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[The video opens, angled strangely as if the video is accidental. Only half a face is visible - pale, sunken eyes, and a stubble'd cheek. The normally put-together Cinna looks positively taken apart. A hand comes into view, rubbing over his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose as he begins to speak in a bitter tone.]

Bravo, City. Not even the Capitol could have conceived that little torture - after all, who better to harm us than ourselves? Who knows better what fears we harbor, sins we cover-up.

Well played. Really, well played.

[The feed ends with an angry click.]

[He sits at the kitchen table, cradling his coffee in one hand as the other casually tosses the device to the side. Taking a sip, he winces, even after several cups he's not used to the flavor without sugar and cream, but today... there's nothing comforting about today so the coffee's as black as his mood. From the moment he woke up, before the sun had even hit the horizon, he'd been sitting in this chair, contemplating his own... foolishness.

How could he ever have believed he had a grasp on what happened to those children in the arena? How could he ever have thought he could help? It was arrogance to the nth degree to have ever thought he understood. To have thought that he could help erase the scars. He should have realized sooner how deep they go.

Now with the sun several hours up, he's still hardly moved, looking out the window, more determined than ever to see the Capitol fall.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Peeta. [There's a slight pause.] I'm sorry. For everything you had to go through, I'm sorry.
Edited Date: 2010-10-23 08:38 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-10-23 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
I'm sorry you had to see that.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Never be sorry. More people should see it - perhaps they'd learn something.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
[Well, technically, a lot of people did see that. Portions of it, anyway]

Did you...

...you won't tell Katniss, will you?

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
No, I won't. [He sighs.] It will remain between us.

I can understand you not wanting to talk about it, especially to me, but if you do... and Finnick would understand as well. You can trust him.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
I mean, Katniss, she knows what my nightmares are about.

It's not really something we talk about.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
I understand. But the offer remains.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
I know. And I appreciate it.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Aside from the lovely evening we all just spent, how have you been?

Private;

Date: 2010-10-23 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
Busy. At the bakery. I've been pulling some sort of crazy shifts.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-24 12:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Take a day off, Peeta. Take a week. You should be able to relax here - you're not responsible for single-handedly feeding the City.

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Date: 2010-10-24 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
So do I, it doesn't mean that I don't occasionally like to sleep in, go somewhere pleasant with a good book and relax.

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Date: 2010-10-24 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] risetwice.livejournal.com
I wake up at four no matter what I do.

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Date: 2010-10-24 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Then lay in bed with that book, just... relax.

Private;

Date: 2010-10-25 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] threadthefire.livejournal.com
Promise to try.

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