Truth
APOV
"Annie wait!" I heard a voice yelling after me, I stopped at how familiar the voice was. I knew that voice. Sure enough Finnick emerged from the trees behind me. I turned to face him.
"Get away from me, I'm dangerous" I told him, backing away.
"No you're not Annie" Finnick reassured, slowly walking towards me. I shock my head, fear filling my system.
"Annie give me your hands" Finnick ordered, holding his palms flat out in front of him, I copied the motion, confused as to whey he wanted me to do it. "Focus on the air above you" he told me calmly. I did as I was told and what I saw in front of me shocked me. The air in front of my face was changing space and moulding into a shape. "That's it, now move you hands to change the shape" he continued. I lifted my hand up and the air moved into a shape as I guided it into a shape.
"Wow" I sighed, looking at the shape I was moulding, I brought my hands down to my sides and the shape disappeared into the surrounding air.
"You did it" he said smiling at me.
"What's going on Finnick?" I asked, the fear I had felt since I moved my first object spewing into my voice. Why had I let myself trust him like that? It was stupid. He probably thought I was even more weird now.
"We will explain all later, I promise but right now you need to come with me" he told me, gesturing for me to move. I shook my head, there was no way I was going anywhere with him after what he just saw me do. "Annie trust me" he pleaded, his expression willing me to go forward. I remain still but felt slightly safer where I was. Suddenly we could here a pounding noise as if someone was running towards us. I turned my head toward the source of the noise and sure enough there was a figure running towards us. Soon the person came in focus and relief flooded over me when I saw who it was.
"Thank god you're okay" Peeta panted, his hands on his knees from running, his chest heaving with exertion.
"Come let's get back, Annie are you going to come with us?" Finnick asked again only this time I nodded and followed them through the forest, feeling finally safe again now I was in the presence of someone I completely trusted.
We didn't walk out of the forest though. Instead I followed them deeper into the woods until a house emerged. It was a old brick house, the bricks looked old and a lot of the windows looked like they badly needed repair. Though despite it's run down appearance, the house still seemed welcoming. However it's appearance didn't overtake my confusion as to why we were here.
"What is this place?" I asked, not taking my eyes of the structure in front of me.
"A safe house" Peeta explained as he walked up the stair to the door. Why would we be at a safe house, surely people needed to be protected from me not vies versa. When he put the key in the lock instead of the door opening instead a key pad popped out from a door, into which he entered a complex sequence of numbers, which opened the door. While they entered I stay fixed to my spot outside, still in awe of what I had just seen.
"Annie you coming in?" Finnick asked, breaking my attention away from the house and causing myself to take nervous steps towards and into it. The interior shocked me, it was a mix of completely different pieces of furniture which some how mixed together perfectly. The walls were a simple red and a book shelf dominated two of the four walls. An arch way in the third wall lead through to a small homely kitchen. However despite how harmonious the room was, the girl lying on the sofa with an arm in a cast glaring at me made me anything but calm.
"So you caught the wild child then?" she asked, her voice thick with sarcasm.
"Yes and be nice" Finnick ordered, walking across the room to plonk himself down in one of the armchairs.
"I am nice" she grumbled, crossing her one undamaged arm across her chest. I stood awkwardly in the room unsure of what to do, my mind was still buzzing from everything that had happened on what I thought was a perfectly normal day. Peeta was now sat on the other armchair and Katniss was cross legged on the floor next to Johanna feet.
"Annie sit down" Katniss said calmly gesturing the window seat behind me. I sat down almost immediately.
"Is anyone going to tell me what going on?" I finally plucked up the courage to say, I wanted to know though a part of me part of me didn't want to know out of fear of what I would find out.
"Annie you mentioned to Katniss that you hear voice when around people" Peeta began, pausing for my reaction. I nodded in response, still confused as to what that had to do with all this. "And you saw her take a green liquid like this, which made one of the voices stop" he continued, pulling green bottle out of his pocket to show me, I nodded again, immediately recolonising the green vial. Finnick let out a low whistle and leaned back further in his chair, he looked impressed.
"Annie do you believe in the supernatural" Johanna asked, having now propped herself up,her eyes were gleaming and a coy smile filled her features.
"No" I said slowly, at least I didn't think I did. Until today anything above humans had seemed like it belonged purely in fiction.
"Well I do because I see it everyday" she explained, her smile becoming wider.
"What!" I exclaimed, my whole body becoming stiff at the meaning of her words.
"Your not human Annie" Katniss explained, her expression unreadable. She kept shooting wary glances at the other people in the room as if she was expecting something bad to happen.
"Well, if I'm not human what am I?" I asked, unable to keep the amusement from my voice. They didn't really expect me to believe I was some kind of supernatural?
"We're called the blessed, it's kinda a weird type of near human only we all have something special, a power as it were. Some of us even have more than one" Finnick's words would have seemed stupid if I hadn't seen all the stuff I had today. It all made sense in a weird way.
"So you all have powers?" my voice was filled with sudden excitement at the idea that I wasn't alone in all of this.
"Yep, expect for Peeta he's human" Johanna answered, cocking her head towards Peeta as she did so who sided and shook his head in annoyance.
"I can control and summon fire, which is amazing and means that if you come near me when I'm in a bad mood you will get a shock" Katniss explained, her expression happy in what I presumed was love for her powers, which did sound awesome.
"I can vouch for that!" Johanna pointed out "I can transform into a wolf in cause you haven't already realised that, though I'm not a werewolf" she added, her warning clear at the end.
"Water control" Finnick explained quickly.
"Wow" I sighed leaning back in my seat, amazed by what they could do. "Wait, Peeta if you're human why are you here?" I asked, confused as to his role in all this.
"Oh" he said quietly, the whole room falling silent at my question.
"You see Annie, your mother is the most powerful one of us, our leader so to speak" Finnick began but I stopped him.
"What do you mean 'is'? My mother is dead" I replied. My voice rapidly turned stone cold.
"She's not Annie, I know because she's the one who hired us and taught me alchemy" Peeta exclaimed, his tone obviously designed to calm me down. I couldn't believe it, my mother was alive. I wasn't the last Cresta. That thought was pushed to the back of my mind by another question.
"Hired you?" I questioned, confusion once again taking over.
"You are very powerful Annie and there are a lot of people who would like to kill or harm you, we were hired by your mother to keep you safe" Finnick continued.
"Wait, so you aren't really friends and Peeta isn't my cousin?" I asked, confused at his statement.
"No, we do really like each other and Peeta is really your cousin, it's just we are kinda meant to look after you" Katniss explained, her voice sympathetic as if she understood what I was going through. I sighed in relief that my entire life hadn't been one big lie and I did have people who really cared about me.
"So what can I do?" I asked suddenly fascinated by the idea I may have powers.
"We think, based on evidence we've seen, that you have telekinesis and mind reading" Peeta explained.
"That's what the voices in your head were Annie, people's thoughts. The green liquid I drank blocks off my thoughts from mind readers" Katniss elaborated, my mind suddenly becoming clearer and my questions becoming answered.
"Oh and air control, that's what you knocked Johanna back with and were doing in the forest earlier" Finnick added. My mind was swimming with thoughts about my own and other people's powers, everyone in the room had a gift other than Peeta, he just knew alchemy...
"What's alchemy Peeta?" I asked, suddenly intrigued at to what my mother had taught him.
"Potions" Peeta answered, simply. The subject needing no futhur explanation.
"So who wants to kill me?" I asked, curious as to who I needed protection from.
"Isn't that the question of the day" Johanna replied, sinking back into the sofa.