A/N- So this is the wedding. Obviously it has gotten slightly off Canon but Joniss. Still formulating a plan where Gale isn't a hermit at the end. Message me if you can think of a paring. Just a note I really ship Finnick and Annie.( It's amazing how fast I can write when there's studying to be doing) this chapter kinda stumped me a little tho. Ok i read through this a bunch of times so apologies for any mistakes. The next chapter may take a while. (i actually had chapter 6 and 7 written a while ago but had no time to upload.)
Katniss pov
The light hit my face as I wake up from the best nights sleep I've had in months. I look to the cause of this heavenly gift of sleep, and notice how the light illuminated freckles I'd never seen before. I began to play dot to dot with them on her face smiling to myself when her nose scrunched up in her sleep. She looked so peaceful, it felt like a crime to wake her up. I began to kiss the freckles softly, soon her eyes had fluttered open.
"Mm kinda creepy to wake up to someone watching you" her raspy sleep filled voice rang out causing a shiver to go down my spine and rest in my stomach.
"Shut up!" I chuckled leaning in and capturing her lips. Her hands moved to tangle themselves in my hair pulling softly causing me to let out a moan. She slips her tongue in my mouth and the battle for dominance began.
"Johanna open the door!" Fininck' s voice rang through the aforementioned door.
Johanna climbed from under me and walked to the door but before she could reach it I cried out "Jo put some clothes on for God's sake!"
"Babe relax it's not like Finnick hasn't seen me naked before" she chuckled.
"Wait when?! Why?! How could you not tell me that?!" I hissed hoping Finnick wouldn't hear and be offended. I mean Johanna and Finnick can't have slept together...I mean he has Annie and Johanna likes girls right? Oh my God what if they have been together? Does that mean I've indirectly had sex with Finnick? I suddenly felt a pair of lips on mine. Johanna pressed her forehead against mine.
"Someone's over thinking again" she whispered "is Kat jealous?" She teased. pfft as if I was jealous. Ok maybe I was.
"Just because you don't get jealous doesn't give the right to judge me" I shoved her off me pouting. She smiled at me and brushed some hair out of my eyes.
"I get jealous more than you might think" she tries to grab my hips again.
"When?" I muttered looking at the floor.
"At the Victors dinner, when Peeta couldn't stop staring at your boobs" wait that's what Peeta was doing?! That dazed look wasn't him thinking?! "Wait you didn't know he was checking you out did you?" she giggled pressing her lips against my forehead. "My oblivious little Kat" she laughed
"Johanna come on please open up, I need help!" Fininck yelled again. Crap I forgot he was there. Johanna ran to the door, still nude, and threw it open revealing a scared looking Finnick clad in a very nice suit. He stepped in quickly, I'm almost 100% sure he hasn't even register that me and Jo are naked.
"Which tie looks better with this suit" he says worry lines etched across his face as he held up a blue tie and a red tie. Why he's asking us I'll never know.
"The blue Finn" Johanna say smiling as she puts the tie around Finnick' s neck and begins to tie it for him. I looked warmly upon the scene unfolding before me. I stood up wrapping the sheet around me and snaked my hands around Johanna' s waist resting my head on her shoulder.
"You look very handsome Finnick" I complimented he smiled at me. Then looked me and Jo up and down and scowled.
"Um katniss you know only the bride is supposed to wear white right?" He laughed as I blushed a deep shade of red.
"Ok Finnick we have to get ready unless you want us at the wedding naked, so run along we'll be there soon alright?" Johanna said trying to shoo him away. He said goodbye and left still looking nervous. It was adorable to see him so scared.
"I thought he'd never leave" Joahanna spoke turning in my arms and trying to pull the sheet away from my body. It took every fiber of my being not to let her.
"Baby no, we have to get ready" I said pushing her away trying to get away from her lips. We both rushed to get ready.
After the simple ceremony we sat and had a rationed meal, because in coin' s words "there's still a war on" Johanna really hates her and I'm starting to see why. When we finished everyone watched in awe at the bride and Grooms first dance. Then the dance floor became free for all but I remained seated. I had Jo on my right, with Prim and my mother to the left and Delly, Peeta and Haymitch opposite. Gale was sitting further down the table with his friends and of course the bride and groom's seats, though not occupied at the moment, were at the head of the table just next to Johanna and Peeta.
We fell into easy conversation and I was quite relaxed until Jo's voice rang out "Come on Kat, dance with me!" She sounded excited and I hated to burst her bubble but I really didn't want to partake in something that involves a lot of movement right now.
"Well I would but well district 12 people don't really dance" I lied and turned back to the table. As I did I realised for this to work I need the other 5 people from 12 to go along with this...I'm an idiot. My biggest worry was Haymitch, I'm sure he'll throw my under the bus just to have a laugh.
"What are you talking about Katniss? We dance all the time, we have a dance every season to keep spirits up you're always there. Not to mention school dances" Peeta said with a smirk plastered on his face.
"I think I preferred you when you were trying to kill me" I hissed at him. What an ass.
"Is it me then?" Johanna asked her voice laced with hurt.
"What no of course not, I just don't want to dance right now" I stammered out. Crap that was smooth Everdeen. She looked away hurt, suddenly her plate was the most interesting thing in the world to her. God I'm the ass not Peeta.
"I'll dance with you Johanna" Prim offered after a short silence. Johanna looked up with a big smile on her face again and nodded happily. I watched as she and my sister began to dance Finnick and Annie kissed behind them and a chorus of "Awhs" sounded. I've never seen Finnick so happy, I allowed my eyes to rest on the scene of my friend and his wife humbled for a moment before I remembered what just happened. I whipped my head round.
"Why did you do that?!" I spat at a very satisfied looking Peeta.
"You shouldn't lie to the people you love" he smiled at me. God he's annoying. Why can he speak to me now? Can't the Captiol do anything right?!
"Fine" I muttered and stood up, making my way over to Prim and Johanna. "Hey little duck, mind If I cut in?" Prim just smiled winking at Johanna and walked off.
I slipped my arms around her waist as hers went around my neck, our foreheads pressed together as we began to slow dance.
"What was that Jo?" I whispered not wanting to break the peace that surrounded us. She gave me a confused look and sighing I continued. "With Prim, she winked at you"
"Oh that was nothing, she was just saying how you don't mean to be socially inept, and you always come to your senses eventually" she laughed. Well lovely to know they both talk about me so highly.
"I thought maybe you were telling her how to kill with an axe or something" I giggle when Johanna' s face morphed into one of shock.
"I like that kid, she's sweet and really smart. I mean I had six sisters but she's more like family to me than they were" Johanna spoke softly.
"You have six sisters?!" The shock was evident in my voice, I was just surprised at how little I knew about her.
"I had…" she paused closing her eyes trying to compose herself "I had six sisters, yeah, I was the youngest, they all bullied me terribly. I mean I loved them in a I had to because they were my sister's sort of way, but it never went beyond that" she pressed a little kiss to my nose and continued "when I won my games they were so happy, they thought we were safe, after seeing me kill so many people they weren't so mean anymore" she trails off
"You…you said had" I whispered my hands caressing her hips not wanting to force her to talk if she didn't want to.
"We were safe for a little while but…then the year after I won snow came to me… he wanted me to become a sex symbol Victor like Finnick..." her eyes fluttered shut again, I knew what was coming, I could tell her to stop but I have a feeling she's never said it before and maybe needs to. I press my lips against her close eyelids silently telling her she was safe and I was here. " I told him no but he was persistent while I was mentoring that year. I kept saying no of course so when I got home with no victors, I found all of my sisters, my mother and father dead they said there was a fire in the house, it was him" she whispered the last part her eyes still squeezed tightly shut tears leaking out of them. I knew Johanna enough not to say sorry, she didn't need my pity. I just pulled her closer.
"He can't hurt you anymore" I whisper in her ear, I flinch when I realise I'm all but repeating her words from the arena.
"But he can " she said against my hair. "Because now there is someone left that I love, it's you Katniss, I love you and if he takes you too…" a sob left her lips as she pulled me impossibly closer. My face must be filled with shocked because her next words are soon stuttered out of her mouth. "Why are you looking at me like that Brainless? I've said I love you before"
"No…no you haven't" I breathe
"Well you know I do…I love you brainless" she says and my vision becomes hazey with tears.
"I love you too Johanna" I say my voice coming out breathless. Suddenly her lips are pressed against mine. When we part we are both breathing heavily.
"I won't let him take me Jo" I say smiling at her. I lean in and capture her lips. We leave the wedding shortly after; we spent the night tangled in each other. We make love but don't speak of how I must leave in the morning. We don't speak about how it's very likely he will take me. We don't speak of anything.
I wake up early in the morning, my plan is to leave before she wakes up. No such luck, within seconds of me standing from the bed I feel arms wrap around my naked middle bringing me back to the bed. Johanna wraps her legs around my hips from behind, trapping me.
"Please don't leave" she whispers pressing her nose against my hair and inhaling deeply.
"I have to kill him" I said my voice strained with the stress of what was happening.
"The others can kill him, Coin can kill him if she's so great, baby please" she began to sob against my back. I shifted her around and cradled her against me soothing her.
"Jo, if I don't come back-" I began but she interrupted
"You promised you wouldn't let him take you from me!" She yelled. I knew she wasn't angry at me. She was angry at herself, if she'd had been healthier in mind, she could've come to protect me. The idea of Johanna being near Snow again made me shiver. I was glad she couldn't go.
"I know but if something happens…you have to look after Prim for me…please" I was begging I knew it was stupid to ask, of course she would. Jo only told me last night Prim was like a sister to her.
"You know I would" the anger had left her voice.
There was a knock at the door and we both knew it was time. I slowly rose and got dressed in the outfit Cinna made me, I close my eyes remembering his words "remember girl on fire…I'm still better on you" . Rue' s words then rang through my mind "Katniss you have to win" tears pricked my eyes. I slowly open them and look at Johanna. They were right, I had to be strong and come back, their pain and death couldn't be in vain. Jo stood and presses a firm kiss against my lips.
"I love you Kat" she whispers like it was the most delicious secret in the world, and it most definitely was.
"I love you to Jo, I'll be back soon …I promise" we hug and then I'm gone. More determined than ever to kill him, not just for what he did to Johanna, but for Peeta, Cinna, Rue, Johanna' s family, Thresh, every tribute and family that has been hurt and killed, I'll do it for all of them.