Katniss Everdeen had quite a hard time after her dad died. Her mom went comatose and wouldn't do or say anything, her little sister was too little to understand what was going on and was just scared. She needed Katniss to comfort her. Katniss didn't have a minute to herself to grieve, she was too busy keeping her family together and fed; a daily struggle. She had to keep Prim fed and clothed or the peace-keepers would intervene and take her away and send both of them to an orphanage. In District 12, there was no adoption, not that people didn't care, they where just all too poor to take on a kid. The whole town was poor.

They were on the brink of starving to death when she went to the electric fence separating District 12 from the woods. She found it, didn't work she could go into the wild and hunt. Katniss' father had shown her that the fence wasn't turned on a long time ago, she too scared to use it before now. But she had no choice, it was this or starve to death. She now had a way to keep them all fed, as. Her dad, before he died, taught her to hunt with a bow. They went out every weekend so she had a lot of practice. Her and Gale, her best friend (who was also going through the same situation), hunted together to get more food and split up what they caught at the end of the day.

Katniss was struggling to survive so she didn't really ever think of her soulmate, Johanna Mason.

Everyone had the name of their soulmate written on their right wrist. No one ever bothered to cover them up, seeing as how they had the Hunger Games no one wanted to conceal the mark and possibly miss out on meeting their soulmate. Along with the name, when you met them, the world stopped for a second and revolved around that person, so no one ever had to doubt who their soulmate was. It only worked in person so if someone got reaped and you just saw them on screen, it wouldn't happen.

She didn't even know who the girl was, seeing as how she wasn't in District 12; Katniss knew all the families . It wasn't a big District and Katniss had never left 12 and had no plans to for quite a while. Prim and her mom needed her, and Gale too, in a way; they leaned on one another when times got tough and in 12 that was a lot. She hadn't thought of her future much at all, her present was too hard to deal with sometimes, so why bother daydreaming?

Katniss was fifteen when the 73rd Hunger Games started. She, along with her whole District, was forced to watch the reaping on the projector the Capital provided for them, in the town square. She didn't know or care who got reaped but she had to stand there, watching, anyway, as they went from District 1 down to 12 in real time. She wasn't playing attention when a name was called that startled her. "Johanna Mason." Huh. Maybe her Johanna was the one in District 7. She then realized that if it was her Johanna then she was screwed, she just got reaped. Shit! What was she supposed to do now if it was her Johanna? Would she live? Would she die?

Katniss looked up at the screen and saw the most beautiful girl she had ever seen. She was skinny, but was actually a little bit muscular, probably from swinging an axe since she was in the lumber district. This girl had short, dark brown hair. Johanna looked to be pissed, reasonably so. She had just got reaped. Katniss fell a little bit in love. She had a thing for rebellion.

She knew that she was going to be watching these games a little more closely than she had ever before. Now she had a reason to. She knew that she couldn't do much but that didn't mean that she wanted to miss out on seeing this girl in action. She looked like a fighter. Even if she wasn't her soulmate, she still hoped that Johanna won.

Katniss zoned out the rest of the reaping until Effie, the escort for 12, came on stage and tapped the microphone with her hand, causing feedback that startled Katniss from her thoughts and back to the reaping at hand. She was just glad that she didn't have to worry about Prim getting her name put in for another year. Effie called the name for the girls; and it wasn't not anyone who she was close with. She wasn't close with anyone anymore, other than Prim and Gale. She watched the girl go up on stage, crying, as Effie called the boy's name. Again it wasn't someone she was close with. She was just glad that it was over and she could leave now. She had some thinking to do and for that, she needed to be in the woods. It was the only place where she could just breathe and not feel pressured to provide and protect and be on guard all the time.

She loved her sister and even her mother, who she was frustrated with, but she was stressed. She wouldn't give it up for anything, though. As she walked home, holding Prim's hand and leading her mother, she couldn't stop thinking about the girl from 7, Johanna. She got home and changed into her hunting clothes and crept outside, being wary of all the extra Peace-Keepers. She got to the fence and slipped in. It didn't take her long to get into the thick woods. She found a tree and climbed it, half sitting, half laying on the branch.

What was she going to do? What could she do? If this Johanna was her Johanna then there wasn't much she could do but hope that she was strong enough to survive this. It's not like just any one could be a sponsor. If that was the case, the families of the reaped would help them and no one would die. With that thought, all that was left was to hope.

Katniss watched the filming of the training closely, she wanted to see if she could see who was a threat and who would probably get killed first. She knew that District 1 and 2 would be a big threat, they won most years. She paid very close attention to Johanna and was sad to see that she didn't look to be strong or really good at any kind of weapon. Katniss was trying to get ready, emotionally, for when she died because there wasn't much of a chance, it seemed, for her to live. She had to be ready to let a girl she never met, go. Yeah, it sucked.

The games had started and Johanna had seemed to disappear. She was likely hiding in a cave made of rubble or something.

She wasn't seen for most of the games. When she finally came out there were only a handful of tributes where left. She made quick work of them and ended up winning.

She had played all of them into thinking that she was weak and not someone to worry about. She out-smarted them all.

Katniss felt like she could breathe freely for the first time in weeks.

She was safe.

Johanna was going home.

Only Katniss didn't know where that was, just that she was from District 7.

She had no way of finding her, if she was her soulmate.

Shit.

I don't own the hunger Games, just this idea. Thank you to my team of beta's: SuperWhoLockedsince'12, HobbitDetectiveOfRavenclaw and HelloI'mOz. You where wonderful. Also, I did have to change some of the plot from the books/movies to make this work.