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The thing about the Hunger Games, is that even if you win, you end up losing. You're the last one standing but it feels as if there's nothing inside. You've left the arena long ago but a part of you remains in the streak of bloodshed. Your hands will never be clean, the demise of innocent and sinners alike stained in your mind.
Adaliya Longhurst had known since she was a little girl that she was much to fragile for the horror of the Hunger Games, and yet, when her name was called, she wasn't even slightly shocked. She'd seen people she loved die the same way — her sister torn apart by an evil girl from District Two and her younger brother not even surviving the initial bloodbath. Her parents, in an attempt to rebel had gotten themselves killed, and not even a year later, the only living child was thrown into the Games to die. The lineage of a family that had nothing but cause problems for the Capitol was set to a screeching halt, and would have if the brunette hadn't fought her way out.
Snow knew who she was and what her family stood for, when she came out the other side he made sure none of that would come to pass again. Forced to live within a large building in the Capitol center, Adaliya made her public appearances and kept that smile plastered on her face for Panem to see.
She knew the things they said about her in the Districts, that she was a traitor, a disgrace to her family name. They believed the news of her settling into Capitol life, refusing to return to District Five because she simply enjoyed life in riches so much better and even going as far to believe that she'd requested Snow to cut off their yearly supply of grain and oil.
