put the bandage down, back in the parachute where they had gotten it. Juniper didn't move though, she stayed put. Finnick's eyes slowly made their way from the sand and up her body, to her eyes.

The two held eye contact for a short amount of time. Finnick noticed Juniper's eyes seemed a bit lighter than usual, however, he could've been making it up in his head. Whenever she looked at him too, her eyes were usually so tensed up. They seemed softer now. 

"Don't look at me like that." Finnick said. Juniper tilted her head slightly.

"Like what?" She wondered. She had just been looking at him like she normally does. 

Finnick noticed she normally looked at him with hatred and annoyance. But now that she was closer to him, he noticed some kind of... lust?

"Like you want to murder me." Finnick said, making Juniper smile. "But... also like you want me."

This had taken Juniper completely off guard. She jumped off of him, making him smirk. He had made her embarrassed again.

"No. Me? Want you?" Finnick nodded. "You're ridiculous." She crossed her arms, turning around- remembering the sea was right there. She took a couple steps back towards Finnick and turned to face him again. 

He looked proud of himself, it pissed her off.

"Well, don't look at me like that then." Finnick answered back. Juniper didn't want to take any orders from him.

"I'll look at you the way I want, I just saved your life before you know."

"Sorry, I don't recall anything like that happening. I just saved you from bleeding out."

"You would've died in that fog if I didn't go back for you."

"You could've been a bit lighter when rolling me down the hill."

"You deserved it. Oh wait, so you do remember!" Juniper caught him, pointing at him and smiling. He lightly hit away her hand and rolled his eyes. Walking away.

Juniper went back to the parachute they had received and opened it again. With Finnick's knife, she removed a portion of the wetsuit on her leg and began applying medicine and bandages to it.

She looked out at the water and saw a giant hovercraft send down a claw of some sort and pick up the body of whoever saved Peeta.

"You alright?" Katniss stood above her. Juniper nodded, standing up and shaking out her leg. 

"Yeah, just a bite. Not a big deal." Juniper said. Katniss raised her eyebrows in disbelief. "Okay, maybe two bites."

"You and Finnick seem pretty buddy-buddy now." Katniss looked to where Finnick was. He was in the water holding his trident, trying to catch fish.

"Oh, please." Juniper waved her hand in the air and then put her hands on her hips. "Never."

"Why do you call him mi amor?" Katniss asked. Junipers mind seemed to spiral for a quick second.

"He always calls me sweetheart or darling to piss me off. So I had a nickname of my own." Juniper covered herself. It wasn't a lie, it was actually what got her to start doing it in the first place. Though, she didn't know why she kept on doing it, sometimes, it just came out.

Katniss nodded, looking back out at the water.

"You exposed me though!" Juniper pointed at her, offended. "You completely outed me."

"I didn't mean to! I was asking him why you called him your love." Katniss threw her hands up in the air, laughing. "I thought he knew!"

Juniper groaned, her cover had been completely blown. Now, he knew what she was calling him and she couldn't even lie about it anymore.

"I told him it meant fish." 

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holy shit, did you guys see suzanne collins is making a new book for the second quarter quell? its coming out march 18th 2025, im so EXCITED HOLY CRAP