Let's Light This World on Fire and Watch It Burn

by SamiCatalfumo

There was a boy and a girl on fire, long before Cinna dressed up those kids from District 12. This is how the rebellion really started; this is the story that never made the history books, but proved to be more deadly than the Mockingjay's ever-true aim.

1. Preface

A/N: This is only a PREFACE. So, it is very very short.
I don't own The Hunger Games.

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There was once a time and place for them. Now is surely not that time, but there once was.

They were the star-crossed lovers—victors full of eternally burning fire, looking down upon the gluttons of the Capitol that had made them so—long before the kids from 12 made it popular. Their time, unlike theirs, was not a time for rebellion, so they played it smart. They hid their anger, disgust, and passion; they saved it for each other.

Returning home from his Games, Finnick Odair was wood; hard, calloused, strong, pliable, but no longer alive. He was 14 when he won; 14 when he pledged to take them down. He was 16 when she won; 16 when he caught fire.

Finnick Odair was wood, and if there's one thing Johanna Mason knew—it was wood. She had been flaming for many years by the time they met. It only took him mere moments to go up in flames with her.

That is what they were. She was the ignition; he was the fuel.

She fooled everyone when she won. Everyone. Not a single person bet on her, or even though to, until it was too late. Sponsors were outraged, and Snow was threatened.

She was so smart, far too smart for her own good. And Snow; Snow was stupid. He thought he could subdue her, but he was wrong. She was 18 when she won; 11 when she vowed to destroy them them. He was 16 when they met; 20 when he broke her heart.

Johanna Mason was his first mistake, letting them meet was his second, and the star-crossed lovers of District 12 were his third (although you can argue that Seneca Crane is at fault for that one; Snow sure did). The public believes the Mockingjay and Peeta Mellark to be his biggest and most fatal mistake; but those who were involved in the Revolution would lean toward the first mistake.

Fire when blanketed will be suffocated and go out—that's true.
When a starved fire comes into contact with an infinite amount of fuel, though, it will come back tenfold.

This is their story. This is how fire truly caught, and this is how a rebellion began.