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Acacia POV:

The pains stopped and I start to pull myself away from the place that I've been for I don't know how long. I hear Ethan grunting as he follows my lead. When I get by the water I totally collapse and try to breath. One thing that I'll never be able to un-see is my family dead. Laying here I try to push the image out of my mind, but its not working. My body is still shaking, but I know that I have to push past this. Slowly I start to sit up and look down at Ethan, he is still shaking and I know that if he looses it so will I. Now I know why they wanted to keep Ethan, because they know that if they break one of us that the other one will break shortly after. With there being only two of us, it will take less time and we only have each other to lean on. Ethan is already falling apart and I need to pull him out of this. Thinking about it for a second I try and talk him into sitting up.

"Ethan? Come on, sit up." I stare at him as he continues to shake and I feel the annoyance coursing through me. After everything that has happened, now I have to keep Ethan sane? Shouldn't this be the other way around. "GET UP! You can do it! Just remember that nothing you saw is real and that I need you to stay strong! We need to work together and stay strong!"

"Aly..." He whimpers and I know that he's thinking about Alyssa. I stare at him and see that he's shaking a little less. "Long brown hair...light blue eyes...cold...dead...blue lips..."

"She's alive! Ethan, she's alive!" I'm holding onto the hope that she is, she has to be. Alyssa is one of the strongest people that I know and she's my best friend. My hand touches his and he looks up at me. Slowly he starts to sit up and before I know it his arms are wrapped around me. His face is pushing into my shoulder and the tears are falling down his face."Calm down. Everything will be okay...it'll be okay..."

Of course I don't know what will happen, but what am I supposed to say to him? Am I supposed to tell him the truth? That I'm terrified and that I want to start crying like he is? No, I have to stay strong for both of us. We stay like this for a few minutes and when we break apart he nods his head a little bit. Slowly I open my backpack and pull out a water bottle, Ethan does the same. Quickly we eat and drink, not knowing when the next surprise from the Capital will come. I sit here and play with the ring on my finger, Alwin's ring. Staring down at the ring I'm hoping that it will give me some sort of strength to carry on.

"Aca..." I turn to look at Ethan, my mouth is open. But when my eyes land on what he's looking at I'm quickly getting to my feet. No...it...it can't be. Walking toward us are Alwin and Alyssa. The two of them are holding hands and I feel my heart breaking. "Aca..."

"It's not real...its not real." The words come from my lips, the words are full of confidence. My voice doesn't shake, like it would have if I wouldn't of had enough control over it. Now the Capital is really going to play dirty, but I have the ring...his ring. "My ring..."

Ethan's fingers are clenching onto mine and I feel the circulation being cut off. "No...this can't be happening. This has to be...some sort of...nightmare..."

"Our lives are a nightmare." I whisper as the two of them stop in front of us. Both of them are smiling wide smiles and I want to throw something. Don't be upset, don't let this get to you. This is not real, Acacia! "Alwin...we have to remember that this is not-"

"This is real. You two better start believing it." Alyssa's dark brown hair goes just past her shoulders and its perfectly straight. Her blue eyes are icy cold and I feel myself slipping, slowly. "Haven't you two ever thought that we could do better? Perhaps that you two being out of our lives is the best thing for us?"

Alwin just smiles and stands there, its killing me. I need to hear his voice, just one small word. He just smiles at me though, as though this whole thing is amusing him. The two of them turn towards each other and I watch as their lips meet. Ethan and I both scream, but I know that this isn't real-it can't be real. But why have I fallen to my knees if its not real? Why am I stuck in this nightmare? Oh, right...because they want to make my last few days a living hell and so far they are doing a wonderful job. If they are doing this already I don't even want to know what they have planned for us later on. Am I going to be begging for death? No, I can't...I won't allow them to have that satisfaction.

Alwin POV:

I sit here staring at Beth as she leads me outside. We have decided-by we I mean that Odysseus and Hector have decided that we are going to focus on getting Acacia out of the arena. But to do this I am going to have to take a trip to the Capital, but I won't be in any danger. They have promised me Ace back and I will do anything to get her back or die trying. Sitting here I watch as Beth looks up from the map that Sophie's drawn. Sophie hasn't been here for long, but I've had a few conversations with her. Her stories chill me to the bone, how she would remember stuff from when she was a child, but that her 'parents' would tell her that the girl from her childhood memories was dead. Of course when Beth went into the Hunger Games something hit Sophie and she started to question her parents. They kept her away from all of the broadcast and away from Beth, so that she wouldn't realize that the girl from the memories was still alive.

"Alwin..." The voice comes from behind me and I turn to see a pair of light blue eyes staring at me. Her light brown hair is above her shoulders now and she has it pulled back in a messy ponytail. I walk over to her and hug her. "Ouch..."

"What? Are you okay?" I pull away from her and she winces. Just by looking at her I can't tell that she's hurt, but she looks like she's in pain. "Aly? What happened?"

"I'm a little hurt, you didn't come see me. But I forgive you." She says with a small smile as she lowers herself onto one of the benches. Knowing her so well I can tell that she is trying to hide the pain now and she rolls her eyes. "While all of you were in the arena, we were training and getting ready for the rebellion. They put some of the rebels on the ground to help out-just in case something went wrong, but when they blew up the arena..."

She cuts off, but I know what happened. They were all blown back and injured-or at least she was. I stare at her and shake my head. Even when we were kids I knew that Alyssa was strong, I just never knew how strong and her being on the ground during that shows how strong she is. Alyssa shakes her head a little and looks down with a sigh. Carefully I sit down next to her, careful not to touch her.

"Are you okay?" I ask her and she nods her head a little. Beth walks over and smiles at her. "You sure?"

Alyssa rolls her eyes. "Of course I'm fine. I'm one of the only ones who...are still alive. Ten people in our unit on the ground died, while four were injured."

"You are extremely strong." Beth's voice rings into the conversation and the two of us look up at her. I'm shocked when I hear Beth talk at points, she comes in at parts that I don't expect her to, just like when she entered our alliance in the arena. "That is something you showed when you were helping to get us out."

"Beth...right?" Alyssa asks and Beth nods. I can't help but smile, because I can see these two becoming friends. "Nice to meet you. Watch him for me, will you? I need to get back to recovery before...they realize that I'm gone."

I stare at her in shock. "What? You left before you were allowed to?"

Alyssa rolls her eyes and heads back towards the doors. But she stops with her hand on the door and turns back to me. "Don't watch the coverage from the arena-"

"They told me that it was cut off by the Capital." I say and her eyes go wide in fear as she rushes out the door as quickly as she can. So they are lying to me and they think that they can get away with it? "Fine...I'll play the game your way..."

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