...ready for it? 》peeta mellark ❥

05; twelve strikes.

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"Good thing we're allies, right?" Finnick said to Katniss, "Where did you get that?" She asked the both of them, a look of confusion written all over her face.

"Where do you think?" He replied to her, "Duck," he told her as he flung his trident at a guy who was running up behind her once she had crouched down. The cannon fired.

"Don't trust one and two. Me and Naomi will take this side. You hold them off," he told Katniss as Naomi was already running off to look for Peeta. "We'll find Peeta," He told her before he followed behind her.

"Finnick, he's over here!" Naomi yelled to her brother, he quickly grabbed Katniss and quickly ran over with her. He was trying his best to fight another guy off of him, the two of them both struggling in the water. Peeta tried his best to get away from him.

Finnick handed his trident over to Naomi before diving into the water, the guy dragged Peeta under the water as Finnick was swimming over. Not long later, the cannon fired. Katniss watched in horror, hoping it wasn't Peeta. A body slowly rose up to the top of the water, face down. She shook her head.

Finnick was just about to reach them when Peeta popped out of the water, gasping for air as he looked around frantically. The two girls looked relieved, Finnick helped him back onto the shore when Naomi realised District one and two had now gathered together and was stood near to them.

"Finnick, we better go now," she told her brother before signalling towards them, he nodded. "Alright, to the beach, come on, move!" He shouted to them all as they ran off towards the beach and dove into the water again. 

Once shey reached the beach they ran towards the jungle, "Katniss! Katniss, go, go, go!" Finnick told her. They all ran through the Jungle, Peeta first, then Katniss, then Naomi, and Then Finnick.

"Okay, hold up. Hold up," Finnick shouted to them all, they'd gotten far enough in to lose the other people if they were following behind. They all crouched down, "God, it's hot. We gotta find fresh water," Peeta said to them, the suits were thin but it still felt like they were going to boil alive in there. Naomi threw her head back as she wiped her face, sighing. The cannon fired again three more times.

"Well I guess we're not holding hands anymore," Finnick joked with a smile, "You think that's funny?" Katniss said seriously.

"Every time that cannon goes off, it's music to my ears. I don't care about any of them," he told her, before looking to Naomi and letting her head rest onto his shoulder for a moment, they all knew the only person he cared about saving was her.

"Good to hear," Katniss said as she reached and grabbed her machete she had taken at the start, "You want to face the Career Pack alone? What would Haymitch say?" Finnick said to her tauntingly, she glared at him.

"Haymitch isn't here," she responded.

Peeta looked between the two, fed up with their bickering. "Let's keep moving," he told them as he stood up, Katniss handed him the machete. Finnick helped Naomi up and go ahead of him to which she wandered off alongside Peeta. The two spoke back and forth, getting to know each other while Finnick and Katniss stayed behind them, not wanting to get to know each other anymore than they already did.

"So, Naomi Odair, you seem nicer than your brother... are you guys close?" Peeta said making her laugh a little, "He's my best friend, and he's not all bad, I promise," she smiled and looked back at him and Katniss together looking like they wanted to kill each other. "How'd you stick it out last time in the games?" He questioned her, she half smiled, "I barely did. Just was lucky I guess," she told him, "I just didn't trust anyone, which was probably the right thing to do since they all tried to kill me as soon as we got in there because I was the youngest one. They didn't want me winning like Finnick did because he got all the glory. I had to go off my basic survival skills he had taught me before I got taken away," she rambled on to him.