The Flames of the Mockingjay

Cause and Effect

Esmeralda walked through the arch way of Victor's Village in district 12. In the distance there was a figure of a man walking closer to her. Her senses heighten and she knows not to let her guard down. Esmeralda stops  and looks around to see if she could use anything as a weapon, the only thing that she can find is a large stick. But before she could pick it up, the figure of the man becomes clearer.

It's Finnick.

Her body relaxes and her stands straight up. He finally reaches her and grabs her face with both hands and leans in giving her a long awaited kiss. Esmeralda allows herself to melt into Finnick, felling like nothing in the world mattered, and somehow she felt as if they were safe.

Finnick pulled back from the kiss and looked at her.

"Es, I know that you have been scared to showcase our love to the people of the Capitol, to Snow. But I feel that our friendship that has been on display and our time since the last victor's tour as a couple, we have proven that we can be in the public eye, so Esmeralda..." Finnick started. He look a step back and reached into his coat pocket to get a small velvet box out and bent down on one knee. Esmeralda's hand covered her mouth, containing her shock.

'Esmeralda, I have told you before and I will tell you again and I will never get tired of telling you that I love you. We have been through thick and thin, trams and triumphs. I want to continue experiencing things together, the good, the bad, and the scary. Esmeralda Theo will you do me the honor of becoming Esmeralda Odair, and marry me?" Finnick finished and opened the box to see a simple elegant three stacked ring. A medium sized diamond in the middle that remind Esmeralda of the only jewel that as passed down from her mother's size for generations and hidden until it was sold for food and rations. And the other two where complimenting the ring in the middle, small red rubies and small blue topaz interchanging.

Esmeralda was speechless, she couldn't believe everything that she wanted was right in front of her and her future was finally something she could control. Before Esmeralda could answer, a peacekeeper shot Finnick and his blood was splattered all over her.

"FINNICK" she let out the most bloodcurdling scream as Finnick's lifeless body falls in front of her. She goes on her knees and starts crying, bawling.

Out of seemingly no where, Snow is standing in front of Esmeralda, making her look up.

"Hope is something you have desperately tried to hold on to, please understand this is natural to things we hold. Gone in an instant Ms. Theo" Snow said calm and eerie tone. And like that he's gone in an instant.

Esmeralda looks down at Finnick in her arms, tears seeming to never end. She starts talking to him, her hand placed on his cheek with his blood on it and her thumb rubbing back and forth, "Im sorry Nick, you should have never even meet me, I love you forever, I'm sorry"

She lets out a blood curdling scream, while looking out to nowhere.

"I'M SORRY" Esmeralda wakes up screaming in a panic, with tears running down both sides of her face.

She looks around and sees she's in another hospital room. She can hear foot steps coming, she quickly gets out of bed, and goes out the door.

Esmeralda doesn't know where she is running to, all that she knows is that she is running. She keeps hiding when someone sounds near. As she is walking to who knows where, she starts to realize she's lost and that isn't natural for her. Everything is grey, dark, and unnatural for her right now, she doesn't know if it's because it's the medicine they shot her up with or it's because she just woke up in a haze.