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thecapitol2014-03-02 12:57 am
celebrityskinned) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-02 12:57 am
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I Want Your Flowers Like Babies Want God's Love [Closed]
WHO| Enjolras and Venus
WHAT| The ship finally sails.
WHEN| End of week 6, a few days after Venus dies.
WHERE| District Five Suite
WARNINGS| Shippy shit. You've been warned.
As with all Tributes upon their return, Venus isn't conscious when she's returned to her Capitol bed, isn't conscious when she's revived from death. She's brought back into her roof, dressed in soft pajamas, having already been prepped slightly by Stylists in the interim. Her hair's in soft, big curls, her fingernails done. There isn't a scratch on her, and she's entirely unrecognizable from the bloody mass of entrails and bone smeared across the floor in the Arena, in footage that's still being played at least once an hour.
She sleeps for a while. She dreams, and that's the first she knows she isn't dead. In her dreams someone is playing Operation on her body, and they're replacing each of her internal organs one by one, but it doesn't hurt, and she isn't scared. You're going to be a whole new person, they say.
And for the first time in a long time, she isn't sad that she wakes up this morning. She's sad when she wakes up, because she knows Kankri and Courfeyrac are still back there in the Arena, now thoroughly traumatized by her badly thought-out decision to spend the moment of her death with them (in retrospect, she should have gone out with dignity in the fall to her demise). But she isn't sad to be alive.
It's a strange feeling. She gets up and wrinkles her toes over the carpet in her room, looking at the rosy pink paint on them, and runs a hand over the bridge of her nose where Kevin cut her up. She takes a moment to cry, but she isn't sure why, and she can't put words to the strange sadness that settles into the folds of her brain, or to how fast she forgets it's there.
And then she feels her pendant from District Five around her neck, and opens the door to her room and into the District Five hallway.
WHAT| The ship finally sails.
WHEN| End of week 6, a few days after Venus dies.
WHERE| District Five Suite
WARNINGS| Shippy shit. You've been warned.
As with all Tributes upon their return, Venus isn't conscious when she's returned to her Capitol bed, isn't conscious when she's revived from death. She's brought back into her roof, dressed in soft pajamas, having already been prepped slightly by Stylists in the interim. Her hair's in soft, big curls, her fingernails done. There isn't a scratch on her, and she's entirely unrecognizable from the bloody mass of entrails and bone smeared across the floor in the Arena, in footage that's still being played at least once an hour.
She sleeps for a while. She dreams, and that's the first she knows she isn't dead. In her dreams someone is playing Operation on her body, and they're replacing each of her internal organs one by one, but it doesn't hurt, and she isn't scared. You're going to be a whole new person, they say.
And for the first time in a long time, she isn't sad that she wakes up this morning. She's sad when she wakes up, because she knows Kankri and Courfeyrac are still back there in the Arena, now thoroughly traumatized by her badly thought-out decision to spend the moment of her death with them (in retrospect, she should have gone out with dignity in the fall to her demise). But she isn't sad to be alive.
It's a strange feeling. She gets up and wrinkles her toes over the carpet in her room, looking at the rosy pink paint on them, and runs a hand over the bridge of her nose where Kevin cut her up. She takes a moment to cry, but she isn't sure why, and she can't put words to the strange sadness that settles into the folds of her brain, or to how fast she forgets it's there.
And then she feels her pendant from District Five around her neck, and opens the door to her room and into the District Five hallway.