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Rated M; due to implication of what is going on.

Slight AU; there is a dollhouse in the capital but everything is congruent with the book

This is a short one-shot

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Short One-Shot; Slight AU; She's not really her; doesn't matter if she can hunt like her, if she dressed like her, or even talks like her. She isn't her.

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She's not really her; doesn't matter if she can hunt like her, if she dressed like her, or even talks like her. She isn't her, but that won't stop him from taking her out into the woods. It won't stop him from calling her 'Katniss', because that's what they've programed her to think is her name. This engagement, as the company called it, is out in the woods and this Katniss is his Katniss from before the games. No baker has any piece of her heart, it's just his.

She complains the entire time about how these woods are different; he tells her it must just be because of her nerves before the game. She doesn't believe him, which only add to how much she is like Katniss. She shoots as straight as Katniss does, as accurate, hell she even talks like she did. After she hits a squirrel, with a huge smile on her face, like the real Katniss had the day of reaping. He does what he had wanted to do that day when she had smiled. He kisses her.

He thinks back to the first time he had kissed her in the woods in district 12. Her mouth hadn't moved or even returned the kiss, but this version returns the kiss in full forces. He closes his eyes and pretends that it's the real Katniss. Her mouth is wet and willingly opens up to him when he licks at her lips. He wonders if this is how Katniss would have felt if he had gotten her.

He pushes this Katniss against a tree, slowly shedding her clothes, as she does the same for him. The entire time he wonder if Katniss would feel this good, would she feel this soft and this warm. Would her face look like that, would she make those noises? Would any of this have been possible if Prim hadn't been called out to be reaped and Katniss hadn't volunteered?

After everything is said and done, he watch as they take her away.

She's going back to the dollhouse in the capital, and he wonders if he should perhaps visit them again sometime.

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I was rewatching Dollhouse and I was thinking that after the war before he had a chance to maybe move on, Gale might have been willing to order a doll with the likeness of Katniss to be Katniss for an engagement, and thus this was born.

I'd love to hear feedback positive or negative, but if you're going to be pissed at me for having an OC then why did you even bother reading in the 1st place, but please, for the love of whatever you find holy, REVIEW! I do believe that most stories are victims of bystander syndrome. You assume that someone else will, never thinking that maybe no one will. So always REVIEW and I'll love you unconditionally if you do so!