"NO WAY!" Katniss shouts to her mother, who closes her eyes at her daughter's behavior. They've had this conversation a million of times, but Mrs. Everdeen would still try to convince her daughter about it.

"We've had this conversation lots of times before and I'll always say no, you should be aware of that" Katniss says, taking deep breaths to calm herself down "She would risk her life for something not worth it! I already hunt, isn't that enough for you?! Prim shouldn't be preoccupied with this kind of things. She just has to enjoy every possible moment of her life, she's still so young" she sits down on the ground and rubs her face with her hands. She cannot let her sister do this, it was not worth it. She always tried her best to feed her family and she always thought they could survive like that, but apparently her mother didn't think the same way.

"Mama, don't you see? It's not worth it… getting out of the ghetto is too dangerous. If those nasty-"

"Watch your mouth young lady" Mrs. Everdeen said, scolding her daughter. Even in this situation, she would always try to reason and be polite and calm.

"Yeah, okay" Katniss replied, huffing "As I was saying, if those… German soldiers catch her, they would kill her! She wouldn't even have a chance!" Katniss says. She would rather starve to death by giving all her game to them then Prim having to risk her life for a little bit of food that wouldn't even feed the stupid cat, which in Katniss' opinion was only making everything more difficult, but Prim loves him, so Katniss won't do anything… yet.

"But we could try, we need more food"

"The one that I bring home it's sufficient. You should quit asking me that, my answer will always be no, even if I'm starving to death!" Katniss stomps her foot and gets out of the room to the other division of the small house… the Hawthorne's division.

"What's wrong Catnip?" Gale asks, putting Posy on the ground. He walks to her and looks into her eyes with a worried expression. She just sighs and shakes her head. Gale's eyes widen "Your mother asked you again, didn't she?" he asks. Katniss just nods and looks at the ground. Gale puts his index finger under Katniss' chin and gently lifts her head up, so that she can meet his gaze "Don't worry about that, she will give up someday. You know she's just trying to find the best solution for this problem"

"Yes, I know that, but I already hunt, why would we bother to make Prim do this, you know it's too dangerous, why can't she see that too?" Katniss throws her arms in the air in frustration. Gale nods in agreement and doesn't try to fight back, he knows Katniss is right.

"Katniss, dear, is everything okay?" Hazelle Hawthorne comes out of the bathroom, cleaning her hands on her apron, looking at Katniss with inquisitive eyes. Katniss looks at her and nods "Yes, Mrs. Hawthorne, do not worry about it" she says, nodding again, as if to make Hazelle sure that everything's okay. Hazelle shakes her head "Why, how many times have I told you to call me Hazelle" she smiles at Katniss sweetly and Katniss nods "Yes ma'am" she replies "I should get going now, to see how's Prim, thank you Hazelle" she turns to Gale "Thank you Gale, you always understand me so well"

"Whenever you need me Catnip" he smiles at her. She returns waves at him and goes back to the little room, separated from the Hawthorne's by a wall and a door.

"Katniss!" Prim jumps to her sister's arms happily, hugging her tightly. Katniss hugs back and kisses the top of her head.

"How was school little duck? Were you careful? You know the soldiers cannot see you with the books" Katniss asks, worriedly. Prim just smiles and nods rapidly "Of course I was, I am always careful" she examines her sister's face and narrows her eyes, knowing exactly what's going on in her mind "You know Katniss, I wouldn't mind trying to get out of the ghetto, I'm small enough, I'm sure I would fit in som-" Katniss raises her hand and shakes her head "Stop it Primrose! Stop it right there, you know I would never let you do it, so drop it"

"But-"

"I said to drop it, don't push this any farther" Katniss turns on her heel and goes to the kitchen to see Hazelle and Mrs. Everdeen cooking dinner. She sighs and turns to go back to the living room. Prim is sitting on the ground with a book in her hands. It looks quite old, but that's not to admire at all. Here they don't have good conditions and the books that they actually still have are really old. Primrose loves to read and her sister enjoys seeing how she is so interested in learning. Katniss smiles, one rare event since her dad passed out due to the horrible explosion in the mines that took the life of many Jews miners. She still can't take out of her head the thought that it wasn't just a sad incident, but truly caused by the Germans. Well, going back to what we were saying, the act of her to smile became even rarer (which, to be sincere, everyone thought was impossible) when they moved into the ghetto. Maybe the only thing that can actually make her smile genuinely is her sister and the love Katniss has for her.

Prim looks up at her sister and smiles real big to see her smile. She gets up, closing the book and putting it on the ground carefully but rapidly so that she can rush to her sister's waiting arms. They stay like that for a long time, Katniss stroking Primrose's hair and singing softly in her hear. Prim's still too young to be experiencing this cruelty of the world. She should not be worrying about hiding the books to learn or getting out of this hell to find food. At this young age she should be focused on school and maybe even playing with dolls. At Katniss' eyes, her sister was still a little girl who needs to be protected from all dangers at all costs. She would not let her sister go through the same things she did, not till she has strength to fight against it.

-xxx-

Katniss takes a deep breath and pushes the string a little more, focusing hard on her prey. She squints her eyes and-

"Hello Catnip" she jumps and lets go of the string, the arrow flying and sticking in the tree next to the rabbit she was just about to kill. She sighs frustrated and turns around looking at Gale with deadly eyes. He chuckles and lifts his hands up as to defend himself "I was just greeting you" he says. She rolls her eyes and walks to the tree, taking off the arrow and putting it on the quiver, next to the other ones.

"Well, thanks to you, I just lost a rabbit!" she says, looking at him again with a frown. It's his time to roll his eyes.

"It's just a rabbit-"

"Which could be our dinner tonight Gale!" she says.

"Okay, okay, you're right and I apologize for my lack of manners" he says formally, making Katniss shake her head and the corners of her mouth turn up a little "Stop that, you don't need to be so formal"

"I know, I was just kidding" he smiles at her "So, how many of those have you caught today?"

She looks at her belt and counts rapidly "Three rabbits and six squirrels. It's already something" she says, shrugging "How about you?" she asks.

"Four squirrels and one rabbit. I've already set ten traps, I have to go see them when we go home" he says "But now, I'm going to help you" he picks up a small rock of the ground and puts his index finger in his lips, telling Katniss to stay quiet. He looks at a tree and squints his eyes. He throws the rock to a tree making lots of birds fly from it. Katniss takes an arrow rapidly off the quiver, puts it on the bow and pushes the string, focusing on the eye of one of the birds and finally shoots, the arrow going straight in the place she wanted it to. She smiles a little and thanks Gale for the help. This day could've been going way worst.

-xxx-

Katniss was walking through the street on her way to pick up Primrose. Since she turned back earlier from the woods she wanted to surprise her little sister. But, to be honest, she did not enjoy walking here because you could see so much misery that she just wanted to get away from there as fast as she could. She looked up and saw she arrived at Rooba's house. Rooba was the owner of a Butcher's in the town, but when they moved to the ghetto the Germans took the property from its owner and now she teaches kids here. She knocks on the door and waits for someone to answer; someone that she hopes is Rooba herself, because she lives in that house with five more families. Luckily the face that she is faced with is the nice woman's one. She smiles warmly at Katniss and shows her her index finger, indicating her to wait. She goes inside and one minute later, Prim's running to Katniss, kissing her cheek.

"Thanks Rooba, we'll be going now" Katniss says, holding her sister's hand and walking out. They walk awhile in silence until Prim stops walking. Katniss looks at her sister with raised eyebrows.

"Katniss, look" Prim points to an amount of people surrounding something "What's going on there?" she asks. Katniss shrugs and walks to the people, trying to pass through them. When she sees what's going on she gasps and tries her best for Primrose not to see it "Let's go Prim, it's nothing" she says, dragging her sister in the way back home again.

"Are you sure Katniss, because the amount of people there did not tell me it was nothing" Prim says, looking at her sister suspiciously.

"Hum… it was just a man doing a show to try and earn some food I guess" Katniss replies nervously. Prim sighs and shrugs, it's no use trying to convince her sister to tell her what was happening there.

Because Katniss would rather die than tell her sister that an old man was being whipped by a German soldier in front of everyone.

-xxx-

It's a normal morning as any other else. Katniss gets up and breaths in deeply, savoring the morning air. Ah, morning must be her favorite part of the day; it's so quiet you can hear the birds sing outside and the wind blowing. She dresses herself with a beige blouse and a pair of worn out pants that she got from Gale (which was a pair of pants he used when he was fourteen. Fortunately for Katniss he is much bigger than her) and her dad's hunting jacket. She looked at Prim and saw she was still sleeping. She sighs in relief. Lately Prim has been having lots of nightmares which has been worrying Katniss a lot. But what's been intriguing her most was that the nightmares were all the same. She dreamt that the soldiers would come, arrest them and kill them all after torturing them. She shakes her head: they could not do worst… she hopes.

She walks to the window and pushes it open. She sticks her head out and looks up at the sky. It's clouded, it's gonna be raining for sure. She sighs, she will have to come back earlier from hunting.

She notices, after a while that the birds stopped chirping… hum… weird. She closes the window and goes back inside. She did not notice the vehicles standing outside and the mount of people in the street.

"EVERYONE ON THE GROUND" a voice shouted after a loud 'bump'. Katniss jumped and her heart was beating so hard that she could swear it would jump out of her mouth. Primrose woke up and started screaming. A soldier came in the room and slapped her across the face, making her shut up. Katniss' mouth hung open and she attacked the soldier. How dared he touch her sister in such a way! He pinned her to the ground and punched her in the face three times before taking out a gun and pointing it to her head "Do you want to die you worthless bitch?"

Katniss' eyes widen and she shakes her head, gulping.

"I didn't hear you whore, what was your answer?" he asks again, smirking. She couldn't believe he was enjoying this…

She glanced at Prim from the corner of her eye and saw she was sobbing softly. She turned her eyes downwards and whispered "No sir, I beg you, let me live". Katniss hates to beg, especially for a stupid German without a heart. But she can't leave Prim on her own because she knows her mother would enter in depression again, just like when her father died three years ago. She started coming back to life this year, five months earlier, in January. She could not, no; she would not leave Prim to suffer in this Germans hands.

"That's what I thought" he smirks and punches Katniss again. He gets up and starts shouting again "Everyone, grab your belongings and get out of here onto the street! You have five minutes, not even one more!" he looks at Katniss again and spits at her feet, walking out.

Once she's sure he is gone, she runs to Primrose and hugs her tightly, rubbing her back and whispering softly in her ear "Shh Prim, everything's okay. They will not do anything wrong to us, I promise you that" she gets up and grabs Prim's hand "Now come on, we have to hurry"

They start grabbing all of the important things and walk out of the apartment with the Hawthorne's.

"Catnip, are you okay? I heard that German threatening you. I'm sorry I didn't come in to help you, I couldn't leave my family and if I entered he would've killed us both for sure" Gale apologizes. Katniss shakes her head "Everything's fine Gale, do not worry"

"JEWS! Get in line right now!" a voice shouted, startling all of them. Katniss grabbed Prim's hand and went to the line. She look up and saw the soldier that had beaten her up. She immediately looked at the ground again. She did not want for him to see her.

A soldier started walking in front of them saying things to which Katniss wasn't paying. Primrose was right. The dreams she had… it's like they were warning them to what was to come. They should've got away when they still had the chance. Now it's too late, they're most certainly going to die. Katniss' head shot up when she heard the soldier picking up people to take a step in front. When he reached them, he smirked and passed by. She sighed in relief; he did not pick any of the Everdeen's nor the Hawthorne's. When he finally reached the end of the line he shouted "Everyone I said to take a step in front, on the ground NOW!".

Everyone lay down on the ground with their arms up their heads and their faces on the paved floor. Katniss looked at the man and saw him well for the first time. He was bald and really strong. He took out a gun and Katniss' eyes widened. He smirked at his comrades and started walking. When he pasted the first person he pointed his gun to his head and shot. Katniss gasped. He continued his walking pointing the gun to the person's head and shooting. When he arrived the end, he bent down, lifted the woman's head up and laughed at her scared face. He pointed the gun at her forehead and whispered "Buh-bye" while laughing and shot. Primrose was sobbing, just like little Posy who was holding tight to her mother's apron. Vick was crying softly and Rory had his eyes closed tight. Katniss could swear she saw a tear streaming down his face. She was breathing heavily, holding Prim tight.

My name is Katniss Everdeen, I'm 17 years old and today, 30th May 1943, my life changed forever.

A/N: Hey guys, this is my new fan fiction, I hope you like it :)

I do not wish to offend anyone with this story, so please let me apologize if that happened in this chapter.

Today I'm updating a new chapter for one of my other stories: 'Separated by Destiny, United by Blood', if you would like to check it out :D I have another one called "Kiss and Kill', maybe I'm updating tomorrow a new chapter. They're both rated T, this is my first rated M. If you'd like to give your opinions or help me, giving advices for this story I would really enjoy it :)

Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games, all rights go to Suzanne Collins.