Chapter 21: Katniss Meets Blaine

The Panem seal appeared in the sky and Katniss looked to see which Tributes had been killed today. She was very surprised to see that the whole Career pack had been killed off, and today it was, as well as them: Finn, Rachel, Mercedes, Sugar, Santana and Sam.

At least there were only a few Tributes left now, including that pregnant girl. Katniss couldn't believe she was still alive. If she ever met her, Katniss was torn whether to kill her or ally with her. But she'd cross that bridge when she came to it.

"Hey, 12!" Dave Karofsky smiled a toothless smile.

Katniss drew her bow and shot at him. He dodged, but hit his head against a tree, more teeth popping out. He fell to the floor, a different-coloured arrow sticking out of his back. Blood bubbled out and stained his shirt in a macabre sort of doughnut. Katniss jumped from the tree and saw a boy wearing ankle biters and a scarf wiping his carefully plucked eyebrows. Behind him, leaning on a crudely-fashioned staff, was the archer from training. Blaine. Katniss' defences weakened. That boy had been on her mind for a looooooooong time.

"Don't kill me!" the boy holding the bow said.

"I won't... not yet anyway." Katniss walked towards Blaine slowly, taking his hands.

"Who's that? Is it you, Kurt?" Blaine didn't look at Katniss with his vacant, red eyes.

"It's Katniss. Can't you recognise me?"

There was a long pause as Katniss realised the injury he'd sustained.

"Look, I'm sorry about that. I didn't know."

"It's OK. I don't mind."

"I'm glad..." Katniss softly brushed his lips with her own. It was soft and innocent, without anything held back. She parted Blaine's lips and breathed in. He stepped back.

"DON'T STEAL MY BOYFRIEND!" Kurt screamed, aiming an arrow at her. Katniss, being the better archer, got an arrow in his throat before he could draw his bow.

"Katniss... I'm sort of gay, OK?"

She turned back around to him, after slinging her bow over her shoulder.

"Oh." She was running high on emotions and couldn't even understand Blaine's words. She felt nothing.

"Where's Kurt?"

Katniss' throat was filled with a huge lump and she barely managed to get the words out.

"He's gone."

"Gone? What do you mean?"

"He... notched an arrow, but it got jammed. He looked to... check on it... and it... fired. He was killed... instantly."

Blaine cried endless tears from his sightless eyes, until he fell exhausted into a long sleep. Katniss climbed a tree and shed silent tears for everything in her life.