"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." - Maya Angelou. At point do we give up?How do we ever know if we've had enough?How do we stop hurting? When do we stop loving? Finnick/OC. Ratings may change later.

AU. OC. In an age where technology has long been abandoned, and financial institutes are brought down, people return to living the basic life in a run down city.

Corruption burns deep within the gilded world Winnow is forced to call home. It seems no matter which way she turns she's left with the walls closing in on her. But with a crack in the walls that once oppressed her she finds solace in none other then the hammer that caused it. She struggles to stay above the surface, she never was a good swimmer, but luckily she has Finnick.

Life in the Capitol was far from perfect — not when your father was exiled from the city for researching the archaic ruins of life before Panem, and not when the boy you loved was being paid to spend nights with your mother. FinnickOC.

She was coveted, admired, idolized. A Mayor's daughter, District pet, and breathtakingly beautiful. To many jealous others, she was deemed too flawless, inhumanly perfect. In the outside, she was. Inside, she was broken. She wove a web of tangled lies and hope, held together by the finest strings of one thing. Love. She fell in love. And it was her downfall in the end. Finnick X OC