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    He was silent for a moment. She heard his cloak rustle, the sound of his hand grasp one of the bars. The gentle tap of his rings against the metal filled her ears, and she shut her eyes.

    “When you denied an alliance with me, I found other means of quenching my thirst.”

    “For violence and depravity?” she shot back.

    “For vengeance,” he hissed. “Just as you sought yours. Keep your righteousness to yourself. I care not for it. These Men, these Númenóreans, fought against me in the Great War. Slew countless lives. With their pride and their arrogance in their mighty goodness. They thought they were better than the rest of us as you yourself believed you were better than me.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “I wanted to see them suffer. I have achieved so much more than that.”

    Written for an anonymous tumblr prompt: During Ar-Pharazôn’s rule of Númenor when Sauron holds the position of the High Priest of Melkor, Galadriel is captured in the middle of a war, imprisoned, and handed over to him as a sacrifice to be made in the Temple of the High Priest, but Sauron has other plans. From Akallabêth to the founding of Gondor, unlikely allies are forged.

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    Coriolanus walks out of the cabin right after Lucy Gray does. She never gets away.

    Well, she does, at first...but it turns out, surviving in District 12 is trickier than she imagined.


    'If I come back here a second time,' he says desperately, 'will you be down the mines? Worse?'

    'What's worse than being down the mines?' she retorts. She hates that he's seeing her like this, poor and pitiful.

    'I don't know, entertaining some rich man.'

    'There are no rich men here, sweetheart, this is District 12,' she says and she sees his jaw clench.

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    Some of Natasha’s memories are true, some are false, but throughout all of them runs one thread of remembrance: a cool metal hand gentle upon her back, tender against her cheek, tight around her throat; an assassin with a crooked smile and eyes like winter.

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    Their lips slide together, then their tongues curl and she moans, a light, heady thing, come alight with the realization that she is finally, finally home. It’s tender at first, but at the sound of her moan Coriolanus grabs her chin in between his fingers and plunders her mouth harshly. As if this is a punishment.

    You left me, every kiss he gives her, takes from her, breathes. You left me.

    And Lucy Gray—

    Well. For her this isn’t a punishment at all.



    Or: Lucy Gray and Coriolanus can't seem to let each other go.

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    And Lucy Gray realizes – she’s not just a songbird in a cage.

    She’s a songbird that allowed herself to get caught.


    In the end, it comes down to this:

    A boy and a girl sitting in the dark, their love hanging like a shadow between them.

    “Come with me,” the boy pleads, as if this were a fairy-tale, a happy story, a lullaby. “Come with me.”

     


    Or: Lucy Gray returns to the Capitol with Snow.

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