Please be kind. I never post my drabbles but something just struck me. :/
It's been years since Haymitch has even remembered what his tributes looked like. Seam or Merchant, or sometimes even in between, they're all the same. Starving and scared, either quietly cowering or shoveling food, never doing anything to prove they could put up even somewhat of a fight. So it's a shock when this year he finds his alcohol knocked across the room and a knife shoved in his face within the first few minutes of meeting his tributes.
Well, good for them. Maybe they'll make it to the top 8 this year, though that's about as unlikely as it is that Haymitch will even remember this train ride. There's something in their eyes, though. A spark he hasn't seen in anyone since he was young. A spark that says I have seen more than I should have in my 16 years. A spark that says I will not take this lying down.
So he makes the hardest decision he's had to make since leaving Maysilee in the arena almost a quarter century ago. He decides to help them. But he is scared, so scared of what this means.
Because this year, for the first time in these children's lifetime, Haymitch will remember their faces, whether they live or not.
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It's been years since Haymitch has even remembered what his tributes looked like. Seam or Merchant, or sometimes even in between, they're all the same. Starving and scared, either quietly cowering or shoveling food, never doing anything to prove they could put up even somewhat of a fight. So it's a shock when this year he finds his alcohol knocked across the room and a knife shoved in his face within the first few minutes of meeting his tributes.
Well, good for them. Maybe they'll make it to the top 8 this year, though that's about as unlikely as it is that Haymitch will even remember this train ride. There's something in their eyes, though. A spark he hasn't seen in anyone since he was young. A spark that says I have seen more than I should have in my 16 years. A spark that says I will not take this lying down.
So he makes the hardest decision he's had to make since leaving Maysilee in the arena almost a quarter century ago. He decides to help them. But he is scared, so scared of what this means.
Because this year, for the first time in these children's lifetime, Haymitch will remember their faces, whether they live or not.