FROM, the sand Katniss, Peeta, Johanna, Jackson, and Beetee watched the couple in the water. Johanna put an arrow in Katniss' quiver causing her to jump. "They're so cute it's sickening," Johanna said taking a seat beside the other girl.

"Love is weird," Jackson stated.

"You said you loved me yesterday?" Johanna replied confused.

"I know. But my love for you seems like child play in the shadow of theirs," he motioned over to them.

"Well I love you too," she kissed him lightly.

"I mean who wouldn't," Jackson shrugged causing her to chuckle. He wrapped his arm around her as Beetee spoke up.

"I have a plan."

They looked over at him, "Finnick! Lilith! Stop making out and get over here!" Johanna shouted.

From her place, Lilith sighed, "We better go Mr. Odair."

"Yes we should Mrs. Odair," He helped her up and they walked towards the group.

"Where do the careers feel the safest? The jungle?"

"The jungle's a nightmare," Johanna said.

"Probably here on the beach," Peeta guessed.

"Then why are they not here?" Beetee asked.

"Because we are. We claimed it," Lilith replied.

"And if we left they would come."

"Or stay hidden in the treeline," Finnick countered.

"Which, in just over four hours will be soaked in water from the 10:00 wave. And what happens at midnight?"

"Lightning strikes that tree," Katniss answered.

"Here's what I propose. We leave the beach at dusk. We head to the lightning tree. That should draw them back to the beach. Prior to midnight we then use this wire from the tree to the water. Anyone in the water or the damp sand will be electrocuted."

"How do we know the wire's not gonna burn up?" Jackson asked.

"Because I invented it. I assure you it won't burn up." Lilith looked at Finnick, who looked at Johanna, who looked at Jackson. They all silently contemplated the plan and then they looked to Lilith.

"Well, it's better than hunting them down. Although Jack and I do like a good killing spree," Lilith smirked.

"Yeah, why not?" Katniss said, "If it fails no harm done anyway, right?"

"All right, I say we try it," Peeta agreed, "So what can we do to help?"

"Keep me alive for the next six hours. That would be extremely helpful."

They all relaxed on the beach for a while and once again Lilith floated, in the water, on her back. Finnick stood a little away from her practicing with his trident and Jackson, Johanna and Beetee were sat on the sand talking. Peeta and Katniss looked at them.

Lilith felt herself be calm on the water despite almost being killed by it only a few hours before. The group called her and Finnick over and she stood up and walked over to them. They started their trek into the jungle.

Lilith walked beside Johanna and Jackson and Finnick walked behind them. She was aware of her surroundings and was ready to reach for her katanas. The anthem played in the sky and the dead tributes were shown. She rubbed Finnick's arm as Mags was shown and he smiled tightly at her.

The anthem ended and they continued walking to the tree.

When they arrived, Beetee looked at it carefully, "Minimal charring. It's an impressive conductor. Let's get started."

They walked towards it and Beetee started wrapping the coil around the lower branches, "Typically a lightning strike contains five billion joules of energy. We don't want to be anywhere in the vicinity when this hits."

"You three girls go together now," Beetee handed Katniss the rest of the coil, "Take this. Unspool it carefully. Make sure the entire coil is in the water. Do you understand? Then head to the tree at the 2:00 sector. We'll meet you there." The three nodded.

"I'm gonna go with them as a guard," Peeta spoke up.

"No, no, no, no. You're staying here to protect me," Beetee replied, "And the tree."

"No I need to go with her," Peeta insisted.

"There are two Careers out there. I need the three of you to be my guards."

"Finnick and Jackson can protect you just fine on their own."

"Yeah, why can't Lilith, Finnick, Jackson, and Johanna stay with you and Peeta and I'll take the coil?" Katniss asked. The five looked between each other knowing why.

"You all agreed to keep me alive till midnight correct?"

"It's his plan. We all agreed to it," Johanna defended.

"Is there a problem here?" Finnick asked.

"Excellent question," Beetee replied. He looked at Katniss expectantly.

"No. There's no problem," Katniss sighed. She pressed a kiss to Peeta's lips before pulling away, "I'll see you at midnight."

"All right," Johanna said. Jackson kissed her and Lilith hugged Finnick.

"I love you," she said.

"I love you too," he muttered into her hair.

"Be careful," Lilith ordered.

"I will," she quickly kissed him and jogged to meet up with Johanna and Katniss. They walked deeper into the jungle in silence, the only sound was the crickets chirping in the bushes.

Lilith took Katniss' bow as she crossed over some rocks. She handed it back to her as Johanna urged them on, "Come on. I want to put as much distance between us and that beach as possible. Frying is not how I wanna go."

"So how do you want to go Jo?"

"I don't know maybe seeing my beautiful best friend would be a good death," Johanna joked.

Katniss stopped as the coil pulled, "There's something..." she trailed as she tugged at it. She looked closer and tugged at it once more. The situation quickly turned serious as this time it snapped and she reached for an arrow. Johanna hit her over the head with the coil causing her to fall.

Lilith quickly took a knife from her boot and dug it into Katniss' skin pulling out the tracker. "Shh shh shh," she rubbed the blood on Katniss' neck, "Stay down." She threw the knife at the Careers and she and Johanna started running.

They continued to run as fast as they could from the Careers. They hid behind some trees and waited for the Careers.

Brutus came close to her and Lilith swung her katana and plunged it in his stomach before slicing his throat. A booming came from above and the two girls looked up. Lightning crackled and then the dome came down. The metal sky cracked and fell down. Lilith jumped out of the way to avoid getting hit.

She looked over at Johanna and saw Peacemakers shoot her with a tranquilizer before they did the same to her. Everything went dark.

Author's Note

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