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I glance down in fear. She's going to drop the nest on top of them! My brother is down there! I'm so torn right now. My brother turned on me and is helping hunt me down to kill me. Yet , my protective instinct is to help him. He's my baby brother, I practically raised him. Then again, this is the Hunger Games. Family, friends, love, none of that matters here. It's kill or be killed. Only one can win. I made a promise to me brother, that he would be the Victor, that's exactly what I intend to do, make him the Victor.

As I settle back in my tree the anthem begins to play. I see movement in Kat's tree, she's making her move now! I realize my need to save my brother is greater than any friendship or alliance to Katniss.

"Psst!" I whisper looking right under me.

Firenze opens his eyes and sees me in the tree. I hold my finger to my lips to keep him quiet. He looks from me to Peeta beside him. After a quick nudge ,both Peeta and Firenze have spotted me. Luckily they are the only ones awake right now. I point out what Katniss is doing while the anthem still rings out. He glances at me , then at Katniss, he sees her plan. His face pales in the firelight as he turns to face me in fear.

I eyed them both, I had to ask.

"Why?" I mouth to them. Hoping they caught on to what I was talking about.

He looks from Firenze to me and his gaze shifts back to Katniss. A look of longing flickers across his face. His eyes find mine again.

"We're protecting you." He mouthed to me while pointing at both is us.

Protecting us? How- Oh. My. God... My jaw drops in realization of his confession. They teamed up with the Careers in order to try to lead them away, they are willing to sacrifice themselves to save us. Great! Now because of the moronic sadistic game makers, we're all stuck in this, drove together by them! Now what do we do?

As the anthem stops I glance into Katniss's tree. She isn't hacking at the branch anymore but holding a small silver pot of something in her hands. I see her take its contents and spread it on her hands and leg. Burn medicine! She got a sponsor gift for her burns! I smile for my friend, Haymitch came through!

I look down at my brother smiling at him. As he looked up at me, I did something that I taught all of my siblings to do at a very young age. I made a fist with my hand placing it over my heart and making a small circle around it with my fist. It means that I would always love him. He smiled at me and did the same thing.

I laid down on my branch with tears brimming my eyes. I thought about so much and one person came to mind , I tried not to think about him but I failed miserably.

Finnick.

Our last moments together played through my mind as I looked up into the sky through the trees. I prayed he was watching me now. I sighed sadly as the tears fell from my eyes, I whispered "Come what may"

I hope from that he would know I was thinking about him. He's the one person I always think about despite how much I don't want to in this situation. His smile, how it lights up the room when he does it. His amazing bronze hair, how I loved to run my fingers through it. His strong arms and how they held me. His eyes, how I could just stare into those pools all day and drown myself in them. He is what made me complete. As I felt my eyes close I was content with the fact that my thoughts held him and not death.

When my eyes opened in the morning ,it was utter chaos. The tracker jacket nest is busted open and they are following the others everywhere. I thank God that the crazy bugs didn't take any notice to me. I stayed as still as a statue till they were gone. The girl I knew as Glimmer, from district one , was silent on the ground. A cannon sounded, most likely hers. As it sounded I came out of my bag.

Keeping everything in my bag I jumped down seeing a wobbly, glassy eyed Katniss standing over Glimmers body trying to get the bow and arrows. She must have been stung. I pushed her to the side lightly grabbing the bow and arrows and handing it to her. She looked at me with unseeing eyes. Footsteps made me look from her to see Peeta and Firenze running to us.

"Go! Katniss Siren, Run!" Peeta screamed at us.

Katniss just looked at him funny as he grabbed her shoulders firmly.

"What are you doing? Get out of here!" He said urgently.

I grabbed Firenze's hand and made to run when he collapsed. I looked down at him, he had gotten stung quite a few times.

"Firenze! No!" I yelled as he stared up at me, his expression blank, no emotion.

I kneeled next to him as Katniss took off running. Peeta knelt next to me.

"Siren go! I'll take care of him . Go!" He said trying to gently push me away.

"No! I'm not leaving him!" I yelled.

"Hello Siren."

I froze. Fuck! I looked up just in time to see Cato charge sloppily at me, only to be stopped by Peeta.

"Take Firenze and run!" He yelled as he continued to fight Cato, sword to spear.

I tried picking him up but it's no good. He seemed to be paralyzed. He was dead weight. There's no way I'm leaving him and I can't pick him up. I heard a cry of pain, I turned to see Cato had the side of his blade stuck in Peeta's upper leg. Oh no!

It took every bit of strength in me but seeing Peeta hurt like that, lit a fire in me. I hoisted Firenze up on my shoulders and ran with my bag in my hand as best as I could.

Don't stop Siren! Don't stop! I could almost hear Finnick's voice chanting in my ear. As much as I want to stop and break I can't. Cato's heavy footfalls behind me made sure of that.

Keep going. Don't stop. I began to feel weak. My legs began to tremble as I ran.

"Oof!"

I had the wind knocked out of me when a force barreled into me from behind. Firenze flew off me landing somewhere while my face fell right into dirt under me. I groaned trying to stand.

"Well, well ,well"

My eyes widened in fear as I heard his icy cold voice from above me. I flipped over just to have him slap me across the face. He knelt down over me as he grabbed my face harshly in his hand.

"I'm going to make you suffer after what you did to me. We could have been good together." He roars as he punch me in the gut.

I spat in his face, "Go to hell!"

"You're going to pay for that!" He hissed.

The loud slap rang through the forest. Over and over again. Slap , punch, choke. I did my best to shield myself but my efforts were futile. He grabbed me by my hair and dragged me to the tree Firenze was next to. I kicked and swung at him as best I could. If I am going out now then I'm going out with a fight! Once he had me standing he slammed my head against the tree. I know now what the expression "Hit so hard you'll see stars" means. In my dazed stupor I realized Cato had gotten rope from somewhere and had tied my hands above my head on the tree branch.

I felt his finger graze down my swollen and bruised cheek. Wham! He slapped me again causing a startled scream to escape my lips. My guess is every camera is on us right now. Cato extracting his revenge on me for all of Panem to see! For Finnick to see.

Finnick..

The sudden thought of him snaps me out of my pity and I glare up at Cato.

"When I'm done. You'll be begging for death." He whispered in my ear.

Just when I thought he had forgotten about Firenze, he walked over to him.

"No! No Cato! Not him! Please! Kill me not him! Let him go! Please!" I screamed.

He looked at me a mocking smile on his face.

"Save him Siren, save him." Cato said teasingly as he drug the blade of his sword across his face , making Firenze cry out in pain.

I roared in fury pulling and struggling against my restraints.

"What? That bothers you Siren?" He said in that same teasing tone. God he is sick! How can he enjoy doing this?! He slashed at his arms and legs making my baby brother cry out again.

"Siren!" He screamed for me.

"STOP! CATO STOP!" I roared tears falling freely down my battered face. My wrists began to bleed from the thrashing and force of my pulls, trying to free myself of the restraints.

"You know, I think I'm ready for you now." Cato said turning to look at me. He set his menacing glare on me before he whipped around and plunged his blade right through Firenze's heart.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed so loud the birds and animals in the area scattered away.

I failed. I completely failed. I stared on in shock as his cannon sounded. He's gone. My baby brother is dead.

Cato looked at me grinning evily. I couldn't take my eyes off of my brothers lifeless body. No light in his eyes anymore. I wouldn't hear him laugh again, or tell a joke with Jonnick. Never hear his voice again. Never anything, he's gone.

I still stared at the spot his body was in after the hovercraft had picked him up. All that is left is a puddle of his blood. My blood , the blood he and I shared.

"My brother..." I barely whispered. My voice hoarse and strained from all the screaming.

"Now, down to business." He said dropping his sword at my feet. He pushed himself up against me grabbing my face in his hands.

"All those moments we shared will be nothing compared to this." He whispered.

I sat numb in his hands, still not moving my eyes from where Firenze was. I felt his lips on my neck. I snapped out of my daze and tried to squirm away from him. I opened my mouth to ask him what he is going to do but his lips silence me. I realized what his intention was and began to fight back. I bit his lip and he pulled back in anger checking his now bloody lip.

Rage, that's the only way I can describe the look on his face. Pure rage. He takes a knife out and places the blade at my throat.

"If you even think about doing that again I will slit your throat got it?" He seethed.

I gulped loudly, my heart hammering in my chest. Silent tears fell from my eyes as he kissed my neck ,forcefully choking me with one hand and taking the knife and ripping my shirt open with the other. As I squeezed my eyes shut he took the blade and ran the smooth side down my chest. I trembled scared of his next move. I felt it slide under the middle of my bra and the sound of it ripping open hit my ears. I held back the bile that threatened to rise when he gave a satisfied moan as he groped and kissed my breasts. I couldn't believe this is happening to me. The thought of everyone watching him rape me. Finnick... Oh Finnick I'm so sorry. I felt his hands leave me and I dared to open my eyes, only to have my head snap to the side with the force of his blow.

"You. Will. Watch. Me! Or Die!" He said punctuating each word with a punch to my face or my stomach. I couldn't see out my right eye anymore, it's so swollen.

I nodded weakly. I have never been so broken and terrified. I knew now ,that my brother is gone nothing is stopping me from trying to win this for myself. I had to get out of this for Finnick. Win in honor of my brother and the sacrifices he made for me. I had to get home for him. Each thought now was to get home for Finnick. I had to keep going. To stay alive for him now.

Cato was now back at my breasts as his hand slid down to my pants. I let out a small cry of surprise and fear as he literally ripped my pants off of me.

"That's right Siren, be scared of me, I want to see you cry!" He said mockingly.

He forcefully turned me around and slammed me against the tree, the bark scratching at my soft skin. I felt his body pin me to the trees as he slid my underwear down, making me completely nude. I prayed to God my dad and my siblings were not watching this. I let out a startled sob of agony as he thrusted into me with a ton of force.

Finnick... Think of Finnick...

Thrust

Finnick.. Block out everything else...

Cato yanked me back by my hair and slammed my head against the tree as he thrusts into me. The gash I now had caused blood to pour down my face.

"Scream bitch! Scream like the whore you are!" He said through gritted teeth as he thrusted violently into me.

I screamed for him to stop. With every thrust I screamed and cried as pain continuously shot through me. It seems my screams only entice him as he got more violent wrapping his fingers around my throat choking me and getting faster. He'd punch me and rip out my hair with each thrust.

I tried to block him out by focusing on Finnick. Getting home to him. Praying to God I survived this torture somehow to get a chance to get home to Finnick again. I closed my good eye and waiting for his assault to end.

It wasn't until I felt my hands be released that I knew he was finished. I collapsed next to my bag in a broken heap.

"You know, I think I'll just leave you for the animals to find you. You're not even worth my blade. Huh and you made history with a twelve? Why waste that on someone that's nothing but a pathetic slut?" He said spitting on me for a finish then walking away.

I waiting to cry when I knew he was gone. I grabbed my bag and tried to find my first aid kit with trembling hands. Letting the sobs wrack my whole body. I couldn't believe I let this happen.

"I'm so sorry." I whispered aloud.

I looked up when I heard the sound of a parachute. It landed right in front of me. Whatever it is must have cost a fortune. It's huge. I reached over an opened the case. I gasped at its contents. A letter , a very familiar set of clothes, new under garments and a tube of medicine. I held the items to my chest as a fresh wave of tears filled my eyes. I stripped myself of the shredded clothes and put the new ones on. As I put my jacket on I read the letter it came with.

Siren,

My heart is shattered at what just happened. I thought having a few things of mine might ease the pain we both feel a bit. I need you to fight, Si, fight for your brother, Fight for us! Don't let go! I love you so much.

Come what may ,my love.

Your Finnick.

"Thank you Finny!" I whispered to the sky.

I stood grabbing the shirt and inhaling the familiar scent. Oh Fin! How I miss you. I got my whips and attached them to a loop in my new belt. Getting my first aid kit and my new medicine I tended to my wounds. Once I finished I packed up and walked back to the tracker jacker tree. To my surprise and joy, I stopped with a smile. There it is, in all it's shining glory. As if Firenze was cheering for me giving me a gift he knew I would need.

The Trident.

I bent down picking it up with a small smirk on my face, looking into the sky.

"Ladies and Gentlemen let the Seventy Fourth annual Hunger Games really begin."

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