Don't forget to read the previous chapters, it runs together when i update this fast.

Johanna reencounters everything that'd happened since she'd first arrived into the arena. Beete. He had took a knife in the back getting his coil, Johanna and Blight had to drag him out, that's when they found Wiress and eventually me. After she gets to the point where I come in I tune her out. Turning to Cato. He blinks. "The lady from six jumped in front of me, right when an ape was going to kill me." He whispers as I remove my charred hair. I blink. "So she sacrificed herself for a career?" I ask, washing behind my ear. Cato nods, rubbing my cheek with his thumb. "I was going to die, if it wasn't for her." He speaks in a clear voice. "When, I heard that cannon early this morning, I- I thought you were gone." He admits. I begin wiping the dry blood from the back of my neck. "How did you get here?" I ask. He shrugs. "They drove us to the beach." He says. I look around noticing the lack of Mags for the first time. "What happened?" I ask. "You had blood, we had poisonous fog, and an hour later, wild monkeys, they stopped coming for us once we reached the beach, Finnick helped me drag that poor mother from six out of there, we held her until she washed out into sea, and her Cannon sounded." He says. I blink, "when did Mags clock out?" I ask in a shaky voice. Cato looks away. "She… She went out in the fog, I had to hold Finnick back from charging back in." He whispers. Wiress bobs in the water. "Little boy!" She grabs my attention. I look over to her. "Yes Wiress." I ask. Cato laughs. "She calls you little boy?" He asks. I roll my eyes, the corners of my lips rise. Wiress points at the land stokes. "Clock." She says confidently. I look over to her.

I try to tell myself she isn't crazy, but I can't help it. Cato places his hand on my back. "What does she mean?" Cato asks. I shrug. "Yeah, we know. Tick, tock. Nuts is in shock," says Johanna. This seems to draw Wiress in her direction and she leans into Johanna, who harshly shoves her to the beach. "Just stay down, will you?" I take a handful of the moss to use as a rag and join Wiress in the shallows. Cato walks back towards the beach, helping Beete, clean himself. She doesn't resist as I work off her clothing, scrub the blood from her skin. But her eyes are dilated with fear, and when I speak, she doesn't respond except to say with ever-increasing urgency, "Tick, tock." She does seem to be trying to tell me something, but with no Beete to explain her thoughts, I'm at a loss.

"Yes, tick, tock. Tick, tock," I say. This seems to calm her down a little. I wash out her jumpsuit until there's hardly a trace of blood, and help her back into it. It's not damaged like mines is. After were done batching we all go back on shore to sleep. Johanna and I are left awake, as care free as i am, I just don't trust two people as crazy as Finnick and Johanna around me while I sleep, and Johanna just to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

"Cato say's Mags left Finnick and him, just because she was slowing them down." I whisper in a soft voice. Johanna rolls her eyes. "Well they were close." Johanna says, her venom strong. I bite my lip. "I'm sorry for not noticing." I say softly. "Up until last year I was too busy worrying about fighting and starving to death…The games were just another reason to make me want to become a victor of my own." I say. Johanna folds her arms. You're not a real victor Clove." She says. "You know how many people I had to kill? (If not then read. The .315's story of how I became victor.) I fought, you just made a fool of yourself." She says. "I know victors who would do this for a living, just to be as disgusting looking as you are now, and you take it like this? Running around with your boyfriend, I tried to help you focus on getting out, but it seems like he just keeps coming back." She rolls her eyes. "I took you away from him, for a reason." She adds. I look back to the resting Cato. His lashes fold onto his cheeks lazily, his cheeks pink and roasting. It seems to have made it down to around seventy five degrees before picking back up. I had given up on trying with Johanna so we sit watching the pink sun rise.

A large wave ripples around the shore, smashing towards us. I'm soaked for a second, but slowly begin to dry, the water ripples as the tree's bend. Large waves kiss across the air, smashing against the cornucopia. followed by a Cannon blast

"Tick, tock," I hear behind me. I turn and see Wiress has crawled over. "Oh, goody, she's back. Okay, I'm going to sleep. You and Nuts can guard together," Johanna says. She goes over and throws herself down beside Finnick. "Tick, tock," Wiress whispers. I get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts off, stirring restlessly, occasionally sighing out her phrase. "Tick, tock."

The sun begins to turn white. Moving overhead. I remember when my father had taught me how to tell time by the position of the sun. It must be noon, Not that it matters. Off to the right, I see the enormous flash as the lightning bolt hits the tree and the electrical storm begins again. Someone must have moved into its range, triggered the attack. I sit for a while watching the lightning, I think of last night, how the lightning began just after the bell tolled. Twelve bongs. I look down at Wiress who mumbles her Tick-tock again.

Twelve bongs last night. Like it was midnight. Then lightning. The sun overhead now. Like it's noon. And lightning.

Slowly I rise up and survey the arena. The lightning there. In the next pie wedge over came the blood rain, where we were caught. The guys would have been in the third section, right next to that, when the fog appeared. And as soon as it was sucked away, the monkeys began to gather in the fourth. Tick, tock. A couple of hours ago, at around ten, that wave came out of the second section to the left of where the lightning strikes now. At noon. At midnight. At noon.

"Oh," I say under my breath. "Tick, tock." My eyes sweep around the full circle of the arena and I know."Tick, tock. This is a clock."