Jaehyun Hunger Games - Tumblr Posts
[the hunger games - with jaehyun]
“feels like... feels like christmas,” district eleven!jaehyun murmurs, his eyelids fluttering heavily. “you, me. the snow. red blood, green trees. feels cozy.” he lets out a strange choke that seems to have been the beginning of a chuckle too painful to finish.
you would laugh at jaehyun’s joke if he wasn’t on the ground bleeding out from a hole through his heart. you’re kneeling in the snow next to him, sobbing uncontrollably as the snow around the both of you gradually stains red with jaehyun’s blood.
“hey, hey,” jaehyun mutters, trying to get your attention. his gentle fingers wrap around yours, and he smiles that dimpled smile you’d come to love. “i’m alright. i’ll be okay. this is what happens here in the games.”
you shake your head insistently, still sobbing as jaehyun’s thumb draws small circles on the back of your hand, trying to make you relax.
“this isn’t going to make it any easier for either of us, love,” he says weakly. you press jaehyun’s hand to your cheek, his cold fingers against your warm skin wet with tears. “you know, i-i didn’t know dying would feel like this.”
“w-what is it like, jae?”
“peaceful,” he breathes, a giant cloud of smoke evaporating from his bloody lips. “like christmas... like the christmas last year i spent with my family, like that warm loaf of bread the five of us shared. it was... the first meal we’d had in days.” he meets your eyes wistfully. “i wish you’d been there. my family would have loved you.”
“i wish i’d met you sooner, somewhere else,” you tell him softly, but you know it‘s impossible; you’re from district twelve and jaehyun is from district eleven. you would never have crossed paths, much less fallen in love. “i wish we could spend christmas together.”
“i love you,” says jaehyun, as if he knows he doesn’t have much time. “i love you, (y/n).” his fingers reach to wipe the tears from your eyes. jaehyun doesn’t have the strength to cry right now, and wishes you wouldn’t, either.
“i love you, jae,” you sob, one hand cupping his cheek and the other clasped above his hand on your cheek. “i love you so much.”
“listen,” jaehyun says, more weakly than before, “you’re going to take my stuff. i have a waterbottle, some food, medicine, and a knife in my bag. take my stuff and run north, opposite from districts 1 and 2. whatever you do, don’t eat anything you haven’t seen an animal eat before. i’ve seen so many poisonous fruits in this area that i can’t even identify some of them. climb a tree and do whatever you need to and please, please win for me.” he smiles softly, then doubles over in pain as he violently coughs blood.
“jaehyun!” your eyes flicker from his eyes to his bloody lips in concern.
he shakes his head. “i’m fine.” he looks into your eyes. “can you do that for me, (y/n)? win for me. go back home for me, tell my parents i love them.”
“i-i will, jaehyun,” you breathe shakily. “i’ll win for you.”
jaehyun smiles one last time. his hand goes limp in your grasp, and you place your hand over his eyes to close his blank, glossy eyes.
“i’ll win for you.”