Enchanted; A Finnick and Annie Fanfic ♥ (Currently Revising/Editing)

Chapter 21: He Deserves To Know

To be totally honest, I was fine without Finnick there for the first few days. I spent my mornings with Prim and Mrs. Everdeen in the hospital, helping them care for the people there.

Sometimes I would visit with Johanna for a while as well. Then, after lunch, I went up to Command to check on things. The squads spent the first three days after they left traveling on cargo chains, making their way to the rebel camp outside the Capitol.

On the forth morning, I woke up feeling really nauseous. I laid in bed a little longer than usual and it seemed to go away, so I made my way up to the hospital. By the time I was there, the feeling came back. Prim made me sit down on one of the empty hospital beds and checked my temperature.

"Hmm. No fever," she said. "Is this the first day you're feeling like this?"

"I felt a little sick the day Finnick left, but not really, other than that."

Almost as soon as I said that, the nausea hit me again, and I threw up into a bin the sat on a table beside the bed. Prim called for her mother.

Mrs. Everdeen examined me, doing all of the things doctors do. Then she asked, "You don't feel bad otherwise?"

I shook my head. "Not at all. Actually, now I feel a lot better."

She looked puzzled, and started to gently press on my stomach. I wasn't really sure what she was looking for, but after a while, her face lit up. She ran off, promising to be back in a minute.

I looked to Prim to see if she knew what her mother was thinking, but she just shook her head. "Don't ask me. My mother is in her own little world when she's with a patient."

We waited for a couple minutes. Prim asked if I'd heard anything new about the rebels in the Capitol, and I told her what I knew. Then, the nausea came back, and I threw up in the bin again. Prim was cleaning it out in a nearby sink when Mrs. Everdeen came back.

She handed me a little white stick. I looked it over and asked, "What is it?"

And she replied, "A pregnancy test."

I could feel a giant smile creep onto my face. "You don't think I could be?"

"I think you very well could be." She gestured towards the bathroom and I ran in there with a happy skip in my step. When I came back, Mrs. Everdeen said, "Usually it takes about ten minutes."

I sat with Prim while I waited. She noted that I looked happier than she's ever seen me. I kept giggling and bouncing up and down. Time seemed to drag on, almost as if it had stopped.

Mrs. Everdeen came back after ten minutes and got the test from the bathroom. She threw it away in the trash can before coming back over to Prim and me. She had a serious look on her face.

"Prim?"

"Yes, Mom?"

"I think we should congratulate our friend Annie. She's going to be a mother." And she smiled warmly.

A noise escaped my mouth that sounded like a squeal as I jumped up to hug them both. I kept jumping, which made the nausea come back, but I ignored it. As soon as I'd hugged the two of them adequately, I started running towards Command.

They were a little shocked when I busted into the room, to say the least. "Have they made it to the rebel camp yet?" I asked, completely out of breath.

"Just arrived a few minutes ago," Beetee said from behind one of the giant computers in the room. "Why?"

I felt dizzy and had to sit down, but as soon as I was settled down a bit, I said, "I just found out I'm pregnant. And I need to tell Finnick. I have to tell him!" I rubbed my stomach gently, as if to gain some sympathy, but Coin laughed.

"The only people allowed to talk to them are the ones in charge," she said.

I felt my pep starting to fade. "But...he's going to be a father. He deserves to know." And right on cue, a tear rolled down my face

Plutarch walked over and put his arm around me. "It just isn't totally safe right now. But don't you worry, you'll get to talk to him soon. I promise."