I appreciate the sentiment, but anyone know how to pick a lock?

I don't want to wake up anywhere else. I don't want that. The earth shouldn't spin out from under you and the sky shouldn't fall and I... Finnick? Are you here this time? I'm not sure I know what happened.

[Emmy makes her way back up to the sixth floor, swimming in Mitchell's shirt, hair matted and knotted, greasy with gasoline, and pushes open the bedroom door. She locks eyes with Josie and for a minute, she just stands in the doorway, looking back at her. And then, all at once, her chin starts to quiver and Emmy starts to cry for what feels like the millionth time this week.]

[ooc: added a few minutes later]

[finnick and katniss's other friend whose name i cant remember]
sylar threatened me and katniss and her sister and katniss said for us to send the message to you just in case even if she got out alive and we thought she could do it herself and i know it says hes dead on the wall but maybe he isnt or maybe he'll come back but keep her little sister safe because hes mad that katniss and i killed him and hes coming after us all and he said her sister and so im giving you the message like i promised her.

[Quietly.] One... two... over and under. One... two... over and under.

[Sounds of doors opening and slamming, things being overturned.] I will find whoever did this. I will find you and I will kill you. [The sounds continue, at times in harmony with less than sane shouting.]

Right, ladies...I know I was awful and snatched up my hot bestie and I'm sorry I'm not sorry, but I just so happen to have another hot bestie and it's been too long since my last want ad, so!

My ruggedly pretty friend Dean is stuck with this married lesbian friend and he, like Miles, could really use some straight lady love. Tall, sexy as hell, strong, and bad ass/heroic type seeking a good time, potentially fwb but that's not a question for me to answer, so don't ask. Totally a catch. Clingers and girls seeking long term commitments or drunken marriages need not apply, thanks very much.

Now, who's gonna be the lucky lady?

...this is hard when you're sober, shit!

ETA: As someone pointed out, I'm missing the most important part! ( Behold, the prize to be won! )

Right, let's be best friends. Panem fucking sucks and if the future kids roaming around are anything to judge by, you get to pick whether you can go home with friends or something, so...let's be best friends. Me and all you lot. No one should have to live or die in that awful place.

[Prim]
All right, mate...?

I think I can speak for Katniss and Finnick, too, when I say...I'm sorry you had to be there with us for that...

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I didn't know if it was night or day, that's the only reason I closed my eyes, down in the dark, in the hallway with no windows, and the water and the waves again and again and the softness of it when you kick another leg and the little fish with too many teeth have gummed it, made it pulpy and pale and the red and I knew it wasn't I knew I wasn't but it's all so close anyway, all the time, just there in the place between heartbeats, where you fall down, and I lost track again and the red and the waves again and again like in veins, like they keep coming back when I sleep or when I'm alone and I needed

Finnick? I was in the ocean. I didn't want to be afraid but I was. I think it's been days now.

A Mutt Annie's clone told me there was someone chasing her through the halls. He had a spear, and he was trying to kill her, telling her that she was flawed. That we all were flawed.

Peeta thinks it's Loki, either him or his clone, and he says he's dangerous. Annie said he looked like "He was dark. His hair was dark but he was pale. It was all dark but the spear. And his eyes. They were like the sea, like his spear. But like the stormy sea. It's wind and rain and waves and people not coming back."

I know we can't take someone like him on, but if he's out there, chasing down people, someone has to.

ETA [Same filter as above]
The Avengers are handling the problem. It seems like Loki's clone got him and Bruce is warning everyone to stay inside your rooms and out of the hallways at all cost. There is the possibility you might get hurt.

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry I shouldn't have pretended. I'm not me but I am me and my mind can't think any thoughts. I don't- what do I do? Finnick, help. I need help.

[Out of the basement now]

Well that was crap.

[Peter]
Where are you? Are you all right?

[Finnick]
Don't know you, mate, but I've got something you might want. She's a bit shaken, yeah, but she'll be all right, I reckon, once she sees you again.

These quiet weeks make me uneasy. All we can do is stock up and try to be prepared for next week, I guess. No one's had anything weird happen to them yet?

We gotta get out of here, we gotta find somewhere else. There's gotta be a safer floor.