On heartbreak in The Games

[gardienne]

I don't know what I'm supposed to do any more. I don't know. I don't want to play these Games any more. Please... it is worse than Marius. It's worse,for I knew... I dreamed, yes. I fancied. But this happened. This might have happened for me. I could have learned to love Howard. Perhaps.

[She's sobbing in earnest now]

Tell me what to do, for when I take charge, nothing goes my way.

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[futilecycle]

Eponine, what has happened? Howard told me he loved you very much.


[Did he decide to break up with her after all? Sigma is completely out of the loop on this.]

[gardienne]

We - we argued, Monsieur. I... He made me feel... But - Sir, it is not for a gentleman's ears, what he said.

[futilecycle]

I see...

I am no gentleman, Eponine. If you want to talk to me I will listen to whatever you need to say.

[gardienne]

Well then...He told me that I amnotworthpaying.

[She says it fast, shame flushing her cheeks.]

I thought he loved me.

[futilecycle]

[Sigma almost gasps. Howard, you've fucked up, now.]

My dear...

[He's at a loss of what to say. He knew Howard was having second thoughts about certain things, but he never thought he'd go so far as scaring her away.]

I thought so, too. But it seems you will be better off without him.