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Caleb is the cat in the hat (worth_therisk) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-04-26 19:06:00

Who: Caleb Rivers and Peeta Mellark
When: Today
Where: Mellarky
What: A drunken Caleb walks into a bakery
Rating/Warnings: Low/None
Status: Complete


As usual Caleb had gone to a bar after work. It had been awhile since his Ravenswood dreams and since he started seeing ghosts but it all still bothered him and drinking was the only way he knew how to deal. Plus now his dreams had him back in Rosewood with Hanna and her friends kidnapped which didn’t help matters much.

After a few beers and a glass of whiskey he figured it was time to go home. Only he didn’t think he was sober enough to drive. Walking it was. Well maybe he’d send out for an Uber but for now he’d walk. The fresh air might just do him some good.

After about a block he saw a sign for a place called Mellarky. Why did that sound familiar? He knew that name from somewhere. Caleb racked his brain trying to remember but nothing was coming up. Well best way to figure it out was to just go inside right? So that’s what he did. Stumbling slightly into what looked like a bakery. “Hello?” he said maybe a little too loudly.

It had been a few months since Peeta had seen Caleb, so he was quite surprised to see his face when he made his way into the front part of the store. He had been working on packaging up some orders for the next day in the back when he heard the voice call out. His eyes settled on Caleb and his eyebrow raised. Usually if his friends were going to come by the shop they let him know, but he was used to surprise visits.

As he stepped forward he dusted his hands off on his apron, “Hey, Caleb, nice to see you again. How are things?” He wasn’t sure if he was here to pick up something for himself or Hanna, but he would help his friend out. But upon closer inspection he noticed that something was a little...off. He just wasn’t quite sure what in this moment.

Oh. That’s where he heard the name before. it was this guys last name. Peeta. Yeah that was his name The guy from the ice-skating double date. Damn that was a long time ago. “Hey,” Caleb greeted for a second time once the realization hit. “Things are good. You know, work, dreams. The usual.” He usually wasn’t all that open about his dreams but after a few drinks his filters were down a bit. “How are you? Still dating Hanna’s vampire friend?”

“Woah dude, no need to throw that around here,” Peeta was honestly surprised that Caleb had flat out called Caroline a vampire. It wasn’t something that people went around advertising and he certainly didn’t want the couple of employees in the back to overhear what was going on and come out to question him, “But yeah, I’m still dating Caroline. I’m doing fine - about the same as you although my dreams are done.” It wasn’t a good thing, but it was a bit of relief to know his fate in the end.

“My bad,” Caleb said frowning. He hadn’t meant to do anything wrong. But the last thing he wanted was to spill someone else’s secrets. “You’re lucky,” he said in reference to the dreams being done. “I wish mine were done. I’m tired of Hanna being threatened and kidnapped and the whole ghost thing.” He was rambling now, a slight slur in his words.

The slur in his words was the indication to Peeta that Caleb was most certainly not in his right state of mind. He moved to go pour a cup of coffee so that he could make sure that Caleb would sober up at some point, “And that sounds awful. Do I even want to know why in the world that is happening to her? And there’s a ghost thing now?” Wow, Caleb’s dreams were absolutely crazy and about as bad as his own. He brought the coffee over and pushed it to Caleb, “Here, have a drink.”

“Yeah. Well for me. Not Hanna. I’m the only one with the ghosts.” He frowned again, stupid Ravenswood. “I don’t know, someone just hates her and her friends. You know,” he began picking up the cup of coffee. “You’re lucky you don’t share dreams with Caroline,” he paused for a second. “Wait, you don’t right?” Was Peeta a vampire too? “I’m gonna sit down,” he announced before taking a seat at one of the tables with his coffee.

“Oh god, that sucks. I can’t even imagine seeing ghosts,” Peeta commented. Although he did see the ghosts of people from the Hunger Games in his dreams, but definitely not in the calibre that people saw them here, “And no, definitely not sharing dreams with Caroline. I’ve got the dreams where the world has gone to shit and they send kids to fight each other to the death to make us fear the people in charge. And sitting down is good.” In addition to the coffee Peeta grabbed a cupcake and brought it over to Caleb.

“It’s confusing.” Especially when Caleb didn’t know if the person was dead or not. But now he had it mostly figured out. Besides he was really only visited by people he knew and the only one he hadn’t known had died was his aunt. “Wait what? Fight to the death?” What kind of bull shit was that? “Thanks,” Caleb said taking a bite of the cupcake. “It’s complicated, sharing dreams with your girlfriend,” he went on. “She gets hurt by stuff I do in the dreams or now I’m ahead of her and she’s kidnapped but I don’t think I should tell her and she’s all mad I’m being so protective. But she’s kidnapped,” he said again like that explained it all. “And she’s been kidnapped in real life already.” Thanks to him. He sighed putting his head in his hands.

It sounds incredibly confusing and he totally understood how annoying it would be to share dreams with your significant other. He would not want Caroline to be involved in his dream world and he would not want to be in hers. They each had their own separate demons and that was enough for him and he didn’t want them to co-mingle. “And yeah, fighting to the death. It’s stupid. And I’m really sorry about that Caleb,” he sat down at the table with Caleb, “I guess there’s not a lot that you can do. You’re probably going to be in trouble no matter what you do, but you might want to try and calm a little. I know it’s going to be tough, but you’ve got to remain vigilant.”

“Is it some type of gladiator shit?” They fought to the death, right? Caleb was pretty sure they did. “I guess,” he shrugged taking another sip of coffee. “I can just be there for her when she’ll let me. She’s stubborn,” he took a bite of cupcake. He usually wouldn’t share this much information about his relationship but Peeta was there and Caleb was not in the clearest mind set.

“Yeah, I think that’s kind of what it is. The President of the new world order is absolutely insane,” Peeta wasn’t sure how else to explain President Snow. He was basically an asshole and he didn’t talk about him if he could help it, “It happens, that’s how girls work. She’ll come around eventually, but they don’t want us to hover too much. It’ll blow over.” Hanna and Caleb seemed like a solid couple and dreams sometimes got in the way, but they all strengthened things.

“Hanna’s stalker is insane too,” probably not on the same level considering A wasn’t running a whole world order. But with how powerful and all knowing A seemed to be they very well could be. However Caleb wanted to talk about A probably about as much as Peeta wanted to talk about The President dude. “Girls are way too complicated,” he frowned again taking another sip of his drink. Oh right, it was coffee, not alcohol.

“Dreams are fucked up, man,” He commented with a shake of his head and watched as Caleb took a sip of his coffee and then seemed to remember that it was actually coffee. He pushed the cupcake over towards him, “You might want to eat some of this. I know it seems like your problems are overwhelming, but you can always come talk to me if you want. Instead of self medicating.”

Well, he did talk to Spencer’s boyfriend in the dreams. He was quite close with Toby actually. He could be friend’s with Hanna’s friend’s boyfriend here too. “Thanks,” Caleb said taking a bite of cupcake. “I’d say you too, but I guess your dreams are done?” he had caught that earlier. “Well, if you have issues with your girlfriend or something.”

“Yeah, but it’s never good when they start to repeat. So, I’m never out of the woods on that,” Peeta commented. Some nights he got the worst ones repeating and it never got easier. But he was getting better at not letting it affect him as deeply as it used to and having his friends around was also helpful, “But thanks for the offer, Caleb, I’ll make sure to hit you up so we can commiserate over our girlfriends being crazy.”

“They repeat?” Well shit. He wasn’t looking forward to reliving any of this shit. Especially Ravenswood. “No problem,” he added a half smile on his face. It was all he could manage at the moment, there still wasn’t much to smile about at the moment.

“Sometimes. It happens sporadically,” Peeta quickly explained. He made it through the month with only a couple repeats if he was lucky, but he didn’t think they would disappear completely from his life, “Alright, I’ll let you hang out here for a bit. Let me know if you need me to order an Uber for you or something.”

Great. Something to look forward to. “Thanks,” Caleb said with another nod. “Sorry for barging in like that,” now that some coffee was in his system he was sobering up slightly. He knew his behavior hadn’t been the best but it could have been a lot worse.