thecapitol | (no subject)

Who: Eponine and Eva
What: Mother-daughter times
Where: Eva's house
When: After Eponine's arena death

Warnings: Mentions of death, suicide, branding, sex, erm...

There is nowhere that Eponine feels safer in the whole of the Capitol than in Eva's bed in her little house. When the nightmares come, and they do come more and more frequently now, it's to Eva's bed that Eponine runs, crawling beneath the duvet and cuddling tight to Eva, smelling her hair, her pyjamas - anything to remind herself that she's real and alive and that somebody loves her. It's the first place she came after being woken from the arena, and it's the place she keeps returning to, night after night, even when Eva is not there.

Eponine is ignorant of Eva's relationship with Wallander: she suspects Eva is at a man's house, but she's too wrapped up in her own woes to question. She just longs for Eva to return, to embrace her and love her and to love in return.

Whilst she waits, she wraps herself in one of Eva's ball gowns, all horns and sharp. Eponine doesn't like the dress, but already, she feels just a little bit more confident in herself. She feels like Eva. She even has a brand like Eva. Looking at herself in the mirror in Eva's bedroom, Eponine touches her brand again. It's as raw as ever, but she doesn't care. In a way, despite it's hideousness, she sort of likes it. It makes her the same as Eva, and Eva is the best person she knows.

She stays in Eva's room, still wrapped in Eva's dress, playing with the odd bit of makeup she can find, until Eva comes home.

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Eva tends to be a bit drunk when she comes home from Wallander's, if she isn't spending the night. It isn't that she needs alcohol for the ritual of confession and sex, but it helps her sleep afterwards. She's finding herself fond of Wallander, for all his many, many faults, and that makes her hate herself just a little bit. And thus, she drinks.

She tries to clean herself up before she enters the house each time, so she can put on her best face for Eponine. Before she comes upstairs - she sees Eponine isn't sleeping in the bedroom Eva provided right now, and the sheets and duvet are scattered across the bottom of the bed and the floor - she stops in the hall bathroom of her massive house and fixes her hair and makeup. She wipes the cover-up from the brand and applies vaseline instead.

She isn't unused to finding Eponine in Eva's own bedroom. She cracks open the door. "You're up late, dear."