The Adventures Of Finnick Odair Chapter One- That falling feeling
NOTES: This is a Cambridge Latin Course AU that Finnick has fallen into, so CLC characters may be introduced later on. BTW I do not own Cambridge Latin, Hunger Games, Ancient Rome or my own sanity. Reviews gladly recieved. Constructive criticism only!
I was going to die. I knew as soon as I began to fall that I was going to die. And from the amount of novels i'd read when I wasn't out fishing I knew that in a few seconds my whole life would begin to flicker before my eyes, like in some sad romance movie.
Romance
Annie, I love you so much. I missed you the moment we parted. I miss you now. You're everything to me. You and the baby. Wonder what she'll call him, or her. Something cute and sea related, hopefully.
I remember that evening when we got married in district 13. You looked so pristine, so beautiful, a mermaid mirage like every dream I had ever had combined to make... heaven. Yeah, that was you.
I fell a bit in slow motion, then thought again.
Your eyes, your hair, your face, your lips.
I reached out for you, my hands steadily gripping your ivory body in my arms.
And then you were gone. You left me. Or rather, I left you.
And I thought again.
Family
I miss you, dad. I miss when you taught me to swim, when you told me to stay patient for the fish. Best lesson I ever learned.
I remember the time when you taught me to weave a net, how you told me that everything is well if we work together.
And Mum. I reminisce to a time so long ago. You cried for me, Annie too, when we went into the Hunger Games.
I returned for you then, but I never will now.
I comfort you both, but you slip away like spectres in the wind.
I love you all.
Then the reel of memories began. It didn't stop, actually. Further and further, and I revisited my every memory, even my earliest childhood days.
Wait a second.
It's supposed to stop at your first memory, right? I span through an endless wisp of time, back past when Panem was called America, back past the ancient histories of our world and landed...
... on a boat?
Time had stopped, and I had no idea where I was.
