Works in Progress 🪿

steal into my melancholy heart

Summary: In the aftermath of the rebellion, Effie Trinket is awaiting trial under house arrest in the Capitol. When an unexpected proposal is brought up to her, she had no choice but to accept the offer: a backdated marriage to one Haymitch Abernathy in exchange for her freedom. Effie leaves behind the world she once knew for the unknown in District 12. She and Haymitch must keep up the illusion that they are a proper married couple, deeply in love with each other... but Effie knows this will never become reality. For who could ever learn to love such a monster? Updates Sundays ☀️✨🌩️

One Shots 🥃 it's been a while since you turned up the dial, so shame on me, shame on you

Summary: A cheeky gift (not necessarily given with the kindest intentions) has an unexpected outcome. Or: Haymitch gives Effie a remote controlled toy, and then she gives him a surprise of her own. 🌶️🌙

she’s on your mind like all the time, but I got a tattoo for us last week

Summary: "Effie spent years marking Haymitch’s skin with her nails, her teeth, and her lips to feel like she had branded him somehow.” Haymitch wakes up with a tattoo. Effie grapples with the feelings it brings up and tries to find ways to leave her own mark behind. ☀️✨

winged cupid painted blind

Summary: An invitation to a notoriously private and prestigious party arrives for Effie and Haymitch, but what they find when they get there is not quite what they were expecting. 🌶️🌙

put your lips where my hips are

Summary: "She jumped when she felt Haymitch press a kiss to her knee as he nudged her legs apart. Surely he wouldn’t… His hands, pushing her skirt up, said otherwise. As embarrassing as the situation was, it was also a little thrilling… provided they didn't get caught." Or: Haymitch visits Effie on a lunch break. 🌶️☀️️🌙

touch me anywhere, cause I’m your baby

Summary: "Can I ask you something?” Effie was staring out the window at the city below, and gave Haymitch a hum of acknowledgement as she sipped her coffee. "What does 'pegging' mean?” 🌶️🌙

we were both young when I first saw you

Summary: Effie Trinket expected life after University to be exciting. After all the discipline she put into her school years, she is ready to reap the rewards at her dream job. What she didn't expect was to find herself overqualified in a dull position, bored to tears, and surrounded by co-workers who don't take her seriously. Then, an unexpected call from her little sister compels her to make a decision that will set the trajectory of her life onto a completely different path. --- Prequel to "one slip and falling back into the hedge maze -oh, what a way to die', though it can be enjoyed as a stand alone. ✨💫

a world undefined in my body and mind

Summary: Suffering from the remains of a hangover, and a semi-permanent bad attitude, Haymitch searches Effie's room for something he is missing, but soon discovers something else while snooping. Or: Haymitch gets trapped in a closet while Effie has some alone time Hayffie Week Day 1: Mutual Mastubation 🌶️🌙

lightning strikes every time she moves

Summary: Five times Effie and Haymitch were interrupted, and one time they weren't. Or: everyone and their mother walks in on Effie and Haymitch Hayffie Week Day 2: 5+1 🌶️🌙☀️☁️

really good bed chem

Summary: After a train malfunction leaves Haymitch and Effie stranded for the night in District 3, they are forced to share a bed. Haymitch worries he will sweat the bed and wonders if Effie snores. Hayffie Week Day 3: One Bed ☀️✨

if you're lost, you can look and you will find me

Summary: When Effie and her besties go to a bar, she is horrified to see her ex arriving with his new girlfriend. In a panic, she asks the first man she (quite literally) bumps into if he will pretend to be her boyfriend. Or: a slightly canon divergent Effie and Haymitch meet in a bar, have a little flirt, and when the night ends they assume they'll never see each other again. Hayffie Week Day 4: Fake Dating ☀️✨

my heart stumbles on things i don't know

Summary: Released from District 13’s rehab facility, Haymitch realizes that the two women who mean the most to him, Katniss and Effie, are mad at him. He can deal with Katniss’s scorn, and he knows she will need his mentoring now more than ever. Effie, however… well, he would need to figure that out. Or: Haymitch is exhausted, drained, and notices Effie’s death glares across the canteen. Confronting her reveals something unexpected. Hayffie Week Day 5: Jealousy ☀️✨

thrill me, chill me, fulfil me

Summary: When Effie discovers that a certain commemorative toy of Haymitch has been created and is being sold in the Capitol, she is horrified. Then a rather boring day turns into something shamefully fulfilling. At the start of the next year's games, she asks herself, "Am I into Haymitch?" Hayffie Week Day 6: Sex Toys 🌶️🌙

euphoria right down to the crush

Summary: After being primped, prodded, and plastering on fake smiles for a fortnight on the Victory Tour, an exhausted Katniss Everdeen is ready to return home. The only thing that separates her from peace is one final dinner in District 12. Effie whisks Katniss away to oversee the final look, and asks a very unexpected question while she has the girl at her mercy. ✨

take me to your heart, for that’s where i belong

Summary: Effie and Haymitch are living in the new Panem, free of the oppression and opulence each had been accustomed to in their previous lives.

Now, married, and living tighter in 12, they are faced with a new challenge.

Or: a domestic slice of life with a healthy dash of angst and medicinal fluff.

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Completed Multi-Chapter 🦋

a gruesome twosome we will be

Summary: "Remember that party with the wedding? Well, it turns out that the officiant was real... and you're my lawfully wedded husband." The phone slipped from his hand, crashing loudly to the floor. He heard Effie's distant voice from somewhere around his feet, asking if he was still there. His ears were ringing as he pulled the receiver up by its kinked and coiled cord with numb hands and returned it to his ear. "Sorry, I thought you just said 'husband.'" ... A take on the classic 'fake marriage' trope, loosely inspired by The Parent Trap (1998) ☀️✨

destroy this city of delusion

Summary: "To have many victors was to be envied. To have none was to be pitied or, worse, could render the escort a laughing stock.” With another Hunger Games on the horizon, Effie readies herself for another year of plastering on made-up smiles as she prepares for her twenty-third reaping. If it's anything like the last twenty-two, she knows that she and Haymitch will not be celebrating a victor at the end. Still, she keeps herself cheery at the annual escort luncheon and plays her part, trying to fit in with the other escorts. After two District 12 victors are crowned, Effie's life is turned upside down. She is introduced to a new world among the Capitol's elite. Parts of this world are exciting; some are deeply unsettling. 🌩️✨

one slip and falling back into the hedge maze -oh what a way to die

Summary: It dawns on him slowly, then all at once -he has fallen in love with Effie Trinket. Fourteen years pass from the 61st games to the 75th, and Haymitch navigates his feelings for his district's escort among the ever-present power of the Capitol, rumbles of rebellion, and his inner demons that threaten to consume him. 🌶️🌩️🌙✨💫

Series 🎀

one single thread of gold