Hey everybody, HeptaGone with the first chapter to a Hunger Games fanfic I've been planning for a while, Hope you all like it and ANY reviews are a massive help, especially if they include tips or constructive criticism. I'll answer any questions you put out there, and any opinions or ideas on the plot of the story would be really awesome to see as a response, thanks for reading guys, next chapter will come very soon!

This fanfiction starts long before the 74th Hunger Games, not long after Katniss's father dies.

(Disclaimer: If I had invented The Hunger games or its affiliated characters, well, this wouldn't be a FANfiction now would it?)

Chapter 1: What if.

"Food with legs. Deer, birds, rabbits, all ran obliviously through the forest of undisturbed wildlife, untouched by the "perfect society" behind the brick wall, the barbed wire, the electric fence. The cyan blue and emerald green naturally appearing in that forbidden haven clashing with the grey of the walls, the grey of the smoke and the grey of the District 12 sky.

Katniss knew that she was seeing what many others never could, she saw it nearly every day! In that sense she was lucky, perhaps the little piece of nature surrounding the prison so many called "home" was fate's way of compensating her for the misery, the famine. The death of her father.

It occurred to her then that fate had taken even that away from her, to feed what was left of her family, Katniss spent nearly every day scavenging for food, never hunting, she wasn't that desperate, and she didn't know how, the endless hunt for food had started a month ago, when the family's only source of income had perished along with Mr. Everdeen in a mine accident. Katniss set off to find berries, plants, whatever she could find.

Later that day, she found it.

To some people, nothing special, something repulsive, even, the carcass of a rabbit, hopelessly entangled in knotweed from a tree close by. The animal had obviously strangled itself during its escape attempts, and, because of the tree cover and quiet surroundings, remained untouched by other predators. It was here that Katniss faced a choice, it was late, the sun had long since set, the winter cold was settling in and her mother would son begin to worry, depressed as she was from her husbands death, the fear of a missing child was far from doctors orders, or would have been, if they had one. However, the rabbit could feed the Everdeens for a week. It could take hours to salvage the meat from the weeds, but food was scarce enough as it was."

The Katniss you've read about chose to go home for the night, and finds the rabbit gone in the morning, it's so insignificant it's not even mentioned in the story.

But what if Katniss had thought a little more, remembered the beginnings of starvation showing on her little sister's face, and the dishes in the sink, stained with the memories of food long gone?

What if, behind the scenes, she had worked to free the rabbit? Came home an hour later? Why then, this insignificant little choice would trigger a series of events that wouldn't end in the revolution, No Mockingjay, No President Coin.

When Katniss makes that choice, 2 universes are created, in one, the rebellion, District 13, everything you watched and read in the Hunger Games Trilogy.

In the other one, Katniss takes a rabbit home.

And that choice changes Panem forever,

What d'yah think? I'll release the next chapter ASAP, most likley today, so you won't have to wait long for chapter 2! I won't spend log describing tiny choices like I did here, the story will escalate fast. I've always loved the idea that tiny things can make such a huge difference, so I'm finally basing the start of a story on it! Hope you guys enjoyed, by Chapter 5 or 6 we'll probably be in a Hunger Games, so no huge build ups, I promise. Peace out.