Solangelo Oneshots (NicoxWill)

Hunger Games AU (Part 2)

What is that at the top you say? I decided to draw Samirah Al-Abbas from Magnus Chase. I finished Sword of Summer last night and I loved it. Anyways, that's my basic sketch so far.

Yeah, I know the storyline for some parts are similar to the book, but I couldn't think of anything. It's hardwired in my last brain cell from reading it too many times.

Hunger Games synopsis, terminology, and background info in part one for those who need it.

WARNING: Dark subject matter, violence

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How was it possible? Will was alive? And working for the capitol? Two years ago, Will was caught stealing food and medicine from the head peacekeeper. He was the oldest of six kids at 14. Their mother had died and their father neglected them. Will had to provide for the family. Since he was not yet eighteen, he couldn't work in the coal mines to make a living. He had barely enough to keep them alive. That winter, one of his sisters, Kayla, became very sick. He had no money for medicine and no food to feed themselves. Will made the bold decision to steal from the head peacekeeper. He took some medicine, some herbs, and a few loaves of bread. He nearly got away with it, when the head peacekeeper found him and arrested him. Usually, the penalty was public execution for such things, but they took him away and sent him to the capitol for a reason I still don't understand. His siblings were taken to the community home, an abusive place for children with no one to take care of them. Kayla had died the week after.

I had assumed Will was dead, but he was here the whole time?

He passed me to go back to the kitchen, when he came back out, he came to place little bowls for the soups and stews. He placed one in front of me.

"Thank you," I said, not exactly sure what to do. He just avoided my gaze and looked slightly more nervous.

Effie gave an amused laugh. "Oh, darling. You are too sweet. You don't have to thank it!"

It. So that's what he was to them? An object? A machine?

"Well he is serving us isn't he? I'm just being polite," I countered.

"Darling, it isn't necessary! Besides, you don't speak directly to an Avox, unless you are giving it a command; an order."

"A... what?"

Haymitch spoke up for the first time. "Avox. A servant to the capitol. It's a punishment. He's probably a traitor, a thief, or a rebel. Capitol cut out his tongue so he can't talk back to you anyways."

They had cut out his tongue and condemned him to slavery. He couldn't speak. I would never hear his beautiful voice again. My Will. My sunshine. Alive, but next to mute, tortured and enslaved presumably for the rest of his life. I had to do something. But what? Security was tight here. They would catch us. Even if by some miracle we escaped, where would we go? No matter where we went, I would be wanted throughout Panem. Will would surely be shot on sight if they had found him, probably me as well or I would become an Avox.

"...Oh," was all I could think to say.

"Let's eat shall we?" Effie said, as I was beginning to wish that her tongue could be cut out because her voice was irritating.

Me and Katie ate the rich delicacies in silence until our stomachs couldn't take it anymore. The lamb was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted, then again me and my younger sister, Hazel usually only ever got to eat squirrel meat, stale bread, and sometimes the occasional fruit if we could afford it on special occasions.

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After the feast, I walked back to my room to find someone making my bed and placing pillows in a neat arrangement.