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fire finds a home in me

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IT WAS LIKE  A SWITCHED HAD FLIPPED INSIDE HER, watching the Morphling girl sacrifice herself for Peeta brought bad memories back to her. It was foolish of her to believe that she never needed to be that same person again as the one she was in her first games. And now as she watched a hovercraft take her lifless body while they just helplessly watched was her breaking point.

Erin was no longer the same girl she was only a couple months ago. She was just another broken suvivor trying to stay alive in a world you shouldn't want to live in.

She quietly sat in front of the water, just staring at nothing. She hadn't said a word to anyone and she kept to herself. Her once bright eyes were now dull, lost of its fire.

She still was aware of Finnick who was catching fish with his trident and Katniss an Peeta who whispered among one another. The gently breeze and the smell of salt water still managed to ease her nerves but she was beyond repair now. Her old persona scattered around the arena like pieces of glass. The games had again succeed in stripping her from who she was.

The sun was breaking through the horizion and Erin hadn't moved an inch. She tilted her head to the side when she caught side of Finnick sitting down next to her, a raw fish in his hand. She stared at him for a moment before slowly taking the dead fish from his hands.

Finnick was about to speak when screames erupted from another part of the rain forest and before he could protest Erin was already back on her feet, katana in hand.

Erin approached both Peeta and Katniss and they all watched as across the arena a gigantic wave crashed through the forest line, taking everthing with it. One single cannon went of and slowly everything turned back to normal.

"Someone's here." Katniss suddenly said grabbing an arrow.

Erin's eyes widened and she firmly gripped her katana, following Katniss gaze. They all took cover behind the plants. Erin tilted her head as she saw two figures standing on the beach.

When Erin realised who it was, she stepped out of her hiding place and plopped down on the ground, startling the other three tributes.

It seemed that Finnick too, realised who it was. "Johanna." He said before jogging towards them. "Johanna!"

"Finnick!" Johanna shouted back embracing him.

Erin slowly stood back up as Katniss and Peeta made their way over to the others and she followed after them.

"Erin!" Someone shouted and before she knew it she was tightly embraced by Johanna. She carefully wrapped her arms around her." Hey." She muttered.

Taking a step back from her Erin eyes the other tributes before glancing back at the water. "I'm going to see if I can get some more fish."

Johanna furrowed her eyebrows as she watched the brunette walk into the water before she glanced at Finnick who looked worried.

"Did something happen?" Johanna asked standing beside Finnick.

"I'm not sure." He answered, his eyes never leaving Erin's figure off in the distance.

"What do you mean?"

"She's been like this since the Morphling sacrificed herself for Peeta."

"Of course." Johanna shook her head and Finnick finally glanced at her confused. "You don't remember?"

"What?"

"Her games. Don't you remember that girl from district 11. She took the hit for her. I guess seeing someone else sacrifice themselves brought those memories back."

Finnick cursed under his breath." I forgot." He mumbled.

"Just give her time. She'll be back."

When Erin return to the group they were making their way to the cornucopia

"The entire arena seemes to be laid out like a clock. With a new threat every hour. They stay only within their boundries. It all starts with the lighting than the blood rain, fog, monkeys. That's the first four hours. At ten that big wave hit from overthere."

"Wiress you're a genius." Finnick said walking past her with Erin.

"That tail points to twelve o'clock." Peeta said as they reached the cornucopia.

"That's where the lightning strikes and noon and midnight."

"Strikes where?" Beetee asked looking towards the direction the tail pointed.

"That big tree." Katniss pointed out.

"Good." He tilted his head.

Erin nodded standing besides Finnick. "So what now."

Katniss was about to say something when they were interrupted.

"Hickory dickory dock. The mouse ran up the clock." Wriress sang sitting down on a rock. "The clock ticks one, the mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock."

Ignoring her Peeta drew a circle on the ground. "From twelve to one. Lightning." He drew a line." One to two is blood. Then fog and then monkeys." He continued as everyone surround Peeta.

"From ten to eleven. The wave." Katniss added. "What about everything else? Did you guys see anything?"

"Nothing but blood." Johanna stated.

"Doesn't matter as long as we stay clear of whatever section is active, we're save." Peeta said.

"Yeah relatively speaking." Finnick said dryly.

A gasped startled Erin who quickly turned around to see Wiress throat get sliced by Gloss.

Everyone got into motion as more tributes circled in on them. Blood was spilled as they all fought together to stay alive and more cannons went off.

And when the last off them tried to escape Erin rushed after them. But she startes slipping when the floor underneath her started moving. She fell to the ground, dropping her katana in the progress.

Trying to find a grip on the wet rocks proved to be impossible for her and as the speed the cornucopia moved with increased she felt herself slowy falling down.

She could see Finnick and Peeta a couple feet away from her and Finnick's eyes widened as he saw Erin slowly slip. "Erin!" He called out. There eyes met for a moments before she finally fell down disappearing in the roaring waves. "Erin!" He shouted.

When the spinning finally stopped Finnick was back to his feet in an instant. Looking around for any sign of Erin. From the corner of his eye he could see Katniss emerged from the water coughing.

"Erin!" He shouted, his voice cracking slightly when there was no sign of her anywhere. "Please." He pleaded, looking around the water and tears rolled down his cheeks when a cannon sounded through the air. "No"

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