A/N: This is most likely going to be a short collection of Finnick/Annie drabbles and ficlets. They're all semi-related. It would be great if you could leave a review telling me what you think!

-Sarah

Swallowed In the Sea

And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me

And I could write it down
Or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
Or swallowed in the sea

-Coldplay

Her screams could shatter the sun and send a ripple through still water. No one knows what to do with that girl.

The piercing shrieks slip through the crack between the doors and the weather proof windows are not enough to block it out. They wake me up at night and send shivers up my spine.

I shouldn't feel responsible. This isn't my fault. It's the capitol and the game makers and Snow. But I was her mentor and I saw the flicker in her eyes when that boy's head rolled to her feet. I saw her curled up in a ball with her hands covering her ears on the train ride back to four. Those images haunt me and I want nothing more than to take her in my arms and tell her its okay. Tell her that the way the games have affected her means she's human and I wish I could be more like her. I've spent lonely nights with more women than you could dream of, and none have ever made me feel the way that I do when I look at Annie, her green eyes wild and alight as she tries to figure out this world. I want to tell her that she's the sane one; it's the rest of us who are mad. And then I think about what Snow would do to her if he were to hear me now and I pull the blankets over my face, afraid to so much as think of the girl across the street. But I can't pretend not to hear the tortured cries coming from her very own victor's mansion that feels nothing like home.

I've been seeing flashes since her screaming started. A trident through a heart, blood splattering my face. The contorted faces of the dead as I retrieved my trident from their bodies and wiped the remains off on my shirt. It's like we never left the games at all.

Of course we haven't.