I wake up at the crack of dawn. Trying to forget that nightmare. I pack up the rope and head off. I need to find Jason. My ally. He's crazy but an ally non the less. I walk around a bit. It starts to get misty so I light a fire and cook the meat I hunted earlier. Not that I have a shortage of it. I make a couple of snares and put out the fire then I continue walking.
"Hey fire girl." I hear a voice say. I start to panick. No. The nightmare. I look around.
"Jason where are you?" I say trying to be calm.
"Guess." I look down immedently and all I see is a rabbit hole. I must be hullustenating. Then I see him. He's smiling up at me. He literally hid in a hole. "Please come in come in!" He says dissapering. "Not much, I know. I just saw a good cave and covered it up till there was a little hole." He says. What? How the hell did he manage this? Its huge cave with little seperate rooms. Its better then my house in tweleve. I stare open mouthed. How did he do this?
"This place is better then my house in twelve!" I say aloud. Oops.
"Really? I've been doing this kinda stuff for ages. After my step mother hit me with that poker I moved out. I started building in the forest illegly so I could get away. The peacekeepers caught me so I stopped. But I guess I still have it." He says. I see him clenching his fists just as he mentions his mother. Damn!
"Jason. Calm down." I say gently. He does eventually calm down so I set myself up. I give Jason a sleeping bag and I split up the food from the packs. "Have you made a spear yet?" I ask. He does make extemly good ones.
"Yeah. Its nearly done but I don't have enough things to attach the rock to the pole." He says.
"Would tree sap be any use?" I ask.
"Do you have any? Because that would be great." He says, his face brightening up a bit.
"Not yet. But I can get some soon. Watch." I say heading out. I come back with a thick, short branch. I start to carve it out with one of my knives. I show Jason what I'm doing and he just look plain confused so I give up after a while. I finish it, Its a wooden tube with a little lip at the front and the back is curved with a little hole it the center. When I was really, Really, little my father showed it to me once. He called it a spill. It was the only thing I had left of him.
"Its a spill. What you do is you make a deep hole in a tree and push this in and sap will pour out like a little tap." I explain and it finally clicks with Jason.
"We'll need a bowl then." He says. Oh yeah... He goes out a returns with the curved bark of a tree. It looks like half of a pipe. Jason makes a cut to the middle and makes it into a cone shape. "Close enough." He says. He goes out with the spill and returns with a little, leaking cone of sap. After a while the sap at the bottem sets so it stops leaking and by then Jason had made three spears. He uses the rest to fix up crumbling bits of the cave wall I didn't notice before. We talk and cook some game that, stupidly wandered by the enterance. Its about mid afternoon and we haven't really done much so we go out hunting. We watch each others backs. Jason got less bigger animals and I got more smaller animals. We have enough to last for quite a while. We take it all back to the cave quite satifyed. I also dig out a tree stump and put it over the hole for good mesure.
"Is everything good?" Jason asks.
"Yeah. "I reply. I sharpen my wepons cook meat. Stuff like that, for a couple hours. Then I hear a mumering and feet heading this way. It seems like one person. Wait, two. One with a limp. Probaby a teamed up pair from a district. The tree stump that was covering the hole falls with a person on it. I immediently raise my bow and I assume Jason has his spear up. Its a 18 year old girl with a bad leg and I see a head apper over the hole, its a boy about her age.
"Drop your weponds!" I say commandingly. He drops his sword and the girl takes of her belt of knives. I grab their weponds and shove them away.
"Please dont kill us." The boy says.
"Why? I've let go every person I've met so far. Its the hungergames! I don't know why I didn't kill them all. Jason stay calm." I say when I feel Jason's eyes burning into my neck.
"We're engaged. Sponsers sent Jannit a ring. We're going to try and win." He says. I look at the girls finger and sure enough there's a ring.
"You can't both win. There's only one victor." I say.
"Didn't you hear the announcement? To tributes from the same disrict can win. Just please let us go." He says. I look back at Jason.
"No." Jason says. "She won't be able to walk, I mean after that fall. Just get down here. Sky go fix the hole." I go up and fix it and when I come back down I see Jason wrapping up Jannit's leg. I see her partner reaching for his sword.
"Oi. Are you sure you want to be doing that?" I ask sarcasticly. He immediently drops it. Jason is going funny. He reachs for a knife, no! "Jason... Calm down. No!" Jason is holding up the knife with both hands and aiming towards himself.
"No!" I shout grabbing his hands. I hear a clatter and I turn my head to see the boy pointing his sword towards me.
"Jannit grab your knives and the belt." Jannit scrambles to the belt and aims her knives at Jason. This is how it ends? With Jasons kindness going wrong?
"Jason. Don't. Please don't Jason. Drop it. You're gonna die anyway from them." He lets go of the knife and I push it away. "So. We help you get you fionce back to rights. We were about to feed you for what? To die?" I ask
"I don't want to but I want to get married to Jannit! The only way of doing that is by getting rid of the other tributes." He says.
"I should have let you commit suiside so you would die on your own terms. I'm so sorry Jason." I whisper. "Why? Why do we have to be here? All the capitol is doing is going look at us, we're going to get your children to fight to the death for our entertainment and if you raise a finger we'll blow you to bits. And yet we play along. Why couldn't we just sit here and do nothing. What do we have to lose? Yeah there's mutts but so what? If we die we die. Why can't we all commit suiside so there is no victor? Because unless you're not a career then most commit suiside anyway or are always drunk. And yet we go along with it." I say
"Nice little speech but I want to live. So bye." He raises his sword then falls with a knife in his arm. Jannit?
"James why would you do that?" Jannit says taking out the knife. "You're fine now get up. We're not the only ones that want to stay alive. Sorry about that. I understand so we'll let you off and thanks for helping with my leg" Then they get up and leave just like that. What? How- This doesn't make sence. I'm so confused right now. I feel dizzy. Second day. Not a good start. I move the tree stump a little and find its dark. Maybe tomorrow will be better. I adjust the stump again and head to my little room.
"Good night Jason." I say
"Good night Sky." He replies.
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