For Prompts in Panem farewell tour Day 2: What if? What if Peeta and Prim hadn't been reaped? Inspired by the canon line 'this would have happened anyway'. -Trigger warning: child abuse, underage. Rated M. (Contains lines directly lifted from, and paraphrased from, The Hunger Games trilogy, as well as scenes from the books reenvisioned. 'cause that's kind of what fanfiction is.

Peeta Mellark, the baker's son saved Katniss Everdeen's life at the age of eleven when he threw the burnt bread one rainy day. She never thanked him let alone acknowledged his existence. She hated owing him but knew there would come a day when she would repay him. Little did she realize that her life was bound to his forever. It was inevitable. AU HG, OOC Everlark

Nobody knew how he lost his eyesight. Katniss, however, had known the blind boy since she was a child. She didn't know his name; in fact she had never spoken to him in her entire life. To her, when she saw the blond child sitting outside the bakery that her mother frequented, with his sunglasses and stick, she had thought nothing of it. High School turned into a different matter.

When head cheerleader Katniss Everdeen is found in her bathroom unconscious and surrounded in pills everyone thinks the same thing: suicide. Her life is thrown into turmoil when nobody believes her when she says that she didn't try to kill herself and the only person she can turn to is Peeta, the boy who she has bullied for most of her life and is now tutoring her for math. OCC.

Katniss Everdeen is a college senior trying to adjust to life after a horrible accident tore her family apart. Peeta Mellark has not seen Katniss since the day they graduated high school and he entered the military. When they cross paths at a party, the two start a friendship that could possibly take them on a journey in life that neither one expects.