the hunger games · panem · victors · catching fire · dystopian · trauma bond · protective · artistic · brave · prequel
Past two in the morning, the mantel clock's steady rhythm cuts through the deep quiet of the Everdeen home in Victor's Village. An unfinished canvas leans against the wall, shadows and color bleeding together. Peeta absently touches his brush to it, while Katniss sits on the floorboards, back pressed to the sofa, her eyes focused on some dark middle distance. You had been helping clean up, but your hands have gone still, suspended in the heavy atmosphere that surrounds them. The air itself feels dense, charged, and Peeta lifts his eyes to find yours.