The bread arrives in my hands and I instantly recognize it as from home, dotted with seaweed.
"This will go well with the shellfish," I say simply. Of course, it brings up when Mags brought me this bread after winning, but I choose to ignore that. Then, we eat. After we are about done, we collect our things. A cannon fires and we turn to see the body being pulled up. I've never really seen that before, and I would be okay not seeing it.
"Three," Katniss whispers to us, nodding to them. We duck into the shadows so they don't see us, in case of an enemy. They're red color and in really bad shape, terrible actually.
"Who is that? Or what? Muttations?" Peeta asks. Katniss gets out her bow and readies herself to shoot, but they collapse. I doubt they are going to kill us. I look a little closer.
"Johanna!" I shout, running over.
"Finnick!" She shouts and then begins her story. "We thought it was rain, you know, because of the lightning, and we were all so thirsty. But when it started coming down, it turned out to be blood. Thick, hot blood. You couldn't see, you couldn't speak without getting a mouthful. We just staggered around, trying to get out of it. That's when Blight hit the force field."
"I'm sorry, Johanna," I say. I knew they weren't super close, but it still hurts when someone from home dies. I know.
"Yeah, well, he wasn't much, but he was from home. And he left me alone with these two," she nudges Beetee. I notice Katniss and Peeta are here now. "He got a knife in the back at the Cornucopia. And her-"
"Tick, tock. Tick, tock," Wiress is saying, crazily. Even I don't have an explanation for that.
"Yeah, we know. Tick, tock. Nuts is in shock. Just stay down, will you?" She says, pushing her to the ground.
"Lay off her," Katniss snaps back. I have no idea why Katniss has attached herself to the crazy, but it seems like she won't accept Johanna until Johanna accepts Wiress.
"Lay off her? Who do you think got them out of that bleeding jungle for you? You-" She maneuvers around me, and smacks Katniss. I pick her up, trying to delay this for a while, and carry her over to the water, dunking her in. The entire time she is babbling on calling Katniss all kinds of names I would prefer not to remember. I see Katniss and Peeta taking back both of 3 back to camp.
"Are you going to stop any time soon?" I ask her, as she has started a new list. I splash more water on her, getting some more of the disgusting blood off.
"She annoys me to no end. Why is she the Mockingjay? Couldn't we have picked a better one?" She complains, cleaning herself off too.
"We can't change this. Just don't kill her and try to be nice. You might actually be friends," I say. Most of it has come off.
"Ha, be friends with 12? No thank you," she says, getting up out of the water. I join her as we walk back over to see that both are being attended to in the same way. She eats shellfish as I tell her about the story.
"Who's going to guard?" Johanna asks.
"I will," Katniss says immediately.
"I'll join you," Johanna responds. I hope this isn't her plan to kill Katniss in the night, but I just hoped that she wouldn't do anything damaging. I'm pretty tired, so I don't argue.
I'm waken up, way too early, by Katniss shaking me. "Get up, we have to move," she tells us. Then, she explains to us her clock theory. It makes sense, so I agree. The arena is a clock. It makes sense. She wakes Wiress up later, I guess because she knew it all along. No explaining needed.
"One-thirty," she says.
"Exactly. One-thirty. And at two, a terrible poisonous fog begins there. So we have to move somewhere safe now. Are you thirsty?" She asks Wiress. I hand her the last roll as well.
"Wire," Beetee stammers.
"She's right here. Wiress is fine. She's coming, too," Peeta tells him.
"Wire."
"Oh, I know what he wants," Johanna says, annoyed. She walks over to the camp and picks up the wire. "This worthless thing. It's some kind of wire or something. That's how he got cut. Running up the Cornucopia to get this. I don't know what kind of weapon it's supposed to be. I guess you could pull off a piece and use it as a garrote or something. But really, can you imagine Beetee garroting somebody?"
"He won his Games with wire. Setting up that electrical trap. It's the best weapon he could have," Peeta counters. I know perfectly well what Johanna knows about the wire, and she is a terrible actress. I hope no one figures that out.
"Seems like you'd have figured that out, since you nicknamed him Volts and all," Katniss says. Yep, she caught it. This is bad.
"Yeah, that was really stupid of me, wasn't it? I guess I must have been distracted by keeping your little friends alive. While you were…what, again? Getting Mags killed off?" I watch Katniss reach for her knife. I'm cursing Johanna in my head. She might be more trouble than anything. "Go ahead. Try it. I don't care if you are knocked up. I'll rip your throat out."
"Maybe we all better be careful where we step. There's you wire, Volts. Watch where you plug it," I say, stepping in. It's looks like I'll be playing peacemaker from now on, at least while they're together.
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