I hated this chapter personally. I never favoured Finniss but I love to write about it – don't ask. Thanks for everything guys! I'll try my best to get the next chapter up ASAP, I'm just so tired. And (slight spoiler) there will be a sequel to this fanfiction!

Johanna was explaining her encounter with the jungle and the 'red paint' when suddenly Wiress, who was dripping wet came to her side and muttered 'tick tock'.

Johanna paused to push her away, "And started chocking us. So we stumbled around gaging on it blind! That's when Blight hit the force field, I know… He wasn't much, but he was from home" she said and stared into the distance.

"Tick tock" Wiress said interrupting the silence.

Katniss frowned, "What's wrong with her?" she asked, concern hinted in her voice.

"She's in shock" Beetee explained emerging from the waves as he rubbed his glasses lenses with his thumb.

"Dehydration isn't helping. Do you have fresh water?" he asked politely.

"We can get some" Katniss answered instantly.

"Shut up" Johanna told a muttering Wiress as they began to cling on to each other.

"Get off of me!" she said and pushed her to the ground.

"Hey! Don't touch her!" Katniss shouted, and pushed Johanna back. They started fighting and somehow ended up on the floor.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa" Finnick said managing to pull the furious Johanna off Katniss.

Johanna glared at Katniss and controlled her breathing, "I got them back! For you!"

Katniss staggered back and took her words in, confused. "For me? What does that even mean?" she asked Peeta.

Finnick, Johanna and Beetee sunk in the waves to get cleaned up. Finnick avoided going to deep in the water, since he was afraid it would affect his injuries .

Peeta stared at Johanna and shrugged. "You did want them as allies" he reminded her.

Katniss had figured out Wiress's strange alert, about the arena being a clock. The entire arena was split into twelve sections. Each section consisting of evil torture: Fog, monkeys, wave, rain…

"Wiress you're a genius!" Katniss shouted, holding her face. That grabbed everyone's attention back at shore. Wiress intimidated Katniss and grabbed onto her face as well.

After explaining a few things and experiencing a few deaths, the team fled to an unidentified section of the jungle.

Six was reduced to five.
Wiress died.

Everyone was silent on the journey, to find a good camping spot. "So besides Brutus and Enobaria, who's left?" Katniss piped up, attempting to start a conversation.

"Maybe Chaff? Just those three…" Peeta confirmed.

"They know they're out numbered. And we can easily just attack them" Finnick added as always, sounding almost as intelligent as Beetee.

"What? So we just waltz around the arena, trying to hunt them down?" Johanna asks, cocking her eyebrows.

"Yes" Finnick answered simply.

A scream surfaced, sounding desperate and the words 'Katniss' were repeated in pain.

Prim.

"Prim!" Katniss yelled instantly and ran into the jungle, leaving the group behind. The screams continued to repeat her name.

"PRIM" Katniss called out searching frantically around the jungle. A bird had caught her attention, flying circles above her head. "Jabberjay" she whispered to herself and shook her head. She quickly shot the black bird down before it could cause her anymore stress.

"Katniss" Finnick rushed over to Katniss, filled with relief.

"You alright?" he asked grabbing her shoulders.

Before she could have time to answer, a different scream developed, louder and stronger calling Finnick's name. "Annie" he whispered desperately, running in the opposite direction. "Annie!" he yelled.

"No, Finnick – it's Capitol mutts" Katniss protested as she followed him, grabbing shoulders.

"Jabberjays, I know. But they copy sounds. Where do they get the sounds from?" Finnick shouted at Katniss, over the screeching of black birds.

Katniss felt her stomach drop and knew that Finnick was right, but they would never be allowed to torture any loved ones of theirs. Especially under the protection on Panem.

"Finnick you idiot, listen to me!" Katniss frowned.

"Listen to you? That sure has worked many times, Girl on Fire. More like Girl on -" Finnick argued sarcastically, then shielded his head with his arms as birds continued to yell.

Anger bubbled inside of Katniss. "You self-centred freak! What is wrong with you? You only flirt with other girls because there's a part of you missing, and that's Annie! But you defiantly don't deserve her – how should I know? You're not worthy even of the worst of women. If Panem knew who you truly were, they wouldn't have treated you like royalty" she ranted, and took a deep breath obviously wanting to get that out for a long time.

Finnick just stood there staring at her. It wasn't quite a glare, but he just stood there. It was like the time when she though he was dead, still and motionless.

To make matters worse, a blur of raven Jabberjays swarmed over their heads and nipped at their necks, screaming and yelling.

Katniss couldn't handle it.

"Katniss, help me!" she heard her mother's voice.
"Catnip!" was Gale's.
"Katniss!" Prim repeated.

Katniss started to scream with them and ran away, like she could run away from her problems. Finnick was bought to his senses by only Annie's screams, and ran as well as he covered his ears.

The voices and yells started to get mixed in a big and messy jumble, sounding like razor blades. They had to find out how to get out of this section of torture and find everyone else – not the Careers. They managed to see them in the distance and as they got closer, they noticed that they all had their hands pressed against something that they couldn't see. Like it was invisible.

Peeta was mouthing something to Katniss, or maybe she just couldn't hear him over the terrorising noises, but whatever it was it wasn't working. Katniss and Finnick banged into the force field, with confusion.

"Katniss" Peeta yelled, pressing his hands against the invisible force field.

"Finnick" Johanna banged the window with her fists.

Beetee watched on with concern spread over his face, as he inspected the force field with his glasses.

It was too late help Katniss and Finnick as they were screaming as well and no one could tell the difference between the cries of help. Katniss slowly sank to the floor, trying to cover her ears shut – but that obviously didn't work.

Then everything went black.

Katniss was later awoken by Peeta's gentle gestures. He smiled at her softly when her eyes fluttered into focus, "What happened?" she asked first.

"You blacked out from the all the stress. Beetee found a way to knock the force field down while Finnick hasn't said anything to anyone for a while" Peeta told her mixing good news with bad.

"Oh" Katniss said sadly, pushing herself up and brushing dirt off her pants. She needed to speak to Finnick.

He was sitting on a nearby rock with Johanna as she comforted him. "Finn?" she quirked waving a hand in front of his face which remained lifeless.

"Maybe he's paralysed?" Beetee suggested examining his odd behaviour, under his glasses.

"Finnick! Are you alive?!" Johanna yelled into his year.

"Johanna, that's not helping" Beetee sighed.

"How come Katniss isn't like this?" Johanna folded her arms and glanced at Katniss.

Katniss bit her lip nervously, and she knew that Finnick was like this because of her. Not because of the Jabberjays. "Katniss fainted though" Peeta answered for her, not knowing that he had saved her.

"Yeah…" Johanna sighed and nodded.

Finnick started to fidget with his hands again, tying knots in mid-air.

"Finnick, are you okay?" Johanna asked softly, in a tone no one has ever heard before from her.

Finnick snapped, slowly turning his attention to Johanna, "I'm fine" he nodded. Then he returned to being oblivious to world again.

"This is my entire fault" Katniss whispered.

"How?" Peeta asked obviously hearing her whisper.

"I yelled at him" she answered quietly and simply, not wanting to go into details.

Peeta looked relieved then quickly made his expression sadden. "Well then" he cleared his throat. "Must've been bad"

"Yeah – but…" Katniss tried to defend, then gave up.

"Prim" Katniss remembered suddenly and stood to her feet, which only got her pulled down by Peeta. She started to go frantic. "They won't touch her" Peeta assured her calmly.

"You're fiancé is right, the Capitol adores your sister, the last thing they would do is to torture her. Riots would rise all over Panem, and head for the Capitol" Johanna explained leaving Finnick's side.

Everyone was staring at Johanna, in complete shock – even Finnick.

Johanna just smirked and looked up at the sky and started to yell, "Hey Snow, what if we set your backyard on fire?" she laughed hysterically as if it was some big joke.

"You know, you can't put everyone in here" she started to get angry and slammed her axe in a tree.

Everyone was silent, even the birds and trees. If Snow was there at the very moment she'd be dead in seconds. Her whole family and friends would be eliminated. She watched everyone's expressions and shrugged.

"What? He can't hurt me. There's no one left I love"

"I'm getting water"

They all travelled to the shoreline to eat, wash up or collect fresh water. Finnick left the group and walked into the bay, then sat down. "Hey, what are you doing?" Johanna called out, not expecting him to respond.

"I'm at home" he answered quietly leaving everyone puzzled.

Finnick had experienced desperate screams from his girlfriend, real or fake, it didn't matter. And the extra weight of Katniss's insults made the situation a whole lot worse. He needed be surrounded by something familiar, something from home, to comfort him. The water.

"Who's Annie?" Katniss asked Johanna quietly and tried to get a real answer out of her.

Johanna squeezed the bridge of her nose and shook her head. "Annie Cresta, the girl that Mags volunteered for. She won like four years – five years ago" Johanna's voice broke.

"Is she the one who went a little…" Katniss drifted, not wanting to say the word 'mad', as if it was suddenly offensive.

Johanna nodded and stared off into the distance.

Later during the night, they had camped up in tall tree besides the shoreline. Johanna was stuck with Finnick, embracing him in her arms as he shut his eyes. Beetee was busy with a coil of wire, and muttering something to himself. Peeta fell asleep… again. And Katniss was watching everyone, since there was nothing else to do. She had let her hair out of her messy and knotty braid.

Ever since Johanna joined the group it was as if Katniss and Peeta had disappeared. Well, Peeta disappeared a long time ago but that doesn't matter. Every time Katniss went to talk to Finnick, he flicked her away. Okay, maybe the things she said to him were a bit harsh but they were still a team and Finnick was still her friend.

Was she?

"I'm getting some shut eye" Johanna announced releasing her grip off Finnick and slid down the very tall tree meeting a dozing Peeta.

"I'll join them, I assume you two are able to stay awake" Beetee added grabbing his wire and a snapped a branch off the tree to draw something in the sand below.

The atmosphere suddenly became a lot more awkward and humid as it already was. Katniss tore some bark of the thick branch she was sitting on and kept breaking it into smaller parts. Something made her look up at Finnick. She noticed that he was glaring at her as if waiting for something.

"I apologize" Katniss whispered.

Finnick didn't say anything as usual.

"You're going to have to speak to me sometime, Finnick"

Finnick shook his head, and sipped some water out of his woven basket.

"Annie does deserve you." She added desperately. She hated to admit, but she actually missed the long awkward conversations at night with Finnick and his offensive insults.

Finnick just rolled his eyes, taking another sip of water.

How can I make him talk? Oh wait… I know.

Katniss crawled over to his branch, and he shifted uncomfortably. "Say something" she whispered in his ear and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I hate you" he announced quietly.

"Progress" she shrugged and looked down at her legs.

"You want to know my secret?" Katniss asked.

This actually caught Finnick's attention. Katniss opened her mouth, and then quickly shook her head to dismiss the idea. "What can I do to make it better? After all the things you've done for me?" she whispered to herself.

"This" Finnick said and pressed his lips against hers.

DUN DUN DUN. What did you guys think? I tried to make this chapter short, but it just didn't work. It's 2am and apologise about any sort of errors yet again, and I hope you can read your way around them.

Preview to Chapter 9:

"You're so spoilt!" Peeta yelled, making birds nearby flee.

"P-Peeta" Katniss whimpered.

"You're on your own" he seethed, and span around to leave the team.

"Peeta, wait!" Johanna ran after him as her eyes widened, not risking to lose him.