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tilty March 24 2012, 06:39:28 UTC
cato/clove, you like your girls insane

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jada_jasmine March 24 2012, 17:00:13 UTC
AMAZING

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magic_knickers March 25 2012, 08:01:18 UTC
yessssss

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sing_song_sung March 25 2012, 20:33:54 UTC
this is perfect.

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sing_song_sung March 26 2012, 01:48:29 UTC
hoping at the gates they'll tell me that you're mine, cato/clove, pg (book!relationship)

eleven.

Cato’s first girlfriend is pretty.

She’s pretty the way he is handsome, blonde hair and smiling eyes, a charming ease in the way she walks.

She is his girlfriend by title: they hold hands sometimes, kiss at others. She likes to talk about how things will be after he wins the Games.

fourteen.

She is scrawny, lithe and sharp-limbed, the first time he sees her. She looks breakable.

“I wanna win,” she tells him, ten years old but already her eyes are so hungry. “Show me how.”

“S’easy,” he says, sparing her a glance. “You just have to want it.”

Her shoulders shift backward, chest thrusting forward, showing off nonexistent breasts. “I want it,” she says.

And he believes her.

sixteen.She kisses him first, out of the blue ( ... )

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sing_song_sung March 26 2012, 01:49:05 UTC
hoping at the gates they'll tell me that you're mine, cato/clove, pg (book!relationship)

seventeen.

In Two, where children are raised as warriors, Cato is at his prime. He is a hero during the Games; next year, he will conquer.

He has been groomed to perfection. Everyone is in awe - everyone but the girl who will stand beside him in the arena.

She doesn’t pay much attention to him anymore. She is the only one.

fifteen.He’s exhausted the pretty girls by the time he’s three years from his Games ( ... )

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morbidmuse March 26 2012, 03:19:26 UTC
This is amazing. That last line just killed me.

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tilty March 26 2012, 04:36:35 UTC
:O

I AM SLAIN. SLAIN. holy shit thank you for building this beauty for my prompt ;alskdjf;alsdfjk. THE FUCKING ENDING I CANNOT THIS IS SO WONDERFUL. i love the piecemeal history and vicious, beautiful baby clove ahhhhhhhhhhh! their energy and their messiness and their drive, it is all there. lovelovelove.

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chairs March 26 2012, 06:08:28 UTC
This is hands down the best fic for these two that I've come across thus far. Such perfect hints of backstory, and that last line is brutal. Love it!

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joaniemaloney March 26 2012, 06:29:49 UTC
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

that last line.
I don't know how writers manage to wring out more of these heartbreaking scenarios, but you did it. that twist. guh.

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red_b_rackham April 1 2012, 04:40:36 UTC
Holy crap this was wicked good. AND THAT LAST LINE. *DIES*

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redbells March 29 2012, 20:53:17 UTC
gonna crawl inside your heart (gonna rend your ventricles apart), r, warnings for sex and violence

cruelly, tenderly.

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