15, 16
He's numb the whole way home. He doesn't think about the two kids who perished after his instructions. He thinks about the women he had to seduce. He thinks about the cameras that watched him, as he watched the Games with a different woman on his arm every other night, and the fact that those shots of him supposedly enjoying the games with his lovers have been aired all over Panem. And, inexplicably, he finds himself thinking of Annie. He wonders what she's thought about when she's seen him on the screen, frolicking around with various Capitol women. When he gets off of the train, he notices that no one is waiting for him, or any of the other mentors.
Instead, Annie is in his house. He's surprised, given the fact that whenever they do meet on purpose, it's at night and on the beach. And yet she's here in his house, bustling around the kitchen table, tidying things up.
"Annie what are you doing here?"
She pauses, then straightens up and asks him the question he's been dreading. "Do you know what happened to your father?" Finnick doesn't know how to answer, or if he should even tell her what's happened. He can tell by the pity in her eyes that she knows he's struggling. "Well, I guess you do of course. Your mom's been a bit of a wreck ever since, so I've been trying to help out."
Finnick thanks her, and then heads upstairs to check in on his mother. How much do they know? he wonders. And then he follows it up with another question that will be harder to answer-why is Annie the one helping me so much?