*Mockingjay Spoilers!*
I guess I'm obsessed with Finnick or something(x I decided to do another song fic thingy cause it's easier for me to write and figure out where to go with the story(: Oh.. I don't own the Hunger Games.. If I did Finnick, Prim, and Cinna would still be alive! Darn you Suzanne Collins(x oh and the song's not mine either.. It belongs to 3 Doors Down.
Finnick POV
Pollux and Katniss woke us up early that morning. As we packed up, Katniss stiffens and quiets us. Then we all hear it. It sounds like hissing. Then the hissing takes on the form of a name. Her name. "Katniss." You can hear it repeated over and over. Then a half asleep Peeta joins in, "Katniss," she's ready to shoot him when he sits straight up. "Katniss!" he cries, "Katniss! Get out of here!" She looks confused.
"Why? What's making that sound?" she asks.
"I don't know. Only that it has to kill you," Peeta shoots back. "Run! Get out! Go!" Then Katniss suggests we split up. She always has these insane plans where she sacrifices herself. They never work, obviously. She tells me to give one of my guns to Castor. We quickly vacate the room.
Looking back at the beginning of this
And how life was
Just you and me and love and all of our friends
Living life like an ocean
Running back into the sewer, I can tell the mutts are pretty far away. But, that lead won't last long. We take off full speed, but we're louder than before, banging into things and sloshing our feet in the water. Then we heard very disturbing screams start up.
"Avoxes," Peeta tells us. "That's what Darius sounded like when they tortured him." The noise make me shiver. Those poor people. Here to clean the Capitol's messes. Then we come to the realization the mutts are killing anyone they find even if it isn't Katniss.
But now the current's only pulling me down
It's getting harder to breathe
It won't be too long and I'll be going under
Can you save me from this?
Then Katniss tries to be all noble and basically stupid, in my opinion.
"Let me go on alone. Lead them off. I'll transfer the Holo to Jackson. The rest of you can finish the mission."
Exasperated, Jackson says, "No one's going to agree to that!"
Finally I have to step in. "We're wasting time!" I yell.
Then we hear the hissing below us too. We set off running and Katniss starts to gag. I sniff the air. It smells like roses.. It's not particularly pleasant smelling, but Katniss is reacting weirdly.
"Masks on!" Jackson orders. We finally reach the transfer room.
'Cause it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me and it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh, but I won't go
Katniss continues to run towards the next intersection, seeming to forget one false step and we all go down into something called the Meat Grinder. I grab her arm and pull her to a stop. "Katniss!" I cry. She whips around in time to see Messalla die because of the golden light escaping the pod she accidentally triggered. She tries to move towards him when Peeta yells,
"Can't help him!" and starts moving us forward, "Can't" How he's the only one still completely functioning, I have no idea.
I look ahead to all the plans that we made
And the dreams that we had
I'm in a world that tries to take them away
Oh, but I'm taking them back
All of a sudden, bullets rain down on us and we look to see what pod was triggered. But, it wasn't a pod at all, it was a squad of Peacekeepers. We shoot back at them, we are the original members of the Star Squad, but they outnumber us.
'Cause all this time I've just been too blind to understand
What should matter to me
My friend, this life we live, it's not what we have
It's what we believe in
Still shooting, I notice another wave of Peacekeepers enter through a side tunnel. Then I freeze. These aren't Peacekeepers, they're mutts. Ugly things too. They're white, with four limbs, and about my size. They reach the Peacekeepers and decapitate them, apparently our assumptions are correct. Then they turn to us.
It's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
"This way!" Katniss shouts, turning to avoid a pod. She fires at the intersection and the Meat Grinder comes to life, eating the street. She turns to Pollux, "Forget the mission. What's the quickest way above ground?" she asks, frantic.
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now I know that
This could be the end of me
And everything I know, ooh, but I won't go!
I won't go!
We run and follow Pollux into what must be the main sewer. I look over the edge and see a poisonous mix of human waste, garbage, and chemical runoff bubbles. Part of it is on fire and some parts have clouds that just look deadly. If someone falls in, they won't be coming out. Pollux reaches a ladder and smacks it. This is it. We've almost made it. Then Katniss looks around.
"Wait! Where are Jackson and Leeg One?"
"They stayed at the Grinder to hold the mutts back," says Homes.
"What?" she lunges back for the bridge, but Homes pulls her back.
"Don't waste their lives, Katniss. It's too late for them. Look!" The mutts are slithering towards us. Gale shoots an arrow at them and it explodes knocking part of the bridge out. Everyone fires at the disgusting creatures.
There might be more than you believe
(There might be more than you believe)
And there might be more than you can see
While I fight, I think of Annie. I promised I would come back. I picture her in her wedding dress, looking as beautiful as ever. I have to get back to her. And the baby.. Oh god the baby. I have to protect the little one I don't even know yet, from the horrors of the Hunger Games. I fire back with more intensity than before.
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a fear in me, it's not showing
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
Everyone is now shouting at Katniss, telling her to start climbing. When she doesn't respond someone pushes her into the ladder and she climbs. Then before I know it, it's just me down there. All alone in the sewer trying to fight off three of the mutts. One scratches my face and I cry out in pain.
I hear Katniss yell, "Someone's still alive,"
Then Gale replies, "No, Katniss. They're not coming. Only the mutts are." I'm shocked. Of course I'm coming, but you left me to deal with three! All of a sudden, a light shines down the shaft. Then one of the mutts starts to pull my head back. I start to see images of my life. A boat, a silver parachute, Mags, a pink sky, the trident Beetee made me, Annie in her wedding dress, waves crashing over rocks. Then, I make myself pull the arm holding my trident and stab the mutt multiple times, and finally it lies dead. It's not my time to go, yet. Then, when I realize I forgot about the other two mutts, it's too late and all of a sudden I'm on my stomach. As I blindly fight, I realize something. I'm going to win this no matter what. There's too many people that I love and can't give up on. Annie, my wonderful wife and our child. Katniss, the Girl on Fire who helped me through the insanity. I thought of Mags and knew I couldn't let her down. Johanna, who had been a friend since the beginning. Peeta, President Coin(maybe), Gale, Prim even. They were counting on me. I hear someone saying something. Then everything explodes. I quickly attempt to throw myself into a corner behind the dead mutt. I'm not quick enough and get hit in the side by falling debris.
But it's not my time, I'm not going
There's a will in me and now it's gonna show
This could be the end of me
And everything I know
I forced myself to my feet. I grabbed my trident and pressed a button. Immediately, the tips of it became electrified. I stab the mutts to make sure they are dead, and push them into the sewer. Then I survey myself. I have bad scratches all over my body, and a deep cut on my cheek. I could also tell I would be black and blue tomorrow, and might have fractured a rib. I look around. The others must be long gone. For the first time since my name was reaped in the Hunger Games, I feel truly and utterly hopeless. I sink to the floor, and just sit for awhile, head in my hands, with no clue what to do next.
There might be more than you believe
(There might be more than you believe)
And there might be more than you can see
But I won't go, oh no I won't go down, yeah
I know I have to get out of here though. I'm in desperate need of medical attention, and I need to find the others. I grit my teeth and stand up. The pain is getting worse. I drag myself over to the ladder and start to pull myself up. The pain is excruciating, and I'm afraid I'll slip and fall because I'm so weak. Then I'd be dead for sure. I just barely get to the landing where Katniss and the others were earlier, when I black out. My last thought is, "Annie I WILL make it home."
**So how did this turn out? I'm not too sure about it.. I've been busy with school and about a million other things, so this hasn't been my first priority. I hope you liked it! This isn't the end though, I promise(x Review please! Oh I thought this was funny that it talked about an ocean & with Finnick being from District 4.. Well I think you get the idea(x
