Her Victory, Their Life| F. Odair

26. Seeing Him Again

Katniss and Finnick waited together in a room. They both were silent. He was waiting there for Johanna, but in his heart, he was hoping that Emory would step off that plane so that he could pick her up and hold her.

Cameron was with his aunt and uncle. They wanted to be far away from the hospital. They didn't want to get their hopes up that she was still alive. They already had once and it was too hard.

Haymitch stuck his head inside the room and smiled excitedly, "They're back." Both Finnick and Katniss got up, racing out of the room and to the hospital.

As soon as they got in there they looked around and found Johanna fighting the nurses and doctors, "I don't want that." She pulled the stuff out of her arm and off her face.

"Johanna," Katniss said in shock at her form. She was thin and pale, her hair was gone.

"Johanna," Finnick smiled happily. He leaned down and hugged her.

"Why don't you go see your wife?" She asked him and he looked at her confused. She gestured to a hallway. "They have her in one of the rooms. Carefully, she's still a little delirious, they accidentally gave her more Tracker Jacker venom as they were leaving." Finnick's eyes widened and he ran from her bed and looked in the window of several rooms before he found her.

"EMORY!" He yelled, opening her door. She sat up a little.

"Finnick," she whispered with a smile on her face. She sighed, "is this real?"

He nodded, "yeah, yeah, it's real, I'm real."

"Is he here?" Finnick nodded.

"Yeah, yeah, he's here. He's with Elliot and Cierra," Finnick answered and Emory cried happy tears as she stroked his face.

He climbed into her bed and held onto her, "You're alive, you're safe now," he whispered into her ear.

"We have a son," she told him.

He shed a tear. He was so happy to finally have her back, "Yeah, we do, he's perfect."

"I want to see Cierra and Elliot, I want my baby," She told him as she cuddled further into his chest.

He nodded, "I'll call for them soon, just–just let me hold you for a bit longer."

Evan walked in and leaned against the glass, "we didn't even know you were there," he told her and they both looked over. "Don't worry, I called for your family, they're on the way." He went and took a seat. "But, yeah, we didn't know you were there. Until you started screaming."

She looked at Finnick sadly, "I was screaming for you. They took you off the screen."

He looked down at her, "you saw the propo?"

She nodded, "I saw it, all I wanted was for you to stay on screen and then they took you away." The door flew open and Cierra and her Uncle Cameron ran in with Elliot behind her, holding the baby. Emory cried happy tears, trying her best to sit up. Finnick helped her and Elliot set the baby in her arms. "Hi, baby. Hi Cam."

"You named him after us," Elliot smiled and Emory smiled back nodding.

"Is Enobaria okay?" Elliot nodded.

"Yeah, she's great."

"Good, good."

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The family stayed in her hospital room and talked, "How did you get out of the Capitol's little hold?" Cierra asked and Emory turned sad.

"The video with Katniss and the song. They got Elliot in one of the shots." They looked confused by her statement. "They told me you died. But–but you were alive and if you were with the rebellion, then I was going to be too. My head still hurts from it all, but that's what I knew. Then I came up with the plan for Cam and the dam then I called you– I wasn't planning on making it home."

Everyone was saddened by her words and Finnick kissed her head, "well, now you are. You're safe, you're here."