vissernone: (Basic - Over the Shoulder)
Eva Salazar ([personal profile] vissernone) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-07-30 11:48 pm

Nothing's Changed [Open]

Who| Eva and open
What| Eva plays chess in the park.
Where| Park in the Capitol
When| Week 7
Warnings/Notes| Description of cuts.

The bruises have faded into the sick yellow of urine. The cuts haven't healed yet, and wearing the bandages and stitches - old-fashioned medicine, less than what a Panem Victor could usually expect - is something of a scarlet letter. No one's forgotten that she was cavorting with a would-be assassin, but the Capitol's seen fit to remind them anyway, and unless she spends the next few months indoors Eva's damned to carry the message on her face.

She somewhat appreciates that the hook-shaped slash on her upper lip has pulled her mouth into something of a perpetual sneer. It fits her mood, lately. The cuts along her arms and cheek are a little less thematically appropriate.

The sunlight wafts down to her like steam. Her palm rests on a book in the park, her eyes strolling lazily over the words of a poem she's read a hundred times before. The other hand rests in her lap, on the demure grey fabric of a dress that could blend into any background. Eva doesn't need to accessorize; here, the white bandage around her upper arms and the patch of gauze on her cheek are eye-catching enough.

A chess set sits on the small marble table in front of her. The pieces are arranged up perfectly, each slit in the bishop's hat forming a perfect line. She looks out at the park, relatively unoccupied for a Sunday afternoon what with people watching the final week of the Games, and waits for someone, anyone to come challenge her.

She loves chess. It's just yet another game where no one has to win.
gardienne: (happy)

[personal profile] gardienne 2013-09-15 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
She smiled against Eva's finger, listening, before moving her head back a little so she could talk.

"Yes I know apple cores. I used to eat them a lot. You think I am like that? The bit in the middle? I think you think too much of me, or perhaps you tell me so to make me feel good. Well..."

She grinned. "I do not care if you do, for it has worked. Madame, always you make me feel happy inside."
gardienne: (astonished/scared of rejection)

[personal profile] gardienne 2013-09-19 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have learned, Madame, that you cannot please everyone - indeed, it is most people that you cannot please. I think they like to be upset, you know? But I say, please yourself over them. I do not care what anyone thinks, and I am not afraid of anything. And you mustn't be, either. Madame, what more can they do to us? You may a well make yourself happy now, as well as I."

She sighs. She hates to see Eva sad. If Eponine had her way, Eva would have almost everything in the world. Dresses, a house - a nice house, friends, family... But Eponine never gets her way.

"Don't be scared of them. This is what I tell myself. Not to be afraid. Not to care."
gardienne: (who me?)

[personal profile] gardienne 2013-09-24 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then it seems we were born for the same purpose, Madame. You saw me when I came back from the forest, Madame. You saw the bruise on my cheek. Perhaps you have seen them on my body - but of course, here, they make them disappear. I do not mind being hit. It is stupid to ask for a beating, but I can take it if it happens. So Madame, do not worry for me. Truly, Madame."

She reaches for Eva's hand, stroking it away from her hair to instead touch Eponine's cheek. She cuddles it gently.

"I learned to survive in Paris when I was eight years old, Madame. I have survived since then - and always will it be so. Only, Madame... You are a good friend to me. You are the nicest lady I know. But do not fear for me. I am stupid and skinny but I am tough as well. Do as you must and worry not for me."