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so don't fall {stand t a l l } | [pearl/garnet] blitz Sept 21, 2014 16:10:39 GMT -5

Post by umber vivuus 12a 🥀 [dars] on Sept 21, 2014 16:10:39 GMT -5

G A R N E T M I L L I S O N

I stare at Diamond as they take Pearl away. My eyes never stray from the confident, cold girl, and I know they have never been more filled with hatred. How dare she just stand there after what she had just done. Household rule or not, when you are celebrated and basically treated like you've already won the games, you take a chance to prove your worth. Especially when your sister- your only sister is about to be shipped off to her death if you don't.

I don't notice the tears until Pillar's voice shakes me from my stupor. "Garnet... I'm so sorry." I still don't look away, but I do reluctantly wipe a tear from my cheek. "Yeah, well..." I feel her hand on my shoulder and a second later I am running. "Garnet!" she calls after me, but I don't slow down. I push through the dispersing crowd and circle around to the back of the Justice Building where several Peacekeepers stand in front of the back door with their arms crossed over their chests. "I need to see her." is all I can get out as I try to swallow the emotions, and they don't waste time before two of them step forward, each taking one of my arms and all but carry me inside. They lead me through the building, open a small wooden door, then urge me inside. "I'm going to have a bruise," I whine, as they close the door, rubbing my forearm and looking over at the trembling girl that I share the room with.

But she is going to have a lot more than just a few bruises, isn't she?

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so don't fall {stand t a l l } | [pearl/garnet] blitz Sept 22, 2014 10:18:09 GMT -5

Post by Python on Sept 22, 2014 10:18:09 GMT -5

P E A R L M I L L I S O N

Behind her mask of concealer, Pearl was sickly-pale and biting the inside of her lower lip to stifle its trembling. Peacekeepers started for her when the ceremony came to an end, but she already knew the drill. She turned and followed the escort into the Justice Building, where she was ushered into a room by herself and away from the boy (Kendrick, his name was) she had only captured a glimpse of. The white-clad officers shut her in, leaving a strict silence in their wake that she refused to break with her winded breaths.

She wrapped her arms around herself and paced, awaiting the inevitable. Diamond or her mother would barge in here soon, only granting her a few minutes of her own time. Tears seared the edges of her eyes, and she willed them away. If anybody saw her like this, what would they say? They would confirm the truth of what the youngest daughter of Ruby Millison really was: weak.

A voice piped up behind the guarded door, and she perked up. That wasn’t Diamond or her mother, that was..

”Garnet?” she blinked away her tears as the officers practically dragged her in like a rag doll. She waited until they promptly left (she wished they had not handled her younger cousin so disrespectfully) to say anything else. ”Hi.”

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so don't fall {stand t a l l } | [pearl/garnet] blitz Sept 22, 2014 17:02:58 GMT -5

Post by umber vivuus 12a 🥀 [dars] on Sept 22, 2014 17:02:58 GMT -5

G A R N E T M I L L I S O N

I hate seeing her like this. I should have looked away just as soon as her name was called like everyone else, I should have just taken the last happy memory I had of my cousin and used it to get me through, but that isn't an option anymore. Instead, I stand in front of a closed door in a small room where she stares at me, her doe eyes trying their hardest to hide the tears. "Hi." she says, and I don't waste another second. I lunge for her, my arms out-stretched and my tear streaked face twisted in despair.

"Pearl I-- You... You can't die!" I protest, my voice muffled in her shoulder. "I need you! Who would...?" Who would tolerate me if you died? Who would? Who would I have to run to, to talk to when I needed someone, to sit by at Holiday dinners?

No one.

I would be alone, and I can already feel the space between me and the other growing larger.

"Please try. Will you? Try?"

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so don't fall {stand t a l l } | [pearl/garnet] blitz Sept 26, 2014 23:24:12 GMT -5

Post by Python on Sept 26, 2014 23:24:12 GMT -5

P E A R L M I L L I S O N

A pair of arms snaked themselves around her neck. A distraught Garnet’s tears stained her bare shoulder, and she stumbled back from the unanticipated lunge. ”You can’t die!” she claimed, but she could, she really could. The possibility was hanging above her skull like an anvil on a string. She could sympathize with her younger cousin; if the roles were reversed, she would be crying for Garnet right now. She was family – not immediate family, but she visited enough to make herself known as a close friend to Pearl – and watching any of them leave with little chance of return would be heartbreaking. She didn’t know what to say.

”Please try,” she said, voice muffled by skin. ”Will you? Try?”

Garnet was too young to lose family, but life was cruel. Life was training her early, preparing her for the world’s unfortunate reality. Pearl had always known the world was cruel, but she hadn’t expected a storm.

Perhaps she should’ve.

”Of course I’ll try,” she said, as if it were so simple. As if murdering human beings was easy. ”This is what I was raised for.”

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so don't fall {stand t a l l } | [pearl/garnet] blitz Oct 3, 2014 20:48:57 GMT -5

Post by umber vivuus 12a 🥀 [dars] on Oct 3, 2014 20:48:57 GMT -5

G A R N E T M I L L I S O N

"Of course I’ll try, this is what I was raised for."

But it is the one thing neither of us ever truly wanted for ourselves.

I don't fight it, I only nod and give her another tight embrace. Pearl can do this. Pearl can do this. Pearl. Can. Do. This. She has always been better under pressure. She has always found ways of keeping herself level headed and glued together, and now she is going to go into the games and, for ripred's sake, she is going to win!

I try to dry my tears but I realize it's mostly useless. Win or not, she won't be the same girl that stands in front of me. Dead or not, I am still losing one of my closest friends. I want to say more to her, to somehow convince her that she actually truly can do this, but I hear the doors open.

I have heard the stories about people being ripped away from the tributes before they were ready. I have heard of how terrible it is seeing that door close while their child, or sibling, or lover is trapped on the other side all alone, about how knowing it may be the last time they would ever see their loved one's trembling eyes was soul shaking. Now I understand on a completely new level.

I fight them as they wrap their hands around my waist and drag me away. My fists beat against them and I shout my protests, doing everything in my power to just have one more minute with her, one more second, at least. They don't budge.

The door still closes, and I feel myself begin to crumble.

Pearl can do this. Pearl can do this. Pearl can do this.

I can't.

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