WILLOW TREE.

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

➸ “when i first felt her STIRRING inside of me, i was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. only the J O Y of holding her in my arms could tame it.”

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@trinketiisms​.

        she’s been helping peeta bake all morning && now it was time for the famous taste test with the one and only EFFIE TRINKET. ever since she could remember, willow had selected her grandma effie to be the taste tester of her && peeta’s limitless creations. after making sure the tasty snacks were cooled off, she grabs a basket off the counter and starts piling the CHEESE BUNS in the small handwoven carrier. with her basket in hand and leather jacket on her back, willow sets out for the short walk from her home to HAYMITCH && EFFIE’S. knocking on the door, willow shivers as the winter wind hits her rosy cheeks. “grandma! i’m here for your weekly taste test!”

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@sameodds cont.

        she giggles, and it’s one of the sweetest sounds the victor’s         village has ever heard. she holds the basket out towards him,         a dimply smile still PLASTERED on her face. 

        “of course i did, silly goose! i wouldn’t want to make you sick.”

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

➸ “when i first felt her STIRRING inside of me, i was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. only the J O Y of holding her in my arms could tame it.”

[team-olicity]

[volutneer]

     Her arm curls around the little figure, nose      pressing into the top of her head —she still      smelled like the cream Katniss used on      her when she was an infant. That, itself,      began to calm her racing heart.

        “Tell me a story.”

     She murmurs, refusing the close her eyes      - the nightmare was still tattooed behind      them.

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

willow nuzzles her face into katniss' shoulder, her strong but tiny arms winding their way around her mother as well. katniss'  w a r m  embrace makes  willow feel  s a f e  &&  s o u n d. there's a smile at   the request of a story. she already has one in mind.

there's a smile at the request of a STORY.      she  already has one in  M I N D.

        "on my way home from school YESTERDAY,          the strangest, but also   a m a z i n g   thing          happened.    a  b u t t e r f l y was following          me home, mama.   it was  s o  beautiful ----           it even landed on my  f i n g e r."

[ghost-of-winter]

[thgpositivity]

[torturedmemory]

his dreams are SWARMING with a violence  he hasn’t felt in months —— so   harrowing  his thoughts will become as images flash & twist into a myriad of distorted lies  ( ??? ) .  memories etch behind eyelids;  memories  that SNAKE and suffocate a fragile resolve, because k a t n i s s is a threat & he knows  it, can remember how she murdered his  family, his home — peeta has to — has to get to her before she can twist those dead hands about someone else’s THROAT — !  and then he’s ripped from his nightmare  with the nudge of a hand — when blue eyes ( now DARKENING) finally open, all peeta  sees is the braid, the eyes, and he’s gone.  broad hands, with their regained strength,  snap toSHOVE her away —— 

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

as soon as his eyes o p e n, willow can    s e e  that something is terribly W R O N G. the eyes the usually make her feel  s a f e    &&   c a l m are now making her feel the opposite.   she is afraid m o m e n t s before she sees her father reaching towards her. at first she thinks that it might be for HUG, but when he s h o v e s her away, she  k n o w s  she was wrong.

she's surprised when he shoves her away && feels tears spring up in her eyes.     looking at  her picture, willow places it on their   wooden table, before taking a few steps A W A Y from peeta. she starts twisting the end of her braid around her  s l e n d e r  finger.

       "daddy? what's wrong?   i just wanted to         show you one of my pictures!"

[fireofrebellion]

Katniss just got home, from the woods as she put her bow and arrow away. Once she walked in the living room, she saw her daughter sitting on the couch, and a smile appeared on her face. She was so thankful for her daughter, even she didn’t wanted kids in the first place. Since Peeta wanted it so badly, she agreed with it. Since the Game weren’t there anymore  and it was save to raise children.  ”Hi sweetie, how was school?”  Katniss asked as she took off her jacket. 

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

flipping through her tattered history textbook, willow continued scribbling notes down      in  her spiraled notebook. as soon as she heard  the front door open, the small child set down her notebook, and  r a n towards the door as soon as she saw katniss standing there. thin arms wrap tightly around her mother, before giving a light shrug of her shoulders. she did not want to talk about a n y aspect of school m a i n l y because of the new history unit her teacher just started.   willow let go of katniss, and began  to walk back to    where she was  working so   she could hide  her   homework.

       "it was okay...    can we  t a l k  about         something ELSE?"

[hijackedup]

Dear *Willow*,

Dear Willow,

I can’t tell you how glad I am to have you in my life. Ever since the day I held you in my arms, right after you were born, I fell in a completely different kind of love. With my daughter; the sunshine in my dark nights, the beautiful person made because of the love between your mother and me. Maybe you don’t yet realise it, but that was almost destroyed, once.

You remind me of the reasons I fought to help change Panem. Everything about you is special and unique — don’t ever doubt that, don’t let yourself wallow when you feel sad. Don’t turn that inwards, because you will never be deserving of self-doubt.

Sorry my little Butterfly; I know you’re probably cringing at how sappy this letter is. I hope you’ll cherish it all the same — because it’s full of the overwhelming love I feel for you.

Your always-loving Father

[torturedmemory]

darkhairedmellark ;; 

   Peeta’s having a  n i g h t m a r e.     He’s losing himself in a rare fit of     madness, sleep-laden murmurs     pealing from quivering lips — ( but    he’s fallen asleep on the couch &     Katniss is out in the woods with     their son,    so no solace  will be     found ) .     & he’s far too lost to process the     patter of young feet towards his    unruly, half-asleep state. 

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small feet pad down the hallways in search of her m o t h e r   or  f a t h e r.  making her way into their living room, a small s m i l e spreads when she spies a familiar head of blonde hair that she immediately recognizes as her father. she's so  EXCITED  to show him the w a t e r c o l o r  painting of a K A T N I S S  plant and a WILLOW TREE that she had  j u s t  finished.

she's so  i n n o c e n t  still ---- she does not realize what is  happening with  PEETA  when she comes running in the room  before  trying to w a k e  him up by     N U D G I N G       him  playfully with her  petite  hand.  d a r k  hair is pulled into a BRAID, just like her mother does.

       "wake up, wake up! look what i made!"

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   ——I’m    no  

                        H                             E                                  R                                       O

                ;;  but that doesn’t mean

I wasn’t   b r a v e.

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

she's been waiting for what seems like hours for her mother to come home from her trip to the  WOODS.  today at school, they had a special GUEST speaker. he told a few stories, and they sounded f a m i l i a r. just like many of her mother's  s t o r i e s, they were altered ever so slightly so they would be acceptable for an EIGHT-YEAR-OLD to hear.  she smiles when she finally hears the  s o u n d  of her  m o t h e r ' s  footsteps against the CREAKING floorboards. 

        "mama, mama, mama! we had a guest speaker          at school today. his stories sounded  A  L O T          like yours. his name was gale  h a w t h o r n e.          he said he was a solider.  did you know him?"

[darkhairedmellark-blog]

i was going to try and find a younger!willow face other than the one i initially had because doesn't have too many pictures but i cAN'T BECAUSE SHE IS SO  INCREDIBLY  P E R F E C T. 1000000% willow and i can't change it! she's so gorgeous and ugh. i just can't change it.

[unicorn-feelings]

Peeta and Katniss’s daughter slowly began to learn about the games and the Capitol and the rebellion in school. One day, she came home and told her parents that a real soldier rebellion veteran came into school to talk to them. She turned to her mom and said “Did you know a soldier named Gale Hawthorne?”

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