Chapter 1
(A/N: So I just finished Mockingjay! It was amazing. I'm in the middle of writing another fanfic but I think this story would be a 'just for fun'. So I hope you guys like this! It starts right after District 13 rescues the tributes of the quarter quell.)
P.O.V of Katniss Everdeen
Peeta, where is Peeta? Gale, where is Gale? Prim, where is Prim? Mom, where is my mom? Beetee, where is Beetee? Haymitch, where is Haymitch? Finnick, where is Finnick? These were my thoughts while I went in and out of conscience for the first couple of days. I hear monitors beeping; my morphing is dripping into my system. I fall out of consciences again. I have a very vivid dream. I was in the arena of the quarter quell. Finnick is meeting me on the beach, I flinch thinking he is going to kill me, but he doesn't. He saves Peeta for me, but then guides me into the jungle. He feeds me and strokes my hair. Next thing I know he is reviving someone. Not Peeta like he did in the actual arena. It's me. No he isn't reviving me. He is kissing me. I wake up. And Finnick was at my bed side.
"Finnick?" I say weakly. I barely recognized my voice.
"Katniss you need to rest,"
"Tell me what's going on,"
"I will later, just rest,"
"No! Finnick tell me now,"
"Come on," he says. He picks me up and sets me in a wheelchair. He takes me into a room. Haymitch is there, so is Plutarch. A woman who I have never seen before is there too.
"What's going on?"
"Well Miss Everdeen you have made a very speedy recovery," Plutarch says.
"What's going on?" I say with anger in my voice. Where is Peeta, Gale, Prim, my mother? The last thing I remember is Gale telling me they were safe but District 12 was burned to the ground.
"You are at District 13. Where the rebellion is being conducted," says that woman. She already annoys me.
"Katniss this is the President of 13. President Coin," Haymitch tell me.
"Where's Peeta,"
"We didn't have time to save him when we made our rescue," Haymitch tells me and he explains how all the tributes knew what was going on besides me and Peeta. I attack him; claw his cheek leaving a deep mark. Finnick pulls me back and drags me to my room. I hear Haymitch yelling as if I was still in the room.
"Are you crazy?" He asks me.
"How could you know and not tell me! That's why you and the others were saving Peeta's life. I thought we were allies. Isn't that what you called it?"
"Katniss, we are. And now we have to be more than allies. They will obviously want to use you as the Mockingjay and Coin wanted Peeta instead so you need someone to watch your back,"
"And who is going to have my back?"
"I will of course,"
"And why should it be you?"
"Katniss! I had your back in the arena, why wouldn't I have it now?"
"Because now you are safe, why would you fight to get Peeta back now? He's getting tortured by Snow right now! And-"but then he cuts me off.
"They killed Annie. I have no one now. So trust me when I say I will have your back. I want Snow dead just as much as you do. Katniss you are the closest thing I have to a friend right now, and I need someone just as much as you need someone," he says. His eyes start to tear, and I didn't notice mine start to tear until I felt a salty drop hit my mouth.
"Okay, I'll be your friend. And we'll be in it together," I say, "I'm sorry about Annie," I continue.
"Let's just not talk about it. We both need rest. Goodnight Katniss," He said and gave me an awkward hug. It was even more awkward when I remembered the image of us kissing. And for the cherry on top his bed was right next to mine. I know he was trying to show affection for both our losses, so I try to hug back, but it just ends up more awkward.
"Goodnight Finnick," I say back.
It's 3 am in the morning and Finnick is waking me up from my nightmare of Rue's death replaying in my dream and every time the feeling is more fresh and sharp.
"Katniss, shhh," He says. I'm sweating. I wish Peeta were here to hold me like he did on the train. That felt like years ago, but it actually happened a few weeks ago.
"Sorry to wake you," I tell him. He laughs
"Don't need to apologize; I'll be waking you up just as much with my screams from nightmares. Was it about the games?"
"Yes."
"Do you want to talk about it?" I consider it. He is supposed to be my friend right?
"Yes." And he climbs into my bed and I tell him about my nightmare about Rue and her death and how it felt. He then told me that I actually beat him to the screaming. He was having a nightmare about the things the Capitol did to Annie, because we all know they wouldn't kill her right away. That would be to nice. I tell him about Cinna and what they did to him just to physic me out. We talk and talk until it's 8 in the morning and a nurse comes in.
"Were you two up all night?"
"Pretty much," Finnick says with his usual charm that makes the nurse blush a crimson red.
"I'll explain to the doctor and you two can rest the whole day,"
"Thank you," we both say. She leaves under the spell of Finnick Odair.
"How do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"That!" I say waving my hand in the general area where he seduced the nurse with saying 2 words.
"Only strong women don't fall for it, like you," he says.
"We should probably get some sleep," I tell him.
"You're probably right." He laughs. He hugs me again, but this time it isn't awkward. Most likely because we just spent 5 hours talking about stuff that no one knows about us. We bonded over talking. That was a first for me. I bonded with Gale through hunting. I bonded with Peeta through being pawns in a game. I bond with Finnick through talking. But of course our talk was about our hardships and the games and our hate for the capitol, and family, friends, home. Everything.
"Goodnight Katniss," he says.
"Goodnight," I say as the tiredness hits me instantly. I drift off, but I do not have a single nightmare. Neither does him.
(A/N: Okay, so a little rough but it's cute. It may follow the book a little bit, but it's all about a Finnick and Katniss love story. I know it's all about Katniss with either Gale or Peeta, but I like Katniss and Finnick together. I hope you guys liked it. Please leave a review! Thanks for reading!)
