CHAPTER 4
A/N Sorry it took so long to update! School started so I might not update a ton, but it would really help if you reviewed with ideas for future chapters! The 10th reviewer will get to choose what happens in any chapter (within the games or after the games). Now onto the story!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Hunger Games characters, or the storyline. They belong to Suzanne Collins.
I begin to cut at the branch that held the Tracker Jacker nest. They seemed a little bit seduced.
Maybe there was a fire?
Some of them noticed, or felt, me cutting it, and flew out to see what was going on so I swat at them and for the most part they don't sting me. That's surprising. Then the branch begins to bend towards the ground. I am about half of the way through when I shoot a look at Rue, two trees away, to tell her to get as far away as she can. She disappears into the trees.
"It's about to get ugly…" I mutter just as the branch snaps. At first the Careers are just swatting at them, still partly asleep. Then Cato gets stung for about the fifth time and snaps awake.
"TRACKER JACKERS!" He shouts. Most of them wake up. Clove, Cato, and Marvel shoot up.
"The lake!" Cato tells the rest of them, running through the trees. Glimmer and the girl from District 4 aren't so lucky; they trip and get stung more.
Poor them. They will die soon…
I got many stings too, but not as many as them. I don't think I will die, but you never know. So instead of going to the lake, I decide a pond is much more safe, I saw one on the way here. I think I am hallucinating, because of the Tracker Jackers, I see Katniss, with Primrose, and they are laughing. I see my father and brothers frosting cakes at the bakery, and I see, for some odd reason, Caesar Flickerman, walking through the forest. Odd. I hear footsteps and immediately think they are
A) My imagination/ a hallucination
or
B) A Career. Not just any tribute, a Career. Of course they'd be hunting me, I dropped a Tracker Jacker nest on them.
I start running and after I don't hear the footsteps anymore I stop. Sadly, I pass out trying to find a stream or the pond. Or any pond.
When I wake up I hear a rustling sound, like bushes or something, and footsteps, like someone is walking, or running, away. When I sit up I look around. I am at a little camp type thing.
Did I pass out here? I think.
After sitting in silence for a little bit I realize two things, there are leaves covering my Tracker Jacker bites, and there is a boot sticking out from behind a tree, a boot from the foot of a little girl.
"Hello? Rue?" I call, "its okay, I won't hurt you..." She peeks out.
"Do you know how long I have been out?" I ask her after a while of sitting there together.
"You've been out a couple of days." She replies nicely.
"Oh, okay. Do you know who has died?"
"Um, the boy from 10, and the girls from one and four have died."
"So you put these leaves on me?"
"Yes. And I changed them every once and a while." She answers.
I nod. We sit in silence until Rue breaks it,
"Can you tell me about Katniss?"
"Uh sure, I think she has brown hair that is always in a braid, and grey eyes. She is kind of small, but she is tough, I guess." I answer.
"What do you like most about her?" She asks.
"I don't know, her eyes."
"Hmm… okay." She answers. We sit in awkward silence until she speaks again.
"Allies?" She asks.
Ooh cliff hanger! Just kidding.. anyways, should they be allies? I am going towards yes. Again, I am sorry for not updating, I will try to update more often. I would really love you to review (or PM) me ideas for future chapters! Thanks!