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• Victory Suits the Dead by winterspecs

  Fandoms: The Hunger Games (Movies), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  16 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Rape/Non-Con
  • Haymitch Abernathy & Burdock Everdeen
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
  • Haymitch Abernathy
  • Burdock Everdeen
  • Lenore Dove Baird
  • Asterid Everdeen
  • Tam Amber (Hunger Games)
  • Clerk Carmine Clade
  • Coriolanus Snow
  • Original Tributes (Hunger Games)
  • Original Characters
  • Other Character Tags to Be Added
  • Haymitch Abernathy Needs a Hug
  • So does Burdock in this au haha
  • Young Haymitch Abernathy
  • Haymitch Abernathy-centric
  • Hunger Games Mentors
  • Mentoring for the first time
  • Haymitch Abernation wishes he was drunk
  • Drug Use
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Implied Sexual Content
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • I am not sure how explicit I will be making this but it will have some referenced explicity so I might as well tag them
  • Lenore Dove Baird Lives
  • Is Haymitch better off? No.
  • Bromance
  • Bromantical if you will
  • Fix-it but also not really?
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst and Feels
  • Angst
  • Burdock Everdeen needs a hug
  • Found Family
  • Stubborn Everdeens
  • Haymitch is an unreliable narrator
  • Attractive Haymitch Abernathy

  Summary

  Haymitch is 17 now, it’s his birthday again. Another reaping commences and he just hopes he can make it out intact this time.

  He wasn’t prepared for Burdock’s name to be reaped from the bowl.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  26,115

  Chapters:

  4/?

  Comments:

  110

  Kudos:

  182

  Bookmarks:

  42

  Hits:

  3,326