A/N: Wiress' mental breakdown was also inspired by "Breathe" by NutsandVolts :)
"I guess I could -" Wiress looked around before climbing down the tree near the center of the arena. She had maintained a low profile for two days after Terrance's death.
"You can get to the cornucopia." Beetee muttered. Wiress tentatively walked out into the clearing. She ran over and inspected the remaining contents. Deep in the back Wiress found a familiar object. It was a large battery about the size of a book. She placed it in her backpack.
"I just need -" Wiress looked around.
"Wire." Beetee finished. "Look over to your right more, hon."
"Y'all know you can't hear each other, right?" Seeder asked.
"I know." Beetee said. "She thinks out loud though. She did it as an intern." He smiled.
"Beetee - did you -" Wiress smiled as she held up a coil of wire. She placed it in her backpack. She looked around and attempted to crawl under a gap between the metal and the ground. Just then two tributes from the Career pack ran toward the cornucopia. Wiress picked up two stones and a sling she had made out of flexible twigs and grass she had woven together. She used the sling-shot to hit the two tributes before running back into the woods. She covered her ears as the sounds of the two yelling at each other and fighting reached the area. She cringed as she heard screams of pain as they fought each other to the death. "No - I'm sorry -" Her large eyes widened as two cannons went off.
Wiress began making a trap. She wrapped the wire around the components of the trap and climbed up the tree to wait. "Congratulations to our female District Three tribute, Both District Two tributes, and our male District Four tribute for making it into the final Four!" Claudius Templesmith called. "As you all are very near the cornucopia, I'll just invite you to the feast straightaway!" A table with baskets of bread rolls from all the districts represented in the final four appeared out of the ground.
"I think - I should stay -" Wiress whispered.
"Good thinking, love." Beetee whispered looking at her tablet and then at the main screen. The District Four male ran for the District Two female and began attacking her with a knife. She rolled away from him and her partner pushed him into the side of the cornucopia before stabbing him in the back.
"Where's Three?" The male District Two tribute asked.
"Dunno." His partner muttered.
"Well - go get her and then we'll finish off Four!" The boy snarled.
"Let's get her together. Then finish off Four together."
"Ok." The boy grunted. "Come out, Three! Come out!" He called. He noticed a branch moving on the ground. He ran toward it. As his foot hit the ground, a rope made out of flexible branches hoisted him up in the air. Another branch wrapped around his middle, and yet another wrapped around his left elbow cutting into his flesh until it bled. His district partner yelled but she was soon wrapped in another set of ropes.
The tribute from Four realized he was still alive. He also realized his adversaries were trapped. With all his strength, he picked up his light-weight steel sword and ran toward the trap.
"Say goodbye to your partner!" He sneered at the boy from Two before plunging his sword into the girl. He tried to take it out to deliver the fatal blow, but it was tangled in the branches. As he wiggled it, he didn't realize it was caught between the branch and the thin metal wire incorporated in the trap.
"This should have enough voltage to -" Wiress quickly wrapped the wire around the two ends of the battery. Suddenly the tree was hit by lightning. The three Career tributes that were all caught in the trap screamed before they all went limp. The wire had burnt into their flesh, in some cases nearly burnt off their limbs. Three cannons went off as Wiress fell from the tree and landed on the ground where she twitched uncontrollably. She lay still for a second before moving her arm to feel her surroundings. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the victor of the 54th Hunger Games - Wiress Carpenter!" A hovercraft appeared and picked her up with a 4 pronged clip. Beetee looked down at his tablet that still showed her heart-rate, blood-oxygen, body temperature, and other statistics the tracker was relaying. The numbers were flashing red. Without intervention soon, she would die.
"Hold on, sweetie, it's almost over." Beetee whispered, tears trickling down his cheeks.
The scene on the main TV screens changed to an operating room where doctors lay Wiress on the table. "She's barely here." A doctor observed worriedly as the medical team quickly hooked her up to their machines. The tablet went blank as her tracker was removed from her arm. "Blood pressure's falling."
"Get four units of blood! She's nearly in shock!" The doctors bustled around Wiress' operating table shouting commands at each other. One of them slid a tube down her throat seconds before a monitor sounded. The doctors all exchanged glances. One of them ran to the corner of the room and grabbed a crash-cart. As he was pushing it to the operating table, one of the wheels wobbled causing the cart with all the equipment on it to crash uselessly to the floor.
"NO! NO!" Beetee screamed as he watched the monitors in the operating room display flat lines or zero's for Wiress' vital signs. "WIRESS! DON'T GO – DON'T DIE – PLEASE! I LOVE YOU – I LOVE YOU! NOOOOOO!" Two guards grabbed him and dragged him out of the mentors' control room as the main screens went blank. He was carried and dragged to the basement of the training center.
A/N: The idea of one member of Team Nerds thinking that their other half is dead also comes from "Breathe" as well as the idea for the next chapter.
Again... Poor Beetee :(