𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 | finnick odair ✓

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Her world exploded in color as her head slammed into the floor. A sharp pain started at the back of her skull and ended at her forehead, she groaned in pain as she stood.

She glanced down at her ankle, eyes widening at the bloody sight. She tried to walk but let out a yelp instead. Soon she felt an arm wrap around her waist, she looked up and met the eyes of Cressida.

"We have to go, the Peacekeepers are coming!" She yelled and guided Ophelia forward.

"Where's Finnick?!" She yelled and turned her head to look for him even though it worsened her headache.

"I'm right here." He came up behind her and placed a hand on her back, she smiled at the sight of him.

He was covered in tiny cuts, bruises, and blood. He looked exhausted but she did too.

Ophelia, Finnick, and Cressida ducked as Peacekeepers shot at them, bullets flew right over their heads. Katniss threw a grenade at them, the explosion caused the ceiling above the Peacekeepers to collapse. The three ran in the opposite direction, away from the gun shots.

Suddenly above Messalla a light turned on and he let out a scream, she turned her head just in enough time to witness his body turned to ash. She gasped and looked up at the light, it was a pod Snow implanted.

More of them flickered on causing even more panic to rise in the brunettes chest, she was surviving on only adrenaline. She had to run in a zig zag motion to avoid the beams, but that still didn't stop it from burning her body.

The ground underneath her gave out, a shriek came out of her mouth as she ran even faster than before to keep from the ground swallowing her whole.

There was a hallway which looked untouched, no pods, mutts, or Peacekeepers. They reached it just in time, the ground behind them completely fell in and they were safe in the hallway.

Ophelia finally stopped running to check on her ankle and to caught her breath, blood poured out from the wound and onto the floor.

"Peeta!" Katniss shouted behind her, she pealed her eyes away from the bite and to Katniss.

The blond was on the floor with his hands covering his head. "We have to keep going!—"

"I don't want to!" He screamed.

"We have to—"

"No!" He kept fighting her, until she grabbed his head and faced it towards her.

"Look at me!" She pressed her lips to his. "Stay with me." She muttered.

"Always," Peeta said back.

Once they got up, Ophelia and the group started running through the transfer again and then up an escalator.

Pain shot up her leg and she bit her lip to stop herself from crying, every step she took made the pain worse.

They finally stopped in what looked like a once 'strip mall', Cressida ran to the first door and knocked loudly on it.

"Someone's coming!" Peeta whispered and the door swung open.

A lady with skin like a tiger appeared on the other side, Katniss pointed her bow at her but Cressida pushed it down. "Tigris do you remember me?—"

Spots clouded her vision again, she felt herself swaying back and fourth, trying to keep herself upright. She fell back onto the ground and let the darkness take her away.

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She was pulled away from her sleep by a burning feeling on her ankle. She shot up from her position on a cot and looked around. She immediately regretted that decision as the aching feeling in her skull returned. She was in some sort of basement or vault.

"Ophelia!" Finnick said, she locked eyes with him, he had a concerned look on his face.

"What happened?" She asked groggily, while taking a glimpse at her ankle which was now bandaged.

"You passed out, Cressida and Tigris think you have a concussion." She stiffed a laugh.

"I guess that would explain the pain in my head." Finnick snorted at her painful joke.

"You know, I never thanked you for saving me earlier,"

"You haven't really had the chance, but you're welcome."

The corners of his mouth turned up and she  gazed around again.

"How long have I been out and where are we?" She asked looking back at him.

"About 20 minutes and we're in Tigris's basement." She nodded and closed her eyes as another wave of pain washed over her. "I hate seeing you hurt." He said while grabbing her hand.

She opened her eyes and smiled again,  and leaned into his chest. "I love you."

He gently kisses her forehead. "I love you too."

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Ophelia was resting peacefully beside Finnick when the Capitol anthem went off.

She eyes opened and she sat up, she glanced at the hologram and scowled as Snow appeared. Beside her she could feel Finnick tense up, her heart sunk as she thought about his time with Snow.

"To all citizens more than a half mile outside of the city circle, I am announcing a mandatory evacuation. Come to the mansion, I am promising you shelter and sanitary. All refugees come to my home, there you will be proved with food, medicine, safety for your children, and you will have my solum oath to protect you until my dying breath. Our enemy is not like us, they do not share our values. They have never known our comfort and our sophistication, and they despise us for it. Make no mistake—they are not coming to liberate us, they are coming to destroy our way of life. They're coming to bury us." Something about the way he was acting had Ophelia excited, he looked the tiniest bit scared for once.

"Is he still in the mansion?" Katniss asked, but didn't get a response. "Peeta?" He turned to her and nodded.

"Yeah, I recognize the room."

"Where's that?"

"About five blocks away." Cressida added as they pulled out a map. "We're right here, off the avenues. The mansions here." She pointed down at a spot on the map.

"What about the pods?" Ophelia questioned as she stood from the cot.

"We they'll probably deactivate the pods around here." She pointed at another spot.

"That could work," Katniss looked up to Gale. "I could get close enough."

"Every Peacekeeper is on their way—" Gale was cut off by Cressida.

"—Next to our faces are on every billboard."

Katniss narrowed her eyes before muttering, "Snows offering shelter to all the refugees."

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Hi!! Sorry about the horrible ending to this chapter, I had to cut off half of it so it could be two regular chapters instead of 1 long chapter. Also please feel free to comment, I love getting fed back! Oh and say tuned for the next chapter because it's gonna be a wild one ;)