[open + closed] nothing to keep me from the storm

[64th]

Who: Cashmere + you
What: After being gone for 5 days, Cashmere returns to the hotel with the fury of 1000 suns
Where: All over the hotel
When: June 8th
Warnings: likely violence and ugly crying


Cashmere wakes up in the boiler room on the afternoon of June 8th, having disappeared without warning five days earlier. Five days in hotel time, but less than two for her. The last thing she remembers is the sharp pain of Johanna's ax cutting into her chest, but that's gone now. She thinks back - before that? Katniss' arrow in Gloss' chest. It doesn't take long for the realization she's returned to the hotel to sink in, on her feet and eventually yanking the door open with a frustrated scream and one goal - to find Katniss.

It feels like something inside her has snapped and though she's exhausted and afraid of what it means to be back at hotel ( she's dead this time. really, truly, dead just like Johanna said. there isn't anything left for her in Panem and nothing for her at the hotel.) and is propelled by the rage that threatens to spill over and the need for revenge.

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She starts with the lobby, yelling Katniss' name as though it might get her to appear. She stops to interrogate anyone she sees, and if they were expecting Cash to be happy to see them again they've pick the wrong day for a reunion. Those from Panem won't be surprised to see her verbally lash out at people - it's falling back on old habits. She's fresh from the Games and it feels like everyone is the enemy.

She does stop by her room to be sure nothing's missing, and will respond to any tablet communication.

closed - Haymitch

Despite being told otherwise by literally everyone she's come across, Cashmere's next stop after the public areas of the hotel is Katniss' (now former) room, pounding at the door. "Katniss! Katniss! Come out, Mockingjay. Don't be a coward." There's no answer, but she's already convinced herself the girl is hiding inside.

She catches Haymitch's approach from the corner of her eye, stopping her tantrum to move protectively in front of the door. "Don't come any closer," she warns. "Unless you're here to help me find your stupid Mockingjay."

closed - Hook

After her run in with Haymitch, Cashmere's finally given up on finding her nemesis but it hasn't done a single thing to make her feel better. If anything, it makes her feel worse - too much pent up anger and no outlet for it. She returns to the lobby in search of an answer (or maybe a fight. probably a fight). She's looking positively feral: wild eyed and charcoal-dirtied hands that hint that she'd even gone so far as to poke at the fireplace like it might be filled with secrets. Cashmere doesn't notice him until he's close enough to touch her, distracted by her current task of looking through all the drawers of the front desk.

closed - Trip

Exhaustion finally wins over, but not until after Cashmere has completely trashed her room. It'll cause quite the ruckus for her neighbor. When he comes by to see what the hell she's doing, he'll find that she's pulled the mattress from her bed's frame, the table and chair have been overturned, and her belongings are scattered everywhere. She tried unsuccessfully to smash the window with her suitcase, and it lays discarded on the floor.

All knocks on her door she ignored until she's finally tired herself out. Cashmere hadn't been expecting Trip (or anyone, really) and rolls her eyes when she finds him waiting in the hall. "Can I help you?"

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closed - Trip

[triplett]

Trip wasn't sitting idly in his room when the commotion had started. He had been in the middle of a shower and rushed to rinse off and get dressed at hearing the noise. It had been days with no sign of Cashmere and everyone had thought the worst. It wasn't a knock but him trying to kick the door in when she finally opened. He pushed past her--his eyes panning the room to make sure she wasn't in trouble.

"What the hell is going on?! Where the hell have you been? We've been looking all over for you!" he answered her question as brusquely as she asked it. The t-shirt he put on clung to his wet skin, not taking the time to dry too thoroughly before rushing to see what was going on in the room next door. "Was it Rumlow? Did someone hurt you?" The questions came in rapid succession. His hands clasped her face to look for any signs of injury.

closed - haymitch

[advising]

Somehow, Haymitch always ends up encountering the emotionally unstable ones in the hallways. First the Pirate, and now Cashmere. He'd wondered where she'd been -- it's been days without hearing some snide remark over the network, if not passing her in the corridors or at breakfast.

When he rounds the corner to the sounds of shouting and the pounding of the door, Haymitch pauses, hands up in mock surrender. Of all people, he knows that wild-eyed sort of fury too well. Didn't they all look like that after their Games?

"She's not here, Cashmere." He'll tread lightly, because she's throwing Mockingjay around in a way she hadn't before, which immediately begins to raise red flags. He steps closer, despite her warnings. "Think you've beat the door enough, as it is."

[villainously]

Things haven't been at their greatest around the hotel, but at least they've calmed down a bit. Or, they had, until Hurricane Cashmere hit with devastating force. Hook missed her, though being glad she's trapped here seems a little cruel... it's an understatement, though, that whatever she experienced at home has left her worse for the wear. He's used to this destruction, wild and unfocused, because he's done it before. He wonders what triggered it with her.

Hard to ask her, when she's running around snapping and destroying whatever she can get her hands on. A dangerous state of mind for the pirate to sneak up on her, but the only way to stop her is very likely to remove her from the situation. It's very much a pirate solution, to pick her up without even considering the fact she might smack him or worse for it. "If you kick me, darling, I'll kick you back." He probably means it. He expects her to protest, he just doesn't care; she's going to her room.

[oceanborne]

It's really the yelling that gives it away -- Annie can think of only two people who are, or have been, in this hotel who would go around shouting for Katniss Everdeen like they'd enjoy nothing more than pummeling her into dust. And she's pretty sure that Johanna is mostly over her rage-screaming phase, which narrows the field down to one. Annie abandons the screening room and the continually-looping film to slip out into the lobby, and yep. There's Cashmere, as if she never left.

Cashmere's back is turned to her, so Annie tries to take a quick moment and figure out how to approach her. There's not a whole lot of ways she sees this ending well, but she'd be a terrible ally friend if she didn't at least make the attempt.

"She's not here, Cashmere. She's gone." Quick and to the point, though who knows if it'll even penetrate the force field of Cashmere's (entirely justified, in Annie's mind) blind rage.