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"This would have happened anyway."
In a particularly harsh winter in 12, Katniss is once again finding that she is tied to Peeta Mellark, that he can bring her a sense of hope without even meaning to. When she winds up working in his family's bakery, she doesn't want to get to know him, doesn't want to add to the incalculable debt she feels she owes him. But she can't help but grow to appreciate him, even despite herself.
"All I've ever known is how to hold my own, but now I wanna hold you too" - Hadestown
In Panem AU focusing on how Katniss and Peeta would have found their way to each other if they never went into the Games. Slowburn, but eventually will have a lot of smut lol so preventative E rating
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The cleaning lady by Diana911 for deansdandelionedhair
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
08 Sep 2025
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'Of course, some would say it's because he's a Victor, but that's not true. People in District 12 think that Haymitch Abernathy - our other living Victor - drinks too much, but they don't despise him like they do Gale.
It is because Gale Hawthorne - my best friend, my hunting partner, the boy who strains to keep me alive - killed his district partner in the Game.'Or - Gale goes to the Arena, and Katniss and Peeta never does, but they end up together, anyway. Some things are different, yes, and some things maybe darker for it - but the important things, like Katniss and Peeta and Haymitch... they are the same.
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she said yes by ravenmikasa
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
23 Jul 2025
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When Peeta Mellark asks for Katniss Everdeen’s hand in marriage, Burdock reflects on the quiet love story that’s grown between them over the years — from a shared song in childhood to stolen afternoons in the meadow. A father’s heart watches his daughter choose love and hope, even in a world shaped by fear.
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Burdock Everdeen lives and he's the most lovely dad! Also Prim and Peeta were never reaped. Alternate Universe in Panem. I wrote this during the SOTR cast hype!
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meet me in the meadow by hidingfromtherainfall
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
10 May 2025
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When the rebellion ends, the Capitol isn't the only thing left in ruins. The love Katniss Everdeen thought she understood unravels in the quiet moments between rebuilding and remembering.
Peeta, the boy with the bread, offers her safety and softness, but his scars run deeper than the words they once exchanged. Gale, the boy who shared her hunts and her fire, burns too brightly for a world that needs healing more than anger. And Katniss, caught in the threads of loyalty, regret, and longing, must decide if love is a choice—or just a series of moments slipping away like August afternoons.
A story of stolen glances, whispered confessions, and mistakes made under moonlight, this story reimagines Taylor Swift’s folklore love triangle through the lens of Panem's most complicated trio.
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Our eternal light by Malicious_Pig
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
05 Feb 2025
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Katniss and Peeta aren‘t reaped for the 74th Hunger Games. That doesn‘t mean the rebellion isn‘t up and running underground anyways, but who will spark the embers if not the star-crossed lovers?
Meanwhile Katniss tries to navigate her life between the ever looming dread that comes with trying to survive, Gale, the boy with the bread, who suddenly seems to have found interest in her and the tightening circumstances as she can sense the uprisings forming around her.P.S. English is not my first language
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There was no ambulance in District 12, no number to call. There was just the endless walk back to town and the knock on a Peacekeeper’s door. Primrose was pale and weeping- too little and too confused for the harsh lines of District Twelve to understand what was going on. Katniss was sullen and silent, saying only what needed to be said: their mother was dead. They were moved to the Community Home within the hour.
Primrose Everdeen would reside there for a week.
Katniss Everdeen would live there for four years.
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Primrose Everdeen is adopted by the Mellarks and everything changes, but many things stay the same. Canon Divergant: Katniss will eventually go into the Hunger Games alone.
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Growing Pains by Brown_Eyed_Devil
Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
13 Aug 2024
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In a Panem where Katniss and Peeta have both aged out of the Reaping, their lives technically free of the wrath of the Capitol, they both struggle to find their footing in the harsh realities of Twelve. Change is in the air though, and things are happening fast.
Pay mind to the changing tags, this story will get considerably darker.
(Previously called "The unlikely Coming-of-Age of Katniss Everdeen").
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Every night, baby, that's where I go by searowss for The_flower_under_the_willow
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
07 Jul 2024
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A fic about Katniss' thoughts at night in D13.
He rolled his eyes and gave up trying to support me. Instead, slipped his hands underneath my legs and back so he could carry me.
“Wha- what are you doing?” I cried out, willing him to put me back down.
“Shh, just go with it, sweetheart,” he said, eyeing the cameras
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- Part 1 of It's just that I fell in love with a war
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Katniss and Peeta are caught up in a lie to their children.
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Peeta Mellark ranks as number one in Squad 212.
He is shockingly, haltingly, as if a model soldier.
Only he is not like those others. The ones that instruct us. Or the ones that President Coin parades out as her best. He is not fueled by anger.
And yet, he is the last person I want to be grouped with on the frontlines.
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The Things We Love Most Complete Us by geekymoviemom
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
01 Jul 2023
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“You love him,” Finnick told Katniss down in that bunker. “Anyone paying attention could see it.”
Anyone, apparently, except Katniss.
Until it was too late.
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I Want To Have It All With You by MTK4FUN
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
25 Jun 2023
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President Snow's unexpected death causes a cancellation of the 75th Hunger Games. With the threat of her imminent death gone, Katniss lets down her guard.
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Even Days by loungemermaid
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
25 Jun 2023
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“I’m at the end of the line, and it’s the choice I have always had to make: do I want Peeta Mellark in my life? Can I face the devil I don’t know to stop living with the devil I do? Is the fear of what could happen stronger than the pain of not having him close to me?”
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Katniss realizes she’s in love with Peeta before he’s rescued from the Capitol.
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- Part 1 of Even Days
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roses love sunshine, violets love dew by adsofraser
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
25 Jun 2023
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Peeta is rescued along with Katniss from the Quarter Quell arena. They are able to grow together miles underground in District 13 as war in the districts rages on.
"This Would Have Happened Anyway" Challenge for Summer 2023.
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Peeta's Proposal by sillymarigolds
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
25 Jun 2023
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After being rescued from the 75th Hunger Games, the Victors find themselves yet again pawns, this time in the hands of the Rebels. Ever the Head Gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee looks for ways to win an advantage in this new arena. A proposed solution by Peeta may just help in bringing about a happily ever after.
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The Brightest Timeline by Brown_Eyed_Devil
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
25 Jun 2023
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Peeta is rescued from the Capitol and brought to District 13 without having been hijacked. Katniss and Peeta reunite. You know the drill.
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The Brightest Timeline by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
24 Jun 2023
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Peeta is rescued and brought back to District 13. No-Hijacking. You know the drill.
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The Other Side of the War by LilyMaid
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
24 Jun 2023
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I don’t return the next day. Or the day after that. On the fourth day Haymitch, finding me behind a steam pipe, confronts me.
“When are you going to see him?” he says.
“I don’t know if I can… he hates me,” I say, muffled, my mouth pressed to my knees. “That’s not… Peeta anymore.” My voice sounds small and pitiful.
“He’s… confused and angry,” he says. “He doesn’t hate you, not really. He can’t tell the difference between what’s real and the memories the Capitol implanted.”
“He does hate me,” I say, stubbornly. “Snow did this to him to hurt me. He wasn’t a rebel, if it weren’t for me… ”
Haymitch sighs. “It doesn’t matter why Snow did it. This isn’t about you. The boy’s having trouble telling up from down, you can’t tell him you’ll be back, and then not come. It’s cruel.”
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Peeta's Proposal by Anonymous
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies)
24 Jun 2023
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After being rescued from the 75th Hunger Games, the Victors find themselves yet again pawns, this time in the hands of the Rebels. Ever the Head Gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee looks for ways to win an advantage in this new arena. A proposed solution by Peeta may just help in bringing about a happily ever after.
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Dance Like Nobody’s Watching (Love Like You’ll Never Be Hurt) by youcantseeus
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
24 Jun 2023
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At Finnick and Annie’s wedding, Katniss struggles with being a public figure and what that means for her relationship with Peeta.