Reading: Catching Fire

Last minute reading post for the super busy past two weeks. This is from page 355-391 (the end of the book....finally).

Katniss really feels connected with Peeta. Her goal is still to clear the rest of the competition and get Peeta to win. She second guesses herself about how long the alliance will last and if the group is really secretively looking out for Peeta.
Peeta and Katniss go off to the water where she teaches him how to swim. While they're by themselves, Katniss suggests that they break off from the pack because there are only eight left. Peeta promises they'll split after Brutus and Enobaria are dead. Turns out Beetee has come up with his own plan to kill Brutus and Enobaria and wants them to be next. The duo isn't anywhere to be found on the beach and the alliance decides that they must have gone to the jungle to spy on them and eat.
Beetee's plan is to run his wire that is highly conductive in between the lighting strikes. His plan is that anyone touching the wire or anything it is connected to would be electrocuted when the lightening strikes.
When the group goes walking through the forest to set the trap Finnick suggests that Katniss take the lead because she can "hear the forcefield" with her Capitol repaired ear. Beetee isn't buying this, because he's the one who show her how to do it in the training center, but he doesn't say anything.
While fishing, Peeta finds an oyster, opens it and gives Katniss the pearl inside. She believes this will be her last gift from Peeta. She plans on keeping it hoping that when she dies it'll make it back to her family so they can give it to Peeta before they burry her body.
Katniss and Johanna leave to drop the wire into the water by the beach and Peeta is worried no one will be there to protect her. She stays optimistic and tells Peeta she will see him at midnight, meaning she'll live. The wire vibrates and then falls down around them. Someone has cut the wire, they're sure of it. Katniss is lying on her back and can't see straight as a result of the vibration. Johanna is sitting on Katniss's chest holding her down while being stabbed in the arm with something. Out of no where Brutus comes out and is shouting to Enorbaria that "she's as good as dead" (referring to Katniss?). Katniss thinks the alliance is over and that Finnick and Johanna have made an agreement to bail on Katniss and Peeta.
Someone's died and this sends Katniss into a running frenzy. She trips over Beetee's wire, but gets out and keeps heading for Peeta. When she reaches the area where the others were. Beetee is up in the tree moaning and cut and holding the knife that Peeta was carrying earlier. Luckily she finds Peeta and he's realized that everyone is hunting them.
Finnick and Enobaria show up but Katniss is out of their view. Another cannon goes off. Katniss is up in the tree ready to kill Enobaria leaving Peeta with only one enemy left to kill.Katniss remembers Haymitch's words "Katniss, when you're in the arena...You just remember who the enemy is." She now knows what he is talking about. She takes her arrow while looking for the sweet spot in the force field and sends her arrow flying through. She's thrown to the ground and before the explosion, she finds a star.
Katniss doesn't think they'll let anyone survive this Quarter Quell. She can imagine President Snow reading, "...a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol..." She's sorry that she couldn't save Peeta. A hovercraft is over Katniss, the claw drops, and when she's inside she sees Plutarch Heavensbee (the Head Gamemaker).
Katniss drops out of consciousness, when she awakes she has tubes in her arm that are trying to keep her alive. She rips them out and goes unconscious again. When she comes to she sees Beetee hooked up to ten machines and all she wants to do is die. Katniss considers killing Beetee in the moment but decides to put it off. She walks down the hallway and over hears Plutarch talking to someone. He says, " No, I'm sorry. There's no way I can get you to Four. But I've given special orders for her retrieval if possible. It's the best I can do, Finnick." WHAT?!?! Next she hears Haymitch saying he'll keep "her" alive as bait.
Haymitch explains to Katniss what happened, and it goes like this... There had always been a plan to break the victors from the arena when the Quell began (victors from District 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had some sort of knowledge about this). Turns out Plutarch has been in an undercover group for years whose goal is to defy the Capitol. Everything was a specific sign or code to those who knew. It was quite a detailed set up. The hovercraft that captured Katniss was from District 13, yup that's right 13. Bonnie and Twill, the ladies from the woods, were right about 13. Currently those in the hovercraft are on their way to District 13 while a majority of Panem is in a full-blown rebellion.
Haymitch didn't tell Peeta and Katniss because he thought it would be way too risky of a move. He explains that once the force field was blown they'd be the first ones to be captured and the less they knew the better. Everyone promised to save Katniss and Peeta and keep them alive. Johanna pinning Katniss was done so she could cut the tracker from Katniss's arm. Katniss had to be saved, Haymitch explains to her that, "...you are the mockingjay. While you live, the revolution lives." Peeta has been picked up by the Capitol along with Enobaria and Johanna. This pisses Katniss off and sends her lurching across the room ready to claw Haymitch with her fingernails.
People pry Katniss off of Haymitch, restrain her, and as she slips out of consciousness again Finnick explains that he wanted to go back and save Peeta, but he couldn't move. He says it'll be better for Peeta because the Capitol will learn that he knows nothing and will just use him as bait against Katniss. Without giving up Katniss says they'll use Peeta as bait for her while they use Annie as bait for Finnick. Then and there Finnick just wishes he along with everyone else would be dead.
Katniss starts weighing out the option of Peeta's chances for survival and death. Right now she's decided if she can't have him back she'd rather have him dead. She knows the Capitol will never give him back to her. Katniss is giving up and letting the people around her pump whatever into her that they want with the hopes that if she dies maybe Peeta will live. She blames Haymitch for using them as pieces in the games.
She opens her eyes and sees Gale. He's been burnt and his arm is in a sling. She immediately asks about Prim and her mother and he tells her that they're alive. After the games, he tells her that the Capitol dropped firebombs on District 12 and he saved them. Gale tells her that there isn't a District 12 left...

Ah can't wait to start the next book, the third and final one, Mockingjay!!