Hunger Games

Everlark

Peeta Mellark/Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, star-crossed tributes whose love story became both their salvation and weapon against the Capitol in the Hunger Games.

45,000 works

What is Everlark?

Everlark is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games. With over 45,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.

Why fans love Everlark

The 'boy with the bread' backstory, their mutual protection and sacrifice, and Peeta's unwavering love helping heal Katniss's trauma creates powerful emotional resonance.

Most Popular Everlark Fanfics

The highest-rated Everlark stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.

1

The Sparrow and the Mockingjay

by krispyyy

Aspen Arledge thought she was confined to a loveless life in District 12, forever under the violent fist of her father. That was, until she met Katniss Everdeen in the woods on a chilly spring morning. Though austere and unnerving, Katniss took interest in Aspen, offering the young girl lessons on h

31 kudos 53,900 words ~216 min read Mature
POV Katniss Everdeen Married Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark Original Character(s)
2

The Lives you Hold in Those Trembling Fingers

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by PleasantSaladNerd

The arena exploded before Katniss released the arrow. Katniss wakes restrained in a bright white room with thirty-six hours missing and pain still buzzing beneath her skin.Why won't her fingers stop moving?!A man steps into her eyeline. There have been… misunderstandings

73 kudos 70,037 words ~281 min read Mature
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Post-Book/Movie 2: Catching Fire (Hunger Games) Dystopia
3

Kiss Cam

by EverlarkSupremacy

While on separate first dates at a baseball game edging on varying degrees of disaster, what will happen when the kiss cam finds a newly acquainted Katniss and Peeta instead? And what will come of it? - A Modern Everlark AU. *re-uploading after mandated deletion*

3 kudos 5,796 words ~24 min read Explicit
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Alternate Universe - Hunger Games Setting Romance
4

Capitol Wasteland

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by BunsRevenge

"This isn't a get out of jail free card," she explains, walking him back to the locker where he can change into his street clothes. "This is a ‘do your job correctly, several times over, and you will likely walk away with just probation’ card."Gale nods in understanding, sloughing off the prison uni

9 kudos 28,630 words ~115 min read Mature
Film Noir California Mystery
5

Just This Once

by MarikaMonica

When Peeta won his games, he promised himself he was going to find a way to make life better for people around him. A few years later, he is hated, feared, and lonelier than he thought it was possible. With the revolution about to start, he is not looking for change, but then one night, one meeting

29 kudos 3,292 words ~14 min read Mature
Angst Angst and Hurt/Comfort violance
6

Different Worlds

by EverlarkAlways08

Katniss and Peeta are from two completely different worlds, in theory, he should hate her, be threatened by her but as he gets to know her, he finds that there's so much to the girl who wonders the woods than the stories tell everyone. Set in the Ancient Greek Era (keep in mind it's a fanfiction so

54 kudos 107,423 words ~430 min read Explicit
Ancient Greek everlark everlark smut (but not a lot)
7

I'm not bashing your favs, but it's their fault that they died

by AmeliaAndreas3

The Capitol's lone social media channel- Vitara- is a hot-spot for gossip, theories, rumors and fan wars. Here are some of the most famous threads.   Or: the Capitol definitely has state twitter and you bet your ass there are hard-core stans in it too. Canon reactions start on chapter 70 (but you sh

413 kudos 85,238 words ~341 min read Teen And Up Audiences
The Capitol (Hunger Games) Stan twitter exists in the Capitol too it's called Vitara
8

Ash Like Snow

by RadfootandProngs

When a Covey girl volunteers for the 64th Hunger Games, Haymitch is immediately intrigued, and understandably suspicious. Ophelia Frost Baird is charmingly beautiful, kind, and talented - though, maybe too clever for her own good. She comes from a long line of rebels and reminds President Snow of so

83 kudos 44,021 words ~177 min read Explicit
Past Lucy Gray Baird/Coriolanus Snow Married Lucy Gray Baird/Coriolanus Snow (kind of you’ll see) Covey Marriage Traditions
9

Coats

by BlueWildflower

Effie Trinket arrives at a party alone, determined to get through it gracefully. When the night offers her an unexpected connection instead, will she be brave enough to follow it?

108 kudos 70,341 words ~282 min read Explicit
Alternate Universe Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
10

Butterfly with an Arrow

by starsfreckles

After the war, Katniss Everdeen is offered the chance to branch a new timeline into the past and correct everything she has lost. She awakens at the reaping of Johanna Mason’s Games, determined not to let history repeat itself, but every choice comes with a cost, and the universe must decide what, o

23 kudos 9,015 words ~37 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Victors as a Family (Hunger Games) Time Travel Time Travel Fix-It
11

Healing our scars

Complete

by Ella_Juliet_Underwood

No summary provided.

0 kudos 3,010 words ~13 min read Teen And Up Audiences
12

The Apricity of the Sunbird

by tinyribbons

It could have been Harry Potter. It could have been Divergent. Hell! Even Twilight for all she cared- but no. She had to reincarnate in the one book series that had basically created the word 'sorrow'. The one that made her lie awake for hours on end thinking about the horrors the characters had to

44 kudos 15,707 words ~63 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Reincarnation Slow Burn Hunger Games-Typical Death/Violence
13

Una historia diferente | En llamas

by writerdyke

Incapaz de negar sus sentimientos un segundo más, y aún sabiendo que el Presidente Snow quiere su cabeza, Katniss Everdeen, la chica en llamas, decide dejar a Peeta Mellark, el chico del pan, entrar en su corazón.Ahora, a punto de enfrentar los juegos una segunda vez, está dispuesta a dar su vida si

298 kudos 196,998 words ~788 min read General Audiences
En llamas Book/Movie 2: Catching Fire (Hunger Games) Unplanned Pregnancy
14

We’re in this together

by Aeseverlark

Continuation of its him I want. Takes place in the events of catching fire. I recommend reading the first book before this!

21 kudos 34,056 words ~137 min read Mature
Love Confessions Love Sex
15

Happy Birthday, Haymitch!

Complete

by abertrinket

the first anniversary without a reaping...

20 kudos 2,596 words ~11 min read Teen And Up Audiences
Haymitch Abernathy-centric Birthday No more reaping
16

In Memoriam

by TeaSleuth

When the Capitol decides there should be an annual event to memorialise victims and survivors of the Games, the surviving Victors are called back to the Capitol for the event. Including those from District 12. Short sequel to The Weight of Guilt.

18 kudos 2,050 words ~9 min read Mature
17

The Echoes of the Jabberjay

by Zoomerthgfan

Katniss and Peeta went through the Victory Tour and doused the flames of rebellion. Snow forced them to have a child, Rosemary Mellark, who is just as stubborn as her mom but as charming as her dad. Follow her as she goes through her games, and tries to survive as the daughter of the Starcrossed Lov

21 kudos 14,532 words ~59 min read Not Rated
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Inspired by The Hunger Games Bullying
18

Monologues from the Gallows

by virginsuicly

✶ 74 ADD, PANEM Sentenced to exile amid the coal dust of Panem's poorest district, twenty-one-year-old Peacekeeper Atticus Ledger expects only monotony. Instead, he is handed a secret directive from a shadowy Capitol handler: observe, evaluate, and report on the cracks forming within District 12's f

3 kudos 19,786 words ~80 min read Mature
Original Character(s) Hurt No Comfort Peacekeepers (Hunger Games)
19

The Arena Reprogrammed

by Lillan011L

Katniss’s fingers tightened around the Capitol-issued bow, pulling the arrow back with an unpierced concentration. She aimed, got ready to release it, and–“Hey! Twelve!” Katniss flinched, sending the arrow into the foam test floor to prevent damaging something. She was in enough trouble already. She

7 kudos 7,529 words ~31 min read Teen And Up Audiences
20

Victor, Mentor, Mockingjay: Mutts

by firehelpmeforget

The rebels managed to do the impossible. They broke the arena. They got Katniss Everdeen, their Mockingjay out alive! But they left behind Peeta Mellark, and they are about to realize what a crucial mistake that might just be! In the aftermath of the Quell our Victors are left to pick up the pieces

47 kudos 15,536 words ~63 min read Mature
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Hunger Games Mentor Katniss Everdeen Hunger Games Mentor Peeta Mellark

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What does Everlark mean?

Everlark is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.

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There are over 45,000 Everlark fanfiction works on Archive of Our Own.

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