Fire in the Rain

by lionessflame

He spends his days under a drug, He looks back on it now and realising what a jerk, what a monster he used to be; still is. He knows he may never change… But what he doesn't know is that across the other side in district 12 is a girl that will change his life for the good and worst.

2. Chapter 2

The coal dust blows across the ground and lingers in the air. The grey eye girl silently runs through the town weaving her way and jumping over thing but staying silent. It's her hunting skills. People in the district know about her hunting but don't tell the law knowing and saying that she is a leader, a fighter and symbol of hope. She passes a couple of old men wearing their old mining uniforms she doesn't hear them but they talk quietly about her; how can she be so brave and yet still be standing tall through the hell she has lived through. And it's true she often wonders that about herself. Living in this poor place everyone experiences death but she has had it tough her whole life but no one will ever hear her complain not even her best friend/ hunting partner.

She's 17 and a survivor. She has a father, mother and a younger sister named Prim. Well used to have this family. Her father died in a mining accident. She remembers that day with the clouds like death rolling in and it clogging her lungs, the mothers and children crying for their loved once and crying form relief that they had returned alive. She meet her mother and sister and gathered them up close and waited for her dear father to return. But he never did. As they were closing the entrance she quickly run and grab and helmet and torch and throw herself down to look her father. Her mother and sister were a mess dealing with grief. Men that were stationed at the entrance were in a buzzle to stop and retrieve this young girl from the mines.

An only 7 year old Katniss Everdeen runs through the mines tripping and falling over the mess but not stopping until she finds her father.

After what seemed to be like forever, little Katniss was pulled up from a couple of men and handed a blanket and a warm drink that Katniss passed to Prim. Katniss knew that her dad was gone to the havens but did not shed a tear knowing that she must be strong for a family now.

Katniss's mum turned to depression turning off her life to be pulled by grief leaving her daughters to fend for themselves. Katniss became a mother to young Primrose and a provider for her family.

Now Katniss lives at the community home with other children with no family but themselves. Her mum and sister are a different story both being dead but she likes to try and forget that day but it will always haunt her forever.

Katniss quickly slide through the hole in the fence and runs into the woods. The woods for Katniss is not only about her way to survive and gain food and money, it also because she loves the woods. They are filled with memories of her father and is a place where she can escape from the district for a little while. Katniss hunts before and after school and spends a whole day hunting on Sunday with her hunting partner Gale. Saturdays she only hunts if she has too but will either spend her day at the hob, in the community home or helping other residents of the seam.

Katniss retrieves her bow and arrows and begins her hunting.