Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games no matter how much I would like to.

I shoved the cart back under the supplies hiding the contents from Thresh, he had had enough to deal with for one day. He didn't need to be worrying about me. I could barely keep my food down. As the days passed my head began to throb and the world began to spin under my feet, I hid this all from him faking smiles but I knew I couldn't keep it up for long.

'11, I'm going into the woods for a walk and to get some food okay.'
'Sure thing Blondie. Do you want me to come with you?' I shook my head.
'No baby it's fine I can take care of myself.' I flashed him a smile as I pulled myself out of the cave my feet dragging across the ground. I struggled through the branches my head pounding and the world spinning. I sank to the floor sweat pouring down my face, just walking two metres away from the clearing was to much work for my dying body. If I couldn't make a simple walk how would I fend off any one who came my way swinging a weapon. I tried to focus on my surroundings but everything as a blur, I fell forward on my hands and threw up what little breakfast I had managed to swallow.

I struggled as I lifted my head to the sky, my head feeling as though it weighed a thousand pounds.
'Finnick, Finnick. Please!' It was barely a whisper and tears began to fog my aching eyes but nothing fell from the sky, before all I had to do was ask and everything I needed would fall into my lap but now when I needed it the most nothing came. 'F...F...Finnick.'
I collapsed on the hard, leaf-covered earth and curled into a ball, maybe we had run out of sponsors maybe... maybe...

I woke up sweating tangled in blankets a cool wash cloth on my forehead. My head still throbbed but the world was spinning less rapidly, I could see a figure standing over me but I couldn't make out more than an outline.
'Wha...' I tried to sit up but fell back onto the pillows.
'Geez Blondie, you scared me half to death. You didn't come back for 3 hours and I went looking for you and you were passed out under a tree. You were burning up and muttering crazy about sponsors. I brought you back here and went looking for your medicine and found the empty case hidden under all our stuff. What the hell were you thinking?'
'I didn't want you to worry.' My voice was weak and shaky and my throat hurt as I forced the words to come out.'
'Worry, Worry! You've been asleep for 3 days, I thought you were going to die.' He says as he lowers a water bottle to my lips and forces me to drink.
'Did I miss anything special?'
'Nothing that concerns us, but they did change the rules. Two victors can be crowned if they come from the same district probably because of the 2 in 12 being in love. But that isn't fair because we're a couple and we still have to kill each other.' His face filled with sadness as he pressed his lips against my temple and brushed my hair behind my ears.
'Well you can win since I'm going to die anyway.'
'Don't talk like that, you're going to be fine look you're awake and talking, you just need to last until the end.'
'Thresh I can't even see, how the hell am I supposed to last?'
'What do you mean you can't see? You're joking right, shit you've gone blind.'
'I'm not blind everything's just blurred together.'
'Well when you win they'll fix you up nice and good.'

Thresh filled my head with positive reinforcements for the next day saying I was getting better even though all the while I was getting worse, I knew there was no way I could make it til the end seeing as there was still 5 others besides us left in the game. I was just about to cave in when Claudius Templesmith's voice resonated around the cave.
'Tributes may I congratulate you on making it this far. The Gamemakers and I would like to invite you to attend a feat in the Cornucopia.' I shook my head, we had enough food and supplies we were fine. I wasn't going to let Thresh risk his life for nothing, one year all it was was a loaf of bread who knows what piece of shit they'll try to get us to fight over.
'Now hold on. Some of you may already be declining my invitation. But this is no ordinary feast. Each of you needs something desperately.' I sensed Thresh jump to his feet and run to the entrance of the cave. He was listening with eager interest.
'Each of you will find that something in a backpack, marked with your district number, at the Cornucopia at dawn. Think hard about refusing to show up. For some of you, this will be your last chance.'

'Don't you even fucking think about it.' I gripped the cave wall and pulled myself up to my feet swaying dangerously as the world began to spin faster as the blood rushed from my head.
'I'm going and you can't stop me, you can't even see.'
'No, but I can feel,' I stumbled across the cave and fell into his arms. I felt for his face and cupped it in my hands. 'You are not going I will find some way to stop you because if you haven't figured it out already. Thresh, I love you.'