decode | sophie & beck ; hologram blitz

They're not real. Lines of hollow code that pretend they know her. That's how he justified leaving her to rot in his memories, her final moments replaying only in the darkest depths of his nightmares. He didn't recognize her by the time her canon rung, she died a stranger to him so why should he have to see what the Capitols made of her. Sophie Fray is dead, has been dead, and this will not bring her back.

Then Luke died and he realized these pretty little lies were all he was going to have at the end. They'd keep taking and taking and taking until there was nothing left of him but bones.

Then they'd take those too.

Desperation and delusion have brought him here in front of her, watching as she comes alive in a shower of sparks. It speaks with her voice, recognition flashing in her eyes and there's something so human about it that Beck fights a wave of nausea.

"I'm sor-" He reaches out for her, though he's not sure why. Beck knows better but he always catches himself hoping.

And then her lips quirk in a smile and he finds he feels no better than when she pretended to be angry.

"You know, I always thought this would end the other way around."

There's only ever been one person he would die for. He wonders if this hologram knows it like Sophie did.

"You were supposed to wear the crown. It's a bit too heavy for my taste."