Hello everybody.
Thank you to freindliy for reviewing, faving and alerting. This chapter is for you.
I got not many reviews but I liked this story too much. I wanted to carry it on. Rue is my favorite character in the Hunger Games and Gale is second. So here it goes…
I do not own…
I stopped flying through the trees and perched on a branch, like a cat would on a gate.
I looked down.
There, close enough so I knew not to make a sound was a figure. A man or boy, I could not tell.
He had from what I could tell black hair and was in hunting clothes. Dead rabbits and squirrels hung from his belt by wire which I recognized as snares.
He held a small dagger in one hand and was edging closer to the tree I was balanced in every second.
He moved silently to the base of the trunk. He picked up a snare with another dead rabbit attached to it.
Whoever it was untangled the rabbit from the snare. If he was a professional, the wind would carry my scent to him and he would look up.
The wind was picking up just the slightest. It was now or never. I moved to the back of the tree, branches hiding me from the boy's view. I dropped down as quietly as I could; a muffled thump was all that I heard. I saw the boy look up just as I reached the ground.
His gaze waited at the branch I was just on for a few seconds before turning his attention to the rabbit.
I held my dagger up in a defensive position. I edged around the tree, my confidence growing and my dagger ready to strike.
The boy was hidden from my view by the tree trunk.
I whipped around the tree, dagger poised but the boy wasn't there.
That was the point when I felt a hand enclose on my throat and my back was slammed into the tree.
All the air was taken from me, lungs burning more and more every second.
The boy looked furious.
"Who are you?" His eyes were filled with pure hatred, though I did not know why. "What are you doing here?"
"Sarah" I choked out the first name I thought of. "Sarah Par…Parker"
"What are you doing here?" He repeated, angry.
"Not from the Capitol." I gasped, black spots dancing in front of me. "District 11."
His whole expression changed.
His hand left my throat and I dropped to the ground, taking in as much air as my lungs could.
He held his hand out and I took it. He helped me to my knees.
"So why are you here?" He asked as I brushed a bit of tree bark from my left shoulder.
"I ran away." As the words left my mouth, I instantly regretted them.
I didn't know who the hell this guy was, he could be Capitol for all I knew!
He face fell into a mask of shock.
"Don't judge me!" I snapped. "You don't even know me."
"Why?" He whispered.
"Why do you need to know?" I picked up my bags and knives from the ground. My bag had opened and the drawing of my family had fallen out. It was at the boy's feet.
He picked it up and handed it to me. I put it in my bag.
"Is this your family?" He asked. "Why did you leave them?"
"They were my family." I said bitterly.
I scampered up a tree, the boy watching me. He made no move to follow me.
I was thankful he hadn't noticed that a few of his rabbits had disappeared and found their way into my bag. I needed it more than him.
I shivered in the tree I was in, goosebumps emerging on my dark skin. The sun had set and I hadn't even noticed.
Wishing I had been able to bring my thick fleece, I curled up into a ball inside a fork in a tree. I pulled a rabbit out of my bag. I only managed to eat a mouthful; I had never had a whole rabbit to myself.
As I started to drift off to sleep, I heard a wolf howl in the distance.
"Welcome to your new home, Rue" I whispered.
Okay, so Rue has met Gale and Gale Rue. Next chapter will be in Gale POV.
See ya'll.
Lily
