Kisses before the cannon

HUNGER GAMES FANFIC!

They were never supposed to matter to each other.
Sophie Hasi entered the Games ready for violence, ready for loss, ready for the slow, inevitable unraveling of everything she had ever known. She built her armor long before stepping into the arena - silence, distance, control. It's the only way to survive a world that celebrates destruction.

Amara Sharma is different. Gentle in ways Panem forgot how to be. She carries a quiet steadiness that Sophie doesn't understand and can't ignore. What begins as proximity - survival-driven, cautious, fragile - slowly becomes something neither of them can name.

Until they can't deny it anymore.

In the stillness between chaos, in the fleeting safety of shared shelter, something delicate blooms. Not passion born of adrenaline, but connection born of understanding. A softness both of them thought the Games had stolen before they even began.

But the arena devours soft things.

And as the countdown to the inevitable grows louder, Amara and Sophie are forced to confront the truth Panem wrote into their fate long ago: some loves are never meant to survive the world they're born into.