Revenant | narnia + hunger games

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"Ou our first galaaa" Enne grinned while twirling in front of the large mirror in Susan's "getting ready" room. She was wearing a long sparkly dark navy blue dress, white elbow length gloves, and a sheer light blue shawl. Her hair was pinned up and adorned with silver jewels that matched her necklace.
"Girl you ATE" Susan squealed as she watched Enne.
"You look like a princess!" Lucy exclaimed running up to her
"Enne you look SO good" Nia stopped lacing up her boots and placed her hand on her chest, "they grow up so soon" she replied wiping an imaginary tear from her face. Unlike Enne, Nia was wearing a full black combat military outfit. Daggers strapped at her thighs, gun in her holster and a plain white rose pin on her chest. Peter was dressed similarly as they were both on duty.
"Enne!" Ed flushed bright red as he walked into the room, "y-you look...wow- I mean you look st-so good" he fumbled over his words
"That was hard to watch" Peter said quietly to Nia as they left the room.
"Yea that was rough"

As everyone left the room, Ed approached Enne, "wow" he whispered as he gently took her gloved hand.
"Thanks" Enne blushed as Ed spun her slowly.
"I actually have something for you, I hope it's not weird" he said reaching in his pocket to pull out a delicate silver bracelet, in the centre of two diamonds was a silver bird holding a sapphire egg.
"I saw this and for some reason it really reminded me of you"
Enne looked at the bracelet in awe, "Ed it's beautiful thank you so much"
He slipped the bracelet on her wrist and gently took her hand in his. Enne blushed and cleared her throat,
"I wish Peter and Nia could join us instead of having to work"
"Yea our father has him working as much as possible to prepare him to take over his position in the army and on the council"
"Oh, you don't talk about your father that much, I actually forgot you guys had one" Enne laughed lightly
"Yea we're not close, none of us really talk to him that much. Except Peter but he's pretty much forced to. He changed a lot since our mom passed"
Enne squeezed his hand lightly, she felt like anything she would say couldn't convey all the things she felt for him, so instead she simply pulled him into a hug.

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Peter leant on the wall of the armoury as he watched Nia strap on some more weapons, "Are you gunna just stand there and watch?" Nia rolled her eyes and turned around and handed him a gun.
"Just enjoying the view" he smirked as he took it and tucked it into the holster on his chess. He walked towards where she sat on the counter and tightened the strap at her thigh. Without thinking she ran one hand through his hair, before realizing what she did and quickly dropping her hand to rest on the counter. He froze, hands still on her thigh holster. She cleared her throat and reached for the selection of daggers to her right, examining each of them and setting aside the ones she approved of to take with her. He stepped back for a second, watching her movements before moving closer to her again.
"You look like you were made for this" he whispered his hands moving to each strap on holster she wore and making sure they were all tightened. She rolled her eyes and swatted his hands away.
"Anything to get out of talking to these rich stuck up pricks I guess- no offence"
"Hey I'm not-
"I'm kiddinggg, kinda" She laughed as he hit her arm lightly, "Isn't it weird that I'm getting like no training tho?"
Peter sighed and ran his hand through his hair and leant on the counter, "that's the thing, although he said Enne would be like the mascot, in a way you are too," Nia scrunched her eyebrows in confusion,
"It's like, she's the political and social mascot to show how good and compliant you guys are and you are like, the power or weapons mascot to show that you guys are strong and deserved to win. Both are needed to promote the capital, showing how dangerous you can be yet still be compliant to the government- it's like sending a message that like Enne is for the people, easing their concerns and you are for anyone thinking about fighting back, showing them that we can stop it at any time"
"That's not the message I wanna be giving" Nia groaned and leaned her head on the top on his
"I know" Peter placed a comforting hand on her thigh, "The training is so boring tho, you got lucky"
Nia laughed a little and hopped off the counter,
"It can't have been that bad"
"Oh trust me it was, we had some guy with a buzz cut practically yell at us for three hours then had to run an obstacle course every day"

At this Nia took a moment to look at Peter in his uniform. Damn he looks good. He was dressed similarly to her, without the white rose pin and slight differences in weapons. The black shirt fit the muscles around his arms so well. Nia found herself imagining what Peter looked like running an obstacle course, or working out, shirtless and swea- Nope No not again snap out of it Nia shook her head a little. She needed to get a grip. As she opened her mouth to say something, both of them received a transmission through their comms alerting them that they had 10 minutes until departure. Silently they both checked their weapons and uniforms, making minor adjustments as they go. The two made their way to the others and they all stood at the door. Peter and Nia remained stoic as the others chatted about the gala. After a few minutes the limo pulled up. Enne glanced at Nia,
"Are you ready"
"Absolutely not" Nia scoffed, "are you?"
"Nope"