Well, here's a dark Peacekeeper Coriolanus/June story. I got 2 smiliar request for it, so here we go.
Chapter 1:
Coriolanus, now Private Snow, hated District 12. It was so depressing. Between the coal dust, mud, and poverty, he's surprised that half of the district's population hasn't killed themselves yet. The atmosphere is horrible.
He hates it.
Would've never made it to adulthood if he was raised in the back hills of the Appalachian mountains. Seriously, he would've offed himself. Between the mud, the muggy heat, the never ending coal dust, the bugs (locals call them skeeters), and the overall atmosphere of despair, he hates District 12.
Oh, how he missed the view of the Rockies that surround his beloved Capitol. He had such a lovely view of the superior mountain range from his former penthouse. Even though it was falling apart, moldy, and rat infested, the penthouse was still on the Corso. Was still in the wealthiest part of town. Yes, he was struggling to stay afloat; was impoverished, but at least he lived in the prized and most sought after part of the Capitol.
Keyword: lived. As in past tense, as in he used to live there. Now he lives on Peacekeeper Base-12, District 12.
From a 12th floor Corso penthouse to a peacekeeper's base in 12. Oh, how Coriolanus Snow has fallen.
High-as-a-kite-bottom must be shitting rainbows at Coriolanus being a peacekeeper in a backwater district.
And to think he was originally assigned to the peacekeeper base in 8. Oh, how he's glad he spent every last cent to his name to bribe his way into service in 12. He doubts that he could survive District 8 considering it's full of nothing but smog, tenant buildings, and textile factories.
At least in 12 he has some fresh air to breathe.
But, he hasn't been able to find his reason for being in 12.
Lucy Gray.
He's been in 12 for a few weeks now and can't locate her. Even Sejanus can't get anyone to tell him where she's at. That's bad considering how everyone seems to trust Sejanus; open up to the naive revolutionary due to his warm and friendly personality.
So, Coriolanus is stuck patrolling the streets of District 12 while rethinking his life choices. God, how he wants to be back in the Capitol so bad. He'll do anything to get back.
Anything at all.
One day, while on patrol in the Merchant Sector, he spotted June, a pretty Seam girl, making her way to the apothecary shop.
The raven-haired girl had on a pretty floral dress.
No, not just a floral dress, but a dress with tiny red roses on it.
It suited her.
June had a book tucked under her arm as she walked down the cobbled streets of the nicer part of the district. And when she noticed him, she gave him a small smile.
That was the biggest goddamn mistake June ever made in her entire life!
That one small smile sent Coriolanus' mind into overdrive. June was so kind to him with that one tiny gesture. So kind when everyone else in the district looked at him with disgust because of the uniform he wore on a daily basis. Everyone else in this back asswards district looked at him like a bug to be squashed, but she didn't. She looked at him like he was a genuine person.
The raven-haires girl's small smile was full of warmth and sunshine. It reminded him of his mother, who he lost such a long time ago.
Oh, how he secretly craved the warm gentleness of a woman. The warm gentleness that he's only known while in the embrace of his mother.
He wonders if you would sing to him late at night when sleep seemed to evade him. When he was deep in thought, too focused on a problem that needed solving to sleep. Would that kind datk-haires girl wrap her arms around him, hold him when he needed solace? Would she be that gentle woman's touch he's craved his entire life?
Yes.
Yes, she will be.
Coriolanus vowed that he'd find a way back to the Capitol, but now that's changed. Now, he needs to find a way to bring both of them back to the Capitol.
As delusional as it might seem Coriolanus was instantly obsessed with June all because she gave him a kind, small smile while on her way to intern at the apothecary shop.
But he didn't view it as obsession, instead he viewed it as love. And he loves her with his entire being all because she smiled sweetly at him.
June's older brother Rein and his girlfriend Ashlie raised her to be leery and fearful of peacekeepers. They told her not to trust them; to stay away from them. And most of all, they told her to never ever look them in the eye or talk to them.
Not unless she wanted trouble to rain down on her like hellfire, that is.
But Jume made the mistake of flashing one a smile while on her way to the apothecary. The peacekeeper was young, June reckons around her age, and very tall. He had to be one of the tallest men she's ever seen in her entire life. But it wasn't his height that made her notice him. No, it was his eyes. Eyes such a pure blue, that they reminded June of the beautiful crystal clear water of the lake.
He seemed unlike any man she's ever seen before. Yes, he was a peacekeeper on watch duty, but he looked miserable. As if he didn't want to be here.
So, before June could think twice, she gave him a small, warm and friendly smile. Hoping that maybe she could cheer him up. Make his day a bit brighter in the desolate, depressing coal mining district they were cursed to be living in.
To June's surprise, he smiled back. It was a closed lip smile, but it took over his entire face and just made his eyes sparkle. Made him look youthful underneath his peacekeeper's persona.
June barely made it a yard away from him when suddenly, a large shadow loomed over her. Looking up, June saw that the very same peacekeeper she just shared a smile with was right next to her. Walking by her side, like her personal golden retriever.
Except June didn't know that Private Snow isn't a golden retriever. He's more like a demon possessed Chihuahua from the deepest pits of hell. Shit, scratch that, he's legit the hellhound Cerberus that guards the gate to the underworld for Hades.
Mhm…
But June didn't know that. How could she? She's only just seen the man. Up until now he's been nothing, but a stranger to her.
Just another random peacekeeper.
"Um, hi." June greeted her new companion, voice a near stutter, as they passed by townspeople and shopkeepers while walking down the cobblestone street of the Merchant Sector.
Everyone looked a bit wide-eyed since June was walking side by side with a peacekeeper. Surely her name would be in the gossip mill tonight; it wouldn't be anything good either. Her older brother was going to flip his shit when he found out.
"Hello, Miss-" The peacekeeper at June's side greeted, leaving an opening hanging for her to supply him your name.
"June Halvir." She simply supplied.
"Well, Miss June, I'm Private Coriolanus Snow; I thought perhaps I could escort you to wherever you're going since, after all, it's my duty to patrol these streets and keep the good law-abiding citizens of 12 safe from harm." Coriolanus told June, laying the charm on real thick since he wanted her to believe that he just wanted to do something nice and dutiful for her. He didn't want June to know that he wanted to take her to her destination in order to show her off to the entire Merchant Sector. To make sure that everyone (and he means everyone) in that part of 12 knows that she's with him.
Commissioned Officers are the only ones allowed in the Peacekeepers to have serious relationships (usually they would have an arranged match in the Capitol) but he didn't care. Coriolanus Snow did what he wanted; the hell with anybody else. He wanted something, he took it. Right now, he wanted June.
So…
He was taking her.
Or at least he would be taking her back to the Capitol with him once he figures out a way back there. But as for right now, Private Snow was letting everyone see then together; letting everyone know that June's his girl.
His girl and off limits to anyone else.
And if someone even did so much as look at June sideways, well, he'd kill them.
"Oh, you don't have to. The apothecary's right up the bend and I'd hate to be a bother; make you take time out just to walk me there."
"It's not a bother at all, darling. In fact, I insist on walking with you, to keep you safe." Private Snow smiled, seeming to be a friendly and helpful gentleman underneath his grey uniform. "Never know who out there might try to harm such a pretty girl, like you." He added in to drive home his reason for walking with her.
Hearing him call her pretty made June's cheeks grow hot. Oh my… Nobody's called her pretty before, not even June's own brother and his girlfriend (and they raised her). No, Rein and Ashlie always said that she looked nice.
Coriolanus calling June pretty did something to her.
The peacekeeper smirked to himself, knowing that his words had ensnared her to him. He honestly did think June was pretty, so having her react to the compliment by getting all flustered made his heart soar. It gave his obsessive nature a large ego boost, because to him June's reaction meant that she loved him back, just like he loved her.
That the two of you shared the unbreakable bond of love at first sight.
But the truth of the matter was that Coriolanus was obsessed with June in an unhealthy way after seeing her and sharing a few words while she was just a kind person that wasn't used to being called pretty
June's from the Seam; girls from the seem don't get called pretty.
Well, not unless they're one Lucy Gray Baird.
But that reality would never be Private Snow's reality. No, his reality's one where they're both crazy in love with each other after sharing smiles, a few words, and a walk.
Coming to a stop right in front of the apothecary, June looked at the peacekeeper and politely told him, "Thank you for walking me here, Coriolanus."
Coriolanus leaned forward, closing the space between them, only to request, "Please, call me Coryo. All my friends and family do."
His words took her aback. Blinking, June asked in disbelief, "You want to be friends?"
"Yes." Coryo nodded, a too wide smile showcasing his pearly whites on his face.
Lie!
That was a big fat fucking lie!
He didn't want to be June's friend, he wanted to be her boyfriend. No, no. That's not true either. Scratch that, Peacekeeper Snow wanted to be June Halvir's husband.
Yes, that's right. He just met June and barely knows her, but he wants to be her husband. All because he's obsessed with her; thinks that they share some kind of special undying love all because of a kind smile and a blush.
Boy oh boy, seems like he forgot about Lucy Gray real quick.
Lucy Gray. Lucy Gray who?
She didn't matter to him anymore. Coriolanus realizes now that the songbird was just a means to an end; that it would've never worked out between them.
That June's his true prize. The girl that's meant for him. The girl that's kind and pretty, just like his mother used to be before she was taken away from him by dying in the birthing bed with his baby sister.
June's his perfect girl.
"Okay. We can be friends." June naively responded.
If only she knew what he truly meant by 'being friends'. It'd save her family a whole lot of trouble and heartbreak. That's for sure.
"I'll wait around; escort you back when your done." Coriolanus offered as the young dirty blonde man inside of the apothecary shop looked at the window, stunned to see June talking so easily with a peacekeeper.
A peacekeeper that had no need for herbs, remedies, and healers since he had access to all the modern medical marvels Panem's Capitol had to offer at the PKB-12 Military Hospital. The young shopkeeper was concerned for the raven-haired girl's safety, seeing her exchanging words effortlessly with the uniformed grunt.
"I'm interning here til 5:30, sometimes 6." June told Coriolanus because she didn't want her new friend waiting around for herwhen he had work to do.
Before Coriolanus could tell June that he'd be back around then to escort her home, the door to the apothecary flung open and out walked Juris Ashberry.
Juris was a dirty blonde of average height that June had gone to school with. His father was a clerk at the Justice Building; worked closely with the mayor. His mother was good friends with the old hag that owned the apothecary.
So, Juris arranged for June to get an internship at the shop after his family had arranged for him to be in a courtship with Belladonna, the daughter of the old hag that ran the apothecary.
Belladonna hated June because her intended, Juris, had a sweet spot for her. A sweet spot he was too chicken to openly declare.
And it was the worried look in his eyes that tipped Coriolanus off that the man who just walked out of the apothecary felt something for his girl. He wanted to stab that dirty merchant boy's eyes out for looking at June.
Coriolanus is the only one allowed to look at her with such sweet worry and care.
"June, you're needed inside." Juris told June as a way to separate her and Coryo. His eyes sized up the Capitol born and bred peacekeeper, concluding that if he had to then he could take the tall and athletically built peacekeeper on in a fight.
"Bye, Coryo." June waved at her new friend before turning towards the apothecary.
June's almost to the door whenever it opened and out strolled Belladonna, the boss' daughter. She gave June a glare before skipping over to Juris and snatching his hand in hers. "Now that she's finally here, we can go have midmorning tea with Mayfair and Billy."
Juris just nodded before silently walking off with Belladonna in the direction that the Mayor's large lavish house was in.
Coriolanus didn't like Juris. Even though Juris has himself a pretty flaxen blonde on his arm, the way he looked at June was dangerous. And the fact that the man seemed comfortable at her place of employment (internship, but practically the same thing) didn't go over well with him either.
Coriolanus decided that he needed to get June away from that dirty blonde man; he needed to make her dependent on him. And he needed those things because it was the only way to ensure that you'll join him back in the Capitol.
So, while June went about her midmorning in the apothecary, Coriolanus patrolled the streets while scheming up a way to get her fired. Hmm, maybe he could threaten the shopkeeper's family? People seemed to do anything to keep their family safe.
Whatever he's got to do to get his girl out of that shop, he's going to do it. He was going to stop at nothing to have June on his arm as he stepped out of the train and onto the platform during his return to the best city in all of Panem.
The Capitol.