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crack_van2012-06-22 01:32 pm
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and our dreams will break the boundaries of our fears by electrumqueen (Mature)
Fandom: THE HUNGER GAMES
Pairing: Johanna/Finnick
Length: ~7k
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electrumqueen
Author Website: her page on AO3
Why this must be read:
The characterization in this is mindblowing, and the representation of the Capitol, the way it controls everything and destroys whatever gets in its way is really stark, brilliant, because it's through the eyes of Johanna, who's known of the menace of the Capitol her whole life, but is just starting to really wrap her mind around it. Also, it's fantastic back-story on Finnick and Annie.
Finnick and Silva are passed out on the couch; Mags has gone home, assured that things are under control.
Haymitch and Johanna are sitting on his bed. There's an empty bottle dangling from her fingers; she can't be fucked to go get another one.
He says, "Finnick told me about your mother."
She swallows, mouth dry. "Of course he did," she says.
"Jesus," he says. "Jo, all I can do is worry about you."
"I know," she says. "I'm sorry."
It strikes her, all of a sudden, in the desperate way he is looking at her; she is all he has. She and Finnick and Mags and Silva and Seeder and Chaff; the victors are all Haymitch has. Well, she thinks, that makes two of them.
She leans forward and presses a dry kiss to his cheek. "Thank you," she says.
His eyes are soft, dull, sad. He says, "oh, darling."
and our dreams will break the boundaries of our fears
Pairing: Johanna/Finnick
Length: ~7k
Author on LJ:
electrumqueenAuthor Website: her page on AO3
Why this must be read:
The characterization in this is mindblowing, and the representation of the Capitol, the way it controls everything and destroys whatever gets in its way is really stark, brilliant, because it's through the eyes of Johanna, who's known of the menace of the Capitol her whole life, but is just starting to really wrap her mind around it. Also, it's fantastic back-story on Finnick and Annie.
Finnick and Silva are passed out on the couch; Mags has gone home, assured that things are under control.
Haymitch and Johanna are sitting on his bed. There's an empty bottle dangling from her fingers; she can't be fucked to go get another one.
He says, "Finnick told me about your mother."
She swallows, mouth dry. "Of course he did," she says.
"Jesus," he says. "Jo, all I can do is worry about you."
"I know," she says. "I'm sorry."
It strikes her, all of a sudden, in the desperate way he is looking at her; she is all he has. She and Finnick and Mags and Silva and Seeder and Chaff; the victors are all Haymitch has. Well, she thinks, that makes two of them.
She leans forward and presses a dry kiss to his cheek. "Thank you," she says.
His eyes are soft, dull, sad. He says, "oh, darling."
and our dreams will break the boundaries of our fears