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I wanted to thank my beta, TheStoryOf14 for helping me, and also to MockingjayWithFangs.

October 1939, Warsaw Poland

Katniss Everdeen sat next to the window and let her thoughts wonder while she was watching the battlefield city. It'd been a month since the German soldiers attacked the city; they had started dropping dozens of bombs from their small, intimidating airplanes, decorated with blood-red swastikas.

At home they didn't have any bomb shelter, so it was hopeless for her to find a safe place, but that didn't seem all that important - Prim was. She was small, naïve, and frightened to death. With the first sirens on the first day of school she couldn't sleep. Nightmares attacked her constantly, and Katniss couldn't stand the terrified look in Prim's blue eyes and the muffled cries she tried to hide in her pillow. Whenever the sirens shrieked Katniss rapped her hands around Prim's fragile body and sang a lullaby Father taught her when she was younger. The thought of her father made her heart flinch with pain and longing, and she forced herself to pay attention to the sight from her window.

Warsaw fell after three weeks of fighting, but everyone knew that Poland didn't stand a chance against the Nazi's well-trained machine. Nazi flags had been raised on top of those buildings that were still there, and she could hear the sound of the soldier's boots marching confidently into the occupied city.

It was only October but she felt cold to her bones. Katniss would have started a fire to sit next to, but they had no wood. The realization that winter was approaching and in a month the temperatures would sink below zero hit her and she felt even colder. They'd freeze to death. They still had water - until that would freeze as well, she added dryly to herself and went to make some tea.

Katniss knew Prim would arrive from school soon, so she prepared enough for two, adding a little sugar cube to Prim's, even though there were only 8 left. They had some bread the baker gave her that morning, while she delivered Sau's meat to the customers – these days, no one was willing to leave their safe place and wander in the streets for some meat, so someone had to do make sure that the meat would arrive straight to the hands of the customers.

"Katniss!" Prim's hurried footsteps echoed in the quiet apartment, "The German soldiers are here! I saw them!" She felt the wet trails the tears left on Prim's cheek as the girl collided with her.

"Shhh…" Katniss was looking for comforting words but nothing come, "don't worry, little duck," she finally managed to say, "we will be fine."

As Prim's tears made her wet and her throat went dry, she could only hope that she was right. Things didn't look too good for them at this time and point in history. It looked like their bad luck caught up with them since father passed away from a heart attack three years ago. Mother didn't handle it well, to say the least. It was like the light in her eyes went off when she heard the news, leaving an empty shade to take care of her two young daughters. And now this. A war.

Prim couldn't stop sobbing and Katniss felt helpless because she knew why Prim was so scared, and she knew that things were about to change adversely, and she knew what German Poland meant. But one thing she didn't understand, or maybe she didn't want to - they were Jews, and odds were never in their favor.

A\N: So, this was the historical background story, and next chapters are going to get longer, and more eventful.

Anyway, it is a very difficult story to write, as you all can imagine. I did a lot of research before writing it, and it will get even harder. If you have any comments about some historical fact or anything else feel free to PM me.

I will try to update as soon as possible, but I think it'll be once in a week\ once in 10 days. I'm still not sure about the ending (and this is a serious problem), so if you have an idea PLEASE PM me.

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