His hand caught hers before it could retreat from his face, hoping it would catch her attention.
"It's not just a couple of drinks. You're poisoning yourself and this place, those people out there, aren't helping." He meant the Capitol citizens, but the tributes weren't really helping either. It was so easy for her to focus on them and wearing herself thin for them if she wasn't already basking at the bottom of a bottle. This wasn't the life she needed and if she kept living it, it would be far too short.
"I can't lose you, Jess, you're all I've got." His father, sister, brother, they may as well share the same fate as Jessica's own family for how little they were in his life these days. His father used Barbie's name to increase his own power, his siblings used his name to get themselves a quiet and comfortable life with whatever they wanted. The closest relationship they had was a professional one.
That wasn't Jessica. She loved him as he loved her, both of them taking what they'd done in the past and keeping it along with everything else. Neither of them were perfect but, for Barbie, she was exactly what he needed and what he wanted. She was the light in his life, the life that gave his meaning and he wasn't about to lose that without trying everything in his power to do what he needed him to do: save her.
"I need you, please stop taking yourself away from me. I want to help, so let me."
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"It's not just a couple of drinks. You're poisoning yourself and this place, those people out there, aren't helping." He meant the Capitol citizens, but the tributes weren't really helping either. It was so easy for her to focus on them and wearing herself thin for them if she wasn't already basking at the bottom of a bottle. This wasn't the life she needed and if she kept living it, it would be far too short.
"I can't lose you, Jess, you're all I've got." His father, sister, brother, they may as well share the same fate as Jessica's own family for how little they were in his life these days. His father used Barbie's name to increase his own power, his siblings used his name to get themselves a quiet and comfortable life with whatever they wanted. The closest relationship they had was a professional one.
That wasn't Jessica. She loved him as he loved her, both of them taking what they'd done in the past and keeping it along with everything else. Neither of them were perfect but, for Barbie, she was exactly what he needed and what he wanted. She was the light in his life, the life that gave his meaning and he wasn't about to lose that without trying everything in his power to do what he needed him to do: save her.
"I need you, please stop taking yourself away from me. I want to help, so let me."