Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins does. No profit is being made off of this. This is just fan work made for fans, by fans. And as always, anything you recognize belongs to the fabulous Suzanne Collins. No copyright infringement is intended.
Behind Her Smile
:: Chapter One : Behind Her Smile
Seventeen year old Diesel Michel volunteers for the Twenty Fourth Hunger Games and, against all odds, leaves the Arena—whole. Twenty five years later, his daughter Maddie volunteers for the Games. The odds are the same, but will the conclusion—the Victor—be the same? Truth and deception, betrayal and love gone wrong …
On the surface, Maddie Michel has the perfect life. Rich father, a house in the Victor's Village, servants at her beck and call, and more money than she can possibly spend in a lifetime. But money cannot buy happiness: the price has been blood.
Her father in unhinged and the servants—Avoxes—are slaves, silenced by the Capitol as punishment for crimes they did not commit, and their house is empty, lifeless, haunted by ghosts from their troubled past. Maddie must go beyond the surface to discover what truly happened that fateful day eight years ago.
Everyone saw who she appeared to be but only a few knew the real her. One only saw what she chose to show. There was so much behind her smile one just didn't know. Maddie Michel is not a pawn, and she refuses to be played—or play by the rules.