Okay, this is my last one for the day. If you've just clicked this, there are another two before this one, so idk you might wanna check those out?
This one was requested by hollyhobbit101, who asked for something to do with how Finnick felt when Annie left for the Hunger Games. I'm not sure this is what you meant, but I enjoyed writing it, so hopefully you'll enjoy reading it :)
Btw, just to clear up any possible confusion, Evelyn was Finnick's District partner.
He has to walk her to the hovercraft.
He has to load her onto that horrid, noisy piece of machinery so that it can take her away from him and deposit her in Hell.
Whoever's idea it was to have the mentors take their tributes up to the hovercraft must surely be evil. They'd have to be.
Because mentors are victors, and victors were tributes, and no tribute would ever wish the Hunger Games upon anybody. Not even their worst enemy. Heck, not even President Snow.
Annie Cresta is no President Snow.
Her token is a simple knot bracelet, and she's always fiddling with it. Even know, as they walk.
Finnick couldn't say exactly why he finds the habit sweet, but he does. He's found over the last few days that a lot of things that Annie Cresta does are sweet.
"Don't get attached," they always tell new mentors. And thus far, Finnick thinks he's done a pretty good job.
But then Annie was reaped. Annie with her big blue-green eyes and the light splattering of freckles spanning the bridge of her nose.
She reminds him so much of Evelyn.
And he killed Evelyn. Killed her with his own two hands. The life leaving her bright eyes still haunts his nightmares even now, years later.
But then there's Annie. Annie who has such similar eyes, only hers are still filled with light and with life.
"I'm scared." She tells him once they reach the hovercraft.
He finds himself tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear. "You'll do great."
She snorts in a manner far from lady-like, which makes Finnick smile.
"I'm rooting for you, Cresta." He tells her. "Do me proud."
She smiles a small, nervous smile. "I'll try."
And then she's aboard and it's leaving and his hair is flying all over the place and Lord, will his ears ever stop rumbling?
He couldn't save Evelyn. There could only be one victor after all. And even if he regrets that decision every single day, wishes that it was she who had stabbed him in the back (literally) instead, he can't take it back.
Evelyn is dead.
But maybe, just maybe, he could save Annie Cresta.