I don't own the hunger games, but I sure wish I did…
-9 Months before the games-
I turn to the other people sitting around the conference table and a shiver of anticipation runs down my spine. This year's games are going to be spectacular I think to myself.
"Alright thank you so much everyone. I expect to see you all tomorrow so we can work on arena design and construction!" I confidently declare officially closing the meeting. Yes, my name is Alleta Daime and I am the head gamemaker of the 104th annual hunger games. This year's games are going to be very exciting and surprising the tributes had better be prepared because this is one games no-one is ever going to forget.
As I step into the mildly cold mountain air I look around the streets for my husband. He always meets me outside my office building which happens to be in the middle of the capitol very close to the president's mansion and the tributes' training center. Crap, I have to meet with President Dorn tomorrow. He really creeps me out and not just because he recently took control over Panem by poisoning former president Laden. He claimed that it was an unfortunate accident but I know better. It is a tradition amongst our presidents to take out their opposition using poison I believe it started with President Snow over 25 years ago. He knows that I suspect him and if this year's games aren't perfect I probably won't be around to see the 105th games. That's just how these guys work I can only hope my twist will be enough for him.
"Hey sweetie, hard day today?" My husband, Silas, asks jolting me out of my wandering thoughts.
"Oh, you know how it is; I always get stressed this time of year." I reply as we walk through the brightly lit streets of the capitol. It always has amazed me how the neon lights here never go off so it's almost like the days never end. Of course with work to do I hardly ever enjoy it a gamemaker, especially the head, always has to be working on something especially during games season.
We hardly talk as we walk home Silas knows better than to try to pull me out of my thoughts. When we arrive at our small but luxurious house in one of the richest parts of the capitol he pulls out a key and unlocks the door and we walk in. Immediately I sense that something is wrong there is just a faint smell of lilacs coming from the kitchen which is odd since they are my least favorite flowers, mostly because they are President Dorn's favorites. I walk into the kitchen and the smell increases making me gag and I see a pristine white note on my countertop which must be the source of the smell. Sure enough when I flip it over there is a large lilac printed onto the envelope, President Dorn's personal trademark. I'm almost positive he puts chemicals on those flowers to make them smell so strong I wonder what he's trying to hide. It isn't the smell though that worries me, it's the envelope's contents and I carefully open the letter trying to hold my breath because of the smell and inside is a perfectly typed letter addressed, of course, to me and it says:
Alleta,
I am very impressed with your idea for the arena and of course I approve of it. Surely you must have already been working on planning and buildingit? I am highly anticipating our meeting tomorrow and I hope to be wowed by the more complex ideas for these gamesand to be told the specific in design and location. I intend to be very involved in these games so you had better have some really spectacular things planned or more than one person might have to pay the consequences. I'm sure you understand after all these are my first games as president.
Sincerely,
Fauden Dorn
President of Panem
Oh no, what have I gotten myself into? And more importantly what have I gotten Silas into?
A/N: That's all you get for now! (evil laugh) Anyways obviously this is a SYOT! The form is on my profile and I will only be accepting tributes that are PMed to me no reviews, sorry! I will hopefully be posting a tribute list soon but only if I get some tributes so submit away. Also I will probably have a sponsorship system set up once I get a good amount of tributes and you can submit more than one but try to make one of them a bloodbath unless there is a VERY good reason for them not to be! I'm sorry but some people will have to die in the bloodbath and it's better if I don't have to choose random tributes! I hopefully will be posting reapings as the districts fill up. Finally make your tributes detailed they will have a better chance of surviving and of me liking them! That's all and sorry this is so long I hope to get writing soon!