it’s funny that anyone who read tbosas actually buys coryo’s insistence that he’s this cold, calculated, unfeeling person who is only a ever manipulating those around him when everything he does is driven by emotion—by fear, shame, pride, guilt, and, though people will fight you on it, love. he’s repressed any open sincerity in an attempt to shield himself from vulnerability, and yet it’s still on the verge of spilling out of him at any given time.
Still a Capitol Boy, Still a District Girl - 1/? | snowbaird fanfiction
A/N: Came up with this idea a whiiiiiiiiile ago, but sotr snowbaird breadcrumbs quotes have reinvigorated my need to write it. Hope you enjoy this first installment.
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Synopsis: Post-TBOSAS - 12 years following their last fleeting glance, Coriolanus is president and sees Lucy Gray in a crowd. Beyond all thought or reason is one reality, he has to have her again.
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Chapter 1 -
“She is madness, sanity. She is hell and paradise.”
“I've never been anything but trouble to you,” she choked out. “(...) You'll be well rid of me tomorrow.” “I'll be a wreck tomorrow! When I told you that you mattered to me, I didn't mean as my tribute. I meant as you. You, Lucy Gray Baird, as a person.”
And you can have all of it. And today is all I have.
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 3x11 Our Town THE ORIGINALS 5x12 The Tale of Two Wolves
THAT 70'S SHOW 1x01 "That '70s Pilot"
Look, I may not be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell.
The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers
and I know you better than anyone