┊͙✧˖*°࿐ 𝐸𝑌𝐸𝑆 𝑂𝑃𝐸𝑁 | ❛ they
never thought you'd make it this far ❜
the hunger games - 68th games
&& catching fire ... mockingjay
﹙ johanna mason x fem! oc ﹚
cover by @PittieLau
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┊͙✧˖*°࿐ IVY SITS ON HER SOFA, her legs sprawled across the cushions and her eyes sleepy. The only thing keeping her awake is the flickering light of the television in front of her, and the flickering lights from the Capitol outside. Ivy is somewhat used to this apartment by now — she has spent a few days every summer for the past three years here, mentoring the tributes from her District. It isn't a particularly great job, Ivy thinks, and every year her tributes die within the first day or so. Her apartment is comfortable enough, though, and she never has to spend too much time in it, anyways.
This year, the tributes from Nine are a girl named Sally, who is fifteen. Was fifteen. She died in the initial bloodbath. Ivy had watched the opening of the Games, and the Arena this year is set in what the general public in the Capitol refer to as the "Blood Sands". The Games this year take place in a dense, thorny vegetation, completed with scorching temperatures. The terrain appears rugged and unforgiving, with steep cliffs and short woody plants. Brutal, Ivy decides, but her male tribute, seventeen year old Kellan, has managed to make it out of the Cornucopia with a machete in hand and backpack, as Ivy had advised him.
Kellan is doing quite well for himself all in all. He's been making his way through the landscape of the Arena, Ivy assumes looking for water, but has not managed to find it yet. Ivy has stayed up to watch this, and even though it's late at night, she is determined to do the best she can in helping Kellan win.
District Nine has never done particularly well on the Sponsors side of things, but Kellan isn't doing badly in that regard either. If he starts doing more, being more active in the Games, Ivy is sure she'll be able to send him a few parachutes in the Arena. She is determined to stay awake, to do her best to help the boy.
She finds herself drowsing off a bit in the early hours of the morning — that is, until something on the television catches her attention. She rubs her eyes to keep herself awake, forcing herself to sit up and take a sip of water, before turning the volume up.
Kellan, by the looks of things, has managed to find a source of water. Ivy watches as he kneels by a small stream, filling his water container with it quickly. A boy approaches him from behind.
"Kellan, right?" Kellan jumps as the boy says his name, and Kellan immediately raises his machete in defense. The boy, who Ivy recognises as Kody, the boy from Seven, takes a step backwards and raises his hands in the air when he catches sight of Kellan's knife.
"Whoa," Kody says. "Whoa, I'm not trying to attack you, alright? If anything, I have a proposition for you. Allies? We could do well together."
Ivy leans forward in her sofa, watching the event play out on the television. Kellan looks uncertain, his eyebrows raised skeptically and his hand still gripping his weapon tightly. Take the offer, Ivy thinks, wishing it to happen. If the two team up, she is sure the Sponsors will come flooding in. They are both fairly attractive, well-built and muscular, around the same age. It's no secret that the older boys tend to do better in the Games, and if they teamed up... getting Sponsors for them would be an absolute dream.
