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Jason Compson IV ([personal profile] whatisay) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-06-05 08:36 pm

You Live Your Life Like You're Stuck in Hell [Closed]

WHO| Jason and Peggy
WHAT| The tat for a earlier tit.
WHEN| The day after Jason's fight with Swann.
WHERE| D7 Suite
WARNINGS| Jason and Peggy, so mentions of bidding, abuse, violence and general Capitolite awfulness will abound.

Jason could probably have timed this headache to the minute if he hadn't just gone ahead and ignored the warning signs with a sort of dogged stubbornness that rejected how every single time he spikes his stress levels, every single time he can't sleep the full night afterwards, every single time he wakes up in the morning seeing halos and floating spots he's going to spend his evening with an icepack on his head in a dark room. He could have raced through the work he has here and driven home and been back at his mother's house with earplugs in by now, but instead he's locked inside the District Seven bathroom, lights off, wincing in time to the music he can hear through the wall from Cassian's work studio.

If he and Swann hadn't had the fight that set all this off, maybe he would call her, ask her to drive him back to her place. But even having made up some he can't get the things she said out of his mind, and they almost take on a physical volume that makes the throbbing in his head worse. He rests it against the cool tile of the bathroom wall, trying to ignore the way his blood feels like clotted sludge shoving its way through each vein, pushing through space too tight for it. He grabs at his hair because the feeling of ripping it away from his scalp is at least the smallest distraction from the pain.

With his phone on the lowest volume setting, he picks his way through Peggy's speed dial code before holding it out on his knee, so it's not right next to his ear. He barely waits for it to be picked up before he asks: "Peggy? Are you busy?"

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