Chapter 4
Katniss laid in the dark on her bed thinking about who Haymitch was talking to it was obvious who they where talking about the way Haymitch kept glancing over at her with a concerned look on his face. After the phone call he sent her to her room. That was were she was now, waiting for someone to let her out or at least talk to her. She doesn't know how long she was left there but sometime Haymitch pokes his head in, "Katniss, can I come in." "Sure as long as you tell me what's going on." She whispered, but she didn't want to know she was terrified to know the truth. Haymitch walks in and sits down on the bed,"what do you remember before you showed up in twelve?" He asks me like I'm a wounded deer.
"Not much but I remember one thing, Finn, who I assume is a brother, had hair like mine, but softer green eyes. He gave me the ugliest doll made up of cut-up rags, but I loved that doll, he had made it just for me with all we had. He must have loved me a lot, I also remember him holding me at night, when got scared. I like to hold on to the last happy memories I have because after that my life turned to hell."she said before crying,"sometimes I think that it's not real because nothing in my life is good, why would it have ever had something good."
"What if you could find your family, would you do it." He questions. "If they wanted to see me, then yes, I felt so loved in that memory." She let out a sob. "What if I said that I know where to find your brother," Katniss gasped unbelieving, "where, how," "well he found you, and he has talked to some people, and he is waiting outside, if you want to see him." "He's outside," she stammered in shock "and he wants to see me." She said in disbelief, and Haymitch gets up and slowly move to the door, while Katniss sat there confused, she's never been associated with a positive emotion before.
She was used to people's anger, hate, jealousy, but never this, it terrified her. She gets snapped out of her thoughts when she hears the door open. She looks up to see a man walk in, fear controlled her as she stood up and walked backwards away from him. "Hey, it's okay I would never hurt you." The man spoke softly in awe, staring at her like she would disappear "I'm going to turn on the light ok," he spoke again, as she just stood there. When the light turns on she is met with memories.
A boy chasing her around the house tickling her. The same boy who rolled her into all the blankets of the house claiming he was going to sell the roll of blankets at the market, while she was giggling "no Finnie!" It was the same man standing before her who held her through all the nightmares, the storms, and all her little accidents that sent her in a crying fit.
"Finnie?" She asked hoarsely. "Yah, it's me kitty," he replied using the old nickname he had for her. Finnick came close enough to grab some of her hair, just to run it through his fingers, but the action made her flinch, "what did they do to you?" His voice breaks at the end. the anger shown through his eyes. It scared her "I won't hurt you, I'm not mad at you I'm mad at the person who did this." His voice started out soothing but when he gestured to her face his voice turned to disgust, "my face was , the women who let her husband house me, but when he died she needed someone to blame so she blamed the girl nobody cares about, and everything else from the kids from school."She answered honestly Finn pulled her into a comforting embrace. "You didn't deserve any of that, it makes me want to go to twelve and beat their sorry asses for doing that to you." He whispered angrily. "The best punishment to give the people who have hurt you is kindness. For in their minds anger is more justified then kindness, and from that kindness will come guilt." She told him.
This made Finnick freeze, He had stopped stroking her hair, "that is true," he whispered "come on kitty we have a lot of years to catch up on" he told her on a happier note, "yah we do" Katniss stayed up all night laughing at the silly capital made tv shows and movies, they talked and caught up, the both ended up falling asleep on the couch well into the night.