The 71st Hunger Games - A Love Story COMPLETED

Chapter 21

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Han dragged them all to the beach and she gasped and leaned into the water.

Han coughed up blood and dove in the water and almost drank it. But it was salt water. She spit it out and started to cough. She rinsed herself from the blood, made sure Nuts and Volts were okay and sat on the beach. She lay back, trying to recover and dry from whatever that was. 

"Tick tock." Volts was staring in the distance, acting crazy. Not herself. 

"Hmm? What's that supposed to mean?" Han sat up to look at her. 

"Tick Tock." Volts repeated, persisting. She looked at the Cornucopia. Nuts was already dead asleep. Well, he's old, and not used to that. He won by smarts, not physical exercise. 

She looked at her and shrugged. She brought Volts to the water, and tried to rinse off the drying blood. She next got up Nuts up, and she helped him rinse. They all lay back, exhausted. Blood rain does that to you.

The camera cut to another scene of the Careers. They were fighting, over what to do next. They had no way of water, except one water bottle that was almost gone. They called up to the sky, and seconds later, a gift was flying down. Of course they had sponsors. It was iodine. The atom that makes water drinkable, and purified. They cheered, silently. The other group had a spiel for the trees. The Careers took turns drinking, obviously dying for water. 

The camera's cut back to Han, Volts and Nuts. They looked up suddenly. Well, just Han did, the other two were out cold. She had heard noise in the distance. It was Katniss, Peeta and Finnick. They walked toward them. They greeted, but the camera angle changed again. Octavia, and some other Careers were fighting, over the water. The iodine was in a small container, and they had run out. Fighting broke out, and a few were even dead. 

"No, go back to Han!" I silently yelled at the television.

It did after some of the Career's were dead.

They were joining up, making an alliance. Katniss and Han fought, a lot. Well, they would get better. Everyone else (Finnick, Peeta, Nuts, Volts, and the body of the one Morphling addict. She was soon carried up. They fought, until Katniss questioned the tick tock-ing. 

"Tick tock."

"What?"

"Tick tock."

After a while, they realized about the clock. The viewers had already been told, so they could yell at them through the screen for more enjoyment, about how dumb they are for not realizing. 

They all went to the Cornucopia.

They grabbed weapons and supplies, but before they could leave, it began to spin, faster and faster. They were all thrown off balance. Katniss held onto Han by a finger, and they barely held on before it stopped spinning. Katniss was in the water. They had to get her out. 

Even though she wasn't pregnant, almost drowning was serious. 

They got back to land with what they had left. 

That was when another plague hour started.