The games started out like all the others. Shay and I waited with all the other mentors while the kids were taken to the arena. I saw Haymitch again. He mentored every year because there were no other victors in his district, though he never did much but drink, most of his kids died during the first three days. He seemed to be sober this time, though.

The tributes rose on the platforms, and then the games began. Astrid and Perseus ran towards the cornucopia, but Perseus didn't last much, at all. The boy from two threw a spear at him, and he died within the minute. It kind of hurt me to see him go, he was a nice kid.

Astrid and the other careers took out the other children, and there were twelve dead in the bloodbath. Katniss had grabbed a backpack and ran away, and Peeta had dashed off in the other direction, without grabbing any weapons, and then and after an hour of fighting, only the careers remained in the cornucopia.

They counted and gathered al of their supplies, and had something to eat. They rested near the lake, and waited for the sun to go down before they went hunting.

Shay went back home that day, as there was no reason for him to stay, so I stayed, alone. I decided to call Annie, since nothing interesting was going on with Astrid.

"Hey, Finn," she said. "How's it going?"

"Perseus died," I sighed, which I immediately regretted. Annie started to cry, and soon she was sobbing. "Sweetie, please calm down… no, don't cry…"

She continued to sob, of course, so I called Mags. "Please… look over Annie while I'm not there, ok? I'm sorry I have to ask this of you…" She mumbled something, which I understood as a "yes, of course, sweetie, don't worry." Mags had gotten old really fast, and it was difficult to understand her sometimes.

When I went back to the room, I was shocked to find Peeta sitting around a fire with the careers.

"When did he get there?" I asked the mentor from seven. She shrugged and turned back to her screen.

Soon I had understood the plan. Peeta was going to help them hunt Katniss down. So it was all a strategy. They weren't really in love… I bet Katniss would be less that amused when she found out.

Astrid and the rest of the careers started hunting people. Their first victim was a poor, stupid girl who lit a fire at night. The careers saw the smoke, and they left one boy from district three guarding all the supplies, while the rest wen to find her.

Her death was not very nice, especially because Cato kept laughing at her. The walked away, though the cannon hadn't gone off, so the forced Peeta to go back and finish her off. He did go, but it was obvious that he didn't enjoy it.

Shortly after the girl had died, the cameras changed, and they showed Katniss, hiding on a tree, very near the careers. She saw them walking underneath, and though she tried not to show it, I could sense the betrayal in her face. She had no idea Peeta was going to join the pack, though they were just using him to find her.

I took a break, and took a nap. Mentoring a girl in the career pack was very boring. Nobody ever attacked them, they needed no food of weapons or anything, really, and they probably just turn on each other eventually, and there was no way I could protect her from that.

Astrid didn't get a chance to get backstabbed though, because she died a few days later, in an even more gruesome way.

It all started with a fire. Katniss was too far away from the other tributes, so the game makers took the matters into their own hands, and they forced her back, near the others. They used fire. Katniss fled when she first smelled the smoke, though she didn't get out of it unharmed. She got hit on the leg by a fireball, and it was a miracle she didn't pass out from the pain.

She ran towards the river, and jumped into the water, like anybody would have done, but that was when the careers saw her. They had been wondering around that area, waiting for a victim, and that's when Katniss appeared.

"There she is!" shrieked Clove. Katniss fled from the river and she ran back into the woods, with the careers following behind her. She managed to climb a tree, with a burnt leg, but she was quickly surrounded. I didn't know how she was going to get out of that one alive.

"I'll get her," muttered Cato, as he tried to climb the tree with a dagger between his teeth. He was almost getting there, but his foot slipped and he fell to the ground.

"That had to hurt," I chuckled. I didn't like that kid. Katniss watched everything from her branch, and then Glimmer grabbed her bow and arrow. She aimed at Katniss, but missed… twice.

"Guys," interrupted Peeta. "She has to come down some day, it's either that, or starve… let's just wait down here." Cato looked at him suspiciously, but then he realized he was right.

"Fine," he said, "we'll wait."

I was really confused at that point. Peeta, looked up at Katniss, and there was something about his face that told me he really loved her. Why was he helping the careers then? Unless… maybe he wasn't… maybe he was trying to make sure they didn't hurt her… but why? They couldn't really be in love, could they? That would have been a terrible coincidence.

I stayed up that night, because I wasn't really sleepy. Astrid had the first shift, she was supposed to make sure Katniss didn't escape, and she did fine, but then Glimmer's turn was up, and she fell asleep about an hour later.

There was some movement up in the trees, and I spotted the little girl from eleven. She caught Katniss' attention and pointed to a tracker jacker hive, and then she was gone.

"No," I mumbled. "No, no, no…" Tracker jackers could be lethal, and Katniss was climbing up the branches towards the hive. She started sawing in off with her knife, but the vibration bothered the mutts, and they started buzzing and a few of them stung Katniss. She continued, though, and soon, the hive was flying through the air. It crashed on the ground, and the terrible buzzing woke the careers. They all stood up and ran, but the tracker jackers chased them. They overwhelmed Glimmer, and she lay on the ground, agonizing. Astrid made it a few feet further, but she soon collapsed as well.

Two cannons went off, and the rest of the careers ran towards the lake. They jumped into the water, and the tracker jackers followed, but they drowned, and died. Peeta, Cato, Marvel and Clove walked out of the water, all of them dizzy, since the stings had a lot of side effects.

"Katniss is going to get away," mumbled Cato, but Katniss, was stumbling around the forest, and she was pretty dizzy herself. Cato, grabbed his sword and ran back into the woods, tripping and stumbling a couple times, but Peeta had run in before him.

He ran in the direction of Katniss, and after a few minutes, he found her. She was wondering a round, in a daze, with a bow and arrow in her hand, which she had pried off of Glimmer's dead body.

"Run!" yelled Peeta. Katniss seemed confused, but Peeta's tone was urgent. "Get out of here! Run."

Katniss seemed to have understood the message, and she stumbled in the opposite direction, but Cato was close by. He tried to follow Katniss, who had just disappeared into the trees, but Peeta wouldn't allow him. Cato slashed his leg with his sword, and Peeta collapsed on the ground, writhing in pain. Cato followed Katniss into the woods, but he had lost her. Katniss was far away from him before she collapsed.

"You're coming back home?" asked Annie on the other side of the phone.

"Not yet, Annie," I sighed. "Maybe in a week or two." Though both tributes from district four were dead, I still had some "business" to attend to. I was also quite interested in these Hunger Games, though I usually hated to watch them; there was something about Katniss and Peeta that intrigued me. I guess I just wanted to find out if they were really in love.

I had a met up with a couple women during that week, but I had also kept close tabs on the games. Katniss and Rue had formed an alliance, and they had created a plan to destroy the career's food, which had worked out very well, though it had resulted in the death of Rue.

It pained me to watch that scene, and we also got to see a side of Katniss we had never seen before. She sobbed on top of her body and covered her in flowers, after she had killed Marvel, the tribute that killed the girl. The game makers quickly changed the cameras when Katniss started decorating the small girl with flowers, but I had seen enough.

The flowers had made Rue innocent, and young, she wasn't just another dead tribute. The Capitol didn't want us to see her as an innocent human child; that would ruin their games.

Cato killed the boy from three that had used the bombs from the cornucopia to protect the food. He had been left behind to protect their things, and he had failed, so Cato, in a violent rage, snapped his neck.

Peeta had spent several days camouflaged by the river, without eating or drinking anything. He wasn't going to make it very long. Everything changed, though, when Claudius Templesmith announced to the tributes that two tributes could make it back home if they were from the same district.

"What?" I asked, amazed.

"Get back in bed, Finny," whispered one of my many buyers.

"In a sec," I sighed. I stared at the screen as Katniss stupidly screamed Peeta's name. She ran to the river, where Rue had mentioned Peeta had been hiding, and she searched for him desperately.

The next few days, were the most interesting. Peeta was dying from his infections, and a few of the other tributes needed some other things to survive, so the game makers arranged a feast, where they would find everything they needed. Katniss had promised Peeta she wouldn't go, after a very romantic, somewhat forced, scene between the two. The second Peeta closed his eyes, though, Katniss set out to the Cornucopia.

Clove died in the feast, Thresh killed her after she had tried to kill Katniss. She had been taunting her, and talking about Rue, and Thresh, who was from the same district, smashed a rock against her head.

I thought she he was going to do the same to Katniss, and so did she, but instead, he looked at her, and said, "Just this time, twelve, for Rue," and left.

Katniss, with a bleeding head injury, returned to their cave and gave the medicine to Peeta, and the next day, he was impressively better.

The games were over shortly after. Thresh had been attacked by a poisonous, mutt, and he had died a few minutes later. The redheaded girl from district five, who I had totally forgotten about, died by poisonous berries. It had been quite… stupid. Peeta had been collected the berries, because he wasn't very careful, and he honestly had no idea they were poisonous, and the girl, who had gotten by, stealing food from others, thought they were perfectly safe. She ate a few, and a minute later, the cannon boomed.

Then there were three. Peeta and Katniss got ready for the final battle against Cato. They made their way to the Cornucopia and waited around the lake, when they saw Cato in his direction, getting chased by mutts. They all climbed onto the Cornucopia, where the three of them battled, and tried to push each other off, to the mutts, but Cato got a hold on Peeta and he warned Katniss that if he went down, he would take Peeta with him.

Peeta pointed to Cato's hand, and Katniss shot it, and in the second that he let go of Peeta, Peeta tackled him off the Cornucopia, and into the pack of mutts. His screams were agonizing to hear, and Katniss shot an arrow, for the last time, and killed Cato.

She put a tourniquet on Peeta's leg, which was bleeding heavily, and Claudius' voice rang through the arena once again. He announced that the rule change they had announced earlier had been changed, and that once again, only one tribute could survive.

Katniss and Peeta, both tried to be very noble and let the other live, but then Katniss, who wasn't going to take any of the Capitol's shit, came up with a plan. It was brilliant, and I figured it out that second she offered Peeta some poisonous berries. They would eat them together, at the same time, then they would both die, and the Capitol wouldn't have a winner.

I chuckled, and shook my head in disbelief. She was brilliant. When the berries were about an inch from their mouths, Claudius spoke again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the victors from District twelve!"

Unbelievable. Katniss had managed to trick the Capitol. She had done what nobody had done before… for the first time in Hunger Games history, there were two winners.