#thread:katniss

“We need to keep the districts free. For the kids.” Her hand lifted of its own accord and absentmindedly touched the burned skin on her neck at the thought of her children ever being exposed to the horrors she was exposed to with her husband all those years ago. “We can’t allow this woman to become more powerful than she already is.” 

@mijnhelden ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ continued from here

It had always been hard for Katniss to share what she was feeling. And although she was no longer too busy SURVIVING, it still hadn’t gotten any easier. The constant darkness and depression ever since her little duck died seemed to swallow her every word most days. If it wasn’t for Sue, she would have withered away by now. 

Faced with Gale though, something had gone through her. It was like a sort of electricity shocking her entire being into being AWAKE. Even if she would slip back into that perpetual darkness after, it couldn’t hurt to try. Even if she wasn’t entirely sure WHAT she should be trying, Katniss did know she had to do something --anything if she wanted to feel another spark. 

“I don’t know, Gale. I just-- I miss hunting, out in the woods, passed the old fences...” 

If she was going to suffer anyway, she might as well do it with him by her side. The brunette hadn’t exactly forgiven him, nor was she sure if she ever could, but she did miss him. THEM. The Katniss she’d been years ago when it was just the two of them, hunting and feeling more free than they ever would outside of those stolen moments.

@parallellives

“Trust me,” she whispered as she squeezed his hand tighter. Katniss guided him easily through the familiar woods to the place where they first met. Of course, Katniss had seen him before, in the streets, at school and more importantly, at the mines, a boy just as broken as her as the strength of their family was ripped away in one tragic moment. But here, in the middle of the day under a warm sun, they had officially met and spoken for the first time. This was where she really got to know the boy who was her equal in every single way.

It was where they had SAVED each other. Gale taught her more about traps and she told him everything she knew about archery and the plants that grew around them. They had continued to make each other stronger from that moment on, and Katniss truly believed that they had only survived by finding each other that sunny afternoon. 

@parallellives || a starter meme

Valentine’s Day. It was something Katniss had never deemed all that important. If anything, her mind was constantly on surviving. She had to hunt for game, not only to eat, but to trade for other essentials as well. 

Holding a rabbit loosely, she leaned against a stall and started a conversation with Darius, grinning slightly from time to time at his flirtations which were probably just meant to make her laugh after all. Who would care for someone like her? Besides, she wasn’t looking for more. She had Gale by her side, and that was more than enough. 

@mijnhelden || continued from here

A part of her almost felt disappointed when he didn’t give her the usual reply. Always. It was a simple promise, and it made her feel more safe than anything else in this cold house where the ghosts of the past still haunted her. Katniss knew she’d never truly get over the trauma of it all, but luckily, as years passed, more happy memories replaced the horrors from the past.