kill for your love - the hunger games

(075) you seem to follow me in my dreams

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act three.

(chapter seventy-five, you seem to follow me in my dreams)

juniper and johanna's compartment / hospital ward, 75 ADD.

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JOHANNA MASON HAD NOT been discharged yet and so, it left Juniper to be alone in the compartment, one bed empty whilst she sat up in her own, picking at the skin surrounding her thumbs as she stared into the darkness. The bad feeling did not dwindle. Instead, it was more heavier and painful.

She did not like being left in the dark. She did not like it when people lied to her. Why was Finnick not telling the truth? And why wasn't Katniss? Juniper had thought that she and the man from Four would tell each other everything, that they could speak to the other without any fear of being judged or not taken seriously. 

("Have you kept something from him?" Johanna murmured and when Juniper didn't answer, she sighed as she added, "Exactly. Don't get worked up about it. I know Finnick and you do too... he'll be fine.")

But what Johanna had told her was true. It was only fair for Finnick to keep something from Juniper considering there was much she hadn't told him about. And there would have been a good reason for the man to not tell her anything about the Capitol. Perhaps he was sparing her, keeping her fragile head in mind when he left. There had to be a good reason for Finnick to be keeping something from her. 

And so, Juniper tried to swallow any thought of Finnick Odair down as she began to become focused on Coin. Why was she lying? The Hale woman gathered it was part of her job to keep certain things a secret, but why was she lying about her true intentions? Juniper knew she was lying. Dr. Aurelius hinted that she was. And so, why did she want Juniper to start seeing Peeta? And what did Peeta want to say to her?

("Yes." Aurelius nodded. "Obsessed is the wrong word and so is infatuation. Whatever it is, he can't get you out of his head. It's like he needs to speak to you or tell you something.")

Questions began to run wild in Juniper's head, even as she tried to lay down to sleep. Throughout the night, they sprinted throughout her mind like it was a racetrack, one question leaping to be the winner and be answered. But Juniper was sure none of them would be, especially in the morning when all of them suddenly disappeared, numbness filling her up. 

The squad Finnick and Katniss were part of had been gone for a week and a bit by then. They had to be in the Capitol. They were set off into Twelve and after a couple of days' travelling, they disembarked inside one of the mountain tunnels that led into the Capitol. That was all Juniper had heard from Plutarch and that was all she was going to get considering they wanted her to be focused purely on Peeta, who she would be seeing first thing in the morning. 

And so, her guard up, Juniper made her way out of her compartment, swimming through the crowd of grey as everyone went to get their schedules tattooed on their arms. The Hale woman could feel her heart pounding as she followed the signs to the hospital ward, her head spinning as she tried to swallow the lump down from her throat.