In The Doctor's Favor
It was around 4 a.m. now in the darkened arena; it had only been less than five hours since Katniss had come face-to-face with the Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, but she had to forget about them. They were gone and never coming back. Besides, Katniss had to focus on the Games. The Hunger Games.
She had remained in the tree that she had been perched in when the blue box had landed in the arena and left shortly afterwards. The companions had been there about two hours. But it wasn't enough for Katniss; not long enough.
Katniss had pratically told Rose and the Doctor her life story, but she didn't know anything about them. All she knew was that they travelled through time together in a space ship called the TARDIS. Katniss didn't know who they were, where they came from, or what the Doctor really was. He was an alien, but from where? And what about Rose, the girl who reminded Katniss so much of an older version of Prim, now that she thought about it? She was from Earth, so did she have a family back home, wherever she came from?
Stop it, Katniss, just stop it! she ordered herself, They're not important, they don't matter anymore!
They did matter, though. If only she had let them know it...
Before she could stop them, fresh tears were rolling down Katniss's cheeks. She didn't bother to wipe them away.
Katniss looked up tearfully at the starry night sky. She imagined the blue box appearing, pretty blonde Rose and the lanky, kind-faced Doctor opening the door of the ship, beckoning her to come with them. She thought of bounding across the dirt and running into the TARDIS, seeing the control console with its many buttons and switches. Katniss didn't quite know what would happen after that; the Doctor would probably start pressing buttons and pulling levers, and then the TARDIS would make its signature vworp, vworp, vworp and take off, heading into the unknown.
Katniss was openly sobbing now, face buried in her arms as she wept loudly. So what if she was heard and the Carrers came looking for her again? She just wished that she could see that strange, friendly Doctor one last time.
She took a deep breath and mopped her tear-stained face, but her eyes were still red and puffy from crying. Carefully, Katniss stood up on the thick tree branch she had set her sleeping bag for the night. Like she had done for her friend from District 11, Rue, when she had died, Katniss pressed her three middle fingers to her lips and held them out to the sky. For the Doctor. For Rose Tyler. And finally, the girl who was on fire said the one thing that she thought she would never tell anyone, but these words for her lost Doctor:
"May the odds be ever in your favor."