Meet Clove Enfer, the girl with the knives from the 74th Hunger Games....
Childhood
Her mother, Maria Annabeth Fury, was born in District 12, but moved to 2 when her family arranged a marriage to Hayden Enfer, one of the wealthiest and most desirable bachelors in all of Panem. Maria ran a small healing centre in the backyard of their grand home. Hayden protested to Maria’s helping wounded and diseased people at their home, but this was the one thing that Maria had that she held dear to her that reminded her of her old home in 12.
Clove Mackenzie Enfer was born October 3rd. Clove was the youngest of her seven siblings, all boys. They were a lot older than her, her closest brother being nine years older than her. Her conception was a complete accident, her parents weren’t sure that her mother could carry another child to term after so many failed miscarriages between the births of her older brothers. Growing up, Clove spent most of her time with her Mother in the healing centre, learning how to put together simple remedies from sicknesses ranging from the common cold to pneumonia. But on her sixth birthday, the Healing Centre caught fire with Clove and Maria still in it. Clove managed to crawl out of the window, reaching for her mother to help her climb back out. But just as she was about to grab her mother, her father pulled her out from the burning house and closed the window, leaving her to die.
In the years that Clove would question her father about that day, he would always insist that her brain was playing tricks on her from the trauma of being inside the burning house. But Clove always knew that her father had left her mother in there to die, and every day of her life she spent it hating her father. The only thing that survived the fire was a small silver dagger, with the initials M.A.F engraved on the blade. After the Peacekeepers took her mother’s body away, Clove snuck into the rubble and took the dagger, placing it in her pocket of her jacket where she promised she would keep it for the rest of her life.
Growing Up
That small silver dagger became the only thing that mattered to Clove. After her mother’s murder, her father began to drink his misery away. He was fired from his job as one of the Head Security Peacekeepers at the District’s Town Hall, and sank into a deep depression.
Clove tried to spend her days busying herself with little things, putting her heart and soul into her training to become a Career. Naturally, the best class for her was Self Defense, which was the only time she could be herself and use her ever-growing dagger collection without being considered a freak.
When she was about nine years old, her youngest brother moved out of their home, leaving just Clove and her father. The more alcohol he drank, the more abusive he became. He even went as far as to molesting Clove in his drunken stupor. On her tenth birthday, she finally worked up the nerve to fight back with her father, slicing his arm open with her mother’s dagger. After fighting him off and screaming for help, once the Peacekeepers arrived, Clove explained to them everything that her father had ever done. Because he was once a well-respected politician, Hayden was able to convince the Peacekeepers that she was mentally insane and needed to be locked away in a hospital.
Rehab
From the night of her tenth birthday to the night of her twelfth birthday, Clove was locked away in a mental ward of the District Hospital, being the only minor there. She was kept in isolation, being tagged as suicidal with homicidal tendencies, and a suspect in the murder of Maria Fury and alleged attempted murder of Hayden Enfer.
It was decided that she was healthy enough to return to 2, but she was no longer in the custody of her father, rather in the custody of her Paternal Uncle, who could give a flying shit what she did with her time. The only kind thing he ever did for Clove was rescue her mother’s dagger from her father and gave it to her without a word when he signed her out of the hospital.
Clove went back to Career Training, the social outcast of the District. She didn’t care about what others thought of her, she and she alone knew the truth. She attended regular weekly therapy appointments, in which she would just lay on a table and listen to an old man blab about trauma and childhood abuse. It wasn’t until her sixteenth birthday that her life really changed.
The Reaping
Since her discharge from Rehab at age 12, every year Clove’s name was entered into the Reaping. Of course, when she was sixteen, she never expected that she would be chosen to represent District 2. In the scuffle to get to the stage, Clove was bumped and her mother’s knife fell out of the pocket of her jacket. She tried to fight her way to where it laid on the ground, but the Peacekeepers took her by the shoulders and heaved her onto the stage.
That small dagger meant everything to her. Every glimmer of hope she had in her life, the only happy memories she held dear to her, her own personal angel. It was the shock of a lifetime when the only boy who had ever spoken to her since her discharge out of Rehab, Cato, volunteered to be the male tribute of District 2. Clove tore her eyes away from her dagger long enough to observe Cato walk up onto the stage and shake hands with the President of 2. When Clove looked back to where the dagger had been, it was gone.
On the train ride to the Capitol, Cato cornered her and without saying a word stuck out his hand. Clove was confused but held out her hands to take whatever Cato had. When he released what he held in his hands and held a finger to her lips, their secret friendship was sealed.
Because in her shaking hands, she now held her mother’s dagger.
Life After the 74th
After miraculously surviving the Hunger Games with Cato, Clove sank into a deep dark hole. She became depressed, but still took pride in helping to train the other Tributes for the Games. She would have drank alcohol to drown away her sorrow, but that reminder of her father was ever-present, especially after she learned that his house had been burned down while she was competing in the Hunger Games and he had disappeared, no body to be found.
Instead, Clove dedicated her life to avenge her mother’s murder and to start up her mother’s Healing Centre. And to find where her coward of a father was hiding…. And kill him.
//AN: I will be writing three different endings to this series, one where Clove dies in the 74th Hunger Games, one where she dies after the Games but back in District 2, and one where she lives. Hope you enjoy!
