The Sunset Castle by thesweetnessofspring
If it had not stormed on a certain March morning, Peeta Mellark's whole life would have been entirely different. Peeta Mellark, twenty-nine and unwanted, lives under the control of his family: dependent on his oldest brother for his livelihood, in the shadow of his handsome older brother, and bearing the insults and hands of his mother. But then he learns that he has at most one year to live and he refuses to spend it like he has for the past twenty-nine. He begins keeping company with the drunken district handyman, his sick ward, and the mysterious forest woman, Katniss Everdeen, while he lives out his sunset in all the colors he can find. Based on L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle
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Peeta couldn't drag himself away from Katniss or their cabin for several days after their marriage. During the day, he was cleaning up and fixing up the place to feel a bit more homey than Katniss had let it be when she lived alone. She'd also taken him around the woods and led him into the water of the lake. Then at night…it still marveled him that what happened on their wedding night wasn't a one-time thing, something she did just because he was dying and in love with her. At least, it didn't seem that way to him when she let their kisses grow deeper and she laid in his arms after. He understood that just because she was a woman didn't mean she was any less capable of getting pleasure herself, nor that it meant she was in love with him, too. But she'd enjoyed herself enough that at least for now, sex was part of their marriage.
Still, life had to continue and they couldn't remain isolated on the lake. They stopped by Haymitch's first to tell him about the marriage.
"Good," Haymitch said. "You two marrying each other means I don't have to pretend to like any other partners either of you might've found."
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