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katniss everdeen - au, jaha (burningwings) wrote in the100,
@ 2015-07-20 21:17:00

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!log/thread, katniss everdeen, penelope featherington

WHO: Katniss & Penelope
WHAT: Talking about ~boys~ (kind of maybe)
WHEN: Monday evening
WHERE: Their room
WARNINGS: There may be vague references to sexual stuff in Katniss's narrative. Otherwise probably low.

Katniss was trying not to push herself too hard, but she was doing it anyway.

It was just too frustrating to be stuck inside this bunker. It grated on her nerves to be underground, reminded her of Thirteen and of the sewers. It gave her too much time to think about all the things she didn't want to think about, and her mind had a bad habit of wandering along trains of thought that it really shouldn't. The last few days, at least — since Friday, specifically — she'd had other things to think about, just as distracting and significantly less upsetting, but that didn't mean she wasn't still itching to get out of this bunker as fast as she could.

Which meant that she was back in training, in a sense. Her exercise regime had started to look more and more like the regimen they'd given her in Thirteen, and she hated that, but the simple fact was that it was effective. She walked, she built up her strength, and now she was trying to run. She ran two miles on the treadmill in the gym, her legs and lungs aching the whole time, but her wound stayed closed, and the exertion burned away some of her frustration.

Sweaty, but pleased with herself, she headed back to her room. She opened the door, and then came to an abrupt stop. Penelope was there, and she was dancing, and Katniss had the distinct feeling that she'd walked in on a private moment. She froze, tempted to try to sneak back out without being noticed, but sure that it would only make things worse between them again. "Sorry," she said finally, "I'll-- I was just-- I can go."

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featherington
2015-07-22 05:40 pm UTC (link)

"It was a waltz. I'd be happy to teach you, someday," Penelope offered. It was hard for her to quell her smile, so pleased was she with how the evening had gone so far. "It's not difficult, and done with the right partner it's... well, it's magical."

Katniss was smiling, making Penelope even more pleased with the world. "I am happy. I didn't know I could be happy here." She paused, looking at Katniss closely. She looked sweaty but satisfied. "Are you happy here?"

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burningwings
2015-07-22 06:17 pm UTC (link)

"I'd like that," Katniss said, and she meant it. "I can teach you the dances I know, if you want."

No matter how awful things were, she'd been able to dance when the moment felt right. The last time she'd done it had been at Finnick and Annie's wedding, and that had been one of the best moments of the entire rebellion. Over too soon, ruined too soon by the mission and the mutts that had taken Finnick down, but... he was here. So that was only the stuff of nightmares.

She forced her mind away from it, because it was a dangerous path for her mind to go down, and focused on Penelope. Her roommate was happy, she could tell that much; this place couldn't be so bad if it was a place where people could be genuinely happy. But as for Katniss herself...

Her smile faded a little. It was a loaded question, although Penelope probably didn't know it. "I don't mind it here," she said. Explaining that in detail was too much to go into, much more than she wanted to share — for Penelope's sake as much as her own — so she said instead, "Sometimes I feel like I could be."

Specifically, when she was with Peeta. She let her thoughts turn to him, because it was better to dwell on what made her happy than what didn't, and she offered Penelope a small smile before clarifying, "There's someone who makes me feel like I could be."

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