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Hello, readers, I am re-uploading an edited version of For Love or Security? the very kind and brilliant Chelhb has offered to be my beta and to edit this story! Enjoy!

Chapter 1:

1 KATNISS POV-

It's the coldest winter that I can remember and due to the recent snowstorm, the train which comes every month with food and supplies is stuck a few districts away. Prim lays next to me on our bed, cuddling Buttercup, her ugly old cat trying to soak up some of its warmth.

After the demolishing of the dictatorship following Snow's death and the formation of the new government, it has gotten better throughout all the districts. The Seam and Merchant divides are not as prominent since everyone can now get loans from the government to open shops. The coal mines are safer and incomes are much higher than they once were, there are building a new factory where they will be making medicines. But this winter hit us especially hard, my family had been doing well with more money throughout the district and hunting being legal, it has made my hunting easier more people to trade with and more money or items to trade for my haul. But due to the recent blizzards. all over Panem, it makes hunting nearly impossible.

I have tried looking for work, but most businesses have closed due to the weather and lack of products from the delayed train. I thought I could continue hunting and when the weather got bad, I would go to work at Greasy Sae's new restaurant as a promised job which just opened a few weeks ago. But now like other public establishments, it's been closed for the time being. The businesses can't open back up till the train comes and the train is said to be delayed at least a week. My family could die by then.

We have almost run out of both coal and firewood, we are trying to spare it by using as little at a time by leaving the house cold. We are running low on food, the lowest it has been since my father had passed. The only things we have left in our cupboards is a small jar of mint leaves, two and a half potatoes which are smaller than my palm, and just a sliver of goat cheese. I haven't eaten anything in two days but boiled water, giving all my food to Prim. Prim's cheeks are hollow and we are both the skinniest that we have been in a long time. Mom is just as bad. I can't stand to see my poor little Prim, the sweetest and happiest girl I know, sad and a walking ghost due to our recent malnutrition, and it had been getting so much better.

Gale's income from the mines, even though they are currently closed, are helping his family just float by but he can't help us and keep his family fed. It's still early but there will be no dinner tonight so I lay down next to Prim and try to sleep.

PEETA'S POV-

I had to close the bakery due to the lack of resources after the train supply delay. My father has recently given the bakery over to me for his early retirement. My oldest brother is married and works in the general store and our middle brother recently got engaged and is an apprentice at his fiance's family Toy Store, but he still comes for a few hours to help me manage the bakery. So the bakery was signed over to me. My Father and Mother had to retire early due to my Mother poor eyesight and My Father needs to be there to help her. So they have moved to a small house in town living a quiet comfortable life. I still have more than enough food for myself until the trains arrive, but it's not me that I'm worried about.

I had planned on asking Katniss Everdeen to marry me once I was comfortable and making a good profit with the bakery and was able to support her well. I have been doing well, but I feel sick thinking that she may feel obligated to say yes to marrying me to help her family, not out of love for me. So, I decided to find a way to start a friendship with her. She has been trading some of the game she hunts from the woods and we have had a few conversations longer than just a transaction of trading but I have felt we weren't even close to real friendship.

I saw her the other day, she was thinner than I have ever seen her before and I'm worried. I know she won't accept charity if I offer her food and if I suggested a loan of food she would think that charity as well. She may be to the point of acceptance of what she thinks charity now, but she would resent me for it later. I have decided to propose for her hand now, so she couldn't refuse my gifts. I know she may only be accepting my offer to save her family, but maybe I can make her fall in love with me. I decide I will propose tonight, bringing gifts of food for them and just a little extra in case I may see some hungry children on the way which I may be able to spare just a little.

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