fic: together we'll fly // katniss + johanna/haymitch // chicago mockingjays (thg/hockey)

[electrumqueen]

(my life is off the rails but it's getting better! yay!)

LOL MOAR CHICAGO MOCKINGJAYS. title is from the vancouver olympics theme song, which is objectively terrible, but w/e.

together we'll fly
katniss, johanna. (haymitch/johanna, peeta/katniss, finnick/annie, gale)
pg, no warnings.

Katniss hates the Olympics. Hates them. They’re boring and

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[electrumqueen]

gale lost though so it's a mix of "LOL PRANKING KATNISS" and "SERIOUSLY CAN YOU NEVER LET SOMEONE ELSE WIN???" (of course not, they play hockey, winning is a way of life. well, not so much for gale, he plays for fucking edmonton.)

LOL katniss makes ALL the retirement jokes. "SAW YOU ON THE PHONE HAYMITCH!!! PLANNING YR RETIREMENT TO BE MASON'S TROPHY HUSBAND?" and haymitch is like, "nope, phone sex. gotta keep things fresh."

katniss like, has to go curl up on peeta and make sad noises and then peeta like, gingerly detangles her and is like, "we have drills, man up."

they're super cute omg, like i think the thing that makes me saddest about thg is that they didn't end up being (solely platonic) good friends because that would have been SUCH a cool message, yk? (that's a lie, the thing i'm saddest about is gale hawthorne king of my heart BUT THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE)

like oh man katniss is just like "UGH HOCKEY BOY WITH A CRUSH ON ME WHO HAS NOW MANIPULATED PR TO MAKE OUT WITH MY FACE, WORST" and peeta's like, "WELL THIS MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE MOST RELIABLE PERSON TO SAVE A FRANCHISE WITH UGH" and peeta like tries SUPER HARD to be professional and pleasant and katniss gives 0 fucks and just fucks recklessly around when they're playing, takes stupid risks and only gets away with it bc she's objectively brilliant but peeta's like FUCK THAT SHIT, YOU'RE A DUMBASS, THIS IS OUR TEAM (haymitch is just chilling with popcorn bc that's how he rolls) and like, they're on a line and peeta refuses to set her up until she's more responsible so games become just like, them screaming at each other on the bench until finally katniss cracks (two days before peeta was going to) and then they grudgingly respect each other and peeta's like, "yeah i had a crush on you when i was EIGHTEEN but like, dude, look at where we are, i don't fucking have time for that" and then he smirks "and also i've smelled your socks" and katniss is both relieved and furious

and gale trolls the everloving fuck out of them because 'katniss, your babies would have AMAZING skaters' thighs'

[deathmallow]

Edmonton? Ouch.

Haymitch will never retire, let's be honest. Much as he bitches, HOCKEY 4 LYFE. I'm not sure whether he'd be OK getting traded to Pittsburgh. XD

Meanwhile, during any Pittsburgh/Chicago game Katniss is all STOP FLIRTING ON THE ICE NO STOP THE SNARKY REMARKS AT THE FACEOFF YOU TWO CHECKING SHOULD NOT BE FOREPLAY WTF DDDDDDDDD:

(cue jokes about whether those two even managed to get the pads off before having sex)

I like this scenario. I really thing THG would have been more powerful anyway if it focused on Katniss and Prim because that love was the one that mattered, rather than suddenly being all EVERLARRRRRRRRRK OR DIE.

[electrumqueen]

SUCKS 2 B U, GALE HAWTHORNE. idk i kinda ship sam gagner/pkane so maybe katniss/gale will be endgame? IDK. i think out of everyone who doesn't play for chicago tho gale's probs the most likely to get traded to the mockingjays. (LOL EDMONTON CAN HAVE CATO... except rly if cato's getting traded to anywhere it's philly, oops i have a lot of feelings about this 'verse)

l o l if he got traded to pittsburgh finnick would confiscate all his alcohol. it would be a horrendous disaster and also he and johanna would spend ALL THEIR TIME having sex and scarring all the teammates. NOBODY IS HERE FOR THAT.

(ahahaha johanna shuts 'em all down with, "nope. we don't. i wouldn't touch that wall if i were you. or sit there. or ... no, you can stand on that patch of carpet, but don't move to the left or to the right at all." #trolllife)

i wanted it to secretly be about prim :(((( SECRET BADASS WIN ALL THE THINGS WITH DOCTORING!!!!

[deathmallow]

Haymitch laughs at Cato LOL PHILLLLLLLY.

They'd spend all their off-ice time having sex. They do take their hockey seriously. ;) And that scenario would be hilarious if only for a few weeks, let's face it.

("IS THERE ANYWHERE YOU TWO HAVEN"T BEEN FUCKING EACH OTHER" "...we should make a list." "And get on that list.")

Hayhanna...gloriously messing with everyone forever. It's a beautiful thing.

Prim yes plz more.

[electrumqueen]

haymitch makes cato a care package before he leaves. it consists of whiskey, whiskey, more whiskey, and a hard-boiled egg.

hahaha yes!!! finnick would be like, "please come out of your house we need to have practice" and they'd both put their clothes on and go, but if it was like, 'COME MEET THE TEAM/DO THIS INTERVIEW' oops, haymitch broke the phone, what a disaster.
the pens would just be like, "YOU NEED TO GIVE HIM BACK" within two weeks.
(and lbr, chicago would be sobbing to death about it so they would take him back like they took back versteeg: OPEN ARMS)

man i really want prim in hockeyverse! PROBABLY SHE GROWS UP TO SPECIALIZE IN CONCUSSIONS :((((((

[deathmallow]

"Gotta get something in your stomach, kid."

Poor Chicago needs him. But aw, Johanna would miss him. And love how frantic they both made the Pens. ;) BEST TROLL EVAR.

"You're Canadian! You're supposed to be a hockey natural and be a nice guy!"

"Aw, shit, did I miss that second part? Yeah, well, I was born on the American side. Oops. Must be what did it." (Funny thing is, Panem-wise, I have Johanna as the Minnesotan/Canadian. XD)

She probably does specialize in concussions and this is epic sadface. :((((

[electrumqueen]

man tbf jo and haymitch need some form of external competition or theyll destroy each other! like within two weeks w/ them both on the pens they'd hit supersaturation and move onto like .. semi dangerous on-ice and off-ice (read: sexytimes) competition and they'd both be SUPER SERIOUS about it, like the sorest losers ever, and it would be a SHIT SHOW. it's better when their teams are competing so they can chirp each other about that and then just be domestic and adorable in the summer / long weekends. (they can't even train together, it just gets semi-violent and everyone around them has to leave the vicinity.)

haha i mean, it would totally have made sense for jo to be canadian? but i needed finnick to be from cole harbour (because like, HELLO) and you know, geno/sid contrasts, etc. niagara-on-the-lake is SO lovely though, i bet haymitch's entire extended family is straight up horrified by his behaviour and when he takes mockingjays/jo home he like, becomes this super polite person and everyone's like "WHAT" and his extendeds are like, "we apologize for haymitch, he just never learned manners"and peeta's like, "katniss, if this is impolite, we should totally invite them to a game" (BABY TROLLS ARE QT)

:(((( poor prim. she's really good at it though!!! everyone loves her. rory totally ends up playing too and they are adorable married, she like refuses to date him because she's so scared his brain is going to liquefy and he's like, "OK WE CAN WAIT UNTIL I RETIRE!!!" and proceeds to actually not date anyone for like three years until she finally caves and is like, "FINE I LOVE YOU THIS IS DUMB BUT IF YOU FIGHT I WILL SHOW YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE TEAM MY THESIS IN DETAIL WHICH IS ON BRAIN TRAUMA" (his team is the safest team in the league, incl the mockingjays, because katniss has practice disappointing prim - doesn't like it a whole lot, but likes going stupid fast more)

[deathmallow]

They do like to keep each other on their toes...snark and competition FTW. (It's one of the things I love about their relationship, TBH, that they can do that for each other.) Anyone visiting them in the summer, in between OMG PUT ON CLOTHES is probably like OMG WTF WITH THE DOMESTICITY.

I assume Haymitch's parents are dead and all, but I can just imagine his cousins apologizing for him constantly and Haymitch is just like all grouchyface as he's trying to be all Canadian and STILL failing, and they're probably mildly horrified at his brash American girlfriend/fiancee but of course they're too polite to say so and they're like "Well, maybe she suits him, he never DID learn manners...at least they're very happy together?"

Haymitch: And you wonder why I fucking well drink.

Awww, Prim! PRIM FOR QUEEN OF EVERYTHING.

[electrumqueen]

haha oh man, they probably got burned when katniss showed up the first time w/ peeta in tow - bc all of the press is like, lol kat/peeta otp!!! and then in actually they just bitch each other out constantly in between peeta offering to help with dinner/the dishes/the gardening. so by the time johanna shows up they were expecting a ragemonster but actually, she's used to being polite for the press - she's not super great it, but the low bar of their expectations really helps out and she becomes everyone's favourite and haymitch is just like ... HOW.

PRIM IS THE GREATEST. prim for all the awards