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[Thankfully Annie's awaken back in her own body. She's still very much unnerved by the experience of being trapped in a man's body for a days on end. It's truly not an experience she wants to remember.

She hadn't even been able to function enough to contact Finnick and let him know what was going on. She hadn't wanted him to see her like that. Someone not herself.

She's wandered to the lake, and is pacing back and forth on the water's edge, her eyebrows drawn together as she shakes her head.]

You all said this place was better! They never turned me into a man at the Capitol! How's this place better? [She might be just a little angry on top of unnerved. She'd believed this place was better. Had truly believed it.] Lies. This is not better.

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Nope. Never said that myself. This crap-hole's pretty much as bad as some of the other crap-holes I've been in. Just different crap being thrown at the fan. So you got gender reassigned for a day too, eh? Hope they were at least human, lady.

Is it also not partly your fault for believing them? [People have honestly said this place was better?]

[Sam's sitting by the lake when he sees this girl pacing and looking obviously distressed. The mention of the Capitol gets his attention because it's something he's heard Peeta talk about. She must be from his world...]

Are you okay? [Obviously not, but maybe he can calm her down somehow once they start talking.]

[There's a sharp, unpleasant sound from the feed. One may even mistake it for a laugh.]

Better?

I recall saying nothing of the sort.

It's a little unprecedented, sure, but is it really the worst thing you could think of?

[Annie blinks, her eyebrows drawing together as she listens to the voice.] They told me this was a better place, that we were safe here.

[She exhales a shaky breath.] He- I, umm yes. A human. Hated it all. [Words, she has them.]

Why wouldn't I have believed them? They're my friends.

They toy with us sometimes for their own amusement, but that doesn't mean we aren't safe here, Annie. For as long as I've been here, they've never hurt us, or forced us to hurt each other.

This place is still much better than Panem.

[Annie jumps a little, she hasn't realized that someone else was there. Her eyes are wide as she turns to face the person speaking to her and she shakes her head.]

No- [Her head tilts a bit to the side, her hands lifting up so she's able to twist locks of her long hair between her fingers.] This place... It's not right. I-I... It's not right.

[She just sighs.]

People from home said it was better.

yes.

[Really? Suddenly being a man can traumatize a person.]

Ha ha, really? That shows a distinct lack of imagination in my opinion. How are you going to react when they decide to subject you to something really awful?

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[Sam looks at her apologetically.] Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.

There's definitely something odd about this place but from what Peeta's told me you're better off here. No one's gonna make you fight to the death here... [He hopes.]

Hah! Wishful thinking, as far as I can tell. It really depends on how bad your life was before. Me? This place is just as shitty, but the torment's changed its tune and is more in my head.

But yeah... think of it this way. You're back in your body again for the time being. Have a drink to settle your nerves, stop trusting people's optimism without double checking, and just move on with your head up straight. No point letting one pack of bullshit turn you into a pile. That just lets the assholes win.

[For all of her almost rabid cynicism, Samantha was not really a weak-willed soul, and didn't have much tolerance for people being defeatist. She didn't think recognizing the difficulty of overcoming her problems was a defeatist attitude. It was just reality. She still planned to fight tooth and nail. She preferred it when others did the same.]

What's your name by the way? Mine's Samantha.

[Her lips press together in something that is a mixture between a pout and a scowl.]

I knew what to expect in Panem.

Did you? Because I thought I did but it turns out that I was completely wrong. [ He never expected any of what happened after the announcement about the Quell ]

[He can't see, but she's scowling and blinking away angry tears.]

i didnt ask for your opinion.

[Her gaze flickers away. She knew what to expect from Panem. Knew that the Capitol was horrible and made Finnick do things. Knew that they threatened. She knew, but she couldn't, or wouldn't tell Peeta those things. They were Finnick's to tell.]

I knew. I knew to expect nothing good from them. If they called upon us, they wanted something, wanted us to do something. I knew.

Didn't you? This was a public announcement after all. If you didn't want to invite people to comment you would have been better off keeping it to yourself.

[Wishful thinking is really all that Annie has left. She had thought that things would be different there, that perhaps with Finnick's help, and the help of Peeta, Katniss and Rue, that maybe... Maybe she could start to truly actually heal.

She hadn't thought she'd be placed in another body.]

Life in Panem was hard, but I knew what to expect from them - which was nothing good. [She laughs and though she knows it's not an appropriate reaction, she truly cannot help it.] Settle my nerves? Nothing settles my nerves. Always dancing, always something, never settled.

[Yeah, Sam wasn't exactly the most ... optimistic person to be talking to today. She didn't seem bothered by the laugh, and even shared one of her own. The girl's sense of humor was awkward at the best of times.]

And here, you're going to get good days and bad, and some of the bad's psycho bad, and there's no way to predict it, other than that they don't do seem to do the same gag twice, or at least not that often from what little I can tell.

My suggestion, if you're not going to be able to make your nerves settle, is to go for one victory at a time. Start small, little things. Fight to keep them the way you want them, and then build up from there.

Peeta told you? [She closes her eyes for a moment, her fingers still twisting her hair. She didn't like thinking about the Games and the things that had happened with hers, or any of them. They were horrible, horrible things.

But was this much better? Games were played still. Different ones, but games all the same.]

War. I've been told there might be a war and we'd be expected to fight. How's that any different?

[Now that is something that Annie is use to. Good days and bad days, that is how things have been for her for some time since her win at the Games, granted Finnick was normally the reason for the good days, and well... She was a bit upset with him at that moment in time.]

You make it sound easy. It isn't.

i didnt mean for it to go to everyone. i am still learning how to work this thing.

Ah, how unfortunate. Though as things stand you did broadcast your feelings over a public network and the consequence of that is being given their opinions.

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