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"It's therapeutic," Lia murmured over the sound of the rain. "You should try it, since you're already here."
"Yeah? And whose fault is it that I'm here?" Michael scowled.
A missing note. A torrential downpour. A ghost from the past. When Lia Zhang vanishes without an explanation, the rest of the Naturals launch a frantic, calculated search. But Michael doesn't need statistics to find her. Standing together on the rain-slicked asphalt, an unspoken truce is forged as Lia reveals a rare piece of her past.
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This world is easy for her, with her ax. When she's bored she swings it and pretends she’s fighting monsters or protecting a princess. When she is angry she grabs the ax and chops logs; as she swings and swings and swings she can pretend it is not wood she’s cutting, but some physical form of what it is that’s making her rage. When she’s nine, she imagines her annoying classmate Lawrence Simmons’ face on the log, and the log after that, and by evening her parents are pleased at how much work she’s done.
When she’s ten, she pretends it’s a peacekeeper’s head she’s chopping, and sometimes it’s President Snow’s: it’s at the age of ten what she realizes 'killing game' means, and that once someone is dead, they don’t come back.
(or: Johanna Mason's life, her victory in the 71st Hunger Games, and the aftermath.)
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09 Jul 2025
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SO GOOD wish this would update cause its so interesting
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The Hunger Games: Bark of the Bloodied Tree by myhyperfixationssuffocateme
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games - Fandom
13 May 2025
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Before she was the axe-wielding rebel, Johanna Mason was a girl playing the Capitol’s game a little too well. Sent into the arena with nothing but a lie and a snarl, she pretends to be weak—but behind the facade is a killer waiting to strike.
This is the brutal, bloody, and bitter truth of how Johanna won the Hunger Games and what the Capitol took from her in return. -
used to the darkness by dancingonmoonbeams
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
06 Sep 2025
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Johanna Mason wasn’t always cold. She never would have considered herself particularly sweet, or gentle, or patient, but she wasn’t heartless. She had people she loved and she loved them fiercely.
Then the Hunger Games came, and the Capitol, and Johanna watched as everyone she cared about was taken from her until all she had left was herself, her heart twisted and hardened like a knot in the bark of an ancient tree. So she closed herself off even more, her glares and harsh words cutting people down before they had the chance to plant roots around her. So, no, Johanna Mason wasn’t always heartless. But no one escapes the Hunger Games with their heart intact.
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Splinters and Steel by netted_hearts
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
13 Oct 2025
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“It’s messy. It hurts. It destroys. It leaves you empty, broken, weak, and alone when it’s over.
And that’s exactly what I don’t want to be. Empty, broken, weak, and alone.”
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Seventeen-year-old Johanna Mason has never known safety—not at home, not in her district, and certainly not in herself. With a secret she’s never let anyone see, she’s learned the only way to survive and protect those she cares about is to act like nothing can touch her. When she’s reaped for the Seventieth Hunger Games, Johanna discovers that sometimes, the best weapon is the one no one sees coming.
Events prior to Johanna's games, but prior to the 74th Games.
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- Part 1 of Forest Fires