"I guess love is worth sacrifice. What is peace if you have no one to share it with?" "Love is sacrifice." - - - *OR* The reaping for the 74th annual hunger games went just a little bit differently. - - - When two of district twelve's most promising tributes are reaped, 8th year mentor Asteria Adler decides to finally try to lend the tributes a hand this year. With an obsessive knowledge of the games, she can make their odds of winning exponentially greater than what they'd start out with. This year's tributes- Gale Hawthorne and Madge Undersee- are unlike any of the tributes she'd ever dealt with before. Strong, with a willingness to comply to her demands. Later, A series of choices spark a fire that cannot be extinguished. The whole of Panem is on the verge of collapsing- and she's the one left holding a smoking gun. - - - Finnick Odair x OC THG-MOCKINGJAY (non-canon compliant)