In the Forest
By: somedayisours
Summary: There's a body in the forest, and the children come out to look at it. (AU-Modern Hight School. Character Death.)
Warnings: AU-Modern Hight School. Character Death.
There's a body in the forest.
It lays cold as water,
heavy as stone,
and delicate as a flower.
"There's something wrong with it," Peeta says absent-mindedly at lunch.
"It's dead thats why!" Finch snaps, and Peeta can understand why Katniss calls her Foxface.
"I mean," Peeta repeats himself a little louder. "It's wrong for us to look at it."
Finch looks up from her Biology textbook, and searches Peeta's face. "Then don't go to see it."
Peeta let out a long sigh, grabbing his bag and getting up from his chair. "I'm going to class."
There's a body in the forest.
The flies get to it first and take it's eyes,
the small little animals pick at it's fingers,
the deer rip it open,
and the wolves watch from their high perch.
For being all skin and bone Madge is the best in her class at wrestling. She can take down Katniss as if the girl is only a baby fawn, uneasy on its legs and defenceless.
"Don't kill me," Finch says as the teacher blows his whistle for them to start.
"Don't worry," Madge says with a gentle smile as Gale takes Cato down with one vicious strike, "I'll only pin you."
There's a body in the forest.
Three children know who it is,
the rest like to watch,
and the body can only wait.
Gale's seen a lot of things in his time, he's sure that Katniss has as well, but there is something completely different about a corpse being human. It makes his skin crawl and adrenaline dance threw his veins, making him want to see it again, making him want to do dark things.
It's then, when adrenaline is dancing threw his veins, that Finch comes walking down the path. He can feel Madge smile, and hear Peeta let out a gleeful laugh.
There's a body in the forest.
Three children know who it is,
one lures them in,
the second holds them down,
and the third makes them a body.
There's a body in the forest,
one only the children know.
A/N: The poem together:
In the Forest, the Children Only Know - somedayisours
There's a body in the forest.
It lays cold as water,
heavy as stone,
and delicate as a flower.
There's a body in the forest.
The flies get to it first and take it's eyes,
the small little animals pick at it's fingers,
the deer rip it open,
and the wolves watch from their high perch.
There's a body in the forest.
Three children know who it is,
the rest like to watch,
and the body can only wait.
There's a body in the forest.
Three children know who it is,
one lures them in,
the second holds them down,
and the third makes them a body.
There's a body in the forest,
one only the children know.