Katniss' POV:

"Katniss!"

I whip around to see Peeta stuck in Cato's arms. His face is pale and by the way he is breathing, I can tell that Cato is choking him to death. I raise my bow with an arrow already in it and aim it at Cato's head.

"If you kill me, then both me and lover boy will fall backwards into the mutts," Cato says in his gruff voice.

I am stuck. I know I have to kill Cato, but I also know that he is right. If I want to kill Cato, I have to kill Peeta too. Peeta's face is growing paler and his breathing is becoming heavier and heavier. My hands are starting to shake from my nervousness, so I grip my bow harder.

Cato notices and starts laughing, "I guess you won't be able to save him this time, girl on fire. Clove was right, you really are pathetic."

I hold on to my bow harder and keep it trained on Cato's head. I can't let Peeta die. If I do I will never be able to live with myself, and I won't be able to live without him. He helps me, he calms my rage, he makes me truly happy.

The sound of Cato's voice breaks my thoughts. "Well, if you're not going to shoot, then I'll just kill him myself." Then, what he does next I'll never be able to forget. Cato throws Peeta off of the cornucopia and he lands with a thud near the opening of it. The wolf mutts lunge from where they are standing and land on top of Peeta. They rip, tear, and claw at Peeta's flesh.

My eyes go wide. "PEETA!" I drop my bow and arrow and run to the edge of the cornucopia and look down. "Peeta...I'm so, so sorry."

"Katniss," Peeta says in a barely audible voice, "Katniss, I love you."

"I love you too Peeta, I love you too." I bring my pointer and index fingers to my mouth, kiss them, and then point them at Peeta. Our signal meaning I love you, goodbye, and good luck. I sit at the edge of the cornucopia watching Peeta get mauled for what seems like ten years. Then I finally get up and grab my bow and arrow. I can't let him did slowly and painfully. I know what I have to do. "Peeta," I say in a small whisper, "stay with me." Then I pull back the string of my bow and let the arrow fly directly at his head. But, right before it reaches him I hear him say, "always."

It's silent, then I hear the boom of the cannon signaling Peeta's death.

I will not cry. I still have Cato to kill and then I can get out of this hell, but until then I can't show any weakness. People can't think that I'm weak.

I shakily get up and turn to face my enemy. He is just standing there looking like he's waiting for something to happen.

I can feel the anger rising inside of me and yet again train my last arrow at him, but this time at his heart. All I have to do is let it go and then I will be home free.

I expect Cato to come at me with his sword, but he just stands there and moves his eyes from me to my weapon over and over. Then he does something that I never thought would happen. Cato Stone takes off his body armor. He starts to walk over to me and I back up. By the time that I'm at the edge of the cornucopia, my arrow is touching the skin over his heart.

"What are you doing?" I screech. I can feel my hands beginning to shake again and I know that this time I won't be able to hide it. My head is pounding and I have no idea if Cato is in front of me to kill me or to be killed. I wait, but I don't receive an answer. He just stands there looking at me directly in the eyes. I can feel my confusion turn into anger. "I thought you wanted me dead! Well here's your chance! Ever since the battle started you have had it out for me. Now you can finally kill me!" My whole body is violently shaking and my surroundings are twirling around me. I can feel the tears swelling in my eyes, but I know that I can't allow them to fall. As broken as I feel, I know that I can't let it show. I can't be weak.

Again, he doesn't respond. He continues to look into my grey seam eyes, so I look into his back. His eyes are blue, but not like how Peeta's were. Peeta's were warm and comforting, Cato's are cold and icy. I start shivering from his piercing stare and I know that I won't be able to contain myself anymore. A tear slips down the side of my face and falls onto the glistening cornucopia.

Just as I'm about to collapse, I hear trumpets. Then, Claudius Templesmith's voice booms around us, "Ladies and gentleman, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Cato Stone and Katniss Everdeen. I give you the tributes from Districts Two and Twelve!"

Victors? How can they allow two victors? That has never happened before. And why couldn't I have just shot my arrow at Cato? Then I would be the victor. Then, they play the cheers from the Capitol. Cato unlocks his eyes from mine and starts beating his chest with his fists. I just stand there and watch a hovercraft appear out of the sky. At first I think it it coming for us, until it drops a claw down into the cornucopia. It takes the claw eleven trips before all of Peeta's body is on the hovercraft. Every time I sob louder and louder. When the hovercraft to bring me and Cato out of the arena finally comes to pick us up, I am flooded with relief. I grab on to the ladder and it rises up. When it unfreezes me I collapse to the ground, without even looking around me.