Hey everyone! This is my first fanfiction so take it easy on me. I just want to thank anyone that reads and responds to this. I do appreciate constructive criticism! :') Enjoy! I do not own The Hunger Games or Suzanne Collins (that would just be weird)

I am the only one here. i am the only one who can feel my heart, which is inside my ears. I lay perched in a tree. Waiting for them to come. The careers. I hear snapping and turn around. "Katniss! Look what i found!" It's good little Rue. My duckling away from home. She holds out her petite hands. In them she holds berries. "What are they?" I ask. They look familiar.

"Nightlock, it's very dangerous." She puts the berries in her pack and I see she has thousands of them in there.

"How are they dangerous." They look normal, just more like a square rather than a circle. I look around me, watching. We hear more twigs snap, then yells. Rue and I hide deeper in the tree we're in.

"You need to get better navigating skills you moron! I doubt any tributes hiding in this crap." He was right. It was so exposing, all of the trees burnt down except for one. The tree Rue and I were sitting in.

"Shut up Cato," said a girl and she came up behind him and slapped him the back of the head. "And kid, you do need to get better navigating skills. Because right now you look like crap."

"I'm not slowing everybody down unlike lover boy over there." Says the boy in the front. Peeta comes into view, limping. I bite my lip to keep myself from gasping. Not only would it give away our hiding spot, but it might rub off that I care about Peeta. Which I don't. I think.

"I'll just wait here and call you if anything happens. I promise." Peeta says. The kids look at him then walk away. He slumps against the tree and takes off his backpack. He has some kind of cloth in there which he rips. Then he exposes his wound. A huge chunk of flesh has been ripped off his ankle. It is bleeding like crazy. He picks up part off the cloth and ties it over his wound. I can't stand to look anymore.

"We should probably kill him now Katniss. He's very weak, so it'll be as easy as pie" Rue says. I look at Peeta once more, knowing I should kill him here and now. But I can't bring myself to it.

"If he's going to be easy, why should we waste our energy on him right now? Why don't we finish The careers off then him?" I tell her. It came out more... I don't know how to describe it. Understanding maybe? She eyed me suspiciously.

"Well I'm going to get more berries. Stay here Katniss." And she flies away.

I was about to go help Peeta until I heard Rue scream. Then two canons went off. "Oh no" I thought. I leaped through the trees and I saw her. Dead. And the boy who killed her, dead too.

I was turning back when a big force knocked me off the tree. "Gotcha!"

Let me know if I should continue! This is not one of my best stories, I'm not sure about continuing. But, review any way. I love reviews. THank you! Please let me know if you liked it!