Author's Note:
Well, here we got with another one shot. June's innocent (a bit naive too) in this. i got a request for her to be innocent in this scenario.
Hope you guys like this.
Coriolanus Snow was the youngest president in Panem's history. He was cunning, charming, and very, very smart. Which is why he's the youngest man to hold the presidential office.
But that's not truly the reason why he's President Snow at the tender age of 25.
No….
He's the youngest president because he's a ruthless man. An evil man.
A snake that strikes both friend and foe with poison.
Nobody was safe from Coriolanus' poisonous fangs.
Well, nobody, except his First Lady.
And June just happened to be First Lady Snow. The president's sweet, innocent wife who never saw his true colors.
Coriolanus, who June often called Coryo and even Snowflake (he'll kill anyone if they giggle, laugh, or snigger if in ear shot of his love using the term of endearment for him), made sure that she viewed him as a loving gentleman. He never wanted June to see the cruel side of him.
June Halvir met him when they were both kids, before he became tainted and corrupted by the harsh cruelness of the world. June never experienced the cruelness of the world, being a bit sheltered by her family.
June was innocent, like a little dove.
And that's what drew Coriolanus to her. June's innocence enthralled him, mesmerized him even.
He made it his mission to keep all the horrors of the world away from her, to keep June innocent and naive.
Hell, June truly believed that he helped Lucy Grey win during his mentorship because he cared. She had no idea that he was thinking with his wrong head; wanted to get under her skirts.
June didn't know that he was sentenced to 20 years as a peacekeeper for his crime of cheating during the 10th Hunger Games. She truly believed his bullshit lie of wanting to follow in his father's footsteps (his father, Crassus Snow had been a general).
So, sweet, innocent, naive little June always believed what her Coryo told her. He was her perfect gentleman, her Snowflake, and June had no reason not to trust him.
President Snow, for all his faults and evil deeds, loved June with every fiber of his overly obsessive being. It's why he's done everything in his power to keep his wife from being corrupted by the world.
It's also why he had, nicely, forbid June from entering his office. Coriolanus gave June the excuse that he didn't want to be distracted from his duties of ruling over Panem, but in reality he couldn't risk her walking in on him while he had business meetings.
Some of which almost always ended with his visitor slumped over a teacup.
Dead.
Today tho, well, June didn't heed his warning and decided to visit him in his office instead of waiting for him to return to the living quarters.
June found out very exciting news and wanted to share it with him right away.
She put on a pretty pink dress, pulled her raven hair half back into a large bow (the way he preferred it), and picked some roses from the prized rose garden for the special announcement.
The First Lady happily made her way down the hall towards President Snow's office. His staff ignored her, knowing better to even look at First Lady Snow twice.
The staff wanted to live to see the next Yule season, thank you very much.
When June opened the door, she saw that her husband had a guest in his office. The man, who was stout with black hair; wearing a powder blue suit, was slumped over on her husband's desk.
President Snow wiped at the corner of his mouth with his handkerchief (his beloved one that his wife made special for him, embroidered with a light blue snowflake and his initials in maroon red thread) his icy blue eyes flickering up to the door to see who had walked in. He gave his staff specific orders not to be disturbed. He was ready to chew out whoever had walked in, but any and all retorts he had in the tip of his tongue had died when he saw June.
His precious, innocent, little dove.
Before he could ask what's wrong (he knew something was wrong because June knew his office was off limits and wouldn't just walk in unless it was an emergency), June pointed to the man slumped over the desk and asked, "Coryo, is he passed out?"
"Oh, my little dove, don't worry about him. He just can't handle his liquor." Coryo told June, even though the glasses on the desk were teacups and not rocks glasses typically used for liquor.
But of course, she believed her husband. He has no need to lie to her, has he?
Coriolanus stood up from his desk, only to walk over to June "You know you're not allowed in here while I'm working, June" He reminded his First Lady as he stopped right in front of her. June's husband towers over her, taking in how she's all dolled up and had a bouquet of roses in hand. Arching a brow, he asked, "Is something the matter?"
"Oh, Snowflake, I know I'm not supposed to bother you while you're doing your presidential work, but I was so excited to tell you something." June honestly told him, a bright smile on her face, as she handed him the roses.
"I'm usually the one who presents you with roses, my love." Coriolanus chuckled, only to take the offered bouquet. "What's this exciting news that couldn't wait?" He asked, placing his large, calloused hand on June's cheek, only to caress her cheekbone with his thumb.
"I'm pregnant!" June joyfully smiled up at him.
"That's wonderful news, my little dove." June's Coryo cooed, pressing a kiss to her lips. He grabbed her hand, lacing their fingers together, and suggested, "Let's go celebrate this happy news with lunch in the sunroom."
"Okay, but what about your guest? Shouldn't we wake him up?" June innocently asked, gesturing to the man lying dead on her husband's mahogany desk.
"I'll have one of the staff tend to him, June." June's husband assured her while leading her out of his office.
Little did she know what he really meant by that. But why would she, her husband's only ever showed June a soft, loving, gentleman. He's never shown her his true nature of being an evil, cruel, manipulative, murderous man.
Coriolanus is a snake, but to June he's Coryo, her Snowflake.
And he'll always be that to her since she'll forever be his sweet, innocent, little dove of a wife.
