[ ficathon ] the girl on fire

[kolms]

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[tilty]

cato/clove, you like your girls insane

[jada_jasmine]

AMAZING

[magic_knickers]

yessssss

[sing_song_sung]

this is perfect.

[sing_song_sung]

hoping at the gates they'll tell me that you're mine, cato/clove, pg (book!relationship)

eleven.

Cato’s first girlfriend is pretty.

She’s pretty the way he is handsome, blonde hair and smiling eyes, a charming ease in the way she walks.

She is his girlfriend by title: they hold hands sometimes, kiss at others. She likes to talk about how things will be after he wins the Games.

fourteen.

She is scrawny, lithe and sharp-limbed, the first time he sees her. She looks breakable.

“I wanna win,” she tells him, ten years old but already her eyes are so hungry. “Show me how.”

“S’easy,” he says, sparing her a glance. “You just have to want it.”

Her shoulders shift backward, chest thrusting forward, showing off nonexistent breasts. “I want it,” she says.

And he believes her.

sixteen.She kisses him first, out of the blue

[sing_song_sung]

hoping at the gates they'll tell me that you're mine, cato/clove, pg (book!relationship)

seventeen.

In Two, where children are raised as warriors, Cato is at his prime. He is a hero during the Games; next year, he will conquer.

He has been groomed to perfection. Everyone is in awe - everyone but the girl who will stand beside him in the arena.

She doesn’t pay much attention to him anymore. She is the only one.

fifteen.He’s exhausted the pretty girls by the time he’s three years from his Games

[morbidmuse]

This is amazing. That last line just killed me.

[tilty]

:O

I AM SLAIN. SLAIN. holy shit thank you for building this beauty for my prompt ;alskdjf;alsdfjk. THE FUCKING ENDING I CANNOT THIS IS SO WONDERFUL. i love the piecemeal history and vicious, beautiful baby clove ahhhhhhhhhhh! their energy and their messiness and their drive, it is all there. lovelovelove.

[chairs]

This is hands down the best fic for these two that I've come across thus far. Such perfect hints of backstory, and that last line is brutal. Love it!

[joaniemaloney]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

that last line.
I don't know how writers manage to wring out more of these heartbreaking scenarios, but you did it. that twist. guh.

[red_b_rackham]

Holy crap this was wicked good. AND THAT LAST LINE. *DIES*

[redbells]

gonna crawl inside your heart (gonna rend your ventricles apart), r, warnings for sex and violence

cruelly, tenderly.