Brute (Finnick X oc)

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As Finn and Peeta separated Katniss Johanna and I sat Roland down in the sand and cupped some water throwing it on him.

"Wow, that does a lot Cypress. Thank you so much." I sarcastically smiled at him.

"Tick tock." Wiress repeated. "Wiress come here." She walked over. "Tick Tock." "I know, Tick Tock." She grabbed my necklace. "Tick Tock." "Yes a clock does go Tick Tock. Good job. Lets get your washed off."

"I can help. You should clean yourself off too." Katniss walked over. "Why, is blood not a good look for me?" Roland laughed loudly.

"Sorry. Finnick come help me." Finnick walked over and pulled Roland up with a grunt. "Come on if Cypress can carry me so can you." I smiled at the two as I walked with Katniss and Wiress to get cleaned up.

Red foggy water surrounded me making my breathing get heavy.

I went under the water to pull my hair out of my ponytail.

I stayed under the cold water for a moment. It was quiet. Sort of relaxing.

I can only relax for a second before the thoughts come back.

"That's my blood." Louise voice said it was all foggy like I was hearing her through a wall.

"Nope it's mine." Elliot said my hand went up to my neck scratching at it. "Are we sure it isn't mine?" Leo's voice came up less foggy his clearest out of them all.

I launched out of the water gasping for a breath.

"Are you alright?" "Yeah. I can't, I can't look at blood. In my games I... I was covered in it. We wore these jackets. Pure puffy white jackets. Any kill you made was on display. My life after the games my dresses have always been white with splashes of blood." "Like your chariot outfit?" "Precisely."

"Can you?" I pointed to the back where the zipper of the wetsuit was. She nodded and unzipped. Her eyes stared at my back.

"Wow... Sorry. I've, Uh." "Never seen a scar that long before." "Yeah." I smiled and lifted up my left arm to show the scar on my arm.

"I have scars everywhere. My eye, check, neck, both shoulders, back and arm." She looked at me confused. "What?" "You, Uhh, you have bruises on your shoulders. Looks a bit older than getting them from the games, what happened?"

I looked down at the water which was sorta clearing up, I looked at my shoulders most of the bruising covered by the black sports bra.

"No, remember when you said it would be easy to act like all the victors where beneath you? And Haymitch said 'Katniss everyone here is a winner... a survivor more like it.' For some people the surviving didn't end after their games." My eyes flickered to Finnick who's laughing with Roland and Johanna.

"What do you mean?" "Well. I had to work for Snow. My life was in his hands, I did everything according to what he said." "What do you mean?" "I think we both know what I mean without me having to say it."

"I'm so sorry." I nodded and looked around. "It might not seem like it but, your lucky Katniss."

A silence fell over us making Wiress talk. "Tick Tock." I put my wetsuit back on.

Lightning struck the tree making Wiress gasp. "TICK TOCK!" "Wait." Katniss looked at me. "What."

I looked down at my clock necklace. "Tick tock... Wiress your a genius!" I ran to the beach looking at the arena. Katniss pulled Wiress out the water following me. I counted the platforms in the water... twelve.

"It's a clock." "What?" "A clock. The arenas a clock?" "Cypress your a genius!" "That was all Wiress, I'm just the translator."

We ran over to tell the others.

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