Rated M (or maybe a T - let me know what you think this fits into, I guess?) for sexual themes and mentions of drugs and alcohol in later chapters.

He buried his nose in her hair, and she stood rigid with her face against the wall with her hands plastered on the soft green velvet of the curtain. He placed a kiss on her neck, making her tense, and whispered to her. "You are indescribably beautiful. There's no way for anyone to understand what you do to me."

Would Capitol clients always be like this? She squirmed in his grasp, almost on instinct, and he ran a hand over her waist. "The word for indescribable is ineffable," she breathed to the wall, tensing again as he took a hand away from her wrist to hit her across the cheek.

It didn't hurt badly, but she still winced and pressed herself further against the wall, letting the coolness of it soothe her.

His hands flew to the zipper on her dress, and she felt him loosely tugging it down - maybe he was trying really hard, but he still seemed to struggle. The dress fell to her ankles, and she turned to face her client.

He was a rather ugly man, very gaunt and tall, with a green-blue beard that scratched her chest and her back and bright-pink hair that was cropped short. She decided not to struggle, because he didn't seem to be afraid to hurt her.

His rough, cold hands found their way to her chest and she resisted the urge to squirm away as she had done when the boy from her biology class had done the same.

o-o-o

His breathing slowed, and hers slowed too, but for different reasons. She relaxed a little, reaching for her dress to pull on over the shameful thing that was her body now. His hands moved, for the first time, from her chest and he touched her waist once more before standing up, pulling on his grey suit jacket and blue underwear, and leaving her to revel in her regret and pain.

When he had closed the door behind him, Johanna tried to reflect on her first Capitol client, but all she could think of besides the remaining feeling left between her legs was "the word for indescribable is ineffable".