~ Chapter … 30 right ya its 30 I just checked. now this one is going into the interviews more Diana/cinna time? Also more suspensions going on, also some death's in this cant be avoided… so sorry If you liked some of the victors… so ya… review… mere888 and so on…. Ok I might get the outfits out of place, but I haven't watched the movie so sue me.
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep. slowly and then all at once." - the fault in our stars (by john green)
~Diana pov~
I along with cinna were going to prepare katniss for the interviews tonight, with the designed wedding dress ordered for us or at least mostly cinna to make.
"So I was thinking maybe, we should leave after the interview". I told cinna out of the blue.
"And why's that?" he said, a curious look on his face a smile playing on his lips.
"Cinna, I want you and Portia to get of this alive." I said, taking hold of his arm and made us stop in the middle of the hall way.
His face turned thoughtful. "I can't do that, take Portia but I'm staying." he said, an apologetic smile on his face.
I stared at him in bewilderment "what was he thinking this is his life on the line?"
"What are you saying." I said, my mouth slightly open in shock.
"Katniss needs me." he said, taking my hand in his and gave a gentle squeeze.
"I'll be with HERE." I told him, basically shouted at the end.
"And that makes me want to stay even more." he said, turning around not facing me as he headed on, me tailing him.
"But this is your life on the line!" I said, grabbing hold of the collar on his neck, making him face me.
"I'm not going to see you die." I said, sticking my finger in his chest, and huffed as I walked away.
We made it to katnisses room, just as flavius comes out clearly upset with tears running down his face.
We then stepped into the room, where only venia was the last prep-team assistant left.
She then took katnisses hands, and looked her straight in the eye, and said "we would all like you to know what a… privilege it has been to make you look your best." then she ran crying from the room.
Her gaze then turns to me and cinna. "So, what am I wearing tonight?" she asked, eyeing the garment bag that rests in cinna`s arm's.
"The rat of a president known as snow put in a request on the dress." I said crossing my arms over my chest, my words making katniss gasp and cinna to glare.
"Don't say such things." cinna hissed to me, something I never seen him do before let alone me, its scary.
"Ignore her." cinna said, giving me one last glare that meant for me to stay quiet, which I did out of fear. Never before have I seen this abrasive side to him... I kind of liked it.
Katniss looked nervously from cinna to me and back again, remaining quiet… good girl.
Cinna proceeds to unzip the wedding dress.
"Even though they announced the quarter quell the night of the photo shoot, people still voted for their favorite dress, and this was the winner, the president says you're to wear it tonight, our objections were ignored." cinna said, a downcast look in his eyes.
"I wish you could pick out your own dress, even though you don't know your own feelings." I told katniss, coming to take her hands in mine.
She gives me a small smile, or at least tried.
"Well it'd be a shame to waste, such a pretty dress." was all she said, looking from both cinna and me.
We help her carefully into the dress, her shoulders were having problems due to the weight.
"Was it always this heavy?" she said, turning to cinna, I couldn't voice my option seeing as I didn't go on the victory tour, as cinna decided to take my place but he made an effort to come see me when ever he could, which touched me greatly.
"I had to make some slight alterations because of the lighting." he replies, and was met with a nod in return.
We add the finishing touches.
"You're ravishing/beautiful." cinna and I said, almost in sink making katniss laugh softly while cinna and I looked away from one another, me partly do to embarrassment and cinna I think he was embarrass to.
"uh-hum N-now katniss, because this bodice is so fitted, I don't want you raising your arms above your head. Well, not until you twirl, anyway." he said offhandedly.
"Will I be twirling again?" she said, face scrunched up making the makeup smear a little, but I took care of it.
"I'm sure Caesar will ask you." cinna said. "And if he doesn't, you suggest it yourself, only not right now." I cut in.
"Save it for your big finale." he finished.
"You give me a signal so I know when?" she asked, a little nerves and I gave a node making her relax.
"All right any plans for your interview?" I asked, and watched cinna gracefully apply some more blush, making me remember how soft and gentle they are.
"I know Haymitch left you two to your own device." he said, snapping me out of my thoughts, and inattentively staring at katniss who was giving me a cat got the canary face.
She turned back to face cinna and said. "No, this year I'm just winging it." she says and she was led away once peeta comes in.
"Good luck." I shout after there disappearing forms.
I turn to glare at cinna only to fine him glaring at me, and I'm very taken back by this.
"What. Was. That." he bit out, advancing on me till my back hit the wall behind me.
"I-i-I don't know what you mean?" I told him, crossing my arms like a stubborn little kid.
He then puts his hands on each side of my head, forcing me in place. "So no escape." I thought nervously, me in a room with cinna, alone and him angry never thought I would see the day.
"You know what I mean, the whole snow scene you just cant go around saying things like that!" he told me angrily, his face just inches from mine his warm breath fanning my face, as it smelled of spice and cold mint.
"Well he is." I said, in defense at my own statement.
He gave an exaggerated sigh, and moved away from me I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
"Just don't do that again, ok." he said, running a hand down his face.
"Ok." I whispered, my head falling down to rest on my chest.
"Hey lets go get sets for the interview." cinna said, pulling up my chin with one of his fingers, a weak grin on his handsome face.
"Ok." I whispered, I could get lost in those eyes.
~ Maryanne pov~
I've been tasseled, pulled and yanked, rolled in lotion and oil, my hair was trimmed. And white eyeliner was added to my eyelids along with blue mascara. My cheeks were a normal pink blush; the front of my hair had tight ringlet curls draped across my face. An in the back it was pulled into a French twist with little sea star pins, the dress had a fitted bodice. A narrow waistline and a wide, floor-length flared skirt, it was a powdery blue, the bottom was puffed out and white to represent sea foam.
There was also a diamond shaped dolphin bracelet that snaked its way around my wrist, my eyes were itching but I resisted the urge to scratch seeing as they put so much work into me.
these white heels I needed to get used to, but I think I could manage… or I hoped.
"There!" Dabble squealed, clapping her hands of how she did my hair.
"You're a work of art now, such beauty like yours will blow cashmere herself out of the looks department." Tug said, hands placed around the sides of my face as he examines me for any faults.
"Don't I know it, didn't I say she was just a beauty once we saw the reaping tapes, my heart stopped when finnick caught you in his arms." Floss swooned, hand over her heart.
"Yes is there something going on between the two of you?" Dabble asked, the other two leaning in to hear my reply.
"N-no w-were just f-friends." I stutter out to them, my face would have been beat red right now If it weren't for the layers of makeup applied to my face.
"Oh really?" Floss said, hands on her hips.
"You certainly didn't act like it?" Dabble said, adding to the growing amount of blush, maybe because I'm so pale.
"Seems to me you knew each other for a while now, you lover's?" Tug questioned, opening up a compact mirror to look at his own eyeliner.
"W-w-well w-we li-ve together." I tell them, and they all look to me shocked and opened mouthed just gasping at me.
"Ohhhhh, you make such a cute couple!" Floss squalled, taking my hands in hers.
"They would make the cutest kids." Dabble added but I noticed a hint of jealousy, but only for a moment.
"That's enough." Thicket saved the day, coming in to inspect me.
"Do you have no respect, this girl and her lover are going into the arena together and only one can come out." he snapped at them, making them cower and look down sadly.
Floss and Dabble began to cry thinking of me dying, and Tug was to but he tried to hide it by applying waterproof mascara.
"now off with you." he showed the prep team out, and snapped the door shut behind them.
"I'm sorry about them, they can get out of hand from time to time." he apologies.
"Don't be." I told him with a small smile.
"now just be who you want to be out there, this is about you and you don't have to worry about anything they say, cause they cant touch you and there just words." he said, taking me by the shoulders and looking me dead in the eye.
I felt touched, this man who barley known me is giving me this advice while he could be going off to see to the other victors. But yet here he stands with me…
"Thank you." I tell him, a watery smile on my face, threating tears.
"Now no crying, your mascara will run." he said, with a teasing smile on his over plastic face.
I gave a node in reply.
We made our way offstage left; I then see some familiar faces under all the dresses, suits and makeup. Gloss was in a gold suit, a black shirt with gold over coat, and gold pants and his hair nicely combed. Cashmere was also gold, a sparkly gold short dress, her blond hair flowed down naturally but also had a lot of hairspray that gave a fowl odor. And a gold bracelet that went nicely with the dress. The golden siblings…
I look on to enobaria and Brutus. Enobaria was also in a gold dress, tightly fitted almost cashmere's but with different details. He wore a silver chestplate, a black pair of shorts and black boots.
District three, wirless and bette wore, wirless she wore a multicolored long sleeved shirt and matching pants.
And Beetee wore a dark colored suit.
And looking toward's her own district partner who had his back to her, talking to Jo along with her district partner blight. Fin wore a partially open white shirt and a black sash, with matching pants, giving him a pirate-esque look.
Jo wore a yellow gown and put her hair up in curls. Her partner blight he wore an orange vest with greenish-gray sleeves and orange pants.
She could see off in the distince seeder and chaff talking softly to one another, seeder wore a light brown dress which reached her shins and wore small brown boots. he wore a bronze tuxedo and pants for his interview.
As soon as she was finished looking at there outfits, Fin looked behind himself when Jo told me I was here.
He had a far away look in his eye, and was kind of in a daze with a goofy smile on his face, and when he started his way towards me but being unlike himself ran into bette.
He found his way to me, bowing low he took my hand, and kissed the back of it.
"Well love seems like, I snagged a goddess out of the ocean." he said, a flirtashish smirk on his face.
"Thank you Fin." I said, giggling softly.
"Well don't you clean up nice." said Jo, coming to join the duoh and made it a trio.
"As do you, you look pretty, Jo." I told her, smiling softly.
"Ya pretty as a tree, you would think after fourty years they would be more original?" she said, flipping her hand dismissingly.
"It could be worse." I told her, a grin coming to my face, once I thought of something much worse then being dressed as a tree.
"Oh and what would that be Mar?" she said, giving me a qestioning look.
"You could of wore what fin did at the chariots." me and Jo both burts out laughing, while Fin pouting, juting out his bottom lip.
"You're a bad girl, little fish." he said, with an evil smirk.
"And you know bad girls have to be punished." he said, chuckling which made me nerveus.
"What do you plan to do?" I asked him, looking for any hit of what he might do.
"now where's the fun of telling you that?" He smirked getting in line.
Before I could ask more, peeta and katniss walked in. katniss comes in with her wedding gown. And peeta in a white suit.
"I cant belive cinna and diana put you in that thing." Fin finally says, and I wacked him in the chest much to his and Jo's and katniss and peetas surprise.
"Ignore him, his just a big baby and always wants things he cant have, so when he sees you in that dress he's jealous because he cant wear it." I tell her, making Jo burst out laughting and Fin to stare making a fishface.
"And you look beautiful by the way." I smile at her, and she smiles back.
"Thank you". she says nodding her head.
"And cinna and Diana didn't have a choice. President snow made them." she says in defence of my friend and her partner.
Shes right Diana would never make a dress like that, without katnisses approval." I added on, and that got katnisses and peeta's attention.
"You know Diana?" katniss asked, a look that I didn't recognize in her eyes.
"Yes, we been friends for years." I tell her, and Fin gives me an intrested look.
"First time you ever talked about your past, what secrets do you hold my little fish". he asked, a wide smirk on his face.
"More then you know." I tell him, and that confused look that I have been getting used to quit awhile now appeared on his face.
But the questioning stopped when the interview started.
I waited patiently for my turn, on the outside I looked fine (I think it's the makeup, it does wonders) but on the inside I was thinking of a scipt to use but got nothing but a headach.
Fin's turn came and I watched closly for the poem was meationed in the book and movie, but it was never told.
Every moment we spent together
Has touched our lives, our souls forever
The things that we shared and learned
Is permanent growth that we've earned.
The person that I have grown into today
Did not get there by chance, no way
I am who I am partly because of you
And you are YOU because of me, too
The changes I see
and what I have learned about me
are a response to how we affected our lives
and what we discover in each others eyes.
It is uncertain if we have to part or one day live together
Either way, we have touched our lives forever!
No matter what the future will show
No matter what we are told.
We are connected on such a deep levels
That no one can remove that, not even the devil.
Our feelings might be different a year from now
But you are part of me forever somehow
A part of me will always be you
and a part of you will always be me.
no matter what happens ,that much is certain
our souls are one until life closes the curtain.
I will love your forever
For worse or for better
You are tattooed in my heart
And nothing can tear our souls apart.
I will never forget you
For my love is honest and true.
Everyone in the audience swooned and about a hundred fainted thinking it was them.
now who was it, if annie wasn't here then who?
His turn was over and done, and I waited to see who came on next but no one showed up.
"Go on your next." district five female pushed me forward. And I relived this was it, the moment of truth.
"And here she is the crashing of the waves, and where the water reaches the sky… Maryanne cadaver!"
The crowed yells my name, and the lights hurt my head and so I duck my head down, in a attempt to make myself look small.
"Its good to see a new face." says caesar, who has lavender hair that has me hypnoticed by the strangenic of it.
"Now Maryanne how do you feel going up against, trained past victors?" he says, in a calming voice as though he was helping me along which I'm sure he was.
I thought for a moment not knowing what to say.
"Well… how would you feel if you were going into a arena with trained victors?" I replied anwering a question with a question.
"Ha-ha-ha." caesar laughs as do the audience.
"I would be running." he says, with a wide smile on his face, which I return.
"Now what do you like to do?" He asks.
I… like to sing" I told him, coming up with the first thing that came to my mind.
"Oh like to sing do you?" He asked, as the audience awww's.
An idea pops into my head as I make a request.
"Well actually I have a list of songs that goes with each victor, want to hear." I asked him, and he nods his head as the crowd goes wild.
~ song list~
I had to sing only most of the song to save time but I got them pretty much down from one to twelve.
1 Gloss- for your entertainment.
1 cashmere- one, two, three by 3
2 enobaria- shark in the water.
2 brutus- monster by comatose.
3 wirless- skyfall.
3 bette- my sacrific.
4 Finnick- I'm sexy and I know it.
7 Johanna- one more by superchick.
11 seeder- I hope you dance.
11 chaff- your gonna go far kid.
12 katniss- girl on fire by alicia keys.
12 peeta- she will be loved.
Once I'm done the crowed screams out, I was happy I got such a reaction.
"now one last question, I heard you live with Finnick odair is there something going on there?" caesar says, a simesse cat smile on his face.
The audience goes into a state of chaos with loaud whispers, gasps, a few out bursts, giggleing and how cute we would be together.
"w-w-we—we-well i—he we do –stay-live together, but as –fr-friends." I managed to get out.
"The crowd gives me catcalls, once its announced for me to go.
Victor after victor comes and goes till finally katniss and peetas time has come and past, the victors start to go to stand up and join hands I don't know what to do so I just sit there, playing with the hemi of my dress. But that is until Fin grabs hold of one arm and Jo the other. And they lift me up and our hands are held high in the air, I'm shocked really and I'm fighting the need to start balling like a big baby, cause I felt the compassion of the friends I made.
Before it ends, Fin does something I would never.. ever thought he'd do, he grabbed me by the waist and kissed me, I was shocked and I let out a gasp which gave him the opportunity to slip his tongue inside, he slowly roamed the inside of my mouth his tongue flickering over mine.
I tried to pull away, but he had a firm grip on my waist and a hand came to secure my head in place.
Soon my hands found his hair, pulling on it which made him give out a silent moan.
My tongue hesitantly started to dance with his, as on of my hands slide down to land on his shoulder, and by doing this Fin depended the kiss.
Our moment was soon broken up by Caesar, who coughed loudly to catch our attention. And we realized we were the only ones on stage, and on live television…
"Oh my god." I said, covering my mouth and running off stage, but not before I heard Caesar say.
"Seems like you found your self a special girl, was that what the poem about?" he asked, but he really didn't need to seeing it was obvious.
I could feel Fin's grin, without even looking.
"If she isn't special, then no one is." I heard him reply.
"Well good luck." Caesar said.
"Don't need it." was Fin's reply, and that was all I heard before I was out of ear shot.
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