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    As the title suggests, a series of unrelated fics that take place between the end of Mockingjay and the Mockingjay Epilogue, but with everything (flashback of the PAIN Suzanne Collins put us through) from Sunrise on the Reaping playing a big role.

    These are all Haymitch-centric, at least for now; so far they are all also character studies, and plots focus on Haymitch's dynamic with Katniss and Peeta. There's some mild hurt/comfort, and many, many internal monologues of a depressing variety which I enjoy writing perhaps a little more than I strictly should.

    Hope you like it!

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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    "The page begins with the person's picture. A photo if we can find it. If not, a sketch or painting by Peeta. Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget.

    Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor."

     

    A look at the tributes from District 12 in the years after Haymitch won the 50th Hunger Games, and his own journey from victor to mentor to rebel.

    *Note: Canon-compliant with the original trilogy + Ballad, but not Sunrise on the Reaping as the first drafts of this are years old*

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    07 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    YES

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    Haymitch felt confident that this was another punishment dictated by Snow. How many names in that bowl were Burdock’s? Was it all of them? He felt an overwhelming urge to find out. It would be easy. All he had to do was knock the bowl on the ground and watch it break into a million pieces, the Capitol’s regime shattering with it as everyone realized that there were no odds to be in favor of. The outcome of the Games was manipulated from the start.

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    When Haymitch first wakes up on the day of the reaping, his only goal is to make it through his first year as a mentor without falling apart. After his former best friend is selected to be that year's male tribute, however, his goal becomes to stop the 51st Hunger Games before they even begin.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    AHH

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    *SOTR spoilers*

    the world sharpens painfully into clarity when he sees the hollowness of her cheeks, the taught skin over her wrists, and Burdocks hunting jacket pulled tight over her body. Her eyes have that hollow, glassy look starving seam kids get that tells him she's close to death. He knows it's not cold outside, a stark contrast to a couple days ago, the very last of the winter winds blowing softly through the trees. She shouldn't be cold.

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    or: how Haymitch finds out his best friend is dead.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    "Because, maybe then it’ll stop,” he says, quietly. Katniss pauses, her fingers lingering on the bowstring.

    “What’ll stop?” She asks. Her voice is a rasp. Broken.

    “This thing inside me that wants to die.” He doesn’t look at her. She doesn’t look away from him. He stares at Thirteen’s gray walls. Listens to the unending song in his head.

    Katniss ties the bowstring. She plucks the taut string. The sound echoes between the walls.

    ~

    Or, Peeta’s name is pulled for the 75th Hunger Games. Haymitch takes his place.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    He already lost Burdock a long time before the mine collapsed. Or Burdock lost him. One of those. Still, it's hard to think of the girl as anything other than his best friend's daughter.

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    18 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    THIS IS THE ONE