8th Design [accidental voice]

[threadthefire]

[There's the sound of slight chaos as Cinna's voice, slightly strained, comes over the Network.]

No, madam, I assure you it isn't ninety, eighty, seventy, sixty, fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten or even five percent off. And it most certainly isn't two for one.

Don't you know what day this is?

I believe it's Saturday, madam.

You're a right perfect Grinch aren't you?

Madam, I-

A horrible, terrible, awful, anti-Christmas, Grinch!

Madam, please, calm-

[SMACK!] GRINCH!

[There's the sound of someone stomping off and a pause before Cinna speaks again. You can almost hear him rubbing his wounded cheek.]

What kind of curse is this?


[ooc: Cinna, completely uncursed has been overrun today with people asking about sales, deals and giveaways and he is CONFUSED. Also, I couldn't resist - what hiatus?]

Comments

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Good. I worry about her days like this.

...have you seen Katniss today?

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

No. She's got enough sense to keep away from the crowds, but...no, I haven't heard anything out of her all day.

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

That's probably a good thing.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Peeta might know better than I would.

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

If she's gone anywhere, it's out to the forest and I doubt the shopping hordes have gone out there.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Yeah. She's not the one I'm most worried about, today.

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

It's a madhouse, it really is.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it'll only be until midnight. I can get us through until then.

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

I dearly hope this isn't a full weekend curse.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Apparently things usually stay busy until Christmas, at the end of next month. Not as bad as this, but busy.

[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

I may have to impose some limits.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

I'll come anytime, if you need it. You know that, right?

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Of course. I do.

...After I was... on the train. All of you came after me, didn't you?

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Most of us. Rue stayed home, but the rest of us boarded as soon as...we saw.

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

That was reckless, Finnick. If it happens again, I want your word, you'll keep them away.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

If I could've stopped Katniss, I would've. And you know where she goes, Peeta goes.

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Do you know what the say about the dead? They can't go back. She has to go back, she has a decision to make.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

So are you not going back with us, then?

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not like... like the other dead here. I was fully restored, but that's not the point. You can all deal without me, I've made what plans I needed to.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

You know that rationale won't work on Katniss.

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if we tell her, it will.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

...Why didn't you call me when you first realized you were caught on that train?

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Because I knew you'd try and come get me.

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[protects-her.livejournal.com]

I might've been able to stop it, if I'd been there. I should've been.

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[threadthefire.livejournal.com]

Once I was on the train, there was no way to stop it.

Finnick, I made the last statement I think I'll ever make back home, if I get trapped here... there's no great loss.