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This is an oneshot about Annie during her games. Annie is the namesake of my username, so obviously she is one of favorite characters. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games.
You could say that I woke up this morning perfectly fine, but that would be a lie. I didn't sleep at all last night. I'd be surprised if anyone could in this arena.
Then David and I hunted for food. A.K.A. berries. We haven't seen a single animal in the entire arena.
I still couldn't get over the shock that I was in the arena with David, my beloved older brother. I had screamed and cried when he volunteered, begging him to take his words back. He had promised he would protect me.
He's the only person in this world that I know for certain cares about me. So, just my luck that he would volunteer to be in here with me. I would say Finnick Odair, my mentor, cares about me, but ever since I called him a rotten sleazeball after he groaned about my low traing score, he's kept his distance. I probably shouldn't have called him that. David was his best friend, and David made him promise to put my life ahead of his.
The career pack wouldn't let me in. Screaming at the reaping was a sign of weakness, the boy from two had said. Apparently he is to stupid to realize that I was screaming when David volunteered, not when I was reaped. David refused to join the pack, so he could ally with me. I have never been more grateful to anyone.
After eating our meager meal, we try to find some more food. This being the tenth day, sponsor gifts have stopped coming. It's just too expensive. I don't even think we had many sponsors to begin with.
That was when they found us. The career pack. In one clean stroke, Glint from 1 had taken David's head off with his sword.
I ran from the scene, all the way back to the tiny cave David and I had shared only this morning. I sit here trembling now, tears spilling down my cheeks, with my knees tucked under my chin.
I can't run from that gruesome sight forever, though. Already David has started bugging me from the other side. I can see animals now, too, but I can't tell if they're real or not.
I've seen sharks with arms and leg that walk on land, and seagulls and terns made of liquid fire, lava. The scariest part, though, isn't the animals or David's disembodied screams that echo through my head.
If the cave wasn't disguised into the face of the clif, the careers would have found me. They walked past about half an hour ago. I had to clamp my hand over my mouth to stop myself from sobbing when I heard them laughing about how quickly Glint had beheaded David.
The anthem starts, and I climb out of the cave. First is the girl from District 3, the one who scored an impressive nine in training. I only scored a six. David appears in the sky. I turn my head away and try to fight back the tears. Then I look back up, because I remember that I heard two cannons this morning.
But David's face still shines in the sky. Then the face starts to change. When it finishes changing, I see the face of Glint in the sky. Then the face starts dripping blood and slime.
But that doesn't faze me, I think to myself as I climb back into my tiny cave and curl up in the sleeping bag that David picked up for me at the cornucopia during the bloodbath. Nothing can faze me anymore, not sharks on land or birds that melt into lava, not even faces dripping with blood and slime.
After all, it's an insane world out there.
And the arena starts to shake.
The ending is the earthquake that causes the arena to break, which in turn floods the arena, which in turn drowns everyone else in the arena except Annie, because she was the only one that could swim.
