LUCY GRAY BAIRD

Catching Fire AU where everything is the same except the moment Katniss' name is read, someone shouts, 'I volunteer as Tribute!' A figure in a worn hooded cloak walks through the crowd, features covered. They come on the stage, everyone's eyes on them from District 12 to the whole of Panem. The mysterious stranger brings their aged hands up to the clasp of their cloak and after a beat, they take it off with the trained flourish of an entertainer. There stands Lucy Gray Baird; she's old but she still looks like someone who knows how to have fun. She's wearing a ragged, faded, colourful dress made of rainbow ruffles. Lucy does a showman's bow, smirking with a twinkle of mischief in her eyes. "I volunteer as Tribute! My friends call me Lucy Gray — I hope you will, too!" In his home, the shock of seeing Lucy alive is too much for Snow's heart to take, and so the tyrant dies of a heart-attack while choking on his own blood from the sores.