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[katewrites]

I haven't thought about the Hunger Games in a very long time, because I still wanted it to go:

Book 1
Book 2: Katniss is a mentor and has to work the Capitol while at the same time realizing there's an uprising coming
Book 3: Katniss leads the rebellion

And then someone wrote ficlets of Katniss as a mentor!

the one where the reaps aren't prim

The one where it is Gale and, shit, that would have been a book

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[katewrites]

SO MUCH YES. Yeah, Prim would have been too on the nose, but Gale. GALE. That would have been a fucking amazing book. The tension, the triangle at a snapping point because Peeta would want him to win, even if he was the competition.

Yeah. I mean, Katniss and Peeta... their first games as mentors and Haymitch...

Haymitch knows how to lose. He knows how to lose because for twenty years he's been losing. Two tributes a year. Every year.

He knows how to lose.

Katniss and Peeta are vibrating, trying to impress the tributes with everything they know, trying to shove deportment and fighting and survival down their throats, trying to explain everything on the train ride and Haymitch sits and waits and watches.

He knows how the two softer ones will die. The girl, the mayor's daughter, she looks smartish, so starvation or infection. The other girl is taller, and has that sharp look kids on the edges of town get. Katniss had that look.

(Haymitch never hopes that anyone of his tributes will win because he knows they're all going to die)

So, she'll probably die when it gets time for the careers to start picking off the smart ones.

The boys... one of them's a miner through and through, he'll go fast. Not that miners are dumb, just that they haven't seen anything like the cornucopia before and that much food, that many supplies...

When you have nothing, it's hard to give up everything.

The big kid, the one that Katniss and Peeta are giving a wide berth. Him... maybe. Maybe he'll be one of the last ones. Maybe.