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~Maryanne pov~
Everyone's up and watching the descent of a parachute to the beach, I know it contains more bread making it thirty-three in all. We each take four, it was delicious I don't think my stomach has been this happy in a while.
My thoughts turn towards the remaining tributes ten in all, seven of which is our band Brutus, Enobaria and one other are still out there. I try to think of other things but the thought of us turning on one another, still lingers in my mind.
"Who will turn on me?" I thought looking slowly to see their face's, no one notices me looking
"I don't think Fin would… no, I know he wont, Jo is a good friend if she turns on me I won't fight back, Wiress seems as though she wouldn't hurt a fly. But its Katniss, and Beetee I'm worried about… I'm not sure about Peeta."
I knew I killed Gloss… but as I came to know this little group of allies, I just can't seem to see myself raise my hand against them. I glance up towards katniss as I bite off a piece of bread; her face is conflicted thinking of splitting from our alliance. If I had to choose who I want to win, I know it wouldn't be me—
After eating, Katniss takes Peeta's hand, and begins tugging him to the water.
"Come on, I'll teach you how to swim." she tells him, but really she want's to end the alliance.
"What you thinking about little fish?" Fin asks, snapping me out of my thoughts as he leans down and take's a bite of my bread.
"Eat your own." I say, swatting at his arm.
"But yours is so much better!" he whines, trying to take another bit but I hold it away from him.
"You have your own." I retorted, letting a chuckle escape.
"You two really are into this lover stuff I would have thrown up by now, If It was someone else." Jo said sarcastically, coming to sit next to me across from Wiress as I sat across from Beetee.
"Now what's on your mind, if you mind me asking." said Beetee, pushing up his glasses and finishing the last of his bread.
"I-i-I think katniss want's to break the alliance." I tell them softly, looking at my hands in guilt for betraying that bit of information.
They grow silent for a few minutes.
"I can see that, back stabbing us that little bitch." Jo said angrily, tearing up her last roll.
"I think their going to wait till Brutus and Enobaria are gone though." I say, trying to break the tension some what.
"Well we all know this was going to happen." Beetee said, fiddling with his coil.
"I wish there was no hunger games." I whisper quietly, head hanging low touching my chest.
"Don't we all." Jo stated bitterly, I knew she wasn't mad at me but the capitol, or at least the man in charge.
"You know it's funny, I would have never thought I would end up in a place like this but I'm also glade." I say out loud, talking to no one in particular.
"Oh, and your glade to be pitched into a game where you have to kill each other, never thought I would hear something like that coming from you." Jo snorted, taking Fin's roll as he protested.
"No, not that I glade that I met you all I came to be friends with you all I hope..." I said sheepishly but meant it, looking around at them they all had a look of either sadness or pity.
"Of course we're friends." Jo said, squeezing my shoulder but avoiding my eyes.
"You know, even if only one of us gets out, I hope you have a long happy life and remember that I'm still your friend." I say gently, turning from face to face, Beetee was fiddling with his coil not meeting my eyes, Wiress turned around focusing on stuffing her mouth so not sound of sobbing could be heard, Jo said she's going to get more water and sprinted off, and Fin just held me tight not letting go.
"You know I won't let anything happen to you, right." Fin whispered, kissing my temple.
Beetee seemed to figure out a plan for his wire, and calls Katniss and Peeta back over.
"I think we'll all agree our next job is to kill Brutus and Enobaria" Beetee said mildly.
"I doubt they'll attack us openly again, now that they're outnumbered, we could track them down, I suppose but its dangerous exhausting work." he said, looking tired already.
"Do you think they've figured out about the clock?" Katniss asked.
"If they haven't they'll figure it out soon enough. Perhaps not as specifically as we have. But they must know that at least some of the zones are wired to attacks and that they're reoccurring in a circular fashion, also the fact that out last fight was cut off by gamemakers intervention will not have gone unnoticed by them. We know it was an attempt to disorient us, but they must be asking themselves why it was done, and this, to may lead them to the realization that the arena's a clock." says Beetee. "So I think our best bet will be setting our own trap."
"Wait, let me get Johanna" says Fin. "She'll be rabid if she thinks she missed something important." He sprinted off, not before giving a backwards glance.
"Or not." katniss mutters, and I thought that was kind of harsh. When she joined with us again, Beetee shoos us all back a bit so he can have room to work in the sand. He swiftly draws a circle and divides it into twelve wedges.
"If you where Brutus and Enobaria, knowing what you do know about the jungle, where would you feel safest?" Beetee questioned.
"Where we are now, on the beach it's the safest place." Peeta says.
"So why aren't they on the beach?" Beetee asked.
"So why are we here?" Jo said, impatiently.
"I think that's a reason to stay away from the beach." I said, looking at Jo who nods in satisfaction of being right.
"Exactly, we're here claming the beach now where would you go?" he asked, it was like giving a quiz.
"I'd hide just at the edge of the jungle so I could escape if an attack came and so I could spy on us." says Katniss.
"And closer to a source of protection." Wiress adds on, looking out to sea.
"Also to eat, the jungle's full of strange creatures and plants but by watching us I'd know the seafood's safe." butted in Fin.
Beetee smiles at us as if we've exceeded his expectations. "Yes good, you do see, now here's what I propose: a twelve o'clock strike, what happens exactly at noon and at Midnight?" He asked.
"The lightning bolt hits the tree." I got out before Katniss.
"Yes, so what I'm suggesting is that after the bolt hits at noon, but before it hits at midnight, we run a wire from that tree all the way down into the seawater, which is of course highly conductive. When the bolt strikes, the electricity will travel down the wire and into not only the water but also the surrounding beach, which will still be damp from the ten o'clock wave. Anyone in contact with those surfaces at that moment will be electrocuted." he finished.
I marvel at his geniuses, are all people from three like this? They must be seeing as there all suppose to be smart… I wonder…
"Will that wire really be able to conduct that much power, beetee? It looks so fragile like it would just burn up." Peeta said unsure.
"Oh, it will but not until the current has passed through it. It will act something like a fuse, in fact except the electricity will travel along it." explained Beetee.
"How do you know?" asks Jo, in disbelief.
"Because I invented it, its not actually a wire in the usual sense nor is the lightning natural lightning nor the tree a real tree you know trees better than any of us, Johanna it would be destroyed by now wouldn't it?" he said.
"Yes." Jo said, glumly and I feel the need to undermine Beetee for his know-It-all attitude.
"Well, we can't spend all our time looking at trees can we?" I say, a little grin on my face.
"She's got you there volts." Jo chuckles, as Beetee looks a little embarrassed but shakes it off.
"Don't worry about the wire—it will do just what I say." Beetee assures us, and I knew it would.
"And where will we be when this happens?" Fin asked, putting a protective arm around my waist.
"Far enough up in the jungle to be safe." Beetee replies smoothly, watching Finnick give a small nod.
"The careers will be safe, too, then unless they're in the vicinity of the water." Katniss points out.
"That's right." says Beetee.
"But all the seafood will be cooked." peeta pointed out.
"Probably more then cooked, we will most likely be eliminating that as a food source for good, but you found other edible things in the jungle right Katniss?" Beetee asked.
"Yes, nuts and rats." She says.
"And also sponsors." Wiress piped in.
"Well then I don't see that as a problem." says Beetee.
"But as we are allies—at this Beetee, Fin, Jo shot Katniss a hard look—and this require all our efforts, the decision of whether or not to attempt it is up to you six." he finished.
"Why not." Katniss says, "If it fails, there's no harm done and even if it works, there's a decent chance well kill them, and even if we don't and just kill the seafood, Brutus and Enobaria lose it as a food source to." She finished.
"I say we try it, Katniss is right." Peeta agreed.
Fin turns to me and Jo, asking without words if we agree.
"All right." Jo said off handedly.
"I say it's our best option instead of waiting to see what happens." I agreed.
Beetee wants to inspect the lightning tree before he has to rig it, so we headed in the lightning section, and head into the jungle.
I start to fall back a bit, and grab on to Wiress arm pulling her back as well so we're walking out of ear shot of the others.
"Wiress can I ask you a question?" I whisper to her, she gives me a nod for a go ahead.
"Do you know about time-travel or going into a parallel universe?" I ask, she seemed to focus in on my words.
"A parallel universe or alternate reality is a hypotheticals self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality. While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own. The term "parallel universe" is more general, without any connotations implying a relationship, or lack of relationship, with our own universe. A universe where the very laws of nature are different – for example, one in which there are no Laws of Motion – would in general count as a parallel universe but not an alternative reality." Wiress says, looking at me curiously.
"So there is a chance that someone can go into a different another world, that coexist with something that was origonally in that person's ummm… lets say a person has a book and you are sent to that world where the book is real life." I tried to explain without really giving anything away, while watching her face.
"There is the possibility, yes." She says. We eventually catch back up with the others, and soon we meet at the tree and I get a eyeful from Fin.
The lightning tree is so high above the others it's not hard to miss, and as we went Katniss leading us on I felt I had a little more understanding how I got here.
"Just stay below the lightning tree." Katniss tells us. We divide up duties, Wiress and Fin stays guard over Beetee, Jo and I taps water, Peeta gathers nuts and Katniss hunts.
"Jo, I don't believe you." I say all of a sudden, while she crouched down to examine the tree we picked out.
"Oh, and what would that be?" She asked, filling the basket full to the brim.
"That you have no else to love." I say quietly, and slowly she places down her basket and forces out the spile.
"And why do you think that?" She questioned, turning to face me.
"Cause on the outside you come off hostle, but I see through this your scared and afraid and I don't want you to be." I say taking her hand in mine.
"Why?" was her only word that escaped her lips.
"Cause you're my friend, and friends help each other." I say with a cheeky grin.
"Your to innocent you know that kid." She said, rubbing my head and messing up my hair.
"Lets get back, the others wont last without us if we don't." She said, taking the lead. We arrived back in time to see a parachute arrive.
"Let me guess more bread." Jo said, sacastically.
"Seems so." I said in return.
We dine on salty fish flesh, and succulent shellfish, along with oysters which was spread over with some kind of sauce, and once we were done we tossed the remains into the ocean.
And we settle in for a little shut eye, I settle down on a soft sand bank over looking the water, how nice and peacful it all seems if I excluded being in a death game with exsperinced victors that are out to kill you... its nice.
"And what are you doing way out here little fish." I heard a voice behind me, and didn't have to turn around knowing It was Fin. He came and settled down beside me, wraping an arm around my shoulder's and I lend my head on his shoulder.
"Fin, can I tell you something?" I said, looking to meet his eye and was returned with a small grin.
"Anything love." He assured, taking his free hand to run his fingers though my hair, making me sigh with bliss.
"Do—you know I love you." I say, in a hushed whisper all this time he has been telling me that he loved me, but I never said it back.
He stared at me in shock, then a rush of emotions bubbled up, joy, happyness, Attraction, desire, admiration, Gratitude, thankfulness, Relief, and what stood out the most… pure love.
"I love you to" he said with a breathless tone, and we embraced in a long kiss.
The anthem begins, but no faces appear tonight. "Fin do you think if we make it out of here we can go back to district four?" I asked, staring at the water thinking about the many times we would sit on the beach and watch the waves in district four.
"Hmmm… of course, go back home start our lives again." Fin stated, staring out at the water.
"Do you think- that you would mined going on a date with me?" I asked softly, which I didn't think Fin would react in just laughing.
"You would have thought I would be the one to ask you." he says happily, after he calmed down.
"But I would love to." he agreed all the same, sealing our lips together in a silent promise. But our time together was interrupted by Beetee asking for Fin's assistance, while the rest of us stand guard.
Beetee along with Fin's help, hock up the coil and he wants Jo and Katniss to take the coil down through the jungle, unwinding the wire as they go.
"I want to go with them as a guard." Peeta said, clearly scared for Katniss well being.
"You're to slow, besides, I'll need you on this end, Katniss will guard." Beetee ordered.
"Maybe I can help, this seems like a three person job." I say, thinking about Brutus and Enobaria.
"NO!" Fin, Jo, Wiress and Beetee shout altogether, I was so startled that I fall backwards onto my butt.
I don't dare ask again, as I see Katniss and Jo head off-
"All we have to do is wait." Beetee says with a sigh, taking his glasses off to wipe them down with moss.
"Well I hate waiting." Peeta said, huffing in and out while walking in lines waiting for Katniss to get back.
"Patients young one." Fin says teasingly.
"Oh, you're the one to talk." I rebuked him, making the one and only Finnick odair blush that's one for the record book.
It was taking them some time to come back, and we all begin to get worried.
"Going to look for them." I said standing up, only for Wiress to pull me down and for Fin to give me a look that said "Say that again, and you're dead."
"I'll go look for them." Fin says, running off yelling for both Johanna and Katniss.
Time passes slowly, that is until, Beetee stands tall and asks to see Peeta's knife Peeta is confused at first and so am I.
"You might want to go fined Katniss Peeta" Beetee says calmly, in an excuse for him to leave. Relief washes over him, and he heads off to fined her.
"Wiress get Maryanne out of here." he tells her sternly, so she pulls me to my feet and herds us into the woods far away from the lightning tree.
We run and run for who knows how long, soon as if by fate we have a head on collision with Jo.
"Your ok!" I sigh in relief, tears in my eyes as I hold her tight.
"Of course I am, but knows not the time for thi-" She was cut off, the dome bursts into a dazzling blue light, the force sends us spiraling backwards my head makes contact with Wiress ribs, and Jo's head Is imbedded in my stomach.
"Anyone get the number of that train that hit me?" Jo seems to contain her since of humor.
"I think we should go know." I say weakly wheezing though the pain, but I feel Jo's full wait on me now that she's unconscious, and I can tell by Wiress none response she is too, soon I fined my world spinning a hover craft is over head, but I don't think it's the rebellion one… I then blackout.
~ No pov~
"So this actually worked." Diana said with a relieved sigh, taking off her helmet while their in the cargo plane.
"I wasn't a hundred percent sure it would work" Cinna said, a grin on his face that then turned Serious. "We should go fined Haymitch." Cinna said, walking ahead while Diana trailed behind.
"We are coming through do you read me, we are coming through." Piper said, holding in her ear piece that was broadcasting to district thirteen.
"We're coming through." Vulpix said from the front, as back up assistant flyer she operated the intercommunications system.
"Thresh! Do you see them?" Piper yelled to Thresh, for he was the one on sonar though he was more a soldier then any thing else, but he had his duty here while more experienced soldiers where finding the victors.
"Yes, a little west-east of here!" He shouted back.
~Megan pov~
"GO, GO, GO!" She yelled, to her platoon for she was the leader of air ship two and mobilized her team. Ever since she came, she has been working for something more then herself being here has changed her in some ways, but not all.
"I WANT THEM FOUND AND ALIVE!" She shouted to her fellow soldiers, for she respects them and they respect her… well a great total of them do anyway, but yet she was a little on edge still reeling from her last mission, where she lost her old team.
~ snow pov~
"So it has begun." He thought, twirling a rose in his hand then taking his fist he crushed its petals.
~ how you like that~ I know~ I know~ you might or you might not had seen this coming but come on who else is doing a fan fic about girls being from our world then going into a parallel universe of the hunger games? Well stick with me till next time.