I GENUINELY HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE IDEA FOR THIS STORY CAME FROM, IT JUST POOPED INTO MY HEAD ON THE WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL YESTERDAY SO I SPENT TODAY PLANNING

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My name is Katniss Mellark, I am 19 years old.

My dad, Rye Mellark, was the town baker.

My mum was Dora Mellark, the baker's wife.

But my father was Telstar Everdeen, the hunter from the seam.

I had 5 siblings, which is a lot for district 12. my oldest sibling was 23, Rye Junior, or R.J as everyone knew him. He went into political business and was the mayors main assistant, and I couldn't have been prouder of him. My second brother was Wheat Mellark, and was 21 years old and still helped out at the bakery. My last brother, and the brother I was closest to, was Peeta Mellark, a very kindhearted soul who had been set up to take over the bakery, and he was 18 years old.

I also had two sisters, the first was only 12 years old. Anadama Mellark, the prodigy of our family. At 12 years old she had been the smartest of all the Mellark children, with the exception of R.J.

But my last sister, was Primrose Everdeen.

You see, I was the baby of Telstar and Dora, as she had had an affair with him before he married Prim's mother. My father, being the kind soul Peeta had learned from, had taken her back straight away, but she had insisted Telstar name the baby, or I should say me.

That's why I was the only Mellark child named after a flower and not a bread, and why I look like I come from the seam and not the town. In fact, I was the only of any of my siblings to look this way, as Primroses mother was from the town as well.

I had olive skin, black hair kept in a braid, and gray eyes that look black in the right light. All my siblings had blonde hair, pale skin, and bright blue eyes, especially Peeta and Prim. Their eyes were so blue they were the first things anyone noticed about them.

My dad had always let me keep in touch with Telstar as he thought that he had the right to know his daughter. Telstar had taught me how to hunt in the 6 years of my life I'd known him; he taught me many other things as well, like edible plants and anything else that would help, and has helped, his family survive.

He also taught me what an honour it is to compete in the hunger games, and why volunteering was a brave and honourable thing to do. He was a victor, one of the only 3 district 12's ever had, and he was the districts first ever volunteer.

He was gone now though, blown up in a gas fire that took away the entire house he had in the victors village. It was lucky Prim was with me at the time, or she would have been gone then, just as her mother and our father were. She had lived with me and Peeta then in the house next to the bakery that the family owned.

It was a good decision, for Peeta, Prim and I to move to the house next door, because our parents-they were basically Prim's parents as well- had their own space, and Peeta and I were always on hand to help out, and Prim was a joy and made my mother happy.

For my mother had not been the nicest person when I was younger. She would scream and yell at me for being a 'half-breed' and that my dad was 'scum'. I never pointed out to this day that he was the 'scum' that she had had an ongoing affair with behind my fathers back. Part of the reason Peeta and I were so close was that he would always take beatings for me when we were young.

But all that stopped when dear Anadama was born, and it was like my mother changed into a new person. She had always wanted a daughter that wasn't a 'half-breed', and when she got her, the yelling stopped. The beating stopped. The insults stopped. She began to love me as I had wanted her to, and we had a strong relationship.

My mother was perfectly happy to take in Prim when she had to move in with me as well, and while we would never get her name changed officially in honour of Telstar, she was much a Mellark as Anadama had been.

So my family may not have been conventional, but we were happy, and that's what had mattered. while it had lasted anyway.

But I ruined all that three years ago. when I destroyed the government all in the name of vengeance, revenge and the girl i now held to me as she cried.

"Tell me a story Momma Kat." She pleaded with me, red eyes shining.

"Okay sweetie, how about the 'three years ago' story?" I phrase my words carefully, knowing how fragile she could get when she was having a breakdown.

"Okay."


So what did you think of my little intro there? I liked it personally, and I'm sorry, but I always wished Peeta was never beaten for the bread, so I made daughters, yeah.

By the way, Anadama Is a bread, okay? It's a yeast bread from new England

and if anyone was wondering, other mentors like Finnick and Johanna, WILL be making an appearance, as will all canon tributes of the 74th games, with the exception of foxface, who I have something special planned for :D try and guess, I dare you!

My story will not be alternating timelines! only that last bit there is from the 'future', the rest is going to be written as present tense!

Review=Burnt bread from Peeta!