Hey, So I'm sorry Strier101, but I didn't bring my notebook home so I had to do this from memory!
Hope you all like this!
Summary: You know all the tributes from the First Hunger Games in the first book? And Finnick and Annie too from the second? Well, in here, they're all friends. Peeta is still unknown to Katniss. SO! This is the 100th anniversary; the Fourth Quarter Quarrel. A special occasion is coming for the districts: Five boys and five girls from each district, totaling 120 tributes. What if Katniss and all her friends are chosen?
I hope you like this a lot! This is all in Katniss's POV
Most characters are based off my friends and I changed the last names to those of my friends. So, you'll find Gale DeTienne and Cato Halter, Katniss Hohl and Primrose Jilek Hohl. So yeah…
Please review I've worked hard on writing this!
~Bridgette-Daughter of Athena
I walked quietly around the tree, hoping to catch Clove by surprise while she reads her book at the base of a stump. Checking the perimeter for anyone to spoil my plan, I take a step forward, only to make a mistake and step on a stick, signalizing my presence.
"I know you're there…" Clove says to me, although she doesn't even take a glance to see who it was. It wouldn't matter anyways; I jumped behind a tree.
I was still planning on scaring her to death. If I knew Clove well enough, which I do, she is terrified by jump scenes.
So, I looked around to see my resources. There was a large log in front of me and a bush of nightlock berries at my side. Just don't eat them, Katniss I told myself. Inspecting the berries and the log, I formed a plan.
I took the berries and squashed them in my hand. I'll wash it later. I rubbed them on my forehead and temple, imitating a wound, and on the tip of the log. I make a clucking sound with the log and collapse to the ground. I heard Clove's feet move at the sound. She was curious. I closed my eyes to look knocked out. Although I couldn't see her, I could tell where she was with my other senses. I called it a gift. So I could hear her close her book and stand up. Her feet rustled the leaves and I could feel the dirt particles rub upon my face. Her feet stopped moving.
"Oh my god, Katniss!" she said and she rushed to my side. She shook me and even slapped me to make sure I wasn't faking. Thank the lord, I was able to take her extremely hard slap and not give myself away while she did it. She reached over me and checked the log. She put it down next to her and then checked my forehead. She wiped the "blood" off my forehead and stopped.
"Wait a minute…these are berries!" she exclaimed. She didn't realize this, but I was about to attack. Her ankles were bare so it was a perfect spot to grab. Without opening my eyes to its full potential, I gripped her ankle. She shrieked and jerked backwards, my grip causing her to fall. I started to crack up.
"Oh my god, Katniss! That was not funny!" she protested, but I couldn't help it.
"Yes it was! Did you see your own face it was like," I mimicked her terrified face. She hit me on the arm. I rubbed it gently. It probably already had a bruise. I got up and wiped the berries off my head. I took a glance at Clove and she was inspecting her hand.
"Don't eat them." I said. I walked to the creek and washed my hand. She looked at me confused and followed.
"Why not?" she asked.
"Nightlock."
She looked at me and rolled her eyes. I knew like everything about plants and surviving. She was all brutal force and was really pretty. She had guys falling at her feet.
"Let's get back to the house." She said. I nodded and dried my now clean hand on my pants. She ran and got her book and we walked back to the house.
The breeze began to pick up and the day was finally starting to end. The leave fell gracefully around us, autumn.
We got to the houses and I sat on my steps while Clove put her book away in her house, across the way. We sat, picking at the grass in boredom when clumping footsteps bound around the corner. It was Rue. Her face was covered in sweat and she was panting hard. Her facial expression was one I had never seen on her before: pure horror.
"Katniss! Clove! Come with me! Cato has been caught poaching!" We got up as quickly as we can. As much as Rue can really annoy us, she was a great friend and we were always the first she came to in emergencies.
Cato was Elida's closest friends and has been contributing to keep the town from starving by hunting in the restricted area. Gale and I used to but when new Peacekeepers came, we stopped. Cato, on the other hand, was persistent.
When we got to town square, the first thing I saw was a large crowd huddled around the stage area that held Cato being held by the collar by a Peacekeeper with a large deer at his feet. Oh Cato…what have you gotten into?
I looked for his father, the mayor, and his sister, Madge. Cato always had special treatment being the son of the Mayor. He had been caught many times, not poaching, but other disrespectful activities, and had been easily let off. This would be different.
The Peacekeeper was waiting for the Mayor and as I watched, I head two familiar voices. Gale and Thresh were talking amongst themselves and commenting on Cato.
"Guys, over here!" Rue called. They looked away from each other and came over. Gale looked at me funny.
"Well, hello…Katniss…" He offered a hug. I sighed and hugged him back.
Gale has been working in the mines for a couple weeks so I haven't seen him in a while. I'm surprised that he was even here, since the fact that shifts weren't over yet.
Suddenly the Peacekeeper tapped the microphone. I looked for the mayor. Still not there. He was starting without him.
"This little girl!" I almost laughed out laud. Cato squawked at him.
"I am a boy! Idiot…" Cato brushed his hair out of his face.
"Terribly sorry…though you should stop acting like one and cut your hair too…" Whoa… I thought I'd never live to see the day where a Peacekeeper would insult Cato. Lucky day I guess.
"Well, He has committed the crime of poaching in restricted areas and shall receive forty lashes!" The doors burst open. The Mayor and Madge came rushing out.
"How dare you start without me! I should reelect the head Peacekeeper because of you… Cato can't get punished. What if he is chosen for the Games? As much as I dread that thought, I also must think of what happens if he does!" The Peacekeeper nodded and let go of Cato, who then leapt off the stage and bounded toward us.
"You scared me to death!" Rue yelled at him. Cato lowered his head and nodded.
The crowd began to clear off and we left to go home. We passed the bakery and I saw the baker's son, Peeta, watching us, watching me, as we walked by. I looked away and stared at the ground.
We all got home. Cato said by to Rue and the rest of us and bounded back to city hall, completely avoiding every Peacekeeper. I gave Gale another hug, which made him very happy and I said by to Thresh. They walked to their own houses.
Rue lived close to me and Clove, but was still a five minute walk. She hugged us both and wished us luck, since tomorrow was the Reaping. I dreaded to go.
"I hope we don't get called." She told us.
"Me either..." Clove said. With that, Rue left and it was just Clove and I walking home. We ate what food we had together and we talked on our steps together.
"What do you think the special theme for this year's Games are?" I asked. Clove shrugged.
"What do you think will happen if we are picked?" she asked.
"Well, I don't know…I guess we try to survive…"
Heya! I'm sorry Strider101 again because I changed a lot. I decided not to have Peeta and Katniss know each other!
PLEASE REVIEW GUYS!
~Bridgette-Daughter of Athena
