Invisible String || Finnick Odair

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As the cannon sounded, Nora dived into the water and within seconds was running down the rocky path to the cornucopia. When she arrived, she and Finnick were the firsts there. She and him grabbed their tridents and she happened to pick up one of the two bow and arrow sets and sling them onto her back.

She heard the sound of an arrow pulling back and spun around, trident in hand, to see Katniss aiming an arrow at her. Finnick and Elenora both raised their tridents and Finnick showed his wrist to the victor.

"Good thing we're allies, right?" He said titling his head to the side. "Where did you get that?"

"Where do you think?" Elenora stated, pointing out the obvious that Haymitch and Effie had a plan all along to help Peeta and her succeed. "Duck." Finnick said, and as she did he threw his trident into the chest of the male tribute from district 5.

The canon goes off and Finnick pulls his trident out of the tributes chest. "Don't trust 1 and 2.
I'll take this side. You hold them off."

"I'll go find Peeta." Elenora announces, and she runs off to where she sees two males in the water fighting. She quickly signals over to Finnick and strips herself of weapons minus a small serrated knife and dives in, in an attempt to save Peeta. She reaches the pair and grabs ahold of the other tribute, stabbing him in the shoulder giving Peeta the chance to swim to safety.

While Katniss and Finnick get Peeta out of the water, Nora is swimming over when her foot is grabbed and she's dragged under. She lets out a small scream before its muffled by water. Katniss and Finnick look up to see the two fighting under the waters surface, before bubbles slowly dissapear and a canon then goes off.

Elenora quickly emerges from the water, looking around to find where she is. She the swims back over to the trio and retrieves her weapons. "You alright?" Finnick asks grabbing her by the sides of her face and examining her for injuries. "I'm fine, Peeta, Katniss, go, go, go." She says ushering her and Peeta up and away from the bloodbath behind them. They run until they make it into the forest deep enough to be away from the other careers.

"Okay, hold up. Hold up. Here you go." Finnick pauses as he gives Peeta and Nora water to drink. "God, it's hot. We gotta find fresh water." Peeta says, and the rest of them agree.

In the distance, 3 canons go off signaling three more tributes are down, and that causing Finnick to chuckle. "Well, I guess we're not holding hands any more."

"You think that's funny?" Katniss question's the boy, and Nora just snickers to herself as Finnicks looks over to her. "Every time that cannon goes off, it's music to my ears. I don't care about any of them."

"Good to hear." Katniss says as she pulls an arrow out from her bag and stands. "Want to face the Career Pack alone? What would Haymitch say?" Finnick says as Elenora points her trident towards the girl on fire as a warning.

"Let's keep moving." Peeta suggests, and they all grab everything and start their long journey. Peeta and Elenora are further up front while Katniss stays in the back as a precaution to the district 4 tributes.

"So... you used to work for a bakery, bread boy?" Elenora teases, and Peeta slashes through the vines with his machete. "Uh, yeah... I kinda still do. Whenever I get overwhelmed I make some."

"What do you do when you're stressed?" He asks the girl, who smiles as he looks over his shoulder to him. "Swim with the fish and turtles. Sometimes i'll try to find oysters and take out their pearls." Peeta smiles, knowing pearls are one of Katniss's favorite things.

Katniss picks up on the slight glistening ahead of them, and realizes there's a force field and they're about to run into it. "Peeta, no!" She yells, and when Nora sees, she tackles him, sending the two of them flying as they bounce of the force field.

"Peeta? Peeta?" Katniss asks as she kneels next to him, who's unresponsive and places her ear next to his chest. "He's not breathing. He's not breathing. He's not breathing! Peeta!" Katniss yells.

Finnick is stuck, Elenora is also unconscious and a few yards away, and as if she's unresponsive as well. Finnick rushes over to Peeta and begins to do CPR on the boy. "Katniss... check on Elenora." He instructs, but she doesn't move. "Katniss! Check on Elenora!" He yells, causing her to crawl over to her and check for a pulse.

"Come on! Come on!" Finnick says as he begins mouth to mouth on Peeta. "Katniss... is she ok?" Finnick asks, panting from chest compressions.

"She's... she's barely breathing." Katniss says, and she tries to wake her up. "Come on, Peeta!" Finnick yells, as Katniss drags Eleanor's body closer. "Please, Peeta. Peeta." Katniss sobs, moving back over to him while grabbing his hand

"Come on!" Finnick yells again. Suddenly, Peeta gasps for breath and begins coughing. "Oh, my God." Katniss exclaims grabbing his face.

"Be careful. There's a force field up there." He jokes, and Katniss helps him up and wraps him in a tight hug. "Oh, my God. You were dead. You were dead. Your heart stopped."

"It's okay. It's working now." Peeta gasps, and Finnick immediately rushes over to Elenora when the sound of a canon goes off.

"Nora? Nora! Wake up, wake up!" He yells, desperation in his face as he vigorously taps her face, which falls limp in his arms. "Nora!" He yells, tears leaving his eyes.

She slowly begins to stir awake and a sigh of relief escapes Finnicks mouth. "I thought I lost you." He says with tears falling onto her cheeks. "I told you I wouldn't make a promise I couldn't keep." She says with a smile, before Finnick places a kiss on her lips.

The two share the kiss for a few moments before he pulls away leaving her speechless. Sponsors are left shocked and people from their district including Annie and Mags jump around with joy as the two finally come to their senses.

"I love you Elenora Jaune, don't ever do that again." He says as he rests his forehead against his. "I love you too Finnick, I'll try not to." He then helps her up and both district pairs realize where they are.

"The force field... It's a dome. We're at the edge of the arena. Which means there's no water nearby."

"It's gonna get dark soon. We'll be safe with our backs protected. We should set up camp. Take turns sleeping. I can take first watch." Finnick offers, his arm around Elenora waist protectively.

"Not a chance." Katniss stammers, stepping in from of Peeta and towards the district 4 pair. "Honey, that thing I did back there for Peeta? That was called "saving his life." If I wanted to kill either of you, I would've done it by now."

Finnick then looks over to Elenora, who is, much like Peeta, still in shock and very tired. "Why don't you get some rest? I'll take the first watch. Just for a little bit." With that she nods and they set up make shift sleeping bags for her and Peeta.

She and Peeta sleep for a while until she wakes up due to Katniss and Finnick laughing over something most likely not funny at all. "How's Peeta?"

"He's okay, I think. Just dehydrated like the rest of us." She explains as the national anthem of panem begins to play, while the fallen tributes face show on the screen. Elenora sits up slightly and she rubs her eyes, and adjust her suit.

"Eight." She murmurs, to which the other two look over, and Finnick smiles at the girl. A whirring sound flys above them before a metal box falls between the 4.

"What is it?" Finnick asks, as he sits closer to Elenora, as she shivers slightly. "It's from Haymitch. I think it's a spile." Katniss says with a mile on her face.

"A What?" Finnick asks before grabbing the metal object and inspecting it. "You're kidding me. You're kidding me." He takes the wooden mallet and hammers it into a tree, and water begins to pour out of the trunk.

"Get some water." Finnick says, pushing Elenora towards the fresh water, to which she happily indulges in and drinks plenty of, savoring the water they can get.

"I'm gonna get a leaf." Katniss says, as she gets a leaf to fill with water and give to Peeta.

"Want some more?" Elenora asks Finnick, to which he happily accepts and begins to drink. The pair lay down together as Katniss stay up to watch, and hold each other in their twisted arms, never wanting to let go.

12/4/23