Anastasia Mellark.
Daniel remained quiet after his father's tape was over.
"Are you okay?" I whispered.
He looked up at me with helpless green eyes. "I-I think I am."
I honestly had no idea what to do, I wanted to wrap my arms around him and just stay like that. But I couldn't, in about a half an hour we had to go to my house and pretend this never happened.
"Do you want to watch another one?" I asked carefully.
Daniel sighed and fell back into the couch more. "Yes, I think we should watch on more,"
I nodded and showed him the fifth tape. It was marked 'Katniss and Finnick'. "I think we should watch this one."
"Okay."
I got up and ejected the other tape, and put in the 'Katniss and Finnick' one. It started out as my mom sitting there while a lady asked her about my dad. Afterwards she got up and left the camera, Finnick Odair sat down. With someone saying lowly "You don't have to do this."
He sat down and stared into the camera "President used to sell me… my body… for money." He began in a flat voice. Daniel and I both gasped at the same time.
He explained how if a victor was popular, they would be forced into prostitution or their families would start to die in 'accidents'. Finnick talked about how instead of money afterwards, he would get secrets about the old president. Some were disgusting and horrifying that made me and Daniel shudder.
Afterwards tears threatened to escape my eyes, I squeezed them shut, hoping that none of them would escape. I couldn't cry, Daniel wasn't, and Finnick was his father.
Daniel sat there staring at a blank screen. I scooted over and hugged his side.
"I'm sorry." I whispered.
He gave me a sad smile, "Why do people say sorry like that? It's not like you killed him."
I shook my head, "I think it's to show you're sorry for their loss,"
Daniel looked like he was about to say something but Haymitch came downstairs. Not bothering to make a 'witty' joke about Daniel and me on his couch.
Instead he asked quietly "Which tapes did you watch."
I quietly told him.
Haymitch's face turned sad, "I'm very sorry Daniel, about your dad. He was a great man, who had to do some scary and brave things."
Daniel nodded.
We sat there in silence until I grabbed his hand and lead him out the door.
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I am sorry this one is so short! I'm just so tired! And I'm also sorry about these past two have taken me longer to do, I just had a busy weekend. Guess what? I saw the Hunger Games movie! It was good, but the books are way better. They didn't put Madge in it so it didn't have her giving Katniss the pin. But hey, Suzanne Collins was one of the script writers so I can't complain. They also made the mutts that were supposed to look like the dead tributes way different, but I guess special effects would be hard to do.