Jason Compson IV (
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thecapitol2015-07-21 12:12 am
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Honesty, Could It Be the Trigger That Makes Us Answer All at Once? [Closed]
WHO| Jason and Swann
WHAT| Jason meets Swann's dad, part two: shotgun edition.
WHEN| After the crowning
WHERE| Ilar Honeymead's place
WARNINGS| General Capitolite awfulness.
This time, there won't be cake-throwing. Jason's confident about that, at least. The rest is a different story; he and Swann have been bickering plenty lately, and it seems a coin-flip whether they'll be wildly in love throughout the day or snapping at each other, unable to contain their pettiness and annoyance. He hopes today's one of the former, because if it's the latter then dinner with Ilar is going to be a sham at best and a complete disaster at worst.
They've said some things in the last few weeks that cut deeper than they should have, never for any reason that they could trace back. Jason will forget why they were fighting with each other and only the slammed doors and cruel words that ended the fight. They're a mystery him, and the resolution always tends to be the worst prize ever.
But the good times are still some of the best days he's had in years, and that makes the bickering all the more terrifying. He doesn't want to lose resting his face in her hair while she sleeps three nights a week, or taking their Sunday and having Eta pack them food and going to a lookout point, or gossiping about their Tributes and co-workers over lunch every day. He feels wired to self-destruct, as if he can't help but snipe and snap at her, by some uncontrollable impulse that he has to repair by returning to her over and over with gifts and apologies that are becoming, with each passing week, more verbalized.
It's in this state of disequilibrium that he picks her up tonight, and unlike the last time they drove to Ilar's now Jason looks more visibly nervous, pressing his lips together and exhaling through his nose far more than necessary. He holds off on smoking because he doesn't want to get the smell on him before Ilar meets him, but he keeps clicking his teeth, up until they start to drive up into Ilar's palatial driveway.
WHAT| Jason meets Swann's dad, part two: shotgun edition.
WHEN| After the crowning
WHERE| Ilar Honeymead's place
WARNINGS| General Capitolite awfulness.
This time, there won't be cake-throwing. Jason's confident about that, at least. The rest is a different story; he and Swann have been bickering plenty lately, and it seems a coin-flip whether they'll be wildly in love throughout the day or snapping at each other, unable to contain their pettiness and annoyance. He hopes today's one of the former, because if it's the latter then dinner with Ilar is going to be a sham at best and a complete disaster at worst.
They've said some things in the last few weeks that cut deeper than they should have, never for any reason that they could trace back. Jason will forget why they were fighting with each other and only the slammed doors and cruel words that ended the fight. They're a mystery him, and the resolution always tends to be the worst prize ever.
But the good times are still some of the best days he's had in years, and that makes the bickering all the more terrifying. He doesn't want to lose resting his face in her hair while she sleeps three nights a week, or taking their Sunday and having Eta pack them food and going to a lookout point, or gossiping about their Tributes and co-workers over lunch every day. He feels wired to self-destruct, as if he can't help but snipe and snap at her, by some uncontrollable impulse that he has to repair by returning to her over and over with gifts and apologies that are becoming, with each passing week, more verbalized.
It's in this state of disequilibrium that he picks her up tonight, and unlike the last time they drove to Ilar's now Jason looks more visibly nervous, pressing his lips together and exhaling through his nose far more than necessary. He holds off on smoking because he doesn't want to get the smell on him before Ilar meets him, but he keeps clicking his teeth, up until they start to drive up into Ilar's palatial driveway.

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"Well, it is the ocean," she jokes, although the thought is pretty disgusting. Swann's not entirely sure she's ever even seen a dead fish that wasn't already turned into food, since she's never actually gone grocery shopping all alone. Sure, she'll stop at a store and pick up whatever it is she wants, but that almost never finds her in the seafood section.
With a laugh, she moves her hand up to lazily pick at his belt, unbuckling it. "Me and the lake and Eta's cooking. What a long list of things! I think you win the crown for the Capitol's King of Liking Everything." She gets his belt open and pauses to glance through the windshield. "How much further?"
#capitolprivilege
Sometimes Jason used to see his Tributes fawning over all the riches of the Capitol and he knew in his soul that Districters were fundamentally different than he was, because he couldn't imagine anything impressing him like that, couldn't imagine looking at the luxury around him and feeling anything but boredom and distaste and a general sense of pointlessness.
He reaches up and links his fingers in her hair. "Two minutes."
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Sure, she doesn't find the Capitol impressive so much as ordinary, just expected and as it should be, but that's not to say she never finds anything to like -- usually the parks and fountains, things that are more natural-seeming even when they're as manmade as everything else in the city. Maybe she's just an optimist.
"Okay," she says softly, smiling at him, and unzips his slacks. It only takes her a few quick movements until she's got him out and in her mouth, although she's going slow, lest he crash the car.
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"Oh- oh God." He almost feels lightheaded, with the way the entirety of his consciousness slips down to that warm, thick place there in her mouth. "Swann, not so- not so fast. I need to pull over before you- ah!"
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"You can drive in your sleep," she mutters, flicking her tongue, and looks up at him impatiently, every bit the actual spoiled Capitolite she is, annoyed to be denied anything she wants.
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He does end up pulling over, hitting the brakes slow so as not to jostle her. He hits the button to move his seat back, to give them more room.
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"Best mouth in Panem," he murmurs.
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Squeezing his thigh, she shifts slightly, rebalances herself, but never stops sucking and moving her head.
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"Jesus, Swann..." he moans.
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"Let's go to the lake. Lie down on the grass." He reaches over and fingers the waistline of her skirt. "You need some attention too."
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She only feels happy with him.
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Then he gets out and opens the car door for her. "Come on. I think there might not even be too many mosquitoes."
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Jason opens the door and she gets out, only halfway paying attention to what he says, too fascinated with being someplace dark and quiet, really dark and quiet, not made so artificially.
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He lifts her up and carries her in the darkness, probably no more coordinated than she would be, groping with his toes and heels to not slip. Soon they're down by the edge of the water, and he kicks off his shoes and sets her down. It isn't sand but stone out here, as private as anything gets in the Capitol that isn't an official blind zone. A bird calls somewhere in the distance, and the reflection of stars and moon is broken by the slight waves drifting over the shore.
The water laps at their toes.
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"I don't think I've ever been somewhere this dark. I mean, like naturally."
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He lays her back on the stone, arm underneath her, the other resting momentarily on her stomach before starting to travel downwards towards between her legs.
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She sighs and shifts a little, because they're on stone, turning just a bit more toward him. Her eyes are open, but she's really sort of looking past him, past the rise of his chest and to the sky, her eyelids low and lazy.
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He finds the patch between her legs only somewhat wet, and teases at it with his fingers to try and bring some of that humidity back to her, elsewhere nestling his face in her hair.
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"Jason..."
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"Say my name," he whispers, breaking from her for just a moment to take off his shirt and then returning, tracing old shapes inside her with his fingers and kissing her neck.
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"Jason," she says, and she whines because he's pulled away, because even that few seconds is too much. Wiggling against him, she opens her eyes and they shine in the dark as she looks at him, puts one hand on his cheek.
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"Louder," he whispers. "Say whatever you want. No one to hear you but me."
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"I don't know what to say."
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