Hey I'm back again. Sorry for the long waits, I've just been so busy lately and had writers block. Taylor Swift's song 'Safe and Sound' has been inspirational to me to keep writing so here goes. Enjoy! And don't forget to review!

Chapter 11 – Round and Round

"Well," Victor, the bulky blonde from district two says, "What do we have here? Another pair of star-crossed lovers?" He laughs and then rolls his eyes. "You think you can pull off what your mentors did?" I shrug my shoulders and start to walk away when he lays a hand on my shoulder. Quickly I brush his hand off and walk to Klarissa.

"How's everything going?" I ask her as she examines many knives. Not looking up to me she responds fine and then stands up next to me.

"We shouldn't be together in training." She tells me without meeting my eyes. I look at her strangely and reach for her, but again she's too quick and slips away from me.

"Seriously Avan," She says, "We need to make allies and us being together will make the other tributes want to target us and get us out of the way first." She finishes off. I guess she does have a point so I go over to the knot tying station where I learn a few snares and things and chat up the girl Malika, from district four.

"So what do you say?" I ask her, quickly looking away afraid of rejection. I sneak a look at her and I can see she's trying to play everything out in her head.

"Deal." She says getting up without looking at me. I look at her surprised that she has agreed to make an alliance with Klarissa and I.

"If it is okay with Klarissa, it's a deal." She adds on quickly without hesitation. I motion over to Klarissa and we talk it over for sometime but then I finally get her to agree with it, but she's reluctant. After awhile we all leave training and head back to our rooms. We both go up to floor twelve without saying a word and go our separate ways.

KATNISS

"Peeta…" I whisper to him as I lie on top of him, "We should go see how their training went." He looks at me like he's hurt by something I just said and that's when I realize he wants a little more time together. "Alright, fine. We can just talk to them tomorrow at breakfast." He nods in agreement and then removes me from on top of him. I lie there with my head on his chest for what seems like ages as he strokes my hair. We're almost asleep but then there's a knock on our door. I lift my head up knowing it's not going to stop.

"I'll get it." I tell him as he tries to beat me out of bed. I open the door just enough to see Effie standing there, a wreck. I've never seen her this way before and she looks as if she was crying.

"Effie, what happened?" I ask her as I walk her into our room and over to our bed. Peeta sits up and makes room for the both of us. It seems like she can't find her words so we try to help her.

"Klarissa?" Peeta asks her. She shakes her head no.

"Avan?" I ask. She also shakes her head no to this. The three of us sit there in silence until she decides to speak.

"Actually, it is Klarissa… and Avan." She tells us between sobs. I meet Peeta's worried glance halfway and we both hug her and try to comfort her. Eventually she continues on.

"Their gone." She says. Two little words with so much power. I let the words process through my head when I feel a hand rubbing circles on my back. Falling into Peeta's arms I try to think of where they would've gone and how. There's a force field on the top of the building and there's Peacekeepers guarding every exit there is. Getting up Peeta suggests that we search both of their rooms, since they were just added about a year ago. Effie and I get up and follow him to Avan's room. Once inside everything's in its place. Next, we trek over to Klarissa's room and everything is neat and orderly. Except where the TV is and the big dresser. I slowly walk over and remove the junk that piles on top of the chestnut dresser and Peeta helps me move the TV while Effie stands there helpless.

"I think we found something." Peeta says monotone as he rips a paper from the dresser and reads it to us. Mom, dad. I know you're going to find out that Avan and I are gone sooner or later so I decided that I should leave you a note. Well Avan and I truly love each other and we don't think it's right that we have to fight for our lives and while we were talking about this in my room we found this passage way behind the dresser. We both decided to take off and leave the games. I love you both. Klarissa. I stand there, gasping for air. Tears stream down my face now that I know my daughter and her lover have run off and fled the games. Do they know how much trouble that they could get Peeta, Effie, and Haymitch in, but mostly me. They are young and have no clue what the after math of this is.

"Don't worry Kat, we'll find them ." He whispers in my ear.

"Should we go down?" Effie squeaks. "We need to find them!" She's going hysterical. Right then and there Haymitch walks in. No, not sober Haymitch, drunken and miserable Haymitch. This couldn't get any worse I think to myself.

"What's that?" Haymitch mutters stumbling into the room and almost down the passageway. Peeta grabs him before he does and leads him towards the bed and laying him down so we don't have any accidents.

"So what do you think Peeta?" I ask him as Effie stands like a statue and Haymitch passes out on the bed in a perfume of alcohol.

"I think we need to find them," He tells me, "Ready?" He holds out his hand and I quickly grab it afraid of him slipping out of my life and leaving me all alone. We start down the passageway and I turn back to see Effie and Haymitch in the exact same positions we left them in. I look forward and all I can see is pitch black ahead.