Disclaimer: I am not the brilliant Suzanne Collins, so I do not own The Hunger Games.

AN. I am not comfortable with a twelve year old and a seventeen/ eighteen year old together so prim will be aged up to fourteen.

Conquest

The Amendment

By the 15th Hunger Games seven of the tributes had killed themselves and another three had tried to. Looking at the causes of the suicides it was found that out of all the tributes who killed or attempted to kill themselves, nine of whom were male, five had their girl friends, fiancés and or wives leave them and the other four were unable to find any form of companionship and killed themselves from loneliness, usually after drinking themselves into a stupor for months before. With the rash of suicides there was a drop of volunteers as the depression of the previous victors became public. To appease the people of the capital who where besides themselves over the deaths of their beloved victors and lack of volunteers the current president and game makes made an amendment to the hunger games.

Amendment to the 15th and all following hunger games,

A Victor tribute may during the course of the hunger games claim a reaped tribute as their conquest wife and property of the victor to be married within two years of the victor's hunger games if conditions are met.

The Claimer must be a volunteer and victor as this is a reward for embracing the spirit of the games.

The Conquest must be one of the reaped and participating in the games to show the other districts that the capital has some mercy to other tributes.

The Conquest must be kept alive until the end of the games. The death of the Conquest before the end of the games means the loss of victory for the Claimer. The death of the Claimer will as well lead to the death of the Claimed.

The Claimer must be able to kiss and verbally lay claim to the conquest before the first twenty-four hours of The Hunger Games is over.

The amendment brought a wave of volunteers for the next few games until the Claimers realized that making it out of the games while protecting a usually weaker tribute was a very hard thing to do; especially as the easiest way to kill the Claimer was to kill the Conquest. However, though the amendment fell out of favor there were a few success stories to give enough hope that claimers happened at least once every ten hunger games. Out of the twelve claims made three were successful, the most remembered of which was when Lux of district one took Processor from district three as his husband.