Chapter 2

I pushed the door open with such force I was suprised I didn't knock it of it's hinges. It took me two leaps two land on the hospital bed. Then we were together. We held each over with such force that I couldn't breath. It didn't matter though he was my oxygen. His lips crashed down on mine and for a few seconds everything was perfect. The world stopped and nothing else mattered nothing but him with me. This wasn't real. It couldn't be. I have dreamed of this moment but I never believed it would happen. I never let myself believe it would happen. But here he was. In my arms.

The mix of the saltiness of our tears and the beating of our hearts reunited at last, was my own type of heaven, here in his arms is were I belong. To my despair he pulled away.

"My Annie", he whispered, " My sweet Annie."

He pulled me into a loving embrace and we stayed like that for God knows how long before I begrudgingly pulled away.

"I-I don't understand, y-you were dead, Katniss saw them they killed you...' I murmured in a trance as I touched his beautiful tanned face. I felt like laughing. Only my Finnick could be thought dead for a year and yet turn up looking like he just spent a day at the beach.

"I thought I was too Annie," he soothingly murmured into my hair, " I thought I'd, I'd never see you again."

I held him tighter, I'm terrified that if I let him go he'd be gone.

" I remember hearing Mags. I heard the exact words she told me before I went into the areana."

Mags, Finnick's mentor and later mine. She went into the 75th Hunger games so I didn't have to. She sacrificed her life for me, for us. She had been like a mother to Finnick and was a source of strength for me. A stroke had left her not being able to speak, but even to the end she had a sparkle in her eye, the kind you would see in a 16 year old.

"I knew I couldn't leave you so I fought, I was convinced that if I died I'd die fighting. " His voice was a whisper now, it was like he was reliving the life changing moment again, something I could relate to.

"That's when I remembered the pill, the nightlock I shoved it into one of the mutts mouth, I stunned him long enough to role to the other side of the sewer, just as a bomb went of."

The bomb. One of the many facts that used to haunt me about his death. I knew the very mention of it sent Katniss into a state of shock and remorse. In the first few weeks after his death I would calls in the middle of the night from Katniss sobbing, telling me in broken sentences it was her fault, she should have died not my Finnick. At first I believed her. He was there because of her. He was attacked protecting her. He died at the hands of her. At least I thought he did.

"Annie"

The worried tone in his voice sent a pang of guilt through me. I had zoned out again.

"I'm sorry I-I"

"Ssh everything's fine" he whispered comfortingly as he brought my head to his chest. I lay there listening to his heartbeat, this was all I needed. After a few minutes he broke the silence, murmuring something in my tangled hair.

"Maybe I shouldn't tell the rest, this is a lot to take in, I-"

"No!" I retorted hastily, bolting up quickly and taking his beautiful, chisled face in my hands.

"I want to know more, I-I need to know..." I trailed of at the end. I had lost the man I love, I needed to know how he returned. I needed to prove to myself that I wasn't dreaming that this, he was real.

He stared at me for a few seconds not breaking eye contact, not to even blink. I nearly cried, I never imagined that I would be staring in ocean blue eyes again. I was beginning to forgot how intense and yet so soft they were.

"Ok" he said softly however I still saw the worry in his eyes.

"After the bomb went of everything went black. I had a dream, that you,you were on the beach with me, the one in District 4. I thought I was dead, I was convinced. After all I was seeing you, my angel, my beutiful Annie." His voice cracked at the end of the sentence and a single tear ran down his sun kissed cheek. I wiped it away with my pale fingers.

"You don't have to tell me anymore Fin", I suddenly felt extremely selfish, he was obviously in a lot of emotional pain. He had been patient with me after I had been in the games, now I would be patient. I buried my head in his neck and began to cry, happy tears.

"Annie" he whispered, I could tell he was crying too now,

"I love you so much"

"I love you too Fin. I-I love you"

"It's ok Annie, I'm here now and I will never leave again." He held on to me tighter. "I promise I will never leave you again."