Disclaimer: I don't own HG. If I did, I would be world's best author.
Warning: The first chapter starts off where Johanna and Katniss are running through the jungle with the wire, but without the District 13 plan.
Katniss Pov:
I am running with Johanna Mason to set up a coil of wire. Beetee decided to make a plan to get rid of the other players. I'm not sure what the plan does. None of our alliance did except for Beetee. We are not super smart people like him. Johanna randomly stops and holds her place.
"What are we doing? How can we trust him? I say we go and kill them before they know what hit them." Johanna says. Wait, kill who? Does she mean kill Peeta? She better not kill Peeta.
"We have to stick with the alliance." I say back to her.
"What alliance? There are 8 of us left. 5 are in this alliance. Were going to have to break it eventually. I choose now." And with that, she takes out the spile and hits my head hard sending me to the ground. I hear her running away. Why did she run away? She must know that can't kill me. I hear a cannon go off in the distance. Who did Johanna get? Was it Peeta? The thought of Peeta lying there in the jungle dead brings me to my feet. Slowly, but steadily I get up and is able to move.
A silver parachute comes down and shows me a vial of neon green liquid. I gulp it down and immediately my head feels better so I run to where Johanna went. I hear another cannon. Was this one Peeta? I can't help but think it was him so to be sure I scream his name. "Peeta!"
I make it into the clearing to see Enobaria standing there. "District 12! I was looking for you! It seems your boyfriend killed my district partner!" Enobaria says. Peeta killed Brutus? I didn't think Peeta would have that in him. "I think I should kill you in return for killing him. What do you think?" I hear two more cannons. I am getting so paranoid at the moment. There are only 4 of us left. How do I know one of them are Peeta?
"Katniss!" I hear my name split through the air. It was Peeta! He is still alive! Soon, Peeta will be safe and I will be dead. I can't think of that now. I have to help Peeta make it out. Another canon. That had to be Peeta. I mean, who could it possibly be? Peeta could not outrun Finnick. Peeta also could not beat Finnick in hand to hand combat. But once again I hear my name being called by that same name "Katniss!" How did Peeta manage to kill Finnick?
Enobaria is coming down on me, ready to kill me and rip out my throat by eating it. Until she stops. "Wait, this would be much to quick for the girl on fire. Perhaps I shall do what Clove started last year? Cutting you into little pieces?" Enobaria smiles "Time to start" She puts her knife to my cheek and makes a huge gash in it. Then she advances onto my arms. She slowly brings her knife down to my arm, going to my hands. I have been biting down on my good cheek so hard that I don't scream out. I cant help but let out an agonized cry when the next thing happens. Enobaria brings her knife high in the air, and brings it down really fast right on my wrist, causing my hand to fall right off. I scream bloody murder at first but then I remember two important things. One is that Prim is at home, watching me get tortured to death. I can't let her see me scream out when I'm sure that the sight is horrifying enough. Two, is that Peeta is somewhere out there and most likely heard me scream. My assumption is corrected when I hear Peeta scream once more, but in desperation this time.
"Katniss" you can hear the anxiety in his voice as he waits for an answer. I can't scream back though. I can't let him see me like this. It would break his heart.
Enobaria smiles at my sudden scream, and doesn't seem to hear Peeta's scream. She continues her work of cutting me apart by bringing her knife down my legs and over to my foot. She seemed to enjoy my scream of pain when she cut off my hand, so she does the exact same with my foot. Once again, I hear myself scream in agonizing pain, but much louder than the first one.
I can feel myself slipping away, but before I do, I see a blurry image come in from behind Enobaria. The pressure of Enobaria on top of me is gone, and all I can hear is screaming. Screaming coming from a male voice, and screaming coming from a female voice. Then the screaming voice from the female slowly fades away, and I hear heavy breathing.
"Katniss" It was Peeta. Peeta, who I care about so much I was willing to die without any complaints. This feeling of appreciation and caring I have felt for him has finally came to me. It was love. I am in love with Peeta Mellark and I just noticed it now. "Katniss don't go!" his gentle voice is desperate. But I just cant hold on. I look at him and can just make out the tears leaking out of his eyes.
"I love you Peeta." I say really weakly. "I'm so sorry I didn't notice until just now" I don't care the audience is so confused. I need Peeta to know.
"Katniss" Peeta sobs, clinging onto the one thing Enobaria left alone, my right arm. I'm sure she would have something to it if Peeta didn't stop her.
"I love you" I say desperately, clinging onto his arm with my good hand. "I have loved you since the day you gave me bread, but I just never would admit it to myself."
"I love you so much Katniss! Why do you have to die! Why didn't you defend yourself against her?" Peeta cries. I can feel myself slipping away. I manage to get these three words out of my mouth before I let the blackness engulf me.
"I love you"
Just one little thing. It might be a bit confusing about what happened to all the tributes so fast so I'm going to start the chapter again in Peeta's Pov, then the rest of the story will be in his Pov anyway. Here we go!
Peeta's Pov
We are sitting by the tree when Katniss and Johanna leave with the wire. Beetee is by the tree muttering words to himself and Finnick is standing guard. I however, am a nervous wreck. What is something goes wrong? What is Katniss ends up alone and somebody kills her?
Just then, Johanna comes into the clearing. Without Katniss. She runs up to Beetee, who is the closest to her, and swings her axe right through his chest. His canon goes off right then. "Johanna! What was that" Finnick yells.
"Finnick we are going to have to break this alliance now. There are so little people left." Johanna says back. Wait, did she kill Katniss. I didn't hear a canon, which means if she did hurt Katniss, she is out there somewhere. I have to go find her. Before I know it, I am running in the direction Johanna came in. I hear Johanna screaming at Finnick to get me. I can clearly make out what Finnick is screaming at her "Johanna! What has gotten into you! You are trying to kill me now?" I turn around briefly to see Finnick stab Johanna through the heart. "Bad decision." I don't understand how these people can do this. Katniss and I have just met these people so it is easier. Not by much but it's not like we have known them for years. From what I know, Finnick had a great relationship with Johanna. Yet he could stab her with his trident without a second thought. If I have known these people for years I don't think I would be able to hurt any of them.
I break through some bushes and see Chaff and Brutus fighting. Brutus pinned Chaff down and stabbed him in the stomach. It brings me back to a time when Cato and the Careers were surrounding that little girl last year. It seems Brutus hit the exact same spot Cato did. I feel anger build up inside me as I think of Cato slicing my leg, and Cato almost choking me to death. The anger is mostly from Katniss' face when this happened. I run up to Brutus before he even has time to figure out I'm there. I stab him right through the heart. There a nice fast death for you. Much more than you deserve. I think before I quickly put the thought away. Nobody deserves a super-painful death. Besides maybe President Snow.
I am brought out of my thoughts when I hear Katniss' voice screaming my name. I look to my right. That is where her voice is coming from. "Katniss!" I scream back. I run to where her voice was. If only she would reply to me! I would find her so much faster!
I hear a canon. Was that Katniss? I think of the people who are dead. That would mean it would be Finnick, Enobaria or Katniss. I keep running in the direction where I heard Katniss' voice. I see Finnick's body lying there while I run. He smells like burning hair and flesh. He must have hit the force field without knowing it was there. With that in mind, I distance myself from the force field. "Katniss!" I scream again. Why won't she answer? She has to be alive! A canon would have gone off.
All of a sudden, an agonized scream rips in the air from the direction I'm running. It was Katniss! What happened to her? "Katniss!" I scream once again, desperate for an answer.
I am so close!
Before I get there, I hear one more painful scream come from Katniss. I run faster. When I get to where Katniss is, I nearly pass out from pain and shock. Katniss is lying there, with Enobaria on top of her, with a look of absolute pain and terror. She looks up at me with unfocused eyes. That is when I get out of my stupor. If I thought I had a lot of anger in me when I killed Brutus, I must have steam out of my ears now. I scream at the top my lungs and run right into Enobaria, knocking her off Katniss. I stab her in multiple places, her neck, her arms, her chest and her legs.
My anger finally fades, and it is replaced with absolute pain and horror.
Katniss is laying there, her hand a meter away from her body, her foot across the field.
"Katniss" I say tearfully, as I conclude that she is not going to live. She has cuts along her arms and legs. And very deep cuts, not tiny ones. She is losing way to much blood. I drop to my knees and take her right hand. She looks up at me with pained eyes, but I can also see an emotion I never thought I would see on her. It's what I look like on camera when I look at her. My guess is right when Katniss sobs and looks right into my eyes and says the three words I have always wanted to hear from her.
"I love you Peeta" she says weakly. "I'm so sorry I didn't notice until just now" she looks at me in regret. I can't help but start sobbing. The love of my life just announced she loves me, and is minutes away from dying.
"Katniss" I make out through sobbing fits. Katniss is dying. The love of my life is dying. I will die with her. All my love will be gone. My heart will still be beating, but my soul will be gone. I have loved Katniss since I was five, and now she is dying.
"I love you" Katniss says, and puts a weak grip onto my arm. "I have loved you since the day you gave me bread, but I just never would admit it to myself." That look right there broke half my heart. She looked at me with pain, regret, and love.
"I love you so much Katniss! Why do you have to die! Why didn't you defend yourself against her?" I cry.
Katniss' eyes are slowly closing. She opens her eyes and I can make out a faint whisper. "I love you" and her eyes close. Her breathing is slow, and then stops all together.
"Katniss!" I shake her arm "You can't go!" I pull her broken body into my arms and sob.
I hear trumpets blare. I hear them announce me as the victor of the 75th Hunger Games. But I didn't win. I lost several things. I lost my soul. I lost Katniss. I lost my life. I would be much better off dead.
Because what is a life when you are not living at all?
