AUTHORS NOTE: Hey everyone! Thank you for reviewing it means a lot! J So I will be doing this in Finnick's POV and have Katniss's every once in a while to see how she feels about what is happening. Just like what one of my wonderful reviewers suggested! J Check out my other stories, The Ones Who Brought The Fire, and, Rain On Me. Rain One me is a Karvel Fic. The Ones Who Brought The Fire is a Catoniss Fic.
Chapter 4 Finnick's POV
Previously
"So about that kiss? You don't want to forget it?" I ask Katniss. She shakes her head.
"Can I have a real one?" Katniss asks me tentatively. I beam and lower my face down to hers. My heart was going a thousand miles a minute. I was so nervous. My first kiss. As soon as her lips meet mine I know then and there, that I have fallen in love with Katniss Everdeen. Fireworks are going off. It's a sweet first kiss. We stay like that for fifteen seconds then break apart from our real kiss. Now I just need to know if she loves me back. I open my eyes and grins my
"That was the best first kiss possible!" I told her.
"Same here." She says and snuggles into my bony chest. Just then a pack of wolves come stomping through our part of the forest. Great timing.
"Hurry Katniss! Get up a tree!" I say panicked after the wolves ruined our moment. She runs to a tree, me in tow. She tries to get me up the tree first but once I heard, what must have been the eleventh bark, I placed her up in the tree with renewed strengthen. Then climbed up myself. Then one of the wolves catch my leg. Their claw stuck in my tendons. That's when I see an arrow lodge itself through the wolves eye. I gasp terrified and look for the shooter. Turns out it was Katniss. I guess she had the same boost as me and she takes out another arrow to align with the bow. How did she get this bow? I'll have to ask later because my leg is killing me. When I bring it up with the rest of my body I see the blood ooze out of it like water rushing through a dried up lake. I cringe watching it flow then Katniss tells me to set in out straight in front of me. She takes her shirt, rips it, then ties it to my leg to reduce the blood flow. She looks at me then talks.
"I'm so sorry. If I hadn't been so careless, this wouldn't have happened… but thank you." She whispers the last part. I am confused.
"Thank me for what?" I asked.
"The kiss." She says, blushing like crazy I might add. I smile. Then I remember the situation at hand when another tongue of pain shoots up my leg. Then I hear it. I hear someone calling for us to stay up in the tree while they get help but who is it? That voice is so familiar. Haymitch?! Well his voice isn't slurred so that's good.
"Hurry!" Katniss yells. Worry sketched all over that beautiful face I have come to love. Even though I met her a couple days ago. I just can't help it. I have never fallen in love this fast before. But last time I fell in love with a girl, she was just using me to make her boyfriend jealous. He beat me up that day. I left with bruises and a broken heart. That was the night I had found out I had gotten cancer. Same as Katniss. I wish this curse wasn't laid upon her too. She might have been going through bad times. Cato told me about how her family had died and all that was left was her disabled mother and her precious baby sister. She had to hunt for her family. She starved herself for her family too. I wish I would have known her before. I wish I was the one comforting her in her darkest times. But I just have to accept the fact that I can be hear now. I know I have feelings for Katniss, but I am not sure if it's the right time to tell her how I really feel. I want to know how she feels first so I don't end up with a broken heart like last time. I am not closed off. I just need to know these things so I won't get hurt anymore. Be vulnerable to people. Katniss must feel the same way right now. Not sure what to do; What I would say if she told me her secrets.
"You know while we are waiting.. We could tell each other about ourselves." I try with a small, painful smile. But all the pain is worth getting to know this beauty.
"Ok so what do you want to know?" She asks.
"How about you tell me one of the things that hurt you most, if you trust me of course, and I will tell you one of the things that hurt me the most." I say. Mainly because I want to hug her and comfort her and tell her everything is ok now that I am here. I want to make her feel safe around me. She looks at me and the takes a sudden interest in her arrow.
"When I was little, my father had died when he was protecting us from Cray, the head officer from where we used to live. He tried to… rape me and Prim so I hid ourselves. Cray shot my father but when the fight was done Cray left. Leaving my dad laying on the rigid floor. He managed to choke a few words out and he said he loved us. When my mother had come home from her hospital shift that night and she found out, it was like she went into a coma. She did nothing all day long. She never fed us or took care of us. She never even looked at us, like she was disgusted by the fact we were still around her. Then Cato's dad came in town and brought my mother out of her coma-like state. And since my father had died I have been afraid to love anyone. I didn't want to be vulnerable to anyone. But when I had gotten cancer I realized that I was unlovable. Who would love a kid with cancer? The people around me might pretend but otherwise I'm as good as dead to them. No one talks to me hardly, or includes me in any activities. I am a nobody in school." She tells me a single tear drips down her face before she rapidly wipes her eyes when I snatch her hand.
"Katniss I like you. I have to figure out my feelings about you. I might even love you, but I am afraid to let myself love too. Because every time I let my heart slip out onto my sleeve someone will always come along and rip it apart. I wasn't sure if I could take that anymore. I am afraid. I am just like you Katniss. I really do like you even though I only met you not too long ago but I do. I will be there for you from now on. I promise." I say as I try to coax her into a hug. She finally gives in and wraps her arms around my neck.
"I really like you too Finn. I feel the same way. I really do and that scares me shitless. But I trust you. Which is not really like me because it took Cato, Marvel, and Clove five years to earn my trust. Your really special Finn and I don't want you to forget that." She whispers n my ear. I can hardly contain the shiver that threatens to run through my body. I feel my chest tingling with all sorts of feelings. Butterflies in my stomach, but one thing is defiantly clear. I am happy. Being here with Katniss.
"Do you.. Want to stay friends for a little while longer while we figure this out and take things slow?" I ask. Katniss looks up at me her eyes filled with happiness.
"I would love to. But we really need to pay some more attention to your leg." She tells me. I nod and look around. When I do, I notice that Haymitch, Gale, Madge, Peeta, Cato, Clove, and Marvel all have weapons in their hands, ready to fight the wolves. I also see an older woman that looks like Katniss and a older man that looks like Cato. Must be their parents. Then Clove throws her knifes into the wolves eyes. Cato slashes them, Peeta is trying to get us out of the tree, and Marvel is throwing his spears at the animals. When they are all dead I climb out of the tree along with Katniss. The pain still surging up my leg. My body has gone weak and Cato's father is carrying me. Next thing I know, I am laying on a table while Mrs. Everdeen stitches up my leg. Black spots invade my vision when I hear Katniss trying to talk to me.
"Finnick you promised you wouldn't leave me! Please don't. You have lost a lot of blood and I'm scared. I haven't cared for anyone like this since my father had died. Even though we only just met I can't imagine my life without you. Ever since I walked up to you that day I couldn't shake that feeling. I think I love you." She whispers the last part. Sobs racking her fragile little body. Then she places a kiss on my cheek before I pass out.
A/N: Hey everyone! Yeah so Haymitch ended up saving them O.o :D So tell me what you think and I would love it if you reviewed and read my stories, The Ones Who Brought The Fire, and, Rain on Me. I am losing a lot of reviewers out there and haven't got any new ones in a while so until I get at least 10 reviews I won't update till that happens. I am going to continue the story. Just so you know. I will never quit on my stories. If I was going to do that I would have never wrote them. So I might except 9 but it depends on how honest you guys are on your reviews. Make sure you read all of my stories and leave your thoughts on my stories in your reviews. I want to hear what you think! So please review it means a whole lot to me! Next chapter will be Katniss POV so you will see how she is handling all of this. Bye 3