Beetee Latier, 53, District 3 Male Victor
I can't help but let out a sigh after the President's speech. I close my eyes and try to take a deep breath. This was not what I expected the twist to be, and I'm completely caught off guard. It was bad enough going in the first time and this time every victor is trained.
I grit my teeth and let out a low growl. If they think I'm going to go down easily they're going to be sadly mistaken. But honestly, I'm not really worried about myself, it's Wiress I'm scared of. She barely made it out the first time and this time she is in no mental state to compete.
I really hope she doesn't get reaped. I consider her to be like my younger sister. It also doesn't help that me and her are pretty hated in the career districts. I electrocuted the last 6 tributes and 3 of them were careers. I remember after the games the career districts actually protested saying that what I did was cheating which is pretty ironic considering how I was only trying to survive, and the careers chose to go in.
Unfortunately, the career districts didn't stop protesting. So finally, the capital decided to kill both my parents and sent one of my friends in the games where he died in the first 10 seconds when the careers all ganged up on him and killed him.
I decided to go out and see how Wiress is taking the news. I hope she's not too scared. I walk outside and go over to Wiress's house in the victor's village. I walk inside and see her staring at the screen in shock even though it's been 10 minutes since Snow gave his speech.
I walk over to her and embrace her which seems to break her out of her trance. She immediately starts bawling into my shoulder while I rub her back.
"It will be okay." I whisper in her ear. She doesn't answer though and just continues to cry in fear.
I just let out a sigh as a single tear rolled down my cheek. Whatever I'm feeling, Wiress must be feeling 100 times more.
Wiress Lang, 45, District 3 Female Victor
I continue crying as Beetee tries his best to comfort me. Those first games of mine were horrible, and I still have nightmares even after all these years.
I remember I actually tried to reason with the careers. A lot of outlier tributes hate them and for good reason. I don't hate them though because to me they are just as much victims of the games as everyone else. The only difference is they've been brainwashed into believing the games are a good thing.
The careers refused to see reason though and they just laughed when I tried talking to them. So, during the games I ran as the careers slaughtered any tribute they saw.
It eventually came down to just me and the boy from 2. He was a real muscular guy, and I knew I didn't stand a chance, so I ran and eventually he tired out. As he was trying to catch his breath, I snuck up behind him and stabbed him in the neck making my first and only kill in the games.
After I won and went back home District 2 made it no secret, they hated me. When I went on the victory tour the residents there did nothing but throw trash at me.
That's one reason I connect with Beetee though. The career districts hate both of us. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough though. The career districts felt I needed to be punished. So, after talking with Snow a decision was made.
Peacekeepers quickly went and kidnapped me where they took me to the capital. Once there they started performing surgery on me. I don't know exactly what they did but what I do know is once I woke up back in District 3, I could barely speak, and I often lost my train of thought.
It was horrible but luckily Beetee was there to help me. I decided I'd better get ready for the reaping. So, after me and Beetee clean up we leave the house together. After getting to the district square Beetee breaks off and goes to talk with our other two victors. I don't even remember their names now.
Finally, our escort comes on stage and after giving the yearly introduction and the twist he goes to draw the female names. I gulp as he finally picks a slip and goes to read it.
"Wiress Lang!" He reads out. My eyes go wide, and I nearly fall but I catch my balance and walk forward. The escort walks over to the male's bowl and draws a name.
"Beetee Latier!" The escort calls out. I look over at Beetee as he walks forward. He has his head down with his eyes closed.
After instructing us to shake hands we are taken away. I clench my fist I know I don't stand much of a chance of winning these games but still I have to try and find a way to win.
What's up everyone wiifan2002 here once again. I know I've been gone for a long time, but I have a habit of procrastinating plus I wasn't really sure how I wanted to write District 3. I hope you enjoyed these two regardless. Also, I'm just going to say it now Wiress will not be verbally speaking most of the time. In both the books and movies, she doesn't really speak much and when she does, she tends to lose her train of thought. But anyways I hope you all are having a good day. I don't know about anyone else but I'm ready for March so the warmer weather can start coming in. But anyways please read and review and maybe follow the story if you like it so far.
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