Update: 4.3.19: Hey guys! I'm back. I know this story had sat here for a long time, but I really feel inspired to try and pick it back up. I"m going to start by going through and editing current chapters. Can't promise how frequent my updates will be but I'm not giving up on these characters. I feel like there is a lot of potential...ANYWAY...thanks for reading. :)

I don't own any of the original characters, sad, but true.

Chapter 1:

I'm running. Step after step I kept up the same impossible pace. Just one foot in front of the other. Running, not toward something, but instead away from someone.

I promised Finn, I can't leave him waiting. I can imagine his face as he waits by the fence for someone who will never show. That was the deal we made when he first started his trips to the capital. I woukd wait for him at the fence by the train station. It will crush him. What will happen if he comes back and I'm gone? Who will take care of him, I wonder...

Mags is gone.

I falter at that thought. Poor sweet Mags. She was like a mom to me, since my mom had died during childbirth I had never met her. I didn't know what it was like to have a mom, until Mags.

Maybe. Maybe, somehow she's not gone...

No. I can't do that, thinking like that will only make it harder.

Annie then. Annie will have to be strong enough for him. They will have to hold each other together. They're both so broken, and this will crush Finn even more. But Annie can help him. At least he will have Annie...

Thump, thump, thump. My feet keep pounding. I can hear them calling my name, their getting closer. It's getting harder to hear them over the sound of my own footsteps. It's so hot out I can feel the sweat dripping down my neck. I have to keep going. Just a little further to the edge of the district. If I can just find a way to lose them I might have a chance at getting back to Finn.

We had always known this was a possibility. Even before he got involved with 13 and the Rebellion we knew the Capital could decide to come for me at any time.

I turn my head to try and see how close they are. Big mistake, I trip over a log and end up face first in the dirt. Not fast enough. Damn it! After all my training and preparing, all the reasuring Finn that I could take care of myself, it's all going to be for nothing because I tripped on a damn log! I can hear them getting closer and try to get back up but my ankle gives out under me. Unghh. God that hurt. I try to crawl over to a thicker bush to hide, but I'm to slow. 'I'm so sorry Finn, I'm so sorry' I think to mysef before the peacekeepers surround me, guns drawn.

The head peacekeeper steps forward, he's young, probably only a couple of years older than me. I wonder he got promoted so quickly. His parents are probably capital officials. He looks like he could be from district one or two. I hear a lot of them that don't make the cut as tributes end up becoming hot shot peacekeepers for the capital. He has the haughty career kind of attitude. In the few seconds it has taken me to come to this conclusion he has already grabbed me by the arm.

"So you're Skylin Odair? And the capital thought your brother was the good looking one in the family? It's a shame really. Such a shame…." He says leering at me. The hairs on my arms stand up as he eyes me up and down in a way that makes me want to go scrub my skin raw. "What do you want with me?" I ask, after finally catching my breath. "Oh it's not what I want with you" he says leaning in closer to me "Because trust me when I say that if I had my way we'd be going someplace much more private." I try to yank my arm back but he tightens his grip on me, squeezing so hard I know that it will leave a bruise.

In one quick pull he yanks me to my feet and shoves me into another Peacekeeper, who then cuffs my hands behind my back. "Where is your brother? Where is District thirteen hiding?" The head Peacekeeper, whose name I still have yet to learn, demands. "What are you talking about?" I ask "Finnick's in the arena, and district thirteen was destroyed in the last rebellion. Everyone knows that, or are you just stupid?" He slaps me across the face so hard my head snaps to the side. Glaring him in the eye I keep my focus on him, but my mouth shut not wanting to get myself in more trouble.

Hatred fuels me. My hatred for the capital, for everything they stand for, for everything they've done. Forcing twenty four young children to fight to the death, for forcing the winner to wish they had died in the arena with everyone else. That's what they did to Finnick. Before his games we would spend all day laughing and playing on our dad's boat. But that all changed when his name was drawn.

I remember going to go say my goodbyes to him. He turned to my father with the authority of someone much older than a mere fourteen year old and made him promise to take care of me even though I was only three years younger than him I remember thinking he seemed so much older in that moment. My father tried, I'll give him credit. But nobody could have protected me from the capital, not even Finn. The peacekeepers came the night of Finnick's victory to tell me that my father had been in a "boating accident". Just like that he was gone, and I was alone. When Finnick came back he was so different. So was I. He kept telling me it was all his fault, that he had caused all of this. I watched him struggle for so long after that promising myself that I would never leave Finn all alone. I promised myself I would do anything and everything to keep him safe. This was me keeping that promise. Well, half of it at least. He would have to forgive me for leaving him, but at least he had Annie, I just had to keep reminding myself of that.

The peacekeepers face had turned cool and calculating, his eyes had a glimmer in them that I knew would haunt me for many nights to come. "I thought you might say that." The next thing I know I'm being thrown into the back of a peacekeepers vehicle and whisked away to who knows where. "I'm sorry Finn…" I whispered to myself as I was dragged off to who knows where.

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