I still need tributes! I now have district twelve and district four, but it would be a rather short and boring hunger games with just those now wouldn't it?

Please submit your couple! Submit 2 couples if you want! I dont care, i just need tributes so i can really start writing!

This chapter covers how I think the districts would react, I've only done districts 1 & 8 because I feel the others would just be the same.

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District One

One week after the announcement, the eligible couples of district one gathered together, to discuss the Quell. Many former careers were interested in volunteering, but they now had families, most hadn't trained in many years and the employment available in the district isn't very physical, as a result very few former careers are still in peak condition. It was eventually decided that any couples who wish to volunteer must go to the training centre the next morning where they will sign up for training. Two weeks before the reaping each couple will be evaluated and tested and two will be chosen to compete with each other for another week, after this time the best couple will be chosen and will receive intensive training until the reaping. If there are no couples who want to volunteer, the reaping will decide but the training centre will open to adults three days a week.

District Eight

After the reaping parents all over the district stare blankly at their televisions. The main square, filled with people is deathly silent and still. Eventually the life trickles back to the district as parents mentally calculate their odds. People slowly start to shake themselves aware, knowing that they have to be strong for their children. There are those I'm the crowd who are saddened by the news but as they have no eligible children, or aren't married, or the spouse has passed away, they know they and their families are safe. For the next week the district is subdued but as people adjust to the idea it is decided that it is better this way, better that those being sent to the almost certain demise have already lived their life, fallen in love, had children. Its better than sending two children who have barely lived to die. Some parents who have a lot of children with a lot of tesserae decide that their chances are so high that they wish to train, to increase the chance that they will return to their large families. The two surviving victors open their homes 4 evenings a week to help train them, as time passes more parents join these sessions until they are shut down by the peacekeepers for illegal training. Training continues, but its less formal, more secretive, and more popular. When the reapings finally arrive the mood in the district is sad but confident. Most eligible couples have had a small amount of training and those with the higher chances have worked hard and long and may actually have a chance.