THG FIC: 69 (Killer Heels and Homebrew, The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) (B/B)

[thatgirlsix]

Summary: If he didn't leave her alone right the hell now, Johanna was going to puke all over Finnick Odair's ugly suit. What's a girl gotta do to have a minor panic attack in peace around here, anyhow?

Disclaimer: The Hunger Games is the badass, twisted brainchild of Suzanne Collins. Make sure to leave a dollar on her bed stand altar on your way

Comments

[deathmallow]

Love your Johanna voice here--that blend of scared, angry, and determined, still a child but forced to grow up too quickly, is very much what I see for her in her first mentoring year (and having just written my own first Haymitch+Johanna meeting it was really awesome to see another take on it here)

And ayyy, it's the best character! Haymitch is great as well, his usually gruff and damaged but protective self, and the observation that he blames himself for pretty much everyone's losses (it's kind of a running joke/not-joke between marble_sharp and me) is a pretty astute one.

Love the way this traces the beginning of the Finnick+Johanna and Haymitch+Johanna friendships so nicely. More fic please? :)

[thatgirlsix]

How are ya, Sweetness

[deathmallow]

No worries, looking forward to your thoughts on my stuff whenever you do get to it. :D If you're not in the mood to tackle 750,000 words of Hope In the Darkness and its sequel, you could instead pick up Cause We Belong to the Hurricane (the current WIP) if you're so inclined!

I've always seen Haymitch as having an overdeveloped sense of responsibility (something he and Katniss share, really--widowed mother, younger sibling, etc.) And I'm sure Snow made certain to help instill some of that paranoia in Haymitch by implying that any wrong move he made would cost other people, to the point where if bad things happen now, he thinks it's somehow on him. (I work with that idea in Nowhere to Stand and Nowhere to Hide.) And if you ever want to kick around or discuss notions of Haymitch's psyche, I'm always more than happy. :D

<3333 Hoping that things look up for you soon, believe me.