Loving Revenge

Prolouge

"Sean hold up! I want to go with you guys too!" 

"Finn, Annie! Seph's going to come with us okay." Sean really needs to figure out his inside voice. Mommy always used to say that when you're inside you don't want the Capitol to hear you so you need to be quiet.  

"Yeah that's fine just hurry up. We only have a hour until the reaping," said Annie.  

We all get to the beach. It's so pretty with the big waves crashing on the rocks and the sand burning my feet. I love it. This is home. I walk over to the edge of the water. There are tiny fishies in the water swimming around my feet. I'm about to try and grab one of the fishies when I hear Seany say something weird. 

"Okay, Finn I know you got reaped already but this goes for you too. No matter what, if the Hunger Games takes one of us as tribute we will take these necklaces as our token. So that when we get into the arena we won't forget who we are or where we come from." 

Annie keeps on going," To tell ourselves the games will never change us and to give us hope" she says as she grabs Finn's hand. "We never take them off!" 

The three of them hug. So those were Hunger Game necklaces? I don't get it. Why would they want necklaces to go to a reaping? Is there something I'm missing? From what mommy and daddy used to tell me before they went to heaven was that 24 boys and girls were picked to go live a happy life in the capitol. Whenever the Hunger Games where on the TV they would make me go to my room though. This is all so strange. 

*Later at the Reaping* 

I'm standing in the crowd with Finn. Sean and Annie told me that when Finn went to the capitol he won because he had the prettiest face and everyone in the capitol loved him. Since they loved him he only gets to come visit us once in a while. That was two years ago when I was five. I know though now that I'm a big girl that they just didn't want Finnick to stay away from his friends. The Capitol isn't that mean.  

A big colorful lady walks on stage and Annie's name is called. Then they call my brother's name. Both of them look really scared and Finnick looks like he's about to cry. Maybe something is up with the Hunger Games. "Finnick? Is something bad going to happen?" He just nods and picks me up.  

We ran over to the Justice Building to say our goodbyes. Finnick explained to me what the Hunger Games were on the way over. Killing kids? Really? That is sickly. Then it hit me. My brother and my almost big sister, Annie, were going to die. The tears started coming out. 

"No no no! You listen to me Sephon. I am going to be their mentor this year. So I'm going to watch over them and I swear to you one of them will come back. Now don't cry darling we can get through this." Finnick was leaving too?!  

I found my brother crying on a chair. "Sean!" We hug each other so tightly like it was the last time we would. It probably is the last time. He places me on his lap and I snuggle into his neck. "I'm not coming back bro. When we go into the games I'm going to do everything so that Annie can come back to you. I know you two love each other." Seany just said he was going to die and Finns crying. I've never seen either of them look so weak and vulnerable ever. 

"There's one thing I want you to do for me though." Finn looks up for a bit. "Just take care of Sephon you're all she's going to have now." We all hug one last time before Finn, Annie, and Sean get on a train to the Capitol. The peacekeeper takes me to the orphanage where I would stay for the next two weeks.  

*Games* 

I'm sitting on the orphanage's floor watching the games. It makes me sick to my stomach to see kids being killed on the TV for everyone to see. There is so much blood and now I understand why mommy and daddy never let me watch this. The television shows Sean's face. He looks so weak and fragile and then a big guy that I recognized as District 2 comes out and throws Sean to the ground. He runs a blade across his neck and blood starts coming out. I'm numb. I can't scream or cry. All I feel is grief inside but I'm shocked into silence. "Sephon" I hear my name and notice it's Sean. He sounds so close. I miss him so much and he isn't going to ever say my name again. "I'll miss you." That's the last thing he says before I hear a cannon go off. Grief and rage is all I feel as I storm around the orphanage. "When I'm Sean's age those games are mine." Only 10 short years till I'm 17 and everyone in the Capitol is going to remember Sean's name. My brother won't die in anybody's mind.  

In the end Annie came back home, but she was never the same. She often has nightmares and covers her ears re- living the scenes from the games. I moved in with her and Finn in the Victor's Village once the games were over and we both suffered together. I'm only 7 and I've lost my mom, dad, and brother to the games. Why did Finnick have to tell me everything?

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A/N

Prelouge :)  You guys needed Sephon's backstory before all the actual action starts up. Please remember she's only 7 years old here and she isn't going to talk like an adult. I really tried my best in getting a 7 year old language but. . .yeah. Well, I hope you guys like it. Review, Vote, and Share my story. Let me know what you guys think! Lots of Love- Ashley