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Let Me Name the Stars for You by pickle_fic (R)
Fandom: THE HUNGER GAMES
Pairing: johanna/gale
Length: ~10k
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pickle_fic
Author Website: None that I know of
Why this must be read:
I realize this is starting to sound like a complete lie, but I'm really not a Gale person. It's just that so many authors in THG give such good Gale. Here, there's fantastic post-Mockingjay characterization of both Gale and Johanna, but even more interestingly, of Gale's family, who, despite the story being from Johanna's POV, allow you to see what Johanna looks like to people who have only ever seen her as a victor, which in turn allows the reader--and Johanna herself--to kind of figure out who she's becoming, post-revolution.
The house is still pretty bare, but Johanna can see how they’ve started to slowly claim the space as their own. There’s a threadbare blanket draped over the back of the chair in the living room that Hazelle likes to wrap herself up in it on colder days. Posy puts the flowers that Gale brings her into mugs and tiny vases and scatters them around the house, while Vick and Rory tack their school assignments up onto the kitchen cabinets so that Gale can see them when he comes home from work.
Nobody ever talks about the war or about home. Not if they can help it. But two weeks into her visit, Katniss comes up for the first time. They’re all sitting in the family room one night after dinner — Gale is looking at some papers from work while the boys are taking apart a toy car they found behind the house to see how it works and Johanna is flipping through a book that Hazelle brought from D13. All of a sudden Posy says:
“When are we going to go visit Katniss?”
Everyone’s gaze darts to Gale and he keeps his eyes trained on the papers in front of him, the picture of nonchalance, but Johanna knows better. She didn’t live among the pampered Capitol frauds for years without picking up the tools to spot a liar, so she sees the telltale tensing of his shoulders and the way his jaw twitches ever so slightly.
Hazelle strokes Posy’s smooth black hair. “Soon, baby. We’ll go visit her soon.”
Let Me Name the Stars for You
Pairing: johanna/gale
Length: ~10k
Author on LJ:
pickle_ficAuthor Website: None that I know of
Why this must be read:
I realize this is starting to sound like a complete lie, but I'm really not a Gale person. It's just that so many authors in THG give such good Gale. Here, there's fantastic post-Mockingjay characterization of both Gale and Johanna, but even more interestingly, of Gale's family, who, despite the story being from Johanna's POV, allow you to see what Johanna looks like to people who have only ever seen her as a victor, which in turn allows the reader--and Johanna herself--to kind of figure out who she's becoming, post-revolution.
The house is still pretty bare, but Johanna can see how they’ve started to slowly claim the space as their own. There’s a threadbare blanket draped over the back of the chair in the living room that Hazelle likes to wrap herself up in it on colder days. Posy puts the flowers that Gale brings her into mugs and tiny vases and scatters them around the house, while Vick and Rory tack their school assignments up onto the kitchen cabinets so that Gale can see them when he comes home from work.
Nobody ever talks about the war or about home. Not if they can help it. But two weeks into her visit, Katniss comes up for the first time. They’re all sitting in the family room one night after dinner — Gale is looking at some papers from work while the boys are taking apart a toy car they found behind the house to see how it works and Johanna is flipping through a book that Hazelle brought from D13. All of a sudden Posy says:
“When are we going to go visit Katniss?”
Everyone’s gaze darts to Gale and he keeps his eyes trained on the papers in front of him, the picture of nonchalance, but Johanna knows better. She didn’t live among the pampered Capitol frauds for years without picking up the tools to spot a liar, so she sees the telltale tensing of his shoulders and the way his jaw twitches ever so slightly.
Hazelle strokes Posy’s smooth black hair. “Soon, baby. We’ll go visit her soon.”
Let Me Name the Stars for You