Chapter 3

Finnick

Finnick stayed laying on the bed holding his sister's doll. He heard talking from behind his closed door. "What's wrong with him. He won't leave his room to help them." He recognized the voice of a fellow victor, but he couldn't deal with that today. "He lost someone important to him around this time many years ago, so you can turn around and leave him alone." It was the sweet voice of Annie. Two seconds later the door opens and in comes Annie her red-brunette hair was up in a bun, her sea-green eyes showed sorrow as she kneeled beside the bed.

"Oh Finn," she sighed "she didn't want me to go,"he whispered "Honey your not making any sense." She whispered as she ran her fingers through his bronze locks. "I hadn't gone gone to school since I had to take care of her, they said if I didn't go that she would be taken to the district orphanage, they don't get taken care of properly. They have no life in their eyes, they turn them into the coldest killers, I couldn't do that to her," he reached over and grabbed a photo of him and Katniss and looked at it before speaking again "I always loved how green her eyes were. If she ever would have gone to the capital they would have thought that they were fake. She was my everything, and I left her home all alone," he broke into sobs.

"what happened to her Finn you've never told me about that day, what happened you can't heal if you don't talk about it, please tell me." She pleaded." "I got out of school early do to a tropical storm. I was walking home, they had her Annie they took my little sister and killed her. Snow had to know that would push me to volunteer. He killed her for something my father and mother did. Katniss didn't even know her own father's name, to her he was some strange man that that came once a year and stayed barely eight hours. She wasn't even five and they took her without a second thought, and If I would have stayed home that day I could have gotten her out, Annie." He continued sobbing.

Annie climbed on to the bed and wrapped her arms around Finnick, "it's ok, it's ok. It's not your fault, so don't blame yourself. I'm sure Katniss doesn't blame you" She soothed, and kissed his head, they stayed like that until, Mahi, the victor from last year barges in. "Guys mandatory viewing starts now." "We'll be there in a second." Annie replies. "Come on Finn you have to get up." Annie helps Finnick up who is still holding Katniss' old rag doll. "Who was she?" The female tribute asks, Finnick didn't know either of their names do to the date of the reaping this year. "Who?" Finnick asks "you haven't put down that doll all day, you must miss the girl who that belonged what was her name?" She asks "her name was Katniss Kairi Odair, and that is all I wish to say about the matter." He said with a sense of finality.

After that everyone drops the subject to watch the reapings. It always the same every year so Finnick never payed attention, until Annie gasps Finnick looks up to see a beautiful but battered girl, but it wasn't the fact she was beautiful that was shocking it was the district 4's bronze hair color, her golden skin but the most shocking was her eyes, there is only one person who has those emerald green eyes, he felt hope in his chest,but pushes it down. After all this was in Twelve.

He can't jump to conclusions, if incorrect it'll just hurt more, he hears Effie Trinket ask her name "Katniss ma'am." Finn felt his heart stop, he stood dropping the doll and walking to the tv, "what's your last name dear." "I don't have one, I have no family here ma'am." Her half of her face was covered with an ugly purple bruise, her eyes were sad and lifeless, he felt his heart break in half, "pause it." He commanded whoever had the remote. He felt his anger rise, "look at what they've done to her." He yelled. He was about to punch the tv when Annie intervenes "Finn, honey you don't know for sure that it is her, tell me something that only she would have. Then we can talk to Haymitch." He looked to she screen that was still paused, when he noticed the necklace, he turned to Annie "Katniss has a locket with the same picture that I have framed."

"Ok I'll get the picture you call Haymitch." Finnick didn't even need to be told before he grabbed the train phone he dialed the number for the twelve train. When the phone monitor answers they didn't get in a word, "call to Haymitch Abernathy." He stated, he heard a mans voice telling him to hold for a second while he delivers the phone, a couple seconds later he hears the gruff voice of Haymitch, "what do you want, your sending me photos calling me for what exactly." "Your female tribute she has a necklace right." "Yah, so what" he growls "what does it look like." His hope keeps rising. "It's a gold seashell with a k and a fishy thing with a curly tail" "a seahorse" he answers,"yah that thing." He felt joy he turned to Annie cried out "she's alive!"