I decided to write another chapter, which carries on from the last taster. I thank you so much for reviews! But I don't think I'll be continuing this :(

I'm running through the forest. At first it feels like home, like I'm back hunting in district 12 with Gale. I look out for any kind of bird to hunt and bring back to Prim and my mother, Turkeys are Prim's favourite and I haven't got one in a while.

The forest is silent, no birds, no creatures what so ever. This place, it must be home? It looks exactly the same. But something is different. The smell, the air, the atmosphere, something. Something is wrong. Very wrong.

I look up to the sky, expecting to see the fluffy white summer clouds to match the heat I'm feeling on my pale skin, but Instead the sky is clear and I can see a slight glimmer in the blue sky. I remember someone telling me about it, about a glimmer in the light meaning its an electro-magnetic field, intended to separate us and them. It's a fence, something to keep me trapped in here...

And then it hits me. I'm in the arena. I'm in the Hunger Games. Again.

My own panic is ripped by the sounds of someone's screams. I'm in the games, hearing someone's screams isn't exactly unknown. After all 23/24 must die. But these screams are familiar. It's as if their piercing through my skin, making their way through my blood stream and up into my heart, tearing me apart from the inside.

It's Prim and my mother.

Katniss! Katniss! Help us!

I follow the sounds of the screams as they worsen. They're in danger and its getting worse. I'm running as fast as my body will physically allow as the trees slide by me at my speed. I dodge in between the trees carefully, I can't afford to lose any time. I must find them.

Katniss! Please hurry Katniss!

"I'm hurrying! I'm running as fast as I can." I shout to them, hoping to bring them a shred of reassurance. I'm trying my best to follow the screams but I keep getting lost. A single tear slips down my cheek. What if I don't make it in time? The tears keep coming, they're worsening my vision, stupid Katniss I think to myself, now is no time to be weak.

Katniss, they'll kill us!

What will? Oh god, I need help. "Finnick! Peeta! Johanna! Please help me." Someone, anyone, help me. I can't find them, I'm running in circles, yet I must be so close. Oh god, oh god help me. Prim! Mom! I shout out to them.

Katni-

As I'm finally getting closer to the screams, they stop. Mid-sentence. Oh god. What's happened? I scream as loud as I can.

Suddenly someone's shaking me, with their muscular arms around my waist. The smell of the forest changes from the faint smell of the pine trees to the strong smell of the salty ocean.

"Katniss please, please stop screaming. I can barely take it anymore, its tearing me apart. I'm supposed to be looking after you." It's Finnick.

My eyes flutter open, and I'm not in the forest anymore. I'm in a white room, in a hospital bed. Endless mounts of wires are connected to me, some are measuring my brain patterns, others my heart beat. Finnicks beautiful sea green eyes are burying deep into my soul, and I don't think they're liking what their finding. It's like he's reading me like I book. I don't want him to hear the thoughts inside my head. He'd think I was pathetic or weak, he is Finnick Odair. He killed 12 people in his first hunger games, aged only 14. He shows no remorse, no feeling.

Finnick is one of my closest friends, I know he loves Annie. But he can't save me like he did her. It's not his job or his responsibility. It's mine.

I'm Katniss Everdeen, I will not lose my mind.

Suddenly I become very aware that Finnick's arms are still around my waist, and I can feel tears pouring into shoulder where his face is nestled. Why is he crying? He doesn't see what I see, hear what I hear or feel what I feel. He looks up to me, his eyes blotchy and red, as if he's been crying for hours. Either that or awake for hours. Probably the latter.

"Finnick?" I ask. I don't know what I'm expecting. I know in my heart what happened. Even if I can only remember part of what happened. I know they're dead.

"Oh thank god Everdeen, you've been lost in your own world for the last day and a half" he smiles slightly, glad to have me back, but I'm sure he doesn't feel great about the circumstances either.

"They're dead aren't they? My mother and Prim" I ask. I might as well have it confirmed. I feel myself slipping again. Slipping back into the dark reaches of my mind. At least in my dreams I can hear their voices again, and feel the shred of hope I did when I felt as if I was getting closer to them.

Finnick wakes me from my thoughts.

"Yes Katniss, they are. I'm so sorry." He reaches out and squeezes me hand. It helps a bit, if only to share the pain around my body a bit.

"I should've saved them Finnick, I should've been quicker. It's my fault. I got so lost and frustrated-"

"-Katniss it was not your fault. Can you remember what happened? I'm not trying to bring it up its just I need to know-" Finnick eyes look duller than usual. He looks genuinely concerned for me, but yet I feel nothing. Just numbness. As if my body is shutting itself down, starting from the inside; my mind.

"-I don't remember much Finnick. Just hearing their petrified screams and running around endlessly in the forest to try and find them. Then the screams just suddenly stopped, like something's happened to them."

"It's not your fault Katniss."

"It is. I should've died, i should've died, I should've died, I should've died, I should've died, I should-"

"Katniss stop it. I made a promise that I would look after you and that's what I intend to do. I've dealt with Annie before, I can deal with you."

I scream again, and Finnick releases his arms from me as if I'm some kind of infected body. I probably remind him of Annie, I'm sure he misses her. He should be with her. I think I'm a lost case. My mind is shutting down, it won't be long before my heart does and everything else too. I have nothing else to live for anymore, and I can feel that in my core.

"Please Katniss, please stop. Your reminding me of Annie..."

I keep screaming, I can't stop myself. It's drowns out my thoughts, my horrible horrible thoughts. If I can't hear my thoughts then they can't tear me apart. Oh god, I'm going insane.

I'm Katniss Everdeen and I will not lose my mind.

I feel like I'm fighting an internal battle between staying strong and fighting like I always have, or realising that I have nothing left to fight for and shutting down.

Finnicks heart is breaking is front of me but that's too bad because mine is already shattered. The pieces on the ground so shattered I may as well not have a heart. I don't care about anything or anyone anymore. I'm numb to feeling, because everytime i let myself feel something i get punished.

Finnick slowly hangs his head to the ground, and mutters "where's the spark in my girl on fire?"

And I quietly reply, "it's extinguished."

Finnick slowly stands up to leave looking defeated, he walks towards the door and opens it to leave my room and gives me one last message, "I'll re-light it Katniss, if its the last thing I ever do."

I wonder how he supposes he'll do that. I'm not Annie. I'm not his charity case, his one woman that he cares about. I'm his friend, why does he see this as his responsibility? Plus what promise did he make to look after me?

Finnick POV

I'm sat in the seat beside Katniss' hospital bed. She's asleep and dreaming at the moment, but I don't how long it will be before it slips into a nightmare. I know she is not Annie, I don't see her as Annie. I don't think that just because I helped Annie, it means I can help Katniss. God knows i don't have any special skills beside determination. I know that if I really want something, i will reach it. I have to try, I promised I would always try. I will not leave Katniss' side until I know she can cope on her own. I gave her mother my word. And Finnick Odair always keeps a promise.

She looks beautiful when she's silently asleep. No more screaming Girl on Fire.