#Rye x Klaus

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Middle Mellark brother head canons?

Secret confession is I don’t care about middle mellark in canon at all because there’s truly nothing to go on, but I am fuckin obsessed with him in JLH so I’m gonna answer about him lmfao. I almost wrote an entire spinoff fic about Rye and Klaus back in like 2016 and then obviously didn’t. So here’s. What I had in mind for that. 

He looks like this 

He was randomly assigned a roommate in college, Klaus Armand, who looks like this 

of course “college roommates” looks a lot different in the Capitol than what we would be used to, so what this really meant was they had what anyone else would consider to be a pretty spacious two bedroom apartment that they split on the college campus

So they had plenty of space away from each other, but Rye spent like every waking moment in the kitchen/living room so that he could catch Klaus on his way in or out and be like “Hey dude!” and Klaus would be like “Hey!” and that was mostly it at first

Rye pined after Klaus for what felt like forever but was like, a semester and a half. 

Klaus totally knew that Rye had a thing for him but he had just gotten into the Capitol college on scholarship and he didn’t want to waste time focusing on anything other than his schoolwork, but Rye had him perfectly matched in terms of sarcastic humor, which Klaus didn’t feel like his classmates really understood. 

Klaus also took to walking from the bathroom to the kitchen in just his towel when he knew Rye was hanging around (which was. Often.) just because of how Rattled he always was when he would do that. 

Klaus brought home a dude he was in class with, and Rye assumed that they were dating and was like, “Okay, at least I know he’s gay,” and was a little devastated at the idea of having to like, hang around while Klaus was obviously Hanging Out with Some Other Guy and when the dude left, Rye was super obviously jealous

Which Klaus found incredibly endearing

And when Rye rolled his eyes and said, “Yeah, whatever, we never said you couldn’t bring people home” Klaus was like, 

“And what, you don’t bring people home out of respect for me?” 

and Rye was so angry but also like. Totally caught. 

He hadn’t been dating anyone since he moved in with Klaus. So Rye sputtered and was like, “So maybe I do. Whatever.” 

And Klaus said, “Maybe you don’t.” 

and then pushed him against the wall and kissed him. 

Klaus is taller than Rye and way more solid/broad. And grew up doing manual labor where Rye is wiry and skinny and lanky. 

And Rye’s type before had always been, like, somewhat visually similar people. Usually pretty androgynous. Peeta says in the funeral chapter that Rye has dated “men and women and people who identified somewhere in between.” 

but god, he’s never dated anyone like Klaus before.  

The first time they have sex, Rye buries his face in the mattress and says, 

“I love you.” 

and then he says, 

“Fuck. Sorry. I don’t mean that.” 

Klaus teases him about it forever. 

During their wedding, right after Klaus’s heartfelt and beautiful wedding vows, he slides the ring onto Rye’s finger and says, 

“Fuck. Sorry. I don’t mean that.” 

And Rye just kind of swats at him with his left hand, ring barely even on. It’s all so quiet that even later when people watch the video of the ceremony, they don’t see what happened. 

They’re together for about three and a half years before they start the process of adopting Cordelia

Klaus has always known he wanted children. 

He was the oldest of seven and helped his mother with all the raising, because his father had to work so much. 

Rye was harder to convince. On account of the whole Shitty Childhood of it all. 

But then they went home to visit Klaus’s family and Rye watched the way his husband was with all his nieces and nephews, and he just. Laced their fingers together on the train home and said, “Okay. Yeah.” 

Cordelia’s biological mother was a scared, poor teenage girl named Beatrice

She put the baby up for adoption before she was even born, and some wealthy Capitolite couple said they wanted her right away. They paid all of her medical expenses during the pregnancy.

And then never came to pick up the baby. 

Beatrice couldn’t raise a child on her own. She had never agreed to that, either. The pregnancy was challenging enough, and her parents were insistent that she finish high school. 

The Capitolite couple also never signed the forms releasing Cordelia to be adopted by anyone else.

She was in the Community Home/Orphanage until she was about three. 

Klaus knew Beatrice. Only incidentally. She would be the friend of one of his nieces. On their next visit to Four, to visit the Community Home, he heard the story from Beatrice’s friend. 

Because Rye wanted a baby from Four. A baby who would look like his husband. 

And it’s so much harder to find a home for an older child than for a newborn. 

And the Mellarks had so much money.

Enough to pay off the Capitolite couple who hadn’t even really remembered the commitment they made to this beautiful baby girl 

Who really did look like Klaus

and who caught both the Armand-Mellark’s hearts in both her tiny hands. 

Cordelia trusted Klaus immediately.

He looked like home, and he spoke in her first language, and he had so much more experience with children.

As opposed to Rye. who was. Stiff and awkward and did not remember much about what Peeta was like at that age. 

Peeta, who had such a different childhood.

who never knew what it felt like to be hungry

who was unwanted, but not the same way Cordelia was

Rye was stiff around Cordelia. Afraid of fucking up. Afraid of being like his parents. Either. Both. 

And so afraid, because of how often she would just take off. 

One time he called the peacekeepers in a panic and had half the neighborhood outside looking for her.

She was asleep under his bed. 

It wasn’t ever that he didn’t love her. He always loved her so much that it terrified him. But the Mellarks don’t know how to express that, generally. 

So he mostly just fussed over whether or not she was safe. 

Which drove Klaus up a fucking wall. He always told him to be the fun parent. 

Cordelia calls Klaus Père months before she ever calls Rye Pa 

and, god 

Rye has been mostly kidding for months about his kid not liking him. 

But the relief he feels in that moment 

when he’s picking her up from kindergarten and she turns to whoever her new friend is and says, “I gotta go. That’s my Pa.” 

he just

bursts into tears. 

And brings her out for ice cream on the way home even though Klaus already has dinner almost finished. 

And she plasters herself against Klaus’s side and offers him a bite of her ice cream and says, “we got ice cream,” and Klaus is all 

“God you had to be the fun parent the night we’re gonna have to fight to get her to eat dinner, huh?” 

and Rye is just like. 

“The fun Pa.” 

and then he’s crying again. 

And Cordelia absolutely does not understand why. But she’s excited about her ice cream. 

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