Disclaimer: This is my first fanfiction, so I wanted to start with a one-shot. So it is basically a one-page story about Foxface's life. And in the end, I put a little twist ;) Enjoy!
Once, there was a girl named Finch, who had red hair and a genius mind.
She was born to a poor family, which was ironic, since District 5 was the fourth wealthiest district in Panem. Her family was so poor that when she was 5, the Peacekeepers had to put her in a Community Home because her parents couldn't afford food. They didn't have much food in there, either. But Finch was smart and she knew what to do. So by the age of 8, she began stealing food from the butcher shop, the bakery, and some wealthy houses in Upper D5, an area where rich businessmen and their families lived. It still wasn't much, but she didn't complain. The people in the Community Home didn't even care about her whereabouts, so no one noticed.
A few years passed, and at the age of 12, she became eligible for the reapings. She didn't really care about them though, didn't even feel scared. She knew she wasn't going to get chosen. Only a few slips in thousands, she thought. Your name won't be called. But she was, for the first time, wrong.
"Finch Grissdaer!" Their eccentric escort had called out when she just turned 15. Me? Yes, me. And then, her journey to the Games began.
The Capitol amazed her. The tall skyscrapers, the ridiculous-looking people in their expensive clothes, the fast trains, the showers, the food. Everything was different. But she reminded herself that she wasn't in a vacation, she was here to fight to the death. So, as always, she formed a plan. A clever one. The same one she used to survive back in District 5. Stealing.
The moment she stepped into the arena, she disappeared into the forest. She unpacked in a cave and thought about the plan again. Do not talk. Do not kill. Be quick. Think fast. Steal from the Careers without causing suspicion. Do not fight over something. It was a good plan, until that girl from 12 destroyed the Careers' supply. That's when she felt, for the first time, clueless. And as more tributes died, she decided to do something. Something she never did before. She decided to quit.
She held them. Should I? She couldn't decide. Then she thought about the remaining tributes. The vicious boy from 2 who acted even more insane after the death of his district partner. The highly skilled girl and her determined lover. She was too small and too not-skilled to face them, and she didn't have the food to rely on anymore. So she brought them to her mouth.
Once, there was a girl named Finch, who had red hair and a genius mind. Who committed suicide by eating berries. Who was even smarter than everybody thought she was.