I know, I know, you're all like 'What the heck is going on here?!', be patient my darlings, it'll all make sense soon.

Clove

"Took you long enough.", Alexandrite said coyly. It looked like Lexi, but there was something off about her… besides the fact she was up a tree in the Games. She was dressed in the same arena attire as the rest of us, with the same hairstyle from her Games. She leapt down from the tree, but stumbled a bit as she landed. Definitely not her usual flawless landing.

"You've been going the wrong way all this time. At this rate, you'll keep going in circles.", she scolded and kept walking. She didn't even glance at me. I followed her blindly though.

"Shouldn't we find the others?"

"Oh…hmm…ah yes, we should.", she nodded. Something's definitely off. That would have been her first move. There's only one way to find out.

"Hey, Lexi?"

"Hmm, yes?"

"Do you remember that conversation on the train, the one after we had first met."

" How should I know? It was ages ago."

"Do you remember where we first met?"

"In the Capitol of course! Thanks to the generosity of the Capitol!", she said over her shoulder. Wrong answer. That's not Lexi. Must be a Capitol mutt. We met in my house in 2 and our conversation on the train was abut her parents. Neither of those two things are something she would forget, well at least where we first met. I let one of my knives slide into my hand discreetly, ready to attack. She stopped suddenly though in a flat patch of dirt.

" Why'd you stop?"

"So I can do this!", she turned suddenly with a knife drawn and swiped at me. I ducked and swung at her with mine. It grazed her arm and she let out a grunt of pain. She shoved me to the ground, then charged. I grabbed some of the dirt and flung it into her eyes. She dropped her knife, hissing as she clawed at her eyes. I drew another knife and threw it at her. It lodged in her chest and the Lexi imposter fell to the ground in a scream, dead. I slowly got to my feet, knife drawn just in case she sprung to life again. Her body began to melt into a green acid, or at least it looked like acid, it was steaming and bubbling and melted the knife that had sunk into her chest. I heard heavy pounding and broken tree branches to my right, fast approaching. I held my knives at the ready when Cato, Cash, and Gloss bounded through the woods and screeched to a halt in front of me, weapons drawn.

"We heard the scream, are you okay?!", Cato said frantically as he gripped my shoulders and looking me up and down. I brushed away his arms.

"I'm perfectly fine. It was a mutt. It looked and sounded just like Alexandrite. Except it didn't really have the grace or the smarts to be her. The scream was from her.", I stated. Cato nodded in understanding. Cashmere wrinkled her nose at the smell of the acid.

" We ran into one too, it was an Enobaria look alike. Gloss almost shit himself.", Cato grinned.

"Did not.", Gloss argued back.

" She go all shark attack on you?", I asked.

"Oh yeah, it wasn't pretty. Good thing Gloss held her down long enough for us to spear her.", Cashmere commented.

"I vote we head back to the beach. I'd rather not deal with anymore look alikes. I don't even want to think about what kinda hell Alexandrite and Enobaria are gonna give us later.", Gloss shuddered.

"It wasn't even them.", I stated.

"That doesn't mean they won't give us hell for it. They'll take it as we indirectly killed them. Knowing them, they will give us hell."

We all nodded and headed to the beach. When we get out of here, I really can't wait to see what kind of hell Enobaria will unleash. Shit… that means I gotta face Lex. It was to save my life, so she'll go easy on me. Besides, it's me, I can be adorable when the situation calls for it. We make our way down to the beach, reaching the sandy beaches as night hit. The Capitol anthem begins to play and dead tributes flash across the sky. The two tributes from 5 that Cashmere had killed, the boy from 6 I killed, the two tributes from 8 that Cato killed, the boy from 9? Probably the one the rest of the alliance killed, I saw Peeta and Finnick fighting someone in the water. The boy from 10 that I killed and the girl from 11 Gloss had killed. Giving us a grand total of 8. 3 days until jail break, which means sometime tomorrow we should probably find the others. Gloss was taking the first watch. Cashmere was using Gloss' lap as a pillow and had already conked out. I crawled over to Cato, who was using a backpack as a pillow. I leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.

"Tomorrow.", I whispered low enough that not even the cameras could hear. Being the saps they are they probably thought I said 'I love you.' Cato nodded his head and kissed me on the lips before closing his eyes. I rested my head against his chest and his arm snaked around me.

A cannon in the middle of the night startled us awake. I instinctively held up a knife in defense and the others grabbed their weapons. We surveyed the area, and to our right we saw a white mist in the jungle. Only, instead of spreading out, it only moved down like it was filling a wedge. It was like something invisible was confining it. Then we heard monkey screeches. The screeches got louder, soon 4 figures popped out of the woods, followed by a hoard of monkey mutts. It was Finnick, Katniss, and Peeta. The love doves were dragging a girl into the water while Finnick jabbed at the hoard. We looked at each other and nodded, then charged at the monkeys to help Finnick. With the aid of my knives, Cato's sword, Cashmere's knives, and Gloss' spear, the monkeys retreated. A cannon fired, it was the girl that the lovebirds had carried into the water. She was from 6. Katniss raised her arrows when she saw us and Peeta raised the machete. Finnick on the other hand grew a wide grin. He came over then gave me a huge bear hug, which I returned of course. Cato and Finnick had there own bro hugs, then Finnick hugged Cashmere and Gloss.

" Where the hell have you guys been, took you long enough.", Finnick laughed. Both Katniss and Peeta's jaws dropped.

"Ah, ya know, having our own fun in the jungle. You missed it, we went streaking.", Cato joked.

" Damn and I missed it.", Finnick said in a mock upset voice. Then both broke into loud laughter. I turned to Katniss and held up my left hand, where all 3 rings rested.

" Easy there Fire Girl. We're on your side.", I stated. The other held up their own symbols. Cato had a fire ring along with his wedding band, and the siblings had bracelets.

" Good to know we have some powerful allies. Rather have you guys with us than against us.", Peeta commented.

"Where's Johanna?", Cato asked. I looked around and realized Jo wasn't present.

" been looking for her since we all went our own ways. Mags died in the mist, it was poisonous…", Finnick said sadly. I gave him another hug. The others gave their condolences. Poor Mags, she was so nice and sweet. I know she practically raised Finnick, he is definitely going through hell inside. Then farther up the beach I heard a loud familiar voice swearing. That voice could only belong to 1 person. A blood soacked Johanna Mason stormed out of the Jungle, followed by Beetee and Wiress from 3. I felt the grin on my face and looked over at Cato and Finnick. Those two were grinning like idiots.

"JOHANNA!", I yelled as I sprinted towards her. Her head snapped up at the sound of her name, then she grinned. She dropped her axe into the water with a loud splash and threw her arms up.

"CLOVE!", she yelled and we bear hugged each other. Well I tackled her into the water and she responded with a bear hug. Least now the blood was off her. She hugged Finnick and Cato when they arrived.

" Glad to see you idiots are still alive.", she said in a relieved tone.

"What's with the blood?", Finnick asked.

"We thought it was rain, but it turned out to be blood. It was hot and thick, made it hard to breathe. We ran for the beach, but then Blight hit the force field. He wasn't much, but he was from home.", she said quietly. We all nodded and gave our condolences. Then Wiress came over.

"Tik-tok! Tik-tok!", she repeated.

" Okay, that's it! If I have to hear it one more time-", Johanna began to rant when Katniss pushed her out of the way and stood in front of Wiress.

"What the hell! I'm not going to kill her! I saved them for you! You were the one who wanted them!", Johanna screeched.

"What?", Katniss asked, confused. She was absolutely clueless. Finnick led Johanna away to cool off and I followed behind. Katniss had gone to get Wiress cleaned up. Shortly after though, the two came running back, Katniss screaming 'It's a clock, it's a clock!'

"Now what?", Johanna groaned.

"The arena! It's a clock. Every hour, something happens, but it stays within it's wedge. The Cornucopia points to a tree that is stuck by lightning, signaling 12 o'clock. Wiress is right, it's a clock.", Katniss stated excitedly. Okay I gota hand it to nuts, she's got some brains in there somewhere.