Prologue
Finnick walked through the door of his house, "mom." He called "in here Finn," his mother replied . Finn walked into his parents bedroom. She was cradling his newborn little sister. "Has dad come home yet?" Fin asked hopefully as he reached out for her. His mother smiled and handing her to him.
Finn looked down at her sweet golden face, her eyes opened to show her emerald green eyes. She looked so cute cuddled into the crook of his elbow, he smiled at her "He came home while you were at school, but he had to be sent away again," Finn felt tears in his eyes "again" he whispered as he felt anger rise
"he's missed everything my last three birthdays, even her birth, did dad even notice she was here, you wanted to wait for him to name her, but he probably acted like she wasn't even born, or made for that matter," he took a breath trying to keep his voice low for his sleeping sister," have you even told him that you were pregnant the nine months he was gone, have you at least decided on on a name for her since he doesn't even know we exist,"
his mother now had tears streaming " I know he's gone a lot, but he still loves you,he's working for a change, one that you might not understand right now," she wrapped her arms around Finn, and her daughter " And her name is Katniss, your father for the little time he was awake told me about a root with a pretty white flower called Katniss, I tried to tell him but she was asleep in your room and he walked in and started blabbering on about the island and the flower-,"
" and never once mentioned me right." He interjected his voice cracked in the middle of the sentence. His mom looked guilty " I need to go to work, someone has to put food on the table, you think you can take care of Katniss?" She asks "Yah, mom, I can." As he cradled a sleeping Katniss to his chest. Their mother left that night, and hardly ever came home leaving Finnick to juggle raising his baby sister, and school.
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He was there for every dirty diaper, and since their mom was gone all the time he bought a goat to feed her, because their mother was never home. He watched her first steps, her first word was Finnie, and even attempted to teach her how to swim.
He held her through her first tropical storm. Used all the rags in the house to make a little doll for her, she had him wrapped around her little finger. He held her at night when the monsters came. She barely knew her parents when they came home they would give them a hug and kiss and go off to sleep, or to drop off the money they earned. She was all Finn had and all he wanted to do was protect his sweet sister, and give her everything she deserves.
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It was late and a storm was coming quick, and Finnick was walking home from the district school. He was hurrying it was going to be a big storm the wind was already knocking him off his feet, and he hoped that Katniss was safe in their bedroom, she was always afraid of the storms, he smiled at the thought that she would already be huddled under plenty of blankets clutching the rag doll he made for her, but he still wanted to be there for her, he thought as he approached the house.
But what he saw made his blood run cold. Peacekeepers were all around the house, he heard them yelling, then gunshots, They killed her he thought, a child she wasn't even 5, he thought. He felt tears well up in his eyes "no," he whispered, he dropped to his knees a sob escaped him before he heard her scream.
He felt terrified when he looked up to see them attempt to take her out of the house. His feet moved on their own he ran to save her "Finnie!" She cried when she saw him holding her little arms out so he would hold her, she was terrified, the peacekeeper who heard her cries for him turned to face him, "please let her go, she's only a child," he begged. The peacekeeper didn't listen as he took out his baton "I can't do that son, we have great plans for you," he laughed as he struck Finnick on his head knocking him out cold.