Sorry for the wait, this is the next story I'll finish and when I finish this, I'll update the 15th Hunger Games then when we finally get to the Games, I'll finish Johanna Mason and maybe start a Cashmere story or Gloss or Finnick or Mags, just whatever works. On that note, I hope everyone has fun with reading this and likes Annie Cresta and Haymitch Abernathy!
The news shocked me. I'd retreated to my room, passing the dining cart on the way and taking a bottle of whiskey quickly, popping off the top as I continued into the room. I took a long swig and sank into the plush chair in the corner of the cabin.
The time passed as I mulled over my problems with Reba and her being in the Games. I couldn't think of a way out of it and nobody expected someone from Twelve to win. We wouldn't win. I already knew that.
I took another drink then ran my hand through my curly black hair. I groaned, my vision swimming. I laid my head back then fell asleep, the black taking over my vision.
When I regained consciousness, it was to the sound of someone yelling my name. I blinked, my vision blurring into focus to reveal the auburn hair and green eyes of my little sister Reba. "Haymitch, are you okay?"
I blinked more, groaning, my head pounding until I wanted to cry in pain. I laughed unsteadily and shook my head slightly, "My head...hurts." I muttered, waving my hand to get her hand away from my face.
"You have a hangover, Haymitch..." Little Reba answered, her thin body shying away from me out of instinct. She got closer again and brushed my hair from my face, turning and getting a glass of water. She kept her eyes pasted on the table beside where I was at.
"Reba, I can't believe they took you." I whispered softly, the words falling from my lips involuntarily. "I can't believe..." I whispered and pulled her to me tightly, my body shaking as I started crying into her shoulder.
She nodded and held me, stroking my back softly as she murmured things in my ear as she tried to calm me down. "I know, Haymitch. I know it wasn't your fault."
She was wrong thouhg, it was my fault that she was being taken to her death. It was all my fault. All my fault. My fault. I pushed her away from me, unable to bear the knowledge that when she died, which I knew my Reba would be killed, that it was all my fault.
"What did you do? What's wrong?!" She yelled, her eyes wide and surprised.
I didn't want to tell her, I didn't want to admit that I'd really sent her to the arena, that it wasn't some freak accident that there was consecutive siblings from twelve. "I-I might've sent you to the Games, I might've done this to you..." I whispered softly, my voice shaking.
"What have you done, Haymitch?" Her voice shook horribly and I didn't want to tell her how I hurt her for such selfish reasons. Just because I wanted to be with Wisteria, I put my sister's life on the line.
I looked away from her, my head still pounding but completely sober, which I actually preferred to the drunken stupor of last night. "Reba, I'm sorry." I whispered. I could tell she wanted to know what I had done to send her to her death, "I had a deal with President Snow." I paused and looked at her face. "To keep you safe, he threatened your life."
She nodded, signalling for me to continue, "He told me that if I wanted to keep you alive, I would have to be his... I would have to give myself to him and the women he had to pay off. One man..." I whispered softly, smiling sadly at her.
"Why did he send me to the Games?"
I sighed softly and looked back at her from the door, "I wanted to make it up to Wisteria... I didn't go to the Capitol."
"So it's your fault if I die." She whispered softly, eyes wide and round. I nodded and she wrapped her arms around me. "Why did you think he wouldn't hurt me?"
"I thought he would leave you alone, that you were the only thing he could hold over me."
I looked down then took a deep breath, shaking, feeling horrible for what I did, for what I had taken from her.
"I was wrong."
So the way I see it, there are approximately four or five chapters left before the end, Reba's training and Games will be in the next one (it'll be really long compared to this one). Then we'll have a little filler chapter with Wisteria and Haymitch and I hope it'll be adorable then the end of this part of the story, around the 52nd Hunger Games beginning, then the epilogue so... Four chapters? Yeah, then this will be over!
On the 15th Hunger Games, the next couple chapters (probably three districts per chapter so about four chapters) will be the train then we'll have training days one and two either a) in the same chapter or b) in two consecutive chapters... Please review if you read the Hunger Games and tell me. Each district will have it's own training page then we'll have a page for each interview... So many chapters! Anyway...
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