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The next few days were torture, I had to sit there and watch Finnick strut across the stage as women threw themselves at him. When he recited his poem tears welled up in my eyes, everyone went crazy in the audience thinking it was about them but I knew what it was, his last goodbye to Annie. But of course just like in my year nothing anyone says matter because when Katniss and Peeta take that stage everyone is blown away, this year's surprise; she's pregnant.

They stand on their plates waiting to be unleashed into the arena, when I see their surroundings I actually manage to laugh. The plates are spread out between the spokes of a circular island completely surrounded by water, Finnick and Mags can swim better than anyone else in there, my only worry is for Johanna. I don't know if she can swim or not I just hope Finnick will at least try to help her. The gong sounds and Finnick flies into the water, Mags takes her time she's not as young as she used to be but she can stay afloat and she is still a strong swimmer. She's still in the water as Finnick reaches land, sprinting towards the Cornucopia he grabs his trident and net just as Katniss spins around pointing a bow straight at his chest.
'Please don't kill him, please don't kill him.' I'm muttering under my breath and I squeeze my eyes shut not wanting to see what happens next.
'You can swim, too,' he says. 'Where did you learn that in District Twelve?'
'We have a big bathtub,' she answers.
'You must,' he says. 'You like the arena?'
'Not particularly. But you should. They must have built it especially for you,' she says it with her voice laced with bitterness. I open my eyes but cover them with my hands just in case, peering through the cracks in my fingers.
For a moment they're frozen, sizing each other up, their weapons, their skill. Then out of nowhere Finnick grins. 'Lucky thing we're allies. Right?' He moves his hand ever so slightly letting a solid-gold bangle patterned with flames fall down his wrist catching the sunlight, Katniss' eyes grow wide and confused it obviously means something to her. A man from District 5 is charging straight at them, I cover my eyes again knowing that if she doesn't decide to trust him soon something bad will happen.
'Right!' She snaps at him and points her weapon away from his chest.

'Duck!' Finnick commands in such a powerful voice, that she hits the deck almost instantly as his trident goes whizzing over her head and it goes flying into the man's chest, he sinks to his knees as Finnick frees the trident from his chest.
'Don't trust One and Two,' Finnick says.
'Each take one side?' He nods, she scans the pile and discovers that they were only supplied with weapons, they gather as much as they can and she shoots Gloss in the leg and Brutus' belt which explodes spewing liquid all over his face. Things are getting ugly and my heart pounds just hoping that they'll make it out of there alive, I don't care what happens to anyone else I just want Finnick, Mags and Johanna back. I watch as Mags is still making her way back to shore and how Johanna is still stranded there unable to swim to shore and then the next thing I know Finnick is striding back into the ocean.
'Get Johanna, help her Finnick. Please!' But he goes straight past her and grabs Peeta from where he stands pulling him back into the ocean. As they reach the shore Mags runs up to join them and I'm relieved that Finnick is going to protect her, hopefully they can get out of this together just like Katniss and Peeta did last year. Finnick scoops Mags up on his back and they head for the forest.

I watch them walk for ages, and for some reason I actually feel happy. I haven't seen Finnick in almost a year and now I can keep track of him. For the moment he's safe and he's with Mags and they have a chance of winning this, they can come back alive. That is until they stopped to rest, the way Katniss looked at Finnick, it was like she was thinking of how many ways she could kill him and how fast she could do it before he even had the time to defend himself.
'What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?' Finnick asks.
'No,' she says, I am suddenly very aware of her fingering the bow in her hands.
'Run Finnick, run.' I mutter under my breath wishing he would just leave, he didn't need her to survive he could win this thing all by himself.
'No," Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a Victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.' Her eyes grow wide and ferocity courses through them, I want to jump into the screen and rip her to pieces for looking at him like that. But luckily Peeta stands in between them, he eyes Katniss and holds his ground and after a while they move on. Then it happens, as they move through the trees the sky begins to glimmer and shine, and Peeta walks right into the light it absorbs his body and sends him shooting back. Katniss screams and runs to him shaking his body but he doesn't move, she lays her head against his chest, her eyes grow wide in shock.
'Peeta!' she screams. She shakes him harder, slapping him straight across the face and screaming his name. Finnick pushes her out of the way and begins something so similar that it brings back nothing but bad memories.

I tried to drag him to the surface but he was heavy and kept dragging me down and I did not dare to give up on him, after what seemed like forever I finally pulled him up on the bank, his lips had turned blue and he wasn't breathing.

I lay him on his back and began to do an everyday activity of District 4, CPR. I pumped at his chest, in an attempt to start his heart and pressed my lips to his breathing deeply into his lungs.
'Come on baby, don't you give up on me now. 'One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Please baby, please wake up.' His lips were still blue and his heartbeat was fading but I didn't dare to give up on him, the cannon hadn't sounded yet and until I heard that blast I wouldn't even begin to consider that he could die. Tears streamed down my face mixing with the water from the lake and the blood from the monster smeared across my front, I tried to fight them back but I couldn't, Thresh wasn't allowed to die.

An explosion echoed across the valley and I could see and smell smoke furling up from behind the field but I didn't stop, if something was coming to get me I didn't care, he was all I cared about and nothing would stop me from saving him. 'One, two, three, four fiv...' A stream of water shot out of his mouth into my face, he began to choke, gag and gasp for air as his eyes flew open. I rolled him over onto his side as he continued to vomit up lake water and stroked his hair, crying with joy that I had brought him back. When the retching subsided he turned back onto his back still breathing heavily, he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into his chest.
'My hero.' He whispered in my ear, his voice hoarse and cracking.

I curled up in a ball and cried, wishing I could have him back. Wanting to be with him forever and now I'd lost him, my best friend and I was about to lose the only people I had left. Boreas came in and leaned against the door.
'Had enough yet little girl?' I just hugged my knees in tighter and kept crying. 'Come on, just tell us what you know and I can make this all stop. He knelt beside me and pulled my face up to his. 'Just say it and I can make sure your brother is the only one who survives or Mags or Johanna if that's what you want. I'll let you pick. No tell me what you know.'
'All I know is that you're a piece of shit, and that if you touch another hair on one of their heads I will get you!' I said spitting in his face, he stormed out of the room leaving me alone with my pain.

I wake to the sound of screaming, I must have cried myself to sleep and not even realised it, the last thing I remembered was Peeta dying but there he was on the screen, very much alive and running for his life with the rest of them. A wall of fog is descending upon them, curling around their ankles, its sickly green and their skin turns red wherever it touches them. Then the worst happens, their skin begins to sag, Katniss' arms seem to have a mind of their own and then Finnick's start to the same as he trades Mags for Peeta.
'No! Run leave them! You don't need to help them! LET THEM DIE!' I scream at the scream and wriggle against my restraints. 'LET THEM DIE!'
'Can you take both of them?' She asks, and I'm fuming. He doesn't need her, he needs to save himself and Mags. They're the only ones who matter.
'No,' he says. 'I can't carry them both. My arms aren't working. I'm sorry, Mags. I can't do it.' It all happens so fast, she kisses Finnick on the lips and runs straight into the fog. Her body jerks and she falls to the ground, the camera zooms in on her face and I can see the pain written across it.
'NO!' I leap forward and smash right into the screen, my restraints snapping out of the ground. I fall forwards, my arms still bound but I've gained the ability to stand. The TV lays smashed in front of me and I sink to the ground crying. She was my the closest thing to a mother I had left.

'Tsk, Tsk little girl that'll teach you to fall asleep.' I whirl around and slam my body into his and he goes sprawling into the hallway.
'H... How?' I stand over him, rage coursing through my body.
'I WARNED YOU! YOU FUCKING TOUCH ANOTHER HAIR ON ONE OF THEIR HEADS REMEMBER! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT!' I stood over him and pinned his throat to the floor with my foot. 'Not so little now am I?' I cock my head to the side and smile, then something rams into me from the side and my arms are pinned to the floor by two other peacekeepers. One of them pulls my arm free and shoves a needle into the flesh.
'You look pretty little too me.' Is the last thing I hear before I pass out.

I wake up and everything is foggy, my head stings and the world is spinning. My body feels heavier and I realise it's because my entire body is now pinned to the floor with chains instead of just my hands and feet, I can just lift my head off the floor and see the TV screen, as my vision comes back into focus I see Finnick sleeping and next to him lies Johanna. I had no idea how she got there but I was so relieved that they could protect each other now. He looks horrible, his skin green and peeling I assume from the gas but it makes me sad to see him like that. My head is still foggy so I go in and out of consciousness, when I wake up again Johanna and Katniss are at each other's throats.

'Seems like you'd have figured that out,' Katniss says. 'Since you nicknamed him Volts and all.'
Johanna's eyes narrowed at her dangerously. 'Yeah, that was really stupid of me, wasn't it?' she says. 'I guess I must have been distracted by keeping your little friends alive. While you were...what, again? Getting Mags killed off?' That brought tears to my eyes and rage boiled up inside of me, i wanted so badly for her to rip her to pieces. Katniss' fingers tightened on the knife handle on her belt.
'Go ahead. Try it. I don't care if you are knocked up, I'll rip your throat out,' says Johanna.
'Maybe we all had better be careful where we step,' says Finnick, shooting Katniss a look. I lay watching as they map out the arena but then something in the distance catches my eye, I see them sneaking slowly up behind them.
'No, no, no, NO!' Gloss slits Wiress across the throat; I'm begging them to turn around. I always like Wiress and Beetee; they would sit with me in the audience every year. Katniss shoots Gloss in the side of the head and Johanna thrusts her ax into Cashmere's chest. Finnick knocks away a spear Brutus throws at Peeta and takes Enobaria's knife in his thigh, causing me to scream at the top of my lungs.
'FINNICK! SOMEONE SAVE HIM!'

Suddenly the ground jerks beneath their feet and the floor starts to spin and watching it makes me dizzy, they're flying around, tumbling and falling all over the place. When it stops Enobaria and Brutus disappear into the forest and the rest stay there panting. Finnick drags Beetee back to shore and Katniss saves his wire from Wiress' lifeless body as it drifts away. Finnick rips off his shirt to bandage his leg and I roll my eyes, thinking of how many idiotic Capitol ladies will swoon at the sight and I hold back the gagging. Finnick and Katniss head into the forest to find water and immediately everything goes wrong. A little girl's screaming pierces the air and sends Katniss into a frenzy, running deeper into the trees to find the source for the noise, she finds a bird sitting in a tree and shoots it down putting an end to the screaming and then it starts, as Finnick catches up to her, a familiar voice fills the air. The color vanishes from Finnick's face and his eyes grow wide in fear. I attempt to clamp my hands over my ears trying to block out the noise, the voice of Annie, my almost sister. But my hands are bound so tightly that I can't stop the noise so I start to scream myself hopingt to drown out her voice but it doesn't work, her voice just gets louder and louder.

Then it stops and I realise that Katniss killed the monster responsible and scrunch my eyes together and try to control my breathing.
'It's all right, Finnick. It's just a jabberjay. They're playing a trick on us,' Katniss says. 'It's not real. It's not your ... Annie.'
'No, it's not Annie. But the voice was hers. Jabberjays mimic what they hear. Where did they get those screams, Katniss?' he says. My eyes grow wide in fear at the thought of Annie going through the same things I am. That she could be in this building and Boreas could be torturing her without me knowing it.
'Oh, Finnick, you don't think they ...'
'Yes. I do. That's exactly what I think,' he says,
'Please be wrong,' I mutter to myself but I wouldn't put it past the Capitol to something that horrible after what I watched them do to Toby. Finnick and Katniss try to run but the run straight into a wall made to keep them imprisoned with those horrible noises. Birds begin to surround them and screams fill the air, I thought hearing Annie was hard but when Toby and Mags' voices filled the air my heart broke. They were dead and they were still using them to cause pain. Finnick hunches over in pain blocking his ears but I don't have that luxury, I have to sit there and listen to their cries. Boreas comes in and leans against the door watching me writhe in pain, my cheeks stained with tears. A smile passes his lips, and he just stands there laughing. It feels like years before it finally stops, I lay curled up on the floor unable to do anything, Boreas gives me one last smirk before leaving and I pass out, emotionally drained.

When I wake it's the middle of the night and the group stands around staring at a tree. Beetee begins unrolls yards and yards of golden thread, he has Finnick secure it tightly around a broken branch and lay it on the ground. Then they stand on either side of the tree, passing the spool back and forth as they wrap the wire around and around the trunk. He asks Johanna and Katniss to take the thread down through the jungle, unwinding it as they go and drop it into the water. They head down into the wilderness leaving Finnick and Beetee behind with Peeta. They stand there waiting for a while until out of nowhere Enobaria runs straight towards them driving her knife into Beetee's side sending him sprawling, she runs at Finnick who smashes her straight in the face. Peeta runs into the forest screaming for Katniss as the wire goes slack meaning something happened to her and Johanna. Finnick fights off Enobaria and follows Peeta through the trees.

The screen cuts to Johanna who spins and smashes Katniss in the side the head with the holder of the thread. She falls unconscious on the ground and Johanna pins her to the ground and shoves her knife into Katniss' arm. My eyes grow wide with realization, I remember back to when I was in the games and to where the tracking chip was kept. They were escaping. Johanna covers Katniss' face with blood making her seem like she is dead.
'Stay down!' she hisses before running back into the trees. She runs through the jungle along with Finnick, Brutus and Enobaria jump out in front of her face causing her to shriek. She dodges their attacks and shoves her knife into Brutus' chest; he falls over dead, the cannon booming above the chaos. Enobaria brings her elbow down on her temple and knocks her to the ground. She moans and blood trickles down her face. Enobaria is about to finish her off when she hears Finnick and Peeta calling for Katniss. She runs off in search of them leaving Johanna bleeding on the floor.

Enobaria and Finnick reach the tree at the same time, Katniss kneels at the base, Beetee's limp body in her arms, she points her arrow towards them. Another cannon sounds and tears fill my eyes as I think back to Johanna's limp body and how it could be signaling her death. And now soon Finnick will be dead, he can't see Katniss there waiting to drive that arrow through his heart. But at the last second she turns and shoots her arrow into the sky. Lightning hits the trees and a flash of white runs up the thread, and the sky bursts into a dazzling blue light. They're thrown backwards as the sky shimmers and explodes, and I realize they've destroyed whatever's been keeping them trapped in the arena.

Boreas runs into my room as a hovercraft zooms across the screen collecting tributes and pulling them into the sky. He smashes the off button on the screen and it goes black, but it's too late I saw my brother get rescued. He stands there panting glaring at me and I tilt my head to the side and smirk.
'I win!' I laugh until he drives his foot into the side of my head and darkness overtakes me.

Yeah so sorry this chapter took so long but it's so long you understand why now. Umm... I don't really like this chapter because it's not all my own and it's just like the last half of Catching Fire shoved into one chapter with a few additions, the next chapter will be better I promise. If you guys have any suggestions of what you want to happen I'd love to hear them so I'll have something to provide inspiration when I get writer's block and I will credit you if I decide to use it. Review, Rate, Favourite all that jazz it means a lot :)