Hunger Games fic: Rebellious (6/6), PG-13
Title: Rebellious
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 558
Beta: deathmallow
Fanmix and artwork: alinaandalion
Focus: Annie Cresta/Finnick Odair
Characters: Annie Cresta, Finnick Odair, Haymitch Abernathy, Johanna Mason, Coriolanus Snow, Enobaria, original characters
Summary: Finnick and Annie become pirates and accidentally start a second rebellion.
Author's note: Written for the het_bigbang challenge, this is the sequel to and continuation of Victorious, which you can read in its entirety here.
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Epilogue
Annie watches her daughter chase plovers down the beach. Maggie is only just learning to walk with confidence on her little, two-year-old legs, but running is something else entirely. Running is something Maggie learned to do - and do well - practically the first day she learned to stand on her own.
“We’d better stop her before she runs all the way to the mainland,” Finnick whispers in her ear, making her shiver. He tightens his arms around her and nuzzles at her neck, and that makes her shiver, too.
Tilting her head to the left to give him better access, she says, her voice a little breathy, “I think we’re okay. She’s on her way back.” Her words end on a gasp as her husband nips at her earlobe. He reaches up to cup the back of her head in his hand and she turns to face him, meeting his kiss greedily. Maggie’s laughter brings them back down to the beach again, and they watch her play with the little birds for a while longer.
“I never thought we’d get to have this,” Annie says after a time.
“Have what, love?”
“This. We’re both alive and free. We have a home and we’re surrounded by people we love.” Maggie trips and falls in the wet sand and looks up the beach at her parents. Grinning, she waves at them and pushes herself up again. Running toward them, her arms outspread, she throws her wet little body into her mother’s arms, trusting that she’ll catch her. Which of course, Annie does.
Finnick pulls little Maggie off of her and scoops her up into his arms. “We’ll be back,” he calls to Annie as he runs with their daughter into the water, splashing and laughing. She watches them swim and thinks back to the days when she’d almost lost him.
The day they brought him home, a second rebellion began. Enobaria and Lyme coordinated an assault on the Capitol that lasted for three days of intense fighting and culminated in the death of Coriolanus Snow, an arrow in his left eye, shot by Katniss Everdeen, who had gone with her husband, Peeta Mellark, to District 2 when they escaped from the Capitol following the 76th Hunger Games. When Snow died, the tide turned and though the battle continued, the heart went out of the Capitol troops and Lyme took the day, and later, the presidency.
Annie abruptly returns to the present when Finnick and Maggie run up the beach toward her and shake over her like dogs, flinging water everywhere. Then the collapse on her, all three of them laughing.
“Finnick?” Annie says a little later still, when they’re all three lying on the sand. Maggie is asleep between them and Finnick’s head rests on Annie’s right shoulder, the one with the scar from a Peacekeeper bullet.
“Hmm…?” She smiles at the sleepy sound of his voice.
“What do you think about having another baby?”
“I’m all for it.”
“Good.”
He doesn’t say anything for a few heartbeats, but then, “Good?”
“Mm hmm.”
“Annie? Are you…?”
“Mm hmm.” Suddenly, the weight of his head on her shoulder is gone and she shifts her gaze from the blue, blue sky to find the green of her husband’s eyes. He’s smiling and she doesn’t think she’s ever seen a more beautiful sight.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 558
Beta: deathmallow
Fanmix and artwork: alinaandalion
Focus: Annie Cresta/Finnick Odair
Characters: Annie Cresta, Finnick Odair, Haymitch Abernathy, Johanna Mason, Coriolanus Snow, Enobaria, original characters
Summary: Finnick and Annie become pirates and accidentally start a second rebellion.
Author's note: Written for the het_bigbang challenge, this is the sequel to and continuation of Victorious, which you can read in its entirety here.
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Epilogue
Annie watches her daughter chase plovers down the beach. Maggie is only just learning to walk with confidence on her little, two-year-old legs, but running is something else entirely. Running is something Maggie learned to do - and do well - practically the first day she learned to stand on her own.
“We’d better stop her before she runs all the way to the mainland,” Finnick whispers in her ear, making her shiver. He tightens his arms around her and nuzzles at her neck, and that makes her shiver, too.
Tilting her head to the left to give him better access, she says, her voice a little breathy, “I think we’re okay. She’s on her way back.” Her words end on a gasp as her husband nips at her earlobe. He reaches up to cup the back of her head in his hand and she turns to face him, meeting his kiss greedily. Maggie’s laughter brings them back down to the beach again, and they watch her play with the little birds for a while longer.
“I never thought we’d get to have this,” Annie says after a time.
“Have what, love?”
“This. We’re both alive and free. We have a home and we’re surrounded by people we love.” Maggie trips and falls in the wet sand and looks up the beach at her parents. Grinning, she waves at them and pushes herself up again. Running toward them, her arms outspread, she throws her wet little body into her mother’s arms, trusting that she’ll catch her. Which of course, Annie does.
Finnick pulls little Maggie off of her and scoops her up into his arms. “We’ll be back,” he calls to Annie as he runs with their daughter into the water, splashing and laughing. She watches them swim and thinks back to the days when she’d almost lost him.
The day they brought him home, a second rebellion began. Enobaria and Lyme coordinated an assault on the Capitol that lasted for three days of intense fighting and culminated in the death of Coriolanus Snow, an arrow in his left eye, shot by Katniss Everdeen, who had gone with her husband, Peeta Mellark, to District 2 when they escaped from the Capitol following the 76th Hunger Games. When Snow died, the tide turned and though the battle continued, the heart went out of the Capitol troops and Lyme took the day, and later, the presidency.
Annie abruptly returns to the present when Finnick and Maggie run up the beach toward her and shake over her like dogs, flinging water everywhere. Then the collapse on her, all three of them laughing.
“Finnick?” Annie says a little later still, when they’re all three lying on the sand. Maggie is asleep between them and Finnick’s head rests on Annie’s right shoulder, the one with the scar from a Peacekeeper bullet.
“Hmm…?” She smiles at the sleepy sound of his voice.
“What do you think about having another baby?”
“I’m all for it.”
“Good.”
He doesn’t say anything for a few heartbeats, but then, “Good?”
“Mm hmm.”
“Annie? Are you…?”
“Mm hmm.” Suddenly, the weight of his head on her shoulder is gone and she shifts her gaze from the blue, blue sky to find the green of her husband’s eyes. He’s smiling and she doesn’t think she’s ever seen a more beautiful sight.