The next morning,Peeta and I are woken up by Johanna; gripping my wrist in one hand, Peeta's in the other.
"You two lovebirds need to get up and come with me." she hissed when Peeta and I finally woke up.
"What..?" Peeta mumbled before he was ripped up from the sand by Finnick,quickly followed by me.
"Don't as questions. Go. Now." Finnick snapped,thrusting my bow and remaining arrows at me. Before either of us could protest,Johanna was dragging us off into the woods.
"Johanna,what is-" I fumbled over my words.
"I'll explain later. Now shut up! If I have to tell either of you again,I'll shut you up permanently! Then neither of you will be of any use,and this whole thing would be a waste." Johanna snarled and pulled us deeper into the woods.
I looked to Peeta,hoping he had some idea about what she was talking about,but she looked just as confused as I was. My gut feeling that Finnick and Johanna were plotting to kill us off got stronger as we went farther into territory we hadn't explored.
After what felt like hours,Johanna pushed us ahead.
"You go hunt,or whatever it is you do." She pointed at me,then he glance shifted to Peeta. "You...you go with her." She pushed us further ahead. I hesitated,but eventually slinked slowly away and into the forest,with Peeta in tow.
Johanna was lost from sight quickly,but she reappeared almost as quickly as she disappeared. Beaming Peeta in the head with a rock,then proceeding me. Peeta was knocked unconscious on impact. Unfortunately,I wasn't as lucky. I tired shaking him back to reality,but without success. Johanna took her knife from her belt and cut into his arm. Flashbacks from last years games,at the feast,hit me hard. It almost felt like reality,reliving the whole thing again. Clove's knife slowly cutting into my lip, but this time,it wasn't my lip,but my arm.
"Stay still,kid..." Clove muttered-but it wasn't her voice. It was Johanna's. Eventually,her grip on my arm loosened and she took off into the distance. I slowly regained my composure and shook Peeta awake.
"What happened..." Peeta mumbled. He looked himself over,and jumped when he saw his arm.
"Calm down. I think I know what to do." I said,ripping the sleeve off my shirt and gathering leaves from around up.
"Katniss,are you sure another tourniquet is a good idea?" He murmured.
"Not my intention,Peeta." I said as I put a few leaves onto his wound and loosely tying my shirt sleeve around his arm. Essentially making a bandage good enough for now,but not for the long term. Once Peeta was taken care of,I ripped my other sleeve off,handed it to Peeta,and held a few leaves to my own wound.
"Alright Peeta,you saw what I did,right?"
"Yeah,just tell me how tight you want me to tie it. I don't want to hurt you." He said,and started wrapping my arm. I decided against protesting that when you're trying to stop an open wound from bleeding,that you don't worry about the person's comfort.
He eventually got it,and we attempted to assess our situation. I threw the closest solid object to what I assumed to be north,and sure enough,it zapped back slightly charred.
"We should go back south. Toward the beach. From there,we can easily make it back to camp." I finally directed Peeta,and started off in said direction.
"Kat. While I was out...did Johanna say anything about what is going on?" He whispered. I turned around and walked back over to him,and kissed his forehead lightly.
"No. Sorry,she didn't." I whispered back.
"It's ok." He took my hand in his and started walking.
"Lets get back to camp. Fast." He said,breaking into a run.
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We got back to camp,to find everyone in chaos. Beetee running a wire from a tree on the far side of the forest,through the sea water,and into the woods where we were. All while Johanna was arguing with Finnick.
"Enobaria nearly got us. Had to chase her off right when I got that tracker out of the girl. Bitch outran me-" Johanna whispered,barely audibly from where Peeta and I were standing. We slowly moved closer,in hopes of finding out what in the world was going on.
"You left them there! Alone? We have to get out of here. Now." Finnick hissed,cutting her off mid-sentence. He turned his head slightly in our direction,but looked back to Johanna briefly before doing a double-take and noticing us. He shook his head and muttered something under his breath that I didn't quite catch. Only hearing the words 'last chance' and 'escape.' He picked up his trident and ran over to Beetee. Johanna followed. Without thinking I ran after them.
That's when all hell broke loose.
Johanna ran off to the side from Finnick,but I caught him just as he threw his trident at the force field. Without thinking,I shot an arrow. That's when Peeta caught up. He instinctively grabbed me and we fell about 3 yards away. But I was already slipping from the grip of reality. I had gotten hit with electricity at the same time as Finnick. Not with as much of a force,but I was close enough to get hit with the impact. 2 hovercrafts materialized in my small field of vision. The Capitol. It had to be. The first picked Johanna,Beetee, and Finnick. Finnick had to be dead. Or almost dead,I was sure of it. The second picked up Peeta and I.
I started to slip further into unconsciousness. This wasn't a Capitol hovercraft. It was an open area. The people inside looked more like soldiers. All except fro two. One was most definitely Haymitch. He was moving quickly toward us. The other looked like a gamemaker. But I wasn't sure who he was,and why he was here,looking worried. Gamemakers don't care about rebels. That's what we must be being called. Rebels. The last things I remember are Peeta and Haymitch. Both of them pleading from me to stay awake. I tried,but couldn't. The last thing I heard was Peeta- pleading through the sobs. Begging me to stay with him.