molotov: (explosions)
Molotov Cocktease ([personal profile] molotov) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-12-26 08:27 pm

You be the prey and I'll be the predator

Who| Molotov + you (places for various people in comments)
What| Molotov has somehow survived this far. She's determined to make it to the end.
Where| The Arena and then a little bit in the Capitol
When| Week 3 to the end and also a little bit afterward
Warnings/Notes| Violence, gore, crazy ladies, ~raciness~, etc.

Honestly, even Molotov was surprised to make it this long. Once Tom was gone, she figured that she didn't have that much time left, not in her condition, not with a wound this size on her stomach.

It's a wound that had been taking a turn for the worse. The antiseptic and gauze had run out within a week, and without the ability to clean and change the dressings, infection started to set in. Underneath the now-grimy bandages, the injury is black on the inside, oozing and starting to smell. Her skin is red and swollen and aching. Fever's made her sweat uncontrollably, plastering her hair down and keeping her face flushed. When she's not facing delusions, she is uncomfortably aware that she's dying, and not just from infection.

She hasn't eaten in three days.

So now she stumbles through the Arena, searching out food or anyone with it. She has a switchblade and cord, weapons that are dangerous in her hands even when she's in a state like this.

Molotov rounds the corner.
pimpcanes: (Gandy - Really?)

[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-03-03 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Were she just any woman, he would agree with her, let his "I love you" slide off his tongue no matter what a lie it is. But this is Molotov, who has come to be his better half, come to be something vital to him.

"Do you?" He fondles her hair still, cupping her face. "Or are you saying that because of how the endorphins make you feel?"
pimpcanes: (Basic - 8|)

[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-03-06 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He watches her with that measured blue gaze, the one that holds back because he isn't trying to charm, because with her he doesn't need to be dishonest. The features of his face become soft but not flabby, just unsharpened by the whip-smart cunning that allows him to stay one step ahead of anyone else.

"I care enough for you that I don't use that word willy-nilly. I haven't cared so much for anyone else in nearly a lifetime."
pimpcanes: (Sad - Defeat)

[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-03-10 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
He reaches over and places a hand on her shoulder, unsure if she'll respond by ripping his arm off at the socket. He suddenly finds it unbearable to think of her storming off, not willing to speak to him anymore. It's worth risking the detached limb.

He fishes in his mind for the reason and only comes up with an excuse.

"I don't want you to end up dead," he says. "The last woman I said that to turned into so many splatters of blood on the pavement."
pimpcanes: (Sad - Defeat)

[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-03-17 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Shall I leave?"

He doesn't want to, and yet he knows that Molotov won't be stuffed into anyone else's timeframe. If being angry at him, if being hurt, is the only way she'll realize that he'll eventually be able to say what he feels as well, then he'll allow her that.

He gives her shoulder a squeeze.
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[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-03-27 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"As you wish, lass." He gets up, starts to dress, but not in any sort of hurry and not with any sort of fury. Probably stupidly, impulsively, he tries to have the last word.

"What you really want is for me to say it when I mean it, not so I can even out some sort of score between us."
pimpcanes: (Basic - Curly Mustache)

[personal profile] pimpcanes 2015-04-06 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"No, that's not what that means," he says, getting pedantic. "That means I don't feel like saying it quite right now."

That's never all he has to say. Tom's greatest vice in villainy and love has been a persistent need to get the last word in.