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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.- Charlie St. cloud
~Katniss pov~
A clock I can almost see the hands ticking around the twelve-sectioned face of the arena. Each hour begins a new horror, a new gamemakers weapons, and ends the previous.
Lightning, blood rain, fog, monkeys—those are the first four hours, and at ten the wave. I don't know what happens in the other seven, but I know Wiress is right.
~Maryanne pov~
"now their getting it!" I stand to help wake the other along with Katniss.
"Get up." I say, shaking Fin's shoulder and he groans in return, eyes flutter open to meet mine.
"Yes love?" he mumbles, a drowsy grin smothered on his face.
"Come on, get up—we have to move." I say, moving on to Jo.
"Come on Jo, we got to move" I shacked her a bit harder.
"Noooo, I'm tired" she groaned turning over, but I kept shaking. "Fine, I'm up I'm up." she says, swatting me away and sitting up.
"Gather our stuff, we got to move" I told them, holding onto my Punjab along with the spile.
"And why do we have to move?" Jo questioned, stretching her arms.
"We better listen to my little fish, never been wrong so far." Fin says, taking hold of his trident but for some reason it sounds more like a demand.
"Midnight, it started at midnight." katniss confirmed to us after explaining about the clock theory.
Wiress then says "one-thirty"
"Exactly, one-thirty and at two, a terrible poisonous fog begins there" Katniss says, pointing the nearby jungle.
"So we have to move somewhere safe now." Katniss continued, and Wiress stands up obediently as I stand in between Fin and Jo.
I look towards Beetee who is out of it, but when peeta tries to lift him, he objects. "Wire." he says.
"She's right here." peeta tells him. "Wiress is fine, she's coming too". But still Beetee struggles, wanting his wire that will help us get us out of here.
"He wants his wire." I say, I cross the beach and pick up the cylinder they took from his belt when they bathed him.
It's coated in thick layer of congealed blood, and I froze just staring at the amount. I seen a lot of blood in my life, but all this at once its scary. But I feel steady fingers, wrap around the top pulling it from my grasp and pulling on my arm back to the others.
"This worthless thing, its some kind of wire or something" said Jo, turning it in her hand. "That's how he got cut, running up to the cornucopia to get this I don't know what kind of weapon it's supposed to be" She continued shaking it, which I kindly asked her to stop.
"I guess you could pull off a piece and use it as a garrote or something, but really can you imagine Beetee garroting somebody?" She asked, not letting go of my arm and so I bring it down so it's holds my hand instead.
"He won his games with a wire, setting up that electrical trap" Peeta points out. "It's the best weapon he could have."
"Seems like you'd have figured that out, since you nicknamed him volts and all." Katniss retorted, sounding a little arrogant seems like she's still a little mad from last night or a few minutes however long its been since we slept.
Jo's eyes narrowed dangerously at her, her hand tightened on mine as I rubbed on hers to try to calm her down.
"Yeah, that was really stupid of me, wasn't it? I guess I must have been distracted by keeping your little friends alive." she snapped venomously letting go of my hand and making her way to have a stand off with Katniss.
"While you were… what, again? Sitting back and acting like a weakling and you know what ticks me off is that you're not even pretending." She growls, katniss fingers tightens on the knife at her belt.
"Go ahead, try it." Jo taunts.
"Maybe we all had better be careful where we step." Fin says, shooting Katniss a look, he takes the coil from Jo and sets it on Beetee's chest.
"There's your wire, volts. Watch where you plug it." he jokes, making me giggle softly and he flashes a grin towards me before coming to my side, and wrapping an arm around my waist and I lean into him.
Peeta picks up the now- unresisting Beetee. "Where to?" he asked, looking around our little group his eyes lingering on me for a reason unknowns to me, making me confused.
"I'd like to go to the cornucopia and watch, just to make sure we're right about the clock" Fin suggests, looking in the direction of the cornucopia. We begin to walk, and I get kind of scared thinking of what's going to happen next.
We walk down the nearest sand strip, approaching the cornucopia with care, just in case the careers are concealed there. Which for now there not. It's abandoned as I knew it would be; only that big golden horn and the scrape weapons remain.
Peeta lays Beetee in the bit of shade the cornucopia provides, he calls out to wiress she crouches beside him and he puts the coil of wire in her hands. "Clean it, will you." he asked.
"NO" I shout, pulling Wiress away from the coil before she could touch it.
Everyone turns to me, and Wiress turns to give me a confused look.
"I mean… I don't think that's a good idea, you know stick together and all." I say, beyond embarrassed but a little or a lot of embarrassment would be worth her life.
"She's right, no going off alone." Katniss says, so wiress stays much to my joy. So she sits on the ground, and starts singing hickory-decry-dock the mouse ran up the clock a nursery song.
"Oh, not the song again" Jo whined, rolling her eyes.
"That went on for hours before she started tick-tocking." She explained, letting out a sigh.
"It's a nursery song." I tell her, and she looks at me funny, while Wiress gives me a smile.
Suddenly Wiress stands up very straight and points to the jungle. "Two" she says. The wall of fog has just begun to seep out onto the beach.
"Yes, look, Wiress is right, its two o'clock and the fog has started." katniss points out, looking smug.
"Like the clockwork" peeta agrees. "You were very smart to figure that out, Wiress."
Wiress sits back down, and sings some more.
"Oh she's more than smart" says Beetee, who has snapped out of his daze. "She can sense things before anyone else, like a canary in one of your coal mines." he says.
"What's that?" Fin asked Katniss.
"It's a bird that we send down into the mines to warn us if there's bad air." she explains.
"What's it do, die?" Jo asked, a little bit interested.
"It stops singing first, that's when you should get out but if the air's bad it dies, yes. And so do you." she says, going quiet. I then keep look out for the carriers, as peeta and the others create the map. Jo and Fin goes to join them, but I stay catches my attention first is the silence but no one else does.
I then catch the form of Gloss swimming his way to shore and I run to meet him.
"Well if it isn't the big baby, come to play with the big boys now?" he taunts, holding out his sword.
Without thinking I relies my Punjab, and let it fly around Gloss's neck while he goes wide eyed holding his slit throat, that could have been Wiress.
Katniss seemed to have caught on to the scuffle, as Jo sends her axe blade in cashmere's chest that had almost killed me with her knife.
Fin knocks away a spear Brutus throws at peeta and takes Enobaria's in his thigh. "FINNICK!" I yell to him in concern, running up to him and let him wraps an arm around my neck. But I'm sure this was all for his enjoyment of being fussed over.
Katniss springs forward as Brutus and Enobaria take flight, two cannon's sound indo indicating that cashmere and Gloss are dead… and one of those deaths were caused by me.
We begin giving chase; Fin is fine now again I say he was doing it in being smothered on. They sprint down a sand strip towards the jungle.
Then the part that I almost forgot, the ground jerks under our feet and we're flung to the ground. The circle of land that holds the cornucopia starts spinning fast, scary fast and the arena is blurred in my eyes that I though I was going blind.
I grip on for dear life, but I start slipping I dig in but I still keep slipping till finally I fling off.
And into the water, along with Beetee not far away it seems like Jo, Fin, Katniss, Peeta and Wiress hung on, man I hate being the weak link.
We're twenty yards from the beach, so I swim towards him and grab a hold of his arm tugging him along back to the others.
Fin comes to meet us halfway; taking hold of Beetee's other arm and together pulls him to shore and back to the cornucopia.
Once we reach shore, Beetee is reunited with Wiress and I'm embraced in a hug with Fin, who tucks his head on my shoulder and runs a hand through my hair, lightly pulling at the knots till they come undone.
Katniss goes off to Peeta and wraps her arms around him, and for a while we stay silent. I feel sad not for me but for Jo for her district partner, so I join her and wrap my arms around her front.
She doesn't hug back, just pats my back and lightly rests her head on mine and then she kisses the top of my forehead before shrugging me off.
"Lets get off this stinking island." Jo says finally, most of the weapons were lost I still had mine seeing as I wrapped it around my shoulder and above my head, to make a sash. We still had the wire seeing as Wiress had held it so tight.
We still had the spile which was tied to a vine around my waist. Fin strips off his undershirt and ties it around the wound Enobaria's knife made in his thigh; it's not deep thank the heavens.
Beetee seems to be able to walk now; we decide to head to the beach at twelve o'clock, but Peeta and Jo and Fin go in different directions so I just stop altogether confused myself.
"Twelve o'clock right?" Peeta questioned confused, the tail points at twelve.
"Before they spun us, I was judging by the sun." Fin says.
"The sun only tells you its going on four, Finnick." Katniss tells him.
"I think katniss point is, knowing the time doesn't mean you necessarily know where four is on the clock, you might have a general idea of the direction." he says, unless you consider that they may have shifted to the outer ring of the jungle as well." he finished.
"Yes, so anyone of these paths could lead to twelve o'clock." Katniss says. So we circle around the cornucopia, avoiding the jungle, Jo wants to go after enobaria and Brutus but there tracks were blown away.
I walked with Beetee, Wiress and Jo as Peeta, Katniss and Fin are a little a head.
"I should have never mentioned the clock, now they've taken that advantage away as well." Katniss says bitterly.
"Its ok katniss, will figure it out." I call to her, and she turns around and gives me a fluttering look.
"Only temporarily" beetee adds. "At ten, well see the wave again and be back on track."
"Yes, they can't redesign the whole arena." Peeta agreed, putting his input in the conversation.
"It doesn't matter" Jo says impatiently at my side. "You had to tell us or we never would have moved our camp in the first place, brainless." She finishes, if my ear's deceived me I would of thought that was some type of comforting.
"Come on, I need water, anyone have a gut feeling?" Katniss asked.
"Maybe we should tap a tree on the outside of the jungle?" I suggested hopefully, trying to save Katniss the expense of the torture of the jabber jays.
"But all the good trees are in the jungle." Peeta dismissed, and headed off towards the trees as everyone else slowly followed. Only Wiress and Jo took my advice to heart, and stuck with me at the back.
"Well, it must be monkey hour, and I don't see any of them in there." says Peeta. "I'm going to tap a tree."
"No, it's my turn." Fin says, stepping up and making my panic levels go up a notch.
"I'll at least watch your back." Peeta retorts.
"Katniss can do that, we need you to make another map, the other washed away." Jo says, yanking a large leaf off a tree and hands it to him.
"Ma-may-maybe this-this is a-a bad I-idea you know I got that gut feeling, and it's never wrong." I really hate my stuttering, looking between Katniss and Fin who's gazes soften.
"Well be fine." Fin assures, leaning down to Eskimo kiss me again.
So Katniss follows Fin into the jungle and I'm left to worry after them.
~ Finnick pov~
We walk fifteen yards Katniss behind me, I have this unsettling feeling and I felt as though I should have listened to my little fish, but that doesn't stop me.
Katniss stands guard weapon at the ready as I go to tap a tree, how strange this little instrument has been able to save us so far.
I try to hurry, not liking being away from my little fish for long she may get hurt and I wouldn't live with myself if that happened.
"Katniss did you get the spile?" I ask her, she looks down at me and a look of surprise comes to her face.
"I thought you had it" she moans, and I give out a sigh.
I stand up intending to go get the spile, that's when I hear the scream. I turn around to see katniss wiping her arrow clean with some moss.
"Katniss?" I say as I approached her.
"It's ok, I'm okay" She says. "I thought I heard my sister but-" she was cut off by a piercing shriek.
"FIN, FIN!" I could hear my little fish scream for me, the color vanishes from my face, and my pupils dilate in fear, and I take off running for my little fish.
"FINNICK WAIT!" I barely hear Katniss call for me, but I keep running having to get to her, and hold her in my arms and protect her.
"FINNICK!" She calls to me, a few yards behind but I still don't listen. I run for a quarter mile, most of it uphill the screaming calls to me from my little fish edging me on.
I come to a tree, and began to circle it looking for Maryanne up in the branches.
"Is the thing that chased her up there with her?" I thought in panic. "Did whatever it was kill off Johanna, Beetee and Wiress and Peeta already?"
"MARYANNE, MARYANNE!" I yell to her, searching for her, not noticing Katniss was up there till a jabber jay feel towards my feet. I pick it up, slowly looking it over as Katniss comes to join me, my heart sinking and I feel weak and sickened.
"Its all right Finnick, it's just a jabber jay, they're playing tricks on us its not really Maryanne." She says, and I knew that she's wrong.
"No, it's not Maryanne but the voice was hers jabber jays mimic what they hear. Where did they get those screams from Katniss?" I hissed to her. Her face turns pale, and it dawns on her the true that I knew.
"Oh, finnick, you don't think they…." She trailed off, looking horrified.
"Yes. I do, that's exactly what I think." I say, I feel anger, sadness, a since of loss, hatred to myself for not staying by my little fishes side, when she told me… t...to-
Katniss sinks to the ground, I try to tell her we should go back to the others see if their alright, but she doesn't seem to hear me.
Then another bird starts to cry, this one is a male and by the look on Katniss face she knew him.
I catch her arm before she runs off again. "No, it's not him." I tell her as I forcibly pulling her downhill, and towards the beach praying my little fish is alright.
"We're getting out of here." I tell her, ignoring the sound of Maryanne's screams again.
"It's not her, it's not her." I kept repeating to myself.
Katniss still struggles against me. "It's not him, katniss it's a mutt!" I shout at her, sick of her struggling on a goose chase.
"Come on!" I move along dragging her with me. She eventually stops fighting me, and we flee.
"THOSE SICK TWISTED BASTARED!" I yell, hoping the capitol can hear me. "KILL ME IF YOU WANT LEAVE MARYANNE OUT OF THIS!" I scream again, as Katniss face turned to concern and then understanding.
~Maryanne pov~
"We should go after them." I suggested again, from my sitting position in between Wiress and Beetee that I was forced to sit by Jo.
"They're fine." Peeta reassured, but I can tell on his face he didn't believe a word of it and that he was just as concern as I was.
I catch sight of katniss and fin, and I point this out to Peeta and Jo who were standing at the tree line. As me Beetee and Wiress are sitting a bit away, out of sight.
Peeta along with Jo try to go to them only to be bounced back, as I knew this would happen seeing as it was a force field.
Fin and Katniss come up, despite Jo's and Peeta's attempt to stop them but they run smack into it and bounce back onto the jungle floor. I run up to Peeta and Jo, and look on in worry as they sit back up seeing katniss with a hurt shoulder, but my main concern is Fin, he landed face-first and now his nose is gushing blood.
I stand there looking at them, and when Fin's gave finds mine he has a look of relief, joy and tears brimming in his eyes.
"What must he have heard, to bring such a turn of emotions?" I thought, as Fin places his hands carefully on the barrier and I do the same, we hold each other's gazes for along time. He tries to tell me something, but I can't make out what he's saying. So I just gaze at his face, he then gets a horrified look on his face and begins to slid down the wall.
I go down with him on the other side, not breaking eye contact his body is shaking, eyes streaming with tears, his lips were trembling and he was breathing heavily through his nose.
His fists clench up then, and he starts to pound on the barrier as if to get to me, but soon he finds his attempt is useless and he hangs his head, hunching on the ground.
I could see the jabber jays lining the trees, calling out screams I think Katniss tries to shot them but its no use. So she gives up.
I so desperately want to hold Fin, tell him things will be just fine that he doesn't have to worry, but I know I can't. I was separated from him by this barrier and my lies.
I then tried to get his attention by myself banging on the barrier but every time he looks up. A jabber jay would sound and he would look down in despair.
Then when the hour is up, the barrier disappears and I lightly and slowly walk to Fin's hunched over form, which he has his hands clamped over his head to block out the jabber jays.
I lean down to his leave beside him. "Fin-" I began softly, but didn't get to finish, all at once I'm pulled tightly to Fin's body, his hot tears rolling off his cheek and down my neck and into my suit.
"I-i-i-u w-were-" he didn't finish just held me, I wrapped my arms around his torso holding him as he clung to me.
"You're alright Fin, no once going to hurt you." I whispered into his ear, rubbing his back.
"I-i-It was -y-yo-u." he managed to get out in a chocked sob.
"What was me?" I asked, cupping his cheeks into my hands making him lift his head from where it laid on my shoulder to face me.
"t-t-there, we-err s-screams- yours." he said, pulling me into his chest and entangling his hand in my hair as he held me their.
"Screaming, I wasn't screaming?" I said confused, but it came out muffled.
t-t-tm-they w-err yours." he said, rocking me back and forth.
"But I'm fine see." I assured, pushing him away to show him I was fine.
He just gave me a blank face, tears still streaming down his cheeks, I take my hand and wipe them away, leaving them wet and smeared.
"I was s-scar-ed." he admitted, cupping my chin and bring my face towards his an inch away from one another's faces.
"I'm ok, and that's how its going to stay." I say, and in stead of him kissing me this time, I bring his face to mine and we shared a long passionate kiss.
We turn back to the others to hear Jo say "of course Peeta's right, the whole country adores Katniss's little sister, if they really killed her like this. They'd probably have an uprising on their hands." She says flatly.
"Don't want that, do they" She throws back her head and shouts "Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!"
"Of course!" I piped in, getting Fin to his feet.
"The sparks been lit, and its spreading after all." I say, staring at katniss who turns from shocked from Jo's out burst, to confused and slight anger.
"WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!" she yells, pointing a finger at me and marching over to me as though to attack, and I feared she really would have if it wasn't for Fin blocking her.
"ALL I EVER HEARD SINCE BEFORE I BECAME VICTOR IS, "THE SPARKS BEEN LIT AND ITS SPREADING" PEOPLE TELL ME I WILL UNDERSTAND IN TIME BUT I DON'T, I CANT! WHAT IS IT WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHAT DO YOU KNOW." She yelled at me, now not only being restrained by Fin but also Jo and Peeta. Jo had this look in her eye that she would love to stick her axe in her head.
I was shaking from head to toe, While Wiress gently placed her hands on my shoulders, I turned into her and she held me like a mother would. Katniss seemed to calm down enough and looked a little apologetic.
"Sorry it's just-" She swallowed hard not being able to say it.
"Its ok Katniss, your scared of what you heard there not real there fine and safe trust me." I tell her, but she looks at me in disbelief.
"How would you know?" she asked seemingly to be lost.
"Have I been wrong?" I asked cheekily, and she shakes her head a worn out look on her face.
"I'm getting water." Jo says, taking the spile from my waist.
Katniss catches her hand as she passes. "Don't go in there—the birds."
"They can't hurt me; I'm not the rest of you. There's no one left I love." She says shaking her off.
I try to run after but Fin's grip won't let me, and seeing the state he's in I don't try to chase after her. Everyone seems to be doing something, Jo collecting water and Katniss's arrows, Beetee and Wiress with the wire and Peeta with the map. And me comforting Fin whose head was in my lap as I stoke his hair.
Jo comes back with water and I force Fin to drink some, which he does in exchange for each sip he takes I kiss him.
And I agreed but got annoyed when he took little sips, which to the others amusement when I tipped it up a bit just to get him to drink a little more, when It came gushing down his suit and he started spluttering it about.
A cannon blast brings us all together on the beach. Fin weaves another water basket and a net for fishing, and he quickly catches some.
Katniss guts them, when the night creeps in we settle down to our meal of fish, Fin staying close to my side.
The anthem plays cashmere, I shudder as I see Gloss which Fin wraps his arm around me, district five female, morphling that gave her life for Peeta, Blight, and district ten male.
"They're really burning through us." Jo commented.
"Who's left besides us six and district two?" Katniss asked.
"Chaff." peeta says, and my heart lurched in thinking of my promise to save him. Then a parachute comes down with a pile of bite sized square shaped bread rolls.
"These are from your district right Beetee/Wiress?" Peeta asks.
"Yes, from district three." Wiress answered. "How many are there?" beetee adds on.
Fin counts them "twenty-four." he says.
"Even two dozen then?" Beetee said, counting in his mind.
"Twenty-four on the nose, how should we divide them?" Fin asks, getting that spark back in his eyes. "Me and my little fish can always..." I give a sharp smack to his head, he gave a pout as I quickly apologies.
"Lets have three, and whoever is still alive at breakfast can take a vote on the rest." Jo said, and I couldn't help but laugh along with Katniss. And Jo gives me a smile, and katniss a pleased look.
We keep going, staying away from a side of the jungle on eleven-to- twelve wedges. Soon we settle down for some rest, Fin doesn't let an inch of space between us and if I stray out of that space he pulls me back with fear in his eyes.
I lay down and he settles down beside me, and I fall asleep.
A crack of lighting awakens me, along with Fin he sits up with a sharp cry, I try to comfort him as his fingers dig into the sand to reassure himself that whatever nightmare he inhabited wasn't real, he realizes I'm beside him and pulls me in close and kissed my cheeks repeatedly and mumbling that it wasn't real.
"I can't sleep anymore!" Fin groaned. "One of you should rest… or maybe both of you I can watch alone." he says in amusement, seeing Peeta and Katniss wrapped around each other.
Peeta won't let him, and Fin objects when I volunteer. So I had nothing more to do then kiss him good night and try to sleep… but I couldn't.
~dream~
"Hello, hello" a seventeen Maryanne whispered, staring out through a glass mirror where so many people pass bye but don't stop to look.
"Can anyone see me?" she questioned silently, sliding down till she was on her knees, her hands and face pressed up against the glass.
~this is a song I created/not much~
"Can you not hear? What I have to say. Do you not know how my world has grown, so many faces yet none I know. Where oh where do I call home? There is a place, a time, I know but its not here that I've known, where can it be… what can it be, the place I long to call home—" looking up she stared into sea green eyes, and a cheeky grin that seems so formularies "love your home." he said, breaking the glass. "Come on love." he said taking hold of her hand… "time to wake up know love". he whispered in her ear, making her confused~
~ end dream~
"Come on little fish time to wake up and face the day." Fin said, as she stared into his sea green eyes the same ones in her dream.
"I'm home." Maryanne whispered to herself as she grin. even though they were in a dangerous game filled with people that wanted her dead, she found herself unable to care, she was happy.
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