kill for your love - the hunger games

(083) you need your closure, don't you?

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act three.

(chapter eighty-three, you need your closure, don't you?)

the presidential mansion / the execution of coriolanus snow, 75 ADD.

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PRIMROSE EVERDEEN WAS DEAD.

Aurelius had been the one to tell Juniper. The girl whose face was as fresh as a raindrop, the girl who was barely fourteen had been sent to the front lines. She was part of the medics who helped the children after the first explosion. She had been caught up in the second bombing.

Primrose Everdeen was dead. 

(Prim looked deep in Juniper's brown eyes and the gears in her head seemed to be turning as she stayed silent for a while before saying, "You don't trust her.")

("And yet they sent a seventeen-year-old into battle," Prim told her cooly. But it wasn't a sharp jab or a poke. It was more of a tug. Juniper Hale figured Primrose Everdeen to be one who didn't outright snap, figured she was a person who tugged. "I don't think age really matters in a place like this.")

("Which may help inspire people." Prim smiled lightly. "You don't trust anyone, do you, Juniper?")

(Juniper seemed to find her lips curl into a smirk as she stared at the fresh, young yet old soul of Primrose Everdeen)

The Hale woman did not come out of her room for days after Aurelius had told her. Juniper lamented over her own existence as Prim haunted her hollow head, making her shattered heart sting. She had liked the girl much better than Katniss. Her older sister was stubborn, bitingly cynical, and blunt. But Prim was gentle, soft, an old soul. She had eyes that looked to have seen a million things, a million stories built inside her head, but yet her face was fresh. The girl had an ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they were. 

And now, she was dead. The horrible consequences of war. 

(Snow smiled. "Then yes... the war hasn't finished just yet.")

After hearing about Prim's death, a steady stream of information came to Juniper from Aurelius as the days dragged on. Katniss and Peeta had been caught in the explosions and were heavily burnt, meaning the former had seen her sister die. They were recovering. Dr. Aurelius had now taken Katniss up as a patient, though sessions resulted in him taking naps due to the sleep he had lost during the war. Snow had been tried and found guilty, sentenced to execution. 

And Prim was dead. 

Finnick was dead. Finnick was dead. Finnick was dead. 

Annie was pregnant. Annie was pregnant. Annie was pregnant. 

Prim was dead. Prim was dead. Prim was dead. 

Juniper did not wander through the hallways of the presidential mansion and did not leave her room. She had no reason to. She didn't want to bump into Lucy or Haymitch. She didn't want to speak to anyone except Aurelius, but even then the man fell asleep in the wooden chair by the window.