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1. My Beating Heart Will Bring Me Death by bylerelmax

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

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   27 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Haymitch Abernathy & Beetee Latier
   • Haymitch Abernathy & Chaff
   • Haymitch Abernathy & Original Character(s)
   • Haymitch Abernathy
   • Original Characters
   • Beetee Latier
   • Effie Trinket
   • Chaff (Hunger Games)
   • Mags (Hunger Games)
   • Drusilla Sickle
   • Coriolanus Snow
   • Caesar Flickerman
   • Fifty-first Games
   • Haymitch Abernathy as a mentor
   • Haymitch Abernathy Needs a Hug
   • POV Haymitch Abernathy
   • Alcoholic Haymitch Abernathy
   • Haymitch Abernathy Has PTSD
   • Alcoholism
   • Games
   • death of children
   • Unhappy Ending
   • Angst
   • Hurt
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • If you want a happy story this is not it
   • I cried writing this
   • physical violence
   • Flashbacks
   • Nightmares
   • Mentoring the games
   • I'm serious this is a heavy story
   • Underage Drinking
   • Memory of Lenore Dove
   • Memory of Sid & Ma
   • mental health
   • Rascal
   • Suicide
   • Suicide Attempt

   Summary

   The games can't be won. They can only be survived.
   One year ago, Haymitch promised he wouldn't let them happen again.
   Today, they resume.

   Nobody taught him how to be a mentor, but two horrified tributes rely on him now. Two tributes that likely have no chance of making it past the first ten minutes.

   Thrown back into the Capitol, Haymitch forces himself to endure his trauma all over again, despite knowing there is no true happy ending for anyone. How is he supposed to teach them to live if he doesn't even want to live himself?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   34,706

   Chapters:

   16/16

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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