Fic: Ever in Your Favor (The Hunger Games)

A gift for lorataprose

Title: Ever in Your Favor
Characters: Brutus, Lyme (Gen)
Rating: PG
Warnings: The usual Hunger Games warnings for extreme violence to children (referenced but not explicitly depicted), plus a little bad language
Summary: “Lyme! What in the—” She chucks the ball at Brutus's head. He gets his hands up in time to catch it before she breaks his face.

Before Brutus has time to finish his question, Lyme barks out “Come with me.”

Brutus’s hands flex around the ball several times as his eyes try to bore past her defenses. Lyme waits, immovable as the mountains surrounding them, until Brutus throws the ball back.

“Lemme get my court shoes.”

A/N: This ficlet is intended to fill lorataprose's prompt in The Odds are Never in Our Favor ficathon, "Brutus and Lyme being bro-friends." It references OCs and follows the timeline created by lorataprose for her District Two 'verse. No character actions, thoughts, or other elements of this story are binding on lorataprose's 'verse.

( Ever in Your Favor )