Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games. Big surprise.
District Thee Reaping
Annie's POV
I woke up, startled from my Rachel's screaming. "Come on, sis! We're going to be late, and I for one, don't want to be shot by the peacekeepers!"
A rage flashed through me, "Shut up! I'm going! I'm already half-way dressed!" The door to my room swung open and Rachel pulled me out of bed.
"Or you fell back asleep for just 'half a second,' the way you do everyday. Now here, get dressed," she said, shoving a dress in to my hands. I grinned mischievously at her and flopped on my bed with my hand to my forehead.
"I'm afraid I'm deathly ill. I won't be able to make it today! It seems I'm terribly allergic to dresses!' Rachel smiled, but threw the dress on my stomach.
"Hurry up. You can't always wear pants and pretend you're a ninja. Git. Now." I rolled my eyes. Rachel was always so serious.
A little later, I was standing, squashed in with the other 17 year old girls. My sandy brown hair was neatly up in a bun, painfully contrasting its normal loose ponytail. I was wearing a pretty little dress, but I had no taste for that kind of thing. My best friend, Julia, stood next to me, vaguely holding my hand. Next to me was an obnoxious prim faced girl who I recognized from school. She was watching the mayor with avid interest. Of course, she heard this spiel about the "glorious" history of Panem a million times before. Suck up, I thought of this girl. I reached into her pocket and deftly grabbed her wallet. I was just showing it off to Julia, who rolled her eyes, when the purple haired escort called my name, Annie Cathe.
The rest was a daze. I vaguely remembered stumbling up to the platform, after trying to meet Julia's worried gaze with a confident smile (but ultimately failing.) When they asked for volunteers, I could see Rachel dying to go, but she was nineteen, and unable to volunteer. Other than that, there was dead silence.
Wylie Freeman's POV
I stood with a group of seventeen year olds, many nervous, many not. I laughed to myself. No boy had need to be nervous. Some one would volunteer.
I watched the stunned girl stumble up to the stage. I watched her look upset when nobody volunteered. Big surprise I thought. This was District Three after all.
I was a rarity. I had almost nothing to lose. Only days training and being holed up in a little warehouse creating robots and other technical things. Now, however, I was going to put my knowledge and all those days to good use.
When the bored tribute called a boy's name, the one standing next to me started and walked to the platform with a look of dread dawning on his face. He looked like someone approaching their execution. I grabbed his arm though, before he could get very far, and stopped him.
"I volunteer!" I called. It wasn't the way it was supposed to go, but in District Three, that didn't matter. Hunger Games was synonymous to death sentence here. The sandy haired girl looked at me shocked from the platform. As did everybody else there. I'm sure I was quite a strange sight. A seventeen year-old boy, with short brown hair and hazel eyes, tall and strong, but not as strong as most career tributes, volunteering for the Hunger Games. I walked up to the platform and stared straight out at the audience.
When the escort asked my name, I told her, "Wylie Freeman. We can talk more when I'm in Victors Village." And the crowd when crazy with applause.
A/N: Thanks all for reading! I did District three on request. Next, I'll do district two. Still four more places left in the games!
District One Girl: Saffron Toltzein
District One Boy: Spike Holt
District Two Girl: Andromeda Dayton
District Two Boy: Jack Tonto
District Three Girl: Annie Cathe
District Three Boy: Wylie Freeman
District Four Girl: Ariel Sallion
District Four Boy: Marcus Fitzpatrick
District Five Girl: Alex Bones
District Five Boy: Nayeli Zabran
District Six Girl: Harper Haven Alby
District Six Boy: Vesper Harbane
District Seven Girl: Hush Owens
District Seven Boy: Jason Matthews
District Eight Girl: Marielle Bernstein
District Eight Boy:
District Nine Girl: Violet Summers
District Nine Boy:
District Ten Girl: Kyle Kors
District Ten Boy: Blaise Calder
District Eleven Girl: Henna Venn
District Eleven Boy:
District Twelve Girl: Nadia Rote
District Twelve Boy:
I love you all!
-Stepping on Leprechauns