We sat down in the sand and tried to figure out who was left.

"Besides Brutus and Enobaria, who's left?" I asked them.

"Maybe Chaff. Just those three." Peeta said. I looked to him.

"They know they're outnumbered. I doubt they'll attack again." I nodded in agreement with Fin statement. "We're safe here on the beach."

"That is until the Gamemakers decide to bring the danger to us." I told him, thinking back to the dog mutts last year.

"So what do we do? We hunt 'em down?" Mason asked, I rolled my eyes. I turn to say something to her when I thought I heard young girl scream. I snap my head back to the jungle, my brow furrowed.

"Calla, help me!" I heard Prim scream.

"Prim!" I screamed in fear and jumping up from my seat on the ground, running to go find her.

"No!" Fin yelled after me.

"Cals, help!" Kat screamed. I booked it into the jungle.

"Kat! Prim!" I yelled, the fear consuming me.

"Lils! Lils, wait!" I heard Fin call out to me from behind.

"Prim! Kat!" I screamed as I ran through the jungle, searching for both of them. My sisters screams continue causing me to sob. "Prim! Kat!" I cried when I came to a clearing. I turned in circles, trying to spot them. I look up when I hear a fluttering sound, like wings flapping. I spotted a bird flying above me, Jabberjay. I notched an arrow and shot it down causing the screaming to stop.

"Lils!" I turned to Fin as he ran to me, panting. "You okay?"

"Finnick!" He looks up in shock and runs.

"Annie!" I try to grab him.

"Fin. No! It's not her." I run after him.

"Annie!" He screams. "Annie! Annie!"

"Fin! It's not her." I got in front of him, "It's just a Jabberjay. It's not her."

"Well, how do you think they got that sound?" He asked me. "Jabberjays copy." I stare at him in horror.

"No." I cried shaking my head, "Your wrong."

"Cal!" I turn my head at Gale's groan.

"Gale." I whispered. Suddenly, a flock of Jabberjays flew after us, all of them using a voice and screaming. Fin grabs my arm, pushing me to run in front of him.

"Come on, come on, come on!" He yelled at me. I tried to cover one of my ears and bat the Jabberjays away with the other with little results. I begin to sob loudly as they flew by my face, using my loved ones against me. Prim, Kat, Mom, Gale, Haymitch, Effie, Mr. Mellark, and Cinna, all of them screaming in my ear.

"Peeta!" I yelled to him when I saw him up ahead. He looked like he was stuck and was banging on a invisible wall. I ran right into the wall and begin to panic, hitting on it with my hands. "No!" I sobbed, the tears rolling down my cheeks. I looked around then covered my ears, screaming and curled myself into fetal position. I clenched my eyes shut and screamed loudly, trying to block the sounds of the Jabberjays. I begin rocking, trying to keep sane for the hour long torture. I let out a small cries.

"It's over. It's okay. They're gone." Peeta's voice muggy then slowly came clearer. "The hour's gone. The hour's up. It's all right." I jolted up with a gasp when I felt him touch me.

"Prim! Kat! Find them!" My voice almost gone from the screaming.

"No, no. They're okay." I grab onto him. He kept calm while he tried to get me to relax. I shook my head, breathing heavily. "Okay? They won't touch your sisters. All right?" I nodded my head.

"Your fiancé's right. The whole country loves your sisters." We look to Mason. "If they tortured them or did anything to them, forget the districts, there would be riots in the damn Capitol." She sent me a smirk. "Hey, how does that sound, Snow?" She called loudly. "What if we . . . What if we set your backyard on fire?" We all stared at her. "You know, you can't put everybody in here." She turned back to us. "What? They can't hurt me. There's no one left that I love."

"Just wait a few hours and I'll throw in with the Jabberjays then you'll see that they can hurt you." They turned to me, eyes widen with shock. I stood up shakily, pushing away Peeta's help. Mason glared at me.

"You have no idea what your talking about." She scoffs.

"You know, your not the only one with dead loved ones." I shouted at her and then pointed to the Jabberjays. "I just spent an hour listening to all of my loved ones scream for me to help them because they were in pain. Gamemakers didn't just use voices of the living, they used the voice of the dead too." She looked at me with hidden horror in her eyes. I moved over to her until I was directly in her face. "Do you know what it's like to listen to the screams of the people you failed for an hour, Mason?" I asked her. She shook her head. "No, but I do and that is torture in itself." I turned to look at everyone else, "We should head back to the beach." Peeta stood up and helped me back to the shore while everyone followed behind us. Fin moved ahead of us and went to the water, sitting down in it. I followed him after Peeta sat down on the sand. He glanced at me from the corner of his eye.

"What voices did you hear?" He asked me, softly.

"My sisters and mom, Gale and his family, Haymitch, Effie, Cinna, my prep team, even Peeta and his father. But what scared me the most was hearing my father's and Rue's voice." He turned to me with a vulnerable expression.

"How are you even still sane? I only had one voice and it drove me mad." I shrugged.

"I don't have the luxury to have a breakdown this time around, there's too much at stake." He nodded then looked behind us, then back at me.

"You really don't like Johanna, do you?" He had a force smirk on his face.

"No, not at all but she's helping." I muttered out. I glanced at Fin. "Annie was the girl Mags volunteered for." His fake smirk slipped off his face.

"Yeah." He nodded.

"Was she the one you were talking to during the interviews?" I asked. All he did was nod, I bit my lip and put a comforting hand on his. He looked at me with bright eyes. "At least you got to say something to her, unlike Peeta and I." He let out a watery chuckle.

"Finnick! Everdeen!" We turned to look at Mason, "Come on, Volts got a plan." Getting up from the water, we joined the others to heard Beetee's plan.

"Where do the Careers feel safest? The jungle?" He asked us.

"The jungle's a nightmare." Mason said.

"Probably here on the beach." Peeta told him.

"Then why are they not here?" He asked Peeta.

"Because we are. We claimed it." I rolled my eyes and look at her.

"It's because they know their out numbered and the only way to attack us would be by surprise." She narrowed her eyes at me while Fin gave me a impress look. I turned back to Beetee. "Their most likely hiding within the end of the tree line where it meets the beach."

"So if we left, they would come." I nodded.

"They'd stay hidden in the tree line, just to make sure it wasn't a trick." Beetee gave me respected look.

"Which in just over four hours will be soaked with water from the 10:00 wave. And what happens at midnight?" He asked.

"Lightning strikes that tree." Peeta said.

"Here's what I propose. We leave the beach at dusk. We head to the lightning tree. That should draw them back to the beach. Prior to midnight we then run this wire from the tree to the water. Anyone in the water or on the damp sand will be electrocuted." Peeta picked up some of the sand.

"How do we know the wire's not gonna burn up?" Mason questioned.

"Because I invented it." He told her, rubbing the coil. "I assure you, it won't burn up." I watch Mason and Fin have a silent conversation together and look over to Peeta.

"Well, it's better than hunting them down." Mason said.

"Yeah, why not?" I look to Beetee. "If it fails, no harm done anyway, right?"

"All right, I say we try it." Peeta agreed.

"So what can we do to help?" Fin asked.

"Keep me alive for the next six hours. That would be extremely helpful." Beetee told us. We waited for the sun to set, Peeta and I went to sit by ourselves to watch the others.

"I think we need to go." I told him.

"This plan's gonna work." He looked at me.

"I think so, too." I admitted, "And once the Careers are dead, we both know what happens next. I don't want to be the one that shoots first."

"What if they don't either? What if all of us refuse to shoot first?" He asked. I shook my head.

"We'd probably still end up dead, Peeta." He looked away.

"Maybe not. I mean, it worked for us last time."

"That won't happen again, they won't let it." I smirked at the reminder. "We both know that there's only one person walking out of here. And it's going to be one of us."

"The Careers are still out there. We should stick with these guys till midnight. And if we hear a cannon, we go." I bit my lip but nodded in agreement. "Callie, I don't know what kinda deals you made with Haymitch but he made me promises, too." I stare at him. He takes off the necklace Effie gave him, opened it and handed it to me. I look at it and let out a broken gasp. There were pictures of my mom and sisters in it. "If you die and I live, I'd have nothing. Nobody else that I care about."

"Peeta." I choked out.

"It's different for you. Your family needs you." I look down at the locket again then back to Peeta. "You have to live. For them."

"What about you?" I asked, already feeling the tears coming. He gives me a bitter smile.

"Nobody needs me." I burst into tears and shake my head.

"I need you, Peeta. I need you." I cupped his face with my hands and kissed him. He wrapped his hands around my neck and brought me into another kiss when we parted a bit. We broke apart again and pressed our foreheads together.

"All right, lovebirds!" We opened our eyes and looked over to them. Peeta stood up and helped me up, keeping hold of my hand in his as we walked through the jungle to the lightning tree.