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thecapitol2014-03-12 08:00 pm
celebrityskinned) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-12 08:00 pm
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If You Wanna Be My Lover [Closed]
WHO| Venus, Enjolras, Maximus and Wyatt
WHAT| Double-date! Awkward dinner, and then rebellious alliances.
WHEN| The day after the Barricade Boys Barfight.
WHERE| District 5 Suites, then a restaurant
WARNINGS| You can say they're going out for fish and ships.
Before Enjolras went out last night, Venus called him aside and told him they were going to have plans for the next evening. She isn't sure how much of it he retained, being on his way out the District Five door to greet Courfeyrac, but at the very least when she grabs him tomorrow for their first double-date - and first date proper, actually - he won't be caught entirely unawares. She then sends a message to Maximus and heads straight to bed, exhausted by her mind and body readjusting to the medication the Capitol likes to shoot up her arm every week.
She spends the next day training, attacking dummies with the practiced, callous strength of someone who possesses technique and vigor but no passion for the exercise. She eats yogurt, and she spends some time with Kankri, and tapes a map to her wall, coloring in areas she's certain have camera coverage. She doesn't say out loud what she's doing.
That evening, she gets herself gussied up in a purple gladiator dress that she finds punny without being too suggestive, does her hair up, and covers her cut lip with a deep red that camouflages the scab formed there. She goes to find Enjolras, and stops in the doorway to his room, both because she figures he'll find it presumptuous should she enter, and because the sight of him surprises her. She expected he'd be reading something, but she didn't expect to see him with his lip puffy and swollen, his eye in a bed of pink and purple and blue, a blow subdermally draining blood around the corner of his mouth like a grey and red coffee stain.
Her first thought, naturally, is Peacekeepers, and Enjolras' big mouth.
"What happened to your face?"
WHAT| Double-date! Awkward dinner, and then rebellious alliances.
WHEN| The day after the Barricade Boys Barfight.
WHERE| District 5 Suites, then a restaurant
WARNINGS| You can say they're going out for fish and ships.
Before Enjolras went out last night, Venus called him aside and told him they were going to have plans for the next evening. She isn't sure how much of it he retained, being on his way out the District Five door to greet Courfeyrac, but at the very least when she grabs him tomorrow for their first double-date - and first date proper, actually - he won't be caught entirely unawares. She then sends a message to Maximus and heads straight to bed, exhausted by her mind and body readjusting to the medication the Capitol likes to shoot up her arm every week.
She spends the next day training, attacking dummies with the practiced, callous strength of someone who possesses technique and vigor but no passion for the exercise. She eats yogurt, and she spends some time with Kankri, and tapes a map to her wall, coloring in areas she's certain have camera coverage. She doesn't say out loud what she's doing.
That evening, she gets herself gussied up in a purple gladiator dress that she finds punny without being too suggestive, does her hair up, and covers her cut lip with a deep red that camouflages the scab formed there. She goes to find Enjolras, and stops in the doorway to his room, both because she figures he'll find it presumptuous should she enter, and because the sight of him surprises her. She expected he'd be reading something, but she didn't expect to see him with his lip puffy and swollen, his eye in a bed of pink and purple and blue, a blow subdermally draining blood around the corner of his mouth like a grey and red coffee stain.
Her first thought, naturally, is Peacekeepers, and Enjolras' big mouth.
"What happened to your face?"
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"They'd be stupid not to. That's why they keep us in the Games, to keep us from building a coalition. And that would work except that they keep bringing us back, so the stakes are different." People become fire-forged friends rather than corpses. It isn't like the Victors from the Arenas where only one walked away alive.
"What I want to know is if, when the chips are down, we'll all have each others' backs. And who else to keep an eye out for."
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Only the young talked so flippantly about risk.
Maximus had only just found a reason to live again. He wasn't about to throw it away for someone he didn't know. Venus, on the other hand... Venus, he trusted with his life.
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And the young man... well. One step forward, two steps back -- with just about every well intentioned word out of his mouth.
But Venus had Max's trust, and that was good enough for him.
"What I said in the arena's as true out here as it was there."