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districttwo[This starts out strong. Cato is sitting up in bed trying to heal with everything he's got.]
That stupid bitch killed me! she killed me! There were no rules in there. No rules at all.
[Except for the last part, which sounds like a whiny petulant child who is frustrated and desperately desperately wanting to leave the infirmary.]
That stupid bitch killed me! she killed me! There were no rules in there. No rules at all.
[Except for the last part, which sounds like a whiny petulant child who is frustrated and desperately desperately wanting to leave the infirmary.]
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:30 am (UTC)Cato. [He puts his hand on Cato's shoulder.] Don't try to sit up yet. Death toll is killer. [A bit of a grim joke. But he remembers how bad that first day was.] You need to rest and heal up.
Do you want to talk about what happened?
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Date: 2012-09-07 01:34 am (UTC)[He glares, and twists.] ...It hurts.
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Date: 2012-09-07 04:06 am (UTC)Don't worry about her right now, just focus on yourself and getting better.
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Date: 2012-09-07 04:12 am (UTC)Spam!
Date: 2012-09-07 04:25 am (UTC)What she did was horrible and in no way okay. I'm sorry I wasn't there to stop her. But there was a wise man who once said that "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." If you take revenge, the violence never stops. Be the bigger man and have the strength of will to let it go. Walk with your head high knowing that she wasn't able to make you lash out, that you control your own actions and can't be goaded into unnecessary fights.
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Date: 2012-09-07 04:50 am (UTC)[What is this. He feels...ashamed.] ...I thought it was an arena.
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Date: 2012-09-07 05:28 am (UTC)[He wants to get Cato's side of the story, too, in case it's different from B's.]
It's okay to want to test yourself. Hell, my best friend does it all the time. But it's not fair to other people to put them in a position where they'll either get hurt or have to hurt you.
[He squeezes Cato's shoulder in reassurance.]
Re: Spam!
Date: 2012-09-07 05:51 am (UTC)...It was an arena. I chose to fight. I thought...finally I'd win. The first thing on this stupid boat that makes sense and I lose at it.
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Date: 2012-09-07 07:15 pm (UTC)Do you know what the motto of the peace-keepers in America used to be?
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Date: 2012-09-08 01:32 am (UTC)...No.
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Date: 2012-09-08 04:16 am (UTC)Re: Spam!
Date: 2012-09-08 04:28 am (UTC)[He winces, rolling over.]
...Frankly I don't see how they did that without getting arrested or punished. Or laughed at. People at home would laugh, trying to help a weaker district.
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Date: 2012-09-08 05:40 am (UTC)The old world was a very different place. You should read more about it. Or we could watch some vids together. [Action movies about cops and justice, not documentaries. He wants to inspire Cato, not bore him.]
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Date: 2012-09-08 06:32 am (UTC)Other shows?
[he twitches in bed and appears to be fighting an angry sad scream]
....Like for training?
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Date: 2012-09-08 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: Spam!
Date: 2012-09-09 02:58 am (UTC)Those are some of the things that inspire some of the arenas.
[He is thoughtful] books and things. One year there was one where each district was assigned an animal and they all were given swords and maces. It was based on some book about chairs. Another there were..
I would like to watch those things.
...Once I've been punished.
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Date: 2012-09-09 06:30 am (UTC)For your punishment I want you to work in the gym, three days a week for the next month. I'd particularly like you to help people train for self defense. But you've got to help them, not hurt them or compete against them.
[He'll supervise Cato himself if the gym staff are too busy to keep an eye on him.]
But we won't start that until you've had a week to recover. So once you get out of the infirmary we can watch a couple vids before you start working.
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Date: 2012-09-09 05:36 pm (UTC)Competing or not, I broke the rules. [What's worse, he lost.] And what's worse...I lost. No one cares about a weakling. At least no one should care about a weakling.
...it's...not even me aren't you worried about what people are going to say about you?
[his father. bearing the disgrace and shame of being connected to a man who did good in the old world sense and defied the capitol's ways.]
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Date: 2012-09-09 07:13 pm (UTC)Second, it wouldn't matter to me if you were. People aren't valued based on how well they can kill another person. Some of the best and wisest and strongest people I've known would rather let themselves be killed than take another's life. That sort of dedication to their morals, enough to overcome even their deepest survival instincts, takes amazing strength of will.
Third, I don't care what other people say about me. What matters is that I remain true to my ideals. I don't do the things I do so that the public will like me, I do things because they're the right thing to do.
You matter to me. I'm not going to abandon you just because you made a mistake.
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Date: 2012-09-09 08:02 pm (UTC)After a few shuddering gasps however they're gone.]
you sound like my father. Be careful. Not everybody is going to like that kind of talk. My mother didn't.
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Date: 2012-09-10 12:05 am (UTC)I'll be careful. But I'm not going to change my mind about this.
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Date: 2012-09-10 12:16 am (UTC)...No lashes. No reprimand. I'm...
Thank you.
I'll work in the gym.