Annie's P.O.V
Our new camp shines with melting snow, sweat and blood. Fawn still seems a little out of it but I'm sure now that she will recover. Daniel collects some more food, it's strange, this year food seems easy to get. I'm not complaining... At least I don't have to hunt. I've still not killed anyone... I don't know how I will if it comes down to it.
Daniel and I go to the stream to collect some more water, we leave Fawn aloan. She'll be fine... We decide. I pull the bottle out of my bag and fill it full of the pure stream water... Water seems easy to gather too... I suddenly get a nervous feeling... Everything seems too easy...
I turn around to face Fawn. She seems fine... She's better... Daniel too. I smile and wave at them both to come over. Fawn turns her head in my direction... Something's wrong... She looks pale again. I grab my throwing knives and her bow just incase before racing over to her.
'She's probably okay Annie. They are going to be fine,' I keep telling myself as I race over but I face the inevitable, I was, of course, incorrect.
Careers our of nowhere. Daniel shows his dagger into one of them before they can have a chance to breath and they fall to the floor, unconscious, dying. I suddenly realize that we may have a chance. I throw Fawn her bow. Adrenaline flows through me and I momentetraly forget how wrong killing is. Fawn shoots and misses half her shots. She shoots one into the already dying career and finishes him off, kindly...
Daniel waves the dagger around him, he seems to be spinning, a bizarre tactic but the careers can't reach him. I feel something sharp and wince all the air is taken out of me.. Is this when I die? Please... Please not.. Please... No... No...
My head is spinning the world is darkening. I look down, a tiny stab wound in my shoulder... It's small... Maybe I'll be okay... Please let me be okay...
The career who threw it grins, Fawn turns from angry to outraged as she See's what has happened to me. She throws her arrows left right and center... I wince again as more blood trickles out of my wound. I defend myself mainly by waving my throwing knives around although my breathing has quickened some what and I can't feel my shoulder, I can't feel the pain due to the adrenaline in my body, or maybe that career broke a nerve...
Daniel guards himself but I can see he's getting tired. One of the male careers come up behind him, "DANIEL!" I scream but it's too late... The career raises his sword and as if in slow motion I see him slash it down onto Daniel's neck decapitating him... Daniel's head rolls into the floor. A train of blood follows.
I can't breathe. I can't breathe. The careers are here to finish us off, kill me too. I can't feel anything. No pain, no sadness... Nothing... I can't see... I can't even hear, I have no emotions left. No nothing.
I can't deal with this, with any of this. Daniels dead... Daniels dead... Daniels dead...
My mind travells, I recollect memories with Finnick, when we were just kids... He pushed me into the water, I could barley swim... He taught me.
"Keep going Annie, only a little further."
"N.. No... "
I could see his eyes flicker and he looked down to his knees, I'd given up, had barley tried... I didn't want him to be upset so I swam to the surface.. I gasped for air and I could breathe again.
He said I was a natural.
He said I did well.
He said I was well taught.
I laughed.
"Annie ANNIE," Someone shouts, breaking me out from my little isolated state. "ANNIE WAKE UP," But I don't want to face the harsh reality. I can feel the things around me, I move my hands over my ears. I can feel my hands... No... No
"ANNIE," The voice is desperate now. I squeeze my eyes tighter. I don't want to go outside my mind, don't want to face the world. "ANNIE PLEASE!" I can feel rain fall on my face, hear birds sing. Feel sticky blood crusted onto my fingers. I've been torn from my world back into the harsh clasp of reality so I open my eyes. The world around me seems cold, unaware of my presence, jeering at me... Laughing at me... Cruelly.
I see Fawn's face come into my fuzzy vision before it focuses... "Annie... Annie... Oh Annie, you're awake," She rushes over and embraces me... It hurts... Everything hurts... I'm tired, I'm scared... And most of all... I'm hurt... And then a sense of loss. Daniel's loss. My district partner... Dead to the careers.
I close my eyes, open them again, close them... Fawn turns to me, panic stricken.. "Annie, Annie don't go again..." She turns around, and picks up a bottle of water, "Annie drink this, you were... Well... You haven't drank anything for two days..."
I thank her... I grab the bottle and hold it tightly to my chest. I look around, no one there... Just Fawn... Just Fawn... I fully trust Fawn, I know I shouldn't... But she's had two days to murder me and hasn't. I screw the cap of and take a sip, one sip, two sips, three...
I finnally work up the courage, "what... What happened when... When.. "
Fawn nods in understanding, I doubt either of us know what happened.
"Well... We're down to the last five... Been getting weird shakes in the ground though... I'm a little worri... ANNIE!"
Fawn slaps mmy hand, I immediately open my eyes, a few tears form in Fawn's eyes, "don't do that again Annie... Please..."
That's when I realise something... Last five... Every allied group will have spilt up by now.. So whys Fawn still here... And that's when I realise something else... Fawn's protecting me because she thinks I'm going to break, to shatter into peices again and no one will be there to pick them up... Or she is protecting me because Finnick asked her too or...
"Annie, I'm protecting you because if I loose, I want you too win." Fawn holds out a thin slice of grainy bread which I eagerly accept. Guess I was talking out loud...
Hey sorry for the short chapter, I just hadn't updated for ages and needed to put something up. I'd really appreciate a review :)
