To Beat All Odds
Their fathers were killed in a mining explosion. Her mother after coming out of her depression committed suicide. His mother was killed by a stray bullet from a peace keepers gun. They are two children left alone struggling to survive looking after their younger brothers and sisters. They are children raising children.
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Katniss Hawthorne-Everdeen, 18 years old, stood with the rest of the girls her age waiting in wishing that her name wasn't picked. Every year for the past 74 years 24 young adults one boy and one girl from each of the 12 district's were chosen to participate in what is called the Hunger Games. Katniss hates the games just as much as her husband Galen does, but she hates the games even more this year now that two of her four children 12 years old.
The hunger games were created nearly 3/4 of a century ago in order to punish the 12 remaining districts for rebelling against the capital. 24 young adults, two from each district, were chosen to compete in the games killing each other until only one was left. For the Capital that games were their source of entertainment but not for those in the 12 districts. No parent wants to hear your child's name chosen and no parent wants to see their child killed. Some of these children that are chosen were the only one that have kept their family from dying of starvation. Even so half of these children were orphans and the oldest of their brothers and sisters. Not only would the game kill these children but it also killed their starving families few weeks later. This is what Katniss and her husband Gale work so hard to make sure that it never happen to their family, the reason why they had married each other six years ago after the deaths of both of their parents.
Katniss prayed to which ever gods existed that her name wasn't picked. She scan the faces of the 12 year old boys until she found her son Rory. Rory stood like a small soldier in an at ease position; back straight, feet slightly apart, hands behind his back, and looking forward. Here and there she saw boys between the ages of 12-18 standing like her son and not for the first time she was proud of her boy. Standing on tiptoes Katniss could barely see Primrose standing like her brother in an at ease position amongst the rest of the 12 year old girls. There, amongst the crowd of adults, stood her husband of nearly six years holding the hands of their two youngest 5year old Posy and nearly 7 year old Victor (Vick).
She has always ignore the people coming out of the Justice Building, she has always ignored the woman Effie Trinket as she made her speech, she has always ignore the film that they showed every year that serve to scare the district from rebelling against the Capital. But one thing that Katniss never has done is ignore Effie Trinket as she made her way first to the glass bowl that contain the girls names then to the glass bowl that has the names of the boys and it is this part that always scares her the most. Katniss knew that she would volunteer to be a tribute if her Prim or her Rory were chosen. She was not about to let her children die for the Capital's entertainment.
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A/N: Okay this is it for now thank you for reading. Please be kind and leave a review.
A/N 2: please be kind this is my first Hunger Games story and the only thing that I know about the Hunger Games is what they showed in the Movie so I apologies if I got the ages wrong but I'm not changing them and if I got a name wrong tell me and I'll go fix it.
