i always liked the idea that Johanna and Gale ended up together after everything was all said and done because by the end of mockingjay they were both broken on the inside gale, with Katniss hating him and the whole prim and the bomb thing that he'll have to remember for the rest of his life and Johanna with her fear of water from her torture from the Capital so i decided to write a story about them trying to fix eachother and finally getting their own happily ever after...kinda. P.S. i own nothing
Summary:After the rebellion Johanna moves to d2 where she meets Gale she knows him a bit from her time in d13 but they had never really met. At some point they sort of fell for each with each fighting their own inner demons Johanna's being her fear of water and her memories of her time in the Capital and Gale's being the guilt of what the bomb he built did. they'll have to fix each other before they get a happily ever after. it takes place a year after the rebellion(will flash back to when they met and other stuff)
She woke up shrieking and crying then cursed herself for being weak. He rolled over and held her but she shoved him off then stormed into the bathroom muttering to herself. She slammed the door shut and slid her body down the wall and hugged her knees as she cried silently. He sat there confused. After a few minutes he could hear her scolding herself in the bathroom.
"You are Johanna freaking Mason! Pull yourself together! Nothing hurts you. NOTHING. Don't let them win. Don't be weak." She repeated like a mantra.
He heaved himself off the bed still groggy from sleep and made his way over to the bathroom door, he knocked quietly. He heard her gasp and then the rumpling of fabric letting him know she had gotten up off the floor. He heard the water in the sink turn on and her sharp intake of breath but he didn't hear the disturbance in the water letting him know she hadn't actually touched the water. It was something she did a lot since the rebellion, turn on the water but never actually touch it, he wasn't quite sure why.
"Gale you should probably go home." She muttered from the other side of the door. He sighed. This happened sometime, whenever she decided to shut him out. It had been nearly a year since the rebellion and she had yet to tell him what the capital did to her. She also refused to let him see her cry. When he first met her he didn't think she did. He thought she was the toughest girl on the planet and nothing could break her. Then one day something snapped and he saw the fragile scared girl the capital had made her into. He would spend hours on end trying to figure out what had happened that day that had caused the change but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't think of anything out of the ordinary, it had simply been a nice rainy day in district 2.
"Ok Jo, but I'll be back in the morning to take you to Annie's baby shower." He was almost out the front door when the bathroom door creaked open slowly and a slightly more composed Johanna stood playing with her hands.
"Don't go" she barely whispered. He smiled usually she'd let him leave, which is why he kept his apartment in the first place. For the days she shut him out and kicked him out. He headed back to her taking her into his arms. She shifted a little, still uncomfortable with the cuddly types of things having never been one of the girls that liked that kind of thing, but she didn't tell him off either. She had given up on that months ago, instead she just leaned into him and sighed. She closed her eyes and they stood there in silence for a while till Johanna was nearly falling asleep standing up, then Gale led them back to the bed and laid them down. She was almost asleep when he spoke up,
"Was it the same nightmare again?"
"Yes"
And with that they fell asleep.
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