A/N: What is up my friends! As I'm sure you have realized this is not the train rides chapter but something new: Careertober by SunnyJustice! Don't worry, Freedom is still being updated (slowly) and the new chapter is almost done, but this is gonna be a cool side project that should hopefully be updated daily! This is canon to Freedom, but I'm not sure where it will be set, so let's ponder that later, sit back and enjoy. Our first prompt is First Kill, so that's gonna be our oneshot of the day! Let's get into it!

First Kill

Bambie Rosette, District 1 Female


What the hell have I done? Not two minutes ago I was sitting on the floor as Thaniel Hawk and his gang of dickheads threw stones at me, and now I'm stomping towards them with a knife in my hand.

Without further thought I bury the knife in his stomach and twist it violently. Than falls back, screaming in agony. "You're crazy!" he shouts, and my eyes glint.

"What are you going to do about it?" I kick him in the nose and he hits the floor, bleeding all over the mat. Than wails in pain so I stab him again, wiping his sticky blood off my tutu. "Ick, I probably have cooties now!"

One of Than's friends, Rosen, turns to me and wails. "What the hell did you do?" he screams as his friend rocks back and forth.

"I got fed up," I shrug as Mrs. Mythra finally enters the room and surveys the scene: Me, standing innocently with my sparkly pink tutu covered in blood. Than, lying still on the floor with a knife in his stomach. Rosen, on his knees next to Than, rocking and crying. And Court, the final boy, who is just sitting on the floor with one hand in his pants.

"Holy shhh…" Mrs. Mythra pauses, before continuing "..ugarplum fairy. Stay right here children, I'm going to fetch Commander Trails."

XXX

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE ENROLLING HER?" Mrs. Mythra's voice echoes through the corridor as I sit next to Rosen.

"She's a prodigy!" Commander Trails says from Mrs. Mythra's office.

"SHE'S SEVEN!" Miss replies.

"She's incredibly skilled, she could be the cream of the crop at Stanvard."

"I DON'T CARE! SHE'S. SEVEN!"

A second later, Commander Trails steps out of Mrs. Mythra's office and takes my hand before leading me down the corridor.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

In response, he smiles. "We're going to a place where dreams come true."

"Dreams aren't real, they're just dreams!" I snap.

The Commander's face screws up. "We're going to a cool place that you'll enjoy." I smile and give him a thumbs up and prance off down the hallway.

Eleven Years Later

District 1 Justice Building

"I volunteer as tribute!"

I walk down the aisle with a sense of pure ecstasy. Even a wedding aisle wouldn't give me this much of a rush.

It turns out, murder gets you quite a lot in District 1. A one-way ticket to Stanvard Training School three years before the eligible age, straight to the top of every chart in the school, and the chosen volunteer labeled as the most successful student in all of Stanvard.

I smile and wave to the crowd. "We love you, Bambie!" someone screams. I turn to see my boyfriend, Silver, holding a huge bouquet of roses, my favorite flower and namesake. Silver was my first friend at Stanvard, and after a while we just… clicked. I believe we met at a girl named Coronatia's party, where we hooked up drunkenly. Contrary to the belief, he didn't hate me the next morning and instead asked me to be his girlfriend. We've been together ever since.

"Your name, dear?" Our Escort asks.

"Bambie Rosette," I smile.

"Congratulations, dear!" I smile as the Escort marches over to the boy's bowl. "And our male tribute is…"

To think that this all started with stupid Thaniel Hawk and Mrs. Mythra's sapphire-handled carving knife, and it all leads to this.


And that's our first Careertober! Sorry if it's a little late, but I hope I can get everything done in time. What do you think of Bambie? She'll appear later but next time we'll be introduced to her District partner, so keep a lookout for that! Thanks for reading and I hope you can stick around for the rest of Careertober!

Thanks again to SunnyJustice for thinking up the event! See you all in the next one!

- Luke