Here's a one-shot from Mrs. Everdeen's POV when Katniss was a kid. I know Mrs. E gets a lot of crap for being a basically crappy mom when her girls needed her most (and I still have no respect for that) remember that she wasn't always that way, that her husband have her life so when he was gone, he snuffed her out as well.
I hope you enjoy this fluffiness!
How did Mr. Everdeen meet Mrs. Everdeen, if she was town and he was Seam?
"I was outside the fence, getting herbs and plants for my parents' medicines. You know, they were the apothecaries in town?" I wait for Katniss's nod of understanding. "And I heard a voice so beautiful, I dropped my shoe in the lake."
"You were all the way out to the lake?" Katniss squeaked.
"Yeah, sweet pea, I went there every two weeks and I loved to swim there, all by myself. Of course, that changed when I saw your daddy coming up with his shirt halfway off, getting ready for a dip himself."
Katniss's eyes grew wide and I nearly blushed at the memory even now.
"I was already in my swimming clothes," she doesn't need to know I swam in my underwear, right? "And I screamed when I saw him!" She looked shocked.
"But Daddy is such a nice man, why would you scream?"
"Well because he startled me, silly. Like Prim screams sometimes when you spook her."
"Oh, Daddy didn't mean to scare you though, right?"
I laughed.
"No, of course not. He covered his eyes right away while I jumped into the water because I thought I could swim away." I didn't remember that my clothes wouldn't follow at the time...
"And did he swim with you?" She asked, grinning widely.
"After he said sorry," she interrupted
"why would he say sorry?" I laughed again, Katniss would know the reason soon enough.
"Because he scared me, and when you scare someone, even if you didn't mean to, its polite to apologize to them." She nodded. "I told him he could swim if he wanted to, so he did. And we talked for awhile before we came back home. He lived here and I lived in the apothecary shop still."
"Are you tellin' my darling girl how I met her mother?" Katniss grinned when Reave came into the room, scooping her up and kissing her scrunched up eyes. I smiled.
"Yes I was," I smile at him, tipping my face up for my own kiss. Katniss giggled as he dropped her down into my lap and went off in search of Prim.
"Daddy loves you a lot, doesn't he?" I nod, smiling to myself.
"Yes, I think he does."