Okay so I have finnaly finished this chapter, it took a while, sorry. New chapter will be up soon. Anyhow this is the chapter I have been dying to write for ages as like writing it. Yes you heard me, FLUFF ALERT! It's coming so been warned. (oh and I'm not breaking the T rating before any of you ask).

*FLUFFY CRAP ALERT*

Future

FPOV

This was it. The war had began. The countdown was reaching it's final parts. Right now however I had bigger things to worry about, like whether Peeta had actually managed to get Annie out of harms way of whether she was in danger right now.

"Finnick, are you okay?" Katniss asked, her eyes not moving from where Lily had just made her announcement.

"We have to find out if they are okay" I told her simply, pulling out my phone to call Peeta. It rang five times before he picked up though when he did his voice sounded grave.

"Finnick you need to get to the east corridor now" he ordered, not giving me a chance to speak.

"Wait, Peeta hold on. What's going on? Where is Annie?" I asked. She couldn't be hurt could she? What if they had been attacked on the way and now Annie was lying dying in a hospital bed. That couldn't be happing, it just couldn't.

"She's fine Finnick, at least physically I will explain it all when you get here" he explained, his voice empty and cold. Without a second word I hung up the phone and ran back into the base. Jo and Katniss began yelling at me, asking me what I was doing. However when they saw me run into the building they were quick to follow. As we turned into the east corridor I could see Peeta sat on the cold metal floor, his back leaning against the wall behind him with Annie nowhere in sight.

"Where is she Peeta?" I demanded desperately looking around the corridor for her.

"In there" he told me, gesturing to the door next to him.

"What happened Peeta?" Johanna asked as soon as she rounded the corner.

"Lucy's been shot" he said plainly, not taking his eyes off the wall in front of him. Katniss's hands flew to her mouth and her face when pale. Johanna mouth fixed into tight grimace.

"Is she okay?" Johanna dead panned, not letting any sign of what she was feeling creep into her voice.

"Dead" he replied, the word alone causing Katniss to sink onto the floor along with Peeta, her head resting on her knees. "We were just leaving, there was one of them in the bushes. Lucy saw him from the window, she yelled out to warn us and a bullet went through her brain before she could finish talking" he explained a lone tear running down his check.

"Shit" I exclaimed, not knowing what else to say.

"What did you do to the bastard?" Jo asked, her expression filled with rage and anger at the man who killed a girl she barely knew.

"Threw one of these" he explained, pulling out a small penny sized ball from his pocket. "Hit him and exploded, blowing his face off" he added, passing the device between his fingers. "Annie was traumatised, had to sedate her to simply get her out. She's been locked in there since we got back, won't come out".

"Let me try" Jo said, stepping between us and towards the door. "Annie, come out, you can't hide in there forever" she reasoned, but no response came from the room.

"Already tried Jo, she doesn't want to come out so she won't. She used to do it all the time at home when the bullying got really bad". Peeta explained, his eyes still glazed over and fixed on the opposite wall.

"What are we supposed to do then, leave her to wallow in her own pain?" I asked, desperate to see her again, to make sure she was okay. Wait, where did that come from? I didn't desperately want to see her. That would be the worst thing that could possibly happen. It would be bad for the both of us.

"That's exactly what we are going to do" Katniss said as she got up to leave.
"What?" I asked, shocked by her decision.

"If Annie wants to be left alone that's what we will do" she explained, extending her hand to help Peeta up.

"You guys go one, I will catch you up" I responded, letting them walk away from me and leave me alone in the corridor.

"Annie please, come out" I beg standing outside the door. When she doesn't answer I continue, "Annie I know your upset, I know how you feel. But don't give up on your life. Lucy wouldn't have wanted that. You need to keep living, so please come out" I pleaded to the door. Though despite this she didn't open the door and I was left facing a closed door. I don't know how long it was before I turned to leave. I couldn't stand here all day, not when we were at war now. With a feeling of disappointment I began to walk away. However just as I turned the corner I heard the door behind me creep open to reveal Annie's tear stained face. Without a word I walked towards her and enveloped her in my arms. I didn't want to ever move from that place, with her in my arms, no danger and prophecies seeming to matter in that one fixed moment in time.

"Lucy died because of me" Annie mumbled into my shirt, tears still muffling her voice.

"No she didn't Annie, it was her choice to call out and the soldier's to shot her. It wasn't your fault" I told her, refusing to allow her to think that she had caused Lucy's death.

"People are going to keep dying because of me" she muttered, tears falling more heavily now.

"Annie this war would be fought even if you weren't here Annie" I explained, looking at the wall behind her instead of her.

"Since when was this a war Finnick? You all told me it was just hostilities that would lead to a war" she asked, confused, looking up at me with tears drying on her face.

"Since a hour ago, after the others attacked" I explained, puzzled as to why Peeta hadn't told her what was going on.

"Finnick, Peeta didn't tell me that he just told me we were going for a walk" Annie said, stepping away from me. I opened my mouth to speak. "No don't even, it's obvious you lot don't trust me, if there is a fight you can't just take me away. I want to help. I am obviously more powerful than all of you, so why not let me help" she demanded.

"Annie, it's more complicated than that" I sighed, hoping she would understand that if she was there all of them would be focused on her and no one else, she would be in extreme danger.

"Is it? From what I've seen most people here can be stopped by a simple bullet or fire extinguisher in some causes. For gods sake you are meant to be my protector and from what I've seen you need a gorram lake to be of any use" she was yelling now, I wanted her to be quite so as no one would interrupt. The last thing I needed was someone telling her the truth about me.

"Yeah that's right. I am useless but it is still my job to protect you so I'm not going anywhere" I replied. I would rather her believe I was useless that know the real reason. The reason that had determined how I would act around her for the rest of my life.

"If the only reason you are here is it's your job, why don't you just leave? If you really don't care" she spat and turned to walk away. In that moment I seemed to lose all logic sectors in my brain and my unconscious took over.

"I care more than you will ever know Annie" I muttered quietly, so quietly I didn't think she had heard me. Though I was mistaken and she did hear me, her body whipped around.

"What do you mean?" she asked, just as quietly. In that moment I didn't care what the future held, about what was to come. Hell, I didn't even care what the others would say. Instead I let my heart take over and walked the few paces separating us and pulled her close to me, pressing my lips to hers. For a second my brain stopped, thinking she would push me away, though she didn't, instead she responded and was kissing me back with just as much enthusiasm.

"That's what I mean" I told her when I eventually pulled away, my forehead still resting on hers.

Yay! Finnaly some romance between the two of them. Remember contest closes soon(only a few chapters left till I reveal the answer) so please guess. Seriously you can be as weird as you want to. Also thanks to TributeWhovianPotterhead for your review, it made me write this chapter and I am so glad you like my story. Also I have no beta and can't get one(I have tried!) so sorry for the mistakes, I find it hard to spell check.