Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THE HUNGER GAMES, THE OC IS MINE THOUGH, ANY SIMILARITIES TO ALREADY EXISTING CHARACTERS ARE COINCIDENTAL.

Chapter one

When things go down

He was running down the halls of District 13. His breath was cracking but he had to get to her before she would wake up and go berserk again. He had to explain what was going to happen to her and pretty much every other person in Panem. He had to explain to her, that she had to be The Mockingjay, that there was no other choice.
When he finally reached the hospital he stopped a nurse who was quickly rushing through the halls to ask her where Katniss Everdeen is.
"Umm she is in 427...I think.", the nurse answered before she continued running down the hall.

„423...424...425...426...427!", Haymitch mumbled the numbers of the rooms to himself for some reason. He never mumbled.

He stopped in front of the door for a second to catch his breath. He didn't want Katniss to see that he made any effort to come here. He didn't want to give her any ideas.

Katniss was still asleep when he walked in. There was a chair beside her bed and a tray with food on the table on the other side of the bed. Looking at the food he realized that he didn't eat anything yet. For a second he considered eating the food but then decided against it because Katniss looked like she hadn´t eaten for days.

Haymitch sat down beside her bed and waited for her to wake up. After about ten minutes he laid his forehead on the edge of the mattress. He realized another thing, he wasn't only hungry but tired. Really tired.

The withdrawal was taking its toll on him. He tried to steal medical alcohol once but one of the nurses caught him. The nurse who caught him was more than just angry; she tried to explain to him that he'd be dead if he drank the alcohol.

That was about a week ago now.

A small moan caught his attention. He quickly sat straight up, trying to hide how tired he was. She was already so broken and Haymitch didn't want to give her another reason to worry. Even though she made it look like she hated him for everything he'd done, deep inside he knew that she cared about him. Maybe not much but she did.

Katniss opened her eyes and immediately closed them when she noticed his presence.

"What…", she croaked. Her voice sounded horribly damaged. No wonder after all the screaming back on the hovercraft. He regretted some of the things he called her. It wasn't fair to insult her after everything she went through, but he was mad at her at the time and didn't think further about it.

She took a deep breath and tried again.

"What are…", she coughed but continued to talk. "are you doing here?", the way she looked at him made clear that he wasn't welcome.

He sighted and prepared himself for some various insults. But there came none. Haymitch waited another minute to respond, giving her the time to decide whether she wanted to hear what he had to say or not.

When she didn't answer he spoke.

"Listen we need to clear things out between us. For the sake of the boy.", he spoke quietly, trying not to make her angry. He knew that his pure presence was annoying her.

"The boy has a name you know.", she fired at him.

"I know…sorry.", he took a deep breath before talking again. "I'm getting straight to the point here. You have to play your role as the Mockingjay. There is no way around. Meaning, you'll do as i tell you.", Haymitch took a break to give her time to respond.

"Leave me alone.", she turned her head away from him.

"No. Now listen here sweetheart…there is no other choice. If you want to save those people out there in the districts, your loved ones…Peeta, then you have to play along.", he tried to explain it the easiest way possible, but really there was no easy way to explain to a 17 year old girl, that she has to play the figure of hope for millions of desperate people, in a war that could be lost so easily.

"Leave. Me. Alone.", she wasn't in the mood for this Mockingjay bullshit. Not now, not ever again. She just wanted Haymitch to leave her alone. There was nothing she wanted to talk to him about. He lied to her, he betrayed her. He betrayed Peeta by leaving him to the capitol.

"You just don't get it do you?", he was getting pissed. "This is not about you anymore! How can a person be so selfish?", he said it even though knew she wasn't selfish. She was probably the most selfless person he ever met. She cared for her mother and her little sister for years all by herself, she went into the games two times to save her sister and Peeta. She gave herself up to save her loved ones.

But he needed her to come to sense. He needed this sudden reacting to a situation from her. These moments of clarity in her thinking process that made her to what she is now. He needed her to snap and react all by herself like she did when she volunteered for her sister, like she did when she realized what she had to do in order to save Peeta in their first games. He needed her to understand that she was the only one able to give the people out there in the districts hope.

Katniss squeezed her eyes shut, still not willing to even look at him.

"Sweetheart, these people count on their Mockingjay.", he grabbed her hand and planted a small kiss on it. "We all do, you know?", he then left her alone.

After Haymitch had closed the door, Katniss opened her eyes and stared into nothingness. She knew that so, so many people were counting on her and that he didn't actually meant what he said about her being selfish. He was trying to motivate her in his Haymitch-like way. The only thing that didn't fit into what just happened was the way he'd kissed her hand.

Kissing someone's hand, or hugging, or body contact in general wasn't Haymitch's thing at all. It made her uncomfortable because if somebody like him was resorting to such means to convince her of being the Mockingjay, then it was about to go deep downwards.

So i hope you liked the first chapter. I know, I know the OC isn't in it yet but she will be in the next two chapters for sure.

Another thing, english is not my first language, so please correct me if i'm making mistakes. I won't be mad or hate you for it, i want to learn the languages i'm using and any help is welcome.