Ficlet: hum a few bars (i may know the tune)

[lissomelle]

Title: hum a few bars (i may know the tune)
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Rating: PG-13/T
Spoilers: The entire series, Mockingjay in particular.
Summary: Peeta and Johanna after the war.
Notes: Filled for the prompt "Johanna/Peeta, never saw you coming" over at the Girl on Fire Ficathon.

Comments

[casterlys]

Oh man, this was lovely, thank you! (So maybe this, now, is more like staking claim to something that never did or would belong to Katniss at all.) !!! The two of them do totally have this connection, even though we barely get to see it in canon. Thankfully we have awesome fic like this!

[lissomelle]

Yay, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! Thank you for the great prompt, as I'd actually never thought that much about Johanna/Peeta before and then suddenly I couldn't stop.

[casterlys]

Haha! Johanna/Peeta has that way of getting inside people's heads, I've noticed. :D

[lissomelle]

I mean, how has it not been mined for all of its potential before now?? I'm truly stunned.

[kolms]

Oh my lord, this is stunning. I absolutely love how you've written Johanna and this is just so perfect. Thank you for providing us with some extremely quality Johanna/Peeta fic!

[lissomelle]

AAAHHHH, thank you so much, both for the wonderful comment and the awesome ficathon! It was really my pleasure; I'm just circling around trying to write as much Johanna fic as possible. :-D

[kolms]

You are a woman after my own heart!!! And the ficathon has produced so much quality Johanna fic (that was my totally selfish goal for the whole thing), it's giving me all the feelings. So thank you for participating and just being generally really awesome!

[kitoky]

OMG OKAY SO I FINALLY SAT DOWN AND READ THIS AND OMMMMMMMMMMMG. In every fic of Johanna, I always expect her to be aggressive, and it felt a little odd at first because she isn't in this one - but then I realized that it's because she's one on one with Peeta, and Peeta's not the sort to get anyone riled up, so it makes sense for Johanna to be calmer.

That being said, you've pretty much done a fabulous job laying out a foundation for them as a functioning duo, platonic or romantic. Also, so, so glad you dealt with their recuperation after the war at least in a physical sense, because I really need that in canon.

DIS LINE THO: The Mockingjay blazed to ash and blew away, leaving the boy who forgot her to the feral girl no one wants to remember.

FEELINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

[lissomelle]

~YOU COMPLETE ME~

But no, seriously, I'm thrilled you totally got what I was going for with this fic! There's so much out there dealing with Peeta and Katniss/Peeta as soon as he gets back to District 12 after the war, but virtually none about his months recuperating before he goes back home, so I was like, "WELP, THIS WORKS." Blank spaces in canon that I can use for non-canon ships? Excellent.

ALSO, I LIKE HOW I'VE UNOFFICIALLY BECOME THE OPRAH TO YOUR JOHANNA FEELINGS. CONGRATS, YOU'RE GOING HOME WITH ALL THE JOHANNA FEELINGS AAAAAAAAALL THE TIIIIIIME. (This is why I need to be able to share my brain with someone other than myself, alsjdalksjd.)

[red_b_rackham]

OOOH YES. This was so excellent. Johanna and Peeta are a pair that I feel like skirt around the edge of my brain and I always forget about them, but that shouldn't happen, because they work in such an interesting way - as this proves. SUCH GOOD WRITING, GUUUH. I LOVED THIS.

[lissomelle]

Oh man, I'm so glad Johanna/Peeta worked for you in this fic! They clicked for me rather suddenly, so I wasn't sure I could convey why they'd make sense. Thank you for the awesome comment!

[capitol_barbie]

I loved this! I've suddenly found myself ot3ing Johanna with Katniss and Peeta and this was great.

[lissomelle]

An OT3 I could also get behind, to be honest! Thanks so much for reading. :-)