Roommate
Fake Fic Ask Game by @vasilissadragomir
🐑 (fake set of fic tags): modern au roommates, mutual pining, jealous!katniss, hot chocolate, meddling!Prim, misunderstandings
She’s smiling down at her phone when Prim snaps her fingers in front of the screen, “Are you even listening?”
“Oh! Yeah! Sorry,” Katniss says, placing her phone face down on the table.
“Who are you talking to anyways?” Her sister eyes the phone with curiosity and Katniss covers it with her hand lest Prim resort to snooping, “are you seeing someone?! You’re giddy, it’s weird”
“God no,” she has no desire for that, “Peeta’s doing a grocery run and asked about snacks.” They were going to watch Jurassic Park tonight and he’d sent her a picture of a bag of frozen Dino nuggets.
“Sounds cozy. What does Nutmeg think about her boyfriend Netflix-and-chill-ing with his super hot roommate?”
Katniss rolls her eyes, “Clove’s not in the picture anymore.” She doesn’t get it. Peeta’s the best, but his taste in women is the worst. She’d taken to giving them petty nicknames rather than learning their real ones. The latest had been a real cloven hoofed bitch.
“Oh,” Prim perks up, “So, are you gonna make a move?”
God, not her too! Maybe she’s been talking to Finnick. He keeps insisting she’s in love with Peeta. She’s not and the accusation is annoying, “No,” She says, tone firm, “Peeta and I are friends. Just friends.”
“Hmm” her sister sounds unconvinced.
“Hmm what?”
“I think you like him.”
“Of course I like him, he’s my friend.”
“Come on Katniss. You talk about him constantly, you spend all your spare time together, and you’ve hated every girl he’s ever given a second look.”
“Yeah, because they all sucked.”
“- his dick, and you were jealous.” Prim adds.
Katniss bulks, “don’t talk like that. Who raised you?”
“We all know who raised me. Don’t try to duck the topic! So, you’d be fine with him dating someone you approve of?”
Katniss shrugs, “of course,” it’s a trick question, because she can’t imagine anyone good enough for him.
“What about me?” Prim says, as if following her line of thought, “I must meet your standards. What if I started dating Peeta? You wouldn’t have a problem with that?”
“Didn’t know you were interested.” Why does her voice sound so high all of the sudden?
“I don’t know; maybe it’s all your glowing about how great he is. Answer the question.”
“I mean it would be weird, because you're my sister,” she says haltingly, “but obviously I think you’re amazing,” she briefly imagines Peeta leading Prim to his bedroom, and wants to vomit.
“So you’d be completely fine if I asked him out?” Prim eggs.
Her discomfort is overcome by a flare of annoyance at the challenge. “Want me to put in a good word for you?” She snarks.
“Nah.” Katniss exhales, feeling a little lighter. Maybe this will finally put the whole thing to rest, but then her sister continues with a smirk, “I’m a big girl, I don’t need your help.”
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I think a lot about Katniss teaching her children to hunt and survive in the woods, like her father did with her.
The girl is very good at climbing trees and collecting wild plants, but it hates hunting. It's bad shooting with a bow and even worse killing animals. She always ends up bursting into tears over a squirrel.
"You know you eat them every day, right? Why do you only cry when you see them die?" the boy says to her.
"Well, you're an insensitive idiot." she argues back.
"You two shut up and stop harassing animals" Katniss says and both get silent.
The boy is very talented at hunting. He learns to use a bow at the age of 11 and even though he is not as good as his mother, his silent steps make him an excellent hunter. And when he gets older, his strong arms are great for carrying carcasses.
He and Katniss end up becoming hunting partners for the rest of their lives.
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I hate when I tell people I like the hunger games and then their immediate reaction is “team gale or team peeta?” Like what. Team paying attention to the main point of the book which is an extremely moving comment on society and the world we’re heading towards, on classism and the patriarchy and the government and all the evils that go on in the world with the privileged turning a blind eye. On death and suffering and cruelness just because we can. On being corrupted by power on everything being unfair, on our minds and how they shape the world and our minds and how they can change the world and the good and bad and love and hate and brainwashing and revolution.
But sure, team peeta.
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