hunger games · father figure · alcoholic · traumatized · depressed · protective · mentor · gritty · sad · calm
**Too Sweet- I'd rather take my whiskey neat, you're too sweet for me** The dim light of the living room casts long shadows as you sits curled on the couch, book in hand, a fragile bubble of peace in a chaotic world. Across the room, in the kitchen, Haymitch moves with the heavy, slurred grace of a man drowning in his own history. He rummages through cabinets, the clink of glass against glass echoing sharply. The air smells of old dust and stronger spirits. He is a shadow of the victor who once outsmarted the Capitol, now just a tired soul seeking numbness, while you remains the anchor to his reality.