-Finnick:
I excuse myself as I stand up slowly and go over to the food table; slowly I wrap my hand around a steak knife. There's no reason for me to live now. She was my life, and now she is dead. As I lift the knife someone grasps my wrist.
"That's not a wise thing to do Finnick." Chaff tells me sternly, he crushes my hand until it opens, letting the blade fall to the floor. "Go watch, she's not dead."
I go and sit on the couch, Lyn has some contraption hooked up as she throws a rock into the force field. You can see the electricity run down the wire. Rachel's body jolts and then is still again, Skitt blows one last breath into her and then sits back. He scowls, "If she doesn't come back now then it's too late." He announces. Blight continues to press on her chest, forcing her heart to beat. He puts his ear to her chest once and grins.
"She's alive." His comment makes my head snap up, my eyes instantly brighten, and my heart hangs on to the thin line of hope that he may be right. I watch as slowly her hands ball into fists and then open again; the broadcasters are beside themselves wondering why in the world other tributes would revive another. She positions her arms and begins to sit up but stops and closes her eyes again, Skitt instantly goes behind her and supports her up, this time, it bothers me.
Over the next few hours Rachel slowly comes back to life. She gets up to her feet with help from Skitt and he helps her walk around some, he has her swing her arms around, her legs, and they see if she can catch. The catching doesn't go so well, but everything else is alright. In the end they are all on the move again, with Blight and Skitt taking turns carrying her and Johanna making fun of her all the while. Lyn is still entranced with her wire as she looks around the arena, occasionally asking questions about who is left alive.
On the other hand, Lyme, Dillad, and Pren have all formed an alliance and are out looking for the others, looking to take them out. Cariad and Tir are both on their own.
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-Rachel:
The sun is going down when we stop at the shoreline to make camp. We had decided to turn around and go back to the sea after I died, deciding that it would be the safer way. Blight sets me down and I stumble over and sit with my back against a tree. My stomach rumbles, reminding me that it hasn't had any food in two days. I need food, I'd be able to help the others and not be carried if I did. I look up to the sky and sneer, "Some food would be appreciated, if you aren't too drunk."
It's almost funny how quickly the parachute comes from the sky. I open it eagerly and find seven pieces of District Five bread. "Hey, food!" I call out, everyone's head immediately turns to me and they all come over. Blight is the first to arrive.
"How many pieces?" he asks eagerly.
"Seven, which I don't get, because that will never sort evenly."
"Yea, it won't will it." Blight's mind is clearly elsewhere as I pick up a piece and shove it into my mouth. It's not like the bread at home, but it's good and for now, it will suit me just fine.
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On the morning of the next day, day three, I'm awoken by Lyn.
"I got it!" She cheers; I bolt upright, got what? She woke everyone else up too.
"What?" I spit out.
"I know how we can take out Lyme, Pren, and Dillad." She smiles. This makes everyone sit up and listen to her. "Okay, so does anyone know why we can't drown in the sea?" She asks. Nobody says anything, I have no idea why. Lyn doesn't hide her disappointment. "It's because of the high salt content, it keeps us afloat. Now what is important about salt water? Skitt you must know."
Skitt scratches his head, "Ugh, you can't drink it." He shrugs.
"What about with electricity"
"Oh! It's highly conductive." Skitt gets it now.
"Exactly!" Lyn is very pleased with her students. "So what I say we do is we take my wire, then we place it in the sea, after that we put the other end in the force field. We fry the sea, and make sure the others are in the water." She beams at us.
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-Skitt:
I can see the real purpose of Lyn's plan, because I know what the water really is. The water technically isn't water. It just looks like water, it does have salt, but then a special chemical too. So when the electricity from the field reaches the water, then it will bounce back and go back to the force field, its strength magnified to be ten times stronger. The force field will destroy itself.
Once it's destroyed, we get rescued. Hurray!
I stay with Rachel while the others go into the woods to hunt for food. We get bored almost immediately, so I give her a piece of Lyn's wire and we start to tie different knots. Eventually it turns into some kind of competition to see who knows how to tie more knots. I do a rather complex one and she laughs at me.
"I haven't tied that one since last month, when" her sentence is cut off when her mouth falls open and her face goes completely white. I just stare at her.
"Rachel?" I ask getting a little worried. I seem to snap her somewhat out of this little trance thing she's in and her hand goes over her stomach. "Hey are you okay?" I ask the question and immediately know my answer will be a no.
"Seeder, help" she groans. Okay, awkward. Seeder isn't here.
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-Seeder:
"Seeder, help" Rachel groans to me. This confirms my thought that she's thinking the same thing that every woman who knows she and Finnick slept together are thinking. She thinks she's pregnant. Every victor in the room looks at me.
"I know what she wants relax!" I spit out at them. "Finnick, come over here though!" I yell across the room to him. He looks confused but stands up and walks over. He may as well know what she's thinking because he won't come to the conclusion himself. He follows me until we're alone by the gift sending table.
"Yeah?" he asks. "What's going on?"
"You," I point my finger at him. "my friend, may be a father. Congrats."
I'm not exaggerating when I say Finnick's face goes snow white. "What"
"but that's to be found out momentarily, give me a sec"
I go over and send Rachel the gift she wants, something to confirm her fears or not. Afterwards I go and sit next to a very unstable Finnick, who has his hands covering his mouth. It shows Rachel eagerly grab the parachute then excuse herself from Skitt. It shows Johanna throw an axe and take down some deer creature. Next, it shows Rachel barging her way angrily back to Skitt.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Skitt asks. Rachel throws something in front of him.
"Yes we're both fabulous!" she yells throwing her hands up in the air. The screen zooms in on what she threw in front of Skitt. A pregnancy test and it says positive.
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To my surprise I look over to see Finnick's head in his hands, but he's laughing.
"Haymitch is gunna kill me" he laughs harder. To emphasize his point we hear crashing.
"WHERE IS THAT KID, I'LL KILL HIM! LET ME KILL HIM NOW!" Haymitch's scream fills the whole room.