"Juniper Plinth, better known as The Serpent. Capitol favorite, she's their doll. She's a deadly threat, and most importantly, a career. Juniper is agile, sneaky, and quick, you'd never see her coming. She's one of the deadliest victors you'll ever...
"Boggs, Juniper. Come in. Do you read me?" Beetee kept attempting to reach them through the radio. The screen in the room had gone completely static. "I'm getting nothing."
"He know that they're in there!" Katniss stuttered, looking to Haymitch. "It was a trap, we have to get a hold of them. We have to tell them to get out, he knows!"
"There's no signal, we can't contact them."
"Then get the signal!" Finnick yelled. "You can't just leave them in there! You have to warn them!" Finnick fought with Plutarch.
"Haymitch, he knew the whole time. He was taunting me the whole time." Katniss was talking to Haymitch in full sobs, he pulled her in for a hug, trying to calm her down. "Did I just lose them both?"
Finnick stood watching the two of them. He didn't know what to do anymore. He may have just lost his everything, too. Juniper. His three best friends, Johanna, Annie, and Lilo. He didn't know how to take it. Katniss was breaking down right in front of him, but he stood static. Should he be doing the same thing?
The two wanted to stay in the room, but they were forced out and were told they would get news when it arrived. But it was blank, it seemed forever, and nothing ever came.
Katniss and Finnick sat in the training room together. They were throwing knives at targets to get everything off their minds, but ultimately just sat against the wall, tying knots with ropes.
Finnick's fingers were raw, but he kept tying over and over again. Katniss as well.
"Did you love Juniper right away, Finnick?" Katniss asked, looking towards him. She was unsure of the answer. She knew he loved her, but that only came recently.
"Maybe." Finnick said. "But she crept up on me."
Katniss nodded and looking back at her rope, a noose. Gale and Peeta stormed her head again, the silence was killing her. Finnick seemed to notice that.
"She was unlike anyone I've met before." Finnick started speaking again, breaking Katniss out of her thoughts. "Her voice was beautiful, she was beautiful, but she was my sisters best friend. I think deep down I always loved her in some way, I just forced it to be hatred for a while."
"After my sister died, I was just so mad at the world. I didn't know who to direct that anger to other than Juniper, and that ruined everything for us. That's how she crept up on me." Finnick laughed to himself, tightening the rope in his hands. "I never thought her and I would get to this point, but we did. I think I always just denied it because I never thought I would be deserving of it."
