The Final Chapter

Three years have passed since my reaping. I took a job as a mentor for the tributes of four. We haven't had another victor since me and the games seem to get harder every year. They are trying to give the crowd something to cheer for. My children, the tributes, always get the best sponsors but they never make it very far. They are immediate targets because of my killing spree the first year.

I also have taken up the president's offer, and I am sold or given as a prize about three times a month and sometimes for a week at a time. I do some regrettable things but through being the Capitol's whore I make love with only one person.

Just before the Second Games I Married Vanessa. She knows that I am sold for sex but she loves me and helps me fight through it. Our wedding certificate says Vanessa and Michael who have no other documents under their names so when my daughter was born she was stated as only having her mother. No one wants to buy a married man with a daughter to be with. We named her Vanessa Michel. When she started to speak she couldn't understand how to say it so now we call her Nessa-Mie. She is listed as only having one parent, Natalia. At least this way she gets more money.

No one looks at me like a killer anymore. They all know what I go through and how hard I fight. Cory escaped the reaping by someone volunteering for him. Now for a few more years I can be at peace knowing none of my family are at danger of the capitol's reach. My only fear is that my daughter has been guaranteed a spot when she is old enough.

Now only three, we can breathe and live and raise Nessa-Mie without worry. I get phone calls frequently and have to leave them but they let my wife and daughter live in the house I won. With the money I receive we have brought a lot of the place back to prosperity.

I still have nightmares every night. I wake up and scream. It takes Vanessa talking to me for fifteen minutes to normally fix me. I hope my daughter never has to go through this.

The reaping is today. We stand in the courtyard, actually I get to sit on stage. Marian winks at me, she is actually a frequent buyer. Now at thirty two the idea of being sexual partners with her isn't as repulsive as it once was. She goes to call the names and before I know it I am on the train and headed to the capitol once more. I run my hands through my hair and look across the table at the two tributes. The boy isn't much but the girl looks strong and confident and determined. I think of the look Gina had on her face when she fell, the look Vanessa had when she took Gina's bracelet, this girl is just like them.

"What did you say your name was?" I ask her.

"Call me Mags." She grins.

"That sounds like a sweet little old lady that has to be carried through the forest. Can't we call you something else?" I ask.

"No, Mags. The name is Mags." She insists. The boy stands and leaves and I smile brightly.

"I think we have a winner in this one." I smile to Marian who blushes. The color of her skin causes her cheeks to turn purple. I laugh and then hug her, "This is going to be the one." I assure her.

Sure enough, she is.

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