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Just keep swimming- finding Nemo
~Maryanne pov~
"o-ok w-w-wh-wha-t d-do y-yo-u get when—you add—the b-boo-boy with t-thi-the b-bread and—the g-girl-l on f-f—fire?" I managed to chock out through the pain, I was trying to keep Jo's, mine, Wiress and Peeta's mind's off of thing's by telling jokes along with other things.
"T—tal-talkie-n—ab-abou-t m-m-me—cough, cough- an-and k-katniss n-now a-ar-are y-you." Peeta wheezed out.
"Ya." I got out quietly, looking around at their put out almost lifeless face's, I had to keep them going as much as I could.
"A baby?" Jo half-heartedly said, glaring at her bars, she was just itching to get out of here like the rest of us.
"Try again!" I said, a small grin on my face happy that they were playing along.
"The star-crossed lovers?" Peeta tried his luck, but I just shook my head.
"I-I don't-" Wiress trailed off softly, she was doing somewhat better she's talking again or at least some.
"Toast, you get toast." I say, watching Peeta give a weak laugh and Jo's was bitter filled, and Wiress even cracked a smile.
"I g-got a-another o-o-one." I said, with a raspy laugh just thinking about it.
"This o-on I-is f—for y-you –wir-wiress—she turned her head slightly to stare at me—what has a f-face a-a-and t-two h-hands but-t n-no ar-arm's or l-legs?" I questioned, Peeta and Jo turned to Wiress, since it was her riddle to figure out.
"Tick-tock it's a clock." Wiress said, with a grin on her face.
"Ohhhhh, you just had to encourage her now don't you!" Jo groaned out, shaking her head.
"Here's another, why did-did Th-the boy b-bur-burry hi-his flash-light?" I questioned, and waited for an answer.
"He was too stupid to use it?" Jo said bluntly, but I shook my head saying it was the wrong answer.
"He didn't know how to use it?" Was Peeta's answer , but I just shook my head.
"Give up?" I asked, and watched as they nodded their head.
"b-because t-the batteries died." I dried chuckle from my throat, gaining some more weak chuckles.
"I got one more, what has to be b-broken b-before you can use it?" I questioned this being my final riddle, they gave a lot of answers to it like, a present or split wood, or soil but those weren't the answer I was looking for.
"An egg." I finally said, but our fun went out like a light when a peacekeeper came to take Peeta away.
"I hope we get out of here soon." I whispered over to Jo, who looked over at me.
"Me to, me to." Jo whispered in agreement, and we went into silence.
~Diana pov~
I along with Cinna, Piper, Thresh, and Vulpix, were being lead by Megan to the command room of the mockingjay this would be the first time in along time since I have seen Katniss again.
We came through the doorway of command, the high-tech meeting/war council room complete with computerized talking walls, electronic maps showing the troops moments in various districts, and a giant rectangular table with control panels we're not supposed to touch when not needed to or authorized.
Once president coin saw us, she had herself a hiss fit about us being here in a private session on the rebellion forces but Megan being in coins good graces told her since this was for victors along with other higher authorities we could stay seeing as: Piper, Thresh and Vulpix are technically victors, and Cinna and I were a major part of the rebellion also very close with the mockingjay.
Coin seemed to see the logic, as well she saw Megan as a type of daughter and Megan saw her as a type of mother figure… not good.
We bask a little seeing Katniss wasn't here yet; I fear for her most and couldn't wait to see her and what's going to come her way.
Katniss entering know and Plutarch waves her over, she catches sight of Cinna and me and gives us a weak smile, Cinna mouths that we would talk later.
Then the film begins to play the face of Caesar flickerman makes himself known, along with his sparkly suit that in my eyes was a sight for soar eyes.
Then the interview with Peeta begins, I watch Katniss reaction to the interview, Katniss pushes forward concern written on her face.
And I see Piper make her way to put a hand on her shoulder but she doesn't notice, just gives all her attention to the screen holding onto every word that was spoken.
He looks healthy but I knew the truth, I knew he was succumbing to the trackerjacker venom and I was so scared but thankful that Cinna was there to hold my hand.
"So…peeta… welcome back." Caesar flickerman says, and I could hear Megan snort.
"Welcome back, is that all he can say?" She laughs out, getting glares all around, but she doesn't care, never has.
Peeta smiles, looking a little uneasy. "I'll bet you thought you'd done your last interview with me, Caesar."
"I confess I did." replies Caesar. "The night before the quarter quell… well, who ever thought we'd see you again?"
"It wasn't part of my plan, that's for sure," Says Peeta with a frown.
"I think it was clear to all of us what your plan was. To sacrifice yourself in the arena so that Katniss everdeen and your child could survive."
"She's not pregnant." Megan called out mockingly, making my blood boil and I was making my way to punch her, and I was if it wasn't for Piper for coming to hold me back.
"ONE PUNCH, JUST ONE PUNCH TO HER PUCKERED UP FACE!" I yelled as I was restrained.
"No, just let it go" Piper said to me. "And you shut up." She hissed to Megan.
"Fine, fine you're such a drama queen." Megan said, waving us off.
"Oh ho, you're saying I'm the drama queen, when are you going to get that stick up your ass removed" I told her, leaving her with her thought's as I went to fume at Cinna`s side.
Piper went back to Katniss, as I turned my attention back to the screen I caught Katniss flashing me a grateful look.
"That was it. Clear and simple." Peeta's fingers tracing the upholstered pattern on the arm chair. "But other people had plans as well."
"Why don't you tell us about that last night in the arena?" suggests Caesar. "Help us sort a few things out."
Peeta takes his time in answering. "That last night… to tell you about that last night… well, first of all, you have to imagine how it felt in the arena. It was like being an insect trapped under a bowl filled with steaming air. And all around you, jungle… green and alive and ticking. The giant clock ticking away your life. Every hour promising some new horror, you have to imagine that in the past two days, sixteen people died—of them defending you. At the rate things are going, the last nine will be dead by morning. Save one. The victor. And your plan is that it won't be you."
"Once you're in the arena, the rest of the world becomes very distant," he continues. "All the people and things you loved or cared about almost cease to exist. The pink sky and the monsters in the jungle and the tributes who want your blood become your final reality, the only one that ever mattered. As bad as it makes you feel, you're going to have to do some killing, because in the arena, you only get one wish. And it's very costly."
"It cost your life," says Caesar.
"Oh, no. it costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" it costs everything you are." Peeta says.
"Everything you are" Caesar echoes.
"So you hold on to your wish. And that last night, yes, my wish was to save katniss. But even without knowing about the rebels, it didn't feel right. Everything was too complicated. I found myself regretting I haven't run off with her earlier in the day, as she had suggested. But there was no getting out of it at that point."
"You were too caught up in Beetee's plan to electrify the salt lake," Suggested Caesar.
"To busy playing allies with the others, I should have never let them separate us!" Peeta bursts out. "That's when I lost her."
"When you stayed at the lighting tree with Maryanne, Beetee and Wiress while she and Johanna mason took the coil of the wire down to the water," Caesar clarifies.
"I didn't want to!" Peeta flushed in agitation. "But I couldn't argue with Beetee without indicating we were about to break away from the alliance. I remember Beetee telling me to go fined Katniss, leaving him, Maryanne and Wiress there at the tree"
"When that wire was cut, everything just went insane. I can only remember bits and pieces. Trying to find her. Watching Brutus kill chaff, and killing Brutus myself. I know she was calling my name. then the lightning bolt hit the tree, and the force field around the arena… blew out."
"Katniss blew it out, Peeta," Caesar pointed continued on and on, just like in the book Peeta's anger building the questions on Haymitch's actions Then what surprised me most, was when they started talking about the escaped stylists Cinna, me and Portia.
"Now Peeta what's your thoughts on your stylists. Diana hangerman, Cinna pontmercy, and Portia Deleon" Caesar questions leaning in. "do you believe them to be on the rebels side this whole time."
"I don't know of there intention's, but they were there for me through the whole experience. And so I care about them, and I'm sure they were just trying to help. Not the best way, but they still tried to be there for us." He says with such heart felt words, I ran out crying not able to listen anymore.
~Maryanne pov~
"Got a secret can you keep it? Swear this one you'll save, better lock it in your pocket taking this one to the grave." I sang quietly to myself.
"If you're not going to eat that, then give it to someone that won't waste it." Jo grumbled, reaching through the bars to take my plate of what looked like oatmeal.
"If I show you that I know won't tell what I said 'cause two can keep a secret if one of them is dead." I whispered.
"And stop singing, its giving me a headache." She huffed out between mouthfuls, as she shoveled it into her mouth.
"Sorry Jo... it's just to get things off my mind, I wonder how Peeta's interview's going." I whispered to her.
"I feel sorry for him, having to talk to those blood sucking freaks." Jo snorted.
"I'm scared Jo, I'm scared for you and Peeta, and Katniss, Fin, and my old friends... I'm just so very scared." I whimpered, hiding my face between my knees.
"Me to Mar, me to." Jo said quietly, slowing down her ravines eating to stare in grief.
~Piper pov~
7:00—breakfast afterwards command where katniss will make the announcement of being the mockingjay.
I walk towards the dining hall, me piggy- backing Rue, Jinx hanging from my neck. Poppy and Quelling skipping around me and Wick having a tight grip on my leg, I was having difficulty walking but I couldn't bring myself to breakup their fun.
I line up the kids so that they could flash their schedule's into the sensor, and hand then each a plate to get their food—a bowl of hot grain, a cup of milk, and a small scoop of fruit or the choice of vegetables.
We take our seat that was right next to the everdeen and hawthorns. We sit down and I listen as Rue and the others talk about all they heard or seen or did today, Poppy being the talkative one was going on and on but Jinx is also a talker so they overlap each others words.
"And then we started on our alphabets, and I was the best!" Jinx's said proudly, a hand over her heart.
"No I was!" Wick argued, resulting in a squabble between the two.
"now, I know that your both smart so I bet you two, along with your sisters were the best that you are." I told them tenderly.
"But I was still the best!" Poppy squealed, throwing her hands in the air.
"That's what she thinks." wick muttered under his breath, which I caught and in return I gave him a pointed look.
"Hey Primrose!" I saw Rue call out, giving a wave to Prim, they seemed to hit it off real well and seem to be good friends.
Primrose had a wide smile on her face as she waved back, and Rue turned to face me.
"She's real nice, and she has a cat named buttercup it's the cutest little thing, and she's really fun to play with." Rue talked on.
"Can we get a cat?" Quelling pleaded, hands put together with puppy dog eyes, I was going to let her down gently but when the others (besides Wick who was just begging) started giving me the puppy dog eyes I relented saying, "after this war will see." What else could I have done?
All too soon its time for command, and the kids with teary goodbyes went to their class in promise I would take the time to see them again later. The time I get to command most everyone is assembled, coin at the head with Plutarch and Megan at her side.
I see Vulpix and Thresh along with Diana and Cinna, and decide to take a seat in-between Thresh and Vulpix. soon Katniss arrives along with Gale as expected which drew a few raised eyebrows. We sit in silence as Katniss makes her demands, in exchange in being the mockingjay, the suspense is killing me.
Plutarch gives a discreet cough. "About done there?"
"Shut up/lay off!" Me and Diana say together startling the man, as Megan smacks him on the back of the head "Leroy jethro Gibbs style, from ncis"
"Thank you Megan." I tell her, she has her moments, she just shrugs in return.
Katniss takes a few more minutes to finish, and when she's done I don't have to read the book to know she wants revenge on the capitol… mainly snow.
Katniss begins to recite her demands, her cat, Peeta's immunity, being moved to the top level which is where mine, Diana and Megan's were. Along with the hunting, which starts a few disagreements right away, but its smoothed over quickly.
"No form of punishment will be inflicted on Peeta, same goes with the others captured tributes, Johanna and Enobaria, Wiress and Maryanne." Katniss says firmly.
"No!" says coin flatly, and I'm about to clime over my seat at her.
"Yes!" Katniss shot back. "It's not their fault you abandoned them in the arena. Who knows what the capitols doing to them?"
"Its no good I can tell you that." Diana said calmly rising from her seat.
"And what gives you the authority to speak out soldier." Coin hissed at her.
"I did, and I want to add onto what Katniss is getting at, if you rescue the other victors how would that make you look?" she questioned, and was met with silence.
"It makes us look united, together not leaving anyone behind, and I know you want Finnick odair as one of the rebel leaders right? Well what's he going to think when he find's out you left his one true love, to be tortured back at the capitol? I don't know about you but I would say you just lost yourself an excellent rebel leader." She finished sitting back down, as she let her words sink in.
"Fine, they'll be granted immunity" Coin relented, turning her attention away from Diana who was looking smug.
The announcement was set for today, and the words Katniss spoke chilled me to the bones.
"I kill snow." Katniss says, and I feel a great disappointment in her, being torn up about this.
~Diana pov~
"You should show her your designs." I whispered to Cinna, I was talking about the details of uniforms, tailored layers of body armor, the hidden weapons in the boots and belt, the special reinforcements over the heart. I knew of his sketch as I was his dress up doll for it, but I refused to get shot at even if I trusted in his work, that was going to far.
"Ok." Cinna said, heading off towards Katniss as I left for the safety of my room. There was a lot of things that needed changed around here and a lot more to do to stop what's to come. I don't appear for the styling I was to tired for that instead I left Cinna to it.
Instead as I head off to my shared room I bump into someone, and god forbids it was Gale.
"I'm sorry I didn't see you there." I apologized, dusting myself off like Cinna does. Is it me or is he a major influence on me, well I am with him a lot.
"You should be." He hissed me, and I'm taken a back, as he made to walk away from me I stepped out in front of him, no one gets away talking to me like that, not Megan and I be dammed if I'm putting up with two bitches.
"Who do you think you are, talking to a woman who just apologies!" I growled, pointing a finger at his chest.
"If it wasn't for you and that prep-team preparing innocent kids for slaughter I might be nicer." He barked.
"Listen here, I haven't lived in the capitol that long but I call it home. We live by different rules then the districts, it's the way we're raised and born to believe just like it's your way to hate us. I'm sorry for what you been put through or how you were treated, but you will get no where in life acting like this." I hissed to him.
"You know nothing." He huffed, getting around me and walking away, I'm glade it was an empty corridor for what I was going to do next.
"Like your father dieing in a mine explosion?" I called to him making him stop in his tracks.
"That you're in love with katniss? That you're not really her cousin, whom you asked her to run away with you, how you provided for your siblings and mother by illegally hunting?—he slowly starts to turn to me— at fourteen years old you meet Katniss while hunting in the woods, or how you were whipped forty times after being caught by head peacekeeper Romulus thread hunting for TURKYS!" I was screaming by then, and I calm down breathing through my nose like a bull.
"How the hell do you know that?" Gale demanded, taking long strides towards me to finally stop right in front of me.
"I know more then what I look, I got you pegged Gale hawthorn and this capitol scum, as you might think I am is going to save lives just like you should, and I know your mother taught you better respect then that!" I was finished with this conversation, turning on my heels I retreated down the hall.
"Who are you?" I hear him shout from behind me.
"My name is Diana hangerman!" I yell behind me, to see him give a nod and a small wave. He might not be such a bad guy after all.
~Katniss pov~
After this morning, I'm in no mood to feel sorry for thirteen.
"No more than we did in twelve!" I say, to Piper who has accompanied me, I then see my mother lead in a group of mobile patients, still wearing their hospital nightgowns and robes. Finnick stands among them, looking dazed but gorgeous.
In his hands he holds a piece of thin rope, less than a foot long in length, too short for even him to fashion into a usable noose. His fingers move rapidly, automatically tying and unraveling various knots as he gazes about. Probably part of his therapy. I signal Piper to make our way to him and she follows me.
"Hey, Finnick." He doesn't seem to notice, so I nudge him to get his attention. "Finnick! How are you doing?"
"Katniss," he says, gripping my hand, relieved to see a familiar face, I think. "Why are we meeting here?" I didn't know how to put it in words luckily Piper stepped in.
"She's going to be the mockingjay. With immunity to the truibutes, it will be announced soon." Piper says, Finnick eyed her unsure if she was friend or not.
"Finnick I would like you to meet Piper, she was in my hunger games and she also knows Maryanne." I tell him, his eyes widen a bit when Maryanne was mentioned.
"How long have you known Maryanne?" Finnick asked, looking more aware than he has since he's been here.
"Where to start?" Piper says, grinning at the sex symbol of the capitol as he seemed to gain a little of his sanity back.
I leave them to have a word with coin.
~Piper pov~
We sat across from each other swapping tale of our times with Maryanne.
"The first day of school, she was up in front of the class she was so nervous, she could barley say her name. So we all thought her name was merle, and she lead us to assume that for a month before we had a group assignment, which Megan looked on her paper and said "Your names not merle!" I said to Finnick, who burst out laughing.
"The first time I met my little fish she tried to get away, but I soon caught her and brought her home, she brought some light back in my life she made me laugh, she was there for me, she's caring, sweet and nice, it hurts me to think of what's happening to her, being tortured." Finnick sighed, dropping his head in his hands. This poor man we both have something in common we're both missing Maryanne.
"Maryanne is going to pull through this, she has before." I instantly bit my tongue.
Finnick looked up sharply, staring intensely into my eyes.
"What do you mean love?" Finnick demanded.
I sighed knowing that he might find out sooner or later If he stuck with Maryanne, and he looks determined to make her his.
"I swore I would never tell, but your close with Maryanne she trusts you like she trusts me and the others" I began, he gave a short nod waiting for me to go on.
"Maryanne had a good mother a good life but it wasn't always like that, before Maryanne turned fifteen before I even meet her. Her father was a mean man, heartless you could say. he didn't take no for an answer, at the age of six Maryanne learned to pickpocket, at the age of eight she learned how to use gymnastic to get away, so that her for nothing daddy could weasel out of his crimes. at the age of ten she hit big, stole stuff her father wanted she got it, finally things caught up to him. Put her father away and that was it, Maryanne never looked back." I said, and that was Maryanne's life story.
"Don't think to lowly of her, she was forced to do it she's still Maryanne." I reassured him, he had a blank look on his face and I felt as though I made a mistake.
T"hank you love, for telling me this." he said slowly, still looking like he was processing it all.
"You still love her right?" I questioned desperately, god strike me dead if he doesn't.
"Of course love, the past is the past we all did thing's we aren't proud of or were forced to do." he said, looking at me with a defensive look in his eyes, which said "how dare you think that."
I stood up to go, but before I did "Finnick—he looked to lock eyes with me once again—She would love you no matter what, and I hope you return that but there are something's you don't know about." I tell him, leaving him there.
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