#and changed

i just imagine Peeta tagging along with Greasy Sae and her granddaughter to eat with Katniss for dinner, and they walk inside and see her laying on the floor, unconscious, her features red and puffy from crying. they see Buttercup curled up near her (but not next to her, since he’s still a little weary from the thrown pillows). the two of them exchange a brief look, and with no words said, Greasy Sae offers Peeta a nod and walks herself and her granddaughter home.

Peeta steps closer to her, noticing that she washed herself and changed her clothes from when he saw her earlier in the day. he silently studied her features. then, as gently as he can, he scoops her up into his arms and carries her upstairs to her room with Buttercup, awoken from the movement, trodding at his feet. he tucks her into bed, wanting to stay but knowing he shouldn’t. he gives her hand a gentle squeeze and goes home.

I was hanging out with her for like two hours and at one point she was talking about how her male friend from class had worn a pink shirt and so he was “totally weird” I asked why and kind of got mumbles in response, and I said something akin to how colors are just colors and my favorite color was blue and if she liked pink (her favorite color) there wasn’t really a reason anyone else shouldn’t like it too and she mumbled in response and I felt supremely angry at her parents for a few days and forgot about it 

my mom called me today to wish me happy Easter and said that she had called her brother and talked to my cousin for a little bit to wish her happy Easter too and my cousin, 10 now, had started talking about how she wanted to buy a harness for her bunny. 

But in the meantime, there were changes they were still adjusting to. The procedure to remove the loyalty programming had been successful. There’d been a lot of unbridled rage towards Megatron in those first days of recovery. Not that they weren’t still feeling angry and betrayed. 

It was on the second day post-op that they’d remembered about their Decepticon insignias. They had the symbols removed shortly after. It still didn’t feel right not to see them on each other. Not one of them had dared to utter the word neutral yet. 

The quest to find their Megatron was on pause. He wasn’t their leader anymore, but it’d be a lie to say they hadn’t considered finding him to get revenge for all he’d done to them. It was more of an idle fantasy than a real plan. Something to pass the time and direct their negative emotions at. Because they clearly remembered what happened last time. Attacking Megatron had been the start of it all.

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