For Just A Moment, A Yellow Sky: A Hunger Games AU
Summary: Emma is the female tribute from District 12 and Killian is the male tribute from District 4. Written for CS AU Week but not really because it wasn’t posted on crossover day. Title from “Hurricane” from Hamilton. Warning: Major character death.
A/N: Here’s a CS/Hunger Games crossover. I got the idea at like 11:00 on crossover day, and I wasn’t expecting it to be 4,000 words. Oh well. It’ll be posted on AO3 and FF.NET soon.
It was stupid to trust him. She knew she shouldn’t trust him.
She should trust Neal Cassidy – the male tribute chosen from District 12. (Well, trust as well as anyone in the Hunger Games should trust another.) Her mentor, August, highly suggested she build a strong relationship with the tribute from the moment the three of them met. But, no. She’s had too much of a history with him – too many bad memories with him that Neal was the very last person she’d wish to form an alliance with.
She had decided that she’d go into the games the way she felt all her life – alone. Alone, yet strong. And all through the training, she proved that she could do it alone.
But the last night before the games, when everyone was having their meals and making their final strategies, she slipped away to watch the sunset for (potentially) the final time. As she climbed the steps to the top of the building, to feel the sun on her skin and the wind in her hair, she was taken aback when she saw the smooth-talking male tribute from District 4 already sitting there.
About to turn around, she heard the boy say, in a low voice, “It looks pretty tonight, doesn’t it?” He didn’t look at her, still staring out at the sunset. She turned back towards the door, deciding it would be better to go back downstairs to August and Neal when he continued with a bitter laugh. “A bit ironic, wouldn’t you say?”
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