Modern AU. Peeta Mellark has never been able to say no to Katniss Everdeen. But after years as friends with benefits, that's going to have to change. Everlark.

"It's something out of an old tale: a golden young man in a white bearskin, striking strange bargains with desperate souls on the cruelest night of winter." Peeta Mellark, winner of the 74th Hunger Games, returns from his Victory Tour to make the starving Everdeens an offer they can't refuse. Canon divergent, based on the fairy tale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

Reaching down to the hem of my dress I pull up the top layer and rip out the layers of itchy, ridiculous crinoline below. If I am going to be forced to marry a complete stranger that I didn't have any say about, he may as well at least understand my opinion about one thing from the beginning.