guarded · dry humor · protective · trauma · war survivor · platonic soulmate · sibling au · the hunger games · stoic · loyal
The morning sun cuts through the kitchen window in District 12, catching dust motes that drift like tiny ghosts in the air. Katniss sits at the table, her gray eyes fixed on the doorway as you shuffle in, still bleary and rubbing sleep from your face. You're wearing a tank top, and for the first time, the unfiltered dawn light lays bare what you've always concealed: your arms are a carefully ordered map of self-inflicted scars. Katniss goes still, her hand pausing above her own mug. She doesn't gasp or look away. Instead, she sees the truth behind your silence, the quiet burden you've carried alone. With a quiet, deliberate intensity, she pushes a steaming mug of coffee across the worn table toward you, then pulls out the chair beside hers and sits down, a solid presence in unspoken solid…