As I leave the office I find Walker waiting outside lost in his thoughts when he hears me step out he looks up but doesn't say anything and I'm still waiting for the goon so we can't actually leave.
"So-"
As I'm saying this Cato comes out and we can finally go.
"Shall we?" I ask trying to get a move on things, I just want to go clear my head, train for awhile.
We start on the short trip back to my new room when I heard a little snippet of conversation that has been going on between the two boys.
"But Finnick asked to see her and if I didn't deliver I'd be the one with my ass handed to me." At that point I'd already turned around and stopped them both in their tracks asking Walker.
"Finnick? What about Finnick?"
"Keep walking, you can't see him." Cato answered instead.
"What? Why?"
"Keep walking, we'll talk in our room." He said emphasizing the 'our' part.
"I didn't ask you asshole, you keep walking."
"Look man, he's gonna stop by anyway, whether on your terms or his. Why not try to even it out?" Walker said talking to Cato and ignoring me.
"Let's go Fire Girl if you even want to see him at all."
"Whatever."
I kept walking but there was a slight bounce in my step just knowing I'd get to see one of my best friends here. Finnick Odair. We were recruits together and did pretty much everything together. Me, him and Jo were inseparable, always there best at everything and through our competitiveness we were still great friends. I can honestly say that if either one of them died I'd be heartbroken, after leaving two years ago what cost me the most to leave were them.
We get there and Cato and I walk in the room where he promptly locks me in the 'cage'.
"Hey! I thought I was going to see Finnick!"
"Exactly, you're going to see him, not touch him."
"Bastard."
"I heard that."
"You were supposed to."
"Whatever."
After that being said he just sits on his bed and waits a total of two minutes until someone knocks on the door. When he opens it I can see clearly that it's Finnick, looking just as handsome as always.
"Hey Finnick, I'm here!"
"I came here to see the traitor."
Those were the words that halted me in my tracks and from that point on I knew that nothing good could come of this reunion.
"Finnick what are you talking about?"
"You betrayed Division, did you not? You betrayed everything we were meant to do for what? A stupid crush?"
"No Finn, you don't get it. They didn't tell you the truth, please trust me!"
"I mean, you told me of that boy, Peeta, and I was fine with it but leaving Division? Endangering your life and countless others who would surely be sent to track you down?"
His voice was nearly a shout every time he spoke and all I could think about is Peeta dead and now Finnick nearly lost to me.
"Please you have to believe me! They didn't tell you the truth, please Finnick give me a chance to explain. Trust me!"
I was openly begging him now, all thoughts of Cato right there watching our whole interaction forgotten.
"I don't want to hear it Katniss! All you ever do is lie! Was anything with you even real or were you just using us so that you could get want you wanted?"
"Of course everything was real. I never, ever, lied to you or Jo about anything why would I start now?"
"Because now you need help, because you're back in the place you so desperately wanted to leave."
"You know what, believe what you want to believe. Either me or Snow, the man who taught you how to kill people and then forced you to do it. Go ahead!"
"Maybe I will believe Snow, at least he has actually given me answers not just begged me to hear him out."
"Fine, you want answers, well here they are. You wanna know why I rebelled? It was because of Peeta, yes, but not in the way you think. We were in love Finnick, he proposed and I said yes, we were going to his parent's lake house that weekend and he went there first because I still had to debrief Division about it, when I got there, Peeta was floating face down on the river dead and I knew it had been Division. That was a typical cleaner job and I just snapped Finnick. I didn't know what I could do and I wasn't thinking straight. All I wanted was to shoot Snow in the face, so please-" I said looking at him with tear filled eyes "-try to understand Finn, because I need you with me, and as much as you try to deny it, you need me too."