Suddenly Wiress doubled over in pain. She clutched her stomach and lay down. She threw up her last few meals and lay down shaking. Opening her bottle of water, she sniffed the water. She had put iodine in. She thought about it to distract herself from the stabbing pains in her stomach. This was a quick onset even for a water borne illness. She groaned. The gamekeepers have done something to the water.

"Beetee." She whispered in between heaves. "It's - they - the water -" She lay on her blanket and waited for the spasms to stop. She spent the day in excruciating pain.

Beetee scrolled down the gifts list. "No!" he yelled. "NO!" He stared at the numbers again. He had enough money to get Wiress some medicine that would stop the water poisoning, or he could get her components for an electric trap. There were no other options. He clicked on pain pills and saw that he could give her those but she would be missing some electronic components. He sent her the pills first.

Wiress choked down a pill and lay down to wait. She coughed up more blood as she had been doing for the past day, but her pain was lessening. That evening, she ate a few berries but they went right through her. The next day, another package floated down to her. Wiress crawled out of her cave to get it. Her gaunt features lit up as she examined her gifts. They were a battery, a wire, and some other tools. Suddenly she realized there would be a feast soon. Late that evening, Claudius Templesmith made the announcement that a feast would be at the cornucopia at midnight. Wiress put the supplies in her backpack. She made her way back to the cornucopia mostly on all fours as she was too weak to stand. She worked in the dark taking long breaks in case someone saw what she was doing. She slunk away to a hiding spot to wait for the feast.

At exactly midnight, a metal table appeared near the cornucopia. She could see a vial of medicine, insulated body armor, and what looked like a package of food on the table. The tributes from District One ran toward the cornucopia. Wiress gathered up her remaining strength and ran as well. She collapsed against the metal of the horn and pulled out her battery. As she connected the wires to it, the other tributes screamed in shock as currents of electricity ran from their hands or whatever else was touching the cornucopia.

They collapsed to the ground and began to twitch. Wiress knew the battery was draining so she quickly stabbed the two tributes so their deaths would be quick. She lay down as she heard a trumpet and then Claudius Templesmith announcing her as the victor of the fifty fourth hunger games. "Beetee - I made it for you, love." She whispered before blacking out for a final time.

Mixed reactions swept the control room. Mags offered her congratulations as did some of the non-career mentors. The mentors from one and two stood in a huddle and threw dirty looks at Beetee. He quickly thanked everyone before bolting down the hallway to the hospital. "There they are!" One of the doctors called as the doors to the loading ramp opened.

"Mr. Tesla - how did you get back here?" One of them asked incredulously.

"Hacked the door code, genius!" Beetee snapped. He gasped as he saw the emaciated form on the stretcher that was being pushed to the hospital. "WIRESS!" He yelled. A medic was quickly squeezing a balloon attached to a tube running down her throat while another straddled her and was doing chest compression.

"YOU NEED TO GET HER TO THE OR! NOW!" One of the doctors called.

"NO! THERE'S NOT ENOUGH TIME! She crashed two minutes ago!" They pushed her into the trauma room. "OPERATE HERE OR LET HER DIE! YOU CHOOSE!"

"Mr. Tesla -" One of the doctors said worriedly. "You have to leave or the Peacekeepers will pull you out!"

"I'm staying!" Beetee yelled. "I love her! I'm staying!"

"Well, help me, then!" The doctor saw the determined and terrified look in the young man's eyes and knew Beetee couldn't be turned away. He handed Beetee some gloves and a gown. They ran up to the Operating Room and grabbed a cart that would have all the instruments they needed. Beetee helped push the cart down the hallway. He gulped as he approached the bed. The doctors had their hands directly in Wiress' chest squeezing her heart to will it to pump. One of them placed electrodes on her heart and shocked it a few times.

"We got a heart-beat!" One of the doctors called.

"I knew you'd come back to us, hon." Beetee whispered. He was stationed at the foot of the bed. The doctors were too busy to question the presence of an extra staff member. At another doctor's coaching, he would hand people different things off the cart. Wiress' surgery lasted for hours as they repaired the damage to her lungs and other organs.

Beetee helped them push her stretcher to the hospital room and helped place her on her bed. He grabbed another blanket and put it over her as he could count nearly all her bones through her skin. "She'll make it through the night." one of the doctors said before the door closed. Beetee held her hand and cried.

"I knew you could do it, baby. You showed them. I love you." He whispered as he kissed her cheek. He grasped her hands in his before falling asleep in a chair next to her bed. "I will never leave you. I love you."

A/N: One or two more chapters to go! :)