kill for your love - the hunger games

(008) always

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act one.

(chapter eight, always)

training centre / the catacombs, 72 ADD.

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SOMEHOW, DURING THE NIGHT, Juniper managed to sneak into her bedroom after sitting by the window for hours. The party had stopped and as Juniper woke in her bed, makeup smudged on the covers and her dress crinkled, she felt dead inside. 

She would be dead along with Justice in just a few hours. She only had a few hours to live and even then, her will was slipping slightly. But she had enough common sense to swing her legs over the bed and onto the floor, heading towards the bathroom. 

But as Juniper did, she tried hard to not look into the mirror. She didn't want to look into her reflection, knowing an ugly creature would be looking back and so, Juniper stepped into the high-tech shower after slipping her dress off. 

She let the hot water run down her back and sighed at the feeling. Juniper let the liquid soak into her flesh, letting the steam taint her hair as it caused condensation to rise onto the glass panels that surrounded the shower. The only sounds in the bathroom was the hitting of water on Juniper's skin and her deep sighs. She knew she should savour the quietness as she figured that screams and cries would fill her ears soon. 

But like everything, it had to end as Juniper forced herself to switch the water off, standing onto the blow-drying mat as she let it get rid off the liquids that seeped into her skin. And once she was dried, she walked back into her room where she found a sleeveless, tight shirt and some pants laid out on her bed. Her attire for the arena. 

Juniper felt her stomach contract as she quietly slipped into the clothes, the thought that it would be the very last thing she would wear being haunting. And whilst she got dressed, there was a mere thought in her head. She didn't want to die. No, she didn't want to die, but she had accepted it and now, with her impending doom, it was time to stop thinking about it and just let it happen. It had to happen. Had to. That was what Juniper kept saying to herself as she left her bedroom. 

It was only Yara and Lucy that stood in the dining room, both speaking quietly with each other and it was only until Juniper walked up to the pair of them that they noticed her. 

"Juniper." Lucy sighed. The woman looked completely exhausted. "Justice is already gone."

"I figured." Juniper nodded as she sat down at the table, the Avoxes immediately putting a plate of a full breakfast in-front of her. "Was he okay?"

"He was okay."

"Good."

Juniper immediately tucked into her breakfast under the watchful eyes of Lucy and Yara and once she was finished, the Avoxes took away the plate just as quickly as they placed it down and at the nod of Lucy, they all left the room. 

The girl stood up from the table and looked at Lucy and Yara, a placid look on her face. So many emotions, so many thoughts, so much deniability had filled Juniper's head, but as she stood before the two women, all of them ceased. Finally, after a week, Juniper had accepted her death. She was all right with dying.