The contesters' are all sitting in a room, waiting for their individual assessment to gather sponsors.
When Haymitch gets called into the training room to present his skills Hak enters the waiting area again.
"Hak, what happened?" Katniss asks him, seeing him look at her worried.
"I'm sorry, I destroyed it but they just created another over and over." Hak tells her before he gets lead out of the waiting room.
After Haymitch it's Katniss's turn, being the last tribute to show her skills and she looks around when she enters the room seeing a lot of damage done to the floor and walls, evidently caused by Hak if the broken Glaives and deep cuts into the stone are anything to go by.
Katniss approaches the sponsors and game master and looks down on one of the sole remaining undamaged spots on the floor, seeing a drawing of Rue lying dead in the forest surrounded by flowers, causing Katniss to have tears flowing out of her eyes.
"Mrs. Everdeeen. You have ten minutes to present your chosen skill." Heavensbee, the game master announces making Katniss glare at him with watery eyes. She wordlessly gathers some equipment and paint, decorating a training dummy with the features of the late game master and writing his name on the dummies chest before she hangs the dummy over a beam, curtsying to the observers while they gasp at her audacity.
The next day Cesar is interviewing the contestants for the last time before they leave to the arena.
All of the contestants hold sad speeches, hoping to sway the crowd to shut down the games with their sob stories.
Katniss who had to put on her wedding dress moves to the back of the stage where she has to wait for her appearance after Hak's and sees Johanna waiting back there as well after she had a rage fit and was removed from stage.
"really? A wedding dress?" Johanna asks Katniss with disappointment.
"Snow made me wear it." Katniss informs her, not happy about it either.
"Make him pay for it." Johanna tells her before she leaves to join the other awaiting champions on the top of the stage.
"And here we have the first victor of last years Hunger Games, Hak the Thunderbeast!" Cesar announces for the crowd as Hak enters the stage, dressed in his trademark kimono.
"Hak, as we can see you've kept your sense of style." Cesar tells him.
"Yes, well I thought it'd be appropriate since I'm wearing out of clothes to wear, this being my third time competing and all." Hak says bitter-sweet.
"Good one kid, that packed a punch." Haymitch laughs lightly, joining Katniss, with him being dressed in a simple white tux.
"Yes, yes. Too bad you can't get extra credit for past results huh?" Cesar asks jokingly.
"True, but I wouldn't want to carry all the loot anyways." Hak replies.
"Hahaha, Hak as always you never fail to entertain. Any message for the audience?" Cesar asks, extending his microphone over to him.
"Yes. As you all probably can assume I entered for the same reason I entered the last time, to protect the one person who means the world to me. And I am sad to say that we were not allowed to be wed before being drafted." Hak says.
"Oh, that is very sad indeed. We were all excited to see our brave warrior gain his maidens hand in marriage. Thank you Hak." Ceasar says, making Hak go up the stairs to join the other contestants while the crowd boos in disappointment.
"Now for our last district, starting with the other part of the deadly duo Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire!" Cesar announces while Katniss enters the stage, wearing the wedding dress.
"Katniss Everdeen you look fabulous. My my, this is a very big and emotional night for all of us, don't you agree?" Cesar asks her.
"Now now, don't go crying on me Cesar." Katniss tells him.
"I can't be making promises I can't keep." He says quickly.
"You know I wouldn't believe you even if you did." Katniss says sarcastically.
"Haha, I love it. But Katniss on a more serious note, we were all very disappointed as your fiancée pointed out that a certain wedding did not take place. But am I correct in assuming that this is the gown you would have worn on that day?" Cesar says.
"Yes, president snow thought it was a good idea for everyone to see it." Katniss informs him.
"Well president snow was right. I love it, I love it. Will you do us the honor, please?" He requests, making space for Katniss to present her dress.
She steps to the front of the stage and sees Cinna giving her a nod, she then starts to twirl around with the dress catching on fire and turning into a tight black dress with feather design and wings on her shoulders.
She stretches out her arms surprised while the crowd goes nuts.
"That bird design, those feathers it's … it's what was it." Cesar says, having forgotten the word.
"It's a Mocking jay." Katniss tells him, looking at Cinna thankfully.
"Thank you Katniss, and now last but not least we have the deadly duo's mentor, a round of applause everyone for Haymitch Abernathy." Cesar announces.
"Haymitch, this is the first time for us to meet. I am delighted to see that you are in such good shape. Any special message you have for us?" Cesar asks him.
"Yes, but this is not about me. It's about my lovely protegees. I think that it's very sad that not only they have to enter the competition before the wedding but also with a baby on their way." Haymitch says and joins the others on top of the stage.
Once he gets there the competitors all join hands with Haymitch winking at Katniss, a smirk plastered on his face.
When the competitors join hands, raising them up the crowd goes wild demanding they stop the games.
That night Hak and Katniss are sitting on Katniss's beds edge with her leaning into his shoulder while they await the news.
"You know I thought the baby bomb would have finished them but unfortunately games are still on." Haymitch tells them with Effie having two boxes in her hands as she joins them.
"Presents for the boys." Effie says, handing each a present.
"What is this?" Haymitch asks opening his to find a golden armring in it.
"Your token, remember?" Effie reminds him.
"And for Hak, that pendant we talked about." Effie says with Hak looking at the square pendant on a leather chain.
"Thank you Effie." He says, brushing over the material.
"We're a team, aren't we? And I'm so proud of my victors." She says tearing up, giving each one a hug.
"Haymitch wait." Katniss says going after the man who is about to go to his own room.
"Remember our deal. Do everything possible to keep him alive." She whispers to him as she gives him a hug, getting a nod and a pat on her head in return.
"Kid. Until tomorrow." Haymitch tells Hak, giving him a wave.
The next morning Katniss and Hak lie in her bed with her still curled into his side and his arm around her.
"I don't want to be in there with anyone else. Just you. I'm sorry it took me so long to realize." She tells him.
"You're thinking too much. Just know in your heart I will always be there for you and come back to you. That's all you need to know." He says, hugging her closer to himself and brushing a stand of hair from her face. Only minutes after they get interrupted by a knock on their door.
"See you soon." Hak tells her, kissing her hand one more time before he goes to his room to get ready for the transport.
Once they arrive in district four's special arena Katniss gets helped into her clothes by Cinna with him pinning her special golden pin on her sleeve.
After he's done with this and she is in the tube leading her to the surface She sees a group of peacekeepers enter her hallway and beat Cinna to a pulp with her sorrowfully yelling at them to stop while she's slowly being raised upwards.
When she and the others get to the top they look around with each tribute standing on a podium in the middle of a lake with 12 stone rows leading to the cornucopia in the middle of the arena.
Katniss loos around frantically, searching for Hak or Haymitch and only sees Haymitch standing somewhere to her left but has no sight of her lover.
"let the 75th Hunger Games begin, may the odds be ever in your favor." An announcer says and starts the countdown.
Once the count reaches 0 Katniss drives into the water, making her way to the closest stone path, arriving on it seconds before Brutus and she runs down to the cornucopia, her sights set on the bow displayed at the building. Looking to the flanks she sees others who will arrive at the same time she does, lucky for her Gloss stumbles once he looks over to her and she fires an arrow at him , cutting his leg once she reaches the bow.
Hearing someone right beside her she sees Finnick look back at her, presenting her Haymitch's accessory.
"Good thing we're allies right?" Finnick says with Katniss aiming an arrow in his face.
"Where did you get that?" She asks.
"Where do you think? Now duck!" He tells her and throws his trident at the tribute who was running up behind Katniss, killing him.
"Don't trust 1 and 2, I'll take this side, you hold them off. I'll go find Hak." Finnick tells her, taking back his trident.
"Katniss, Mags' found him. He's this way." Finnick tells her while Katniss is keeping the brother and sister from the first district at a distance. Katniss takes a dagger and a Glaive before the two make their way to Mags, who is pointing at Hak, who is brawling with another tribute in the water with Haymitch swimming over to them.
Hak tried to climb back up to the platform while kicking away the tribute but he grabs onto his leg and drags him under.
While underwater Hak grabs the oponents arm as he tries to punch Hak, who only smirks devilishly and wraps his arm around the tributes neck, squeezing until the tribute loses strength and stops resisting and Hak twistst his neck.
Haymitch who reached about halfway to the two reappears on the waters surface and turns around, swimming over to Katniss, Mags and Finnick.
"Haymitch, help him!" Katniss shouts worried for Hak until a cannon is shot signaling another tributes death. Katniss sees a body float to the surface and holds her breath in fear until Hak reaches the top and looks around to see which direction to go. Once he sees Katniss and the others he swims over to them.
After assembling their team of four and one old lady they enter the jungle surrounding the lake, running through it with Hak leading the way, Katniss after him and then followed by Finnick who carries Mags on his back and Haymitch watching their rear.
Once they get a fair distance between them and the beach they stop to think of a plan.
"I guess we're not holding hands anymore." Finnick says chuckling when three more booms go off.
"You think that's funny?" Katniss questions.
"Everytime that cannon goes off is music to my ears, I don't care about any of them." Finnick replies.
"Good to hear." Katniss says and retrieves the blade she took, handing it to Haymitch, who nods at her appreciatively.
"Let's keep moving." Haymitch tells them and they make their way through the jungle, keeping their formation with Hak cutting down lianas hanging in their way with his glaive.
Seeing something shimmer just in front of Hak she yells "Hak, No!" But it was too late and the tall teen comes flying at them, repelled by the barrier, knocking the group over and he lands face down on the floor, trying to get up with his Glaive but failing and only manages to point it at Haymitch threateningly croaking "Keep her Safe!" before his heart stops and he remains on the floor unmoving.
"He's not breathing. He's not breathing. Hak!" Katniss says frantically, looking for any vital signs of her boyfriend.
Finnick throws away his trident and rolls Hak on his back, starting to try and resuscitate him with Katniss at Hak's side crying helplessly.
After a few repetitions of the CPR Hak gasps, coming back to life.
"Hak! Hak, oh my god." Katniss says relieved leaning down to him.
"There is a forcefield up there." Hak groans.
"My god, you were dead. You were dead, your heart stopped." Katniss cries still shook to her bones.
"It's all god. It's working now." Hak says hugging the girl who glomps onto him for dear life.
"Can you stand up?" Haymitch asks worried.
"Sure." Hak says, getting up, leaning on his glaive only for Katniss to immediately wrap her arms around him in a death grip while shaking like a leaf.
"It's OK. It's OK. I promised I'd always come back to you." Hak says calmingly into hear ear.
The group then slowly makes their way around the edge of the jungle with Katniss throwing pebbles against the forcefield to check the perimeter while her other hand is still clung tightly around Hak's free one.
"Hang on." She tells the group and goes over to an extremely big tree. Hak follows her and holds his hands out for her to use as a step. Once she reaches the top of the tree she sees that around the center in the starting point is only a jungle wherever the eye reaches. She looks up and fires an arrow in the sky, where a boom sounds with a rippling effect revealing the reach of the dome.
"The forcefield is a dome and there were no signs of fresh water." Katniss tells them once she made her way back to the ground.
"It's going to get dark soon. We'll be safe here with our backs towards the dome. We'll take turns sleeping. I'll take first watch." Finnick suggests.
"Not a chance." Katniss says.
"That thing I did back there for Hak, is called saving his life. If I wanted to kill either of you I'd have done it by now." Finnick tells her annoyed.
"Why don't you get some rest? I'll take first watch." Katniss tells Hak.
"Kay." Hak agrees and sits down against a tree with his glaive prepped against him at the ready.
"So, how's Hak?" Finnick asks Katniss and Haymitch who are awake.
"OK I think. Just dehydrated as we all are." Katniss replies.
Music then starts playing, showing the dead tributes and Hak wakes up, same as Mags.
"Phew, I needed that." Hak sighs.
"Hey, Catnip, can I have one of your arrows?" hak requests.
"Sure, why?" She says going over to him and sitting down next to him, looking at him curiously.
"Catnip huh?" Finnick says teasingly, only for Hak's glaive to land right in between his spread out fingers in the ground he was leaning on.
"I appreciate you saving my life and all, but there are some bridges you just shouldn't cross. This is one of them." Hak warns him sweetly.
"OK." Finnick says shaking his head at the couple's antics and throws the Glaive back to the teen who catches it with ease.
So, why'd you need an arrow?" Katniss asks.
"Wait." Hak tells her and screws the head off the arrow and hits the rest of the arrow lightly against the tree they are sitting against.
"Good, it's hollow." Hak says excited.
"Why's that good?" Katniss questions.
"Because…" Hak starts to say until Haymitch finishes, "Cause he can make a tap with that." And walks over to the two with Finnick joining, interested.
Hak cuts off the lower third of the tipless arrow and sharpens it on a rock.
"Alright, let's see if it'll hold." Hak says and hammers the construct into the tree carefully with the flat side of his glaive.
The group wait a couple seconds expectantly when water starts to drip from it and they catch some with their mouths' drinking it relieved. Haymitch gets a leaf, filling it with water and gives it to Mags.
Later that night the group hears a thumping 12 times and afterwards lighting strike down on a tree the same number of times.
"Midnight?" Finnick asks.
"Or the number of districts." Haymitch says.
"Well if you aren't going to sleep Katniss I think I'll get some rest then." Finnick says, going to lie down somewhere.
"I'm with him." Haymitch tells her and relaxes to get some rest.
A couple hours later Katniss, who had fallen asleep sometime during the night wakes up, looking around and sees Hak sitting in the stone they used to keep watch.
"Since when are you keeping watch? You should be resting." Katniss asks him, worried about his safety.
"2 hours give or take." He tells her while she rejoins him on the stone.
"You should've woken Haymitch or…." Katniss says, stopping once she sees fog coming towards them from outside the barrier.
"Do you see that?" She asks him, pointing behind him.
"Uhh, yes." Hak says dreadfully. The fog comes through the barrier and Katniss reaches for it, falling from the stone with painful yelps and her hand beet red and full of blisters.
"Run! The fog is poison!" Katniss yells, waking everyone and they start to run downhill with Finnick carrying Mags and fog chasing after the group.
On the way downhill their path gets cut off by fog coming from all around them, leaving them only one path to follow.
Katniss who is running right behind Hak trips on a root and looks back fearfully, the poison already at her legs.
Hak hearing her tumble goes back for her and helps her up, both of them getting a good dose on their backs, causing them to yell out painfully.
As they get up and continue to flee from the poison They hear two screams, one is Finnick, whose arm got caught and the other is Haymitch, whose leg gets hit.
Haymitch manages to run past Hak and Katniss before collapsing on the ground.
"Haymitch, get up!" Katniss shouts desperately but he lies there unmoving. With Katniss and Hak stopping at his side.
Finnick reaches them and Mags gets off his back, giving him a kiss on his forehead while she goes into the fog on her own.
"Finnick we have to go, we have to get out of here!" Katniss tells him as he yells after Mags.
"Right, come on." Finnick agrees and both he and Hak put one arm each over their shoulder as they race through the woods, following after Katniss who leads the way. Katniss helps the two when they come to a slope but the group all get hit by the poison and tumble down the slope with white blisters all over their bodies and them close to passing out.
Hak and Katniss turn around, seeing the fog approaching until it stops like it hit an invisible wall.
"That was close." Hak croaks.
Katniss sees the fog dissipating and crawls over to a puddle, putting her hand in it.
"Argh!" She screams out in pain.
"The water, the water helps." She tells the group and Hak joins her in removing the blisters with the help of the water, grunting in pain while Katniss continues to scream.
The two of them then drag both Finnick and Haymitch over to the small pond and drag them in as well, making them scream and thrash in pain as their wounds dissipate with each one being held down.
The group quickly rearms themselves with the weapons they dropped during the fall and are washing away the remaining small spots on their skin when they are suddenly surrounded by orangutans.
"I'm sorry about Mags." Katniss tells Finnick.
"She was never going to make it." He tells her and nods for both her and Hak to look over to the apes.
"Haymitch, you better come rejoin the bath. Slowly." Hak tells the blonde man, staning up with Finnick and Katniss who readies an arrow. The group stare down the apes and Katniss sees the cornucopia`s reflection not that far from them.
When Haymitch rejoins the group, eyeing he Apes with worry they start to scream at them , baring their fangs while more and more appear.
"Get to the beach." Katniss says, as they are preparing themselves for a fight.
Once the first Ape jumps at Katniss from behind with Hak quickly taking care of it with a strike from his glaive the other orangutans start to attack as well.
Katniss fires arrow after arrow at the attacking apes while everyone else fights them of as well, defending their position while Katniss tries to clear a path for them. Once Katniss manages to clear a path she turns to tell the others to run when an ape jumps at her from her side and pushes her underwater, trying to bite her face off with Katniss using her bow to hold it back by its neck.
Hak hears the splash and decapitates two apes he was fighting before jumping to Katniss and packs the Ape by its head, throwing it off her and onto Finnick's trident, who nods curtly before defending himself against another one. Hak helps Katniss up and the group starts to run for the beach only for the monkeys to follow right behind them, tripping them and separating the group.
Haymitch lands on the floor with his knife at his feet when A orangutan is standing in front of him, screaming at him once and lunges, intending to rip his throat out only for one of the morphlings from district 6 to take the hit by throwing herself in front of the blonde. Haymitch quickly picks up the blade, killing the Ape and says "I'm sorry." To the woman, stabbing her in the heart to give hear a quick death.
"Run, we're almost there!" Haymitch screams.
Katniss is holding back an ape by kicking him away from her while she's on the ground until Hak jumps next to her, cutting the monkey in half and picks her up with one arm while she hugs herself to his front, looking behind him and defending his back with her bow from an jumping ape while he runs with her after Haymitch and Finnick, who is at their side. Once they get to the beach they are relieved and confused to see the orangutans stop from entering the sand as they scream at the group of humans.
"You OK Haymitch?" Hak asks him, once the Apes retreat back to the forest.
"Just brings back bad memories." Haymitch tells him as he cleans the blade in the water.
"She sacrificed herself when no one knew she was even there." Haymitch says while they watch her body getting retrieved by a plane.
"Sacrifice?" Katniss asks.
"Looked like it." Haymitch replies.
Finnick manages to catch them some fish from the water around the cornucopia and they eat a meal on the beach while the sun rises.
Hak breaks open a clam for Haymitch and sees a pearl in it. He picks it out, wiping it clean on his suit and hands it to Katniss, grinning at her "So you can't say I never gave you anything."
"Thank you." She laughs, accepting the pearl with a smile.
While they are eating their meal they hear something from the very other side of the arena and see a huge floodwave crashing down through the forest to the cornucopia where it breaks and a small ripple goes out all around the beach.
"Someone is here." Hak says hearing something not far from their location.
"Johanna." Finnick says spotting the woman with both tributes from district 3.
"Johanna!" He yells, running out from their cover.
"Finnick!" She shouts back, giving the man a hug.
"I guess we have more allies." Haymitch says, going over to the newcomers.
"Are you OK with this?" Hak asks Katniss, stopping her from going after him.
"I'm not sure, but we don't have much of a choice." She replies, looking at the woman from district 7 wearily before they make their way over to the group while Katniss puts away her loaded arrow.
"We were all the way deep into the jungle where I thought we'd be safe. That's when the rain started. I thought it was water but it turned out to be blood. Hot thick blood coming down and choking us. We were stumbling around, gagging on it blind until blight hit the forcefield. He wasn't much but at least he was from home." Johanna informs them while Wiress repeats tick, tack, tick, tack as if in a trance.
"What's wrong with her?" Katniss asks, looking at wiress.
"She's in shock. Dehydration isn't helping much, do you have freshwater?" Beady asks them while he's washing off the blood covering him.
"Stop it." Johanna finally snaps and pushes Wiress away from her while she was trying to get Johanna's attention.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Katniss yells, shoving away the woman from district 7.
"Hey,I got them out for you!" Wiress yells angrily while Finnick pulls her aside to stop her from attacking Katniss.
"For me, what does she mean?" Katniss asks surprised.
"You did want them as allies." Hak replies with a shrug.
"Come on let's get you cleaned up." Katniss tells the tick, tack mumbling woman, taking her to the water and helping her wash off.
"What does Beady have there?" Katniss asks Johanna who joined them in getting clean.
"Coil? Some kind of wire." Johanna explains.
"Did he get it from the cornucopia?" Katniss questions.
"He took at knife and went back to get it." Johanna answers.
"tick tack, tick tack!" Wiress yells excited making Johanna leave, saying "Have fun with Nuts!"
They look over to the tree where lightning strikes and Katniss hugs Wiress excitedly, saying "You're a genius." As she realizes the whole arena is a clock.
The group go to the cornucopia and Katniss tells them what she realized.
While the group discuss what dangers each sector hold, until they decide that staying clear of which ever is active is the only safe way anyways Wiress sings a song from the edge of the rocky foundation the cornucopia is standing on until she gasps loudly, making everyone look at her, seeing Gloss rip his dagger out of the womans neck, having just killed their companion.
Katniss shoots him in the chest, killing him while Cashmere, his sister runs at her from her side and Johanna pushes Katniss out of harms way, after which Hak throws his glaive at the blonde, hitting her through the chest. He grabs another glaive while Brutus attacks the group from the other direction, throwing a spear at Katniss, which Haymitch blocks and Finnick attacks the bulky man.
Enobaria throws her spear at Finnick, cutting him lightly on his arm and the two tributes from district 2 take cover with Johanna and Katniss running after them while Finnick, Beady and Haymitch are staying behind with Hak making his way to the girls when suddenly the middle part of the arena starts to spin, making everyone fall down and grasp onto the rocks to try and stay on land. Katniss's grip slips and she is about to fall down until Johanna catches her by her wrist and tries to anker them to the ground with her axe, struggling to hold onto the bow wielding girl. Katniss however gets slowly pulled away, sucked in once her feet touch the water. Hak sees her fall off the rotating platform and immediately throws aside his Glaive, jumping after her. He quickly swims to her location with the platform still spinning over their heads. When he gets to Katniss she is swimming back to the top but he stops her while she looks at him panicking, being already out of air. He looks at her, trying to calm her down and puts his lips to hers in a kiss, sharing his oxygen with her while they wait for the spinning to stop, much to their luck the spinning spots seconds after he reaches her. The two hurry to the surface where Hak helps her onto the rocky path in front of them and she starts coughing out water while Johanna makes her way over to her, checking on her.
"Are you OK?" Hak asks Katniss, climbing up next to her and putting his hand on his girlfriends back in concern.
"Let's just get what we need and get off this deathtrap." Johanna tells the group when the three males join them.
"So besides Brutus and Enobaria, who is left?" Katniss asks as the group gathers.
"No one." Haymitch says, having kept track.
"They are heavily outnumbered now, I doubt they'll attack again. We're safe here on the beach." Finnick says.
"So what do we do? Hunt them down?" Johanna asks, patting her axe.
Katniss then hears her sister scream for help out of the forest and takes off into the woods, screaming her name. When she gets to the source of the noise she sees that it's coming from an jabberjay, an engineered bird producing sounds the person hearing it will recognize as one of their worst fears, in Katniss's case her sister being hurt.
"Katniss!" Finnick shouts, being the first one to catch up to her after Katniss shot the bird imitating her sister.
"Finnick, it's not real." Katniss says chasing after Finnick, who runs into the woods screaming his girlfriend's name.
The two then get swarmed by the birds, which hit them occasionally but in general fly around them making them hear their loved ones suffer around them. They take off back to the beach, only to get stopped by and invisible wall trapping them inside for an hour with Katniss and Finnick holding their eras closed and trying to get through the torture.
"The hours up, the wall is gone. Are you OK?" Johanna asks Finnick, who looks ahead like he's dead inside.
"Katniss, no one hurt Prim. It wasn't real." Hak tells Katniss, who is lying on the floor her hands over her head.
"No one hurt Prim." Hak tells her, brushing over her back calmingly.
"Your fiancée is right, everyone loves your sister. If someone touches her forget the districts, there'd be riots in the capital." Johanna tells her and then curses out snow angrily.
Once they make their way back to the beach they sit in silence for a while, watching Finnick who slumped down in the water.
"Who is Annie?" Katniss asks.
"She's the girl Mags volunteered for." Haymitch tells her.
"Is the the one who went a little…?" Katniss asks.
"Yeah, love is weird." Johanna tells her, looking at Finnick's back.
Beady then interrupts them, informing the group that he has a plan and explains that they should use the lightning strike to electrify the water and everything on the beach after the 10 o'clock wave soaked it with Brutus and Enobaria in it once they left the beach.
"How do we know the wire's not going to burn up?" Johanna asks doubtfully.
"Because I invented it. It won't burn up." Beady replies.
"Well it's better than hunting them down." Johanna agrees.
"Yeah, why not." Katniss says.
"I say we try it." Haymitch agrees.
"I'd be more for the direct approach, but I won't go against the stream on this one." Hak tells them, twirling his glaive around.
"So what can we do to help?" Haymitch asks Beady.
"Keep me alive for the next 6 hours, that'd be extremely helpful." Beady tells them.
The group then relaxes on the beach until after the wave hit to make their way towards the lightning tree.
"I think we need to go." Katniss says to Hak, with Beady and Johanna sitting together and Finnick twirling around his weapon and Haymitch lying around alone on the beach and both Hak and Katniss sitting next to one another.
"This plan has a high success rate." Hak tells her.
"I think so too, but once the careers are dead we both know what happens next. I don't want to be the one to shoot first." Katniss says worriedly.
"What if they don't either?" Hak asks.
"We'd still end up dead with no one shooting first." Katniss says.
"It worked for us last time." Hak says.
"They won't make the same mistake again." Katniss tells him.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Hak agrees.
"You know there will be only one person walking away from his and it's got to be one of us." She tells him.
"Alright, the careers are still out there, we stay with them till midnight then we go. What about Haymitch?" He asks.
"I don't know, I think we have to be on our own on this." Katniss says, looking at Haymitch intently.
"Katniss, I don't know what kind of deal you tried to make with Haymitch, but I made him promise me something too." Hak tells her, seeing her eyes linger on their mentor.
"If you die and I live, there'd be nothing left for me." Hak tells her, taking off his pendant.
"There is no one else I care about. It's different for you. Your family is waiting for you, needs you." Hak tells her, handing her the necklace one he opens it, revealing a picture of her mother on one side, her sister on the other and a group picture of her, him, Haymitch and Effie the two adults took in secret while both he and Katniss were cuddled together in their sleep.
"You have to live on. For them." Hak tells her.
"What about you?" She replies.
"Nobody needs me. I am damaged goods." He tells her.
"I do, I need you. More than you can imagine." She says, hugging herself close to him and laying him down in the sand with her kissing him fiercely.
Alright lovebirds, time to go!" Haymitch shouts, standing with the rest of their group, waiting for them.
"Here, hold onto this for me." Hak tells her, giving her the pendant.
"Who knows if we somehow get out of this alive I'll want it back, maybe even with some naughty pictures of you." Hak tells her teasingly and helps her off the sand.
"Just make sure you stay alive to look at them." She says, putting the necklace on and giving him a worried look, knowing he won't hesitate to sacrifice himself for her.
The group makes their way to the tree where beady ties the wire around it multiple times, leaving the drum of wire for a group to take back to the beach.
"You two girls should go now. Unspool it carefully, make sure the entire coil is in the water, then head to the tree in the two o'clock sector." Beady instructs them.
"I'll go with them as a guard." Hak says.
"No, no, no. You are staying to protect me and the tree." Beady tells him.
"I need to be by her side." Hak says, getting angry.
"Hak, calm down. It's going to be OK." Katniss tells him, seeing the looks the rest of the group gives the two.
"I'll meet you in the two o'clock sector." She tells him, giving him one more loving kiss before she disappears with Johanna into the jungle.
Johanna and her are halfway to the beach when the spool stops and someone tugs on it. A moment later the wire is cut and Katniss prepares to fight, readying an arrow while Johanna hits her over the head with the spool and cuts into her arm, causing Katniss to scream out in pain.
"Stay down!" She warns Katniss, smearing her blood around her neck and takes off while Brutus and Enobaria start to chase after her.
Once Katniss recovered from the blow to the head to some degree she sits up and cowers herself under in a hiding spot while she hears Finnick running by just over her head yelling "Johanna, where are you?"
Katniss fears something could have happened to Hak and hurries back to the tree. Once there she sees no one around and only witnesses Beady getting repelled by the forcefield after hitting it with a spear which he wrapped part of the coil around and to the tree, hoping it would zap the energy instead.
Katniss sees this contraption and begins to think, seeing the forcefield weakening where Beady struck it.
Once a cannon booms Katniss shouts "Hak!" worriedly and looks for any sign of her lover. When she sees Finnick rush to her location however she hides herself, readying an arrow and aims at the blonde.
"Katniss, where are you?" He shouts looking around until he spots her through some grass with her arrow aimed at him.
"Katniss. Remember who the real enemy is." Finnick tells her, using the same words Haymitch told her before they entered the arena.
She lowers her bow, realizing what he means and looks upwards upon hearing thunder rumble over her head. She quickly ties wire connected to the tree around an arrow.
"Katniss, get away from that tree." Finnick warns her.
She however stands her ground, aiming to the sky and the moment the lightning hits she releases her arrow, which flies up to the dome and fries the entire system, causing the dome to come down around them while she and Finnick get blown away by the force wave.
Only seconds after the dome starts to come down around them Katniss sees a plane collect her before she passes out, losing the sleeve with her pin along the way.
Around an hour later she awakens in a transport plane with Beady next to her unconscious.
She carefully makes her way to the front of the plane where Haymitch, Finnick and Heavensbee are discussing something about Hak.
When she opens the door the three shut up and stare at her.
"Morning sweetheart." Haymitch tells her, making her attack him with a syringe.
"What are you doing with them?" She asks angrily with Haymitch restraining her against a wall however.
"We're conspiring against the capitol. You see this is why no one lets you make the plans." Haymitch tells her.
"Stop, just listen Katniss." Finnick tells her.
"We couldn't tell you. With Snow watching it was too risky. Better for you to know nothing." Haymitch tells her.
"Where is Hak?" Katniss asks.
"Katniss, you have always been our mission from the beginning. The plan was always to get you out. Half the tributes were in on it. This is the start of a revolution and you're the Mockingjay. We are on our way to district 13 right now." Heavensbee explains.
"13? Doesn't matter, where is Hak?!" Katniss asks.
"He still had his tracker in his arm. Johanna cut yours out." Haymitch tells her.
"Where is he?" Katniss questions.
"In the capitol by my guess, same as Johanna." Haymitch tells her.
"You son of a bitch. You promised me, you promised you'd take him over me! You're a liar." Katniss yells sorrowful, slapping Haymitch across his face angrily before Heavensbee knocks her out with a drug.
When Katniss wakes up days later Gale is sitting by her side.
"Hey Katniss, it's OK. You were only asleep for a few days." He tells her.
"Gale? Where is Prim?" Katniss asks worried.
"She is alive, so is your mother. I got them out in time." He tells her.
"Got them out?" She asks confused.
"After the games, they started dropping firebombs." Gale tells her.
"We're not in 12?" She asks.
"There is no district 12. It's all gone." Gale informs her.
"Hak! What about Hak?" She asks worriedly.
"No news." Gale tells her empathically, shaking his head.
|Moments before the collapse of the arena|
"Crap, Katniss?! Katniss! Where are you?" Hak screams, having run after the girl once the wire got cut.
"Fuck, where did she go?" Hak curses, seeing the spool lying on the floor.
"Argh." He then hears a female scream from the forest and runs towards the source.
Once he arrives at it he sees Johanna crawling away from Brutus and Enobaria, who smile at her victoriously and approach her slowly, enjoying the moment. Hak uses the advantage that no one saw him and jumps out from his cover, beheading the two tributes and goes over to Johanna, helping her up.
"Where is Katniss?" He asks hurriedly.
"OK, two things, first this all is Haymitch's plan and secondly." Johanna says, takes a knife from Brutus's corpse and cuts him in his arm, removing the tracker.
"Do me now." She tells him, looking up with worry.
Hak quickly cuts out her tracker and they disappear into the jungle.
"Tell me where Katniss is!" He yells at her.
"She will be safe. Getting her out is the whole reason for this fucking Hunger Games." Johanna curses annoyed.
"What are you saying?" Hak questions confused.
"This was all a plan to spring your little girl out from the capitol's grasps." Johanna tells him.
The arrow then hits the dome and the ceiling collapses in a few places while they stay hidden in the trees, hoping Haymitch goes looking for them.
"Fuck those mother fuckers, Heavensbee you dirty old fucker!" Johanna curses enraged when they see the plane leave after collecting Katniss, Beady, Haymitch and Finnick.
"What does that mean?" Hak asks, looking after the plane dreadfully.
"It means we're screwed. The capitol is about to gather us and we're fucked.
"Maybe not. Take off your clothes!" Hak tells her causing her to strip with him doing the same.
The two go over to the dead bodies of Brutus and Enobaria and put their clothes next to them before going to a burning piece of debree which came down from the ceiling having landed right next to the two corpses.
"Help me!" Hak tells her and uses his glaive to dig under the piece and roll it over so it smashes the corpses.
"Now, come on!" He tells her and takes off into the jungle with her. The two watch as a plane comes and collects the pile before leaving.
"Alright, we're save from being captured form now, what now fucker?" Johanna asks him angrily.
"First", Hak says and cuts off a few branches, making makeshift clothes from them.
"Now. We'll have to survive her for a while. Until the troops are gone." Hak tells her, motioning to the group of soldiers which are searching the beach. The two survivors make their way to the bird section where Hak hunts a few birds, using them for better clothes and to eat them, frying them on a fire they contained so no smoke will be visible.
"Looks like they only attack when the electricity in this part works huh?" Hak asks her, eating away at the bird.
"Seems so." She agrees.
An hour or so later the electricity in some parts of the arena starts up again but with malfunctions. Much to the dismay of Hak and Johanna the two get trapped in the space with the birds which start to torment them. This goes on for a whole day straight until someone shut off the arena's power completely. During that time Hak kept Johanna knocked out, because she already was mad and would have killed herself with no doubt in his mind while he became only a shell of himself, having heard Katniss dying for countless hours over until it changed to both Katniss dying and her confessing her love to Gale or her saying that she never loved Hak.
He somehow was able to survive this, at first it worked by attacking the birds and eating them but at some point he was too exhausted from dehydration, only having been able to gather little bits of rain water at that point he broke, leaving him a shell of his former self.
When the electricity shuts off Hak shakes Johanna awake, who looks around herself confused at the countless dead birds.
"We can leave." Hak tells her, no emotion in his voice.
"Where should we go?" She asks him, following him to the edge of the arena where he smashes a hole in it.
"I don't care. Katniss is dead, I'm barely use to anyone anymore anyways, use me as you see fit." Hak tells her.
"What do you mean dead?" Katniss was rescued by the plane. Remember?" Johanna tells him.
"I heard her die, so she must be dead. Her ghost was mean. It told me that she didn't love me and only wants Gale." Hak says weakly.
"Hak, how long was I unconscious?" Johanna asks.
"I don't know. I stopped counting the second time the tree was hit twelve times, not too long after that, whenever that was." Hak mumbles.
"A day?" Johanna gasps.
"Where are we?" Hak asks, looking around the unfamiliar scenery.
"Uhh, fishing district?" Johanna guesses, seeing many islands separated by a huge body of water which by her guess would be the ocean.
"Where do you want to go?" Hak asks her.
"I guess we have to head to the 12th district. Wait. That over there. That's the 7th district, my district. If we can get there undetected, I can get us some supplies, clothes, food." Johanna tells him excitedly pointing at a part of land on the opposite site of the water.
"Hmm." Hak thinks to himself, looking back at the dome and bashes in the constraints on a piece of the dome.
He drags it to the water and pushes it in, standing on it.
"Will that hold?" Johanna asks, looking at it with doubt, only receiving a shrug in response.
"I don't know if I like this crazy ass you more or the usual crazy you more." Johanna tells him with a grin and jumps onto the makeshift raft.
Hak manages to steer them to the other side somehow with his glaive and the two start their journey to the 12th district from that point on. With Johanna trying to convince him that Katniss is still alive, to which he after the third day of their journey says, "You made your point already, I will believe you if I see her again."