the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 18 of ?
( Prim is still awake when I get home, seated at the kitchen table, an old, yellowing picture book open before her. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 17 of ?

( Nothing wakes me up quite as quickly as realizing that I'm alone in my bed. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 16 of ?
( Gale goes home soon after we eat, resting his hand on my waist and pressing a kiss to my cheek as he says goodbye. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 15 of ?

( It's not the axe, wielded by the boy from District 1, as I'd feared the night we gathered to watch the Games in the town square. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 14 of ?

( I should go home. I should run after him. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 13 of ?

( Somehow I feel that if Gale were to see me tonight, he’d know that I spent the whole day with my mind on someone else. )

the next will never come
"It means I'm done. It means I'm free. It means I'll live."
katniss/peeta, katniss/gale, au, r. katniss makes it through her final reaping. part 12 of ?

( 'How's Gale?' Prim asks the second I walk through the front door. )

The Bough Unbowed, 1/2
katniss/peeta, r, au. Gale dies in the Hunger Games.

( 'I don't need it,' Peeta says firmly. 'I don't want anything from you.' And it's not true, there are things he wants from Katniss; her smile, her laugh, her warm breath on his neck, her body moving beneath his in the dark. But he doesn't want them as part of an exchange. He wants them because she wants him to have them. )

Written for the "Other Worlds" AU challenge on Tumblr's Prompts in Panem.

Science vs. Romance, 3/3
katniss/peeta. nc-17, au: thg meets true blood. Katniss Everdeen is twenty-two years old, slinging burgers and beer at Hawthorne's Bar and Grill the day the vampires come out of the coffin.

( No one in Bon Temps could've predicted that Katniss Everdeen would be the first girl in town to start sleeping with a vampire, least of all Katniss herself. )

Written for the "Other Worlds" AU challenge on Tumblr's Prompts in Panem.

Science vs. Romance, 2/3
katniss/peeta. nc-17, au: thg meets true blood. Katniss Everdeen is twenty-two years old, slinging burgers and beer at Hawthorne's Bar and Grill the day the vampires come out of the coffin.

( She's never reacted this way to a guy - not Gale, not anyone - in her entire life. It's obvious that Peeta has used some kind of vampire magic on her. )