I Know You, Do You Know Me?

by Nightlock26

Emily is a girl out of her time that somehow was pulled into the Quarter Quell as a lesson to teach to those in the uprising. After it's disastrous events, Emily is found and brought back to District 13 after weeks of torture. She remembers nothing but fear for the one man who truly cared for her in the arena, Finnick Odair. Can Finnick make Emily remember the feelings they shared?

4. Chapter 4

That night, I finally dreamed about something other than the fear that was always eating away at me day and night. However, as the dream progressed, I realized that it wasn't a dream at all really. It was a memory of before I went into the arena. I'd been walking over to the knot tying station to test my skills at tying knots. I could see that I was attempting the square knot using one out of the four bands of rope attached to a handle. Then, the next thing I knew, Finnick was right behind me, placing delicate hands on my waist. "Here," he said. Clearly surprised, I scrambled out from his arms and away from him.

Finnick chuckled lightly, watching me. "I'm s-sorry. I'm really sorry," he said, turning from joking to a little bit serious in his apology. All I could do was watch and assess him, try to figure out what he wanted. Finnick grabbed some free rope. "Here. Let me show you the best knot to know in the arena," he said. Still watching him, I could tell he was doing something with his hands, but I couldn't look away from his face. Not until I knew his motives. Finnick grinned at me again. "Don't look at me, look at the knot," he said.

Not really impressed, I decided to listen and looked from Finnick's face to his hands. What he was tying was definitely not the knot I'd been working on. "All right. This is the bit where it gets quite complicated. Okay," Finnick said, tying loops and then tightening the rope. Then, only blatantly surprising me a bit, he put what was now a noose around his neck, slightly tightening it and making an exaggerated choking noise. He held the noose up for effect as he looked at me. "And it's-it's really..." he said, trailing off as he closed his eyes for a moment and played dead. I managed to see some humor in that, giving him a tiny smile. "Funny," I finished for him. Finnick grinned and held the loose end of the rope attached to his noose out to me. "Do you wanna take me for a walk?" he asked, teasing a little. I shook my head and turned around, walking away so as to hide the pink blush covering my cheeks. I heard a mumbled, "No?" from behind me as I walked away.

Waking up from that sent me into a fit of shuddering. I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to stop in time for the doctors when I finally managed to get myself under control. I didn't want them to think that I needed further examination. After all, I finally had gotten most of the life threatening amounts of tracker jacker venom out of my system. Still, even though most of it was gone, it had left my constant state of fear still very much intact, especially when it came to Finnick. I only wished that I could get rid of it.