Teaser! Things We Owe to Each Other
⨰ summary: The Capitol promised you fame and riches after you won the games, but you get everything but. Yet when you meet the local fragrance shop owner who's as similar to you as one can get, you realize you need his help. Except everything comes with a price.
⨰ pairing/rating: yoongi x reader | PG-15
⨰ genre: 100% angst | hunger games!au & hurt/comfort!au
⨰ warnings: profanity, death, gore, blood, mentions of prostitution and suicide
For a moment, you forget how to breathe.
Then, his sharp, cat-like eyes narrow, and he spits out an even sharper:
You hear the phrase too often to care—even if he says it so menacingly. And you know what this man is capable of. He could slice your head straight off your body in a matter of seconds. You’d be dead before you blinked. District 2 trash. A Capitol lapdog. Of course he’s working in the Capitol after he’d won the games.
You remember watching him win on the screens back home. They made you study every televised game, take notes on the Victor’s strategies and learn from their mistakes, copy their triumphs. His was the 95th Hunger Games. It feels so long ago—seven years, to be exact. He was sixteen, then. So young. So naïve. He’d volunteered for his younger brother.
But his sacrifice never ends up mattering.
Because four years later, you end up killing his brother during the 99th Hunger Games.
“I’m only looking to buy some perfume,” you say innocently. “You’re not going to turn down a customer, are you?”
In a second, he’s standing before you, hot breath in your face, hands reaching to clasp around your neck. But his eyes widen when he realizes you’re holding onto his wrist, effectively stopping his hands from closing in around your throat.
“Did you forget?” you whisper. He’s so close to you that you can carefully delineate his every feature—his downturned lips, his squinted eyes, his soft, delicate nose. But you manage to maintain eye contact. “I’m a Victor, too.”
