A/N: Writer's block so this is a really crappy chapter, sorry! :( Make me happy and review? :3

What? Me, for an ally? I almost faint of shock. I guess this is what I have been wanting, but I never expected Katniss to be the one who initiated it. What should I say? What if she doesn't mean that she wants me for an ally, but something else? I stay silent and hidden behind the tree, as if that would mean nothing had happened.

I pop my head out a minute later to find Katniss still staring at me. Oh well, I think, I'll take my chances. I try to sound as brave as possible, but I think it still came out a little shaky. "You want me for an ally?" I ask hopefully.

"Why not? You saved me with those tracker jackers. You're smart enough to still be alive. And I can't seem to shake you anyway." My heart is beating- should I say yes? What if it's just a plot to gain my trust and kill me? She's got everything she needs to do that. But no, this is Katniss, the one who I decided I could trust from the first day. My eyes hover to her mockingjay pin… yes, I'll trust her.

"You hungry?" I swallow hard. If I say yes and run to her, she'll think I'm in this for the food. But I'm not, I'm not! I look at her 2 pieces of meat- so tempting. "Come on then, I've had two kills today." My hunger takes over me, and I decide to agree. But I think I should give her something in return…

"I can fix your stings," I say, hesitatingly stepping forward. I actually already have, but oh well, she doesn't need to know that.

"Can you? How?"

I dig out the leaves from my pack. Katniss' eyes light up at the sight of them. "Where'd you find those?" Is she doubting me?

"Just around," I try to sound indifferent. "We all carry them when we work in the orchards. They left lots of nests there. There are a lot here too."

"That's right. You're District Eleven. Agriculture." She knows my district? How would she know? I'm interrupted by her next sentence. "Orchards, huh? That must be how you can fly around in the trees like you've got wings." Pride surges through me, and I can't help but smile a little. She's noticed something I'm good at! "Well, come on then. Fix me up."

She sits down with a plonk so loud I worried about Careers hearing us, but then she rolls up her pants and I gasp. It didn't look this bad the last time I checked! I immediately start chewing the leaves. After a minute or so, I spit them out and place them on Katniss' leg.

Katniss lets out a sound filled with relief. She likes it! She likes what I'm doing for her! I giggle, and thinking of Glimmer and the girl from 4, I say, "Lucky you had the sense to pull the stingers out or you'd be a lot worse." Katniss begs me to do her neck and her cheek, and I do. First because she's Katniss and I can't say no to Katniss, and secondly becase I really do want to help her. She laughs out loud, maybe because she can read my mind, or maybe she just likes the relief the leaves are giving her. Hopefully it's the latter.

I can feel her staring at me, and I look up from layering leaves on her to find her staring at the burn on my elbow. "I've got something for that," she puts her bow to a side and digs something from her pack. She takes out her burn medicine and applies it sparingly on my burn. It feels so good! This is Capitol made medicine- the most advanced medicine available, it must be so expensive and it works so well!

"You have good sponsors," I say longingly. Katniss asks me if I've gotten anything yet. Does that mean she thinks I might have sponsors? Or maybe she's just trying to be nice. I shake me head.

"You will, though. Watch. The closer we get to the end, the more people will realise how clever you are." She flips her cooking meat over. We? So.. we're allies? I ask, just to make sure. "You weren't joking, about wanting me for an ally?"

"No, I meant it." She meant it! I remember watching her, volunteering for Prim… This girl I respect so much, is allying with me! "Okay," I stick out my hand and she shakes it, "it's a deal." I know that this deal can't and won't last, but I'm willing to take the chance- when I die, I want Katniss to win.

Katniss goes back to roasting her bird thing, and I hand over some roots I gathered. She roasts them, and we dig in. The roots taste so much better roasted than raw- they have a mildly sweet taste that dances on your tongue. Before eating the bird, Katniss asks me if I know what it is. "Oh yes," I say, looking at the bird up close, it's a groosling, we see flocks of them back in 11 every now and then. "It's safe."

Katniss nibbles on one its wing, and hands me one of its legs. I sink my teeth into the glorious meat, it is so juicy and tender- the best meal I've had since the Capitol! "Oh," I say to myself, "I've never had a whole leg to myself before."

I close my eyes and take another big bite of the meat, willing so many things to happen. That I'm not in the Arena, that I'm not going to die, that I'll never starve again.