▪The Mechanic▪Finnick Odair x reader

She was born to fix what's broken. Even when it's herself.

Seventeen-year-old Brina Tradwell has spent her life in District Six surrounded by gears, grease, and the sound of engines - fixing the machines that keep the Capitol moving. But when her name is drawn for the Hunger Games, she becomes cargo instead of the mechanic.

Torn from the only world she's ever known, Brina enters the Capitol: a place of beauty and cruelty where everything - even pain - is polished to perfection. She swears she won't give them what they want: fear, tears, or surrender.

Then she meets Finnick Odair - the Capitol's golden boy, charming and untouchable, with secrets buried as deep as her own grief. Beneath his smile, she sees a survivor; behind hers, he sees a fighter. Together, they find something neither expected - a reason to keep breathing.

But love in Panem is never safe. As the Games close in, Brina must decide whether her heart is her greatest weakness... or the one thing strong enough to defy the system that made her.