"The seasons are turning and her body molds itself into the image of a woman. The world keeps spinning even as she stands completely still." Peeta and Katniss grow, and grow back together. Canon, MJ-Compliant.

Tragedy has been chasing teenage runaway Katniss Everdeen longer than she can remember. In a desperate attempt to escape it once and for all, she lands herself in Estes Park, Colorado, where she meets Peeta Mellark, a boy who unknowingly can't stop saving her from herself.

"Her boots are dusty instead of muddy on the first day of June, and she has an acute sense of impending danger." Fire ravages District Twelve, and Katniss loses one of the last pieces of her father that she has left- his bow. Stretched to the ends of her own endurance, just how much is she willing to sacrifice to keep herself and those she loves alive?

"Jarlshof is nothing but ashes now. Everyone I once knew- dead. The only one way forward is here, as a slave to the people who took everything I loved and burned it to the ground." Everlark, Viking!AU

Lavender becomes my first lesson in self-hatred. There are others, and they all have corresponding colors- a muted palette of private heartache, a fog of greyish-purple-blues that have names like periwinkle, mist and wisteria, but feel like a rolling pin against my ribs and taste like the bitter saliva around a hastily mumbled 'Sorry'.

He wasn't brave like she was, like she had to be, but he liked to think he had at least taken a step in the right direction. For 'The Flowers of Panem ' challenge for 'Marigold'. TW for language and racism.