don't come { tom/vt/blitz }

It's never gonna be easy. Life won't be the same as it had been before. He knew this. Their names etched into his mind and never going to leave. Cameron Dialate was no different. Fire red hair that glowed in the arena like the molten rock that they had escaped from with only a few burns. Cameron's death still is burned into his mind. It's the last time he got to see Adelaide with blonde locks that burn into his mind. He can still feel her around him like she was never gone. Fingers ever so gently moving across his waist, but it wasn't real. It never was.

Distirct Five was exactly the way Cam had mentioned it. It's not pretty, but it's still her home. It's still the place that the fiery girl had grown up in. The first step into District Five, he felt like he could fall into a hole the size of his fears. There's an ache in his chest at the thought of Cameron because it was his only regret. If only he could have gotten past himself to have saved her from death, but he hadn't be strong enough that day. Death had taken her quicker than he could react.

It's only fate that he would meet her brother in Five, who hadn't shown up at the place where Cameron's family was meant to be, but that's fine. He understood why the man didn't show. He wouldn't have shown if it was someone he cared about either, especially facing their death to something so cruel. The words are like fire that engulf him in a blaze.

"Cam died, you lived. She told you not to come here. Was coming here really worth it?"

There's a second when he can feel Cam with him like a whisper in his ear, but he ignores the feeling. She told him not to come, but he would. He had to. It wasn't his choice, but it was also what his heart needed. That's when he speaks, with kind words and a growing feeling in his chest.

"Yes. It's worth seeing the home of a friend. Meeting the people who she loved and cared for. It's worth it. I wanted to see the place where she loved, laughed, and left. It's always going to be worth remembering her in the games and before she went in. I want to know it all. Help me learn who she was- still is."