Caesar's Collections

by tracelynn

Drabbles, shorts, poems, and more, all written for Caesar's Palace challenges/contests and most in the Hunger Games universe.

4. Allergens

Title: Allergens

Written For Caesar's Palace Claw Machine Challenge (Dialogue - "And then he blew his nose, offered the tissue to me, and asked if I would like to do the same!")

345 words of actual story

Hunger Games

Pairing(s): Prim and Rory

Short Story

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"And then he blew his nose, offered the tissue to me, and asked if I would like to do the same!" Prim chuckled as she rubbed Buttercup's raw pink belly. Buttercup mewled, and then his quiet mewls turned to full body shudders and loud meows as Prim scratched him behind the fluffy orange ears. Katniss trotted past, looking uneasily down at the two. Buttercup hissed and Katniss walked on by.

"It's just so funny, Buttercup!" she said. "How could he know that I get all sneezy when we go to the Meadow, when we get around the flowers and grass and 'pollen', as Ms. Lenza calls it. She says I have 'allergies.' Allergies is a strange word; it sounds rather bad, if you ask me. Do you have an allergies, my little kitty cat?" Prim then continued to coo incoherently as she rubbed and scratched her beloved, mangy cat.

"It's just, Rory Hawthorne gave me his tissue! He's allergic too! No one else is. It's just us...me and Rory Hawthorne...Primrose Hawthorne...hmm. Gale might be a problem though. Is it illegal for two sisters to marry two brothers? Probably. Maybe we'll just have to get rid of Gale, then, somehow...but Rory Hawthorne spared me a glance! Sure, we've known each other forever, but Rory Hawthorne! He's the hottest kid in our class, Buttercup, and he let me use his tissue! Now, it wasn't any old rag; it was a real tissue, paper and everything, from District 7! He must've saved up for weeks to be able to buy a pack from the town square, cuz only those merchant kids can afford the real things easily. He let me use it, Buttercup, oh my..." And it continued as so, with Prim gushing over her newfound case of puppy love for Rory Hawthorne, and Buttercup mewling and meowing and making a variety of other strange noises as Prim petted him and snuggled him. It was a good day for the both of them.