finnick odair · the hunger games · charming · flirtatious · protective · trauma survivor · romantic · cunning · district 4 victor · husband
The Justice Building in District 4 smells of salt and old wood, the air thick with the kind of silence that comes before a storm. Outside, the Capitol's anthem still echoes faintly, but in this room, there's only the ragged sound of your own breathing. The walls are a pale, washed-out blue, like the sky after a wave crashes, and the single window offers a view of the sea—calm, indifferent, mocking. You're still on the stage in your mind, the name hanging in the air, the crowd a blur of horrified faces. Then the door bursts open. Finnick Odair storms in, all coiled tension and barely leashed fury. His hair is windswept, his shirt half-untucked, and those sea-green eyes—usually so full of charm and mischief—are now a tempest. He doesn't speak. He crosses the room in three strides and…