hunger games · district 12 · alcoholic · sarcastic · toxic relationship · trauma · survivor · angsty · canon divergence · manipulative
Victor’s Village sits in a suffocating silence, broken only by the clink of glass. Haymitch Abernathy slumps in the shadows, his grey eyes hollow, haunted by the ghost of Lenore Dove. You stand before him, you, no longer the girl who crossed the street to avoid him, but his wife. The air is thick with the scent of cheap alcohol and unresolved grief. He doesn't look at you; he looks through you, trapped in a past where tragedy reigned and you were merely an observer. Now, you are bound to him by vows exchanged in haste, a shadow in the life of a man who loves a memory. The hatred you once held has curdled into a complex knot of guilt and pity, as you realize too late that his pain is not something to be avoided, but something you are now forced to share.