A/N: Happy Hunger Games everyone! After waiting so long the movie is finally out! YES! Haha.

Harry

"Ginny?" I gasped.

There were small purple lumps all over her body. I leaned down and pulled her out of the forest.

"Thanks for the help," Katniss grumbled, pushing herself up.

I rolled my eyes. "What happened?" I asked.

"Ginny was with the careers, she got away but we were trapped in a tree. She cut down a Tracker Jacker nest to land on them, but she got stung."

I had no idea who the careers were, or what Tracker Jackers were, but at the moment I didn't care. Ginny was breathing, but just barely. I glanced over at Rue who had her eyes closed, her fingers twitching.

"I know!" she said. She ran off into the forest.

"Do you even know what you're doing?" Katniss asked. Actually, I didn't. And she could see it. "Ugh. Move over."

I scooted back. Katniss's hands were moving so fast I don't know what she did. Or maybe it wasn't her hands, just my brain playing tricks on me. After a minute Rue reappeared.

She had a bunch of leaves in her hands. "I remember these. We use them back home if we get stung." She stuffed some in her mouth and started chewing them. "I wish there was a different way to do this."

Her nose was scrunched up and she looked like it was the worst thing in the world. I couldn't help but laugh. Katniss glared at me.

I don't know what she had against me, but just because she hated me didn't mean she wouldn't help Ginny…right? Well I think she already proved that. She could've just left her there and let her die, but no. She saved her. But why?

I focused back on Ginny. Rue was putting the leaves on Ginny's stings. Ginny moaned and her fingers twitched a little bit. Well, that was a good sign anyway.

Katniss got up and walked away. I don't really know why I got up and followed her, but I did.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"What the hell is your problem?"

"My problem? Ha!"

"Look, I'm glad you saved Ginny, but why do you hate me so much? I've never even met you for God's sake!"

"I'm just trying to get through this as fast as possible. I need to go home to my sister and my mother."

"Good luck. Odds are that none of us in this alliance are going home!" The words just spilled out of my mouth. Did I really believe that? Yeah, I guess I kind of do.

"Oh so now we're in an alliance?"

"If you don't like it, you can leave! I don't really give a damn."

I turned around and walked away. Rue was still sitting next to Ginny. When I walked back she looked up at me. She looked down again though, so I guess she'd heard us. Although it was kind of hard not to.

I half expected Katniss to just disappear without a word, but she actually came back.

"We have to go somewhere safer," she said.

We all agreed, and in the end we just went into the forest. Katniss walked so quietly it was creepy. After a while she said, "Let's stop here." My arms were killing me from having to carry Ginny so far, but since she couldn't walk—okay, she wasn't even conscious—I ended up doing it, and we'd been walking for hours.

"What are we gonna do for food?" Rue asked. "I don't have much of my nuts left, but I can find more."

Katniss was sweet to her at least. "You can get some more nuts, I'm going to take the bow and get something."

As they walked off, I sighed. If I'd known I'd be treated like dirt, would I have even stayed? I looked at Ginny. Yeah. I think I would've. Even if it was just for Ginny.

"Mmm Harry?" Ginny said it so quietly I barely heard.

I leaned down. Her eyes were open just a bit. She smiled a little and put her hand on my cheek.

A girl screamed and a cannon fired.

Ginny

Harry jumped up as the cannon fired. He looked at me, then away, then back at me, as if deciding whether or not to go help. Oh Harry, always the hero.

"Go," I managed to choke out.

"You sure?" he asked.

"Go," I repeated.

He grabbed his sword and ran. I tried to follow him, even though I knew it was probably one of the stupidest things I could've done. Somehow I managed to get to my feet. I grabbed onto a tree to keep myself from falling. Making my way from tree to tree, I tried to find Harry.

I could hear him calling for Katniss and Rue. I wondered where they went. There was a roar. Literally a roar, like a lion. The symbol of Gryffindor. A girl screamed again, only it seemed higher pitched, like…oh God. Like a little girl…Rue.

"Harry," I called out. No matter what I couldn't let him go near that thing, whatever it was.

I kept walking for minute, until I tripped over a tree root. Harry simply appeared at my side. He helped me up.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"I-I just…" I didn't really know what I was doing. But I blurted out, "Rue's in trouble."

"What?"

"I-I think I heard her scream."

"That was her?"

"I don't know." My head was spinning but I still followed Harry as he tried to find Rue.

When we got to her, her back was against a tree, and the animal was right there in front of her. How to explain the animal…well, it was kind of like a cross between a lion, except it had wings, and it's tail was covered in spikes.

Katniss was nowhere to be seen.

"Harry!" Rue yelled, turning to see us standing there.

And it seemed as though we both did the stupidest things that day, he charged it. He slashed and stabbed with his sword so fast, sometimes his arms were just blurs—although maybe it was just my brain being slow.

Suddenly an arrow was sprouting out of the animal's side. It turned toward Katniss. It started to run at her, but as it turned it's tail hit Rue. I managed to run over to her. But I didn't have anything! What could I possibly do?

A couple of the spikes were stuck in her skin. I was afraid to remove them, though. The areas around the spikes were turning green. Poison. Great.

"Ginny?" Rue asked, her eyes focused on something behind me.

"Yeah." I said.

She said something so quietly I had to put my ear up next to her mouth. "..has to try to win." Was all I caught.

"Who? Who has to try to win?"

"H-Harry. Harry has to win," she whispered.

"He will," I promised. I'd always planned on him winning, even if it meant I'd die, but if Rue wanted it too, I was even more hell-bent on making it real.

Her eyes drifted out of focus and I knew there was nothing anyone could do for her. Her cannon went off. I turned around and saw Harry and Katniss still fighting the animal. I ran over to Katniss. She saw me and pulled off the extra arrows and bow. Once we ended up hitting in the mouth several times, it finally stopped, blood covering its face. It snarled one last time and turned and ran.

Katniss smiled. "We make a good team."

I shrugged. "Guess so." Even though I still saw everything a little blurry from the Tracker Jacker venom.

Harry was stumbling toward us, his side covered in blood. He tripped and fell. I ran over to him. The bandage on his arm was soaked with blood. Katniss leaned down next to me.

"Do you have any more bandages?" she asked.

I shook my head. "Not with me."

"We have to hurry and stop the bleeding or else he'll die."

A/N: Aww poor Rue. Please don't hate me for having her die. Dx But I know where this is going and she had to die. :C