Return to the Sea (Gale Hawthorne x OC)

Chapter 12

When we all are sitting or standing in a circle, Beetee finally tells us his plan. Apparently he thinks if we leave the beach, the others will come to it. But  we plan to leave the beach at dusk, giving us time to head to the tree the lightning strikes. Then we'll run the wire from the tree to the beach, electrocuting the left over tributes.

After a small snarky comment from me, we all go off into our own little area. I sit in the water, farther from the group. I sigh and lay down, closing my eyes, hoping another wave won't come and actually finishing me off. With no hallucinations and the peaceful sound of the waves, I finally doze off into a light sleep.

I awake from Katniss quietly waking me. I get up and we all start to the tree. I walk quietly besides Beetee because he asked. Then as we climb up rocks, the Capitol music starts and we all look up. It shows Gloss and Cashmere, Wiress, District 5's female, District 6's female, 7's male, and Chaff. When Chaff's picture is shown, I ball my hands into fists. I didn't know him that well, but we had simple and easygoing conversations. He was a kind man.

After that we start walking again. We soon arrive at the tree and Beetee starts talking to himself. After giving us a heads up of not being anywhere close when the lightning strikes, he gives the coil of wire to Katniss and Johanna.

"I'm gonna go with them as a guard." Peeta volunteers.

Beetee shakes his head. "Oh no, no, no, no. Your staying here to protect me."

"I'll go with." I say. "You don't need me here if you have Finnick and Peeta. I'll protect them." I say the last part to Peeta.

Peeta nods his head hesitantly while Finnick shakes his head about to say something, but both Beete and Johanna give him looks.

The three of us start to head off after Peeta and Katniss kiss goodbye. My leg starts to hurt and burn and I'm thinking it got infected. We travel down the rocks when the wire gets stuck. Katniss tries to yank it free but it snaps apart and I have to dodge it from hitting me.

I get a knife ready as Katniss pulls an arrow out and Johanna readies her axe. Brutus' shadow pops up and once his eyes land on me, he snarls and charges towards us.

Then unexpectedly, Johanna hits Katniss in the back of the head.

"What the hell?!" I yell at her.

"Run!" She tells me and takes one of my knives.

I'm contemplating on whether I should just stab her or take her advice and run. When Brutus gets closer, I make up my mind and run in the other direction. I heard Katniss scream and I know Peeta's gonna I hear another pair of footsteps besides Brutus and I thought it was Johanna's, but it was to soft and fast.

Enobaria.

I look behind me to see Enobaria going after Johanna and Brutus still running behind me. I'm slower with my hurt leg and he catches up to me fast. He slams me into a tree from behind and I swear I'm seeing stars. He turns me around and I see two, four Brutuses. He slams me against the tree again by my throat. I see black splotches in my peripheral vision.

I slyly grab a knife as he squeezes my throat. I struggle to breath but I stab the knife into is neck. He falls down, blood running down his mouth. A cannon goes off. I cough and wheeze but when I hear tree branches snapping, I look up to see Peeta.

"Where is she?" He asks worriedly.

"I-I don't k-know." I wheeze out.

He comes over to me and wraps my arm around his shoulder, helping me stand better. Then the entire arena blows up from the sky. I can see the non-artificial sun as different burning things fall from the sky. Then we hear heavy footsteps behind us and we whip around.

Standing there are five peacekeepers. They aim their guns at us and shoot. One hits Peeta in his torso and he falls back, unconscious. Then I get hit, one in my thigh and another in my shoulder. I fall back and darkness overcomes me.

When I finally am back to my senses, I open my eyes to see that I'm in a bright white room. It kind of reminds me of my games. But then I rethink again and it comes to me. I'm in the Capitol.

I sit up to find myself in a small bed wearing white sweatpants and a white long sleeve shirt. I can feel my leg is wrapped up properly and doesn't hurt or burn anymore.

My head snaps to my right as I hear the door open.

"Good evening, Ms. Sommers."
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Ahhhh! We're done with Catching Fire!! Now onto The Mockingjay!

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