if you don't look too hard. teddy.

if you don't look too hard. teddy. Mar 25, 2019 20:30:02 GMT -5

Post by ✨ on Mar 25, 2019 20:30:02 GMT -5

L I L I
She spent a lot of time up in that room of hers. Princess of the Victor's Village, little Lilibeth Ursa reigned in her bratty, feisty arrogance. For the first time in her life she felt valued, doted on by stylists who fawned over her hair and eyes and most importantly, her last name.

She was untouchable, skipping to and from her first two reapings and sighing when it took too long to wrap up. The kids at school gawped at her and although her parents tried to tempt her back by banging on the front door when Teddy was away she laughed at them, peering down from the highest window and flipping a middle-finger.

Thirteen, almost fourteen, 24 kids went in and 24 kids went out. That shook her to the core. Corpses walking around Panem, two in District 6. It was a medical miracle, people whispered, a forgiveness from the Capitol. Snow had heard Six's weeping and handed them just this one thing.

Lili knew better. It was a warning. So she slid down the staircase at fourteen, almost fifteen, so much taller than she had been when she first knocked on Teddy's front door, and fell back down to earth.

Watching Teddy's games never scared her. The sister of the victor knew they were supposed to, but everything about Teddy made her feel better. Even when he killed that girl from Ten, swords clashing in the air, Lili never once flinched at the sound of death. Perhaps it was morbid, but she rather liked seeing her brother become a victor. It made her feel special. Like they were worth something, the Ursas. Teddy had made them more.

That's why she loved him. He'd given her something without even knowing it, and took her in without even knowing her. Of course Lili loved her brother because he was her brother, but she perhaps loved what he had gifted her youth just as much.

But reviving dead tributes wasn't an act of love. She could rewind the television screen and watch Teddy kill someone, rewind again and bring them back just to watch them die again. She didn't do it for them - she did it for her. Her own self-righteousness. Sitting selfishly in luxury stained by the blood of Emberly Lowe, Lili didn't care - because the Capitol didn't.

That thought weighed on her for a long time. When Teddy eventually came home, a few weeks shy of the 81st Reaping, Lili sat crossed-legged in the living room with a question on her tongue. She pulled her gaze from the television screen, Capitolites obsessively guessing this year's theme in the background, and looked at her brother.

"Why'd they do it, Teddy?" she asked, because her brother always had the answers to her questions - even if he didn't know it himself.

"Why bring them back?"

Tom

if you don't look too hard. teddy. Apr 24, 2019 0:42:22 GMT -5

Post by Tom on Apr 24, 2019 0:42:22 GMT -5

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[attr="id","teddyText"]Teddy Ursa was home.

Home in the confines of Six, where he can finally breath some sort of relief into his lungs. A relief that never was his to begin with, but he took the opportunity to do so. Lots of questions had been asked in the past few weeks, from capitolites alike. Did he know they were alive? Did he get to see Parson in the vault? Despite the footage the capitol had, not showing a single sign of any victor entering the vault. All of it was a hurricane of no comments and tearful eyes. Parson was different, not a bad different, but he could see the pain those eyes.

He could see the same pain that he had experienced in them.

Quest was different too. The way she held herself was the same as before, but there's a new edge to that. A new edge to the way she was and he understood. Teddy had taken his own time adjusting and they would too, but for now he has his hands full with Six. People had already come to him and asked about it. He's seen the crowds of families that glared at Parson and Quest as if they didn't deserve to survive. A sigh from his throat as he shrugs off the presence and hopes the others do the same. Six wasn't pleased, but there were some people happy about them having that hope again.

If only it were that simple, hope would lead to the crushing hope of more life.

Snow was worse than he could even imagine.

Lili was a sight for sore eyes. His sister. The words still felt unreal to him, despite the memory of a very young sister and small child of himself together in the Ursa Home. She'd taken refugee in his home. When she had first come here, he almost cried the entire night, but now it's as if she had always been there. The house was more of her house than his own as of lately. A busy victor life is what he had, but she was still just a District Six citizen with a victor for a brother.

He was trying to be a better brother for her.

Teddy would do the same for his younger brother if he ever gets to see him.

The sound of the television screen in the background ringing in his ears. Capitolites discussing the next theme, as if it were important. Death would still be in every arena. Fingers tense around his side as he runs his other hand through his curly locks, trying to ease some of the chill away from his head. The cold air still lingering on his skin, despite the warm jacket he wears.

"Why'd they do it, Teddy?"

She asks him, as if all of the answers were already there. Part of him knew that he was supposed to have them. As the older brother, he was supposed to know more about the world than his younger siblings, but he's silent. Eyes glancing back to the screen and then to his sister as she continued.

"Why bring them back?"

Life. Death. They were brought back to crush the living and to torture the victors. Annie would have to live with the consequences of killing them and them coming back. The guilt would fall on all of them. Teddy's already feeling guilty for not helping Quest enough. He's already wanted to drink more wine than he possibly could handle because of Parson. A sigh from his lips falls as he plops down into a comfy recliner. Words on his lips as he thinks of why.

"Lots of reasons."

Eyes glancing to the screen.

"It's a twist no one saw coming, not even the capitol."

Fingers folding over his lap.

"They wanted to see us suffer. Go through all of the same things, only to reveal the guilt you have over decisions. To create hope and then crush it the next games. To cause strife in the districts."

A sigh.

"Honestly, I only can guess. I'll never really know."

Eyes glance back to her.

"All I know is, this is isn't pity on us. It's only the beginning of a new torture."

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