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Clove ([personal profile] shenevermisses) wrote2012-09-30 09:33 am

9th throw - [ video ]

[It's an awful, awful feeling. Like there's something missing. Someone, actually.

She can't sleep. Because someone's supposed to be there.

Has he forgotten her? She can't really be upset or angry. She's forgotten him, after all.

But! The Journal. That's the way to go!

It's pretty straight-forward, after all, and she gets it working finally. Even has the video going.

She smiles.]


Um. Hi. My name's Clover.

Sorry. Not sure if I'm using this thing right. Hope so.

Anyway... Like... well... a lot of people. I can't remember much. Just got the little card to help me out. But...

It says I'm engaged. I'm supposed to get married.

But I... don't know who to. Which sounds really stupid, I know.

Anyway. I have this. [She holds up a chain around her neck, a single ring on the end of it. It's too big for her, definitely a man's ring. She figures it's got to be her engagement ring. Something about that -- having a man's -- seems right to her brain.] And... I think he gave it to me. So. Maybe this is a really stupid question, but I want to know.

Anyone recognize it?

I want to find him. Please? And thanks.
stillplaying: ([anger] another game piece)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-03 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She frowns the second a card is mentioned. Frowns even more when she sees the words written on the card. Is this some kind of joke? It wouldn't break the treaty, but it's not exactly something she thinks Clove capable of. The girl, for all her acts of impulsiveness, is smart. Would know better than to just believe words on a card. And, as far as Katniss is aware, has no reason to question her memories anyway.

Not unless...

Damn those Gamemakers. She's only thankful that this time, for whatever reason, she was spared. Who'd look after Peeta then?]


The card is wrong.
stillplaying: ([fear] hesitant)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-05 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[She never mentioned Clove's district token to anyone else. Just as she hid the mockingjay pin at the bottom of her underwear drawer, refusing to mention it to anyone else. Something like that was no one else's business. It was too reminiscent of the Games she'd rather forget.

But right now, the reminder is unnerving. The way she easily, almost happily, shows off the ring to anyone watching this now. And the smile... She doesn't like it. It's too friendly, too much like the girl that once upon a time, a horrible shift made her friends with. A friend she could really use right now.]


We're... [Not friends. No. No longer tributes and no longer enemies. Not quite allies, either.] ...both from Panem. I knew you before you came here.

[You died trying to kill me.]
stillplaying: ([neutral] just that stubborn)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-07 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is, still, so much that she can say. So much she can tell her. It would be so easy to destroy the girl's spirits, her hope. To make her feel the overwhelming sadness that's threatening to drown Katniss now.

But there'll be no mention of the Games. If this is an experiment, the girl will remember soon enough anyway. Why make matters worse?]


You said your father gave it to you. [And without mention of the Games, there's no need for explanation of a District token. Lying does not come naturally to Katniss but she tries anyway.] To remember him by.
stillplaying: ([neutral] victor)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-07 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[So the card isn't full of lies. In a way, all of them - all except for the Victor - had lost their parents when they entered the arena. Not a lie. Clove would never, ever get the chance to see her parents again.

And watching the couple there in District Two during that horrible Victory Tour had been so painful. Another bad memory that had been added to the ever growing list.]


That's what you told me.
stillplaying: ([confusion] you're joking)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-08 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Find who?

[The confusion is genuine. Doesn't she live with her district partner? All signs of their encampment in the woods seemed to indicate enough. Why wouldn't she be with him? Did he lose his memories, too?]

Cato?
stillplaying: ([sad] may the odds)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-08 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I... don't know.

[She remembers. Remembers the way the girl shouted the boy's name when Thresh clutched the heavy rock in his hand. Remembers the frantic sound of Cato's voice when he called back. The way he knelt over her body, begging her to stay with him. His District partner. Someone he could go home with, were they to win.

And then she remembers another game played by the Malnosso. A memory given to Clove where she did win the Hunger Games. She and Cato both. And they had a baby girl, didn't they?

She never though about it much before. What the two tributes from District Two could mean to each other. Maybe it took recognizing that she was in love herself. But looking down at the prone Peeta made Clove's worry all the more clear.]


I'm sorry. I don't know.
stillplaying: ([neutral] lost in thoughts)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-09 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[It's strange to hear the easy gratitude from the girl who ought to be her enemy. But then, her apology had been just as sincere. Words that neither would have ever spoken to the other six months ago. Even if Clove's suffering from a shift, she'll remember enough of this in a few days. Remember the thanks she gave.

But it's not savored. She only nods acknowledgement and then presses her lips together thoughtfully.]


Where are you?
stillplaying: ([neutral] just that stubborn)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-09 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Another surprise, though it makes sense. She's seen both of them in town often enough that it would make sense if they had a dwelling here. Just like she still maintains the treehouse by the lake.]

Do you remember the forests at all?
stillplaying: ([neutral] watching you)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-10 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You and Cato have a camp there. By the Western Lake.

[Too close, in her opinion, to the treehouse that she and Rue lived in. But so long as they kept their treaty, she wasn't going to push. And Katniss did spend almost all her time living in town now. Her claim to the treehouse was not what it once was.
stillplaying: ([serious] i volunteer)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-19 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[What's he like?

Another question she doesn't know how to answer. She suspects that the Cato she met in the Games, the Cato that still harasses her now, might not be the same boy that Clove knows. How would he treat his allies? The allies he didn't intend to betray? She doesn't know. She doubts that she'll ever know.]


Dedicated.

[Dedicated to Clove. To winning the Games, to not being shown up by a girl from one of the outlining Districts. It's a word that works.]
stillplaying: ([neutral] the mockingjay)

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[personal profile] stillplaying 2012-10-19 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe it's awkward. Maybe it isn't. She doesn't really care much either way. But it does make sense. If Clove doesn't even remember Cato, why would she remember Katniss? Though she wouldn't put it past the Gamemakers here to play such a horrible trick on either of them.]

Katniss. [It's strange to tell her this. Clove should know her name. All of Panem should.] Katniss Everdeen.