A/N : This chapter is really short and boring but essential to understanding what is going on in Panem. It's my first story so please be nice.
Disclaimer: This will be short and sweet-I don't own The Hunger Games or anything related to it.
Chapter One – Background
Katniss
It's been four years since Peeta and I moved back to district twelve. When we arrived Peeta set out to rebuild the bakery while I have been volunteering almost all of my time to rebuilding the Square and the Seam. Haymitch, Prim, mother and even Madge moved back a few months after us and since then Haymitch has disappeared. It is easy to assume that he is hiding in his house in a drunken stupor. The others have been using all of their time to build a new hospital because that has been decided to be our new export. President Paylor decided that since the mines were closed we needed something to keep us profitable and she decided that since the best doctor in all of Panem, my mother, lives here, we would be responsible for medicines. Peeta and I are getting better, he still as Tracker Jacker attacks about once a month or so and I still wake up with nightmares about twice a week.
Mother adopted Madge and those two moved into Peeta's old house in Victors Village with Prim. Everyone in the district had to start from scratch because of the rebellion, which includes the 350 survivors that came back along with the 2,000 others that moved into the district. Most of the citizens that relied on the Hob either turned to the forest for food or had to find a way to buy it legitimately. The fence beyond the meadow is still up, more for protection than anything else. It is never charged and a gate was built in so people could come and go as they please. Even with this, though, very few people venture out into the beyond without someone who knows what they are doing.
District twelve is not the only one that is improving. President Paylor has made it her mission as a democratic leader to restore all of the districts to a better state than they have ever had. Except for district thirteen; it was evacuated of all of the people and is now just a secret military operations base. Most of the people either went to the Capitol or to district eight, which is where Gale and his family went. Gale has started a company called Hawthorne Industries and is providing for everyone in his family except for Rory, who came to district twelve to be with Prim. They have been together for close to 2 years and are almost inseparable.
Annie moved back to District 4 to be with her family and try to recover from loosing Finnick. Johanna Mason became the official Panem Defense Captain when Paylor was elected and Plutarch became the Mayor of District Four. Beetee is working in district two to develop a new weapon for the government to use while Effie maintains her reputation as a successful stylist in the Capitol.
A/N : Told you it was boring. And for future reference, I will try and put an interesting fact about me in the authors not on every chapter from here on out.
