"Why, why would you join them? We thought you were on our side. Why would you do it chaff?" I ask him in complete shock
"Your not the only one why wants to survive Finnick" he answers sternly "these guys seemed like they had a better chance" he say motioning to Brutus and Enobaria. "Well in the least they defiantly have something over you don't they Finnick?"
I'm am about to lunge at him when I'm am stopped by one of Annie's whimpers. I look to see Brutus' knife digging into her neck and beads of blood running down her chest before gathering on her shirt. I take a step back. Surrendering slightly, this causes Brutus to remove his knife.
"Please I beg of you don't hurt her, hurt me instead" I beg to them
"finnick" I hear Johanna say behind me. I turn to her a say "no" then shout "NO. I can't just stand by and let this happen anymore. Everything I have ever done has been to protect her" I say pointing to annie, who has now started to cry "I'm not going to stop now, not when she needs me the most" I finish before turning back to Brutus with my trident in an armed position.
"Chaff" Brutus shouts "come get our dear Annie and take her back to camp and prepare her for our next little game" he says into her ear. She starts to panic at this and tried to scream over her gag, I take it they have already played some games and they didn't end very well for Annie.
Chaff does as he was told and comes over and grabs Annie from the ground and starts dragging her by the neck into the forest, "FINNICK" she screams over and over. Its heart breaking to hear let alone watch. I need to make a desicion now or I might lose her forever.
I'm about to attack when I hear katniss call me in the background. "Finnick" she cries. I turn towards her and she continues "I figure you have one chance, don't waste it" she says nodding. I look at the others and she both peeta and Johanna nodding, I nod in agreement and in what fells like the same second one of katniss' arrows flies pass my head and into chaff's face, the canon sounds and both him and Annie fall to the floor in a heap. Both Brutus and Enobaria are about to grab any and fight, but Johanna and peeta jump on them before they can. Katniss joins peeta with his fight against Brutus and Johanna goes solo with Enobaria. Katniss was right, this was my only chance to save and I certainly wasn't planning losing her again.
So I run. Straight through the middle of Brutus and Enobaria and towards Annie. She is laying on her stomach still struggling against chaff's dead body on top of her. I fall to the ground beside her and rip chaff's body of her. She screams again obviously expecting Brutus. I turn her over to face me and the screaming stops. It takes everything I have not to pull her into my arm and kiss her all over, but I know we don't have the time. "FINNICK" katniss screamed "WE NEED TO GO, NOW". I sling Annie over my shoulder and run. Brutus and Enobaria are on the ground, but not dead. I run straight through them as I did the first time.
We make it back to camp shortly afterwards and I feel on top of the world now that I have Annie back. My Annie. I pull her off my shoulder and place her on the sand. I look into her face and I feel tears brimming in my eyes. I remove her gag and kiss her. The kiss is by far our best yet, it has so much passion it like there are fireworks going off in my head. Being back with her is like being on cloud 9. Its a feeling I hope I never have to feel again, but it still feels great. I pull away from the kiss and hold her in my arms, showing no signs of letting go.
"I missed you so much" I whisper in her her
"I missed you so much too" she whispers back
"I love you so much" I tell her
She pulls out the hug and smiles. "I love you so much too" she tells me before pulling me into another kiss.
I'm going to make sure I never lose her again.