A/N: This is the first one that doesn't take place over 24 hours. Yay for me...
Have any of you seen Avengers yet? I watched it twice last week. I wanna watch it again, ahaha. Definitely buying it on September 25th ;)
I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again: bribery is the second most effective way to get anyone to do anything. (Threats are the best way, but there's no way I'm threatening Katniss.)
"Katniss what would it take to convince you to have children?" I say one morning while we're lying in bed, twirling a piece of her hair around my finger. It's all curly from being braided.
"What do you mean?" Katniss asks, rolling over to look at me.
"How can I convince you?" I trace my fingers along her neck.
She catches my hand with a smirk. "You'll have to bribe me," Katniss teases. The only reason she's helping me is because she knows I've thought of it already. "With something pretty big." Then she hops out of bed.
—-•-+-•-—
"I'll teach you how to make cheese buns," I offer.
Katniss snorts. "Why would I want to learn how to make cheese buns?"
"So you can make them yourself." I say, stirring the cheese bun batter.
"When I have you to make them for me? Not a chance." Katniss smirks, popping up behind me and dipping a finger in the batter. She sticks it in her mouth and then recoils at the floury taste.
I laugh. "If you knew how to make cheese buns, you'd know not to do that."
Katniss wrinkles her nose at me. "Whatever."
—-•-$-•-—
"Katniss...I will bake you thirty cakes every day for the rest of my life if you agree to have children." I say, exasperated. I don't really have anything Katniss would want, unless I come up with a medication to stop nightmares. But she's already using my arms as medication anyway.
"Peeta, what am I going to do with thirty cakes?" She grins, shaking her head at me and scribbling another detail about Thresh in the book.
"I didn't think that far." I admit.
"Uh-huh."
-•-—-•-
"I'll buy you a new bow!" I say, as she goes to unlock the front door and escape into the woods.
Katniss hefts her worn-out bow higher on her shoulder. "There's nothing wrong with this one. I just have to get the string replaced."
"Those words mean nothing to me." I say, even though it's pretty obvious she's referring to the stretched-out bowstring.
"Goodbye, Peeta." Katniss smirks at me, flipping through the door.
I don't see her again until noon. She's carrying a brand new bow.
-;;;-
"I'll repaint the house if you agree to have children."
"What's wrong with the house?"
I raise an eyebrow at her, like 'Isn't it obvious?' "The paint is peeling everywhere. You can't live in Victor Village and have peeling paint."
Katniss shrugs. "I don't really care." I don't think her old house was ever repainted.
I end up repainting the house anyway, because it bothers me so much.
-=-•-=-
"I'll let you name them." I say while Katniss skins a rabbit.
"Peeta." She peels off a long strip of skin in one stroke with her knife. "If I don't want children in the first place, why would I care what they're called?"
"Fine, then. I'll name them."
"You can't name something that doesn't exist."
-(•)-
"Katniss, look what I got!" I say, carefully closing the door behind me and holding up a necklace for her inspection. The chain is silver, with intricate designs and a strange blue stone in the center.
She tries to snatch it from my hands. "It looks like...did Cinna make this?"
"Yep," I say victoriously, tugging the necklace out of her hands and dangling it just out of reach. "And others too." I rustle the file I'm holding, stuffed with designs.
"Where...where did you find this?" Her grey eyes are filled with wonder and longing. She goes downstairs just to look at his designs sometimes.
"I asked Octavia, Venia and Flavious if there was anything left. Turns out he started designing jewelry and left all these designs behind." My fingers tap the folder in my left hand.
"Give it to me." Katniss demands. "Please."
"If you agree to have children." I say, borrowing some of her stubbornness.
"No." Katniss practically snarls, whirling around and stalking away.
I end up giving her the necklace for her birthday and getting half of the designs made for her forChristmas.
-—-|-—-
A/N: I think this is my favourite so far :D
It's kinda short, but I have strep so that's not exactly my fault ;D