Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games.
A/n: This is a series of oneshots. Each oneshot features, in order, a person from the character list on this site as well as a few i felt should be there (Boggs, Coin, Caesar, Cashmere, Gloss, Marvel and Maysilee) each with a randomly picked prompt (or as random as i could manage without throwing actual darts at my poor old dictionary!). Updates will be one a day (hopefully) though when i go back to uni, this might change. Anyway, i hope you enjoy! As always, any criticism, just shout it out. Any advice on law, shout it out louder!
3) Beetee – Noose
Beetee keeps running, hurriedly attaching the wires to the trees. He can't stop. Not yet.
His finger slips, causing him to drop the wire. Swearing under his breath, he grabs it and quickly ties it to the branch. If he doesn't hurry up, they'll catch him and kill him. He has to do this. Now.
More wire tied to the tree. He pulls the rope and wire tighter, listening for the footsteps coming ever closer. For a brief second, he wonders whether he's mistaking it with his own, wildly thumping heart. Then he wonders whether they can hear it too. But he isn't worried about sound because this plan involves them chasing him. He turns and runs to the energy box. He just has to jam this insulated end in...
"There he is!"
"Get him!"
Beetee grabs the energy box and runs again, through the trees, ducking and praying that neither boy has noticed this action. Just like he expected, they don't see the wires, attached to nearby trees. They run into them and curse, trying to free themselves. He uses their confusion to jam the end of the wire into the box.
Their bodies start to jerk. One boy had the wire in his hand, moving it above his head, and Beetee can see his face clearly. He looks away at the other boy as though this death may, somehow, be better. This boy ran straight into the wire which was at neck height and it has looped around him in some horrific, electrifying noose. For a split second, his eyes meet Beetee's. Then he falls, twitching and screaming.
Two cannons fire. Beetee searches for something he can say about the two teenagers he has just killed. But there's nothing he can say which wouldn't shock him to his core. The sight of the boy and his electric noose has burned its way onto his brain, as has the smell of the boy who hung onto the wire.
As the hovercraft comes to pick him up and the people of the Capitol cheer him, his eyes stay fixated on their corpses, still riddled with spasms. The first boy's hand is still spread out, as though he is being crucified. The noose boy is almost hovering, supported by the wire.
The savagery of what he has just done scares him and he vows never to harness the power of technology to kill anyone else. Ever.