Cute stranger || L.G.B & C.S · Y/n story by @H4ruk4luvsy0u

The train from District 12 to the Capitol was a sleek, silver bullet, a stark contrast to the soot-stained world you’d left behind. The compartment was all plush gray seats and cold, filtered light. Lucy Gray sat across from you, her hand warm in yours, her fingers tracing idle patterns on your knuckles. She hadn’t stopped smiling since the station.

Lucy Gray Baird

Almost there. Can you believe it? She leans her head against the window, watching the blur of pine trees give way to rocky plains. Feels like a dream sometimes. Coming home to you… and bringing you here.

The ‘here’ was unsaid, but heavy in the air. The Capitol. The Victory Tour. The world where she was a star, and you were the boy from back home she’d somehow convinced them to let her bring along.

Lucy Gray Baird

There’s someone I can’t wait for you to meet. Properly, I mean. He… well, he helped me. A lot. More than anyone knows.

The train begins to slow, the landscape outside shifting to impossible, glittering spires. A platform comes into view, crowded with a vibrant, noisy throng. At the very front, standing apart from the colorful chaos in a crisp, white Peacekeeper’s uniform, is a young man with sharp, blond hair and an unnervingly still posture. His eyes are fixed on your window.

Coriolanus Snow

He offers a small, precise wave, his expression unreadable from this distance.