We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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welcome to your gory bed by lorata
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games (2012)
30 Apr 2013
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"But what good came of it at last?"
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"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 't was a famous victory."sorrow found me when I was young; sorrow waited, sorrow won
19 named victors in the Hunger Games trilogy, and not a one escaped unscathed.COMPLETE.
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The Devil You Know by lorata
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games (2012)
04 May 2013
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The Rebels they murder, Revenge is the word, Let each lad return with blood on his sword - Volunteers of Augusta, 1781.
It's a question that the other districts cannot even begin to fathom -- a question that simmered in the hearts of the citizens of Two as the fire crept across the nation, and boils even now as a new country struggles to rise from the ashes and bones of the fallen -- a question they don't consider because they're too busy not-asking why District Two never took a stand with the rebels --
The question is:
Why should they have?
Why District 2 stood alone against the Rebellion.
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This is what happens to people who break the rules.
District 2's presumptive volunteer for the 30th Hunger Games is killed in a training accident two days before the Reaping. Joseph, 18 years old and already scouted by the Peacekeeping Academy, watches in horror as the replacement volunteer loses his nerve on the big day and fails to step forward. After that an Example needs to be made, and it's one that Joseph can never forget.
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“So how come you’re a special case?” the first one challenges. “We earned our right to be here. We deserve it. If they’re letting in trash I think we deserve to know.”
They’re thirteen, Nero thinks. And here they all are in Residential, no parents, no families, everyone here on merit, but that’s parents behind those words as clear as the curl of his lip and they see something when they look at him. The Centre will train the spoiled rich boy out of this kid sure enough. They’re not going to train the killer out of Nero.
“Sure,” he says, and smashes the kid’s head into the wall until he hears the crunch.
Nero is the first District 2 tribute candidate to skip the entrance exam. No need to practice on an animal when you've already killed your father.
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Callista sees her first ghost the fall after the 45th Games.
Callista of District 2 won her Games with sex and blood. She's confident that after the Arena, she can handle whatever the Capitol throws at her. But after losing her first tribute to Chaff of District 11, Callista finds out the hard way that the Capitol's obsession with pretty tributes extends even after death -- and it's far more twisted than even she imagined.
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Dexter’s girl kept running and never stopped, never looked back, not once.
In a matter of seconds — seconds! — the mountain consumed them all.
Dexter’s console powered down with a low hum, a single message flashing across the screen: THANKS FOR PLAYING!
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“You,” said the mentor from Two. “Pretty one. Do you want to maim something?”
In a startling upset, a volcano in the 2nd Quarter Quell takes out half the Careers. Two mentors, from District 1 and District 2, find an unconventional way to cope with loss.
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To Love a Beast by lorata for azelmaroark
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
19 Jul 2013
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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
"Ain't no Two ever had interviews with parents."
"Ain't no Two ever been my baby."Career tributes from District 2 don't have families, or last names; the Centre took them, made them, moulded them, and it's the Centre and their mentors who keep them when they win. Most parents are happy to distance themselves from the monsters their children have become.
Brutus, victor of the 49th, is no different -- or is he? His Games through the eyes of the mother who swore to love whatever walked out of the Arena, regardless of what happened, whether her son wanted her to or not.
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you can love me later if you hate me now by lorata for penfold
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
28 Jan 2014
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So you can fall right to pieces on the floor tonight
You can break down if you need to cry
But I won’t ever change my mind
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Brutus forces his tongue between his lips. "I won?"Odin smiles. Odin never smiled at him before. Always solemn, serious. Approving but distant. But now he smiles, the lines of his face rearranging as though a mountainside decided to get up and walk away. "You won, my boy."
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A mentor's job doesn't end when they pull their tribute out of the Arena. For District Two, especially, the real stuff begins now. But Brutus, who won his Games based on strength and stubbornness, figures weakness is for other people.Series
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... living is harder.
After winning her Games by default when the last remaining tribute died in a Gamemaker's trap, Emory of District 2 struggles to feel worthy in a Village full of specacular Victors. Brutus, who never expected to save a Victor on his first year mentoring, needs to find a way to show his girl she's not only loved, but worthy.
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Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice by lorata
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
14 Jan 2014
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She dreams about the Centre. In her dreams it's a big white building, huge and shiny, and everyone inside is beautiful but sharp around the edges and there are no dresses anywhere and nobody tells Madeline she's not behaving like a good little girl.
Before she was Lyme, she was Madeline, an angry little girl who needed to learn to fight.
Part of my exploration of victors before they were victors, and how the Centre works to make its killers.
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- Part 10 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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A month later, they call her in and tell her they need to see her kiss one of the boys.
Lyme has aced every test the District 2 Career training program has tossed at her, but there are a few they haven't tried yet. Turns out the murder is the easy part.
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- Part 11 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Everyone knew a kid or two who went to the Centre, but no one ever remembered the volunteers. Now Kate sees them in a different light; she thinks of their terrified parents, the mothers who prayed that their children could just be normal, be like the others.
Three people who knew Madeline watch Lyme's Reaping: her mother, her father, and the teacher who helped her find her dream. Only one makes the connection.
Companion to Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.
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- Part 12 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Take My Hand by lorata for Xanify, Morbane
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
19 Jun 2015
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"No," Nero says again, not looking up from the gauze he's affixing around her wrist.
"No what?" Lyme demands. "I didn't do anything!"
"No whatever you're thinking, little girl, because I know your faces and that's not a good one." Nero raises an eyebrow. "Prove me wrong."
Before rebel and renegade, between victor and mentor, Lyme was in recovery: angry, bitter, confused and lost, a trained killer without a purpose. Nero, her mentor, has his work cut out for him -- especially since not all ghosts come from the Arena.
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- Part 13 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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“I’m not ready for this. I won the Games and I’m going to mentor and I’m ready for all that, but not — this. Not kids thinking I’m a hero and growing up wanting to be like me.”
Winning the Hunger Games means the worst days of your life aren't just televised; in District 2, they become inspiration. For Lyme, still battling guilt and trauma as she recovers from her recent victory, the adoration comes too soon.
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- Part 14 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Lyme turns around and shades her eyes with her hand. "Let's go, caveman," she calls. "Not getting any younger here."
Brutus opens his mouth, shuts it, then slaps a hand down over his face and shoves the door closed with his foot. "This is gonna be a great night," he mutters to himself. "Bet she orders the fucking lobster."
Brutus and new-victor Lyme go on a date at the behest of their mentors. It really, really does not go well, but maybe that's okay.
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- Part 15 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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One night after way too much booze, Brutus asks Lyme if she hates men.
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- Part 16 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Artemisia grins, slow and creeping like the spread of fresh blood across the floor. "Oh mentor, I think I like you."
Lyme actually laughs, using the burst of sound to chase away the last of the demons clawing at her skull. "Good. I chose you because --" I saw myself, because everyone else had given up on you, because you'd given up on yourself, because I know you're more than this -- "I knew you could do this, and you're going to prove me right."
District 2 Victor Lyme, two years fresh from the Arena, gets her first tribute to mentor. Her vow to remain aloof to avoid getting attached lasts until she finds Artemisia: wicked, irreverent, blase and a little unhinged, whose childhood photos showed bruises her Games training never put there.
The day Artemisia volunteers, the male tribute from District 6 reveals a girlfriend back home with a baby on the way. The tragic story sweeps the Capitol by storm, and it seems like the ending to these Games is already written. Lyme has to change the narrative, convince her suspicious tribute to trust her, and -- if Artemisia wins -- figure out how to piece the half-mad Victor back together.
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- Part 17 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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until then we'll have to muddle through somehow
The holidays, Lyme thinks as the train glides into District 2’s Central Station, are fucking exhausting.
Lyme isn't the only Victor with a complicated relationship to the holiday season, and for her part she'd really rather pretend the whole thing doesn't exist. It's going pretty well, until she pulls a Victor who decides to go all-in.
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- Part 18 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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Brutus sighs and leans back in his chair, rolling his beer bottle in slow circles across the counter. “Remember when ‘duty’ just meant killing people and learning how to smile with a broken arm?” he asks.
Lyme barks out a laugh. “Oh yeah,” she says with feeling. “Times like this, I almost miss it.”
Brutus half-expected to lose his first year in the mentor seat; instead, three years after Emory's win, Brutus gets to watch his Victor lose her tribute -- again, and again, and again.
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- Part 19 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2
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“I’m not telling you you’re a failure. I’m not telling you there’s something wrong with you. I’m telling you that you aren’t a killer. Do you understand there’s nothing wrong with that?”
There are no second chances at the District 2 Career Program. You fail, you're out, no exceptions. Unless, of course, you can convince them otherwise.
13-year-old Devon passes all the tests to make it into full-time residential training, but flunks out on his sweet disposition and temperament. He has one shot to change their minds.
(a brief character study and exploration of the ways the Centre warps its children)
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- Part 20 of We Must Be Killers: Tales from District 2