Chapter 8

A/N: So, thanks to the amazing reviews (I saw that I had 47 reviews and I screamed from the balcony from my home) this chapter is gonna be... Some Odesta fluff, more Johanna, and a little of Haymitch's past. So it's a week until the wedding, I'm so excited to write that chapter! And I changed the banner! I got it from my deviantART account. This chapter directly follows the last chapter, and sorry for the lack of updating! I'm working on a bunch-o Hunger Games one-shots! And here the this fanfic's playlist so far for fun:

Someone Like You-Adele

Too Close-Alex Clare

Speak Now-Taylor Swift

Two Is Better Than One-Boys Like Girls

Need You Know-Lady Antebellum

Wanted-Hunter Hayes


"You think I don't know that?" I ask Johanna, she shrugs.

"Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but I call you 'Brainless' for a reason," She says with a grin, Haymitch just sits there staring into space, he must be thinking. I stare at him.

"Well, say something Haymitch!" I snap angrily, Johanna looks at Haymitch, who snaps out of his train of thought.

"Okay, so I found the contract and the 'arrangement' contract clearly states that nobody can interfere with their wedding." He says with a sigh, Johanna grabs her hair in frustration.

"How come when we find a way out the put us back in!" Johanna babbles on about how stupid this wedding is with a selective choice of curse words. After a few minutes, I speak up.

"Maybe it's for the best," I say with a loud sigh, Johanna and Haymitch look at me,shocked at my words, "I mean, who knows? Maybe she might fall for him before she kills him and she completely forgets about her grandpa's vow."

"Are you kidding me? She has the same bloodline of Snow!" Johanna says and starts to think, Haymitch nods his head in agreement.

"Well, so does a lot of people," I say, "And maybe-"

"I just had an idea!" Johanna says, snapping her fingers and jumping up from her seated position, me and Haymitch stare at her, "Give me the contract! Hamitch, you have it right?" Johanna asks with too much enthusiasm, what is happening to her? Haymitch nods and hands her the contract.

"In your face Isolde!" Johanna yells and rips up the contract, me and Haymitch looks at her in utter shock, she puts the contract pieces in her pocket.

"How does that help?" I ask, she grins.

"Well, there's no arrangement now, which mean you can object to the wedding!" Johanna says, I smile, I'm back in the game.

"So what do we do with the rest of these files that are useless?" Haymitch says and holds up Isolde's file.

"Put them back where you found it. Don't want people to think we sabotaged it, don't we?" Johanna asks, grinning, I grin with her, Haymitch groans lazily.

"You owe me for making me do so much work!" Haymitch says and me and Johanna laugh, typical Haymitch, he groans and drags himself out of his house, leaving us in his house, Johanna stands up again and walks up the stairs.

"What are you doing? Let's get back to my house," I say and Johanna shakes her head.

"No way, I wanna see his stuff," Johanna says, well, looking at Haymitch's stuff sounds interesting, although it would be rude, I shrug to myself, I've done worse, I follow Johanna up the stairs.

We go to the master bedroom, it's locked, that's a shock, Johanna gets a toothpick from her pocket and she starts to pick the lock, the door opens a few seconds later.

What I see leaves me speechless, the room's walls are filled with pictures, from what I watched from the 50th Quarter Quell with Peeta, I vaguely remember what he looked like at my age, I see a lot of pictures of him at around 15 with a boy who looked around 10 and a merchant who I assume is the girl that Haymitch was talking about long ago is District 13,

"Is that what happened to you?" I ask Haymitch,

"No. My mother and younger brother. my girl. They were all dead two weeks after I was crowned victor. Because of that stunt that I pulled with the force field," Haymitch answers.

Johanna opens a drawer, and she finds a picture album, it's labeled 'Haymitch and

Lucerne', Lucerne is a flower, I remember my dad telling me about them.

We open it to see the same blonde girl from the pictures on the walls, she looks utterly familiar, although I'm sure I've never seen her, then I realize how I know her.

"Johanna," I say, her head turns and looks at me, "I know this girl," I say and Johanna gives me a confused look.

"How? She must be dead by now, Haymitch said that his girl died." She says, I nod my head.

"She is, but I still know who she is," I say and I explain to her, Lucerne is my dead aunt, I remember my mom talking about her before, when I asked her if she had a brother or sister.

"I had a sister before, her name was Lucerne, she was older than me by a year, she died when she was 17, she had some sort of illness from food poisoning and it was really serious, although it was a disease, we all knew who caused it,"

"Snow, that's how she died." Johanna says with a small nod, we place the book back and we leave Haymitch's house before he returns, we have a comfortable silence on the way home.

As we walk into my house, we hear a strangled cry coming from the guest room. Annie. me and Johanna rushed up the stairs, her door is slightly ajar, we peek through the hole.

Annie sits on the bed, Finn sleeping on her lap, she's holding a picture, possibly of her and Finnick during their wedding, close to her chest, she sobs and holds out the picture, I was right, it is the picture of Finnick and her during their wedding, she begins to speak quietly, so she wouldn't wake Finn.

"I wish you were here with me in District twelve right now, Finn just said his firs word, and it was your name, Katniss showed him pictures of you and me during our wedding, and then he said Finnick, I really miss you, I know you would be so happy, please come back, Finnick, I love you." She says through sobs, me and Johanna look at her sadly, poor Annie, she must be missing Finnick like crazy, we go in and she looks at us with a sad look in her eyes, we both hug her and we whisper soothing things to help her, she calms down a little.

"Thanks guys, I don't know where I'd be right now if I didn't have you guys by my side, I can always depend on you guys to cheer me up," She says and smiles sadly.

"No problem, Annie, we're always there for you," Johanna says.

Finn stirs and wakes up, "Jowanna!" He says and claps his hands, Johanna looks at him in utter shock, then I remember me and Annie haven't told her that Finn started talking.

"Did he just say my name?" Johanna says in shock, Annie nods with a smile.

"Yeah, he started to talk just a few hours ago, I think. His first word was Finnick," Annie says, Johanna smile and gets Annie from her arms.

"Hey there Finny, you said my name, you get a treat for that," Johanna says and blows on his chubby stomach, Finn squeals with delight and squirms around.

Never thought I'd see that day where Johanna showed her motherly side, and although I do enjoy fierce Johanna, this Johanna works just as well, she smiles and hands Finn back to Annie and yawns.

"Well, Brainless, get some sleep, tomorrow we're gonna kick Isolde's butt!" Johanna says, I grin.

"How are we going to do that?" I ask.

"You'll see."


A/N:So there you go! I got some little Odesta as well as some Annie/Johanna/Katniss moment didn't I? So I want to ask you a HG question from now in every chapter which you can answer in the reviews, today question is:

Do you think Annie will marry again one day or will she stay alone? My answer is that she will stay alone, because her bond with Finnick is so strong it can survive after death, thanks for reading!