I'm soo sorry this took so long

With the sound of the horn, they were off. Peter ran straight for cover. It might not have been the smartest plan, but it was better than wading through the bloodbath happening around the cornucopia.

Even with the knowledge that the others probably would not really be able to hurt him, his nerves still stood on edge. A cannon went off.

After running full speed for a good amount of time, Peter decided it was safe to start walking. While he could only guess how long it had actually been, he could no longer hear the sounds of human battle. He supposed this was a good enough sign.

As Peter walked, time progressed. The sun rose to its full height before beginning its descent. The cannon fired a few more times throughout the day. Finally, the sun sank below the horizon.

Just as darkness completely swallowed the land, a light lit up the sky as if all the starts had condensed into a singular spot on the night sky. Peter knew better. It was the capitols symbol, put there by the technology of the game makers.

As a song, anthem, began to play, Peter wished it would stop. He did not really want to know who had not been able to make it a single day in these horrible games.

However, he found himself suddenly unable to close his eyes. So he watched, as face after face displayed above him, and name after name announced dispassionately. He hated the fact that after the sky darkened back to its natural state, he felt relief. His face was not among them, and neither was Zaire's, although he knew they would not be it was still relieving. Even more relieving was the fact that neither Katniss's face nor the young boy from Zaire's district were displayed.

Sitting at the base of a tree, content as one could be while in a forest full of children after your life, Peter drifted off to the wonderful abyss.

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Metal flying monsters flew over head. The men on the deck scrambled to shoot them out of the sky. The sounds of gunfire and smell of gunpowder filled the air.

Peter sat in the shadows, unnoticed. He watched. He wondered why. But mostly, he sat.

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Peter woke up to his stomach growling. Remembering where he was, he realized it would probably be left to complain for awhile longer, considering he didn't know how to hunt. Oh well, he figured, at least I can't die of hunger.

Standing up, Peter wondered what to do now. Considering his options, as well as the fact that he could not seem to remember the way he came, the personification of Sealand picked a direction and started walking.

Around noon he came to a clearing. Looking at it from behind a tree Peter cursed in his head. He had walked in a circle. The clearing was filled with the career alliance and right in the middle of it, the cornucopia.

"Look what we have here," a voice whispered into his ear. Whipping around, Peter was faced with the male tribute from two. Before he could react, he was lifted off his feet and thrown over the taller tributes shoulder.

"Hey guys, look what I found," this time it was exclaimed for the whole clearing to hear.

Two girls and another boy turned to the speaker.

"Oh, it's just that weakling from twelve," a rather short, but still taller than Peter, girl was the first to respond.

"You should just save it from its misery and drown it in the lake," a quite muscular boy sneered.

"Wait, what if he knows where that girl is, you know, the one with that ridiculous score," the other girl, who was much taller, suggested.

With that his feet returned to the ground, but the boy who had picked him up in the first placed his gigantic hands on his shoulders keeping him from running.

"Well, can you lead us to her?" he glared intently at Peter, as if daring him to lie.

However, Peter had a lot more experience lying than he had glaring, "Yes."

"And you will lead us straight there, willingly?"

Peter swallowed down what he actually wanted to say, "Yes."

"Alright then, welcome to the alliance," one hand was removed from his shoulder and offered to him.

Peter took it, wishing to be anywhere but there.

"Well, let's get some food in you. No use trying to do anything on an empty stomach," the shorter girl walked up, smiling at him. Although, her smile looked rather akin to that one creepy lady's he saw at a conference once. What was her name again?... Bela…something.

An apple was shoved in his face, and he snapped back to the present. He decided that it did not really matter even if this was a ploy to poison him, and just ate the apple. At least now his stomach would stop its complaints.

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Night had fallen, the faces displayed and the names called. Unfortunately, he had not had a chance to escape all day. Not once had there been even one minute without someone watching him like a hawk. Now, while they were all asleep, he figured he could try to escape.

The whole alliance was sleeping on the ground, surrounding him. Movement came from the girl sleeping not two feet away from him. Suddenly, he was being dragged towards her.

Wow, he could not help but think, I never would have guessed she was the cuddle type.

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I would like to thank everyone who is still reading this! thank you for being patient with me. I really don't have an excuse for taking this long, other than laziness...

I would like to thanks everyone who favorited/alerted this story!

And a huge thanks to all my reviewers:

Gir'sdoomsongofdoom: thank you for the encouragement! I hope you are satisfied with this!

GothKat2SlashFan: WOW. your comments make me so happy, although this will not ever be a yaoi (not because I have anything agaist it i just can't write it and anyway i could not do that to sea-kun!) and i put Wy in 4 because she is the replacement for that one girl who flew in the trees and followed Katniss around... not because of what the districts make. also, i'm not sure if it was boys first or girls first '=.= thats how I thought it was...

Myrna Maeve: uhm, I'm not sure who survived exactly... it doesn't really matter to the plot, if you want you can imagine that they are all living hiding under rocks somewhere or something and that switzerland and lichtenstein are living happily behind the barrier of nutrality having a picknic

AutumnoColorum: thank you for your support and I hope this is long enough for you!

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