I shoot up and suck in a huge desperate breath. Filling my lungs with desperately needed air. I immediately look around the room frantically, getting ready to fight off anyone who comes my way. As i scan the room i realize its empty apart from me and the cold marble table i was lying on.
As i study myself i realize i now only wear a clean white robe instead of the black ripped up suite i wore in the games.
The games... I won
I quickly scout out the room looking for someone who can tell me where i am. Suddenly a slides door opens in the white wall and a man with bright yellow hair walks through in a white lab coat
"oh good, your awake" he chirps checking something on his clipboard
"w-where am i?" i question in slight panic
"you, miss everdeen, are the winner of the 74th hunger games, congratulations!" he praises me "you are in the capable hands of the best doctors the capitol has to offer! wouldn't want you all bashed and bruised for your interview would we?" he raises a perfectly plucked yellow eyebrow at me
"where is haymitch?" i ask, hoping for someone who i am relatively familiar with
"mr Abernathy is speaking with some doctors and shall be with you momentarily" with that he leaves the room. i sit back down on the table and soon realize that all the scars and cuts i got during the games are gone. Vanished.
The door in the wall slides open again and in stumbles Haymitch, looking no less drunk than when i left him going into the games.
"Well sweetheart" he slurs "that was some games"
i glare at him, the first time he sees me after i was sitting at deaths door and that is what he says?
however i don't disagree. when he says 'that was some games' he isn't joking because my games will be the talk of the capitol for years to come.
My name is Katniss Everdeen. I come from district 12. Since the age of 8 when my father died in a mine explosion i have had to fend for myself while fending also for my family. I was reaped for the 74th Hunger games and i knew the second my sisters name was called that 1- there was no way she was going into the games and 2- i knew i was going in and i was going to win
So that is exactly what i did. I went into the hunger games at the age of 16 and set a new record. I killed the most tributes in history. The previous record was set by the capitol heart throb (or the capitol whore) Finnick Odair. He killed only 11 tributes out of 24. Myself, i killed 19 tributes. I can only imagine how crazy the capitol is going right now over the new record or the fact that i killed 19 people. I did them all quickly, all in different ways, not because i'm a sick person, but because i want everyone including me to remember every single one of those people so killing them each in a different way will help those remember.
"how long have i been out?"i ask
"2 days" he says monotone "your interview is tonight"
i groan aloud. interviews are not my forte
"guess i better go get ready then" i get up to leave but he grabs my arm and gives me a hard look. "you haven't noticed yet have you?" he asks cautiously
"noticed what?" i ask irritated.
"snow... he made some... requests" i raise an eyebrow at his brief explanation
"haymitch! speak english!" i yell getting angry at him
there is a brief pause where haymitch takes a deep breath "i will let snow explain. He is waiting up on the 12th floor for you" i am about to protest when he just drops my arm and walks out the room. I take a moment to process before i walk out of the room.
I make my way around the building in the robe i was given. i don't see the point in changing, i'm just going to be shoved into some capitol gown again in 1 hour anyway. I reach the elevator and press 12, as the elevator shoots up i cant help but think about what president snow would want to talk to me about.
The doors ping open to reveal a flustered Effie sprinting towards me and congratulating me on my games saying how amazing they were and Cinna giving me a very sympathetic smile which i raise an eyebrow at just shrugging it off.
during Effie's rant cinna interrupts "president snow is waiting for you in the study" he says simply and i excuse myself from the room and journey down the hall to the study. i hesitate slightly before knocking lightly and a peacekeeper opens the door ushering me in. The clear smell of blood and roses are present and i try my best not to gag. It smells like death in here.
Snow turns around from looking out of the window and sends me a wicked smile. "Miss Everdeen" he begins "please sit" he gestures to a seat which i sit down in slowly "Well Miss Everdeen, i have to say i am impresses. And i'm sure anyone can tell you i am not easily impressed" he takes a seat in front of me and takes a long sip of his tea in front of him. "Katniss, your games were different than all the others. The capitol people loved it!" he smiles like i am the gift he always wanted "you have successfully stopped all rebelling in the districts and made the capitol overwhelmingly happy"
"just because i killed 19 children" i state coldly and that only makes his smile grow wider
"indeed" he puts his cup down "i have a proposition for you" he states looking me in the eye
"what kind of... proposition?" i ask cautiously
"Miss Everdeen, it is no secret that you are a beautiful young woman" he pauses and i make an uncomfortable face "and some people in the capitol now have found you quite... desirable" he rolls of his tongue in an evil tone and i don't think i'm following
"mr president, i'm not following" i feel a bit stupid right now
"I wont beat around the bush Miss Everdeen. Capitol men and women are willing to pay a lot of money for the pleasure of your company" he observes the cogs turning in my head, putting the pieces together when suddenly i take in a gasp
"I WILL NOT SLEEP WITH RANDOM CREEPS!" i scream but it is clear he is unfazed by my outburst
"oh Miss Everdeen, i think you will" he states taking another sip of his tea as if we were simply talking like old friends "unless you want something to happen to your sister. Primrose, isn't it? Or your cousin" he chuckles lightly, i don't have a cousin. "Gale, i believe" i am about to correct him when i realize the capitol must have said that to keep up with Snows plan for me becoming a... Prostitute.
I also realize that now i have no choice but to do as he says. If i don't do as i am told then he will kill prim, or gale, or my mother or anyone else he pleases. I have a awful sick feeling in my stomach that makes me want to throw up and scream and cry all at the same time. But i don't do any of those i just nod, emotionless.
"Great!" he smiles triumphantly he gets up to leave "Miss Everdeen you will also notice that i made some much needed and desired... enhancements." i crook an eyebrow "your first appointment will be tomorrow night" he takes a white rose out of his pocket and hands it to me while taking my hand and kissing the back of it "for you miss everdeen. its always a pleasure" He grins one more time before leaving the room.
The second i hear the door close i scream and punch and slash and hit everything in site. For what feels like hours later i am sitting on the ground crying my eyes out and rocking back and forward. I barley even feel someone picking me up and carrying me through to the bathroom.
I snap out of my crying faze and look up at Cinna as he runs me bath. He looks at me sympathetically but his time doesn't smile. I think he knows exactly what happened.
"Come one girl on fire, don't let this exhaust your flame" he says slashing me a crooked smirk and i chuckle, trust Cinna to find humor in this.
He stands me and and lowers my robe, dropping it to the ground. I then realize what Snow meant by 'desired enhancements' i look down at my bust and realize that both of my breasts are so much bigger than they were before the games. I used to be only a B cup and now i know i am at least a DD maybe even an E. I turn around to face Cinna, he has seen me naked before it doesn't bother me but when look into his eyes he is looking down at the floor.
"i tried to convince them not too" he says sadly "but i couldn't... i'm so sorry Katniss" he whispers and i see a single tear flow down Cinna's dark cheek. At this moment i don't care if i'm naked i trap my arms around his large frame and he does the same to me
"its not your fault Cinna" i say chocking it out as tears flow down my cheeks "did they do anything else?" i ask
"they enlarged your breasts, bottom, filled out then toned your stomach, made your hip bones and collar bones more prominent, pierced your ears and belly button, gave you hair extensions... and gave you the capitol tattoo" he only chokes out the last part and he pushed himself away from me
I take in the information, each feature made me cringe but the last one, the tattoo, made my blood curl. Sure enough when i look at my left wrist i can see the bird with his wings open and spears at the bottom with the words 'capitol' written along the top. Underneath that there are three lines of writing
Panem Today
Panem Tomorrow
Panem Forever
I understand why they did all of it, i had a flat chest and ass, so they made them bigger. I was so skinny you could see my ribs, so they fattened me up then make it all flat. They want me to look skinny so they made my bones more prominent. They want me to be more capitol like so they pierced my ears and belly button. My hair used to be below my shoulders, and now as i take it out of the messy bun it was in before, i realize it now stops at the bottom of my rib cage with layers and highlights and low lights. My hair is darker, almost black, with dark and light brown highlights running through it. Then there is the tattoo, that shows my dedication towards the capitol. and to snow.
I am not katniss everdeen, the little girl from district 12 anymore. I am Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire, and soon to be capitol whore.