*Time skipy to when the games start...*
**W**
The games are about to start...
I sit with Dolly and Beetee, looking at the laptops. There are three of them. One for Lily. One for Cog, and one for...something, Beetee never told me.
I look at our laptop - mine and Beetee's - these things are big, much bigger then anything, all the little switchs and other bits. I shake my head as I hear the clock ring, the games just started!
Lily's already out and ready for her life, she just missed an arrow! And she's got herself a backpack and a knife, and she's off into the forst - I don't like it...it's too dark in that forest, I know it's deadly. The shutting of a door is what brings my mind up - sounded like it was Haymitch. "Oh fu-" I don't get to hear the rest as Beetee's put his hands over my ears, he takes them off slowly. "Sorry, dear, he can get a little upset." He says, smiling at me. "Melody or Jack must have died..." Dolly mutters. "Or both." Beetee points at the top - he was right - both are dead...
A red light goes off over Dolly's laptop. "He's down..." Dolly mutters, getting up and walking out the room - Cog's dead...We knew he wouldn't last long, he didn't know how to do anything other then use a knife.
"Come on, dear, lets go see the others, Lily's safe...for now." Beetee says, pulling me out of my chair and walking out the room, I follow, a little scared to meet some of them, I only ever met Lily!
"Wiress!" And that would be, Lily Lockheart, I didn't think she would come this year, after losing Willow. "Hello." I say, always staying next to Beetee, I'm lost without him!
"This, one that won last year?" Haymitch says, pointing at me. "Yes, this one is Wiress." Beetee mutters, glaring at Haymitch for not using my name. "Lovely to meet you!" An older woman from 11 says, giving me a kiss on the cheek. "I'm Seeder." She says, I nod my head shyly. "She not a very big talker..." Woof says, pointing at me. "Wiress, was a little, put off of talking after her games..." Beetee says, putting his arm around me, smiling sadly at the others.
"Someone's found them self a girl..." The voice of Cecelia says softly, she won her games a few years back. "You don't know the half of it!" Dolly says loudly, walking back into the room holding a bottle of beer in her hand - I never knew she was a drinker...
"Dolly..." Beetee growls lowly at his old mentor. "Oh, shut up, Beetee!" Dolly shouts, sitting down and drinking some of her beer. "We're all friends here!" Haymitch says, smiling - you can tell they want to know!
"These two have been together for ages! I've even found them in the same bed - a little upset to see they were still dressed!" Dolly jokes, the room loudly filling with laughing. "Little Wiress, she goes nuts when she ain't around him!" Dolly said, pointing at Beetee with the bottle. "Dolly, I think you can shut up now..." Beetee says, his face is very red and he has a smile playing on his lips. "Fine! But I never got to the best part..." Dolly mutters. "What may that be, Doll?" Haymitch says loudly. "When Beetee was called up here - he was away for bloody six months! Wiress wouldn't come out of bed for more then five minutes a day, she didn't eat much as well!" Dolly says, time seems to stop as all the laughing from the room dies down, and even the smile on Dolly's face is gone.
I blink at them all, as eyes turn to me and Beetee. "I say, that is upsetting..." Lily's fine voice calls out from the other side of the room, I feel someone pat my back and turn to see Mags, giving me a sad smile, she was alive even before the games started!
I feel Beetee drop his arm and I turn to see that some of the guys are pulling him over - I'm guessing for a chat...I look at the other women, and before I know anything, they're pulling me over to the bar. "What..." I fail at asking them what we're doing. "Nothing, Wire, nothing!" Wire? Is that a nickname or something...?!
Cecelia smiles and all the others sit down, I go to take a seat, but before I can, Dolly pulls on my hair, pulling me back to her. "I'm not letting you sit down by yourself, I'm sure, Beetee would kill me!" She jokes, and before I know it, I'm sitting on her lap, like a five year-old, with her messing around with my hair, soon Lily joins in with messing with my, already, messy black hair - don't take that, the wrong way!
"Why is your hair so messy, Wiress?" Dolly jokes, smiling slyly at me. "I..." I fail again with my words. "Stop messing with the girl, Sunny!" Cecelia says, rolling her eyes at Dolly. "You know I can't!" Dolly says, throwing her arms around me and hugging me, Dolly pokes my hand and I open it. "Wiress, why do you always have wire with you?" Dolly says, taking the small gold wire out of my hand and pulling my hair up with it. "I've been trying to get away from wire for year, and you just keep it with you, all bloody day!" She says, rolling her eyes at me.
"I like having wire with..." Well, I have not said that much for days... "Me?" Mags mutters, they do find it hard to know what I'm saying, Beetee is the only one who truly knows. I give her a nod and cross my arms, Dolly is still holding me in her lap.
"You make me think of a small kid!" Dolly says out of the blue.
"Why..." I ask, I blinked my eyes and turning my head around to see her.
"You're sitting in my lap like a five year-old!" Dolly says loudly, and everyone - but me - falls into a laughing fit.
"I'm 18..." I say, rolling my eyes at them. "And yet, you still look like a 17 year-old my dear." Beetee says, walking in with the other guys, laughing behind him. At once I jump to my feet and run into his arms, throwing my arms around his neck and hugging him, he hugs me back, resting his head on mine. "Get a room!" Dolly calls, everyone is still laughing, I just roll my eyes and smile.
After that, everyone goes back to their rooms to make sure everyone is okay - and the people who lost theirs start drinking...
Lily's doing fine, she found her ally, a boy from 1 - I don't trust him!
The night is slowly coming down on them, and a few sounds are starting to grow louder. Wait! Did I just see some eyes in the bushes! I'm getting no sleep tonight...
The noises grow louder as he and Lily walk on. "Lets make camp here!" The boy says, throwing down his bag. "Okay!" Lily says with a smile, putting down her knife and her bag, and slowly taking a seat by one of the trees. "I'll sleep first, then you." The boy mutters, already falling asleep.
I can't help but sigh a little loudly, Lily looks like she could fall asleep right there. I hear a sound coming from the laptop and bite my lip, the woods seem to come alive, trees fall down and start to make what looks to be a maze, and deadly sounds come from the woods around them - I now know what they mean by more human mutts...
I look at the laptop, and then at Beetee, his eyes are fixed on something in the bushes. Eyes...human eyes. "Wiress...look away." He begs, bitting hard on his lip. I turn my head and then hear a shout come from the other room. "MELT!" That was Dolly...I look over at Beetee, I find that he has tears in his eyes. "Dolly!" He shouts, before she runs in and looks at the laptop. "Melt..." She whispers. I've got to see this!
I turn around and look at the laptop, a small boy with black hair and grey eyes is standing over Lily. "Wiress, I said, look away!" Beetee begs, I look back away, before a loud shout of pain fills my ears - Lily...
I turn around, just in time to see, a small girl standing next to the boy, her girl is goldie - ginger, she has blood coming from a knife, but it's in her eyes, she's not human! I look at Beetee and Dolly, both have tears in their eyes. "Why couldn't you kill her..." The girl's voice sounds like a 20 year-old, but the boy's voice is around a 19 year-old. "She's from 3 - how could you kill her, Feather!" His voice is ragged and dead sounding. "Feather, Melt!" Beetee and Dolly say at the same time - but now I'm replaying what he said...Lily's dead!
"Who..." I say, looking at the humans, as a cry of pain comes from the boy, he's dead too. "Feather..." Dolly says, pointing at the girl - I wish I knew who they both were, but I never will, I know it!
I put my head in my hands, they both know it, I know it. I can't stop the tears coming from my eyes as the boy and girl run into the night. "She - She!" Beetee and Dolly both throw their arms around me. "Wiress, shh...we know..." Dolly mutters, I feel tear drops fall onto my head, Dolly's crying too. "Those mutts...their human..." Beetee mutters, before hugging both me and Dolly, we all lost a friend tonight...
"HUMAN MUTTS!" Haymitch's loud shout fills the rooms, everyone knows it now...but I can't help but think one thing.
Those mutts were deadly, yes, but do they know when to stop? Or is that the gamemakers plan...that the killing won't stop until they're ALL dead...
So...human mutts huh?! But what Wiress is thinking at the end, does anyone get what NOCO means yet? I'll give you one more hint...the first word is 'No'
And yes, i know...Lily is dead.
If you don't get who Melt and Feather are, then you'd better go read 'Sparks Will Fly' that will tell you. :)
Until next time...
- Dusty.