Hunger Games: Post-Mockingjay, Pre-Epilogue
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Flowers. by Pages_and_Ink
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
14 May 2026
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I am in between two graves, my father’s, and the one Ma and Sid share. Next to theirs is a piece of land that I remember as disturbed, but has with time come to lay flat again; this is where they dug my own grave in advance, before I returned a Victor.
There are little wooden boards driven into the ground to mark who’s who, the letters worn away after years of no one ever polishing them. Katniss sits beside me. “One grave?” she asks.
“They were holding each other when they were found. Didn’t seem right to separate them.” I echo Mr. McCoy’s words.
Katniss says nothing. She reaches forward and runs her thumb over their names carved there. Willamae and Sid Abernathy. I let her. “Do you ever come here?”
“No.”
Haymitch does not visit graves anymore. Not his mother's, not his brother's, not his girl's. Not Maysilee's, nor Louella's, nor Wyatt's. Katniss has no grave to visit - nothing remains of Prim. She asks to see Sid's grave, and Haymitch takes her.
Haymitch learns how to grieve a little more healthily, because I don't care how tough this man is, I *will* crack him open like a goddamn walnut.
Set before the Mockingjay epilogue.
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- Part 1 of Hunger Games: Post-Mockingjay, Pre-Epilogue
- Part 1 of Pages_and_Ink's Hunger Games Saga
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The Aftermath. by Pages_and_Ink
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
26 May 2026
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'Maybe that too is why I am so determined that he have the piano, hauling it over the steps of Haymitch's home despite how my body protests, how the exhaustion deep in my bones tells me it isn’t worth doing much of anything at all, and how Peeta reiterates that perhaps we should wait for Haymitch to wake up and have him help us with the load. Because he should have something waiting for him after his duty, to the war and to us, is through.
To have something to pull him through the aftermath. That’s all we're trying to do, isn’t it?'
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Along with a horrific amount of other things of no use to Katniss, each home in Victor's Village contains a piano. She finds Haymitch playing hers, and a new step of the delicate process of healing starts from there. It starts with song, and ends with a new volume of the ever-increasing Memorial Book.AKA the way Katniss has hunting and Peeta has baking, Haymitch has music - from Lenore Dove, of course. Katniss helps him (read: forces him) to reconnect with this. A bit of healthier healing all around because my D12 Victors WILL get some semblance of peace in the aftermath of the Games if it's the last thing I do, goddammit.
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- Part 2 of Hunger Games: Post-Mockingjay, Pre-Epilogue
- Part 2 of Pages_and_Ink's Hunger Games Saga
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5 Times Peeta Stayed and 1 Time Haymitch Did by Pages_and_Ink
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
23 Jun 2026
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5 times Haymitch reluctantly stayed with Peeta. 1 time he asked him to.
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- Part 3 of Hunger Games: Post-Mockingjay, Pre-Epilogue
- Part 3 of Pages_and_Ink's Hunger Games Saga