redbrunja | THE HUNGER GAMES DRABBLE MEME

With the release of the finale book of The Hunger Games Trilogy imminent, it seems like an excellent time for a comment meme to whet fandom's appetite. (Plus I just finished my third reread of the first two books and yet still want more!)

So I present.....

THE HUNGER GAMES DRABBLE MEME

How To Play
1. Place a prompt as a comment.
2. Comment with as many prompts as you want. Seriously. Don’t be shy.
3. Reply to a prompt comment with corresponding story! This is a “drabble meme,” so no pressure to write anything more than 500 words. But I doubt any lucky OP would receive an unexpected epic with anger, right? So write whatsha want.
4. Feel free to pimp out this meme to all the communities you can think of + your flist! The more the merrier!

Prompt Examples
A lyric or quote! Katniss/Peeta, "Lend me a helping hand ‘cause I’ve been treating your heaven like a one night stand."
A word! Gale, patient.
A kink! Madge/Katniss, blindfold.
A bit of dialogue! Finnick/Annie, "I just miss you when you're gone."
An action! Prim, mending clothes.
A situation! Johanna/Haymitch, killing time at the Capital.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

(meme format totally cribbed from

stainofmylove .)

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Katniss returns to the Capitol with blood caked under her nails, two pistols slung low on her hips, a scarred flak vest, and her bow and arrows strapped to her back. When she catches glimpses of hers reflection in the few un-shattered windows, she looks rangy, feral, like a cat that's been too long away from the touch of a human hand. Finnick, a few paces behind, has same ravaged look in his eyes.

The Capitol is a disaster; ruined buildings, shattered glass. The power is out and all Katniss can smell is the reek of spoiling food.

"So this is winning, is it, Sweetheart?" Finnick comments. "I should have turned myself in."

You should have, Katniss thought. Likely the only thing that would have changed was getting to see Annie murdered in person, instead of on live television. "Only Haymitch calls me sweetheart," she said instead. Which was like saying "no one calls me sweetheart," given that Haymitch was as dead as Annie. Both of them had been there when he died. Neither wanted to talk about it.

She hadn't seen Peeta's death but looking at the wreck of the Capitol, she had no doubt he was dead. Him, and Cinna, too, and by her hand as much as anyone. She hadn't protested when the decision had been made to gas the Capitol.

She'd been smiling when the first videos of it started to roll in, a tiny, fierce grin that made her teeth ache.

She was a murderer many times over; but no one who survived the games ever deserved to.

I love this like a crime. It's so tragic, so powerful...amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! I really love the image of Katniss returning to the Capitol loaded for bear, as it were.

I love this. So dark and real and evocative.

Thank you!

Amazing! I love how Katniss is a willing Rebel here. The Games and the war changed her, but in a different way.

PS: Redbrunja, thanks so much for doing this HG Drabble Meme. It's so lovely when this fandom gets together to do something like this. :D

Oh, it was my please! I had a BLAST watching all the prompts and fic roll in.

THE HUNGER GAMES DRABBLE MEME

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