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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    Loving other men won't get him anywhere. Charles knows this. With women, he can find company, companionship, and open affection. A home, perhaps children, a shared life. With men it's hiding, and fumbling in dark corners, and shrinking away from each other as soon as possible. Never speaking of it again. He'd gotten around enough at university to know the difference between wanting a woman and wanting a man. Erik won't be any different, Charles knows, and the knowledge sears across him like a whip.

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    16 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    Charles finds Erik. Then Erik finds Charles.

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    16 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 63

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    Charles and Erik broke up. After a few months of break up sex and fruitless efforts to fix things, Erik thinks it might be time to move on (or at least try to). Naturally, this goes well for everyone involved.

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    15 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 20

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    It's the only kind of ritual Charles has ever wanted. If he’s going to survive a week in Westchester without torching the house and everyone in it, he needs Erik. If it's tanked a relationship or two, it's not a big deal - not many people, it turns out, are fine with him disappearing for weeks over Christmas, let alone refusing to stop sleeping with his best friend while he’s at it. Apparently, that doesn’t qualify as “emotionally available.”

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    14 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    Charles picks up two things of note: a) Erik Lehnsherr, a nobody from District 10, has just won the games, and b) he is absolutely, devastatingly, tragically beautiful.

    The Capitol will love him. The Capitol will eat him up.

    Better you should have died, Charles thinks, shifting his weight under Iturius’ searching hands and feeling a pang of dread for the boy on the screen.

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    or: Erik wins his Games. Charles won long ago. And in Panem, winning always comes at a cost.

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    17 Mar 2025