Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games no matter how much I would like to.

I lay on top of his body shielding it from the pouring rain as the tears streamed down my face, I could hear the hovercraft as it drew closer but I would not leave him. I turned my head to the black sky and screamed to the heavens.
'YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM! HE'S MINE, I WON'T LET YOU TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME!'
I held him closer and sobbed into his chest, there was no way they were taking him away from me, after what the Capitol did to him, they took his life but they weren't taking his body. I brushed the hair from his blood-stained face and closed his eyes.
'Why did this happen to you baby, why didn't you let me die? You should have just let me die. I can't live in a world where you don't exist. You're my everything; I would give anything for you not to be dead.'

The wind picked up whipping around our intertwined bodies as the hovercraft hung in the air above us waiting for me to leave.
'YOU WANT HIM, THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR JUST KILL ME ALREADY, I DON'T WANT TO LIVE! JUST KILL ME!'
Arms shot from the hovercraft sparking blue light, they intended to knock me out in order to take his body and leave me in the game just like with the boy who ate his kills. The arms plunged towards me but bounced off the armour Thresh gave me. Even in death he kept me safe.


It went on for ages her screaming as the wind whipped around her, her hair flying across her face. It brought tears to my eyes seeing her like this, so broken and so sad. After what seemed like hours she crumpled in a heap on top of him not moving, her body bloody and her heart broken.

The cannon blasted signifying her death and I sank to the ground sobbing. All around me people had fallen silent, she was so high on the betting list everyone thought that she could win, no one expected her to just give up like that. I felt hands wrap around my arms pulling me up and out of the control room. I kicked and screamed trying to get back to my computer, she couldn't be dead, she just couldn't be I had to get back there and keep her safe.

As they pulled me out the door my teeth sank into their fingers forcing them to let go, I scrambled over to the door desperate to get back inside my fingers wrapped around the handle but the arms wrapped around my waist and dragged me down the hall as I scratched and bit trying to get free. They finally let go when we got to a small room with some chairs and a table in it they plonked me down in a chair.
'Finnick get a hold of yourself, there's nothing more you can do.'
I looked up into his unshaven, scarred face through the tears streaming down my cheeks. He walked over to a corner of the room and poured water out of a jug and handed the glass to me.
'There's nothing more you can do, she's gone.'
'It's all my fault Haymitch, I killed her, she died because of me.'
'You are the greatest brother anyone could ever hope for. You got that girl thousands of sponsors, everyone wanted to give you money heck you had stacks more than I did. All that little girl had to do was look up and you sent her the world. Some people didn't even get one lousy gift, she fricking gets a paper cut and you'd send her a full first aid kit. There was nothing more you could do.'
'I could have kept her away from him, she gave up he died and she just gave up. She couldn't even try to win he died and she just killed herself, just lay there until she... until she...'
'Wouldn't you do the same Finnick? If it was Annie, wouldn't you do the same? She died of a broken heart; she gave up the will to live because nothing is worse than living in a world without the one you love. Trust me I know how it feels.'
I nodded staring at my feet, I couldn't blame her, if it was me I would do the same thing but I always thought she was stronger than me.

The rest of my time in the Capitol was a blur, everyone was saying how they thought she was going to win and it was a shame she didn't. But nobody said they were sorry that she died, nobody seemed to care it was all a game to them and she was just a player, they weren't sorry she died because to them she wasn't even a real person. I wasn't allowed to go even though she was dead, I had to stay and watch the rest of the carnage, the girl from 5 died next from eating poisonous berries and then it was only 2 and 12 left. I didn't think that they really loved each other, I mean the guy Peeta definitely loved her it was obvious but I'd overheard Haymitch on more than one occasion muttering under his breath at the girl Katniss about pretending and trying harder to love him. Juniper really loved Thresh you could see it in the way she looked at him and the way she acted around him so I was having a hard time believing them.

The final day of the Hunger Games was horrific; I had to watch as a mutt with my sister's brown eyes attacked everything in sight. They took advantage of her perfection and exploited it as a game tactic. She was dead and she still managed to remain a pawn in their games. When the two from 12 decided to give their lives for each other unlike everyone else in the Capitol who saw it as a symbol of love I saw it as a symbol of defiance and I knew that I wasn't the only one. Those mutts had been the last straw for me. I went out that afternoon and found Haymitch chugging whisky outside the rooms where they were being kept as they recovered. I leaned in close and whispered in his ear.
'The rebellion starts now!'


I stood in the crowd my face hidden by a dark hood, my once blonde hair was now as black as night. I looked up at the screen as the victors from 12 walked across the screen, their love story unfolded on the screen up until the end when they tried to kill themselves to be together. Tears streamed down my face as I watched as someone else stole my dream, someone else got the fairytale ending I so desired. The only thing that made up for it was seeing cato being ripped slowly apart by savage dogs, I nearly died when I saw one had Thresh's eyes but at least he could avenge his own death.

Peacekeepers stormed down the street, searching the crowd but they would never find me. I ducked into an alleyway and disappeared down the street, they would never stop hunting me. I had escaped and now they were pissed but they took everything that mattered to me, they took Thresh the love of my life, so now I was going to take everything that mattered to them, their power and their lives. The Capitol was going down.

The end, I will be writing a sequel. I wanted to stay true to the book by having Katniss and Peeta win but I didn't want to kill off Jay because I love her character, so the next story will run along side Catching Fire and will be about her being hunted by the Capitol and her reaction to Finnick going back into the Hunger Games. Thanks for all the reviews, especially herpaderpington for your suggestions, I totally almost did them but then I thought being eaten alive by dogs was good enough punishment so I left his death the way it was written. I will post on this story when the next one will be released and if you want I will message you when it comes out. Thanks to everyone who read this one, I hope you like the second one just as much.