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[Mar. 16] [The Hunger Games] Undetermined
Title: Undetermined
Day/Theme: March 16, 2013 "the truth is rarely pure and never simple"
Series: The Hunger Games
Character/Pairing: various District 4 OCs, Mags
Rating: PG-13
Tyde and Shad are sitting together on a bench on one side of the hospital waiting room. Odysseus is sitting in a chair across from them. No one says anything until the inevitable waterworks start. Slowly, with sniffling that leads to a series of sobs that grows into full-fledged bawling, Shad Atwater cracks open as he always does.
Perhaps it's a boon to the other men, because it gives them something to respond to. Something to act upon. "Shad," Odysseus says, trying to ignore the unpleasantness of his stomach twisting into knots, "Is there something I can get you?"
Shad doesn't answer, but buries his face in the front of Tyde's shirt. Tyde holds him, gently stroking his messy, dishwater hair. It's a familiar tableaux, and comforting to all three of them for that familiarity.
Shad whimpers words between gasps that only Tyde can understand. Tyde tells Odysseus that no, he doesn't need anything. Only time.
Only for this to be all over, really. But it won't ever be over until they're dead and then it could still very well go on without them. The Games are older than all three of them.
It might be over for Jules though.
None of them know exactly what happened with him. He seemed fine a few hours earlier. Odysseus knows this. He was playing around with him. He seemed so…convivial.
If Mags knows what happened, she hasn't said.
From behind the doors comes a terrible wailing. Odysseus and Tyde turn toward those doors, but Shad keeps his head down until Mags comes out. He peers up between his fingers. There are tears starting in her eyes and she shakes her head. "He's not-" she says.
That's all she can say.
Jules' mother comes out after her and falls into Mags' arms (this part they understand- these women have been friends as long as the male victors can remember- Mags volunteered for her) and Jules' father and the doctor trail anxiously behind.
No one tells them what killed him or why.
They only know what they saw. Jules was cold and his face was wet. It was his Games all over again.
Maybe it's too complicated to understand.
Day/Theme: March 16, 2013 "the truth is rarely pure and never simple"
Series: The Hunger Games
Character/Pairing: various District 4 OCs, Mags
Rating: PG-13
Tyde and Shad are sitting together on a bench on one side of the hospital waiting room. Odysseus is sitting in a chair across from them. No one says anything until the inevitable waterworks start. Slowly, with sniffling that leads to a series of sobs that grows into full-fledged bawling, Shad Atwater cracks open as he always does.
Perhaps it's a boon to the other men, because it gives them something to respond to. Something to act upon. "Shad," Odysseus says, trying to ignore the unpleasantness of his stomach twisting into knots, "Is there something I can get you?"
Shad doesn't answer, but buries his face in the front of Tyde's shirt. Tyde holds him, gently stroking his messy, dishwater hair. It's a familiar tableaux, and comforting to all three of them for that familiarity.
Shad whimpers words between gasps that only Tyde can understand. Tyde tells Odysseus that no, he doesn't need anything. Only time.
Only for this to be all over, really. But it won't ever be over until they're dead and then it could still very well go on without them. The Games are older than all three of them.
It might be over for Jules though.
None of them know exactly what happened with him. He seemed fine a few hours earlier. Odysseus knows this. He was playing around with him. He seemed so…convivial.
If Mags knows what happened, she hasn't said.
From behind the doors comes a terrible wailing. Odysseus and Tyde turn toward those doors, but Shad keeps his head down until Mags comes out. He peers up between his fingers. There are tears starting in her eyes and she shakes her head. "He's not-" she says.
That's all she can say.
Jules' mother comes out after her and falls into Mags' arms (this part they understand- these women have been friends as long as the male victors can remember- Mags volunteered for her) and Jules' father and the doctor trail anxiously behind.
No one tells them what killed him or why.
They only know what they saw. Jules was cold and his face was wet. It was his Games all over again.
Maybe it's too complicated to understand.