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Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you to my amazing beta @louezem for getting this chapter whipped into shape!

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[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you @louezem for going above and beyond as my beta! And thank you all for being patient during my hiatus.

Chapter One | Chapter Thirty

[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rating: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you @louezem for your tireless beta skills!

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Chapter Twenty-Two

I know right away what Rosalia’s put into me. Morphling. My muscles are loosened and I’m awash with relaxation. Even though my thoughts are telling me in a fuzzy voice that’s Rosalia, get away, my body doesn’t do anything. 

But Katniss does.

The arm with the needle sticking through it is the one that holds Katniss to me and she flings it off, shoots up, and puts her hands on Rosalia’s throat, shouting as she does so. I tell myself to move, but the morphling delays everything. Rosalia has backed away, Katniss getting dragged off the bed as she keeps her grip on Rosalia’s neck, and I can only push myself up to my elbow. Katniss slams Rosalia against the wall, letting out a stream of unintelligible sounds.

That’s when I see Rosalia isn’t alone. An unfamiliar man—the details of him unclear in the dark—has charged Katniss and has her by the shoulders, trying to yank her off, but Katniss is locked on. Rosalia is gasping and I hear the “ee—ee—” of my name wheezing out of her.

The initial shock is wearing out and my body is finally fighting back against the morphling, the adrenaline combating its effects and I sit up, swing my legs over when I remember my damn prosthetic is off to sleep. I try to locate it, but the morphling is making my brain like liquid, unable to hold onto anything. Up until the man punches Katniss in the head and then there’s only one target. Him.

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[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you as always to my beta @louezem!

Chapter One | Chapter Twenty-Eight

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[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you for betaing @louezem! This has been an intense section to write and her feedback is invaluable.

Chapter One | Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-One

Getting to talk to someone in a different district takes work and arrangement. I’ve only spoken to Delly a handful of times in the five months since District 13’s bombing with her off in 10. When you have the rebellion wanting to get something taken care of, though, then it can happen fast. By the morning, I’ve been escorted into one of the offices with a phone in it and a number on a slip of paper that tells me where Delly will be waiting to take my phone call.

After the guard who brought me in shuts the office door with a heavy click, I hold the receiver between my ear and shoulder while I punch the number with one hand and hold the paper out with the next. 

“Peeta?” Delly asks. 

“Hi Delly.”

“What’s going on? They’ve never been this quick to set up a phone call before.”

Her voice is so concerned, so kind, and I’m going to ask her to do something that will change the course of her life forever. I can’t not ask her for it, though, as impossible as it is.

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[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you @louezem for being my beta for this smutty chapter.

Chapter One | Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Five

Katniss tugs my head to meet hers in another kiss, a seal of a promise to take down the Capitol. I’m more aware than ever of the cameras here in my old house in Victors Village recording us, of the creative team and Gale watching us. That everything I just shared about Rosalia will no longer be private. This moment on camera will never be ours, even if it feels as authentic as it can be. We’re giving this piece of us to the rebellion, hopefully correcting whatever damage I’ve done in the past six years.   

“Good place to wrap,” Cressida says when we’ve pulled away and Katniss has her head under my chin. “We’re going to change tones now, go for a more domestic look into you two.”

And the vision for this propo becomes clear when supplies come out of their packs for dinner. We’re given fresh vegetables, dried plums and even lamb. And of course, flour and yeast. All of this very costly for the rebellion, especially after the bombings. Cressida describes how she wants us cooking together, encouraging touches and kisses and jokes. My hand on Katniss’s hip, her brushing flour off my cheek (that had been put on there purposefully). While the whole crew and Gale eat the stew, it’s only Katniss and I in the shot, holding hands even as we eat. 

Afterwards, Cressida puts us back on the couch with the afternoon sun directly slanting into the room. This time Katniss is snuggled into my side, her feet tucked underneath her.

“What is it that you hope for in your future together?” Cressida asks.

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[thesweetnessofspring]

Roses and Pearls by HalfHope (thesweetnessofspring)

Rated: E

Description: Peeta Mellark is the sole victor of the Quarter Quell. With District 12 nothing but ash, he rebuilds his life by moving to the Capitol and falling in love with Rosalia Snow, granddaughter to Coriolanus Snow.

Then people Peeta thought long dead kidnap him and Rosalia, including the one person he hates more than anyone: Katniss Everdeen. They say he's been hijacked. They say that he used to love her. Locked away in District 13, Peeta is determined to protect his mind and his fiancée from the rebels. But while imprisoned, videos disprove his memories and his feelings toward Katniss grow confusing. Who can he trust, and what really happened in his past?

Thank you @louezem for beta-ing this chapter! It's been a long time coming and one we've been looking forward to.

Chapter One | Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Each day, more people from District 13 come to Three. They first utilize the homes in Victor Village, four people to each bedroom, with families and couples getting priority and the single people then lining the living rooms with their cots to sleep. I get assigned to the Everdeens’ room, the same one Katniss and I shared. Once we wash the sheets, we let Prim and Mrs. Everdeen have the bed while Katniss and I put our cots next to each other on the floor. It means we don’t have the same privacy as before, but we manage to find time to ourselves, especially when Prim and Mrs. Everdeen work at the same time.

The propos air in all of the Districts while Beetee and Electra continue to work on how to break through the Capitol’s airwaves long enough for the propos to run. The feedback, they say, is largely positive. Unknown to me, as I’d been shielded in the Capitol, had been the fact that many in the districts grew distrustful of me when I started dating Rosalia. The propo revealing the details of the hijacking and Katniss accepting me as her lover again had increased the fury toward the Capitol and restored my image. Most importantly, Katniss and I coming together again after six years apart gave people hope that after all of these years, the Capitol can be toppled.

With the positive response, Plutarch and Cressida want to keep the momentum going, and Katniss and I are told we’ll be given a tour of a factory in Three for a propo. So far, Three is the only district to completely push the Capitol out, because of the force fields they’ve set up around key parts of the district. This was largely thanks to Electra, who had designed a force field stronger than the one that had contained all of the arenas for years. The so-called “chink” Katniss had described to me had gone from the size of an orange to a pea. 

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