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redshiftlogs2019-09-21 04:48 pm
fishermansweater) wrote in redshiftlogs2019-09-21 04:48 pm
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ψ i've learned how earn my keep | CLOSED
Who: Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta
What: "Shopping" adventure!
When: Early September
Where: Double 017 and Whole Foods
Warnings: None yet
Finnick hasn't ventured out beyond the confines of the city yet. He's aware that it's dangerous outside, and though he's not quite sure exactly why, he's heard the word radiation. He doesn't know much about this place, but he'd been to Nuclear History class enough times in between his hospital stays in District Thirteen to have a basic awareness of what radiation can do. He hadn't had any particular reason to leave; there's food, water, fish, and basic supplies in the city, which is more than he'd had in the arena. But when he hears talk of a supermarket outside, Finnick starts to reassess. He's not actually entirely sure what he'd find at a supermarket; they don't exist in the districts, and he's only ever heard of them in the Capitol, but the chance to go raid for more than the basic supplies here in the city is enticing to a former Career. Steal, stash, and stockpile, that was the strategy they were taught to operate as a pack in the arena, and though that hadn't actually really been Finnick's strategy on either occasion he'd been in the arena, the instinct's still there.
He has one steadfast ally in this place: he likes Cho, and he likes her enthusiasm, but the only person here he knows he can trust to have his back in any circumstance is Annie. So after he thinks he's gathered enough information from reading and listening to messages on his communication device and listening around the city, he comes back to their quarters to find his wife sitting curled up on her bed.
"Hey, you have a moment?"
What: "Shopping" adventure!
When: Early September
Where: Double 017 and Whole Foods
Warnings: None yet
Finnick hasn't ventured out beyond the confines of the city yet. He's aware that it's dangerous outside, and though he's not quite sure exactly why, he's heard the word radiation. He doesn't know much about this place, but he'd been to Nuclear History class enough times in between his hospital stays in District Thirteen to have a basic awareness of what radiation can do. He hadn't had any particular reason to leave; there's food, water, fish, and basic supplies in the city, which is more than he'd had in the arena. But when he hears talk of a supermarket outside, Finnick starts to reassess. He's not actually entirely sure what he'd find at a supermarket; they don't exist in the districts, and he's only ever heard of them in the Capitol, but the chance to go raid for more than the basic supplies here in the city is enticing to a former Career. Steal, stash, and stockpile, that was the strategy they were taught to operate as a pack in the arena, and though that hadn't actually really been Finnick's strategy on either occasion he'd been in the arena, the instinct's still there.
He has one steadfast ally in this place: he likes Cho, and he likes her enthusiasm, but the only person here he knows he can trust to have his back in any circumstance is Annie. So after he thinks he's gathered enough information from reading and listening to messages on his communication device and listening around the city, he comes back to their quarters to find his wife sitting curled up on her bed.
"Hey, you have a moment?"
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"No footprints in it. Or paw prints. But, um, bullet holes in the floor? Or something else?"
The Capitol's crackdown in District Four had been educational.
She follows Finnick, but walking sideways so she can check in front of them and behind at the same time, as well as presenting a smaller target. She's also trying to listen. Listen even more.
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Something happened here, but it was ... sometime previous. He's been in enough meetings with the rebellion, seen enough when Four revolted, to know some of the effects war and uprising can create. He goes forward and crouches next to the bloodstain, which is smeared as though something had been dragged away. He considers it for a while, then goes over to the damaged part of the floor
"Bullets. There's still one stuck in the floor."
It's a relief to have his gun with him, even if it looks like whatever happened was long enough ago that the gun won't be necessary. Annie's moving in a way to make hersaelf as small a target as possible, so she's obviously feeling the same crawling sense of unease.
"Do you see anything?" he asks.
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It's a soft breath of a word. Not alarmed, not panicky. Just a request from an ally to give her a moment to study the area further. She looks beyond Finnick to the end of the aisle, shifting this way and that to widen her field of vision. She looks up and down the shelves, back where they came, eyes moving section by section in a trained thoroughness.
And she listens. There's some creaking from the building's structure, but she can't hear breathing that isn't her or Finnick. She can't hear footsteps, or the sound of anything dragging. She can't hear the beeping of a potential trap.
"No," Annie says at last. "Nothing's that a threat. Should we, uh, keep going?"