𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 || 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐫

A Break

Elliot's eyes batted open, she still felt Peeta's body's still in her arms, the first thing she heard was his even breaths. Her arms loosened on the boy and her gaze moved to the ceiling, she rolled her head, stretching her legs from underneath the Blonde. She looked around the room seeing that few were up. She saw Gale -or whatever his name was-, Finnick, and one of the Leeg sisters, she pondered her options. Ask Finnick for help and have to face him, or she could ask Gale to lift Peeta off of her and she would have to talk to him.

She sighed. "Finnick." the whisper echoed through the room. She thought he had ignored her, she waited a few moments, then her eyes regrettably moved towards Katniss's friend. She inwardly groaned until she heard a soft noise come from Finnick's spot in the restaurant."Can- can you come help me?" Finnick sat up straighter and quickly moved his head to look at her, his eyebrows furrowed. That's when he nodded and stood up from the booth, once he made his way to her, he softly smiled at Elliot's small frail body looking as though it was being swallowed by Peeta's, his grin slipped when he remembered that she was tortured and that's why she was so small. She used to be able to fight -she probably still can if she pushed herself- but now it was as though she was a fine piece of china that he wanted to protect."Peeta- he- I need to get up." she breathed looking at the sleeping boy. "And I can't lift him." she paused. "Anymore."Finnick softly nodded and picked Peeta up from his torso."Careful." Elliot grabbed onto Peeta's head while Finnick held up his body. Once Peeta was softly placed next to Elliot in a lying position the pair stepped back from him. "Thanks.""Yeah." that's all Finnick said before he walked back towards the table he sat at before.Elliot stretched before she walked back towards the broken window at the front of the building.Her eyes fell on the sky, it had an orange and pink hue this morning, the sun was slowly rising over the tall buildings across from the restaurant she was in. "Elliot Young." A deep voice came from behind her."You know my name, congrats'." Elliot continued looking at the sky. "Couldn't say the same, unfortunately" She spoke sarcastically with an over exaggerated smile."I don't know anything about you.""Maybe because I don't want you to." Elliot shrugged."Jeez, all I know is that Katniss- for some reason likes you. And I just wanna know why.""Maybe because I have some personality. You should try it, it would help with the whole- love triangle thing." Elliot turned around and gave him a smirk and then turned once again so that her back was facing him and she stepped through the window.Once she walked away Finnick walked up to Gale. "dude, that was fun to watch." he laughed softly as he followed the brown haired girl."You know, that was probably the most entertaining thing I've seen all year." Finnick said once he made it to where Elliot stood near the charred car."If that's true, then you should get better TV.""I should look into that." Finnick turned to see Elliot staring at the van."Can any of us catch a fucking break?" Elliot asked after a minute of silence."Huh?""Us victors, none of us can catch a break." she paused. "I'm so done with it.""What are you talking about?""I just need a goddamn break." Elliot made eye contact with the blonde. "Just for a minute."A sigh escaped the girl. "But I can't have one. Not until he's dead."Finnick nodded, "Can I touch you." the girl nodded slowly, finnick carefully wrapped his arms around the girl."You deserve a break." Elliot stood frozen in his hold until she slowly melted into his arms. "If anyone, it's you.""Finnick." Elliot broke away from the hug and grabbed onto his cheeks with both hands. "You can't die. Not now. Not when-""When what?""Not when I don't hate you." She took a step back from the blonde. "I've hated you for ten years, since your games and I now... don't. I've realized that I can't hate you for something you can't control, it's how the games work." Elliot started messing with her hands, something that Finnick noticed she did when she was nervous. "Many people hate me because I killed their family or friends, but it's what you do to live. So I just wanna tell you that- I used to want to kill you but now that I don't, you just can't die.""Are you trying to tell me that you've grown to care for me?" a small smirk played on his lips."Stop, I've known you for too long to know that you put a wall up but you don't need that wall with me." Elliot took another step. "Just promise me, you won't die.""I can't promise-""Just, say you won't." Finnick glanced at Elliot's hands, they were now shaking. "I felt this obligation to hate you but I think over the years the hate and the snide comments were just hiding my true feelings, which is that yes, Finnick, I do care for you." Elliot held her lip in between her teeth, another thing she does when she's nervous. "I can't lose anyone else.""Okay, okay." Finnick took two steps forward so that he was right in front of her. "I'm not going anywhere." he put both of his hands on the side of her neck. She wasn't short, he stood a good five inches taller than her, she was about 5'8 and he was 6' 1. He rested his forehead onto hers. "I promise."They stood there in silence just looking at each other for what felt like hours, they were content. "I care about you too." Finnick whispered softly before he closed the small gap between them, pressing his lips onto hers."Elliot, I care about you so much that I don't think I could live if you were hurt again." he separated for a moment his forehead against hers. "Not if it's my fault.""Finnick me going into the Capitol was not your fault." Elliot's hand rested on Finnick's jaw, pushing him away so that they could make proper eye contact. "It wasn't anyone's fault. If It's anyone's it should be mine, I had enough time to get mine and Peeta's trackers out.""Even if you did, you wouldn't've had time to make it to the tree to get in the aircraft." Finnick started shaking his head back and forth. "You were too far.""I know. I wish I could've gotten at least one of them out. Johanna or Peeta.""They're alive." Finnick brought his head against hers once again. "And so are you. That's what matters."Finnick attached their lips once again, Elliot moved her thumb to his chin to open his mouth gently and slowly slip her tongue into his mouth. They stayed like that exploring each other's mouth and each trying to claim dominance. Elliot ended up giving Finnick the dominance, wanting the small fight to be over. Finnick held onto her lower back pulling her in closer. Elliot didn't realize before that how gentle he was being with her. His hand was placed delicately on her back and his other gently moving to the back of her neck to pull her impossibly closer. "We need to stop doing this." Elliott murmured against his lips."Do we?" Finnick pushed back into the kiss. Finnick's tongue slipped back into Elliot's mouth as if he was trying to get every last drop of her before she evaporated."We gotta get inside before everyone wakes up." Elliot slowly separated from the blonde.Finnick had a soft smirk growing on his lips as he glanced down to her lips seeing them all puffy and pink. Elliot noticed and turned his face to the left with her hand. "I've gotta get ready to leave." she started backing up. "And make sure Katniss hasn't ran away yet." Elliot's lips were in a straight line but once she turned around heading back into the building a small smile grew on her lips while she felt Finnick intense gaze on her."God." Finnick murmured to himself turning in a circle while running his hands through his hair. He also had a small smile painted on his lips but his was more noticeable than Elliot's. He didn't hide his smile.Once everyone was up Elliot was packing up her bag while the group was in a small circle. But once she walked up to the group she saw Peeta standing with a big gun in his hands, she looked at it for a moment then looked to him."The mag's empty, don't worry." spoke Gale from next to Katniss."I wasn't worried." Elliot shrugged and then went to go stand near Peeta."Let's move, we're headed five blocks North." Boggs spoke, instructing the group out of the building. "To the citizens of the capitol, our war is not with you." Finnick spoke from Peeta's side, reciting the boy's lines for the propaganda. After Peeta repeated the line, Finnick went on. "You will be a vital part of the democracy that follows our victory." Peeta repeated it once more."You got it." Finnick praised the district 12 victor. Elliot stood just behind them next to Cressida, one of Katniss's camera crew members, listening softly to the footsteps that were padding on the concrete on the damp ground.The group got into a large courtyard surrounded by tall buildings with an arch and some big pillars in the middle of it."Boggs, this is a good spot." Cressida spoke, Boggs lowered the Holo and turned to see Cressida walking to the front of the group. "Through there in the courtyard."Boggs nodded and said. "Okay, let us clear it out." He walked down the stairs onto the grass and checked the perimited for traps that the Holo could pick up, with the group following shortly behind him. They didn't make it far, just passed the arch when the Holo started to frantically beep."Got a pod." Boggs spoke. The pod was between two long large pillars. "Split, take cover." he pointed to either side of the pillars. Elliot saw that Peeta and Finnick were moving to the right pillar as she moved to the left where Katniss stood with Gale and Cressida. Boggs was the closest to the pod on the right side, on the left Elliot was the closet. The entire group crouched close to the floor while Boggs stood."Stay back." Boggs spoke, then he threw a rock into the middle of both pillars which triggered two machine guns, one on each pillar and two started shooting the entire area in between the walls. One bullet landed an inch from Elliot's foot making her quickly move it further towards her. The noise was a lot for the two victors who were in the capitol, it was a lot for everyone but especially hard for them to hear that big noise once again. Elliot hugged her legs and shoved her head between her knees trying to block out any noise she could. Peeta covered his ears with his hands and was moving his head back and forth. Finnick had a playful smile on his face once the guns stopped, the machine guns had knocked the arch down to the ground leaving it in rumble and crumbs.Boggs stood up and made his way to the middle of the two pillars. "All clear." he waved at the group. "Gale, Holmes, with me. Legs take the wings." Once Katniss stood she saw that Peeta had the end of the gun to his head, resting it on the wall of the pillar and his head. He was shaking, his face was red and he was trying to catch up on his breath.Finnick looked over Peeta's shoulder and his eyes landed on Elliot's body, pressed up against the wall with her arms hugging her legs and head between her knees, she was also shaking. His smile slowly slipped when she saw the girl slowly rock her body back and forth. It reminded him of when they were in the games after she heard Harlow for a straight hour screaming at her for help. The capital messed her up good, if gunshots for a minute could do the same as her deceased brother screaming at her for an hour.After a few minutes of silence Elliot lifted her head seeing Katniss standing in front of her, staring at Peeta, Elliot's eyes slowly moved to Peeta seeing him start to hit his head with the end of his gun."Peeta." Elliot spoke, starting to crawl over the boy. She slowly stood up while she continued to make her way towards the blonde boy. That's when an explosion went off.