i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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you're a dog (I'm your man) by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
08 Jan 2024
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“I have to tell you something.”
He sees Coriolanus tense in his peripheral vision, but he keeps his attention on the jabberjays. They scuttle around in their cages, ruffling with feathers with each movement, a fluttering white-blue-black mass chirping softly to each other. Coryo is already shaking his head. Only a handful of months ago, it would’ve sent his perfect curls swaying. Now, it just reshapes the tracks of sweat sticking to his buzzed skull. “I can’t listen to this. I don’t want to know what you’re doing talking to rebels, Sejanus, I really don’t. And if you’re stupid enough to—“
It just blurts out of him: “I think I’m pregnant.”
(Or: Sejanus finds himself to be a much more selfish person that he previously thought.)
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- Part 1 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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(you're an angel) i'm a dog by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
14 Jan 2024
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Her hand cups his cheek, the same one she slapped, the guitar callouses dragging against his skin. “You’re a good man.”
What a thing to say, when he’d cheated and lied and killed, in the Games and out. What a thing to say, when she had just been furious with him, when he’d fallen into bed with someone else and has expressed no intention of climbing out.
“I’m trying to be.”
(Or: Coriolanus is a better man, but not by much.)
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- Part 2 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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you believe me (like a god) by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
24 Jan 2024
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“You want something like what Coryo and I have; would anyone have ever considered me a good match for him? No. But we made each other feel happy and safe. We could rely on each other. We could respect each other, even if we couldn’t always understand each other. That’s what matters. Stop focusing on making a good match. Worry about finding someone who makes you feel happy, someone you feel comfortable around, respected by.”
Lysistrata sighs, rests her head on her hand. “When did you get so wise?”
“It comes free with the baby.”
(Or: Sejanus gets what he deserves. And also everything he wants.)
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- Part 3 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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i’ll betray you (like a man) by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
28 Jan 2024
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Lucy Gray Baird doesn’t die.
Maybe it comes from her namesake. A gift — or a curse — placed upon her at birth, that she will survive and survive and survive everything that comes at her with no reprieve. Sometimes she wishes it would all just stop.
But mostly she’s just happy to be a survivor.
And, today, she’s happy to see the sun break over the fields of District Twelve.
(Or: let's rewind to that summer in Twelve. There's another side to the story.)
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- Part 4 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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no one will ever love me (like you again) by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
13 Feb 2024
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The night before Coriolanus leaves for Thirteen, he and Sejanus fight.
“Why do you want to come on this diplomatic trip with me all of a sudden? You never expressed an interest before. I wonder what’s changed.” He pretends to think for a moment . “Oh, right. Her. That’s why you want to go, right? To see her?”
“Yes!” Sejanus’ expressive hands come down hard against their white silk sheets. “Yes, I want to see her.”
(Or: They get closure. Whether they want to or not.)
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- Part 5 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love
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others were never to blame after all by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
09 Jun 2024
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Sejanus at eight, at twelve, at seventeen would never have imagined the possibility that he might want to go back after getting out, that he would dream about it, that he could ever consider the Capitol his home.
But it could be home, properly, with Coryo and Martius.
“I know it’s different for you,” Coryo threads his fingers through the meager curls atop his head, sweet and soothing. He’s so good to Sejanus, always so gentle with him. He’s killed for him — twice now. “But I hope we can be happy there.”
“We will,” Sejanus promises, “because we’ll have each other.”
(Or: deleted/expanded scenes from the I’m sorry i’m the one you love series
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- Part 6 of i'm sorry i'm the one you love