Love, Love, Love // [Kieran, Ara, Mace] {Blitz}

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Love, Love, Love // [Kieran, Ara, Mace] {Blitz} Jan 6, 2013 1:41:16 GMT -5

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for what it's worth, I have a slow disease that sucked me dry... I always aim to please
but I nearly died

The 62nd had finally wound down, dark as only an underground arena could have been. It was the first arena since his own that Mace had considered further torture to the tributes. After all, they were buried to begin with. How could anyone not be fucked with after that? He shivered, and his fingers shook every time he thought about it. It didn't help that it had been one of the bloodiest Games, with more tribute-on-tribute deaths than any in recent memory. Couple that with siblings killing each other, a girl sewing her lips shut, and mutts from nightmares, and by the end Mace felt numb from the terror of it all.

The night before the train came to take them to Ten, Mace went up to the penthouse to visit his son and the mother of his child. He nodded tersely to Arbor, offered a tight smile to Heron as he slipped into Ara's room.

And finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"C'mhere," he murmured, gathering Kieran in his arms. He kissed the boy's head, and then looked to Ara. "How's he sleeping?"

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Love, Love, Love // [Kieran, Ara, Mace] {Blitz} Jan 6, 2013 5:38:27 GMT -5

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Post by WT on Jan 6, 2013 5:38:27 GMT -5

In the past few years leaving has become bittersweet, simultaneously an escape and a loss. You don't want to stay in the Capitol and goodness knows you don't want Kieran here, but you're not looking forward to tomorrow's goodbyes. A week can be harder to survive, but a year is an awfully long time to wonder how your friends are doing.

As if cued by your thoughts, Mace's reflection slides into your window and makes a beeline for Kieran's. You turn, smiling as their images solidify, and shrug at Mace's question. "Better, now that the entire building isn't up all night," you say softly, reaching out almost involuntarily to stroke Kieran's hair. You laugh a little, a breathless noise that is not a laugh at all but a verbal deflection of memories that are still settling into your mental continuum, thoughts of Sphinxes and rivers that you will get used to but never quite get over. "And probably even better once we're home. He'll miss you, though." On impulse you wrap as much of your son and your friend in your arms as is physically possible. For a long moment you let yourself cling tight, reassured by their warmth, and when you speak again it's through a bitten lip and a lump in your throat. "We both will."

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Love, Love, Love // [Kieran, Ara, Mace] {Blitz} Jan 6, 2013 15:40:51 GMT -5

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for what it's worth, I have a slow disease that sucked me dry... I always aim to please
but I nearly died

It was a reminder of the silver lining, that even though neither of them had successfully seen tributes through this arena, there was life on the other side, at least for them. Now that Ara had pointed it out, he noticed the silence, the exhaustion, the relief. Now they could all go home and forget for another year. Except that none of them would.

Mace gladly welcomed Ara into the embrace, his arm relaxing over her petite form, molding to the familiar contours of her body. He squeezed her just as tightly as she squeezed him, and for a moment he just let her words hang there. "I'll miss the both of you too. Feels wrong not to be with my family all the time," he admitted, and his family was four members strong already. It was more than he could have ever asked for to be with Julian year round, but he ached for Ara and Kieran more than he let on.

"I'll try to be better about calling. Is there anything else I could do?" He finally tucked his chin, ducking a little so that he could look into Ara's kind eyes.

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Love, Love, Love // [Kieran, Ara, Mace] {Blitz} Jan 10, 2013 16:32:55 GMT -5

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"It does," you agree, doing your best to ignore the layers buried under the words—family across the country and family long and newly dead, family close and distant and forgotten. None of that is as important as the fact that right now, pieces of your family are together for just a little longer.

"You can have a good year!" You thump his arm lightly with your forehead. "I'll call too. And send letters, sometimes if I feel up to dealing with postal bullshit." On the rare occasions when you've needed either, you've always liked letters more than mail; when a call ends all you have is echoes, but paper always lingers, tangible proof of the person at the other end. (Besides which, papers tend to be better conversationalists than phones. Half the time you think phones are nothing more than technological jabberjays, not that you'd ever tell them that.)

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