They were following me, of course they would be following me, I was going deeper into the woods alone! I was crying, but trying to keep myself in check because after all, I was in the hunger games, there was no crying no matter what happened. I looked into the sky and just wanted to sit there and just wait for someone to come along and kill me, there was nothing left for me here anyway. Then it was all I could so but to think about my sisters at home, all three of us orphaned, losing a sister as well. No. I would go home for them, no matter what would happen.
" Summer! Come back!" Marvel shouted through he vines, a fire leading his way through the woods.
" Summer! Summer!" Caron said, his voice sounded concerned. I dropped to the ground as I listened for their voices.
" Sum! Sum!" Marvel said as he dropped to the ground beside me and drew me into his lap. " I am so sorry." He whispered as he rocked me gently.
I cried as hard as I could into his chest, making sure that none of my face as being shown in the cameras, I just cried. I cried for my father, who was dead and already on his way home to be buried. I cried for my sisters, who already knew how he had died and had to watch it happen live. I cried for Peeta, who was watching this at home and knew that I would not be coming back, at least the person that he loved would not be coming back. Finally, I cried for me, as I was being rocked gently on the floor of a forest by a boy I had met just a few days before. I could not keep it from slipping out, the noises that were coming, the kicking and screaming, everything was right into the boys body, but he did not move from his place.
I finally came to enough to notice that my legs and arms were wrapped tightly around the boys body, and him trying to calm me down. He was slowly petting down my hair and whispering things to me that did not make sense at all. Just telling me little things that would get me to calm down, things that would bring me back down to the earth, just anything. I looked up at him, my tear soaked face meeting up with his to notice that he was crying a little as well. He looked like he was hurt, he looked like he had been stabbed right in the heart as he looked down at me, moving the hair out of my face and wiping the tears from my eyes. Marvel looked almost human for that moment of time, like he was no made out of stone.
" Why are you crying? Did I hurt you?" I asked finally, thinking that I may have hit him pretty hard.
" No you didn't." He replied with.
" Then why?" I asked.
" Because I do not like to see you cry, I hate seeing you hurt, that's all." He said as he picked me up. " Common, it has been a long day."
" You know, I can walk." I said as I was being cradled in his arms.
" You shouldn't have to though, you have had a long day." Marvel smiled as he looked over at Caron.
" I want to." I hissed.
" Well to bad, I do not want you to run off." He said as he brought me back to the group.
Peeta and Katniss were sleeping under the makeshift shelter that was made by the rest of the group later that day, though Katniss was deep in sleep, Peeta was still looking around. Cashmere was guarding the east and south with a sword while Enobaria was guarding the opposite. Caron followed us to the clearing as he yawned a little and moved towards his mother, Marvel placing me on the ground but still not letting me go.
" Want to help me build up the shelter, it seems a little weak if you ask me." I smiled as I looked over at Caron, who was scowling at me.
" Love to." Marvel smiled.
We worked well into the night, going deeper and deeper into the woods to get supplies for the shelter. It was not my best work, but by the time that I was done it with it could fit all of us in it at one time without all of being body-to-body. I smiled a little as I looked down at my fingers and saw that there were red and raw and I could feel it as well. It hurt a lot, but it was still feeling something. I knew that my father and the child from district six had died yesterday. I felt happy to be alive, to be there for my father. Marvel smiled as he looked at the job that he did and yawned, it was almost time to shift changed and the boys really needed some sleep.
" You should get some sleep." I whispered to Marvel as we walked through the woods.
" You as well." He laughed, knowing there was no sleep in my near future.
" I think it's time for shifts, common." I said, grabbing onto Marvel.
" No. Stay here, with me." He smiled as he nudged me close to a tree.
" Why?" I asked as I looked up at him and he gave me a wink.
We were supposed to still be in love- the three of us and I had completely forgotten about it. I looked around, as if I could see the camera's and begged Peeta to look away with my mind, knowing that our connection was strong and if he was watching he would see thing and know. Marvel placed his hand on my hip and smiled lightly as he moved in closer to me, backing me right back into a thick tree that was behind me. It was a great way for us to get the people in the capital on our side. Marvel's hand was moving lightly from my hip to my thigh and then back to my hip, he was no newbie to this, like I was.
" You have had a really rough day." He whispered as he moved in closer to my ear.
" I have." I said lightly, feeling him move his lips to my neck. " Marvel-"
" I know, but this may be the only time that we will ever have to do this." He said lightly, looking around.
" Marvel, I- I just want this to be important, okay? I don't want you to think that I am just a piece in a competition between you and Caron, okay?" I asked, looking around. " I just want you to really want me."
" Of course I really want you, at least I am not just using you for the games, I really care about you." He whispered into my ear there was something too serious in the way he was talking.
" I don't believe you." The three of us were really friends, what was he saying.
" Well you should," Marvel moved his lips down my neck. " because this is as real as it gets."
A moment of fire and passion, there was something that was meaningful as he pulled me into his body, wrapping my legs around his and thrusting me into a tree. His lips meeting into mine and pulling me into his so close. There was no way around this, Marvel was so rough and strong and I loved every moment of it. His pulling my long blond hair out of the ponytail it had been in, me pulling his skirt right off of his back. No other clothing came off, though I think a layer of skin came off of Marvel, we were in the heat of the moment, so strong and passionate. Every part of my body meeting his, every tree he was thrusting me into getting harder and harder as he did it. Soon we were on the ground, me on top and him on the bottom.
" We could do it ya know. Give them a real show to watch." Marvel laughed a little as he kissed my neck once again.
" No way in hell would I ever do that on national television." I smiled as I touched his tight lightly.
" Oh, well too bad," He smiled as he flipped me so that I was on my back. " I really wanted to, so bad." He hissed a little as he went back to kissing me.
" Poor little Marvel." I laughed as we heard something coming from the brush.
" You hear something?" I asked.
" Yep." He hissed.
" Jacket." I said as I pulled my jacket close to me and got out a knife. " I get first shot on the both of them."
There were not coming from the way that we had come from, they were coming from deeper into the woods. I smiled a little as I hid in the darkness, opposite from Marvel, as they walked right into my path, there was something inside of me that was itching for this moment to happen. They stopped right there was they looked down to find Marvel's jacket in between two trees and looked around. It was only a ground of two, one victor and one child, one from district nine was the victor and the child from eleven. I took aim and hit the victor right in the eye, sending her to the ground instantly and charging at district six.
It was almost too easy, he was younger then I was and I tackled him to the ground almost as easily. There was something cold in me as I looked won at him, knife in hand, and saw there was no fear in this little boy from the south as he spit at me. I hissed at him, pinning his arms and legs under mine as he tried to squirm away, regretting what he had done to me just a moment before. I smiled down at the body with an evil grin as I opened my jacket, showing him all of the knifes that I had in front of me. I took out the largest one and jabbed it through the kids clothes, right down into his heart. The canon sounding almost instantly as I twisted it a little. I moved to the victor, who was choking up blood.
" I'm sorry." I whispered, she had done nothing wrong, just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. I quickly took the knife out of her eye socket and thrust it into her chest. The canon sounding as well to mark her death.
" You almost looked like a killer there for a moment." Marvel smiled as he came out of the woods.
" Pick up your jacket, your mother will be looking for us soon." I said as I kissed his neck, where a nice bruise had formed.
" I doubt that my mother will be the only thing that we have to worry about." He laughed as he took the knives from both bodies.
" Ten left." I smiled as I moved back to the clearing.
They were all looking around, knowing that the two of us were gone and that two canons had just fired worried all of them. Katniss nearly hit me with an arrow as we moved out of the clearing. All I could do was smiled as Caron dropped his weapons and came and hugged me, it was like the two of them had planned out this whole romance thing on this day of all days. He spun me around in the air and brought me in as close as he could to his body. Telling me how worried he had been. I smiled a little as I said that I was sorry and looked back at Marvel, saying that we got a little caught up in things back there. Lightly I smiled at Marvel came over and handed me my tie to pull back my hair with, which I did instantly.
" What in the world was that all about?" Enobaria hissed.
" Summer here just made her first two kills!" Marvel smiled as he smacked my back, hard.
" Way to go!" Caron said with a smile.
" Nice job, kid." Enobaria smiled, that's what made me feel very prideful, she was praising me.
I looked over to see that Peeta had a look on his face, almost like he had been hurt, as he moved Katniss back to their guarding spot. I looked down at my shoes and knew that something was wrong, the fact that I was happy to have killed to lives like that, there was something wrong inside my head. I cleaned off my knives, placed them back into my jacket, and moved to the shelter, giving into sleep and to Marvel, who crawled into the shelter with me. I closed my eyes, with the sun starting to come up as I finally relaxed my body. I knew that they would be replaying everything that had just happened to the people back as home by about nine because they knew that everyone would be awake. Peeta would know everything that I had done.
" You looked like a pretty good killer back there." Marvel whispered as he pulled me in close to him, his body feeling warm around mine.
" You looked pretty good before that." I laughed a little.
" Almost like you wanted to show off for someone like me." He whispered into my ear, sending chills down my spine.
" Maybe I did." I smiled as I turned to him, facing him full on.
" Well? Did you?" He asked.
" You will never know I guess." I smiled as I kissed his noise.
" Fuck!" Someone shouted from outside.
" What?" I yelled back as they all rushed inside.
" Rain came back!" Cashmere said as she moved to the other side of the shelter.
" It's coming down pretty damn hard, we are going to need to move to another place. Soon." Peeta said as he put up his hood.
" Common, the sooner the better." Enobaria said as she started to move out into the cold water, her hood by her shoulders.
" Well that was a good nights sleep." I smiled as I got up and out of the tent.
We walked in the direction that we thought that the water was going to be in. Knowing that the water that was falling from the sky could be poisoned or something like that, we were not going to take the chance of drinking anymore of it. The skies were black, a sign back at home of thunder storms, we moved quickly, trying to get out of the treed area before the storm fully hit. I signed as we mushed through the ground, which was becoming mud with the rain. It was just a rain storm, there was nothing that I wasn't used to before, but there seemed like something very dangerous about this rain, like there was something unknown about it. It seemed like we were going in the wrong direction, that something was telling us to go the other way. Something was wrong.
We kept moving, never stopping once to ask any questions. I was the only one to keep an eye on the sky though, knowing that any moment we could be hit with a bad storm, that we could be killed by lighting in a second, or something worse. Cashmere was leading the group, with Katniss directing her from behind. Marvel, Caron, and I took up the back, making sure that no one would come from behind, while the others took up the middle. We all moved quickly through the brush and vines as we walked through the mud and rain, marching on like soldiers in a war. All I could do was keep my feet moving as I was too tired to fight anything they were saying right now. I was almost sleep walking as we made it to the water bed.
" Finally!" Cashmere said as the sun was setting through the clouds.
" Fresh water!" Katniss said, running fully speed into the water, striping off closes as she went.
" This should be interesting." Caron said with a smirk on his face.
" Don't even think about it, Shoore." Peeta hissed as he followed his daughter to the water, yelling at her to put on some clothes the whole way down.
I sunk down to the tree that was closest to the water, I had been defeated by the sleep that I had gotten in the past two days, which was close to none. Marvel came and sat down behind me, bringing my body into his as he rested his body on the tree and mine on his. He started to hum a song to himself, slowing rocking me into the sleep with him as he hummed. I smiled and started to think about the shores at home, how they used to rock me to sleep. I pull myself into Marvel, letting his warmth and mine sink into one another's as I drift into a deep sleep. Something that is coming pretty easy to me.
Soon after that I started to think about Peeta. Me and him were on the beach shore and just laying in one another's arms. I smiled as he told me that he loved me, that I was his only one. I told him that I loved him back. From my half-sleep, I wondered about him, if he really did miss me or love me. Of course he missed me, he was my best friend, we had never been separated for this long before. Hell, the longest that we have been separated is when we have been sick before, which has only been a few days, ever. But the love thing strikes me hard, another question coming to hand. If this hunger games had not happened, would we only be friends? The answer hurts as I know that we would only be friends. Nothing more, nothing less. Marvel and mine has been made my the games, forced onto one another's for survival. So which one did I believe in more?