AN: I'm sorry for not uploading for um 3 days I think (?) Your reviews were so touching and made me feel so much better. I wasn't too eager to post this today but my cousin told me to, because she knows I love writing and I love hearing what you guys think! And yes, fuck the haters, my cousin taught me that and told me that with everything we do, people will have different opinions on it and some will, well, hate on you for it but you can't please anyone. Reading your reviews made me realise that at least someone was enjoying and liking what I wrote. Anyways thank you for your reviews, it's you guys that made me feel so much better and continue to upload. I love y'all! Reviews are welcome! They are encouraged!
Finnick's POV
We walk into the hovercraft, taking our seats before the hovercraft takes off and heads into the arena. It's about 11 o'clock in the morning and Katniss was leaning her head against my shoulder. After about 10 minutes we arrive, a ladder slowly goes down and peacekeepers stand by the door.
"Get your hands off me!" Thalia screams, kicking the peacekeeper's groin using her knee. She hurls herself on the other peacekeeper and knocks him down unconscious, She's even worse than Katniss. Kat only acted like this when the doctors tried to sedate her.
"Thalia calm down!" Johanna shouts at her, Thalia's head snaps in our direction and she stops what she's doing. A doctor then creeps up and plunges a needle to her neck, knocking her out. Sedatives, I think presumably. The peacekeepers carry her onto a metal inspection table so the doctors can heal her and remove all the scars and burns she received in the arena. We all go back to our spots and the hovercraft takes off and heads back to the training centre.
"Do you think she'll be offered by Snow?" Blight finally speaks up, asking me. He's asking me if she'll have to be a prostitute.
"No. She's not beautiful and sexy. And she's not the type that the Capitol want's. She looks like a typical pretty girl." I tell him, making him relaxed.
"What are you guys talking about?" Katniss asks, waking up from her sleep. Shit. I don't want her to know.
"Nothing. Just go back to sleep." I tell her, She was supposed to be a prostitute for Snow but I persuaded him to not threaten her. At the end he agreed, reluctantly I might add, as long as I have more clients and appointments everyday. But it's worth it, I don't want Katniss' life and innocence ruined by Snow and his twisted ways.
"No Finnick. Tell me." Katniss says, eyeing me sternly with her fiery grey eyes. Ugh. Katniss never wants to be out of the loop. She always wants to know everything.
"Katniss, it's not really the nicest place to talk about this." I tell her, giving her a look. Jeez Katniss, just leave it. She huffs in response and crosses her arms around her chest, obviously annoyed by being treated like a child.
"Fine. But you will tell me later." She says glaring at me, and goes back to sleep, her head leaning on the hovercraft wall.
"Feisty one isn't she?" Blight says chuckling, amused by me and Katniss' conversation.
"You have no idea!" Haymitch slurs and chuckles, slumping back down in his seat. I play with Katniss' hair and tie knots with it, when the peacekeeper tells us we're back. I shake Katniss' shoulders to wake her up, but she doesn't budge, so I pick her up bridal style and carry her to her room. I lie her in bed and I lay down next to her, playing with her brown locks, while waiting for her to wake up from her nap so we can get to the crowning and the party for Thalia. I turn on the TV in her room, wrapping an arm around her waist with her head still on my chest.
"So! Have you seen the mentor's lounge videos this year Agustus?" A pink haired man says, grinning cheekily at his companion.
"No Frank, can't say that I have! But I bet it was juicy!" Agustus says to Frank, the man with the pink hair.
"Well then, why don't we play the compilation of videos for you and the rest of the Capitol residents!"
"Oh that would be divine! I can't wait for their reactions for this year's games!" Agustus tells Frank, and the screen changes to show the videos. The first video shows Seeder and Mags' reaction when the bloodbath starts, they're close to tears when they see all the children killed. Typical them. They're such softies, so different compared to me and the other Victors. After that, it shows Katniss shouting when Hunter says something about her and me trying to calm her it shows another video of Haymitch and Gloss getting drunk and Johanna stripping, thank God it's censored, in the back of the room. Then it shows Gloss sitting down on the sofa with Katniss, having an intense conversation. My heart drops when I see this, but I try to calm myself and remember what Johanna said. She just did it to please him. She didn't want any trouble. Then the screen flickers to show a clip of the mentors from 2 laughing when Titus kills someone. And finally it shows a clip of me flirting with Katniss and pulling her onto my lap. Shit. Katniss won't like this. I hear Katniss mumbling in her sleep, and turn the TV off immediately.
"Peeta, no don't." Katniss mumbles, making me frown. She still loves Peeta. "Gale. Hazelle! Shit." She continues on. "Prim! Prim, I'm sorry." She's speaking clearer now. "Hunter! No." She whimpers and pulls me closer to her. She inhales a sharp breathe, "Finnick." She says, sighing lightly and nuzzling her head onto my chest. She's dreaming about me? Well me and other people but me included? I grin at her and notice that she's waking up from her nap.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" She mutters, looking up at me weirdly.
"You said my name in your sleep." I tell her, waggling my eyebrows and smirking.
"Probably a nightmare Odair." She scoffs, not wanting me to have my victory. One day Kat. Just wait for it.
"Finnick, where are we? What time is it?" She asks me, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She looks cute like that.
"About 1, we need to get ready for Thalia's interview and party. Who knows how long it'll take our prep team to make us look 'beautiful'. Well I can't say that for me because I'm always beautiful but for you, well it may take some time but don't worry you'll get to it." I joke lightly patting her head. She snorts and rolls her eyes at me and my joke.
"Yeah, yeah sure." She tells me and frees herself from my grip and walks to the door. "Well are you going to come with me? We're going to have to call our stylists and prep team." She calls back to me, and I jump out of bed following her. She calls Cinna and Paige, my stylist to tell her that I'm here and I'll just use Hunter's room to get ready so I won't have to go downstairs. Soon they arrive and pull us to our rooms to get ready, Paige tells me that I'll look ravishing in my outfit tonight, a white button-up covered with a black tuxedo-like jacket and some black pants. I just nod in agreement and the prep team soon go to work after I take a shower, they clip my nails, brush and style my hair and spray cologne on my body. Afterwards they bring out my outfit which I put on in the bathroom, I come out and they look at me with their mouths agape, they're in love or lust with me, their eyes dark and murky with lust. I wink at them, Capitol Finnick here we go, and walk out of the room to Katniss' room. I knock on the door, turn the handle and open the door separating me from Katniss, Cinna and her prep team. I walk in to see Katniss in a skin tight red dress, the dress enhancing Katniss' curves in all the right places, and has orange tips on the hem of her dress. Katniss turns around to see me, with my mouth agape looking at her body in that dress and she blushes. My shocked face changes into a smirk, winking at her and stepping towards her.
"You finally look almost as beautiful as me Girl on Fire!" I joke to her, she laughs and rolls her eyes. "But seriously Katniss, you look beautiful. Now shall we?" I ask her, bring my hand out for her reach, she nods and loops my hand with hers. "Thank you for making her look like this." I thank her stylist and her prep team which they just nod and watch me with their mouths hung open, aside from Cinna. I hear one of them whisper to another, "Finnick Odair acknowledged me!" I chuckle and walk out with the most beautiful girl I have ever laid eyes on in my hands. She's truly the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, and I'm Finnick Odair. I have seen a lot of beautiful people. "So Girl on Fire? Do you want me, the Sex God of Panem to be your date for this evening? Or would you prefer Gloss, the boring victor from District 1 to be your date?" I ask her, eyeing her curiously. She scoffs and slaps my chest with the back of her hand. "Jeez Kat, I was just joking, no need to be physical. And if you do want it then I prefer that we get physical on the bed." I purr into her ear using my seductive voice, husky and sweet, dripping with honey. She snorts and rolls her eyes at me, and I just waggle my eyebrows jokingly. "But seriously Katniss, you will be my date tonight right?" I pout at her, "You won't ditch me for Gloss right?" I think I might just die from embarrassment if she rejects me.
"Of course I'll be your date Finnick. Who else would take you if not for me?" She says in a teasingly joking way while pouting. "And what makes you think that I would go with Gloss?" she asks me, raising an eyebrow and crossing her arms in front of her chest.
"I saw your interview with Caesar, you guys did look pretty cozy together up there." I tell her in my defence, raising my hands up. She laughs and shakes her head. What's that supposed to mean?
"Yeah, well Haymitch doesn't want me causing any trouble and seeing how arrogant Gloss was, I don't think he would handle being rejected by me all too nicely. So I accepted his offer and half of the time I was just trying to restrain myself from damn near killing the man using my bare hands." She says, shrugging at the end. God I love her attitude. I laugh and walk her to the mentor's section when the door opens, our hands still looped together. Johanna eyes us and winks at me, giving me a thumbs up which I return by glaring at her. Is she mad? Katniss is right beside me, she could've seen her. I walk us up to our chairs and sit beside Katniss, Caesar introduces Thalia to the crowd and asks her a few questions but I zone out all through the interview. When I come back to reality, Thalia is being crowned Victor by Caesar. Snow never crowns the victors for the Hunger Games, well aside from Katniss anyway. Then again she's always an exception in everything.
"Fishboy! Sweetheart! Let's go to the party, I need some more booze!" Haymitch calls out, I sigh and roll my eyes but still follow him and Katniss. It's mandatory for the mentors to attend the party hosted and congratulate the victor, who in this case is Thalia. I make my way towards Thalia, tugging Katniss along, who seemed not so eager to meet the new Victor.
"Thalia, congratulations!" I tell her, hugging her to keep up with my Capitol act. "We'll be spending plenty of time together for mentoring so I just thought to congratulate you personally." I purr into her ear and I can see goosebumps forming.
"Congratulations." Katniss mumbles, pulling her hand out of her grip and muttering abut going somewhere to find Haymitch.
"Thanks?" Thalia asks, confused with Katniss' behaviour towards the newest victor. She scratches her head and looks at me, staring at my famous sea-green eyes.
"See something you like?" I ask her, chuckling at her cheeks that are now red. Her eyes dart to her shoes, hiding from my sight.
"Um. No. What are you talking about?" She stutters, moving her shoes ands staring intently at them. I laugh at her uneasiness, and shake my head.
"I better go find Katniss. I'll see you when I see you." I tell Thalia, and start walking away.
"Wait!" I turn my head around, seeing Thalia jogging over to me. "Is it true?" She says, cocking her head to the side. I raise an eyebrow in question, what is she trying to ask? "You know! About you and Katniss Everdeen!" She says, giving me a 'isn't-it-obvious' look. What? Me and Katniss? "My prep team said that you guys are dating!" Ha. I wish.
"No, it's not true. Don't worry, Katniss and I are just good friends." I tell her with a wink. There's a tint of red on her cheeks but she gives out a small laugh.
"Guess nobody can tame the fiery Katniss Everdeen after all." She says, shaking her head laughing. "Anyways I have to go meet Blight." Thalia says and walks away, leaving me in the crowd. I sigh and look around for Katniss, Where the hell could she be? I sigh and ask Johanna but she hasn't seen her anywhere. That's when it hits me. The bar. Haymitch is always at the bar getting some booze. I walk over to the bar and spot a dark haired girl sitting on a stool with a guy, making out. I squint my eyes and walk faster to get a better look. It's Katniss. Making out with Gloss. I feel a growl emit from my mouth and I stomp my way to the bar. Fucking Gloss. If that asshole hurts Katniss, I swear to god. I pull them apart from each other and stare at Katniss in disbelief. What happened to almost killing Gloss? She giggles and looks at me with a grin on her face.
"I won. I drank more shots and I was quicker! Not to bad for a District 12 'scum' huh Steroids?" Katniss slurs to Gloss who just chuckles and grins at her. She's drunk. Of course! That's why she was making out with Gloss.
"Let's go Katniss. I think it's time for you to go to bed." I tell Katniss, wrapping her arm around my shoulder for support.
"Stop it Finnick! I am not a child! Stop treating me like one!" She says and tries to push me away, only to fall flat on the ground. I rush to her side, checking for any wounds but find her knee bloody and scraped. I growl when I see Gloss helping her up and push him away, picking her up bridal style and walk up to the elevator, pressing the number 12 button and waiting.
"Finnick! Put me down! I am not a child!" She glares at me and tries to escape from my hold. When the elevator door opens, I walk to her room and lay her on her bed. She huffs in response and rolls her eyes. I notice something red on her bed sheet, Fuck. I forgot about her knee. I ask an avox for a medical kit and tell her to stay still, she is reluctant about it but finally says yes. Oh Kat. Always wants to be the one protecting and taking care of others, never wanting to be taken care of. When the avox comes and brings the medical kit, I thank him and grab it and rush to Katniss, kneeling down on the floor and putting her knee on the end of the bed so I can inspect it. I get some cotton and rub it on the wound, Katniss winces a little but keeps on a poker face, Typical Katniss, never wanting to look weak. After cleaning the wound, I grab a bandage from the medical kit and cover the wound with it. I quickly pack up the medical kit neatly and put it aside for the avox to get in the morning.
"See? Wasn't that bad was it?" I tell her smirking, she just rolls her eyes and gets under the covers.
"Yeah, yeah. Thank you Doctor Odair. NOW can I go to sleep?" My eyes lighten at the her response and I smirk cheekily.
"So you like to do role-play huh? Kinky." I purr, my lips curling into a seductive smirk. She smacks the back of my head and shakes her head, her eyes wide in disbelief. "Geez Kat, no need to get so physical." I tell her, rubbing the part of my head where she hit me. Didn't we have this conversation before? "Well we are on the bed, never mind then. I don't mind getting physical with you." I tell her, waggling my eyebrows teasingly.
"Ha-Ha. Thanks but no thanks Finnick. I don't think you could handle me." She says, scoffing and snuggling her head onto the pillow.
"Is that a challenge?" I ask her, and pounce on top of her. She shrieks in shock, but after a few seconds, flips us around, her body hovering over mine.
"See? What did I tell you?" She says cockily and laughs, pulling a strand of hair back behind her ear. I growl and pulls her hands onto the back of my neck and flip us over once again. She huffs in response which causes me to smile in victory. I chuckle and check the time on the clock. 9 P.M, it's not that late. Seeing how I was distracted, Katniss flips us over and locks my feet using hers and puts my hands above my head using one of her hands. Her face is right above mine, a cocky smirk plastered right across her face. Did not see that one coming.
"Jeez Kat, we haven't even gone on one date yet!" I tell her, smirking in victory when a blush creeps onto her face. "You sure are unpredictable, aren't you?" I smirk but knock her feet using my knees breaking free from her trap. We play-fight for a few minutes but finally once she's out of breathe, I straddle her waist, trapping her underneath me.
"Ugh, if I didn't drink I would've won. So keep that cocky grin off your face Odair." She huffs out breathless. I chuckle looking at the Girl on Fire who just lost, never one too keen on losing huh Kat? She blushes when she notices how close we are, my chest hovering above her's and my face just inches away from her's. God she looks beautiful. My eyes inspect her face, from the cut above her eyebrow until her small nose, but then it fixes its gaze onto her fully luscious pink lips. Without thinking, I smash my lips into her, kissing her with the passion I have withheld from her all this time. She's hesitant at first but I finally feel her kiss back, and I smile into the kiss. I feel sparks in my heart, she's my missing puzzle piece. Her lips fit perfectly with mine, she tastes minty. She pulls back from the kiss and I already miss her touch, nonetheless I feel a smile plastered on my face. She blushes and goes under the covers, ready to sleep. I can't believe I kissed her. I touch my lips, still tingling after the interaction with Katniss' lips. I smile and lay down next to her, wrapping an arm around her waist, pulling her close to my chest. I kiss the top of her head and stroke her hair. "Night Finnick." She yawns, and pulls up the covers to cover her body, Goodnight my Girl on Fire. After I'm certain that she's asleep, I slip my arm away from her waist and slowly get out of bed, I find a piece of paper and a pen inside the drawer in her bedside table. To my Girl on Fire, I'm going out on an appointment. I'll meet you for lunch at the seafood restaurant in front of the Training Centre. Love, your Fishboy. I fold the paper and place it on top of her drawer and slip out of her room, closing the door quietly. I walk over to the elevator and press the floor number for the mentor's lounge, but sometimes the victors who have the same job as I do, wait for their appointments and talk to each other there.
"I already had 3 in a row! Now I have another one at 11!" I hear someone say, and a knife whizzes past me, hitting the metal elevator wall. I chuckle and walk out to see who the voice belongs to, Glimmer. "Oh nice of you to join us Finnick! Where's little miss innocent Katniss Everdeen?" She sneers at me, throwing another knife at the wall.
"She's sleeping." I tell her, slumping down on the sofa near Johanna.
"Why the fuck is she not a prostitute like we all are? If anything, she's more fucking beautiful than all of the other victor's!" Gloss exclaims, receiving a growl from Cashmere.
"Shut the fuck up Gloss."
I don't dare to say a word, so I just keep quiet and listen. It is true though, Katniss is the most beautiful Victor, well aside from me.
"It's just because Fishbrains over here decided to make a bargain with Snow! He agreed to get more appointments, in exchange for Katniss not having to be like us! Romantic isn't it?" Johanna slurs, throwing an arm around my shoulder. I growl and push her away, Johanna and her big mouth. She just had to slip it out when she was drunk!
"She's young, she deserves to live freely and not have to worry about any appointments and how to please the Capitol citizens." I tell everyone, glaring at them and daring them to say anything.
"Finnick, she's 18. She's as old as you are." Blight speaks up, I turn around shocked by his presence. God, I didn't even notice he was there.
"She's too important to be sold as a prostitute." I start off, Cashmere is about to intercept but I glare at her, silencing her. "She's the fucking mockingjay for Christ's sake. She the symbol of the god damn rebellion. I'm not going to let that be ruined just because Snow's twisted enough to sell her for his own profit." I tell them, sighing and slumping further down into the sofa. "Whatever, I need to get to an appointment." I tell them and walk off outside and hail a cab. I tell the driver the address for the hotel and sit back, dreading for the next hour to come. I was supposed to have the month off, but since I bargained for Katniss' freedom I had to sacrifice my break from 'work'. But it's worth it. Everything's worth it for Katniss.
AN: Ooh, Katniss and Finnick shared their first kiss! Reviews = Love