LILITH was awoken from her dreamless sleep when Katniss shouted to run, "Run! Run! The fog is poison!" They got up and Finnick grabbed Mags and they started running.

As they ran, the fog rolled in thickly. It came from different sides of them causing them to take unexpected turns. Katniss fell and Peeta tried to help her up but they screamed as the acid fog touched their skin causing angry boils to form.

Finnick screamed as the fog touched his legs, dropping Mags in the process, "Mags. Please, please. Come on."

Lilith saw Peeta fall and Katniss try to help him, seeing the boils on his skin. Lilith and Finnick crouched next to them, "I can't carry him," Katniss said, "Peeta please."

Mags touched Finnick's shoulder. As he turned she pressed a kiss to his cheek before turning away, "Mags?" Lilith asked.

"Mags? Mags!" Finnick shouted for the older woman as she entered the fog.

"Finnick." Lilith held him back from going after her.

"Mags!"

"Finnick," Katniss yelled as a canon fired.

"We have to go. We have to get outta here," Lilith gripped his face in her hands and smiled sadly.

"We have to go," Katniss said.

Finnick turned around to look at Peeta, "Alright, come on." Katniss and Finnick held the boy up and Lilith helped them stand. They started to jog, but it was hard because Peeta was barely awake. They groaned as the fog reached them causing them to tumble down a hill. Lilith laid on the forest floor in pain before Katniss screamed.

"The water! The water helps." Lilith crawled towards Finnick and dragged him towards the lake. The two groaned as the water seemed to wash away the angry boils on their skin. When they settled Katniss said, "We need our weapons."

They got out of the lake and Lilith sighed picking up one of her katanas from the ground and putting it in the sheath to meet the other. Lilith re-entered the lake where Finnick was sitting washing off the residue of the boils. Katniss sat beside them and it was silent for a moment before she spoke up, "I'm sorry about Mags."

Finnick sat silent for a moment before answering, "She was never gonna make it. So..." He looked up and stilled causing Katniss and Lilith to look his way. He signalled at something behind them making them look. As Lilith reached for her swords Katniss did the same with her arrows.

Behind them were monkeys, who growled as they rose slowly. Lilith looked into the trees, seeing them climbing on the branches. Finnick bent down as one neared them, picking up his trident.

"Peeta?" Katniss said.

"Yeah?" Peeta looked up from where his gaze was focused on the spile.

"Walk over here slowly," she ordered.

He looked around and a monkey roared in his face. He backed away as they advanced, "Whoa." He met them in the lake and they all stood, weapons raised. The monkeys growled at them angrily as they looked around.

"Get to the beach," Katniss said.

She looked at the path and gasped when the monkeys were blocking it. She raised her bow at them, getting ready to shoot. As one jumped at her from behind, Lilith slashed at it. They all roared and started coming at them. Lilith swung at them before she saw Katniss get pounced on. The girl sank into the water and Lilith shoved her sword through its neck. She pulled the girl out as Peeta shouted, "We gotta get to the beach!"

They started running and the monkeys followed. Lilith grunted as one jumped on her back. She rolled it over and ripped its throat out with her teeth.

She got up and stabbed another. She was thrown to the ground and a monkey roared in her face. It was stabbed by Finnick and he helped her up as Katniss and Peeta grabbed a morphling. They ran towards the beach and the monkeys stopped as if it was at a barrier. Lilith sighed in relief as Katniss and Peeta comforted the dying morphling. A canon boobed and they stared at her sadly.

Soon a Capitol jet came and took her body out of the water. Lilith sat in the sand watching Finnick, kill fish with his trident. He brought them over to where the others were sitting and sliced them open. The four immediately started eating the raw fish.

Peeta opened up an oyster and dug out a pearl, he handed it to Katniss, "Look. For you."

She smiled and rolled it around in her hand, "Thank you."

A small blush dusted his cheeks and Finnick and Lilith looked at each other before looking back at the two.

Screaming echoed in the distance and they all looked up alert, "That's new," Peeta muttered.

They all stood and looked over at the forest, beyond the cornucopia. A wave of water crashed through the trees and canons fired. The water seemed to go against a barrier and it crashed down sending water towards their feet. They looked up once more and a jet dipped down to take the body of the dead tribute.

They stared at the place it once was before Katniss caught their attention, "Someone's here." She drew an arrow from her quiver and loaded it into the bow.

They ducked behind the leaves, waiting. Lilith looked and saw a woman and a man. The woman was beckoning someone over who they couldn't see before the man helped another woman down and another man walked up to the first woman.

"Johanna?"

"Jackson?" The two older tributes jogged towards them.

"Johanna!" Lilith yelled.

"Lilith! Finnick!" Johanna laughed as they stopped. She parted from Johanna and smiled at her brother hugging him.

"What happened?" Lilith asked looking at them. They were covered in red liquid.

"Well, I got 'em out. We were all the way deep in the jungle where I thought it was gonna be safe. That's when the rain started," Johanna laughed bitterly, "I thought it was water. It turned out to be blood."

"Tick tock," Wiress muttered coming to stand next to her.

"Hot, thick blood. It was coming down."

"Tick tock."

"It was choking us," she scoffed, "We were stumbling around gagging on it, blind."

"Tick tock."

"That's when Blight hit the force field," Jackson continued.

"Tick tock. Tick tock," Wiress kept saying. Johanna exhaled in annoyance.

"He wasn't much but he was from home," Johanna said.

"Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock."

"What's wrong with her?" Katniss asked.

"She's in shock," Beetee told them, "Dehydration isn't helping. Do you have fresh water?"

"We can get some," Katniss nodded. Wiress gripped Johanna and shook her.

"Tick tock."

"Listen. Stop it!"

"Hey get off her!" Katniss yelled as Johanna shoved the woman.

"Hey!" Johanna exclaimed as Katniss lunged for her, "What are you doing?"

"Hey, hey hey! Jo, calm down," Lilith and Finnick tried to stop the fight.

"I got them out for you!" Johanna screamed.

"Johanna!" Jackson warned.

"It's okay, it's okay," Lilith soothed.

"Let me go, Lilith."

"Johanna. Why don't we go clean up?" Lilith led the girl towards the water.

Johanna calmed down and the two friends sat in the water.

"So I heard about you and my brother," Lilith said.

"I heard about you and Finnick," Johanna smirked.

"If he hurts you I'll kill him," Lilith smiled.

"I know," The two sat in silence before Johanna spoke up again, "You're better with him. More open. I like it."

"You should have seen Jacks yesterday. He was so smiley and giddy. It was weird," Lilith laughed. The two looked over where the boys were talking and watching them. Finnick was blushing madly and Jackson was laughing. The two girls smiled at them and continued washing.

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