Thank you for your input guys! I got a lot of messages and comments about it- New ending it is! Which allows me to write so much more c:
The screen became a window to us. I saw Prim crying with Peeta pulling her from the grasp of a body on the ground. Finnick let out a sigh because Annie was no where to be seen but that could also be the cause of anxiety also. Peeta is yelling, eyes wide and watery,
"Prim! Lets go, we have to go!" He picks her up and runs without looking back, it was my mother gone in flash. I cried silently as I watched her corpse lift out of frame. The screen flashes to the Careers and... Gale? Gale is allied with the Careers?
"Wonder where lover boy is hiding..." some girl with red hair says. I scream and throw myself at the picture of the laughing tributes, thinking I can hurt them but I can't. I am worlds away from them. They are going to hurt Peeta. My Peeta. No they can't.
Gale laughs, "Guarding the Girl on Fire's sister..."
"Ooh... Dibs." I shatter the projection and fall to the floor leaving nothing but a buzzing sound to be heard now. I wish they were all dead and we were too, it would be best. Finnick holds me and hums sea songs in my ears, reassuring it is ok. The man did not interrupt us, we turn to see he left entirely.
I turn to Finnick, "I need to keep watching.." he bites his tongue.
"Katniss, don't. Would you want their last image of them to be a dying one?" He was thinking of Annie.
"Better that than pretending they were smiling when they died."
I get up and walk back in the elevator, to our room to keep watching. Finnick stops the door from closing with his hand and takes the ride down with me. It was silent. We did not share a single thought, our minds were mute. We enter the room and bolt into the living area, Haymitch was there with the prep team watching. I notice Haymitch twirling a bronze liquid in a glass, I take it out of his hand and drink it while sitting down. Finnick beams my way.
"You could've asked sweetheart... I would've said no, but you could've asked," he says while pouring a new glass. The screen they are watching some boy has just died. I take small sips ignoring the glares of Finnick next to me,
"I'm dating a drunk..."
"No hunni," Haymitch laughs, "that would be me." He scowls and turns toward me apologetic but I still drink from the glass. Tributes are dying left and right and I just look at the glass and not the screen... Then I hear it.
"Oh lover boy," a voice calls. He is guarding Prim, my face becomes pale white and I drop my drink but do not look down when I hear it shatter. My face is stuck on Peeta's.
"You don't have to do this... We are more than game players, we are humans!" He is heavly infront of Prim as the Careers close in with an arrow, "Katniss... I'm so sorry.." I can feel my eyes start to spill and my face shake and I scream obscenities trying to be heard.
An arrow is shot and I wait to see Peeta helpless and hurt but then I see a blur fall from above and block the arrow... Peeta and Prim run away and the camera pans down to a a brunette who risked her life to save one of theirs... Tears were falling down her face as she looked in the camera...
"Annie..." Finnick cries... He gets up to reach out toward the screen but falls short and slams to the ground crying hysterically and breaking everything around him- starting with his rope. He kept repeating her name and looks at the screen as she was slowly dying before his eyes, "I'm sorry," he whimpers as he stares emptily at the screen. Almost parellel, he picks up the bottle of whisky the same time the claw comes to take her away. His eyes are red and sore, his body is tense and shaking, his mind... Intoxicated and broken.
