(A/N): Hi guys! I'm sorry for not uploading for... uhh... a long time =). I've been really busy , but hey it payed off. I'm really happy with my grade in school. I got 93.3 in average =) Yippee! I didn't make the top but I wasn't really aiming for it XD
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Recap: Peeta came to the feast and was wounded.
A bird flutters out of sight as Katniss stops her sprint to try and catch it. She sighs deeply and sits down. She takes a deep breath and takes in her surroundings. The trees are suddenly covered in snow. Funny. Katniss thought. I thought it was summer. Katniss sees a few squirrels walk past her as she takes in her surroundings. She relaxes a bit until she hears a loud shriek.
"Katniss!" The voice of Prim resounds in Katniss' ear and she is immediately on her heels. She listens for the origin of the voice but she does not find it. It is like the sound of the forest is echoing though there's no reason for it to. She frowns and parts her lips.
"Prim!" She shouts trying to make sense of her surroundings. The shrieks of Prim stops and Katniss tenses even more. Katniss knows that if she stops screaming, it means that Prim would've been gone.
Her eyes knot in confusion as she does not give up her search for her little sister whom she loves so much. She's walking through the forest, avoiding each root that she passes but she doesn't find her sister. She backs up to a tree and collapses. Until she sees a lock of blond hair passes by a shrub.
She stands up immediately and goes over to the source of the blond hair, for it is very unusual to find such clean colour in the forest which is filled with brown trees and green pastures.
"Katniss?" Katniss hears as she sees the source of the sound, and is surprised to see Peeta wearing his baking clothes. But there's something wrong, he's bloody and bruised, like an animal ravaged him.
"Peeta," Katniss mutters and yelps under her breath and heads over to him, as fast as she could. Her eyes knot in frustration due to the sight of blood on the man she has loved for at least five years. She runs over to him but something's wrong. He doesn't seem to be coming nearer. She's getting further and further away from him. "Peeta!" She yells and runs over, but her attempt was for naught.
Out of the corner of her eye, she sees Cato. She yelps as he runs over to the already battered Peeta. He gets to him faster than Katniss could and he raises his sword.
"No!" Katniss yells and tears are starting to flow out of her tear ducts. She tries to look for a bow, anything, to help her distract Cato, but she finds nothing.
"Any last words?" Cato smirks and holds Peeta by the collar of his shirt. Peeta is helpless and sends a silent plead to Katniss to help him.
"Please no!" Katniss yells at him and tries to run. Peeta shakes his head and closes his eyes. Katniss trains her eyes on Peeta who's dangling from the collar. Peeta mouths a few words and Katniss knows exactly what he's saying.
"I love you," Peeta muttered before the sword is pierced into his neck by Cato.
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Katniss wakes up in a cold sweat. She feels the cool feel of gel on her foot and she her eyes widens for she sees no more blood seeping through it. Katniss only knows one explanation for this. "Peeta," She mutters and vaguely remembers the feast being announced. She closes her eyes for her head throbs from the sleep syrup. She then remembers eating the syrup and face palms herself. "I'm such an idiot," she says to herself and shakes her head.
Out of the corner of her eye, she sees a stray blond figure, with blood seeping through his head. "Peeta," Katniss gasps and crawls over to him. Even with the dirty blood and dark light, Katniss can't help but want to go over to him and kiss him. She does, however, pace herself and she helps him on his back.
"Katniss," Peeta moans lightly but he's not yet fully unconscious. She pecks him on the part of his forehead with no blood and starts to work.
"I can do this," she tells herself and takes a deep breath. She takes gauze from her pack and starts to unroll it, but something stops her. She vaguely remembers a reminder from Prim to always clean out the wound before you add the gauze to avoid any infection. She remembers this clearly and places Peeta's head on the small backpack. She slings the bow and arrow around her and she walks to a source of water.
She notches and arrow on her bow, just in case, and when the coast is clear she took some water from the small pond. She sees a small frog as she places back the container into her pack. The frog stares at her intently and it does what Katniss did not expect. It's eyes turned blood red and jumped to her.
"Mutts," Katniss mutters under her breath and avoids the frog. She dodges the tongue of the frog which she somehow knows that it is poisonous. She dodges it and lets an arrow go free. She takes a deep breath as the frog stays there, lifeless. She takes the arrow from the frog and places it back to her quiver. But before she places it back, she cleans it. That's when sounds of croaks start to resound in her ears.
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The red hair of Felicity is seen through the brown and green of the forest. She moves swiftly and she is surprised to see the girl from twelve facing a dozen of angry looking frogs. She frowns as she decides whether she should help the girl. What was her name? Katnip? Batniss? She debates inside her head as she decides to help her.
She's decided this earlier. She realized that her life was hard. She's lived in an orphanage her whole life and she has never had a real family. She also knows that there's no way she could win. She only knows that this girl deserved to win. And even if she did win, she's heard the rumours of how Rey, the victor from district five, turned to drinking after saying that he still sees the people he has killed. She hasn't killed anyone, but she knows that she will never forget them. She won't forget the face of Clove, or Marvel, or even Glimmer. There will always be a place in her brain for those people, much to her dismay.
She decided after the feast the she'll be intent on making this girl win. She still has her doubts, but she knows that this girl deserves to live out of the twenty-four. She knew from the moment she saw her face, that this girl is a fighter. She won't give up. Felicity really admires that and so, she chooses to help her win this, even if it meant her death.
"My death's inevitable anyway," she mutters to herself and grasps her knife. She hears the first scream as Katniss's sleeve was caught by one. In some way, she was able to kill at least ten of them, leaving only two. Felicity wonders as to how she was able to kill the ten only to see the ten frogs which were impaled.
She immediately ran to the source of the tongue piercing Katniss's sleeve and jumps from her position. The frog releases its tongue a little too late, for within a few seconds, it's dead. She removes the knife from the body and feels a sharp sting on the small of her back, which was exposed for some reason. She looks to it and sees the tongue of the frog impaling itself on her back.
After a few seconds, it stops. She looks at the frog to see it now impaled, and she smiles for the first time in awhile. She then falls on her knees and she would have fallen face-first, but Katniss caught her.
She coughs out blood as she's met with a pair of gray eyes. She manages a smile but it immediately falters for she feels a sharp sting getting numb. Actually, she feels as if her entire body has gone numb.
"Why did you help me?" Katniss asks her.
"I have no other reason to win. I have no one," she says. For some reason, Felicity feels that she could trust this girl. "Besides, no one deserves to win more than... more than you," she manages to say until she falls in Katniss's arm, unconscious.
"Thank you. No one can hurt you now," Katniss says and she places Felicity on her back as the cannon resounded.
Katniss never really knew her. They weren't friends. She doubts that she even truly knows her. But she knows, that she will always remember the sea-green eyes of Felicity, the tribute of district five.
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Haymitch watches as Katniss cleans out the blood from her arrows and places it back in her quiver.
"That's some kid you have there," Haymitch hears behind him and is surprised to see Rey, the past victor of district five.
"I've heard," Haymitch says absentmindedly and he takes a sip from his flask.
"I'd like to thank your kid. You see, Felicity has a few sponsors and I'd like to make a gift of it to you," Rey tells him and Haymitch faces him.
"How?" Haymitch asks. Rey gestures for the flask and parts his lips to speak.
"Can I have a taste of that?" He tells Haymitch and the flask is passed to him. He tastes the drink and immediately tastes Tequila. He passes it back to Haymitch and eyes him. "I'd like to transfer the funds of Felicity to her,"
"Why?" Haymitch asks suspiciously. It's not every day that a past victor would want to give help.
"Felicity would've wanted that," he tells Haymitch and fiddles with the sponsor tab. After a few minutes, the tab showed the amount of money which increased by at least ten percent.
"Thank you," Haymitch mutters and turns his attention back to the screen to see Katniss fixing Peeta's head up with gauze.
"Don't mention it," Rey mutters and leaves the room without another word, leaving Haymitch to his thoughts.
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Peeta winces quietly as Katniss applies the bandages on his head. Katniss can't wait to yell at him for how stupid he is. When the bandages are done, Katniss parts her lips to speak. When she was about to release a note, she is kissed by Peeta full on the lips.
This kiss wasn't like any other. This had passion, love, need. It's like a pile of emotions being released in one sitting. Peeta holds Katniss tightly and kisses her all over. Suddenly, Katniss couldn't find the right words to yell at him.
Peeta kisses her collarbone and he kisses Katniss again on the lips. He captures her lips with such ferocity and lays her back on the small makeshift cot. He stops kissing her and looks at her straight in the eyes.
Katniss's heart is beating a thousand times faster all of a sudden as her gray orbs are met by Peeta's blue ones. She pecks him on the lips and he smiles.
"I'm so sorry," Peeta mutters and kisses Katniss, who breaks it off fast.
"You have no reason to say sorry," She says and cups his face. She kisses it lightly and Peeta lies down beside her. He slides his arm under Katniss and holds her close to him. He pecks her on her forehead as he hears a stomach rumble. Katniss breaks out in laughter and gets off of Peeta.
She grabs Foxface's pack and gives it to Peeta. Inside, Peeta was surprised to see a gourmet of food inside. Lamb stew on wild rice. Baked potatoes with porcini mushroom and gravy. Steak on a bed of baked beans. Everything, in small portions is inside.
"This girl got some sponsors," Katniss says and sits next to Peeta.
"She didn't have much, I bet. She's too quiet. This was the pack at the feast," Peeta says and hands Katniss some lamb stew but takes it back.
"What? Give me some," Katniss says and tries to reach but Peeta stops her. He smiles mischievously and stares at Katniss's eyes.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time," he says and takes Katniss's hand. "Will you go on a dinner date with me?" Peeta asks her and Katniss lets out a howl of laughter.
"Here?" She asks and Peeta nods. "Sure," She says and is handed the lamb stew.
That night, they ate dinner together. Until they heard the sound of a cannon.
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