Endless Love [Charbon/Kay]

[Noah Vau - D2 (Cato)]

Leo Pine
cause you search for years
but you lose everything you find

Charbon Shore. She's the only person in the world who ever stole my heart away. She's the only person I've ever cared about. Being in district one has changed me. It has changed me for the better. Living in district two, I was stuck being compared to a man who apparently looked like me. A man who volunteered for the games, and was a ruthless killing machine until his cocky nature got to him. Every where I turned people were pointing at me. Saying that I had risen from the dead, but I had never died. I was alive. Always alive. Even through the darkest hours, I hid away in my home because I wanted nothing to do with reality. All I wanted was for people to notice me as me; not as another being because as far as I'm concered, I'm nothing compared to the boy who died.

I was alone until I heard about the Panem Olympics. It was time to make a name for myself. It was time to show the world that I was different than the man I was compared to. A boy who looked like me - I don't even know his name. When I stepped foot inside the stadium in district four, I could hear people whispering. I could hear the constant talks about how I was him, and that I shouldn't be there because I died in the hunger games. Boy were they wrong. I was never in the hunger games. I am not this Ares Pine. Despite my last name matching his, I wasn't of any relationship to him. I was just Leo. A career designed by the Capitol to slaughter anyone who stood in my way until I met Charbon Shore.

We talked for hours upon hours during the Olympics. We constantly met in the Olympic village, and I fell in love with her. She's the only person I feel comfortable around. She's the only person who understood what I was going through despite all the pain and anger lurking inside my veins. She took it out. She turned me into an entirely different person. I will never forget the first time I laid eyes on her. Her beauty was beyond any word, and she left me speechless. Charbon allowed me to talk to her. She allowed me to get all that was bothering me off my chest. She allowed me to turn into a man who wasn't consumed by the hatred of the world.

Which is why I am here today.

I left district two because I wanted nothing to do with it anymore. District one is my home. It's where I belong. It's all that I have now. I took on a new look. A new way of life. A new place. Everything. I even let my hair grow out to become a scruffy looking peasant. I took the risk knowing that the peacekeepers could find me, but love wins over all. My love for a girl couldn't keep me away. It was a hard journey. One that I never thought possible; somehow I made it alive. I live here now. My entire life devoted to the one girl I fell in love with.

Charbon Shore.

Just thinking about her turns me into a different person. Butterflies dance inside my stomach, and a large grin twists it's way across my lips spreading from ear to ear. I love her, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to marry her.

The idea of marrying her is the only thing that got me out of bed today. It's the only reason I threw on the clothing as the sun fell behind the clouds saying goodnight as the moon rose into the sky to only say goodmorning. The moon lights my way. It guides my heart to my deepest desires. All I ever wanted was to find a way to fit into a life without people comparing me, and now I have found my place.

Grabbing a backpack from beside the door, I journey out into the district promising myself I would only stay in the darkest alley's until I found the shop I was looking for. During the night hours, people slept. They didn't bother others which is why this moment came perfect. I was the perfect example of the definition of love. I risked my entire life to be with her, and it won't stop there. I'll find a way to trick a person. I'll make them think I had nothing to do with what I've planned, and Charbon won't ever know what I've done.

I scan the area making sure that nobody follows me. The sound of my footsteps bouncing against the concrete floor echo rapidly through my mind, but when I stop moving, the world grows quiet. My eyes fix on the stars in the sky. It's such a wonderful time, and I can't wait to spend this time with the love of my life. I yearn for us to lay on our backs somewhere hidden in the district as we talk about life. I yearn for a chance to hold her hand. To kiss her. For her to become Charbon Pine. My life is falling into place, and I'm the happiest I've been in such a long time. I don't have to worry about dying in the games anymore. I don't have to worry about people comparing me to a kid I never know. All that's available is this moment, and a chance to prove my love.

Stopping at the end of the alley, I listen as rats scurry across the ground. Their nails dig into the concrete, but the sounds of any human being is absent. I can't hear them, but all I can see the the shop resting in front of me. My heart leaps behind my chest as I look around one last time before making my way out into the street. Hearts dance in front of my eyes, yet risking my life, and a chance of being thrown into the detention center doesn't bother me at all, but first, all I have to do is marry the girl of my dreams.

I make a beeline across the abandon street, and I stop in front of a window lifting it into the air as I hold my breath hoping that nobody finds me. I scan the area again before leaping through the window seal and inside one of the best shops in the district. I run through the store searching for jewlery that's made its way here, and I stop when I find an amazing ring. My heart sinks to my stomach. I hope she would love this ring as much as I love it because it's my oath to spend my life with her. To protect her. To keep her safe. It's my oath to find my way of life. An oath that I won't ever take back. Studying the rings closely, I find the perfect one. A diamond ring. One that has to be expensive, and I pocket it as quickly as possible before running towards the open window praying that nobody finds me.

After I jump through and land on the ground, I see a kid staring at me. A large grin spreads across my face as the shadows hide my true-being. Soon peacekeepers would arrive, and soon this young kid would become the one in trouble for breaking into a shop. It was a perfect plan. One that I only hoped worked as I sprinted away from the shop as fast as I could without looking back.

I didn't stop running until I made it home. I went straight to my room and looked in the closet to find the best nonformal outfit that I could, and all I could find was a nice pair of jeans, and a white button down shirt. This would work for a date as I prepared for the next morning. A walk around the district to give the love of my life a present I hoped she accepted.

Hopefully she'd agree to spend the rest of her life living with me.

I sprint as fast as I can toward Charbon's home. Only a few moments until I find myself gasping for as I finally get to her door. I knock politely and wait a moment before letting myself in. I immediately drop to one knee and look at the only woman I want to spend my life with. "Will you marry me Charbon Shore?"

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

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Charbon Shore
and we swore on that day
that it will never fall apart

In a tiny cottage at the end of a lane, Charbon Shore had found a modicum of peace. She worked entirely too hard for the six hundred square feet she called home; her salary as the front desk attendant of a Training Center barely paid her bills every month. But she had a home to call her own, a steady paycheck, and a boyfriend to rival all boyfriends.

Despite the peace and comfort of her suburban life, she often found it difficult to sleep. She would stare at her corn crackle ceiling and will herself to shut her eyes and forget. Forget the Careers who tried to weasel out of contracts. Forget her office manager who thought that Shore was synonymously with Will Work For Free. Forget that she even had a famous surname; if there was anything keeping her stuck in the past, it was those five letters. They belonged to a victor, a dead girl and boy. Not to her.

And yet every time she swiped her badge, there it was. So few people even cared to study her first name, to recognize that Charbon was no gem. She was no opal, or emerald, or argonite. She was charcoal, roughened by her time on this earth. A vague temptation to have her name tattooed along her collar bones passed through her quieting thoughts.

She sighed, turning off her nightstand lamp, her diary spread over her chest. She cradled it, wondering if she should have logged an entry about her routine day, just for posterity.

Down the tiny hall, beyond the kitchen/living room/foyer, a knock at her front door.

Charbon froze. It could be her mother; for a while, she had shown up at impossible hours, just to check that Charbon was actually home and not off gallivanting across the district. It could be her manager, although she had never quite crossed that line before. Or it could be him.

She grabbed her robe, throwing the fluffy white thing over her black nightdress. At the door, she took a deep, shuddering breath. She needn’t have worried. She opened her home to the moonlight and a very eager Leo Pine. Swallowed a laugh, she stepped aside to let him in, but he barely made it onto the hardwood floor before he dropped to one knee and proposed.

It took a second. One long breath to still the tumultuous flurry of her heart. One long breath to clear all of her worries. Tears pricked the corner of her eyes as she bent to knees, meeting him on the ground, her hands cupping his cheeks. “I would have no one else, Leo. With all of my heart and all the syllables of my soul, yes.”

When she kissed him, behind the well of tears and eyelashes, she could see only one thing emblazoned across her mind’s eyes: Charbon Pine.

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[Noah Vau - D2 (Cato)]

Leo Pine
cause you search for years
but you lose everything you find

The love of my life was dressed in a bathrobe, and I couldn't help the grin that plastered against my face as I stared at her. My heart prancing rapidly inside my chest as I looked her straight in the eye. Ever since I met her, I knew she was the one. I knew she's who I'd spend my entire life with. And I hope it's the same for her. I hope she loves me just as much as I love her. I didn't want to imagine what would happened if she turned me away because right now all I can think about is her. Charbon.

She was quiet, and for a moment it terrified me. I could feel all the hope in the world vanishing from my site as one question rang through my mind. What if she did say no? But soon she was down next to me cupping my cheeks in her hands as tears formed in the corners of her eyes. Did I do something wrong? Did I mess up?Holding my breath for as long as I possibly, I stare deep into her eyes before she finally spoke. I listened to them as closely as I could. I listened to hear the simple word I was looking for when I finally heard it. “I would have no one else, Leo. With all of my heart and all the syllables of my soul, yes.”

My heart leaped inside my chest as I wrapped my arms around her holding my fiance. The love of my life. My entire dreams. Everything right now is all I've ever wanted. A chance to grow up. A chance to become the man I've longed to become. A chance to prove that I'm not just another look alike. Yes. It rings through my mind over and over as her lips press against me. A kiss that wasn't just a kiss. A kiss that meant more than kissing anyone. A kiss that meant love. A kiss laced with the simple word - yes. As the tears streamed down her face, I gripped her tightly never wanting to let go, but for a moment I had to.

With a huge smile, I remove the ring from the package, and I slide it upon her finger. "Charbon, I love you so much. I can't wait to spend our lives together. I can't wait to grow old with you. I can't wait to see where the future takes us." I wrap her in my arms again because this is what I want. I never want this moment to go away. I never want the Capitol to take us apart from each other because if they do, there will be a price to pay. I promise to protect Charbon with my life. I promise to never allow any harm to come against her.

I kiss her. Pressing my lips against her's as I hold onto this moment because right now this is all that matters. And in all honesty, this is the happiest I have ever been.

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

[googlefont="Damion:400"]

Charbon Shore
and we swore on that day
that it will never fall apart

His arms are as steady as the beams that hold her little cottage upright. Charbon snuggles close, resting her arms over his shoulders, letting her fingers dangle against his back. She rests her forehead against his, for a second completely at peace. One of those trapped tears works its way down, from eye duct to the tip of her nose.

And then he's kissing her, urgently, fiercely, completely. She meets him on every level, and she's hungry for more when he pulls away.

To present her with a ring the likes of which she has not seen in a very long time. It is the proposal, his words and vow, that have taken her breath away. But the ring fills up her gaze, the glittering jewel that now rests on her finger reflecting in her bright eyes. She wants to ask about it - she wants to ask about the fence, about his home that he abandoned forever. But she won't, because if you get the fairytale ending, you don't question the means.

"I want all of that. Our future," a little hiccup of a giggle escapes, a tiny bubble of happiness. "It starts today."

For a time, she falls into the kiss. The moon and stars shift but there is no one else in the world but her and Leo Pine.

Eventually, other sounds creep in. Crickets, a cat or a raccoon rooting through the trash at the curb, someone down the avenue yelling. Charbon pecks him once more on the lips and then stands. Slowly, deliberately, she closes the front door and then holds out her hand to him. "I think we've spent enough time on the floor, although it's suddenly my favorite part of the house." She laughs, and it comes so easily she almost doesn't recognize the sound.

A mere few feet away and they are in the living room. She draws him to the couch, sitting so close that their bodies are practically flush to one another. With gentle strokes, she fixes his hair just the way she likes it, drawing up spikes in the center and smoothing wayward pieces on the side. "I feel like I should have something for you. I mean more than my promise," she leans in for another kiss because she cannot help herself. "More than this. Maybe I'll get you a ring too," she teases.

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[Noah Vau - D2 (Cato)]

Leo Pine
cause you search for years
but you lose everything you find

For the moment, all I could feel was her resting in my arms. The weight of her body pressing against mine. It was perfect. It was all I ever wanted. My entire life was falling into place right before my eyes. I don't want to think about where I would've been had I never participated in the Olympics. Everything happens for a reason, and all my waiting, all my hard work, and all my suffering had finally paid off. I'm going to marry the perfect woman in the world, and I wouldn't change a thing.

I didn't even realize we were on the floor anymore. My mind knew I was, but my heart was lost in this single moment. "I kind of like being on the floor. The happiest moment in my entire life happened as I knelt on the floor. You said yes to me. You don't know how happy I am right now." Despite that, I'm on the couch with her. Our bodies connected by a powerful force binding us together. Oh I can't wait to marry her. Everything that I risked by leaving my home has paid off. The fact I'm here with Charbon makes me the luckiest man in Panem. Fuck the hunger games. Winning Charbon Shore's heart is the single most happiest thing in the world.

With a huge smile spread across my lips, I laugh as she plays with my hair. It's the small things in life that I have learned to cherish. "You don't need to give me anything. You've already given me your heart. Anything else and I'd owe you even more than I do." I can't fathom Charbon having any gift that would make me happier than her hand in marriage. Just to be able to say she's mine is a good enough gift. "Do you remember the first day we met? I don't even think you liked me. Now look at us. Happily in love. I knew from the first moments I laid eyes on you that you were the one I would lay down my life for." Leo Shore. I can and will get used to that.

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[Baby Wessex d9b [earthling]]

[googlefont="Damion:400"]

Charbon Shore
and we swore on that day
that it will never fall apart

As she fixes his hair, she cannot help but track the movement of her left hand. It is heavier now, beholden to him. The black diamond ring that graces the fourth finger is so new as to be distracting. She takes a longer look at it, her gaze flitting between the black diamond at its center and his eyes. A black diamond for the black Shore. Her heart swells a little bigger. The ring is not a part of her, yet, and already she longs for that. When the ring is as much a part of her as Leo's own name.

Of course she already knows what he's going to say, when she offers him a little piece of happiness in return. For all the careful work fixing his hair, she undoes it in an instant, ruffling the top of his head. "And I have yours. See? We're already matched." She speaks quietly, oscillating between playful and serious, as she drops her left hand over his heart. "But you got to give me this ring." She thinks it's a good point but not worth pressing in in the midst of so much happiness.

She lets her forehead fall against his, listening to the rhythm of his words. She can almost see him, years ago and far away, for the first time. But the image is so indistinct, fleeting. They've come so far since then. She smiles anyhow, her eyes still closed, and says, "I didn't know you then. You were just this boy from somewhere else," her voice drops further, conspiratorially. "And I didn't think you could ever get me. But you've proved that to me time and time again." She presses a little closer, letting their noses brush. "Now, I get to spend the rest of my life proving the same to you."

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[Noah Vau - D2 (Cato)]

Leo Pine
cause you search for years
but you lose everything you find

She's the love of my life. The only person to ever keep me going, and I don't want to miss a thing. Every night I was away from her was painful, but now all that pain has gone away. It's been replaced by an amazing feeling. One I can't describe because the words aren't there. Yet it leaves me with butterflies dancing in my stomach, and the way my mind just focuses on her. It's been amazing, and I wouldn't change anything about this. I wouldn't go back to the hellhole I was born in because right now this is my entire life.

Charbon is my future.

Each word she speaks brings great joy into my life. My heart flutters behind my chest. A large grin plasters against my face spreading from ear to ear. It's perfect. I can't help but laugh as she messes my hair back up. It's always so messy, but it doesn't change a thing, and she places a hand above my heart. My life is complete. Every little thing about it has fell into place, and now I can't wait to find a day to marry her. Oh how I love her much more than any word could ever say. As she places her head against mine, I wrap my arms around her drawing her closer towards me. This is one moment I don't want to forget, and I never want to let go.

Each word was music to my ears. My heart belonged to her, and her heart belonged to me. We matched. We both wanted to stay together for the rest of our lives. Yet each time I try to speak, the words stick to my tongue, and I'm left a smiling idiot. But for this moment, it's all ok. I can just be myself. No more worried about anything at all because right now my life has found its purpose. And this one has to be the best thing in the entire world. I turn my eyes to her. My gaze never leaves her's as I stare deep into her eyes. They're beautiful. She's beautiful. Everything about her is beautiful. And it's in that moment I realize nobody else could compare. Nobody can take away my happiness because for once I'm finally at ease.

"You don't have anything to prove, Charbon. You don't need to prove anything or get me anything, all I need, all I require in this world is your love. I won that."

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