Prompt: V-day-esque prompt: K&P have a missed connection. One of them happens to have a podcast and shares about the missed connection with their co-podcaster. The other is an avid listener of said podcast [submitted by @daydreamsandcaffeine]
Rating: T
Summary: Podcaster Peeta shares about a missed connection with his co-podcaster. Could this girl be ‘The One’? Will he ever get the chance to tell her in person just how long he’s been a goner for her?
Author’s Note: Hope you like it! I had fun with this one!
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Published a new little holiday fic. Hope you enjoy!
For @wendywobbles who many moons ago asked me for a Hallmark-y fic. <3
The guy with the voice of an angel and a heart of pure gold.
The guy the whole world wants to sleep with…
Peeta Mellark could make anyone‒anyone in the whole world, she’s sure‒swoon just by crooning a few notes in that honeyed baritone of his. He could liquify a girl into a puddle at his feet just by calling her ‘honey,’ ‘baby,’ ‘sweetheart,’ or her personal favorite, she thinks sarcastically, ‘Kid.’ Those blond waves, blue eyes, dimples, and boy-next-door good looks have surely broken a million hearts.
But hers came first.
And she will always and forever know him, not as Peeta Mellark the famous singer, but as Peet, the slightly nerdy boy from the church choir.
Summary: When Peeta Mellark returns to his small hometown as a famous singer, Katniss Everdeen, a music publicist, becomes responsible for handling his tour. And he asked for her, personally. Although Peeta Mellark is handsome and charming, it should be no problem for a professional like her, except she’s never actually spoken to him before-and she’s always wanted to.
Card number and prompt: Card 1, Scrooge
Title: A District 12 Christmas Carol
Rating: T
Summary: Miserly Haymitch Abernathy forces his clerk, Peeta Mellark, to work on Christmas Eve, and his wife is none too happy about it. Will he have a change of heart by morning, and miraculously learn to be kind and generous and love Christmas? Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Word Count: 4,210
Author’s Note: This is a continuation of what I posted last year. There will be one more part after this. I attempted to go with the times (1840s Victorian era London), but do forgive me any period inaccuracies. I, of course, took some creative license in order to merge these two stories/universes. I hope you enjoy! Written for @talesofpanem Everlark Holiday Bingo 2021. Thanks to @sparklingdust4612 for the pretty page breaks/line dividers!
Paraphrased and direct quotes by Charles Dickens:
“Well, if they’d rather die, then they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
“You were a tight-fisted hand to the grindstone…Hard and sharp as flint…Solitary as an oyster.”
“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Prompt: Modern Everlark AU best friends to lovers. One of them takes the other as the trusty “back-up date” to their holiday office party. Everyone assumes they’re a couple. While taking their date home, they realize they don’t want to go back to their own place alone and feelings come to a climax 😉 [submitted by @jedimandy]
Rating: T
Summary: Lonely hearts Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark attend the office holiday party together as each other’s holidate. How will the night come to a close?
Author’s Note: Thanks to my boo, Stephanie @evestedic for her wonderful input on this one as well as the lovely @daydreamsandcaffeine
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Have some Hunger Games extended family cause you all know I’m a sucker for that. I couldn’t keep Finnick dead ok? He’s alive dammit! At least for the Holidays, let me dream! I also know Finn is way older by the time Willow and Rye are born but I wanted to draw him as a kid, if Finnick’s alive then I can modify Finn’s age as well lol
Anyway! I wanna thank you all for staying with me for yet another year, or if you started following me this year, I’m so thankful you decided to! Thank you all sooo much for the support, you’re all amazing!! <333
Summary: (AU) Peeta tells a fantastical tale to his children at bedtime on Christmas Eve about how he and their Mama met and fell in love. Is it true? Or is it merely one of Peeta’s beguiling stories? Written for @talesofpanem‘s Everlark Holiday Bingo 2021
Word Count: 6,197 (Completed one-shot)
Author’s Note: The Nutcracker Ballet is based on the story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice” written by E.T.A. Hoffman. The basic plot is as such: It’s the story of a young German girl who dreams of a Nutcracker Prince and a fierce battle against a Mouse King with seven heads. Marius Petipa choreographed the story into a ballet, which was based on a revision of the story by Alexandre Dumas. Clara and Fritz were the names of the children in The Nutcracker. Originally, the girl was named Marie (or Masha), and she was an orphan and her doll was Clara, but this was adapted; sometimes she is referred to as Marie but most often, Clara (anyone can feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here). I’ve also seen Clara (Marie)’s mischievous brother called Frederick. The original story is quite a bit darker than the revised story and ballet, but if you’re interested, check it out.
*I definitely took some liberties with the story and made some changes, tried to get a bit creative with it and parallel THG where I could, but I also tried to keep the heart of The Nutcracker story the same. Note: Italics indicates the story being told or thoughts (sometimes with single quotation marks); regular text is the present time narration.
@hutchhitched @mtk4fun @jlalafics and @notanislander (among others I’m sure) posted handy-dandy lists of their winter holiday fics and I thought why not join the fun :) Soooo… a list of mine, from most recent backwards in time :)
The First Christmas - The Everdeens have never celebrated Christmas before… Canon-divergent in-Panem fluff
Dreams of White Dresses - Winter in District 12 makes Peeta dream of things that never can be. Canon-compliant post MJ pre-epilogue fluff
You Should Be Here With Me, Safe and Warm - Based on the prompt: Stranded Everlark, we’re just friends but maybe we want more and we are awkward about having to stay in the same room but in the end, realize we want to be a couple. Modern AU
Glühwein and Girl Talk - modern AU fluff
My Heart - modern AU fluff
For Unto Us - Lonely bachelor Peeta Mellark is too old for Christmas wishes. Part of the Everlark Advent Project. Modern (ish) AU
Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Part of the Everlark Advent Project, modern AU
Snow Removal Services - Part of the Everlark Advent Project, modern AU
Everlark Advent - all of my Everlark Advent Project fics, these are canon compliant, canon divergent, and modern AU, ranging from fluff to angst to smut
Winter Headcanons - a bit of canon compliant fluff
Woo-hoo, finished another fic! I wanted to have this finished by Christmas, but alas, I wasn’t able to. I hope some of you are still in the holiday mood, though.
Read on AO3 HERE
Synopsis: Modern AU. Single mom, Katniss, brings her baby daughter to sit on Santa’s lap. Turns out, Santa is a guy she went to high school with‒and quite possibly could have been the love of her life. Do second chances really happen?
Prompt: 12 Days of Christmas, Everlark style. (Bonus: adding Haymitch’s geese) [submitted by @mandelion82]
Rating: G
Summary: Katniss gifts Peeta with a song on the second day of Christmas.
Author’s Note: The twelve days of Christmas are considered the “Christmastide,” a period of time celebrating Christ’s nativity. The traditional twelve days of Christmas start on December 25 and end on January 5. The next day is epiphany in the Catholic Church. (Christmas is January 7 and Epiphany is January 19 in the Orthodox Church.) This story is canon compliant, so Katniss and Peeta are not celebrating the traditional meaning of the holidays. Instead, the song is a method of healing for both the victors.
Card number and prompt: Card 3 - Winter Wonderland
Title: A Christmas Winter Wonderland
Rating: G
Summary: Katniss and Peeta find themselves at France's Capital of Christmas. Set in my unnamed van life!lark universe.
Word count: 526
Author’s notes: Written for @talesofpanem, this little drabble is inspired by the Christmas market photos I've been seeing on here and Instagram, a chat with @shewakesupwiththesun, and by my own limited experiences of European Christmas markets (Strasbourg, the Capital of Christmas, being one of them). As always, a huge thank you to @jhsgf82 for beta-ing<3
Driving around Europe seemed like a pipe dream when they first tinkered with the idea of traveling in a van, but now here they are in Strasbourg, France.
Their family and friends thought their plan was a little absurd - why navigate a continent they don’t know, in a van, during wintertime? But Katniss and Peeta insisted. They wanted to see Europe in its wintry glory. Plus, they had the internet to blame, or to thank, depending on how you look at it. YouTube videos and Instagram posts of the Christmas markets and the holiday decor blanketing the towns won them over.
So that’s how Katniss and Peeta find themselves at France’s oldest Christmas market and proclaimed “capital of Christmas” or as the neon lights at the entrance state: “Capitale de Noel”. It’s only fitting that the day they’re here is when the town is dusted in snow. They stand at the entrance of the market and are mesmerized by the sights, sounds, and smells of the ongoing festivities.
The archway that beckons them is well lit, bright white lights against warm yellow. Stars of varying sizes run along the arc, and two teddy bear shaped figures sit at each end. When they look past the arch, more lights are strung throughout in colors of red, green, blue, yellow, and white. Snowflake lights hang from the trees. Lit angels and gingerbread men hang high above the pathways. The stalls themselves have garlands and warm glows of their own. As Katniss’ and Peeta’s eyes wander to the picturesque buildings around them, they see garlands and streamers and Santa hats and banners of stars and hearts. A building or two has garlands made of cuddly teddy bears and boxes of presents with little trees at the occasional windowsill.
Excited chatter of children in awe of what they see fills the air; the little ones stretch their arms out attempting to point out the teddy bears or snowflakes or gingerbread men or other visual wonders around. Carolers sing Christmas classics in melodic harmony. Vendors are more than merry to talk to customers about their offerings. Clicks of cameras and shouts of what may be “say cheese” in varying languages can be heard throughout. Laughs and joyous vocals are abundant.
In unison, the petite brunette with a French braid hanging over her shoulder and the broad muscular blond with his unruly curls take a deep breath, inhaling the smells that waft its way over. Scents of evergreen, peppermint, and holiday spices tickle their noses.
What lies ahead of them is an absolute Christmas themed winter wonderland. Pictures and videos do not do it justice.
While excited, Katniss can’t help but feel a little overwhelmed, her senses overloaded. She takes another deep breath, readying herself.
Peeta stretches his left arm out to Katniss, and she enthusiastically grabs hold of it with her right. He gives her hand a squeeze which automatically makes her feel better. He looks down at her, eyebrows quirked and a smile on his face. “Together?”
Katniss grins back at him. “Together.”
Hand in hand, they walk into this Christmas Market wonderland, eager to take in what it has to offer.
{AU} After the untimely deaths of their parents, Katniss and her sister, Prim, move to a new home a few towns over with their Uncle Haymitch. The house is large and unusual, and bizarre things happen there. Katniss tries to explain away the strange occurrences, but the more happens the more she comes to suspect that their new home just might be haunted by the ghost of a boy who lived long ago. Even stranger still is when Katniss begins to develop feelings for him. Based on the 1995 movie, Casper.
Chapter Three: Stay With Me Teaser:
“You know,” he begins, growing solemn and wistful again, “sometimes I wonder if there was anything to all that…”
“What do you mean, Peeta?”
“I mean, do you think it’s possible?”
“What?”
“Do you think it’s… well, do you think there is a way…a way I could…come back to life?”
“Are you serious, Peeta? That’s…well, it’s impossible.” Isn’t it?
Peeta shrugs. “You never know, Katniss.”
She picks up the papers and takes another look. “Project Lazarus,” she reads. Next to the title, Mr. Mellark referenced a series of Bible verses.
“Yes,” Peeta says. “Lazarus was Jesus’s dear friend whom he was bereft over when he died of illness. According to The Bible, Jesus raised him from the dead.”
"So, your father was playing God, literally."
"Basically, yeah. He lamented over that in his notes. You know, whether or not he should mess around with that sort of thing.”
Katniss nods, though the wheels in her head are turning
