[Six - Right Through The Eye] [Wonderland Plot]

[the_effect_she_has]

[When the journal opens, there are drops of water that drip down on the page. They are erratic, so it is not rain. The faint smell of salt comes from them, and when the shaky writing appears ... well, you can only assume they are tears. Because they are.]

Peeta is ... gone. He's gone ... home.

[There are more spatters on the page, and then a shaky breath.]

Peeta is gone, and there's a mirror here in the front hall. Since I don't have anything left to lose, I figured I'd just go through it. And if I die? All the better.

[There's the angry wiping of her eyes.] I don't care anymore, do you understand? You took the boy I loved, and I don't care what happens to me now. So you can go to Hell, Castle. Straight to Hell.

[She breaths out.] See you on the other side.

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[fanstheflame]

Katniss--!

[he knows her, he knows her will, and he knows that there's nothing he can do. she's probably already gone, before he can even process any of what she's said. he breathes out angrily and slams a fist down on the table next to his journal]

Damn it!

[the_effect_she_has]

...Still there, Hawthorne?

[Because yes, she saw that and yes, she's reaching back over the divide.]

[fanstheflame]

.... Yeah, I am. What the hell did you do that for? The last time there were large groups of people and magic doorways involved, two people came back dead.

[the_effect_she_has]

You know what I did that for. [That he asked meant he was scared.]

Well, no one is going to die this time. [Despite her best efforts.] We need your help to get out of here.

[fanstheflame]

[you bet your not-quite-as-sweet-as-Ino's ass he was scared, Catnip. and he knows exactly what she was trying to do, which is why he's having none of it]

My help? What am I supposed to do, throw a rope through the mirror and hope you can all climb out? Stuff like this ... there's usually not much we can do until the castle decides it wants us to. As much as that sucks.

[the_effect_she_has]

[She rolled her eyes, before she gestured for Steve and Dairine to follow her.] We need someone we trust to work with the smart folk. There's got to be a way out of here, via the mirror, per the damned Castle.

[fanstheflame]

Oh, I know, it wouldn't let you go without a fight any more than I would. What's going on over there, anyway? I hear other footsteps.