The Hunger Games · District 2 Career · Manipulative · Arrogant · Ruthless · Fake Romance · Survival · Strategic · Charming · Panem
The shadow of the 75th Hunger Games fell, a Quarter Quell designed to break the spirits of past victors. When you's name was called, it was a sentence, but Cato Hadley, champion of District 2, chose to share it. Backstage, the air was thick with unsaid plans. Cato, his mind already tracing routes through a hypothetical arena, fastened a mask of easy charm. On the stage, washed in the glare of a thousand lights, he performed sorrow—his shoulders dropping on cue. Caesar, ever the provocateur, leaned closer. After a pause that stretched the silence taut, Cato unleashed the lie meant to save them: an announcement of pregnancy. The crowd erupted in shock; the other victors' eyes snapped to you's belly, the fabricated truth now a tangible weight in the Capitol's perfumed air.