Everlark Fic Prompts

“Wake up daddy! It's CHRISTMAS! You can't sleep in on christmas!” Willow screams, bouncing on our bed to get me up. Katniss moves off my lap and helps me get up and put my prosthetic leg on. 

“Can we have some cheese buns while we open presents, daddy?” she asks, giving me puppy eyes that I can never say no to. “Of course” I say as Katniss pushes my pant leg back down. We head down the stairs together, Willow shooting down the stairs much faster than Katniss and I going 1 step at a time. We reach the kitchen as Willow runs to the living room and sits on the couch waiting for us to come before reaching for any of the presents. I grab the cheese buns I made last night and go and heat them in our oven so they are warm. As I wait for them to heat up Katniss is making our hot chocolate and putting them on a dinner tray to bring to the living room and when the buns are done I put them on the tray.

 Katniss brings the tray to the living room and sets it on the coffee table as I sit on the couch next to Willow. Katniss then brings us a few of the gifts that are under the tree and sits next to me. I give Willow the gift me and Katniss got her and she opens it. “A collar? But we don't have a dog?” “ Ohhh, we totally forgot… that gift is a secondary gift” Katniss says as she gets up and gets a box from the garage, bringing it in. 

Willow opens the box that Katniss brings in and out pops a golden retriever puppy, licking Willow’s face as she picks it up. “A PUPPY?” Willow screams “REALLY?” she asks in disbelief, she had been asking all year and we finally agreed it would be okay, she is almost 5 after all.

The rest of the day goes by without a hitch, Haymitch and his wife Effie showed up and showered Willow with gifts and now it's just me and Katniss alone in our room now that we put Willow to bed. I sit on the bed taking off my prosthetic leg and getting ready to rub some ointment on my stump when Katniss brings out a small box with a bow on it from our walk-in closet and hands it to me. 

Damn him. Damn him and his cute laugh. I know I started this, but I do wish we are at home so I can be as loud as I want, I just couldn't help it. I just have to settle for this dingy classroom closet. Why do we sneak around so much? I guess it's pretty thrilling sneaking around where we work. Like now, we are in Peeta’s art supply closet, thankfully school hasn’t started yet. We were here preparing his classroom for the school year but there are other teachers here, also preparing for the upcoming school year.

I grasp his hair and pull him closer to me loving how he is making me feel. He latches his mouth on my neck, sending shivers down my spine.

I know I’m supposed to be quiet but he sure as hell isn’t making it easy on me. I mean Haymitch, Peeta’s neighbor teacher, is in his classroom just one thin wall away. 

I pull his hand away slightly and say “do you have to make it so difficult?” He laughs as he moves his hand to grab my hair that is for once down. “No, but I do like making you squirm.” I press my mouth on his shoulder and grasp him tightly to me. Somehow with my arms and legs wrapped around him, I didn’t feel close enough to him.

“Boy! Have you got any extra dry erase markers?!” We hear right outside the closet door, in Peeta’s classroom… where you’d definitely know what we are doing in here.

I pushed Peeta off of me as fast as I could and started to button up my shirt and pull up my shirt as Peeta pulled up his pants and fixed himself up. Peeta leaves first after we are fixed up. “Hey Haymitch, what did you say you needed?” “... dry erase markers… What  were you guys doing there? Huh?” he says with a big smile on his face as I slowly come out of the closet with a pack of one of Peeta’s dry erase markers. “Here, he has an extra pack” I say trying to get him to leave as quickly as possible.

“No. You aren’t getting rid of me that easily sweetheart.” he says as I try to turn away. “We were just organizing my closet” Peeta interrupted him before he could say more. “Really? Sure you were.” 

As I’m serving Effie, one of our regulars, the bell on our door chimes. “Welcome in! I’ll be with you in a moment.”  I finished up helping Effie and saw the girl that walked in sat at one of the booths by the window while waiting for me to finish up.

I was walking up to her when she turned to me. “How can I help— you? Katniss?” “Yes?” “It’s me, Peeta” I say as she looks at me with the cutest confused face. Her face smooths out as she looks at me properly. 

“Peeta? Peeta Mellark?” she asks. “Yeah! Hey! How are you? I haven’t seen you since graduation!” I can’t believe THE Katniss Everdeen is here, in my small town bakery! I blink my eyes hoping that this isn’t a dream.

“Here, let me grab you something, then we can talk. What would you like?” “I’ve heard a lot about your cheese buns, if you have any left” she says with a small smile. “Of course! Wait here for a moment!” I say, jogging back to the kitchen to grab a couple of fresh cheese buns and quickly making some hot chocolate.

I came back out and she had taken off her beanie and jacket and placed them next to her in the booth with her purse. “I got you a special treat” I say as I set the buns and hot chocolate down on the table. 

“Oh!” she exclaims as she sees what I brought out for us. “I hope you don’t mind if I join you? It's about time for my lunch now.” “I don’t mind,” she says as she gives a small smile. I sit down across from her after putting up my small ‘away for lunch’ sign on the door. “Where have you been? I haven’t seen you since graduation, last I heard you moved away with your boyfriend, Gale? Right?”

“Right, Gale.” She sighs and looks down. “Gale… he… we… well, yes, we moved together to the capital. He had wanted to design weapons for the government, but turns out his dreams didn’t line with my dreams of… well, I’m not sure yet. While we were living in the capital he was doing so well, getting internships working with engineers and finding friends. And I was at home, not doing anything and not being anything, it was like I was just there to be a trophy.”

“Wow” I say, not expecting her to open up like that. “Sorry” she says, blush running down her neck. “No, it's fine, so have you moved back here?” “Yes, what about you? What have you been up to since graduation?” “Well, this is what I’ve been up to after graduation” I say, gesturing to the building. “This? The bakery?” She says with a small smile on her face. “Yes, the new Millark’s Bakery and Cafe!” I say “ After the original bakery shut down I started saving up for this place and finally six months ago I was able to open up shop.” I say, puffing my chest with pride.

“Really? I thought you would have gotten a scholarship for your wrestling and would have been off to some fancy collage by now.” She said with surprise. “Well, I did get a scholarship, but right after we graduated I ended up in a car accident and injured my leg and lost it.” She lightly chokes on her hot chocolate “oh shit, sorry. I didn't realize… I didn’t mean to…” “its okay, you didn’t know and it’s been awhile”

We talked for an hour and when it was time to open up the bakery we exchanged numbers and agreed to talk some more after I got off work. I’m surprised she agreed to it since she mentioned needing to help her mother.