Our First Fic Rec!

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I just adore The Hunger Games and it's fab community - and I'm excited myself to find, through other reccers on Nightlock, some really wonderful HG fics.

Tonight, I present to you my first rec (Mockingjay Spoilers abound!): the first ever HG fanfic I ever stumbled upon: Terrors and Joys by HalfHope.

How exactly did Peeta convince Katniss to have children? What made her change her mind?

Firstly, I must say that I adore HalfHope's plots. She has a great imagination and writes in a very canon-esque fashion, which is something I personally look for in fics.


This three-chapter-long, completed ficlet serves to be a great filler for those who were wondering about the years in between the last chapter of Mockingjay and it's epilogue. I've seen a few 'How did Katniss finally decide to have children after she stressed in the books she wouldn't?' fics, but I think that Terrors and Joys takes the cake. HalfHope really manages to capture Katniss' characterisation by first employing a Katniss who warms to the idea of having children. We see this play out in chapter one through dialogue to Peeta.

He looks at me painfully. "Katniss, can't you just see it though? A child—our child—playing out here? Catching fireflies and picking flowers? Running up to you and hugging you for no reason, besides the fact that you're their mother?"

"Having that child fall and scrape its knee, running to you crying endlessly. Disobeying you when you tell it to get that bug out of its mouth. Stomping through the house with muddy feet. That child growing up and turning against us."

"Sure, there may be some of that," Peeta says. "But wouldn't the rest of it make up for everything else?"

It won't make up watching it die, I think to myself, staring at the primroses.

"I can't do it, Peeta," I say. "I can't lose anyone else."

What I also enjoyed about Terrors and Joys is that while showing our beloved characters true to form, HalfHope does a lovely job of weaving in some tender moments.

It's just like any other night. Peeta and I are in bed, holding each other as we've done for the past seventeen years. No reason why it should be different, why just as I'm drifting off in Peeta's warmth I should feel something startling.

"Katniss?" Peeta asks as I jump out of his arms. "What is it? Is anything wrong?"

I put my hand over my stomach. "I…I think I just…"

There it is again. Like something is thumping inside of me from my middle. Something shifts in me, making me gasp. I throw one hand over my stomach and the other over my mouth to try and stifle the cry coming from my chest.

"Are you in pain? Do you need to go to the doctor?"

I shake my head.

"Are you sure? Katniss, if anything is wrong-"

"I just felt her," I tremble.

All in all, this is a great little ficlet that is sure to create HalfHope fangirls out of the Katniss/Peeta shippers out there.


Until next time,
LMM
xx