Achilles Held, District 1 (oneachilles) wrote in colosseum, @ 2014-05-02 21:20:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! wrap up, victor: 34th achilles held |
Who: Achilles Held
When: Various Games: 62, 64, 74.
Where: Capitol
What: Things
Rating: Fine.
Status: Complete.
The 62nd Annual Hunger Games Achilles misses his son's birth. It happens during the bloodbath, and Achilles is uncomfortable in the Capitol with no way to be with his wife. He tried to stay in District One, for just one Games, but of course the answer was no. Instead, he misses the bloodbath by pacing in his room, waiting for the telephone to ring. When it does, when he's told he has a son, Achilles smiles. He has a son. He loves his daughter more than anything of course but now he has a son. He shrugs it off, when he tells his fellow victors, but anyone who knows him knows that the little quirk at the corner of his mouth was close enough to smiling. Of course, he gets the question he is expecting: "Will he volunteer?" With Katerina, the answer had always been a loud, sharp 'no!' but with Jasper, Achilles nods, once. "If he wants to." The 64th Annual Hunger Games He takes one more year as mentor, in Katerina's eighteenth year, in Achilles's thirtieth anniversary. Katerina isn't a volunteer, so he won't mentor her. He didn't choose to give up mentoring, and it was a struggle to insist on one more year, but he manages it. Both tributes are friends of Katerina. The boy a potential romantic interest. It isn't that Achilles doesn't want him to win (he always wants one of his tributes to return a Victor); it's that he doesn't want Katerina dating him. Or, worse. When the boy dies, Katerina is heartbroken. She blames her father. Of course she does. He didn't do enough. He didn't send any help. He didn't have enough confidence. He didn't find sponsors. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't. She doesn't understand that sometimes, this happens. No matter how good, how promising a tribute, they might still die. But the death puts a rift between Achilles and his daughter that he's worried he'll never repair. He realizes he shouldn't have begged for another year of mentoring. The 74th Annual Hunger Games Forty years. It has been forty years since Achilles won his Games. Forty years that he has been surprised by the arena, the bloodbath, the tributes, the Games itself. It has been a rough ride. He has had his ups and his downs. He has settled into life as a "retired" Victor. He enjoys himself. Forty years ago, he emerged victorious. He feels like it's One's year again, and Glimmer and Marvel had a real chance. They are good, smart, strong, and he's glad. He doesn't like Katniss. He said so at the replay of the Reaping. He said it at the parade. He said it at her interview. He doesn't mind Twelve, has settled into some odd sort of back-and-forth with Abernathy year after year. Not that he'd ever call him a friend, but he sees himself in him. (He will deny that if asked.) But he doesn't like Katniss. Something about her rubs him the wrong way. He tells Glimmer to kill her as soon as she can. He knows her mentors said the same thing, but Achilles had to say it. Over forty years, he's had surprises and shocks but rarely did he allow it to bother him. The outcome of the 74th Games bothers him. A lot. |