a/n: I own nothing you recognize. Probably don't even own the name Finn for their son, but I like it.
Merry Christmas, Aimy! I love you, and I hope you like this! :D
She listens to the sea sometimes.
Not often, not rarely, just sometimes. She walks out onto the sand with her feet bare and her wedding ring clutched in her hand and she contemplates throwing it into the vast, roiling waves of the sea so that it could be buried beneath the glimmerng blue majesty of the ocean and she'd never have to remember him again.
Once, only once, she almost does.
The ring slips from her fingers and lands in the sand. In another moment, it would have been swallowed by the waves that were about to crash on the shore. Would have been – if she hadn't clutched for it desperately to rescue that band of gold and love and Finnick from the traitorous depths of the sea. For how can she let it go – how can she let him go? (She can't, she can't, she won't.)
The sea, her sea, his sea, their sea – it is loud and harsh and miserable, on most mornings when she rises from her bed and leaves little Finn sleeping in his crib to go and listen to the sea. The mornings when she does tend to be grey and gloomy, bubbling over with rainclouds and thunderstorms and all the terror of the world wrapped into a strike of lightning. She's almost been hit once, and (it was on purpose).
(But how can she abandon Finn? She can't, she can't, she won't.)
She doesn't like to visit the sea on sunny mornings, really. When the sun is out and the world is bright, she stays inside with Finn and feeds him and takes care of him and pretends to herself that she's a good mother and that Finnick is just at work and he'll be home by nighttime to give her a kiss and teach Finn how to walk.
But he can't, he can't, he won't, and her wedding ring is still on her finger and (there is no lightning to save her from this mad world).
a/n: gosh, I have no idea what this is, but I hope you all liked it, and I hope I did justice to them – they're such a beautiful pairing, and I'm scared I messed them up, but I'll post it anyway, 'cause I love Aimy :) If you could drop me a review to tell me what you thought, that'd be fab, thanks!
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