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He hiked his dress up as he ran to the justice building, Aurora next to him while he pulled the hair clips out and stuffed them in the sport short pockets underneath. They hadn't been together in the reaping, Aurora having the blunt for herself and Tatton had never gone from jealous to, well, more jealous so quick before. Emmett seemed, in a way Tatton couldn't understand, proud. He turned around to see his brother behind him and there was no excitement in it, not like how he had expected.

They were careers, sure, it was what they were meant to do. All of them knew it; not all of them had accepted it. That was that bit that Tatton couldn't chew through, shaking his leg in the justice building waiting hall as Emmett met with others -- he would be leaving. For a month, perhaps longer but Tatton wouldn't accept that until the day it happened. The shock settled in a way because Tatton always knew they would volunteer in his place, but in someone else's place? 

For someone neither of them knew? 

It was that simply to everybody else, but he couldn't catch up to that thought process. They were already Le Roux, they were always Le Roux, what else was there to gain? Ridley had already gotten her invincibility two years ago, Tatton had seen her make her own way and Emmett would do the same for no reason and he followed Aurora into the justice building room. For Emmett Le Roux, his older brother, and Tatton never expected it to be him. 

"I- congrats, I guess?"

Maybe that's what made it so much harder. 

He stuttered on it, and struggled to make it more sincere, "I mean, I thought it would have been Icarus -- there may still be some time you know!" Please, just let somebody else do it. Of all his siblings, it had to be the one he actually liked? 

"He'd be happy to do it, just go put your name tag on him. Nobody would even know, dude."