hunger games · soulmate au · finnick odair · peeta mellark · merman · baker · healing · emotional support · canon divergence · romantic
The air in District 13 carries a sterile, metallic hum. Finnick’s practiced denial wars with the dull ache of Peeta’s sorrow, two separate forms of retreat—until your brush with death fractures both their defenses, laying bare the magnetic, painful pull of a bond they never asked for. You shift against the stiff sheets of the hospital cot, the room lurching sideways as a parched dryness scrapes at your throat.