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We check on the tributes before I put an exhausted Katniss to bed. The tributes are settled, and hidden well, so they can rest for the night. I lift Katniss from the couch and into my arms making my way to our bedroom. She frowns tiredly, and kicks her pants off after I place her on the mattress. I lift my shirt over my head, getting comfortable within the sheets. She whispers that she loves me before sleep takes her.
All these years, and I never thought I'd hear her say those words so effortlessly and mean it.

It must be 2 in the morning, when a bang on the door jolts me awake.
Surprisingly, Katniss still lays dead sleep as I get up to open the door.

He just stands there, twirling a set of keys.

"How did you get in here!" I squint at him, nearly blinded by the light coming from the hallway.
"Looks like you've been busy." says Finnick, arching his eyebrows.

I take a look at myself. Tousled hair and shirtless.

"Busy sleeping." I reply.

He gives me a smirk, obviously not believing me. He continues anyway.

"Nuts and Volts found a way to get a communication device to our tributes."

Nuts and volts. I've heard that nickname before. It takes me a second to remember, that is what Johanna had called Beetee and Wiress.

"It couldn't wait until morning? Again, how did you get here?"
He holds up his keys and takes a hold of my wrist.

"Let's go." he urges me to move.

"I'm half naked!" I exaggerate, because I don't want to leave Katniss alone. What if she wakes from a nightmare and I'm not there to hold her?

Thankfully, I turn my head to see her stirring in bed. She reaches her arm across the mattress, finding empty sheets.
She immediately sits up.

"Peeta?" she whispers.

Finnick smirks at me.

"I'll give you two minutes, tops. To put some clothes on and grab your significant other."
He shuts the door, and I hear him walk down the hall to the living room.
I flick the bedroom light on, and she rubs her eyes.

"Sorry to wake you, button." I lift my shirt from the floor and pull it over my head making sure it wasn't inside out.
Katniss crinkles her nose when I say button.

"Well, your "button" would like to know why she has been woken." she mocks my pet name.

"I guess it couldn't wait until morning apparently. Finnick showed up, saying Beetee found a way to get a communication device to them."

She quirks her eyebrow, confused still.

"We are going to go look at it, my dear." I inform.

"Right now?"

"Right now."

"Okey dokey." She mumbles, swinging her legs over the side of the bed.
Katniss retrieves her flat shoes and stands up.

"Katniss, you might want to put on some pants." I exclaim.

She then turns to me after realizing.

"You might want to also."

I look down at myself, seeing that I am in boxers.

"Touché."
After we are clothed, I grab her hand and take her out to where Finnick sits.

"And she's awake." announces Finnick.

He later shouts as we press the elevator button."Let's move it people!"

"Fish head, it's almost three in the morning." Katniss whispers harshly.

"Calm down potato plant." he whispers back.

I roll my eyes as we approach the third floor.
We turn down the hallway and don't notice the Peacekeeper until we've passed him.

"Hold up there." His voice projects through the hall.

"Can we help you, sir?" Finnick answers.

He grabs a hold of the first person he sees, which is Katniss. The peacekeeper grabs her arms and holds them behind her back.

"State your name and occupation. Off limits to be visiting the tribute and mentor building."

"Let go of me!" Katniss thrashes around, almost escaping his grip but not quite.

"Name and occupation!" He scowls.

"Hey! You get off of her!"

I push past Finnick and let him see my face. I hover over this smaller man. I could easily take him if he tried anything. God, and I thought I was short.

"I will not ask again!" The peacekeeper brings out a taser and brings it to Katniss's neck.

"Katniss Mellark!" she hollers.
"Victor of the 74th hunger games! Quarter quell mentor, spouse of Peeta Mellark! Don't touch me!"

Katniss pulls one of her hands loose and her alert instincts kick in, because she yanks the taser from his hand and holds it up against his chest, threatening to activate it.

"The Katniss Everdeen? The one who defied the Capitol." he sneers.

Finnick grabs my wrist, along with Katniss's. He takes a large step forward to the peacekeeper. We are out of earshot, but Finnick rambles onto this man for a while. He begins to feel frightened.

He apologizes and heads toward the elevator.

"Finnick, what did you say to him?" asks Katniss, as she examines the taser in her hands.

"A little blackmail never hurt anyone." he smirks in reply.

Finnick then knocks a certain pattern on Beetee's door.

The door swings open, and Beetee welcomes us in once again.
We spend all night and some of the morning discussing this full proof plan. With the determination in Katniss's voice, this will work. Our tributes will come out of that arena.

A/n; hey, if anyone can guess the type of pattern Finnick knocked on the door, they will get a shoutout on this book!

Only hint: 4