"That's a terrifying sight." Zoya said honestly, watching Katniss and Joanna attempt to communicate, one washing the blood off Wiress, the other messing with her axe.

"I have to agree." Peeta nodded, watching as Zoya held the parachute high in the air. "You sure this is gonna work?"

"You just have to give it a second." Zoya hummed, holding her breath as she waiting for wind. After a few minutes, it picked up, and the refurbished gift, now appearing as a purple liquid, was floating away across the water.

"You're a genius." Peeta shook his head in disbelief. "A genuine."

Zoya cracked a half grin with a shrug. "Well, I try."

Katniss began shouting the same words Peeta had, holding onto Wiress as she hurried back to the sand, urging the rest of follow. Grasping a stick, she drew in the sand. "The entire arena seems to be laid out like a clock with a new threat every hour, but they stay only within their wedge. It all starts with the lightening. Then the blood rain, fog, monkeys. That's the first four hours. At 10:00, the big wave bird from over there."

Before long, they had traveled to the cornucopia and were going over the plan again. Peeta pointed to the end. "Look, the tail points to 12."

"And the base at six." Zoya agreed, looking to the opposite end.

"That's where the lightning strikes at moon and midnight." Katniss agreed with a nod of her head.

"Strikes where?" Beetee asked curiously, looking from beside his glasses.

"That big tree." The Everdeen girl pointed that way, Zoya making sure Peeta didn't lose his balance while walking over a cluster of rocks.

"Okay, so, 12 to 1 was the lightning." Zoya spoke as Peeta redrew the clock.

"Then 1 to 2 is blood." he agreed with her. "Then fog. And then monkeys."

"God knows what they're gonna throw out next." Zoya shook her head with an exhale. "Might try to freaking blind me again!"

"Zoya, keep your voice down." Katniss gave her a wild look. "10 to 11 was the wave. What about everything else? Did you guys see anything?"

"Nothing but blood." Joanna shook her head honestly.

"Doesn't matter as long as we steer clear of whichever sector is active, we'll be safe." Peeta looked over, his hair looked slightly blonder from all the sun they'd got.

"For now." Zoya agreed, her cheeks a red glow from the sun as well. "They could mix it up on our asses just to prove that they can out smart us."

"Us?" Peeta cracked a grin her way. "Who's ever out smarted the two of us?"

"No one, yet." she tilted her head knowingly. Peeta didn't get a chance to say anything before Wiress' singing came to an end, a gasp leaving her lips as they turned to see Gloss has sliced her throat. Zoya threw a hand out, pushing Peeta behind her as Katniss shot an arrow into District One's chest. His sister came from the other side, Joanna shoving Katniss to the side to impale her with her axe.

Bruce came at Finnick, swinging at him. Peeta gapped as Zoya ran over, Finnick ducking down as she easily rolled over his back, her legs locking around Bruce's neck to cause a fall. Finnick came to her rescue with a stab to his chest, helping her up as the canon fired. "I have a feeling your trick really pissed some people off."

"Kinda what i'm good at." Zoya said, looking around alert for any sight of anyone. Katniss ran after the girl with the sharp teeth, Peeta falling in with the duo that had taken down Bruce together. Before anyone could move, the cornucopia shook violently under them. The three lost their balance, hitting the rock. Finnick grabbed hold of Zoyas hand, her other latching onto Peetas as they spun.

"Z, watch out!" Finnick shouted as a heavy bucket of weapons was headed down the side, right down the middle where Zoya was. She looked in a panic, letting go of Finnicks hand to roll to the side, Peeta holding onto her tightly before she managed to grasp onto the rock again. Finnick caught Beetee before he could fall, a few more seconds passing before the spinning came to a slow stop.

Zoya exhaled, laying on the rock for a second before they all rose. "Where are the girls?"

"They ran to the other side." Finnick said as he helped Beetee up. Zoya and Peeta ran behind the cornucopia, hurrying over to Katniss as Joanna helped her out of the water, coughing violently.

"You swallow any sea weed?" Zoya kneeled next to her as Peeta patted her back, Katniss shook her head as she continued to cough. "No? That's too bad. It's actually a pretty healthy snack."

"Are you really talking about this right now?" Joanna asked her in disbelief.

"You okay?" Peeta questioned Katniss, getting a thumbs up as she laid still a second.

"Let's just get what we need and get off the blood island." Joanna said with a huff as Zoya and Peeta helped Katniss up, locking their arm to provide as much balance as they could as one.

"So besides Enobaria, who's left?" Katniss asked when they made it back to their beach, Peeta and Zoya sat on a tree beach together. "Do we have a clue who Zoya took out with her parachute?"

"Someone close to them, i'd think." she said honestly with a nod, twisting some seaweed together. "They attacked us so quick."

"Maybe Chaff. Just those three left." Peeta spoke on behalf of both their questions.

"They know they're outnumbered. I doubt they'll attack again." Finnick spoke up confidently.

"If we can get another sponsor, I could take at least one out from here." Zoya looked up at the sky. "Just for, you knew, anyone bothering to listen to the dying girl."

"So what do we do? We hunt em down?" Joanna looked cautiously. "I can't imagine any Sponsors love Zoya enough to send her some gift out of the blue."

"I can pretend to be really sick or one of you can cut my finger off." the Butterfield girl suggested with a nod.

"Not happening." Peeta hummed with a shake of his head.

"Gonna have to agree." Katniss rose a knowing eyebrow. Before anyone could say anything else, a young girls scream echoed from inside of the forest.

"Katniss, help me!" it cried out, a familiar voice Zoya was having trouble piecing together.

"Prim!" Katniss cried out suddenly, and Zoya knew then who the voice belonged to. "Prim!"

"No!" Zoya yelled as Katniss took off into the forest.

"Katniss! Katniss, wait!" Finnick shouted, the group all taking off after her. Zoya didn't make it far before her own horror was yelling for her.

"Zoya!"

Zoya paused, her heart thumping painfully as she looked the opposite direction. "Roz!"

"Wait!" Peeta called, following after her quickly. But, Zoya was fast, and Roz was screaming for her loudly. Zoya stayed looking up at the sky, because that seemed to be where it had been coming from. She was running, running so fast and looking up so high that she hadn't realized she was headed toward a cliff before her body fell over the side, dropping. Peetas heart fell, body paling, knees weakening as he flooded with fear. "Zoya!"

He took off toward the end of the cliff, being cut off by her body springing up from below and throwing her into him. Peeta took the fall as they flew back, both crying out. He was panicking, half way not believing she was there. "Zoya. Zoya. Oh my god. I thought you were gone. I saw you f-"

"Forcefield at the end of every cliff to avoids tributes killing themselves." Zoya cried out as she gripped onto his body, not fully recovering from the flash of fear she just faced. Peeta held her tightly, the two falling onto the ground together as birds swarmed Zoya, all shouting loudly. Zoya squeezed her eyes tightly, Peeta clasping his hands over her ears and leaning in to press his head against hers. It didn't occur to them right then that he'd following the girl from District Five rather then his hysterical pregnant wife.

But, the pairs pride in always being smarter then everyone else hadn't been with them that day, not when all of The Capitol saw exactly what they were right then and there.

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kylie speaks

not zoya and peeta
being problematic
lmao.