…so I really have no excuse except I forgot between everything in real life. So sorry :( Enjoy!
Finnick
"Good work, Soldier Odair. Soldier Mellark, work on your aim." Our trainer for war here in District 13 tells us after we've shot our rifles at targets for the past half hour. A no nonsense woman she is, all strictness and silver streaked hair that says don't mess with this forty-something year old woman. I don't really plan on it because I'm doing my damn hardest to be on that squad that goes to rescue Johanna, Katniss, and Gale from the Capitol and I know they won't want me to. Heck, Annie doesn't want me to but she knows I will. They're my friends.
Nodding at her assessments, Peeta and I put down our guns and move onto the next station, hand-to-hand combat. I had thought once that he was a Victor by chance only because Katniss saved his ass, and to be honest, I still believe that. But he does have some skills which surprises me, particularly in this area. I don't think he would have made it to the end on his own but he could have made it decently far with his wrestling and a knife, because just with the wrestling I'm half struggling to keep my ground. Damn he's good. He's about to try and pin me when I move out of the way when something stops us where we are.
Whistles and alarms go off from where all of District 13 is underground, and the trainers call us over quickly. What the heck is going on.
"Run downstairs immediately, immediately! Bombs from the Capitol are coming!"
What the hell? But I'm not one to question my safety after all I've been through and I can't fight a bomb, so I sprint in a chaos down the stairs in to the building where red lights are going off and sirens filling my ears, a frantic race towards the bunkers for safety. When Peeta and I get there the gates are closing and I go on my stomach and try to slide through, the thing coming down on me and making me practically lose my breath but it's still open. The few of us left try to squeeze through and as soon as Peeta's boot is through I try with their help, but I'm stuck.
"Put up the damn door!" I scream with all I can muster, but somewhere in the middle of the soldier's reply the first bomb cuts him off, and the place shakes. Panic crosses his eyes quickly and he gets down and helps Peeta pull me through, the gate slamming closed behind me as the next bomb hits.
Peeta helps me up and a soldier of Coin's leads us to her where a screen is on, President Snow on one side and the bombing of District 13 on the other.
"Districts of Panem, this is to show you what your Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen has wished. Instead of ending this war she has knowingly forced me to take action, and therefore the scene you see before you is the bombing of District 13. All inside will be obliterated and unable to help anyone any longer. So remember, Miss Everdeen, this is what you wished for." Snow announces before it's just the bombing, and as I watch it fall on the screen two bombs hit us simultaneously, making everyone crash to the ground.
I land hard with an ommf but get up as fast as I can, gripping my back from the gate that was on it and I know it's going to be a bad bruise.
"Can they really reach us down here?" Peeta questions, a good question. One I'm honestly too scared to ask.
"They shouldn't. Nothing short of nuclear weapons should and he knows we will only reciprocate if he does that." Coin answers as she gets herself in order, smoothing her suit and hair.
But as time goes on I start to question that as the bombs keep coming and nearly knocking me down. Eventually Peeta and I go to find where we will be staying down here and find ourselves walking into an angry mob of sorts near the gates, soldiers trying in vain to calm them down. I make my way through them until I find someone I know, a soldier from District 13 that I've trained with the whole time I was here.
"What's going on?" I question him, having to yell to be heard over the crowd. To answer, he gives me a frown before coming closer to me, trying to tell me in my ear so he doesn't have to scream.
"Not everyone got in here in time and they're right on the other side of that gate. They won't open it." He tells me and I'm shocked. Those are people, real people on the other side of that gate who will die if one of those bombs get close enough. They're not protected.
I nod in thanks and go to tell Peeta, who has luckily already found his family and I see Katniss's little sister with them treating one of his brothers as well as a boy about her age standing next to her, I think Gale's brother from their similarities. Since he's occupied I go to find Annie who might be with the hospital patients, but she's not there even when I look twice.
Trying not to panic, I find my room number. She must be there already, she has to be. But as I open the door and find the room vacant, I fall to my knees, no longer realizing the bombs.
No. I can't lose you Annie.