mellarkia:

What no one would know was that Katniss Everdeen was not the first District Twelve volunteer. Maysilee Donner never played the Hunger Games. Instead, her twin sister stepped onto the stage that day. She was smarter than Maysilee, stronger. She could have a chance, where Maysilee would have none. And in the hope that perhaps her sister could like a normal life free of the judgement that she let her sister step forward in her place, Maysilee’s sister kept her volunteering a secret. Maysilee would die in the Hunger Games, and her twin sister would live on in District Twelve, in bed for most of her life with crippling depression, knowing that she should have died instead of her sister. In her last moments, Maysilee’s sister mouthed the words to Haymitch Abernathy; I’m her sister. (headcanon)

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