If we burn } Finnick Odair

Chapter 20 ~two so soon~

I must say I'm not exactly heartbroken we're not on the frontline. I'm fine with danger but I don't go looking for it.

We suit up. The original outfits we were given have armor that goes on over top of them. Finnick tightens mine to fit me. "Is that okay?" I move a little to make sure it doesn't fall off. "Yeah." I motion for him to turn around so I could tighten his. "Good?" "Good."

"Do you know any of these people? Minus the camera crew, Katniss, and Gale of course." Finnick looks around at everyone. "No, No I don't." "This is great for us am I right? None of us know one another." He shrugs smiling a little.

We begin our journey to the capital. We walk for a while. A long while when we find a place to stop for some food and water. "This is kind of boring." Finnick whispers. "Kind of? I'm getting sleepy just from walking." We both start laughing when we hear something from up ahead. I feel my heart stop. It hasn't even been a whole day the capital knows about us. They're gonna take us.

Katniss gets up and walks towards it. Seriously? Walk towards it? Finnick gets up next. Nope. I get up too. I'm not letting BOTH of them go to the capital. The truck comes to a stop. I realize that truck isn't from the capital. It's from thirteen. A part of me hopes they're bringing us Johanna. When Peeta steps out of the vehicle Katniss and Gale raise their weapons. I walk towards the boy. "Stop stop everyone relax." Finnick says from behind me to the ones wielding weapons.

He's talking to himself. "My name is Peeta Mellark. My home is District 12." Aww. Poor boy. Jackson steps forward with wrist shackles. "Is that really necessary?" I ask. She ignores me. "Soldier this is just a precaution until we get everything straightened out alright?" Peeta just keeps mumbling his sentence to himself. Finnick's arm wraps around my waist as I lean into him.

We go back in our rest building. They seat Peeta by the Leeg sisters. Finnick kisses my cheek grabbing my hand. It's not fair how they're going to treat Peeta. They're going to treat him like a capital mutt when he's just like us. Emotionally scarred but still a person.

"They want us to add him to the propo to show that he's on our side now. We'll move forward a few blocks tomorrow and shoot some new footage." "He's not in control of himself." Gale says. "I say we schedule an around the clock watch on him. The Leegs until seventeen hundred Holmes and Mitchell til nineteen hundred." "Give me a watch." "And if it really came down to it do you think you could shoot him?" "I wouldn't be shooting Peeta..I'd be killing a capital mutt."

That's all I needed. I walk out of the building. I need some air before I scream at all of them. Finnick follows after me. "This isn't fair to him. He's not a mutt. Finnick he's not a mutt." He hugs me resting his chin on the top of my head. "I know he's not." "They're not even giving him a chance. They seen him and immediately decided he was a threat. He's as much of a threat as I am. We didn't go through the same torture but we were still there together. They gave me a chance why not him? It's been months since what happened between him and Katniss even happened. It's not fair to him." "I know. It's not." "What do we even do?" "We can offer to look after him full time? That way we know he's being treated like a normal person." "That's not a bad idea Finn. Can we do it like actually?" "I don't see why we couldn't."

We walk back in a minute later. "We volunteer to teach Peeta everything. Line's he'll need to know and everything." "Would you be able to shoot him if it came down to it?" "It won't come down to it. He's just like all of us he just needs people he knows he's safe with." "I will say Daphne was the only one to get through to him for a while. She's the only one here who knows what he's really been through to make him act like this." Cressida says. Thank you Cressida. "Alright then it's settled Daphne and Finnick you all will be in charge of him during our mission." Jackson declares. She says this as if Peeta needs to be contained.