Chris hears the door open followed by heavy footsteps. Dad's home, Chris thinks to himself. He hears his father come around the corner and check on his two older brothers. He quickly closes his eyes and pretends to be asleep. The door creaks open and Chris's dad looks in and smiles. As soon as he leaves, Chris opens his eyes and looks at the clock. 11:54, he has been gone for almost 15 hours. As Chris thinks about the reaping tomorrow, his eyes slowly close and he drifts off into sleep.

Chris Rivers is the son of Viktor, a coal miner. Chris has two older twin brothers, Steve and Noah. The twins are 19. Steve doesn't really care that much about Chris and kinda ignores him, but Noah is much closer with him and actually spends time with Chris. Being the son of the head coal miner, Chris doesn't see his father too much. He has the most hours in the mines and only gets the weekends off, which he uses to rest and spend time with his favorite people in the world, his family.

Chris, who is now 16 years old, had a little sister. He was closer to her than he was with anyone. Her name was Lily. Lily was two years younger than Chris and when she turned 12, her name was entered into the Hunger Games. "It's okay Lily, you won't get reaped. Your name is only in there once. There are thousands of other names in there," Chris had to tell her every day to comfort her. On the day of the reaping, Chris told Lily to relax many times until she finally did. Lily was sorted into a group with the other 12 year-old girls and all of them had panic on their faces. Lily was the only one who was not on the verge of tears.

Minerva Gold was wearing the same butterfly dress she wore every reaping and had bright orange hair. She showed the same video of District 13. Minerva stuck her hand into the reaping bowland pulled out a name. Carefully and slowly she opened the paper and called out the unlucky tribute. "Lily Rivers!" Minerva said. Chris's heart stopped. He had panic on his face and couldn't believe what had just happened. Out of thousands of slips, Lily's had to be called. He felt Noah's hand rest on his shoulder. It was stopping him from running to Lily. Chris watched as Lily walked up to the stage in her beautiful soft pink dress. Her favorite color. Minerva was going on about what an honor it is to be reaped but Chris doesn't hear her because all he can do is stare at Lily and communicate with his tear-filled eyes. He breaks eye contact when he hears Minerva call out the boy's name. "Jessup Palm!" Jessup is Noah's best friend. They are basically brothers and have known eachother since they were 5, they would do anything for eachother. Before Chris can do anything Noah steps forward.

"I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute!" Noah yells. Minerva looks startled. Chris couldn't believe it. Both his brother and sister were going to the games. What would happen if they made it to the final two? His heart had just broken into a hundred pieces.

When Chris went to go visit Lily, she was in tears and couldn't stop the stream of tears going down her face. She was hugging Chris so tightly that he could barely breathe. One of them had to be strong and it was obviously not going to be Lily. It took everything out of Chris to not cry when they let go of each other.

"Lily, look at me. You can do this. Be strong, don't show them your weaknesses. Stay with Noah and listen to him. He will protect you and you'll be safer together. Okay, Lil? Oh, and take this. It'll remind you of me and all you have to do is look at it when you get homesick," Chris said as he handed her his locket with a picture of them together in it. He was doing his best to keep the tears in his eyes. He knew that she would be the smallest tribute. She was strong though, she loved to climb trees and that gave her a lot of upper body strength.

He gave her one last hug that lasted until the peacekeepers had to pull them apart. "I LOVE YOU LILY!" Chris yelled as he was being taken out of the room. After he let a few tears slip from his eyes, he wiped them away and went to say goodbye to Noah. When he went into the room Noah was in, Noah had a stone-cold face.

"I'm going to do everything I can to protect her. She's coming home, not me," Noah finally said after a couple of minutes of hugging each other.

"Okay Noah, I know you will. Please, just don't let her see you die. She would be scarred for life if she saw you like that," Chris responded. He didn't want his brother to go either but he knew there was nothing to change his mind about saving Lily first.

"I am gonna miss you, Noah. I love you, bro," he said as he pulled Noah into another hug.

" I'm gonna miss you too Chris. I love you too," Noah said as he started to silently cry into Chris's shoulder.

A week later Chris saw his siblings in the Tribute parade. Lily was wearing the most beautiful black, shoulderless dress. Almost every year, district 12 has the same synthetic flame cape as Katniss and Peeta's parades. Lily has smoky eyeshadow and is by far the most beautiful tribute. Noah is wearing a black shirt that goes down to his feet and flows in the wind. He wears black pants and a pair of coal miner shoes. District 12 has become one of the best districts when it comes to the chariot ride.

At home, Chris never came out of his room and his parents had to slide food under his door to get him to eat. Then the day finally came, Lily and Noah were going into the arena. It was the exact same arena as the one Katniss had played in, she was supposed to be the face of a rebellion 30 years ago, but Cato killed her in the final two and became the Winner of the 74th Hunger Games. That arena was used every year, except for the Quarter Quells. Lily was staring at Noah and then she saw a backpack that was really close to her. Chris knew she would go for it. He wanted to tell her to run to Noah and hide, but as soon as the timer hit 0, she sprinted towards the backpack. Noah was running towards her grabbing anything in his way, but he was a little too late. Just as Lily grabbed the backpack, the girl from district 3 threw a knife at her and she had blood streaming down her back. Noah quickly whipped out his spear he grabbed and threw it with perfect aim at her. Then he carried Lily on his shoulders and bolted towards the woods.

Over the next few days Lily's wound was not looking any better. Noah was doing his best to keep her alive, but her time was running out. One night Noah went out to refill their water, but while he was gone someone went into their underground den and found Lily. She saw the boy from district 5 and started screaming. Noah dropped the water and ran towards her. By the time he got to the den, Lily was already dead and the canon had sounded. Noah saw the boy running the other way and he threw his spear at the boy. It hit him dead center in the back and he was instantly dead. Noah walked back to Lily, with tears flowing down his face. He saw that the boy had put a knife in her heart. He walked outside and found some of Lily's favorite flowers. Bellflowers. She had always loved them. He put them on her and gave forehead a kiss. Then he walked out and found a tree that he was safe in. He stayed hidden until there were only four tributes left. Then he killed all four of them and won the games.

A/N I hope you guys like it! This is technically my second fan fic but I didn't like the first so I deleted it due to lack of review and let me know what you think. I'll update as soon as I can!

-HungerGamesFan36