Hello everyone.

Thank you for all the support this fic has gotten over the years. It was such a great experience to write and have all that support from the readers.

I don't have a reason why but this week I re-read this fic and I remembered what I had been planning to write. I know its not the fic finished in the way it deserves. I learned a lot from this process and now only publish after i fully write a fic. I thought everyone at least deserved to hear where this fic was headed.

Okay here's what was planned

-I didnt have a clear plan for the arena because I didn't really love that second arena. Haymitch was gonna be in there with katniss but other than that I had no plan

- What i did have planned out fairly well was the idea that when Katniss and the other tributes get rescued that the Capital was going to attack Cato and Annie in the apartment. Cato having seen some of what was happening in the arena was going to hide Annie in some kind of like secret Avox space that the peacekeepers werent likely to check, and take on what was going to be something along the lines of a swat team breaking into the apartment. The rebels would find Annie unharmed but terrified

- again no specific plan for what was going to happen in district 13, besides a few key points

-madge and most of district 12 were going to escape before the bombing due to the generalized training Cato had provided over the year

-cato was going to receive a certain amount of torture similar to what peeta endures in the books. In particular they were going to surgically remove his scars. the torture instead of making him attack katniss when rescued was going to make him nonverbal and prone to panic attacks instead of rage outburst

- one of the things i clearly remember planning is that i was going to 'swap' who died. Finnic was going to make it out of that raid on the capital because Cato was going to still have the instincts to react and fight off those creatures. I was planning to kill Haymitch instead of Primrose. I had been trying to work out exactly what i was going to do but Gale's character change was going to have him not help build those bombs. The plan had actually been for Gale to die instead of Finnic in some other part of the raids

-I wanted to do something with Cato in district 2 as part of the rebels moving towards the capital. all those hints of his family were going to get some pay off. He was going to help destroy the training facility and also meet/save his younger brother.

- Katniss was going to miscarry as part of *gestures vaguely to the arena and district 13*. She was also not going to have kids in the epilogue. It was something i always felt was out of character for her and one of my few complaints about the series. its just a very hetero normative way to wrap up the series. not everyone's happy ending involves children.

I know this isnt the ending people wanted. I know its not enough. I am leaving the fic unfinished so new readers dont think it's properly finished.

Hopefully some of you have ended up in one of my more recent hyper fixations and can enjoy my newer works.

Thank you again for all of the love this fic has received over the years. I know I haven't responded to all the comments but I have adored every single one of them.

-E