The heroes meet
It was a warm day in district 12, warm enough for Katniss to grab her bow and head out to the woods, which now can be visited by everyone. She quickly grabs a pen out of the brown drawer of the Victors Village mansion she lives in with Peeta and writes down a note to aware Peeta that she headed out to go hunting. Even after five years of living together and the games being over, Peeta still gets worried when Katniss leaves the house.
She quickly puts on her hunting boots and jacket, braids her hair as usual and grabs her bow, the one she used to have when she went hunting with Gale, the one that she made after her father died and the one before she was ever in the Hunger Games.
She left the house and headed to the woods. She realized for the first time that the leaves are slowly beginning to change color, which marks that the great season of fall is coming. She passes a few of the new houses that have been built after the war. The rebellion had passed a while ago but Katniss can't help but never be able to forget about it.
She finally arrives in the woods and suddenly everything feels so familiar, the smell of the leaves, the trees surrounding her and the breeze that makes her feel so surely aware of her feelings, the ones that make her know that this is where she belongs. The woods have always been Katniss' place; no one else's but hers and her fathers. It was also Gale's place too, even though he hasn't been here in more than five years.
Katniss grabs an arrow and places it on the bow; she moves swiftly and quietly, you can barely hear her. She walks on the rough ground and peeks her head behind a tree. She sees something, a very small figure, but not like a rabbit or a squirrel, it looked like a human.
Katniss then immediately prepared herself to shoot. Nobody ever comes into the woods, mostly its only Katniss, sometimes Peeta comes too, but that's only for picnics. She moves slowly towards the figure but always hides behinds trees for protection.
The closer she gets the more detail she gets. One step closer she sees that the human is short. Another step closer she realizes that the human is indeed female but has short hair, maybe around her jaw and even a little shorter. Three steps closer she realizes the girl has blonde hair and fair skin as well. She gets even closer and notices that she has a tattoo on her collarbone, three birds.
Katniss gives a confused look at the tattoo on the female's skin but shrugs and continues going forward. She suddenly stops moving when she hears the girl speak.
"Who's there!?" Her voice, soft yet strong. Katniss doesn't like it.
Katniss is still hiding behind the tree, she doesn't move a muscle.
"I know someone's there!" she yells again, in the same tone "Come out now! Or I will find you and hurt you!"
Katniss giggle under her breath. Katniss know that this girl has no chance against herself considering that Katniss has her bow and seems to be clearly more experienced.
Please, I've won the Hunger Games and was leader of the last Rebellion, you have nothing on me. Katniss thought.
"Come out now!" the girl yells, but this time Katniss flinches a little which causes the girl to notice.
"I saw you! Get out now, there is no point in hiding, I saw you!" the girl says coming towards Katniss.
Katniss knows that there is no point in hiding she quickly jumps out of the tree and aims her bow at the girl. The girl takes a few steps back. Katniss is now fully aware that she can see her clearly.
"Who are you?! I've never seen you around district 12, which district do you come from?!" Katniss knows that her voice is strong and loud. She feels a little bit good that the girl toke a few steps back.
"Who am I? Who the hell are you!? District 12? Is this really what was behind the fence?" She asks Katniss.
Katniss is suddenly confused. The fence? What fence? Katniss was about to ask her what she was talking about but just then the girls face dropped completely.
"Tobias! Where's Tobias!?" for the first time Katniss sees this girl scared.
"Tobias? Who's that?" Katniss asks, her arrow still pointed at her small body.
The girl doesn't answer her. She just looks at Katniss carefully. It seems that she is looking at Katniss' details.
Katniss is wondering if she is thinking about the scars on Katniss' body or if she is just looking at her.
Katniss isn't the most beautiful girl with her dark brown hair, her seam gray eyes and olive colored skin, but she has something to her, something that no one else has ever had in a long time in Panem.
"What's your name?" the girl asks after a while.
Katniss isn't sure if she can answer this girl. She doesn't even know where she comes from. She can come from the Capitol; she can come from another district who knows. All Katniss knows is that all her life she has never trusted people she doesn't know and she is definitely not stopping now.
"I'm not telling you anything about me unless you tell me about yourself and where you come from." Katniss says her voice still steady.
Katniss can tell that this girl is no fool. That she is not saying anything about herself unless Katniss says something first. Katniss suddenly starts to feel a little less cautious considering that she realizes that they both have something in common.
"You must be crazy if you think I'm telling you one small detail about me." The blonde girl says.
Then Katniss realizes she already has said something about herself.
"Really cause to me it seems you already have, the fence and Tobias." Katniss says to her. The girl immediately stiffens.
"If you hurt him, I swear…" she doesn't continue.
Katniss tries to place the puzzle pieces. Who could Tobias be, her brother? Her friend? Her boyfriend? Whoever he is Katniss knows that he is a good weapon to use against her.
"Tell me something about you, and I will tell you something about me." Katniss says to her.
The girl sighs and stares at her feet. She looks around and stares at the trees and then murmurs something unintelligible.
"What?" Katniss asks her.
"Put your bow down and we can talk." The girl says.
Katniss stares down at her bow and places it down on the ground.
The girl takes in a deep breath and gets ready to speak.
"I'm Tris."