This is for The 100 Prompts Challenge for the Hunger Games Fanfiction Challenges. The first prompt is Loyalty. This is going to be an AU chapter. As though the events of Hunger Games series never took place and Katniss was the sole victor.

Katniss watched the screen hanging off the wall of the small room that all the Victors were in. She couldn't believe that this was her first year training another person to go into the Hunger Games.

A noise from the other side of the room alerted her to that the one person she wanted to see most had just arrived. Haymitch.

"Hey Haymitch," she called motioning the man over to her.

By the way he was walking Katniss knew the man was already drunk. But he stumbled towards her anyway. When he reached her Haymitch plopped down in the chair next to her. She began to think.

She thought of all the questions that had run through her mind during her Games. How could Haymitch do this year in and year out? Had he felt the same way she felt now? Did this watch innocent kids kill each other get easier? Did she want it to get easier?

"Your thinking?" said Haymitch. A statement more than a question.

"Yeah," said Katniss turning to Haymitch. "Can I ask you something Haymitch? With you answering honestly."

Haymitch nodded. "Fire away," he said.

"How can you do this Haymitch?" she asked.

Haymitch stared at her in shock. "Do what?"

"How do you watch innocent kids go into the arena every year and kill each other for peoples entertainment?"

"It's not easy," he told her. "It takes commitment. It takes loyalty to the people and district you live in. Where is all of this coming from anyway?"

Katniss sighed heavily. "This is all just weighing heavily on me," she told him.

"Don't sweat it kid. I would like to say it gets easier but that would be a lie. Why do you think I'm drunk most of the times? But if I know people which I do. You can handle this kid. It'll take awhile. But you can handle this."

Haymitch fell silent and turned back to the interviews with Ceasar. Katniss did as well. She knew it would take a while but as long as she had Haymitch she knew she could handle this. She would be loyal for him.

Here is the first chapter of the story. My very first AU. Please let me know what you think. I may include more of them if people like them. Oh and Katniss may seem a little out of character.