"

Haymitch shrugged. "Here, there..everywhere.." he said throwing his arms around. "I went to Annie's place..Johanna's living there now....after...Finnick....the kid's hyperactive! He's got Annie's eye's but Finnick's everything else." Haymitch winked. Katniss's expression softened slightly.

"Where else?" she asked watching him carefully to make sure he didn't throw up again. He was in for a hell of a hangover.

"I went to Gale's...." Katniss gasped.

"How's he been?" she asked eagerly.

"Fine." Haymitch said. "They're expecting a kid, ya'know?" Katniss nodded.

"She told me."

"Wonderful...then I went to do some Capitol buisness." Katniss knew he was always called for some buisness in the Capitol "But I couldn't meet your mother, didn't have time.."

"That's alright..." Katniss snapped bitterly. The first time she'd seen the women since after the Rebel's war was at her wedding. Katniss would admit any day that she'd lost all faith in her mother. Who needed that women anyway? "How's the Captiol been? she asked quickly changing the question from any other point related to the toopic of her mother.

"Capitol's fine, things are running smoothly..."

"I hate the Capitol." said Katniss to no one in particular.

"I know," Haymitch nodded regaining his remaining senses all of a sudden. "But not everybody did.."

"What do you mean?" asked Katniss. She was confused. Why would he say something like that? "Except people from the Capitol before the war and maybe sometimes District 2.."

"I don't mean the city...why did you think I came here instead of going directly to my own house?"

Katniss considered this for a moment and nodded. "Why did you?"

"I want to convince you the people of the Capitol weren't all that they might see-"

"If your trying to convince me the people of the Capitol weren't idiotic morons who loved to see us die then go for it because I'm not going to be listening.../they've/ already tried but failed too.."

Katniss was talking about the 'Turn over Project' to convince major people in the war to not be as inhumane as the people of the Capitol and maybe try to understand them and even consider that not all of them who worked for Snow where 'bad'. CInna and her prep team had already passed that test but people of the 'Capitol Council' whom were a member elected from each and every District to put in place peace and order while living in harmony for everyone.

"Please just liste-" Haymitch started but Katniss cut across him.

"NO! I WILL NOT LISTEN!" she yelled standing up but Haymitch just shock his head.

"This isn't like all of the other stories..I promise.."

"I don't care." Katniss replied stubbornly.

"Please just listen."

"I refuse to listen to people telling me how to think and behave! I won't good of the people who tried to kill me and many other for there own amusement! I mean, they're bad enough but you too? I thought I could tru-"

"This is the story of Evanjelin Rohann, the girl who had no one to protect her because of her beliefs, this is the girl without a mentor. This is the tale of the District twelve's first victor." Haymitch overlapped her.

Katniss stopped dead.

"The victor of the 28th Hunger Games, probably the bravest person I have ever known and my mentor...the girl who loved a peacekeeper."