Feb 28, 2014
sending it back to you cause you're the best!! hope you're getting excited for finnick friday heehee!!
Aw. Thank you. And I am getting ridiculously excited for Finnick Friday! :D
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sending it back to you cause you're the best!! hope you're getting excited for finnick friday heehee!!
Aw. Thank you. And I am getting ridiculously excited for Finnick Friday! :D
Not going to tag anybody or think up new questions, because I'm already in full on avoidance mode for my Festivid entry, which is due Sunday (which is killing me because I LIKE the vid I'm making and WANT to make it OMG WTF BRAIN), but the lovely catherinecrow tagged me, so...
1. Are you reading any books at the moment? What are they? I am currently reading, albeit slowly, A Dance With Dragons, whiskeysnarker's Hope In the Darkness, and trovia's Spin Control.
2. Name three things you really like about yourself. My hair (when it behaves), my singing voice, and my eyes.
3. Vampires or werewolves? Oh, gosh. They both have good points. Probably werewolves, 'cause they're furry and warm?
4. What was the first piece fanfiction you ever read? A Farscape fic by KodiakkeMax called In the Company of Ghosts. It was incredible and I knew I was doomed.
5. Top 5 places you want to visit. Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Hawaii
6. How much do you love Katniss Everdeen? Kind of a lot.
7. What’s your favorite poem? (If you read poetry of course) I don't read a lot of poetry, but I did base a fic off of one that I liked. It was a prompt in the Girl on Fire ficathon a couple of years ago: The Dark, Blue Sea by Byron
8. How much sleep do you like to get? Like to get? 8 to 10 hours. :P Actually get is more like 5 hours.
9. What is the best class you’ve ever taken? A creative writing class in college. It was just the one, but I really enjoyed it.
10. What is your favorite song of the moment? Silhouettes by Of Monsters and Men.
Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard—they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.
Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!
1. The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins 2. The Exordium series - Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge 3. The Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey 4. The Tied Man - Tabitha McGowan 5. Once in a Blue Moon - Penelope Williamson 6. The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny 7. The Chronicles of the Cheysuli - Jennifer Roberson 8. The Liveship Traders series - Robin Hobb 9. The Shadow and the Star - Laura Kinsale 10. Welcome to Temptation - Jennifer Crusie
Rules: In a text post, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard—they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.
Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them!
(I'm counting series as one. That's allowed, right?)
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Giver
The Hunger Games
The Screwtape Letters
The Road
Animorphs
Harry Potter
Stargirl
The Three Musketeers
Ella Minnow Pea
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah it's so goooooooooooooooood!!!! it's perfect so perfect. now i want fics full of peeta/finnick interaction!!! i guess i'll have to finally get on writing stuff myself :) thank you again. this is such a lovely gift <3
Yay! She likes it! :D
You're welcome, and apparently it was something I wanted to write, too, since it turned out a lot longer than I thought it would. ;)
thank you so much!!! ahhh i'm so overwhelmed i would love a birthday ficlet- thank you for offering <3 i'm not sure what to ask for, maybe some kind of interaction between peeta and finnick? maybe after peeta (and annie <33) are rescued and living in district 13? i can give you another prompt if that one doesn't inspire any ideas. thanks again, it's seriously so sweet :))
Happy birthday, catherinecrow! It kind of peters out at the end, but I hope you like it anyway. It’s turned out to be long enough I’ll have to figure out a name for it. ;)
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He’s up to his elbows in bread dough, punching it down, rolling it, kneading it, over and over again – mindless work, it helps him to center himself – when he feels the hairs on the back of his neck rise up. A shiver runs down his spine as all his muscles lock. He’s supposed to be safe here. No one else can be here during his assigned work time, the wee hours of the morning, when most of the others in District 13 are safely asleep.
Peeta straightens, hands clenched into floury fists; he forces his muscles to relax, but in his head, he is screaming, torn between fight and flight.
“You’re not supposed to be here.” He doesn’t bother turning to face the man standing in the doorway. “I don’t want you here.” His hands are fists again, and this time he can’t make his fingers uncurl.
“I don’t have to report for training until six.” Boot steps echo in Peeta’s head. One step. Two. Three. The voice is closer, silky smooth and shot through with red and gold, a stinging edge. “I just wanted to thank you for the cake. It was beautiful.”
A shudder runs through his body, or would, if he weren’t holding himself so rigidly. “I didn’t do it for you.” Finnick Odair. One of her creatures. “I did it for Annie.” A breath of sound rolls through his head, soft, soothing. “She used to sing to herself in her cage. Like a bird.” The more they hurt her, the more she sang. She used to sing to him, too, trying to help him hold the pieces of himself together when they did their best to tear him apart.
“I wanted to thank you for that, too, Peeta. Annie told me how you helped her through…” He stops talking and Peeta wonders what lies he’s trying to think up. He is her ally, her partner. But Annie loves him, a small voice whispers inside his head. Annie couldn’t love him if he were a lying mutt like her.
Shaking his head to dislodge that treacherous voice, Peeta turns to face Annie’s husband. Wearing a gray uniform with “Odair” above the left breast pocket and black combat boots, his bronze hair and green eyes are the only splashes of color in the white and gray and stainless steel kitchens of District 13.
green eyes boring into him as strong hands squeeze his throat tighter and tighter choking him holding him down can’t breathe can’t breathe
Peeta stumbles back from Finnick and from the shimmering memory of the arena, bright edged with colors not seen in nature. He blinks, raises his flour-covered hands to his head in a vain attempt to hold back the pain.
“Annie does that sometimes,” Finnick says and Peeta can’t remember how he got so close. “She says it helps her to hold the memories and the fear at bay.” Peeta looks sidewise at him.
“You tried to kill me in the arena,” he accuses. “You pinned me to the ground and tried to choke me.” But even as he says it, it sounds wrong. The colors were wrong, shiny.
“No, Peeta. I’m your friend. I saved your life. I never tried to take it.”
Lowering his hands, Peeta searches Finnick’s face.
A hard shove sent him flying and as he looked back, he saw Enobaria’s knife stick in Finnick’s thigh, right where Peeta had stood mere seconds before. And then the world was spinning and he was clinging to the rock, trying to keep from flying out into the water.
Squeezing harder at the sides of his head, Peeta closes his eyes, trying to hold onto this memory. It’s gritty and raw, greenish and grayish and salty, soaking him to the skin. But not shiny. Nothing about it is unnatural.
“Real…”
also i've been reading some more of your stuff on a03 and am planning on commenting on it all soon, but i'll just tell you here and now that as always i love your writing <3
Thank you so much! <3 I'm looking forward to reading what you think of the fics. :D And the prompt you gave me for a birthday fic should work out just fine. I probably won't get it to you today, but hopefully by the end of this week. *crosses fingers*