A/N- Alas, I own nothing. This story is disclaimed.
It wasn't easy being an apple, even though you didn't really do much. The boredom was terrible. You hung around for months in a tree and just sat there until someone ate you. What sort of a life was that?
The Yellow Top set the little bag down. Strange animals. They walked on only two legs and seemed determined to kill each other. If the apple had a head, it would have shaken it.
The Black Top made some strange noise at the Yellow Top. Maybe they were some strange sort of carrot. Carrots had fluffy tops too. But carrots didn't walk around or kill other carrots.
Black Top disappeared. Yellow Top stood for a moment before moving to pick berries from a bush.
"Yoohoo! Apple!"
Ugh. That terrible cheese again. Thought it was so cool.
"Just wait until you start to stink." Apple sniffed, but the cheese just laughed.
"You're looking a little pulpy today, apple. And is that a bruise? Tsk tsk, you've really let yourself go." The cheese cackled.
The apple scrutinized the cheese. How it did this without eyes was a mystery even to the apple. But that didn't matter. Oh, how it hated that cheese. If only Yellow and Black would take just one more lunch break.
Yellow deposited a layer of berries around the apple.
Inspiration struck. A food's destiny was to be eaten. Who was to say that an apple couldn't help that along?
Apple tottered menacingly toward cheese. Cheese looked puzzled. The apple had never come anywhere near it before, only whined at it to stop joshing.
"What are you doing, apple?" Snorted the cheese.
Before cheese had any more time to wonder, it disappeared.
How'd I do that? The apple wondered briefly, I haven't any mouth.
A new one of those funny mammals darted out. This one would be Red Top, because it's fluff was redder than a tomato. Maybe it was a mutated tomato? No, not round enough. Red Top snatched up the berries and disappeared as silently as it had come. Yellow Top never heard it.
Katniss was called back by the cannon. She went white in horror and sprinted back to the clearing, whistling a signal that got no response. Peeta turned up fairly quickly of course, and Katniss was not at all pleased.
"If two people agree on a signal, they stay in range. Because if one of them doesn't answer, they're in trouble, all right?"
"All right!"
"All right. Because that's what happened with Rue, and I watched her die! And you ate without me!"
"What? No I didn't."
"Oh, and suppose the apples ate the cheese."
They never even suspected.