Hi! Can you believe it? Fanfic is now on literotica!! I was quite excited when I saw that. This is a little piece I wrote as a present for a friend of mine, and yes, it's the same me from the other places. I own nothing, but the ropes in my bedside table and the words in my head that demand to be let out.
And this is in the Hunger Games universe(canon), several years after Katniss realizes that life can be good again.
Thank you sohypothetically and norbertsmom for all that you do!!
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Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? -Alain de Botton
Katniss is standing at the kitchen sink watching Emma and Teddy play in their playhouse. She loves being a mom; she really does, but there are days where it seems that they just take everything from her. Its early spring, so she can't go hunting just yet; she doesn't want to interrupt the mating season. She doesn't really have to go at all. The butcher in town is Delly's husband who moved here from district ten; he has enough connections so he always has fresh meat for his new home district.
She is so lost in her thoughts that she doesn't even hear Peeta come in behind her. He brings his arms around her front and pulls her to him. He nuzzles her neck and kisses her.
"I need a break," she whispers.
"Do you want me to call Delly? Do you want them to spend the night?" he asks.
"See what she says. If she doesn't mind them spending the night, tell her we'll take hers next week or something."
He turns her in his arms and kisses her again. And then goes to make the phone call.
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Katniss is waiting in the study when she hears the front door close. She hears him take off his boots and come down the hallway towards her. She knows that he can see that the light is on from where she has the door only half open. The door starts to open and he softly says, "Katniss?"
She doesn't say anything, but loves the look on his face when he sees her sitting in the desk chair with her ankles propped up on the desk and all she is wearing is his old apron from before the games. It's stained, and torn in some places but it's clean, and it, for some weird reason, helps her to know that no matter what happens, life will go on.
He comes into the study, his eyes never leaving hers. "Mrs. Mellark, what is on your mind tonight?"
She lowers her feet from the desk in front of her. Yes, this is the desk that Snow sat at and threatened her, but she and Peeta redeemed it one weekend. They have made love on top of this desk so many times, neither one of them can remember the number. Katniss has a feeling that their son was conceived one morning while she was bent over while Peeta worked up a morning sweat pounding into her.
Peeta schools his face to remain neutral while his beautiful wife climbs on top of the desk. The apron hides what he knows so well, and he loves that it's his apron that she wears. The apron that he wore when he would watch her make her trades among the merchants. The apron he wore when he wished for the chance to just talk to her.