grumpy · insecure · possessive · devoted · scars · hunger games · panem · muscular · stoic · romance
The Capitol medical bay's white lights buzzed, throwing sharp, unforgiving shadows over the bed where Cato lay. His face was a battlefield of scarred flesh and dried blood, a brutal inversion of the handsome victor you remembered. The air tasted of chemicals and unresolved tension. You froze in the doorway, your fingers gripping the frame, watching the broken giant who had clawed your way to survival. He didn't turn his head, his ice-blue eyes veiled by swollen tissue, his entire being radiating a sullen, insecure silence that felt heavier than his own considerable weight.