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thecapitol2013-12-22 06:43 pm
onlyimmune) wrote in thecapitol2013-12-22 06:43 pm
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WHO| SEMI-CLOSED - Ellie, Howard, Venus, Mindy, Orc, R, Wyatt, Hawkeye. (If you think your character has a good reason to be there, ping me and we'll see if we can work them in.)
WHAT| Ellie's birthday.
WHERE| The Laser Tag place.
WHEN| A couple days after the crowning.
Warnings| None!
The crowning had been weird as fuck, no lie about that, and Ellie was having a hard time really integrating into her new home, despite having been there since before the Arena had started. She was fairly cheerful - outwardly at least - but deep somewhere inside everything was still eating at her, slowly.
The idea of a birthday party was a welcome distraction.
She'd never had a birthday party - not a real one, anyway. She'd once gotten an extra ration card for her birthday from Riley, but that was about all she could think of. Birthdays were generally only marked with a 'oh, so you've survived this long' - kids were more mouths to feed and usually unwelcome ones, especially after her mother had died.
But this wasn't home, and no one had yet told her that dying in the arena meant that she wouldn't age - that though her birthday should have just passed, she was in fact back to herself a month or so <i>before</i> her birthday. Thankfully ignorant, however, she could celebrate. And she knew who she wanted.
Howard figured out most of the details and she had let the rest of them know where to meet - just in the lobby of the Laser Tag building, before they got all geared up. Ellie was brimming with a low-key excitement, she'd never played laser tag before but it sounded like something out of a science fiction comic so she liked it. She was there first - way too early - and waited for her friends to arrive.
Then, after everything, they'd have cake.
WHAT| Ellie's birthday.
WHERE| The Laser Tag place.
WHEN| A couple days after the crowning.
Warnings| None!
The crowning had been weird as fuck, no lie about that, and Ellie was having a hard time really integrating into her new home, despite having been there since before the Arena had started. She was fairly cheerful - outwardly at least - but deep somewhere inside everything was still eating at her, slowly.
The idea of a birthday party was a welcome distraction.
She'd never had a birthday party - not a real one, anyway. She'd once gotten an extra ration card for her birthday from Riley, but that was about all she could think of. Birthdays were generally only marked with a 'oh, so you've survived this long' - kids were more mouths to feed and usually unwelcome ones, especially after her mother had died.
But this wasn't home, and no one had yet told her that dying in the arena meant that she wouldn't age - that though her birthday should have just passed, she was in fact back to herself a month or so <i>before</i> her birthday. Thankfully ignorant, however, she could celebrate. And she knew who she wanted.
Howard figured out most of the details and she had let the rest of them know where to meet - just in the lobby of the Laser Tag building, before they got all geared up. Ellie was brimming with a low-key excitement, she'd never played laser tag before but it sounded like something out of a science fiction comic so she liked it. She was there first - way too early - and waited for her friends to arrive.
Then, after everything, they'd have cake.
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He'd learn to shoot and to kill while he was still younger than Ellie. Had learned to respect the weapon for what it was and had never once pulled his side-arm free - before or after pinning on the badge - unless he'd been prepared to hurt.
Would it have been different, if he'd grown up in a time like this one? Been born here, or in Howard's age, or Ellie's?
Maybe it still would be, the way the Capitol chipped at him. Carving him up a little more every time he entered the arena. (He'd stalked Aunamee, this last time. Prepared to kill him from the outset. Prepared to take justice into his own hands.)
But he wasn't sure that was a step he wanted to take today.
Digging up another smile, he held out the gun to her as she stepped back.
"Go on," he nodded gently. "I'll be along later."
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"All riiiight," She said, dragging out the syllable as if she was doing him a great favour in allowing this mutiny. "Don't you go anywhere okay? We've got cake for after."
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He reached out to tuck a stray lock of hair behind her ear.
"'Sides," he grinned playfully, "ya got some jokes to tell me yet."
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"You're going to really regret getting me that book, Wyatt. I can guarantee it."
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He'd made her happy, that was more than worth it to him.
"Now go on, leave the ol' man to himself an' go have fun with yer friends."
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She stopped, though, and looked back, and a little too loudly called out after him: "You're my friend too, old man!" Before disappearing back into the game.
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