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our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises (we're pretty sure they're all wrong) by thelilacfield
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins
17 Mar 2026
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“I don’t want to drag you down with me.”
“You’re not,” she says. “Maybe I’m not perfect, Haymitch. Have you considered that?”
“You’re my rare and radiant girl-”
“Nowhere in my poem does it say that the girl is perfect,” she says. “Maybe that’s why he can’t forget his lost Lenore. Because she was less than perfect. Because she fascinated him.”
“I’m still less than you deserve,” he says, and she smiles.
“It’s not about deserving,” she says quietly. “I want to give you everything. If you’re bad, let me be bad with you.”