Hey guys! This is Foxface's chapter, I hope it's good and what you all hoped for. It's the longest chapter so far! I wrote it very late last night, and my beta hasn't looked at it yet, so if there's any mistakes, forgive me for now. Just mention it in your review, and I'll go back and fix it. Up next after this is going to be Thresh's drabble, then Glimmer's, then the District 10 boy's. I also want to do a Madge drabble, a Gale drabble, a Prim drabble, and Mrs. Mellark drabble. So there's plenty more where this came from. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this, and thanks for reading and all your great reviews!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games.
I'm going to be the very first person to win the Hunger Games without killing someone else, I just know it. In fact, I'm so close, I can practically taste it.
I'm lying on my stomach on the hill above the hiding place of the District 12 tributes, watching them, waiting for the opportune moment to sneak in and steal some food.
My stomach rumbles, and I know I need to eat again soon. To distract myself from the aching in my belly, I run through my surviving competition in my head.
As of last night, Thresh is dead, and he was one of the most dangerous people here. The boy from District 12, Peeta, is all but dead. Even though I'm almost certain that the backpack for the District 12 girl contained medicine for him, infection will come back. All I have to do is wait.
As for the other two…I think I understand Cato fairly well. He's incredibly powerful, not to mention well trained, but he's not smart, and he has no self-control. I don't think he'll be able to find-What's her name again? Katniss, I think it is. She's too clever to get caught, and he's not much of a tracker anyway.
So, once Lover Boy is dead-And I give him three or four days, judging from his limp, tops-, Katniss is going to be on a mission for revenge. There will be nothing left to keep her and Cato apart, and unlike him, she can find anything. She'll find him, and there will be a fight. He's strong and enormous, but she's cunning and won't give up.
And by giving Cato the body armor, the Gamemakers have ensured a bloody fight to the end. They'll force Katniss to come out of the trees, her comfort zone, since she won't be able to shoot him as easily. But at the same time, she's fairly strong yet, and he's still weakened from his fight with Thresh. His skill comes from his sheer size; he's not good at hand-to-hand combat. He'll have to catch her to kill her, and she's quick. They're so evenly matched, I honestly don't know who will win.
The survivor-if they don't kill each other during the fight-won't last long. They'll be badly wounded, and it'll only be a matter of time.
And then, I'll be the only one left.
I've been thinking about these people for so long, and yet, I don't really know them. Like that girl Katniss. I know she volunteered for the Games to take the place of her younger sister. I know she's an incredibly archer, and that if she had it her way, she'd be hiding up in a tree. And that she's loyal until the end. That's it.
Well, that's all I need to know about her, because in this game, she can't be a real person to me. She's just an obstacle between me and home. But I have to wonder…if we lived elsewhere, in another time, in another place, could we be friends? What would I think of her if we met somewhere outside of the Games?
I think we could have been.
I shake my head, hoping to rid myself of these thoughts. No matter. Once she's dead, I'll be the winner. I pick up two handfuls of leaves and toss them up into the air. "Drusilla Greene, victor of the 74th Annual Hunger Games!"
I smile to myself as Loverboy limps away from the berries he's collected, and creep down the hill towards it.
Almost there.