A/N- Hi guys... *sigh*

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Hunger games.

Heyy, it's raining outside and that's depressing :( I don't really feel like typing a chapter but I will anyway (for you guys coz I love you so much *hugz* and coz I don't wanna abandon you in an ever growing void of mysteries and suspense... O.o). I haven't really had any feedback on the chapter lengths so I'm basically just going to wing it. –Ferniefruitloopz

Chapter 3- Swimming, saving, kissing and changing

(Annie's POV)

Nothing. There is nothing. No visual, no sound. Nothing. I can't feel anything. I tell myself to swim upwards, but my body won't listen to my commands. All I have left are my thought. The most I can do now is relax. If I'm going to die, there's no point in panicking. And slowly, I slip into complete and utter unconsciousness.

(Guillaume's POV)

By now, Annie has to be at least ten metres down in the water. I move back from the edge of the pier slightly and I can feel everyone's eyes on me to see what I do next. I run forward and dive out into the water. I open my eyes and search around for Annie. My eyes find her, hair all around her face, no way she's conscious. I swim towards her body; I hope she's alive, if I'm too slow she'll die. Damn! How could Kaleb do that?! Push her in the water like that? Idiot! Doesn't he know who she is! Annie Cresta, Winner of the Hunger Games! IDIOTS! Why do I even bother with Kaleb and the others? The current is getting stronger and I have to use all my strength to keep swimming down, I reach Annie and grab her by her shoulders. I move the tangled hair from her face and see her take a huge, unconscious mouth full of water. Oh god! This has to be over. No way will she live through this now, breathing in a lungful of water like that. There is a slight chance, so the least I can do is try. I let go of my grip on her shoulders and grab her wrist. I turn around in the water and start to swim upwards. How long have I, I mean we, been down here? I always lose track of the time under water, I just feel so at ease, so at home. I remember coming second in our school competition years ago for holding your breath under water. The winner was Finnick Odair, another victor of the games. Never mind how long we've been down here but how deep? It's so dark under the water, it's normally so clear in the day time. About 2 metres from reaching the surface a rope splashes into the water and I take it, helping me get to the top quicker.

Above the water, I take a gasp of air and pull Annie up so if she tries to breathe again she'll breathe the air. I let go of the rope and it's pulled back up to the pier. I put my left arm under Annie's shoulders and swim towards the ladder on the side of the pier, meant for swimmers in competitions or the occasional stray fisherman. How am I going to do this? I can't let go of Annie to climb the ladder myself and Annie can't exactly climb at the moment. The guys on the pier shout down to me. I pick out Kaleb's voice within the shouts.

"What are you doing!?" There are more shouts before I answer. "Shut up and help me!" They rush to the ladder and I do myself to hold Annie up towards them,

They all pitch in, trying to lift her on to the pier. Once she's up there I quickly scale the ladder. "No! Move her to the middle" I shout. They're so incompetent, what are they thinking, leaving her so close to the edge. Why do I bother? What would happen if she fell back in! We all lift her up slightly and move her over to the centre of the pier. "One of you go get a coat or something! Something, anything warm! Go! Now! Go!" They sigh and two of them go off running down the pier towards town, wow they're dumb!

"Annie!" I shout at her limp, unconscious body. "Annie! Annie! Annie, wake up!" For once the guys are silent but it doesn't last long. I hear some whispering 'she's dead' and 'why is he so bothered about his girl?' This tips me over the edge. I turn to them unable to contain myself.

"You're all idiots! This girl is Annie Cresta! She's a damn victor of the Hunger Games! And you might have just killed her! Didn't you even recognise her!?" At first they're shocked by the initial outburst but then they mumble more things, mostly about how on earth they were meant to know.

"Someone help me save her! Actually, no! Just go away, get those coats but then you can just leave!" They all shuffle away, but I doubt any of them will do what I asked and get the coats. Oh well, who needs them? I don't need their help! I hold Annie's head and gently move closer to talk to her.

"Annie?" I cross my legs and move her to lie on my lap, cradling her calmly.

"Please wake up." I'm not shouting anymore, merely asking her politely. I try a more... authoritative tone. "Annie. Wake up now. You'll be late." I don't know what she'd be late for, but I figure it might be something her father might say. (A/N- He's wrong. Annie's father would never be sober enough to remind her of things. It'd be left to Finnick to remind her of things since her mother moved away.) It could jog part of her brain or something. And it seems to be working too, she rouses at my voice. "Annie, you're already late! This is ridiculous." By now, she's starting to wake up, and suddenly I'm scared. She might think I did this to her! I quickly, but smoothly, lay her head back onto the wood. The pier is very hard so I decide the best thing for me to lie something under her head. I pull off my clingy, wet t-shirt from my chest, roll it into a ball and place it under her head for a kind of make-do pillow. Just as she starts to wake up fully I hide behind a barrel to see her reaction before talking, but that might end with end running.

Her delicate eyelids flutter open and she seems dazed.

"Finnick?" Oh god! No! I knew there was something... She's dating that jerk Finnick Odair! "Finnick? Did you do this?!" she says angrily. Wait. What?! Why would she think he did this? Did they break up or something? She sits up and looks at my wet t-shirt next to her. All of a sudden I really need to cough, but I can't let her hear me. I end up quietly spluttering but stop when I realise Annie is absolutely silent. "Finn? Hello? Who's there?" She stands up with the t-shirt in her hands. If I didn't show myself now, she'd probably find me and assume I was hiding from the blame, before I have time to explain. I sigh and come out of my crouched position behind the barrels. I feel unusually exposed right now, out on the pier without top on. It's really cold too, the night's chill making my bones shiver.

"Hi." I say.

"Who are you?"She says warily.

"My name's Guillaume. But my friends just call me Guill."

"Oh," she says, her face lighting up with realisation, "You saved me?"

"Yeah, I guess I did..." It sounded so lame but I never realised I'd saved her life. "But then again, it was my dumb 'friends' who pushed you in." I say. It felt good to be totally honest but it did put a dampener on the whole 'Hi! I just saved your life' kind of thing

"Well, thank you. Why did you save me?"

"You're Annie Cresta."

"That's hardly a good reason."

"You won The Hunger Games."

"Still failing to see a reasonable...errr...reason."

"Right now... you're the bravest person I know." I say honestly

She walks silently towards me and I take one step forward to meet her.

"So you turned against your gang?"

"For you, I did." I say coolly. We are only centimetres apart. I put my arm around her spin and she lightly puts her left hand on my bare chest.

"You saved my life."

"She stands up on her tip-toes and kisses me. She looks up at my face to see how I felt about the kiss and I grin at her. I lean in and kiss her back. I think I might have been a little too forceful because she falls back onto her feet and takes a step back, but she smiles and moves her right hand to my head. She runs her fingers through my hair and smiles again. After about a minute, I run out of breath and pull away slightly. She laughs and goes in for another kiss but I stop her.

"What about Finnick?" I barely get the words out I'm breathing so heavily.

"What about him?" she says and moves her hands to loop around my neck.

"Aren't you dating or something?"

"Well, not anymore we're not." She goes in to kiss me and I don't stop her. My mind is whirring, did she say that just because of this or were they genuinely over? Who am I kidding? I don't care! I kiss her and smile. In the short time we've really known each other; I'm already in love with her! She dumped that Finnick jerk and started kissing me whether he liked it or not. I haven't given this girl enough credit!

"You're amazing!" I say through staggered breaths.

"Thanks, I don't get that much," She says, and then laughs. She pulls away and takes my hand and leads me to a bench. I sit and she sits beside me, her head on my shoulder.

"Well they're all idiots." I say. Annie is shockingly beautiful and she's a great kisser.

"Haha!"

"What? It's true! You're great, and anyone who thinks otherwise is mad." After this she pauses, thinking to her self.

"People usually call me mad... but, to be honest, I think you've cured me! I not saying I wasn't mad. I probably was. I was INSANE! I couldn't talk for weeks and I kept getting confused. Always confused. But you've brought me clarity. Thanks for that, too."

"Anytime." I say I wink at her. I decide to ask the question that's been nagging at for ages! That's the last few minutes. I know I can't carry on with this until I have an answer. "So... you and Finnick" What happened there?"

"Why do you keep on asking about him so much! No... It's not your fault. Well, it's a lot of things really. He cheated. WE were just on the beach then he walked off with some freak girl from the sea!"

"Nice, polite. What's not to like?" I say sarcastically.

"Haha! You're so funny!" she says, equally sarcastically... actually, no... she uses the sarcasm way better than I do. "I ran to the pier to escape an then I was pushed!" she laughs.

"Sorry about that."

"Don't be," she replies.

I stare at her, her beautiful face and consider my word carefully. "Why not?"

She looks back at me and smiles. "Because it brought me to you."