Catching a train, illegally, tagging on the back. Before the tenth hunger games, before anything, back when he was just a normal student. One almost perfect for the role of President, vanished from Panem's Capitol. Just one day he disappeared, leaving everything behind. There were papers, posters, broadcasts, but snow was gone

He'd fled, it was just a thought at the beginning, then it became more. His thoughts almost influences, the pressure, the thought of failure, the rebel killings, poverty, he couldn't do it anymore. The fancy buildings, fancy cars, if he becomes president then he'd have everything, but he'd have nothing. Or at least he saw it like everything would be given, he didn't want that, he wanted to live. To have a family, and kids, and be able to get a shot at life, from the beginning, and not from what his father left behind

So he'd find himself in District 12. District 12: the smallest and poorest district in Panem. The district was located in Appalachia and their main industry was coal mining. And this was your home