Treading Water, chapters 1 - 24/33 (NC-17 overall), WiP

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Title: Treading Water
Rating: NC-17 (to be safe; individual chapters vary)
Status: WIP
Word count as of last update (7/25/2012): 149,925
Focus: Annie Cresta/Finnick Odair
Characters (canon, in order of appearance): Finnick Odair, Annie Cresta, Mags, Johanna Mason, Plutarch Heavensbee, Cinna, Coriolanus Snow, Cecelia, Enobaria, Chaff, Haymitch Abernathy, Gloss, Seeder, Tax, Katniss Everdeen, Portia, Cashmere, Brutus, Caesar Flickerman, Lyme, Beetee, Peeta Mellark
Warnings: implied self harm, suicide, references to situations of dubious consent, forced prostitution, forced drug use, intentional drug use, inappropriate behavior toward a minor, domestic violence, mentions of past rape, violence, brief non-con/dub-con
Summary: They don't tell you when you go into the arena that the lucky ones are those who die.

Part I - District Four
Chapter 1: Pockets Full of Stones
Chapter 2: What Don't Kill Me...
Chapter 3: Slip Beneath the Tide
Chapter 4: Liars and Thieves
Chapter 5: Running Out of Time
Chapter 6: If They Want You, They're Gonna Have to Fight Me
Chapter 7: Revelation in the Light of Day
Chapter 8: The Sound of the Poison Rain

Part II - The Capitol
Chapter 9: Alone in the Wind and the Rain
Chapter 10: Strike a Pose
Chapter 11: Echoes of a City
Chapter 12: The Hand That Feeds
Chapter 13: Devils All Around You
Chapter 14: In the Eye of the Storm
Chapter 15: Long Way Home
Chapter 16: Fractured Moonlight on the Sea
Chapter 17: Wipe Out the Noise
Chapter 18: Before the Lions Take Their Share
Chapter 19: You Dream but It Tastes Like Poison
Chapter 20: Waiting for the Fall
Chapter 21: Bloodstains on the Carpet

Part III - The Arena (in progress)
Chapter 22: Slaves to the Beat
Chapter 23: Out of the Shadows
Chapter 24: Won't Let You Fall Apart
Chapter 25: If the Sky Can Crack...
Chapter 26: When the Bullet Hits the Bone
Chapter 27: The Light in Me Will Guide You Home