Dancing with our hands tied: 74th - part 13, hunger games series - all media types, hunger games trilogy - suzanne collins, the hunger games (movies) fanfic

everythingisundercontrol

Characters

Katniss Everdeen/Johanna Mason, Effie Trinket, Blight (Hunger Games), Finnick Odair, Haymitch Abernathy

Tags

Angst Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Slow Burn Hurt/Comfort Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Not Beta Read Hunger Games-Typical Death/Violence Quarter Quell (Hunger Games) allies to friends to lovers Song: Dancing With Our Hands Tied (Taylor Swift) Hunger Games Mentor Katniss Everdeen Mentor Johanna rip peeta gone but not forgotten

Summary

peeta and katniss are declared as the winners of the 73rd hunger games, but he collapses before the hovercraft can rescue themwithout peeta, katniss is left behind to deal with the mounting revolution on her own...until she meets johanna mason. as mentors for the 74th games, the two become trusted allies and friends in the face of unanticipated dangerbased on dancing with our hands tied by taylor swiftpart of my joniss as reputation songs series (probably the longest part if im being honest lmao)

Note

okokok i need to explain several things to make this fic make sense <3first of all: katniss wins the 73rd hunger games (NOT the 74th) in this fic because i wanted her to have a year as a mentor before the quellnext: peetaso obviously killing off peeta so early into canon creates a lot of issues...like way more than i initially expected. although at first i planned to have cato kill him, my friend suggested keeping the berry scene to add fuel to the fire of the revolution and then just have peeta's leg kill him (tysm to my friend!! love you girlie). so that fixed a lot of my issues with building the revolution and all that.the next issue is the quell which i'll explain when we get to itin terms of peeta keeping katniss grounded/sane when she's processing the trauma of the games, i'm going to be leaning on everyone else for that (johanna, haymitch, cinna, prim, gale, etc) and it won't be the same kind of comfort, but it'll just have to be enough <3 lolanother plot hole has to do with mockingjay (you can probably guess...) but i'm not going to address that until we come to it either in order to avoid spoilers and also because i haven't made a final decision on that yetfinally, there's the issue of katniss "being subjected to the same fate as finnick" because peeta isn't there. again, i'm not sure what to do about this yet but we'll find out together i guess!!dwoht is one of the rep songs that inspired this entire series for me so i really recommend giving it a listen <3and if anything is unclear regarding the plot or anything i've mentioned above, pls reach out to me in the comments!! i know there's a lot to consider so i'll try to clarify lmao <3

74th - part 13

April 20, 2025 at 09:54 AM

katniss

It’s quiet without Johanna.

johanna

Maybe I should go back. Katniss would go back, if it were her tributes that died. She would be there by my side, still cheering on my tributes like they were her own, because that’s who she is. Defender of the fucking hopeless. Well, that’s not me. I can’t go back and cheer on the kids from 12. But…maybe I should go back for Katniss.

I feel like everyone keeps looking at me. Or at least at the empty chair. I try not to look so deserted, if that’s possible. But everyone knows.

I should go back. It’s not her fault.

I hate being alone here. I wish Johanna would come back.

I should go back, but I can’t go back like this and I can’t get my shit together enough to fake being ok. If I go back, I can’t let anyone know that this got to me.

Maybe I shouldn’t have listened to her. I could’ve followed her anyways. Maybe that’s what she really needed, and I’m the idiot who didn’t see it.

I wish I didn’t tell her to leave me alone. I wish I didn’t care about any of this. I wish I didn’t keep looking up at the door hoping to see her. I wish I didn’t want to see her. I fucking hate this. I hate caring about my tributes and I hate caring about Katniss.

But I don’t know what I would’ve said to her. I’ve never lost a tribute, so anything I could say would just sound fake. She wouldn’t want to hear it.

Whatever. Fuck it, I don’t care. My tributes were fucked from the start. I don’t need Katniss Everdeen to try and convince me otherwise. Fuck her.

I guess I’ll just sit here until Haymitch and Blight come in.