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thecapitol2014-03-21 11:02 pm
gardienne) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-21 11:02 pm
A catch all. Partially open
Who: Eponine and Sigma: Eponine and Felicity: Eponine and Howard: Eponine and anyone else who wants to jump in!
What: A catch all post for catch-ups with various people she's in a bad mood with.
Where: Out and about in the Capitol: locations include the park and a local French style patisserie shop.
When: Some time after Jessica has worked her magic and helped Eponine on her way to a makeover.
Warnings: Eponine should just come with a warning sign, methinks. I'm gonna go on a limb and say 'talk of homosexuality, possibly in a negative light', 'talk of social class', 'talk of Harley's march of shame through the Capitol'.
Eponine and Sigma
Perhaps he knew where to find her? Perhaps he knew that she'd be sat on the bench overlooking the pond where they'd fed the ducks on that gloriously happy day when she came back to the Capitol. She was sat on the bench now, with her feet drawn up, staring at the pond. For once, she was wearing a couple of warm looking cardigans, and a shawl on top of that. She had a thick wooly hat as well, to disguise her newly bald head. What was she thinking? Not much. She was just sort of... staring. Meditating on how she had ended up in such a position, and how she could possibly get out of her mess. She turned her head when she heard footsteps, though, and scowled when she saw it was Sigma. She'd been avoiding Sigma since Harley had caught her, and she didn't want to see him now.
"Go away, Monsieur." Eponine said.
Eponine and Felicity
As the morning stretched into afternoon, Eponine ended up at a new favourite little cafe of hers. She liked it in the patisserie: the owners tried their best to speak French, and they loved having Eponine chatter it at top speed. For her part, she thought it was hilarious. Their French was dire, and it was nice to feel superior to people for a change.
So having had a looong conversation, half in French and half in English, Eponine was sat in the window of the cafe. On the table in front of her were several croissants and a little pot of strawberry jam, and another of marmalade, and a glass of orange juice, and a recorder that Eponine was fiddling with. The owners had asked her to record herself speaking so that they could play it in the cafe and inject a bit of authentic Paris into their business, and she was diligently trying to do as she had been asked. But it was frustrating, and Eponine swore under her breath, before trudging back to the counter. But so cross, so frustrated was she with the recorder that she didn't even look where she was going and bumped into someone awfully familiar.
Immediately, Eponine scowled and her free hand went to the turban style hat covering her baldness.
"Excuse me, Madame." She muttered, keeping her eyes averted.
Eponine and Howard
It had been a long day, and Eponine was quite drained by the time she had dragged herself back to the Tribute Towers. She went straight for the lift, but once inside, decided to just ... just not go to District Three. She didn't think she could cope with Jessica and Maximus and Marius - oh God, Marius. But where could she go?
She ended up on the rooftop. She could be alone up there, at least. Eponine settled herself down amongst the flowers, and lay back, looking straight up at the evening sky. After all of ten minutes, she began to wish that she'd brought food with her, but she was too comfortable, too absorbed in her thoughts about Sigma and Felicity to be bothered to move.
Eponine didn't hear the door open, nor did she hear Howard's footsteps until he was almost on top of her. But , with him barely five feet away, Eponine heard, and turned and groaned. No more. Please.
She closed her eyes, and flopped back over onto her back. "What do you want, Monsieur?"
OPEN
She stayed on the roof all night. It was a little chilly up there, and definitely damp, but she didn't really care. For a while, she simply wandered, pacing the garden backwards and forwards, looking quite the ghost in her pale dress and light pink turban. The singing gave her away, though. Her hoarse voice travelled in the still air as she sang ditty after raucous ditty about love and men and death and murder. But, for a change, her mind was quite at peace. Perhaps things could be different after all?
Her song stuttered into silence, though, as she heard a footstep somewhere behind her.
"Be careful, Monsieur. Or is it Madame? This is not the arena and I do not want to die."
What: A catch all post for catch-ups with various people she's in a bad mood with.
Where: Out and about in the Capitol: locations include the park and a local French style patisserie shop.
When: Some time after Jessica has worked her magic and helped Eponine on her way to a makeover.
Warnings: Eponine should just come with a warning sign, methinks. I'm gonna go on a limb and say 'talk of homosexuality, possibly in a negative light', 'talk of social class', 'talk of Harley's march of shame through the Capitol'.
Eponine and Sigma
Perhaps he knew where to find her? Perhaps he knew that she'd be sat on the bench overlooking the pond where they'd fed the ducks on that gloriously happy day when she came back to the Capitol. She was sat on the bench now, with her feet drawn up, staring at the pond. For once, she was wearing a couple of warm looking cardigans, and a shawl on top of that. She had a thick wooly hat as well, to disguise her newly bald head. What was she thinking? Not much. She was just sort of... staring. Meditating on how she had ended up in such a position, and how she could possibly get out of her mess. She turned her head when she heard footsteps, though, and scowled when she saw it was Sigma. She'd been avoiding Sigma since Harley had caught her, and she didn't want to see him now.
"Go away, Monsieur." Eponine said.
Eponine and Felicity
As the morning stretched into afternoon, Eponine ended up at a new favourite little cafe of hers. She liked it in the patisserie: the owners tried their best to speak French, and they loved having Eponine chatter it at top speed. For her part, she thought it was hilarious. Their French was dire, and it was nice to feel superior to people for a change.
So having had a looong conversation, half in French and half in English, Eponine was sat in the window of the cafe. On the table in front of her were several croissants and a little pot of strawberry jam, and another of marmalade, and a glass of orange juice, and a recorder that Eponine was fiddling with. The owners had asked her to record herself speaking so that they could play it in the cafe and inject a bit of authentic Paris into their business, and she was diligently trying to do as she had been asked. But it was frustrating, and Eponine swore under her breath, before trudging back to the counter. But so cross, so frustrated was she with the recorder that she didn't even look where she was going and bumped into someone awfully familiar.
Immediately, Eponine scowled and her free hand went to the turban style hat covering her baldness.
"Excuse me, Madame." She muttered, keeping her eyes averted.
Eponine and Howard
It had been a long day, and Eponine was quite drained by the time she had dragged herself back to the Tribute Towers. She went straight for the lift, but once inside, decided to just ... just not go to District Three. She didn't think she could cope with Jessica and Maximus and Marius - oh God, Marius. But where could she go?
She ended up on the rooftop. She could be alone up there, at least. Eponine settled herself down amongst the flowers, and lay back, looking straight up at the evening sky. After all of ten minutes, she began to wish that she'd brought food with her, but she was too comfortable, too absorbed in her thoughts about Sigma and Felicity to be bothered to move.
Eponine didn't hear the door open, nor did she hear Howard's footsteps until he was almost on top of her. But , with him barely five feet away, Eponine heard, and turned and groaned. No more. Please.
She closed her eyes, and flopped back over onto her back. "What do you want, Monsieur?"
OPEN
She stayed on the roof all night. It was a little chilly up there, and definitely damp, but she didn't really care. For a while, she simply wandered, pacing the garden backwards and forwards, looking quite the ghost in her pale dress and light pink turban. The singing gave her away, though. Her hoarse voice travelled in the still air as she sang ditty after raucous ditty about love and men and death and murder. But, for a change, her mind was quite at peace. Perhaps things could be different after all?
Her song stuttered into silence, though, as she heard a footstep somewhere behind her.
"Be careful, Monsieur. Or is it Madame? This is not the arena and I do not want to die."
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Rather than leave it at that, he calms himself down and tries to explain. "I tried, Eponine. Were you not listening to me?! I did what I thought was best for you, as I have always ever done." And he had truly believed that she would give up the cat, be released from her torment, and then he and Eponine could share Nye instead. "You hurt Homura, my friend, terribly. It was never right for that woman to torment you so, that I do not question. But all you had to do was return the animal to her as we agreed. What went wrong? What makes you think you were left with nothing?!"
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Her hand goes to her head, and hastily, she drags the hat from her head, showing her shaved hair. She runs her hand through the bristles, before thumping her hand against her forehead.
"I lost everything. I lost my hair. I lost my dignity. I lost Eva... and you. What else is there?"
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The hair does not seem so bad to him, but he understands what an important part of one's image and dignity it can be to a woman, and especially a girl. He remembers suddenly that she had been so excited for him to buy her a mirror and a matching comb. Sigma crumbles, now apologetic. "Did Harley do that to you? My dear, I am so sorry." He still needed to speak with her about why she stole the cat in the first place, but this was an instance when the punishment was completely nonreciprocal to the crime. To hear that Eva had apparently abandoned her too, however, worries him, and he must know at once if she is overreacting or if it is the truth. "Eponine, Eva and I are not perfect, but the both of us care about you very much. You have not lost us," he insists.
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"But I don't want you if you're gonna be like my Papa. I CAN'T - I cannot - Because it's how it starts and I can't stand on the street watching for the police and I can't take letters begging for money and letting men - oh god - if you are like my Pa, really - please, please let me go. I cannot take any more. I -" She shakes her head. She's shaking like crazy, so, so upset about it all. She just needs someone to love her and not abandon her when she needs them.
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The Doctor took all of this in slowly, frozen in thought and terror before Eponine. It was too easy to say that he would never be like her father, to hold her tightly and insist he could fix everything, but he could not make that promise. To do so and to fail would hurt the poor girl beyond repair. And after everything that had happened, in the past, in these games, at long last he no longer believed in himself.
"I can do nothing for you," he says, his voice small. A great wave of sadness crashes about him and while his expression remains stiff and cold, tears fall against the creases of his old eye. Finding his voice, he continues. "I am not like him, but that is only my word. Until I can prove that to you, perhaps it would be best..." He has to stop himself. He feels the urge to cry, but Sigma is not one to do so in front of others. "I love you, Eponine," he says finally, flatly, and he turns.
He would find some other way to help her without being her father.
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Of course this is how it is.
Eponine sighs out loud, and lifts her face to the sky. He's going to walk away and she's going to be alone again. She closes her eyes. She doesn't want to see it happen.