The Divergent Games

Chapter Four: Katniss

*Hi Tributes and Initiates! So after doing some research on the Divergent Wikia and Hunger Games Wikia, I realized that some of my ages (ex: Jeanine) and years are off. Sorry for that. Also, I realize my chapters are kinda short. I'll try my best to make longer ones!*

It’s been 13 years since I last saw Haymitch and Effie. It’s been 24 years since the uprising, and still, nobody remembers a thing. Only Peeta and I remember the cruel ways of the capitol, and only Peeta and I remember what the Convergent did to us and the rest of society. When the gunshots rang out that last night in District 12, chaos was immediate.  Peeta and I had run upstairs to get Gale and Prim as Haymitch and Effie started heading toward the woods. Once Prim was in Peeta’s arms, and Gale was in mine, I was ready to go. But not before I grab one of the most important things in my life. I ran to my room and had grabbed the Mocking Jay pin, and held Gale tight in my arms.

Once outside, it felt as though we were completely exposed. We ran through the empty part of our village, towards the forest where Haymitch and Effie would be waiting for us. As we dove into the cover of the trees, safe and unharmed, we searched for the couple. After looking for 10 minutes, with no hope in finding them, we had to continue on. Peeta and I jumped over branches and ditches, with the children still in our arms, deeper into the forest. Only after an hour of running, the Convergent caught us. We were forced onto a hovercraft and blindfolds were put over our eyes. I heard Gale and Prim screaming for me and then I heard the sound of wood making contact with something and their cries were silenced. After that, I remember being dragged into a room and having the blindfold yanked off of me. I was greeted by a large needle being plunged into my neck, and then the world faded away.

I woke inside a room made up of mirrors. I looked around and heard a woman’s voice (no older than 25) command me to choose. Laid out in front of me were a knife and some cheese. By instinct, I chose the knife.  The cheese had disappeared and when I turned around there was a dog before me. I stared, not sure if it would hurt me or not. Before I knew it, the dog had started racing towards me. I held out the knife and threw it, my aim not at its best. It hit the dog, but not at a kill shot. He had then stopped briefly and turned around. When I looked at what he was looking at, I saw a girl. As I looked harder, I realized it wasn’t just any girl. It was Prim. Not my daughter, but my little duck, Prim. The one that had died years before then. I wanted to say something to her, anything, but before I could, the dog had started sprinting toward her. I reacted quickly, chasing down the dog and jumping on it, but the scene before me changed the moment I made contact.

When everything was refocused, I was standing on a bus. A burnt man had tapped me on the shoulder, and asked me if I’d seen the man on the front page. I looked and I told the man no, and he showed me his own face. I jumped back slightly when I looked at him, not only because he was burned, but because he was the last man in the world I wanted to see. The former (and supposedly dead) President Snow had held my gaze, and before anything else had happened the whole scene had fallen apart and I woke up back in the hovercraft.

“Hello Ms. Everdeen, or do you go my Mellark now?” the same voice that commanded me to “choose” said. I had whipped my head around and before me was a tall, blonde woman in glasses.

“Who the hell are you?!” I demanded. “Are you one of the-“

“Yes, Katniss, I am one of them. I am Jeanine Matthews, former member of district 3, soon to be leader of the Erudite,” the woman, Jeanine, had said, very matter-of-fact like. 

“What was that you just did to me?” I said, now not as scared as I had been before. “And what the hell was Snow and my sister doing… Alive?!”

“I can assure you Ms. Everdeen, all you have experienced was a test,” Jeanine had said. “We call it an Aptitude Test. We put you under a simulation that, might I add, is extremely realistic, and based on your actions in it we sort you into your Faction.  You showed both acts of bravery and selflessness under the simulation when you jumped upon the dog, but by choosing a knife, it shows that the appropriate Faction to place you in is Dauntless,” she stated, writing down something on a clipboard. 

“Where’s Peeta? Where are my kids?” I asked, feeling slightly panicked. 

“I can assure you they’re fine. The little ones might have bumps on their heads from the club, but other than that, they should be alright.” She’d said, again with that matter-of-fact tone. “Any more questions, Ms. Everdeen?”

“Where are you taking us?” I’d said.

“Somewhere I can assure you you wouldn’t know. It was somewhere that was flooded like the rest of the world, but the Capitol found no need for it after it was flushed out. That’s where we’ll be taking you. And that is where you, and your family will be located with whatever remains of your broken society.”

“But where is it?” I said, getting slightly irritated. “Where on the map?”

“In the former American Midwest. Tell me, Katniss, have you ever heard of Chicago?”