AN:/ I know there's a lot of stories about Annie's Games but I wanted to write one anyway. The first chapter is quite short but they'll get longer I promise. Please review as I need all the help I can get (and it would be great to know if you like the idea)! Hope you enjoy. P.S This is my first fic, so please cut me some slack. I'm trying.
I don't own anything, except the characters I created. Everything else belongs to Suzanne Collins.
Chapter One
Annie
It was quiet. There hadn't been a cannon fire for a long time, or at least what seemed like a long time. It was so lonely here in the arena. I was so very tired but I didn't dare sleep even though I was quite well hidden. If you sleep in the arena, you might never wake again.
I was hungry, but my district partner was still alive and he is a better tribute than I am so our mentor wouldn't be sending me anything to keep me from starving in the near future. Capitol heartthrob Finnick Odair was our mentor, I knew he had been disappointed when my name had been called at the reaping. If I was being honest, he had the right to be disappointed. I had no skills, I couldn't fight anyone and I couldn't kill anyone. I was sure I wasn't going to win, he was sure I wasn't going to win. I was surprised I'd lasted this long, but that was pure luck.
'Maybe I could get a few hours sleep' I thought to myself. It didn't take long for sleep to take over my body, I was exhausted. That was the first night I dreamed about him, the first time I had dreamt about Finnick Odair.
Finnick
About three days into the games, and I still had two tributes alive. Mags and I were doing everything we could to get sponsors for either, but it was difficult. Neither seemed to be winning anyone over. Christopher was cocky, too cocky. He went into these games believing he would emerge as victor. And then there was Annie, she was so sweet and pure and innocent. She shouldn't be in this position. I had promised her father I would keep her safe, but I was seriously doubting this. She surely couldn't last much longer.
I was lost in my thoughts until Mags spoke. "Finnick, it's too quiet for their liking." I looked at her, her face concerned. "They can't keep it this quiet boy, they want a good show. Not this." I nodded in agreement. I was waiting for an announcement, or something that would force the remaining tributes together.
Annie
I woke with a start. It had been eerily quiet until now. People were running past where I was placed. "Come on, he came this way. We have to find him and kill him before he kills us. That kid is a jerk." One of the remaining career tributes, I assumed the boy from two as I seemed to remember the boy from one had been killed in the very early stages of the games by Christopher, my district partner. I believed it was him they were hunting.
"I'll stay here and wait, he has got to pass this way before long." More footsteps, people leaving. Then silence. The boy from two either hiding or just excellent at standing still.
This silence went on for hours. I didn't dare to even breathe out of fear of being found and killed. I might have been halfway up a tree, but that wouldn't stop him if he realised I was up here. He was a career; surely he could climb a tree. Footsteps, they were clearly heading in this direction. I shuffled slightly so I could see what was happening. Christopher was running, I wasn't sure why but I was sure he was running into a fight. "Hey four, missed me?" Before Christopher had time to respond, it was over. An axe was the boy from two's weapon of choice. One quick slice and that was it. My district partner was dead below me. His head no longer attached to his body. I wanted to scream, let out the fear that was hanging over my heart. 'Don't do it Annie' I told myself, 'They still don't know you're up here, you're still alive.' But I was only just alive. The images of him losing his head kept replaying in my mind, over and over like a film. It hurt, I was sobbing and I barely even knew the guy. "Finnick, please help me." I whispered. I had not known it until my dream, but I had realised then that I was in love with Finnick Odair.