(A/N: I'm sure you can't get a correct reading on a pregnancy test the day after in today's era, but with the Capitol's technology imagine that you could.)

I feel our hands intertwined
Hear our hearts beating in time
I need to hold you hold you all night
I need to tell you that you're all mine

I quietly start sobbing as I realize that I have this thing, this human growing inside of me. This human, I will raise and I will grow attached to. This human that will be thrown into the games for sure. It won't be a fair reaping, it will be fixed. I wish I could stop the games, but I'm only one person.

What if he/she doesn't like me? What if Finnick gets taken away? What if I have to raise this baby by myself? What if they take the baby away?

Instead of telling Finnick the news like I should, I reach my head out the door and yell for Johanna. Saying she's out of hand soap. She gets in there and sees the stick and my puffy red eyes and helps me off of the floor. She wraps her arms around me, "Oh honey. Just tell him now. It'll be better than waiting." I nod my head. It would be better than waiting and risk hurting him.

I go outside of the bathroom, leaving the stick on the counter for now. I see Finnick out there talking to a man that looks to be around Finnick's age, who must've arrived when I was in the bathroom. I lean over and whisper in his ear, "Hey can I see you in the bathroom real quick?" He nods and grabs my hand and follows me to the bathroom.

I sigh when the door closes, not knowing where to start. I stutter out some attempts, but instead since I haven't been getting very far, I pick up the box and hand it to him. "Pregnancy tests?" He asks, his eyebrows furrowing together.

I nod, point to the symbols at the bottom of the box. I make sure he knows which one means what, I then hand him the used pregnancy test. With the Capitol's technology I don't even need to worry about getting a different brand. This one is correct.

He looks at the stick, looks at the box and does that a couple times. He looks up at me and just hugs me. When he breaks the hug, he kisses my forehead. "I know you're scared. I'm scared too, but just know that I will be by your side through it all. I'm not leaving you. I love you, okay?"

I nod my head. "I love you too." I mean it. He's everything I need and have ever wanted. I resisted my feelings because I didn't want to get hurt, because this was something Snow forced on me. I didn't want it to actually happen. I resisted it because it wasn't something I got to choose. But I realized that you have a choice in everything. I didn't have a choice in this relationship, but I do have choice in my feelings.

He intakes a sharp breath and wraps his arms around me. He places a light kiss behind my ear. He pulls away and grabs my hand. He disposes of the used stick and throws the box under the sink. He leads me to the living room where suddenly Cashmere and Gloss are also there. It's strange to think these people have made this friendship through the games and through being sold.

He pulls me into his lap and the couch and wraps his arms around me, making me feel secure. I wrap my arms around his arms. Gloss whistles and I laugh as Cashmere slaps him. I wish this was my life. Hanging out with friends, not worrying about the games or anything else. But it isn't. And it never will be.

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By the time Finnick and I made it back to our room we were both exhausted. It was 20 minutes past midnight. Finnick slipped on some plaid pajama pants and gave me his T-shirt. I change into it and go into the bed. I curl up on my side and snuggle with the blankets.

Suddenly Finnick's face is in front of me. He kisses my forehead, "I love you." He walks back over to his side of the bed and climbs in. I turn over and cuddle up next to him, resting my head on his shoulder and he wraps his arm around me.

"I love you too, Finn." I mumble and pull my covers further up cause I'm cold.

"You know we never really got to know each other. I know things from observation, but I don't know the simple things about you." He says.

"Well, I'm an open book, everyone seems to know my secrets before I do."

"Unfortunately, Girl on Fire, I think that is true." I giggle at the seductive tone he put into that line. "What you think that was funny?" I giggle while nodding. I shriek when he starts tickling me.

"Stop! Stop!"

"Fine. But you have to tell me about yourself."

I nod. "Umm, my favorite color is green like the woods, but your eyes come a close second." He smiles at that and kisses my cheeks. "I've never been to the ocean. My father died when I was young. I don't know what else to say."

"My favorite color is the ocean, so I can't believe you have never seen the ocean. My father died soon after my games. It was before I was being sold, but apparently I did something to upset Snow even though the report says natural causes."

"Finn, I love you, but," I stop there to leave him hanging even though its nothing bad.

"But what?" He asks sounding terrified.

"But you talk too much. Shut up, I'm tired."

"You know, I have a feeling that this pregnancy is going to suck."

I slap his chest and tell him shut up.

"Fine, fine, you demanding woman." He leans over and kisses my cheek.

Finnick grabs a piece of my hair and plays around with it, giving my scalp a feeling of pleasure. I fall asleep with him still playing with my hair.

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I wake up before he does. I would like to go back to that. Neither of us had a nightmare. I would've felt him have one and I know that I didn't have one. I woke up in this warm secure place. I woke up in a cocoon of blankets and Finnick.

I lean up a little bit to look at him. His hair looks perfectly messy, his face is calm and I have this warm bubbly feeling inside of me knowing that he is in a peaceful state right now. I lean over and kiss his nose. His arms move and hold me on top of him. I rest my forehead against his and close my eyes.

His eyelashes tickle my skin and I giggle while opening my eyes. I look deep into his eyes and smile. He smiles back at me. I eventually decide its time to get up.

I try wiggling out of his grip but that makes it worse for me. He flips me over so he's on top of me. He holds my arms above my head. "What are you going to do now, Miss Girl on Fire?"

"This." I lean up to kiss him and he gladly obliges. When he is least expecting it, I flip him over and jump off the bed. "Haha, I beat you, "Mr. Odair." I grin widely and dance a little bit.

"Now, I'm going to order some food." I head over to the phone and look at the menu. Oh, pancakes sound good. I pick up the phone and order some pancakes with syrup and some sausage. I tell the lady on the other end to hold on. "Hey, Finn, you want anything?"

"Umm..I'll have whatever you're having and one of those sandwiches with the eggs and cheese and sausage."

I nod and tell the lady what else I'm ordering and what room I'm in and hang up.

"I'm taking a shower, Finnick."

"Okay, you just better be out when the food gets here or I'll eat yours."

"Hey, Finn! I'm eating for two remember? I need to supply our baby with nutrients also!"

"Oh right. We probably have to announce that soon."

"Don't remind me." I walk into the bathroom and shut the door. I press random buttons and lather the shampoo in my hair. I rinse the suds off my body and then rinse my hair and then condition it. I hop out of the shower and I am dried within 3 seconds. I wrap one of those fluffy white robes around my body and I braid my hair in what has become "my signature braid."

When I walk out of the bathroom Finnick has my food. MY FOOD! I run up to the bed and steal my pancakes and devour them.

"Wow, that was attractive." He says sarcastically.

"Shut up. I was hungry." I mumble while sipping some orange juice that came with the meal.

"I know, babe, I know." He kisses my cheek and then finishes his food. "I gotta go shower and then we have to go."

"Where?" I ask suddenly confused.

"We have an interview today. About the wedding, future plans. We can drop the baby bomb then."

I nod my head. Once he is in the shower, I get my outfit out. Since we have an interview I assume we are going to be prepped by our prep team, obviously. I slip on some black leggings and a maroon long sleeve shirt that is longer in the back so it covers my butt. I then slip on my combat boots. Comfy. Too bad it won't last.

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When we reach the building where the interview takes place, I'm instantly brought back. I see me, being a scared tribute, but putting on a brave face. That was me, not letting anyone know how I actually felt.

We're brought downstairs to where both of our prep teams await us. They close a curtain in between me and Finnick, so we're on opposite closed off sections of the room.

I'm pushed on to the table and I bite my tongue awaiting the sting of them ripping my hairs out of my legs. My eyes tear up a little bit when it happens. They then scrub down my entire body and rinse it off and put lotion all over. I am then handed a robe and I gratefully slide it on. I'm brought over to the hair, nails and eyebrows chair.

Octavia begins to scold me about biting my nails and I hear Finnick chuckle from the other side. "Shut up, fish boy," I yell. Flavius says something about not having to do much work because my eyebrows didn't grow back in like they usually do. Octavia decides to just file my natural nails and paint them some color. Flavius says my skin is glowing and he asks if I've been following his tips. I just say sure cause I don't want to hear the lecture about what happens when you don't take care of your skin.

Venia works silently on my hair. She's never been one to talk much. She takes my hair out of its braid and asks me to hand the blue bottle to her. I don't even look at it, just hand it to her. She sprays it all over my hair. She does random stuff that I don't pay attention to cause I zoned out. Finally they tell me that they're done and they leave.

I notice that Finnick's prep team is still working on him. I get up and peak my head around the corner of the curtain, "what, apparently you don't have as much natural beauty as I do, fish boy." I giggle as I watch one of them apply makeup to his face. He just glares at me. I giggle and walk back to the chair to wait for Cinna.

Cinna walks in and hug him and make light conversation with him. He lightly does my makeup like he usually does for interviews. He helps me into a beautiful dress. It has turquoise and red beading at the bottom, but over the white fabric of the dress it looks like water and fire mixing together. I smile at the thought.

When I'm allowed to look in the full body mirror, I gasp. My hair is down but there is this braid going from one side and it goes around my head. My hair is beautifully wavy. My makeup is light and neutral so it doesn't contrast the red or the blue in the dress. The dress is beautiful. It has a halter top and fits perfectly. It's a little tighter in the waist, but not too much. I also have silver short heels on.

"Cinna, it's beautiful."

"You're beautiful." But it wasn't Cinna that said that. I look behind me and see Finnick in a white long sleeve shirt that has the top few buttons unbuttoned and some black pants. . His hair is messily tossled. He looks handsome. I blush and look down. "You ready?" He asks.

I nod and he walks toward me. He wraps his arm with my arm. I intake a sharp breath and walk arm in arm with Finnick towards the stage. Caesar Flickerman is announcing us and then we are ushered out. I manage to keep my breaths even with Finnick by my side.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous ship Katnick!" He says as we both sit down next to each other on the couch.

I giggle into Finnick's shoulder at the name. Man, what is it about Finnick that makes me go into this giggly silly mood? We are in the Capitol, where they force innocent children to fight to the death. Why am I giggling like this?

Caesar laughs and says that Finnick brings out the best in me, but what interests me more is what Finnick replies. "No, Caesar, I think it's more like Katniss brings out the best in me."

"You two certainly have a beautiful relationship." Caesar compliments. I smile and look at Finnick. He nods.

"Now any plans for the wedding?" He asks.

I sigh and begin.

A/N: I am sincerely sorry for the long, long, long, long, long, long, long (is that enough?) wait. I have had writer's block and have tried to write this chapter multiple times. I'm sorry if you don't like it because it is more on the fluffy/cute moments instead of the really deep emotional stuff. I really am sorry and please review what you think.

XO