(Edit: 11/23/14) Basic typo's and grammar, word re-arrangements, and added stuff.

Ugh this part in the book made me cry. Oh my heart.


"KATNISS!" I screamed as the net fell on me, my struggling only making it worse. "KATNISS HELP!" I screamed again, hoping with all I had she would hear me. Even if she couldn't save me, I wanted her to be with me, even though I knew it was selfish.

"RUE! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I heard her yell. I was about to answer, but she suddenly came running through the bushes towards me, bow in hand. I almost cried in relief as she started to cut the net with her knife, when I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. Katniss noticed it too, and whirled around with her bow and shot one arrow straight at the boy Tribute, instantly killing him, but not before he threw a spear. With deadly accuracy, it impaled me, knocking me to the ground even before he was dead.

I could hear the boom of the cannon announcing his passing, but it felt surreal, as if I were dreaming. I stared up through the leaves, into the sky, wondering about the pain. It felt far away, like it wasn't all that important.

Katniss dropped to her knees, her face a mask of horror. "It's alright; you're going to be fine! Just fine…" She sat beside me, my head resting in her lap, gently wiping away the blood on my face. I was dying, and there was nothing either of us could do. The spear was too close to my heart. We both knew that a Tribute could come and kill both of us at any second, yet Katniss kept her tear-filling eyes on me, the world around us non-existent.

"Did you blow up the food?" I whispered, barely able to keep my eyes open.

"Every last bit." She whispered back.

"You…You haveto win…" I said.

"I-I will…For the both of us…I promise…" She said, her eyes closing as a tear escaped.

I knew it was only a matter of time before my own eyes closed for good, so I whispered, "Can you sing?" I wanted to hear her sing, wanted to hear the birds sing with her.

I saw her face, the sorrow on it, but she took a breath and started.

Deep in the meadow

Under the willow

A bed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes

And when again they open, the sun will rise.

I could feel myself slipping farther and farther away, the pain barely there anymore. Her voice was so beautifully clear, so strong, and as she sang, it got stronger.

Deep in the meadow hidden far away

A cloak of leaves a moonbeam ray

Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

For when again it's morning, they'll wash away

Her voice was lovely; I could hear dozens of birds with her. I never wanted it to end. I wanted to be in her arms like this forever. But, finally, as I drifted away, to be in that lovely meadow, I heard her last words to me, and even though they were part of the lyrics, I knew she genuinely meant them.

Here is the place where I love you…


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