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Finnick Odair | The Hunger Games (dist4_finnick) wrote in paradisolog,
@ 2016-06-23 17:17:00

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~bucky barnes (onearmedbandit), ~finnick odair (dist4_finnick)

WHO: Finnick Odair and OTA (multiples OK)
WHAT: Going out on the Maggie
WHEN: Late Thursday afternoon
WHERE: The beach
WARNINGS: Not likely, will edit if necessary
STATUS: Open, Complete

With all the building and everything lately, Finnick hadn't taken Maggie out in a while. Well, he decided, it was time that came to an end. He was going fishing for dinner, and taking the canoe out would allow him access to better fishing areas than just standing on shore. He brought some hooks, a net and a spear and headed down to the beach. He found the canoe where he had left it, a bit south of the path up to camp, just inside the treeline. He had pulled it up from the shore to where the jungle began in order to protect it in case a storm came. That wouldn't protect it if there were something serious like a hurricane, but then nothing would. So far they hadn't had any storms like that. In fact, except for that one week, it hadn't rained at all. It was rather shocking that the plants were so green and the streams still flowed when it seemed like they should be in the midst of a drought, but that was just part of the magic of the island, he supposed.

The Maggie was a simple dugout canoe, about twenty feet long. Someday he intended to add an outrigger and maybe a sail, but he hadn't had time to do so yet. It had taken him weeks just to cut down a large enough tree and hollow it out. He hadn't had anything but the little hatchet he'd arrived with when he started. Later he'd gotten a tool kit, and eventually they had gotten power tools for the main camp, but most of the work had been done by hand. It had been his longest project and biggest achievement on the island, at least until he'd started building the house.

There was something about being on the water that always made him feel better. He took off his shirt and left it handing on a tree branch so that it would stay clean and dry. Then he pulled the boat down from the treeline to the surf and prepared to push it out into the waves and jump in.

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Bucky & Finnick

onearmedbandit
2016-06-27 10:04 pm UTC (link)

"I don't know if they do. I think if they knew how we were together, how I feel about him... then they'd say I was corrupting him or ruining him. Something awful." This was making Bucky feel worse instead of better. He rubbed at his face carefully, not wanting to rock the boat. "I don't know. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be telling you all of this." Finnick was having a hard time for real reasons, he didn't need to hear Bucky's drama.

"There aren't any other guys together here. Obviously people have some problem with it. I don't know, I think it makes it worse though. If I was a woman they'd probably be less awful about it."

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Bucky & Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-06-27 10:33 pm UTC (link)

"It's alright." He said calmingly. "You can tell me. Sometimes it's better to talk about things. Sometimes another perspective helps, or even just a ranting to blow off steam. It's fine." He didn't want Bucky to think he couldn't talk to him. He just wanted to help him see that he didn't need to fear other people's opinions so much.

"There aren't any other guys who are a couple, but there also aren't that many couples, period. Most people are still just sleeping around. I know for a fact that there are other guys who like guys here."

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Bucky & Finnick

onearmedbandit
2016-06-27 11:00 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you for listening. You're a really good friend to me. I appreciate it." He gave Finnick a stressed smile. "I think I'm letting it psych me out because I'm worried about when the other shoe may drop. When I'll lose what I have here. Which is silly but I've lost so much, I think I'm conditioned to expect to lose anything else I want." Which at least it was an upgrade in having wants at all.

"It seems like there are a lot of couples here if you watch what people do in the evenings. A lot of people sleep with the same ones over and over. They may not be having kids but they are going to the same shelters."

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Bucky & Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-06-28 06:56 pm UTC (link)

"I'm happy to listen anytime." Well, that next part made sense to Finnick. The fear that something was too good so it would be taken away. He knew Chloe loved him, but he didn't always understand why and sometimes he worried she would come to her senses. Not often, but sometimes. "I get that. It's scary when you love something or someone so much. It's terrifying to think that it could be taken away. But I think we have a pretty good life here where that's not too likely to happen."

"Are there?" Finnick was surprised to here that there were lots of regular couples. He went through the ones he knew of in his mind. Him and Chloe, of course, Scott and Bri, and Stiles and Malia. Or at least he thought they were a couple now. That situation had always been complicated. Three wasn't that many, but maybe there were others he wasn't aware of. After all, he was pretty discreet about his own liaisons, and the flip side of that was that he generally ignored what other people were doing to give them privacy as well. "Huh, I didn't know that."

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Bucky & Finnick

onearmedbandit
2016-06-28 10:13 pm UTC (link)

"You help keep me going." He smiled at Finnick more warmly this time. "I really do value your advice and friendship." Bucky looked out at the horizon for the rest, not sure how to reply exactly. "It is something I worry about. If Steve was taken away from me or something. I don't know what I'd do. I hope I don't have to find out."

"Yeah, more than you'd think. People tend to sleep with the same one or two people over and over. I guess coupling up is just natural." He shrugged. Looking at the water, Bucky saw a fish swim by in the shallows. "We should probably get to fishing if that's the plan?"

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	Bucky & Finnick dist4_finnick 2016-06-29 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I hope so too. I think it's safe, though. I think it's safe to want things. It's not like everything's perfect, but it's better than home." He looked down and saw the fish. "You're right, looks like the fish are ready so we'd better get to fishing." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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