@odairing said ; ❛ i’m real. i’m here. ❜
they’re going to sedate me again if i don’t stop. i know this, i know it, but the next heaving sob that leaves my lips cannot be stopped. HOW CAN I BE SURE OF THAT? the world is half-haze these days, sedation and hospitalization between propos and the mockingjay. i shake my head and i don’t even know what i’m saying NO to.
IT’S MY FAULT, FINNICK, i want to scream, WE BOTH KNOW IT. peeta’s only - - - like this because of me. gone, maybe forever. here but not, not him, not himself at all and i claw my hands through my hair and shake my head and my eyes are burning and my throat is burning and when can i stop burning? WHEN? i can’t make the words come so i look at finnick through stinging eyes and struggle to make a sound that isn’t another bawl. instead i let myself pitch forward so my forehead finds finnick’s shoulder and i try not to feel pathetic and useless as i gasp for air.
“i can’t tell anymore,” i rasp, a confessional shared when he can’t see me beyond shaking shoulders and messy hair, “finnick, i - i don’t -” i don’t know what to say so i don’t say anything at all. my throat hurts. i’m tired. i just - “when can we stop?”













