Disclaimer: As you all know, these characters aren't mine. They belong to Dick Wolf and NBC.
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Day 40: OTPDisaster: Person A watching on a large screen as Person B competes in the Hunger Games, wallowing in their helplessness at not being able to do anything. Person B probably volunteered to take A's place. The last thing Person B says before they die is that they love Person A.
Universe: Present Day (The Hunger Games universe)
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"Alexandra Cabot."
Alex stands stock-still, listening as her name echoes through the speakers. She had thought being the Mayor's daughter protected her from competing in the Games, but obviously she had been mistaken in making that assumption.
There is a grunt of pain from somewhere behind her and then soft hands are wrapping around her wrists. "Alex? Alex, did you hear me?"
Alex closes her eyes, shaking her head. When she opens them, she can see Olivia standing right in front of her. "Liv."
"Alex, I need you to listen to me, okay?"
Alex nods quickly and Olivia continues. "I'm not letting you die." She lets go of Alex's wrists and moves her hands to Alex's face. She leans up and kisses Alex softly. "Don't cry for me."
Turning around, Olivia marches up to the stage. "I volunteer," she says. "I volunteer as tribute."
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Olivia is captured on a Tuesday two weeks after the start of the Games.
The hulking mass of boy that finds her hidden in the tree rips her down by her ankle and her head hits a branch on the way down, knocking her unconscious. He carries her body back to the Cornucopia and stands over her, grinning maniacally.
Olivia opens her eyes slowly, grimacing in the sudden bright light. Her eyes adjust quickly and she looks up to see the boy looming above her, his knife glinting in the sunlight.
She knows this is it – there's no making it out alive. This boy from District One will kill her and he will win and he will get to go home.
Olivia sighs and thinks of Alex, thinks of all the things she didn't get to say, thinks of all things they didn't get to do, and she knows she has to live.
With a renewed strength, she kicks the boy's feet out from under him. He lands beside her on the ground and she channels all of the rage coursing through her body into repeatedly slamming his face into the ground.
He puts up less of a fight than she was expecting, but he still manages to get his arm turned to just the right angle to plunge the knife into her stomach.
When he finally goes slack, Olivia rips the knife from his hand and pushes it into his back.
Bleeding from her stomach, Olivia crawls away from the boy's body and sits with her back against the metal of the Cornucopia. She closes her eyes and she waits.
Back in District Eight, the cannon sounds over Alex's television and she buries her face in her pillow and cries.
Olivia's coming home.
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