voice testing... /sob

[constantgrief]

Okay, sweetheart? You want me here? We're gonna have to make a deal then. I'll stay as long as you let me drink. I could care less what you do with me, not like I haven't already seen it. Just leave me and the whiskey.

Comments

[stillplaying]

[She scowls at hearing his words. It's not so much seeing Haymitch himself - that's actually a nice surprise. Not that it hasn't exactly been a long time. That trip home let her see him. Him and Peeta and the remanants of District 12. But the experimentation, the game that happened after soured the whole experience. Makes it feel like so much longer.

And the last thing she wants is seeing Haymitch in any games. It's almost as bad as picturing Peeta in one.]

You can't make deals with them. They never listen.

[constantgrief]

Well, I got my drinks, so I think I'm good.

[stillplaying]

[Another scowl.]

Your drinks won't help you if they send you to a game.

[constantgrief]

What if she does? With the way things are looking now, I'm not going anywhere, sweetheart.

[stillplaying]

[She wishes it had been that easy for her. That she had just been forgotten about. That Rue hadn't been going to that game.]

They're Gamemakers. You really think she's going to let you go that easily?

[constantgrief]

Look who you're talking to.

[stillplaying]

[Eyeroll. She knows. But he's like family now, isn't he? And you protect family.]

Then you should already know better.

[constantgrief]

Eh, the girl's not gonna try to piss me off. 'Pparently, she's just trying to get my "voice" down.

[stillplaying]

And then?

[constantgrief]

Who knows, and who cares. Anything better than... yeah.

[stillplaying]

[She can't argue with that.]

Yeah.

[constantgrief]

You doing okay, sweetheart?

[stillplaying]

[She was doing fine. Until that most recent shift of events. Showing Rick Panem wasn't so bad. But having her memories altered was horrible.]

I should have put up more of a fight. About being sent to a game. But Rue was there.

[And she did exactly what she would've done if it was Prim going to a strange world alone.]

[constantgrief]

Put up a fight? What exactly you going through?

[stillplaying]

I was hijacked. [Said without much emotion.] The Gamemakers there changed our memories for a week.

[Frowning now.] I had an uncle.

[constantgrief]

Hijacked?

Whoa? You got yourself an uncle? Who's the lucky guy?