Swan Upon Leda
Everlark • 8/8 chapters (complete) • 95k words • Explicit • Graphic Violence Warning*
“Ya know, Katniss and I. We’ve been luckier than most. I wouldn’t have any regrets at all…” and he pauses. “I-if it weren’t…if it weren’t for…” he shakes his head
“If it weren’t for… what what?” Caesar prompts.
“If it weren’t for the baby.”
And nothing could have prepared her for that.
The only reason Katniss regrets that night 4 months ago is because of everything that came after. The pain she caused him, when he realized it wasn’t real, just like everything else about their relationship. The way he pretended she didn’t exist for months after the second victory tour. But specifically this part, where she’s being forced back into a death arena while four months pregnant. It would make her inevitable death so much easier to accept if that night had never happened.
Peeta isn’t supposed to know. So why is he telling Caesar, and all of Panem, on national television?
OR: the fic where Everlark aren’t together yet, Katniss is pregnant during the Quarter Quell, Peeta isn’t supposed to know but then figures it out, Peeta never gets taken by the Capital and hijacked, and they try to live their “happily ever after”. Catching Fire -> Epilogue.
*TAGS: Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mallark, everlark, catching fire, mockingjay, post mockingjay, Quarter Quell, Slight canon divergence, book and movie lore, adjusted ages, they’re both 19, canon-typical violence, gore, death, grief, PTSD, nightmares, implied/referenced self-harm, dreams about domestic abuse, this is the hunger games yall idk what you’re expecting, secrets, ANGST, hurt/comfort, but a lot of the comfort is also hurt, eventual fluff, caretaking, morning sickness, hormones, unplanned pregnancy, miscarriage, I mean come on there’s no way that baby survives all of THAT let’s be realistic here, getting together, fake dating to real dating, Allies to friends to lovers to estranged to lovers again to estranged again and then back to lovers, falling in love, eventual smut, porn with plot, porn with feelings, un-hijacked Peeta, Finnick gets taken by the capitol instead of Peeta and he still dies, Im so sorry Finnick I love you but it had to happen, happy ending, making a family, I skim a lot of plot y’all know what happens, Greek mythology metaphors, THIS GOT WAY LONGER THAN PLANNED, semi-unreliable narrator
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(More snippets under the cut, if that wasn’t enough for you, and you don’t care about spoilers — no smut in the snippets)
