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Viktoria "Glimmer" Valentine (glimmeredhope) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2013-03-13 09:27:00

Who: Katniss and Glimmer
When: This Afternoon
Where: Out and about
What: A meeting!
Warning/Rating: PG
Status: Complete!

"If it isn't District 12," Glimmer said a bit of discontent working its way into her voice. Sure the dreams were coming a little more and more frequent lately but they still seemed scattered. "The girl on fire," or that was what they had called her during their interviews.
Glimmer fell into step beside Katniss. She hadn't planned on running into her but what the hell, it was as good as a time as any and she figured their meeting was long over due.

Katniss shoved her hands into her pockets, hunching her shoulders. “Hello to you too.’ In person, it was more difficult than she’d thought. She’d look at Glimmer, and only see what she’d done to her. It made her sick to her stomach.
"Hello." It was an easy word to say but what did she say after? They had been enemies in the dreams and it wasn't like they were friends now. What did you say to someone in a dream you wanted to kill? "Still got such a sunny personality I think."

Katniss bit back a mean comment and sighed. "Well you know how it is. Life sucks no matter where you are."
"Such an optimist too." Glimmer shrugged her shoulders because it was kind of true. "I wouldn't say it sucks for everyone though." Just certain people.

"Lucky other people. That's not fair. Things are looking up for me lately. It's hard to break old habits."
“Let me guess it has to do with lover boy there,” Glimmer said half joking half not. Her other self was so sick of hearing the love story angle it made her want to puke and it didn’t really seem much different here. “Please say anything but that.”

“Not really.” Katniss shrugged her shoulders. She could sense the hostility and just had to let it roll off of her. Even if she did want to punch her. “Things are off and on with him. It more has to do with getting a decent job finally. Maybe I can have some free time.”
Glimmer shrugged as she really didn’t care if they were together or not so why bother acting like it? “Don’t people with jobs actually have less free time? In theory anyhow.”

"I've been working two jobs at minimum wage. I got a better paying one so I can quit hellmart and cut my hours at the other place." Katniss hated explaining it.

“Yeah, having a job would suck.” She was lucky her sister worked long hours so she didn’t have to work. So she had the time to do her photography and not worry about having a job. “So does anyone know how all this dream stuff works out?”

Of course Glimmer didn't have to work. Katniss swallowed a bitter pill. "You mean..the games?" She supposed this would have to come up eventually, and it was better to tell Glimmer to her face.
“No I mean the real identity of the Easter bunny.” She snapped as she rolled her eyes. What else would she be talking about? It was the only reason she was talking to Katniss or she would have just ignored her all together and been happy.

Katniss swallowed. She was starting to feel less charitable and guilty the more she talked to Glimmer. "You and the career pack tree me. You try to wait me out and make camp at the bottom of the tree. There's this..tracker jacker nest. I cut it down and drop it on all of you."

Glimmer's bloated face filled her vision, and she shook her head to clear it. "Lot of other stuff happened after that. They turned you and the other dead tributes into muttations at the end....big mean, humanoid dogs. Then..there was just me, Peeta and Cato left. The mutts got Cato, but they were..eating him. Slowly. All night. When it was bright enough to see I put him out of his misery."
The words were hard to swallow. All that training and that was how it ended for her? It was pathetic and she was glad she didn’t have to worry about dealing with that when she got home. “Well isn’t that all sunshines and rainbows. So you win huh?”

"They made us a deal. If the tributes from the same districts teamed up, they'd both win. There was us..and 2 I think, who were from the same district. But when I killed Cato, they took the deal back."

Katniss closed her eyes, trying to keep her voice steady. "So I pulled out some poison berries and gave some to Peeta. I don't..even know if I did that to get back at the Capitol, or what. I thought they'd want a winner, and I was going to deprive them of a winner. They played up the lovebird, angle of course. Ugh."
“Of course they did.” Glimmer said flatly. She really hadn’t thought that would have changed and naturally the pair of them would have won. It was how the world worked but at least there was some kind of justice. “Still think someone better could have won but at least someone gave the Capitol what they deserved.” As much as she hated other tributes, she hated the Capitol.

“It was a short lived victory. Apparently I sparked a revolution.” Katniss made a face. Someone better? She decided to ignore that too. “President Snow threatened me personally if I didn’t do something to stop it. What the hell could I do?”

"Would you have rather things stayed as they were?" Seemed simple enough in Glimmer's mind but then again it wasn't like it involved her much. "Too bad you lacked any real fighting skills to make yourself useful."

“Any real fighting skills? Excuse me? Do you know why I got an 11?” Katniss stopped walking and stared at her. Anger rose up and bubbled over and she exploded. “I shot an apple out of a pig’s mouth on the game master’s table. I could do it again. I could do it blindfolded. I could shoot a rabbit in the eye at a hundred yards. I ripped that bow out of your bloated, broken fingers and that’s why I won.”

Glimmer licked her lips calmly neither impressed or concerned. "And you know how many other careers could do it?" Probably not all of them but they had some around. "You won because everyone was throwing themselves around to see too it. Even lover boy there was willing to pay your price. We all knew that when he joined us... We just saw it as a two for one deal."
"How long would you have really lasted on your own Katniss? Without people willing to die for you? A true hero makes their own sacrifice not expects it of others."

Katniss snorted. “I drugged Peeta so I could do something without him protecting me. Don’t give me that excuse, just because someone from District 12 beat you.”

“Keep lying to yourself,” Glimmer shrugged her shoulders. “Maybe if you tell it enough it will actually be true.”

Something in Katniss snapped a little, and she swung, hard at Glimmer’s face.

Reaching up Glimmer caught her arm. Years living in an orphanage had taught her to read people and well, maybe part of her training as a Career was coming through. That and it was what she would have done if the situation had been reversed. “Feel better?”

Katniss yanked her fist back, glowering at Glimmer. She didn’t like it when someone got the best of her and she wasn’t happy when it was Glimmer.

She gave her a smile and let her hand go. “It was nice to meet you too Katniss.”

“Go to hell.” Katniss pat the words out, storming off. So much for that!

"See you there." Glimmer said with a smirk and went her own way as well.