Author's Note:

First, I want to answer a few questions from the reviews.

1. Katniss didn't watch this game. I didn't check the continuity really close, so if she mentioned watching it, my bad XD Just pretend she didn't. In this story, she would have heard about it as an old legend, since these Games were notoriously dull.

2. Yeah, Cornflower Fields is a ridiculous name. I chose Cornflower because she lives on a farm and cornflowers are farm flowers. I figured Fields is a pretty common surname in 10, and it's based on real people like W.C. Fields and Sally Field. I guess it's almost as ridiculous a name as Effie Trinket :p

3. When Cornflower said she'd come home, she meant it literally. With my OCD, nothing ever seems permanent. My grandma died seven years ago, and I still think "well, she's dead now, but she'll come back." Nothing ever really sinks in. Cornflower honestly thought she'd die, then stop being dead and life would go back to normal.

Second order of business:

I enjoyed writing this so much I decided to do the SYOT I couldn't fairly do with this story! It'll be the 24th Hunger Games and it will be the same universe, but that'll only affect the poor tributes from 10 who have Cornflower as a mentor. I'll set up the story and I hope you guys come participate!

The story's called 24 Years, 24 Tributes