Sleepless in the Capitol [Teddy/Cameron]

Tom
Moderator

5,176 POSTS
Pronouns: He/Him
last seen Sept 22, 2024 14:41:04 GMT -5

OowoO

Sleepless in the Capitol [Teddy/Cameron] Jun 28, 2017 11:08:10 GMT -5

Post by Tom on Jun 28, 2017 11:08:10 GMT -5

Teddy Ursa

There's the smell of the hospital that never seems to leave his nose. It lies within his head every night before he goes to bed. Eyes wide open as he tries to sleep, but fails to even do that. The bloodied letter still holds his name, but no longer with him. There's nothing more but fading memories and new dangers for him. Every moment that he spends in the training center is just one more day closer to the inevitable smell of blood and heated words. The determination in each of them would come out to survive and kill. Even the way that he walks and talks could end up getting him killed. Anything could create his death and he knew that.

Still, he walks on a thin tight rope above a never ending pit of despair. Balancing on a thin line of his mentality that is there and not there. That's why he roams around the building when they were meant to be asleep. Fingers gently touching the walls of the building as he climbs up the stairs to the fresh opened roof of the training center. Protected by a shield and caged in like live animals at a carnival. His grip tightens around the railing as he looks down at a quiet, bright city. Stars barely shining overhead with all of the lights dancing along the streets.

There's no beauty in the jungle of concrete. There's no place to be in their jungle, only a prized rat that will fight others. He didn't want to be like them. He didn't want anything, except to remember what he couldn't. Find out who Theodore Ursa truly is. There's only one question on his mind and that's what he wants to know. All he can do is stare down at the city below and pray that his time won't end right away. That's when his eyes catches the girl. He speaks calmly with a kind smile.

"Can't sleep?"

Made by umber vivuus 12a 🥀 [dars]

pup
Veteran Member

3,008 POSTS

Pronouns: He/Him
last seen Sept 14, 2023 20:52:48 GMT -5

Sleepless in the Capitol [Teddy/Cameron] Jun 28, 2017 13:18:40 GMT -5

Post by pup on Jun 28, 2017 13:18:40 GMT -5

[googlefont="Spectral:400px"]

[attr="class","scroll"]

cam

The nightmares plague my sleep like a disease on a town. Every time I think I am safe and I start to drift to sleep, the fears plaster themselves to the back of my eyeballs,
reflecting from my mind. I would spring awake, breathing heavily and sweating. One of the avoxes outside of my room offered me a sleeping pill, but I wouldn't take anything the capitol offers me.

Instead, I make my way past the avoxes and onto the elevator and up up up. It opens to the roof,
the fresh air stinging my face like the pool water from earlier. I look up in envy. The smoke clouding district five ensures that I never see the stars, but here you can see every planet,
every star, every galaxy just a little bit above you.

I make my way to the edge and sit, proceeding to lay down on the cold roof. I wish I had brought a blanket or something. I stare up, imagining myself flying way up there above my worries, above the games, away from the capitol so I don't need to play this game.

"Can't sleep." I jump to the noise, scared that a muttation from one of my dreams has come to devour me and I will be awake in my bed downstairs yet again, but no. It is the boy from district six.

I settle myself back down, staring back up at the stars that reflect in my green eyes.

"The night's nicer than nightmares." I say to him, slowing my breath to slow my beating hard that had jumped up along with me, "How about you?"

[newclass=.scroll::-webkit-scrollbar]width:7px;background:#f9ffb9[/newclass]

^Made by the amazing Onyx^

Tom
Moderator

5,176 POSTS
Pronouns: He/Him
last seen Sept 22, 2024 14:41:04 GMT -5

OowoO

Sleepless in the Capitol [Teddy/Cameron] Jun 29, 2017 13:17:39 GMT -5

Post by Tom on Jun 29, 2017 13:17:39 GMT -5

Teddy Ursa

Nightmares plagued his brain every night since his mother's death. There's no way to soothe them with the knowledge that he has. Times before of when he had nightmares never came to mind. No songs to soothe him to sleep. No stories that he can remember of that were read to him. How do you deal with something as small as nightmares, when you can't even remember what your parents used to do when you were a child. All he knew was his name and the time after losing his memory. There were ingrained manners that came with him the day that he had woken up to a foggy world before him.

The girl from Five. That's about all he remembers about the red head from Five. The name Cam or Cameron or something of the sort coming to his mind, but he ignores the name. Even then, he was thinking about the violence that he may or may have to do. It wasn't good to let yourself expose the weaknesses that devour whats left of him. A man who wanted to know who he was. His hand moves gently along the railing that protects him from falling off. The chilled metal gives him a reminder that he's still alive and that this isn't a nightmare, but reality.

Cam's words come out into the air like a veil of truth. "The night's nicer than nightmares." The night was better than nightmares that plagued the minds of them all. Dreams of the creatures that could cut him in half. Legs gone into the belly of the beast as screams echo along the walls of the building when you wake up with a chilled sweat. He looks back to the concrete jungle as he hears her ask the same thing he had. His voice seems to betray him for a moment, until he speaks to the District Five girl.

"It's hard to sleep when you know death is looming over you." A half smile pulls at his cheek as he continues. "The city lights remind me of the lights in Six. The hospitals illuminated just like this."

Made by umber vivuus 12a 🥀 [dars]

pup
Veteran Member

3,008 POSTS

Pronouns: He/Him
last seen Sept 14, 2023 20:52:48 GMT -5

Sleepless in the Capitol [Teddy/Cameron] Jun 29, 2017 14:55:13 GMT -5

Post by pup on Jun 29, 2017 14:55:13 GMT -5

[googlefont="Spectral:400px"]

[attr="class","scroll"]

cam

He moves besides me to respond. Names flash through my mind as I try my hardest to remember who he is. District 6, I think, but numbers and names mesh together and now the same thing. Is this what being an avox feels like, to be in the service of someone else?
You don't matter so now you're degraded to a number and no name left, or no name that matters.

"It's hard to sleep when you know death is looming over you. The city lights remind me of the lights in Six. The hospitals illuminated just like this." A slight grin falls on my face as he says this nostalgic comment. At least one of us won't be going home, might as well reminisce before it's all over.

"The sky's nicer." I say, my voice a bit less full of remembrance than his, "Back in district five there was too much smoke everywhere." I sigh deeply, "You couldn't even see any of this." I gesture towards the the stars, the planets, the galaxies above our heads that seem to go unnoticed by him. District six sure sounds nicer if you could at least see through the sky.

[newclass=.scroll::-webkit-scrollbar]width:7px;background:#f9ffb9[/newclass]

^Made by the amazing Onyx^