[ic contact] seven devils all around me

[maredementis]

"Hi, this is Annie Cresta. I'm sorry I'm away. Please leave a message so I can get back to you."

[ text / voice / video / messages in bottles / open ]

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[maredementis]

[Annie is so relieved. Alex understands, doesn't question. She knows talking about the Games is wrong here, it upsets people, but Alex deserves to know--and just maybe she deserves to own her pain. Her guilt.]

I just wanted them all to go home.

[Haymitch drinks. Johanna got hard. Finnick laughs. But Annie had never gotten jaded and that's why everyone thinks of her as the more damaged Victor--she can't let them go. Can't ever whisper lies about the Bloodbath and kill them quick, although with beautiful fifteen-year-old Fiona she had almost done that. But she always says: stay alive. Stay alive. I'll find you sponsors if you just please, please stay alive.

Kite let the District 3 boy kill him and it nearly killed Annie to see the peaceful calm that went over his face, like: yes. You. I'll save you for now.

Annie sent District 3 money last year and Cato broke Raydar's neck anyway.]

We can go home. All of us. Let's go home.

[unsoldiered]

[Heh. He runs his hand across his face, frowning.

Annie, he didn't have a home. Not anymore.

But everyone here who had one deserved to find theirs again.]

Yeah... I want you to be able to go home, Annie.

I want everyone here to be able to go home.