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WHO| Tate Langdon, Eliot Spencer, Ariadne, and Donatello Hamato
WHAT| Death
WHEN| the third morning after the Cornucopia
WHERE| S-5
WARNING/NOTES| Violence

Eliot walked into their small camp site, carrying a makeshift plate of roasted fish and shark meat. He'd made sure to cook it a safe distance away in case the smoke from the fire brought unwanted attention. It had only taken a couple meals for him to be assigned most of the chef duties.

He set the meal on the ground in the middle of their make-shift tent and sat down. "Breakfast is served."

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Her knees buckled a little as his blow caught her in the cheekbone, sending an ache through her whole face. It didn't slow her down anyway, and the rock she clung to like a lifeline came swinging against towards his head in retaliation. Or arm. She wasn't picky, as long as the blow landed. If she had to, she would beat him to death with it, and end the matter with a final shot from her spear.

The strike to the shoulder would have reminded him of the time before when the same tribute had hit him the same way, but he was thrown off balance and too disoriented to realize it. Again Tate found himself stumbling to get away, crawling even. All he had to do was get away from these tributes and survive this and he would cross this one off as successful. He had done as planned, caused some damaged and with all his strength his made his feet move as he continued with his retreat.

Don, meanwhile, had dove onto Eliot. He had been trying to revive Eliot, to no success. He tried to staunch the blood, stop the bleeding. Something, anything.

Not working. It wasn't-

"Shell!"

He sword under his breath. It was almost exactly the kind of deep arterial cut that had done him in the previous Arena. How ironic.

Edited 2012-09-07 03:51 (UTC)

Eliot regained consciousness enough to feel the pressure on his shoulder and chest. He couldn't open his eyes to see who it was but it hurt. He tried to moan but couldn't hear that he'd made a sound.

Ariadne was thrown off-balance as well, finding herself having to duck one shoulder to catch herself into a roll. Tate, meanwhile, was more than able to get away from them at that point in time; she was too busy trying to catch her breath.

When she glanced over her shoulder, it became that much harder; Eliot seemed to be losing a lot of blood, and it didn't look like Don was having much luck stopping it.

"Here," she tried, pushing herself up and stumbling a bit, reaching to tear off a chunk of her shirt to press against the wound.

"Thank you..." Don was trying to keep methodical, logical, but the blood was already seeping through Ariadne's short piece as it was pressed onto the wounds. "I'm sorry I didn't...I mean, I should have sto-"

He was interrupted by the moan. Quickly seizing upon this, Don leaned in closer to speak to Eliot.

"Eliot. Eliot. Can you open your eyes? Come on... you're gonna be all right..."

Even if he himself was fast losing hope that would be the case, he wasn't going to give up.

Edited 2012-09-07 05:09 (UTC)

Eliot tried to open his eyes but couldn't quite find the strength. It felt like someone had stitched them shut. The pain was bad enough to make him wish he hadn't regained feeling. He moaned again, this time quieter.

"Forget it," she told Don, shaking her head a little. They had bigger things to worry about. The logic reigning in her brain was screaming that Eliot wasn't going to make it from this; he was probably in shock already, and she doubted that could ever get better. All they could do was make it easier on him.

While one hand pressed her already soaked shirt to the wound, her other hand moved to find his, giving it a squeeze. She might not have been the most touchy-feely person in the world, but Ariadne could comfort in a pinch.

"Come on. Try."

Shell. Shell. She was right, but he needed to try also. Try to do something.

That's right. He could do something.

"Ariadne." Slowly he released his pressure on Eliot's injury. His voice is very eerily calm. "I'll be right back. I need to do something."

And with that he disappeared out of the the tent.

Eliot sighed as he felt the pressure lift. He felt whoever it was, somehow, he couldn't quite remember who, leave and reached out his... not-hand to stop him.

He frowned. It was getting harder to breathe, as if something was wrapped around his chest. He found himself coughing and a wet, metallic taste filled his mouth. He grimaced, moaning faintly as the coughs shook his already sore body.

She glanced up, watching Don silently, offering him a quick nod. That left her alone with Eliot, the only one who could keep him alive until Don came back. Hopefully he was fast about it.

"Eliot. Stay with me. Don't move. Just focus on the sound of my voice," she told him, frowning a little. This was worse than a quick death, she thought; part of her wanted to just put him out of his misery at this point.

He stilled. It just made sense to. He was getting so tired. It felt as if he was drowning. He frowned caught between the need to not be seen in this condition and the desire to not be alone.

"Can you hear me? Nod a little if you can," she continued, just trying to keep him conscious a little bit longer. At least he had listened to her the first time. Her hand gave his a squeeze, trying to give him something concrete to hold onto, instead of simply clinging to consciousness. "Don will be back in just a second. Come on, stay with me."

He clutched tightly at her hand, needing something to distract him from the pain. Her voice was soothing, comforting. He was a bit too far gone to make sense of what she'd said, though. His lips parted as he tried to breathe around the liquid slowly filling his lungs.

He wasn't giving her any response. A worse sign that she thought, and she gave up on trying to stop the bleeding from his wounded arm, dropping the scrap of her shirt to take his hand in both of her smaller ones as she glanced back quickly over one shoulder. The cameras were probably eating this up - the thought occurred to her in a flicker of a moment, quickly ignored again.

"Eliot, don't worry. It won't be much longer. Then you'll be okay again, back in the Capitol," she murmured softly, the words meant for no one but him.

His head turned weakly toward her voice, making the blood on his lips and teeth all the more obvious. Her voice seemed to fade in the distance along with the pain. He sighed quietly in relief.

The sight would probably haunt her for a while - despite having killed a few people thus far, this was the first time she'd seen anyone she knew dying - but that wasn't on her mind. Not till later. For the time being, she merely kept her soft murmurs up, sure that they weren't registering at this point, but not unsure they weren't helping in some way.

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