Finnick's POV.
I wake to the sound of birds chirping in the trees. I wake gracefully thinking I am in my own bed at home. I open my eyes and see the trees and ice down below and I am brought back to reality when I hear a blood-curdling scream and a cannon sounding above. I stretch in my position on the tree and untie the rope around my waist. I climb down the tree and begin to pack up my belongings. I grab the backpack bag that I collected at the cornucopia and begin to walk south. If I have thought this through properly, I will hopefully end up at the lake. I really need fresh water and although it isn't going to be hard to find it around here, I think my best bet at safe water is the lake.
I continue to walk south and come across little obstacles along the way. I hear only one cannon as I am walking. Around about four hours of walking I hear something crackling. Like a fire. I start to walk in the direction of the sound, my trident out in position. I try not to step on any branches as I walk because it will snap and alert the person that I am here. I hide behind a tree as I approach the person from behind. My trident is out in front of me and suddenly I hear a twig snap. I snapped it. She turns around to face me, but I don't look at her immediately. I just plunge the trident forward and hope it hits her.
"Finnick NO!" She screams, and it is at this point when I look at her. I hit Ivy.
"Ivy!" I say breathless and drop my weapon. I look at the place where I skewered her. Not too bad! I could definitely have done more damage but for now, she will live. I crouch down in front of her, so I can see the blood. Her waist is covered in the stuff. I try t cover up the endless flow of blood with my jacket so that she won't bleed to death. Blood falls down her waist and legs and all the time she just looks at me with a soft though shocked expression. Like she's scared of me.
"Is it alright?" she asks looking directly away from me and the wound. I can see her holding her breath as if not to feel the stabbing pain in her hip.
"It's fine, you'll live," I say sounding annoyed. I stand up and say, "Sorry."
I begin to walk off in the direction of where I thought the lake would be when she stops me. "Finnick wait." She runs up to me wincing at the pain of her side. "Can we be allies? I mean, I've been trying to survive for a day and I already been hurt twice. I need help and… well, you're as good as the rest, if not better."
I ponder this for a while trying to see where she was hurt the first time. Then I spot it. A welting burn on her left leg. Puss falling out of it with bloody finger marks all over the spot. I tilt my head trying to think of where I've seen this before, but I haven't talked to Ivy since after the interview, so I couldn't have seen it on her.
She follows my gaze down to her leg and sighs. "I got that trying to kill one of the other tributes. District Eight Female. She was absolutely crazy. Swinging at me from every angle and then this fireball flew out from nowhere and hit her square in the face, but it hit me also. Thankfully she was the one who fell down, so I had the chance to live, but I literally ran for the hills."
"Yeah, I killed her," I say flatly and Ivy gasps, looking down at her feet.
"So how about it? Allies?" She presses again looking hopeful. I wait before answering the simplest answer in the dictionary.
"Sure."
Annie's POV.
No! No, no, no, no, no...
They can't be allies! They just can't. I won't be able to watch this if they are going to be allies. But I have to. Imagine what will happen if they both live out the entire games as I was hoping Finnick would. They would have to fight each other. That can't happen. I need air. I can't breathe. I take one last look at the tv before I go outside. Finnick is trying to find some plant that will help with Ivy's wounds.
I walk outside and see almost everyone in their houses, faces glued to their televisions. I think the whole district is worried about Ivy and Finnick becoming allies. I keep walking. I don't know where I am going but I know I am walking.
When I get to the street I finally know where I am walking to. Finnick's house. This is the place where he used to live. I walk up to the front of his run-down house. It has a wood and stone exterior and it is very old. It is pretty disgusting but compared to a lot of the houses in this district, this one is luxury. There are little vines weaving their way through the planks of wood on the outside of the house. Mice run by, under the house and near my feet. I jump every time one touches me. I can only see one of the two windows that are on the front of the house. One of the windows is covered with a sheet of white fabric that flies around every time the wind picks up.
I knock on the made-do door that is made out of a piece of wood. I really hope that his mother is home. I've only met her once when Finnick brought me back to his house for lunch. We ate slowly savoring every moment of our being together. When his mother answers the door, I smile and hope that she remembers me. her face is stiff for a few seconds obviously trying to remember me. Then her face softens, she smiles and she invites me inside.
"How are you doing dear?" She asks me politely, sitting herself down on the dusty, crumpled, old couch beside me.
"I'm fine. How are you doing, with the whole... Hunger Games thing?" I ask. Her face dissolves into a sad, almost teary state but she doesn't dare show me any tears.
She softens and looks up at me, "Well, I don't think that anyone is doing all that great right now. Would you like some tea, Annie?" She asks and stands up, walking over too the kitchen. She opens the little mini-fridge thing in the corner and grabs out the milk and some of the tea packets that look like they have been in there for ages.
"No thank you, but if you have any water, I'll have some," I answer, and she nods and walks over to the sink. The water spurts out of the tap slowly, Finnick's mother waits patiently for the water and when the cup is full, she brings it back over to me. I grab the cup and take a sip. She just waits, watching me with sad eyes. Then she looks down and waits for something else to be said. Then I begin, "I'm so sorry Miss Odair. I just come over here for some company and you wasting your time on me. I'll just leave now, I'm sorry." I say standing up and putting my cup down on the table.
"Nonsense, dear! To you, my name is Janet, and you are definitely not wasting my time. I enjoy the company and you were close to Finnick, so I'm am more than happy for you to stay." I turn back around and smile at her asking if she is sure. When she approves and tells me to sit back down, I grab the cup again and she turns on the television straight to the games.
Finnick's POV.
I fix up Ivy's wounds and set up camp for the night. We make a little fire and I bring out what's left of the rabbit I caught last night and munch on it. She thanks me, and I nod.
The sky begins to darken and become night. I wait for about three minutes before it is completely dark to stop the fire. Ivy helps me using the ice that is around us the cool the fire off. The sizzling sound that the fire makes as it is extinguished is rather loud and I am worried about it signaling other tributes, but I don't show my fear in front of Ivy. We talk about the games and try to think of a system or a game plan that we can play for a while. I spot a moving creature about two feet away from me and kill it with my throwing one of the remaining throwing knives. It's a lizard. Ivy cleans it and de-scales it. We don't cook it yet for fear of another tribute seeing the smoke from the fire.
"Should we sleep in the trees, it's probably safer than down here?" I ask she pulls out a rope that she got in her backpack and begins to climb one of the nearby trees. I put the lizard in my pack and grab out my rope and sleeping bag. I climb the tree next to her and plant myself on a firm out-branch that looks like it can hold my weight. I've almost firmly wrapped the rope and bag around me when we hear a girl and boy screaming and then two cannons following it. That's when the capitol anthem booms over the sudden silence. Both Ivy and I look up into the sky to see the fallen tributes from today.
District 1: None.
District 2: None. The whole career pack is still alive!
District 3: None.
District 4: None.
District 5: None.
District 6: Both are dead already so None.
District 7: Trill Bentley
District 8: None.
District 9: Jen Ventel. That means that because the guy walked off the pedestal early, and now Jen Ventel is dead. District nine has no more hope in winning.
District 10: None.
District 11: Emerald Salo.
District 12: Miles Victon. All of District 12 is gone as well.
Only four dead today, that's good. I hope that this can be finished as soon as possible though, so I can get back to Annie and my family. I look over at Ivy and see that she is already asleep, already in the land of dreams and not worried about the world around her. I envy that. She flinches and just in that little movement I know she's having a nightmare.
I wait and wait for the angel of sleep to grace me with her presence, but she never comes. I continue waiting until I give up and just listen to the screams and silence of the night in the Hunger Games.
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