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Jan. 20th, 2012 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prodigaljaybirdHe hasn't come here since the snow melted.
Hasn't come here, in fact, since those fractured days following Bruce's arrival, feet bringing him here like they could step from sand and into memory, back to a time when Tim was here to tell him what to do.
Staring at the aging wooden structures of the outdoor gym now, Jason finds their delipidation sad. Stupid, for it's not his Tim that built it, but it feels like a legacy all the same. He should do something. Tear something of Tim's down again, but this time, with a mind to rebuild it. He doesn't have the tools, but -
"Hell, now's as good a time as any," Jason murmurs, crossing from the parallel bars and into the closest copse of trees. He lets a batarang fly before him, sharp edges catching the center of a trunk, and Jason arrives in front of it with his leg already outstretched. He feet catches the trunk just right, and with one short, sharp crack, the tree splits down the middle.
Felling trees for lumber might be easier with a saw, but it's not nearly as much fun.
Hasn't come here, in fact, since those fractured days following Bruce's arrival, feet bringing him here like they could step from sand and into memory, back to a time when Tim was here to tell him what to do.
Staring at the aging wooden structures of the outdoor gym now, Jason finds their delipidation sad. Stupid, for it's not his Tim that built it, but it feels like a legacy all the same. He should do something. Tear something of Tim's down again, but this time, with a mind to rebuild it. He doesn't have the tools, but -
"Hell, now's as good a time as any," Jason murmurs, crossing from the parallel bars and into the closest copse of trees. He lets a batarang fly before him, sharp edges catching the center of a trunk, and Jason arrives in front of it with his leg already outstretched. He feet catches the trunk just right, and with one short, sharp crack, the tree splits down the middle.
Felling trees for lumber might be easier with a saw, but it's not nearly as much fun.
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Date: 2012-02-06 10:08 pm (UTC)"If you get something," he says, "we'll destroy it, too. All of it, until it stops coming."
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Date: 2012-02-06 11:57 pm (UTC)He can't help but wonder when that alliance will end.
"You care for her a great deal," Finnick says then, still watching Jason carefully. "Katniss, I mean," he adds, just in case.
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Date: 2012-02-07 12:05 am (UTC)She knows me and she likes me anyway. "Do you know how rare that is?"
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Date: 2012-02-07 12:26 am (UTC)Jason seems so young right now, so much less sure of himself than when Finnick had first met him. Of course, Finnick had been displaced and disoriented at that time, but it still strikes him as odd right now. Jason is a mystery, a potentially very dangerous mystery.
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Date: 2012-02-07 12:39 am (UTC)"Did you have someone? Back in Panem?"
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Date: 2012-02-07 01:01 am (UTC)"I have many," he says. "Did Katniss not tell you? I have admirers far and wide back in Panem."
And he knows, even as the words leave his mouth, that he's trying too hard.
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Date: 2012-02-07 07:27 pm (UTC)"Someone that knew you."
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Date: 2012-02-07 09:17 pm (UTC)"No," he lies, the answer immediate. He's spent years now protecting Annie with his lies and, though she may not be here, and though he may never see her again, it feels like it's the only thing he can do to keep her safe. If he doesn't speak her name, she exists only to him; no one can hurt her.
"Not even my mother and father. Not anymore."
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Date: 2012-02-08 07:52 pm (UTC)Despite his words, he watches the pulse jump in Finnick's throat, unnoticeable but for Jason's years of training, and wonders if this is another lie. "You should get one."
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Date: 2012-02-09 04:16 am (UTC)"If there is someone from home, they could come here, too. I thought I'd be the only one here from mine for a long time, and then they all came at once."
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Date: 2012-02-09 04:15 pm (UTC)Finnick wants to believe that means Annie could arrive at any moment. Or maybe his parents or his brother or Mags. Any of them whole and safe. But he can't help thinking that believing that or even wanting it is only setting himself up for disappointment.
"Katniss and Peeta are both here," he says with a mild shrug. "I guess they're close enough to knowing me as anyone else." It isn't true, of course. Despite what they've gone through together, neither of them really know him. They're not intended to.
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Date: 2012-02-10 12:23 am (UTC)"Maybe it will be me, then. Guess we'll see."