Doesn't anyone want to buy anything? And if you want a weapon, just ask. I know I kinda forgot that one off the list (Thank you nickelnick!) And I haven't reposted it because when I found out I was in service station using free service station wi-fi on an iPod and I needed to get going, and since I keep on forgetting so...yeah.

Jazz had found them. Allie, Eliana, Cole and Jarsen. They'd set up a camp about ¾ of the way down the mountain. They were crouching behind some rocks and grass, but they hadn't been hidden very well. Jazz walked forward nervously.
"Hello?" She asked nervously. In a second, all four were standing, weapons raised.

"Please don't kill me! Let me join your alliance!" All the weapons but Jarsen's wavered slightly.

"No" He said firmly

"Please! I can help you!" Jazz pleaded

"I saw you kill Morgead for no reason"

"OK, one:This is the hunger Games. Killing for no reason is the whole point of them. And two: It was an accident! I thought he was trying to kill me!" Allie lowered her weapon.
"I think we should let her join, you must've seen her with that axe in the training sessions" Allie pleaded on her behalf. Jazz nodded eagerly Cole still looked unsure, but Eliana seemed to be siding with Allie on the matter.
"I think so to. C'mon Jarsen, she's not completely crazy like Jade or anything and..." Eliana ran out of argument.

"No, Eliana. I don't trust her, we don't want to many in this alliance, it'll only make things harder when it comes to break things off."

"There's already four of us, what's one more? I like her, don't think you can bully me or control me. I'm not some silly girl that you've picked up along the corridor back home" Jarsen laughed, even though it was anything but funny. Too right she wasn't anyone he'd picked up at school or down the mine. Too clever by half. Jarsen looked between Eliana and Allie's stony expressions, and Jazz's pleading one.
"Alright then. You're in Jazz. Now I suggest you three go look for some sort of water, there wasn't anything in the packs we got" Eliana raised her eyebrows at Jarsen who was already telling her what to do.

"And Jazz? What about her?"

"I want to talk to her" Eliana nodded and began to walk away carrying her bow and knife, with some arrows in her rucksack. Allie rolled her eyes at Jarsen.

"Don't try anything funny" She told him sternly, which Jarsen ignored. Cole walked after Allie. Jarsen smiled at them, they were so sweet.

"Well? What do you want to talk to me about?" Jazz asked. Jarsen looked at her, half stonily, and half pityingly.

"I don't trust you" He said quietly. "Morgead was alright" Jazz began to panic, sensing the tension.

"It was a mistake! I never meant to hurt him! I liked him, I talked to Jez and she was lovely, I didn't want to hurt him, let alone kill him!"

"But you did" Jarsen said sternly. He picked a dagger off the ground and threw it into Jazz's heart.

"I didn't mean to kill him!" Jazz cried before the dagger reached her. Jazz fell to the floor as the knife wedged itself in her chest.

"Dad..." She called weakly.

"I'm sorry" Jarsen whispered kindly, but she was already dead. Jarsen turned when he heard a rustling behind him.

"Oh hell Jarsen. You killed her. You're going to get hell from Allie and Eliana when they get back. Absolute hell"

"Why didn't you leave?" Jarsen asked angrily.

"Why did you kill her? Look, I won't tell the girls, but you're going to need an excuse"

"I thought of that. I was planning on blaming it on Jade" Cole shrugged.

"It's a pathetic excuse really, but I'll vouch for you. Y'know, I liked her. Jazz I mean, not Jade. I don't think you should've killed her"

"I know I shouldn't have. She was alright really, but I had to. We can't go around making friends with everyone we meet."
Cole shrugged. "Whatever"

Jarsen and Cole sat around for a while, waiting for Allie and Eliana. Cole and Jarsen sat up straight when they heard them laughing in the distance. Jarsen had got rid of Jazz's body, but he was going to have to do some serious acting.

"Cole!" Allie called cheerfully "We found some water, it seems to be everywhere in this arena!" Allie frowned when she and Eliana came in sight of the boys.

"What's happening? Where's Jazz?" Eliana asked. Jarsen looked down at the ground.

"Jade. She came through, killed Jazz. We started fighting her, and eventually we chased her out, but..." Jarsen looked down at the ground again.

"Jazz is dead?" Allie asked in shock. Jarsen nodded. "Cole?" Allie asked for confirmation.

"It's true, she...she ran away though"

"And why weren't you looking for water as well?" Eliana asked Cole.

"Well, I hung around a while..." Cole said. "I suppose it was good in the long-run"

"Oh My God" Allie said and tears came out of her eyes. Cole walked forward and hugged Allie to comfort her. Eliana grinned, despite the circumstances, at Allie when she saw Allie smile. Cole seemed to be enjoying the hug too.

"I'm sorry Ellie" Jarsen said to Eliana. And he meant it. Maybe he'd felt as if he had to kill Jazz, but he didn't like it. He thought Eliana was about to start crying like Allie, but instead she walked forward and kissed him.

Ebony had stayed by the river. She figured if anyone came along she'd have the advantage. She could be friendly. How were they? Would they like some food? A wash? And then they'd die. Maybe it was cruel of her, ruthless. But the whole Games were ruthless.
Ebony thought a bit, should she join an alliance? Or make one? She didn't want to. She preferred being on her own, but perhaps it was a tactical advantage. If she found someone clever, or stronger than her. She frowned as she looked back at her nails. She'd forgotten, her prep team had removed her nail varnish. Well, that pink fairy Nicola had. She'd also covered her in 'Lucky Pixie Dust', that she was probably allergic to. Fortunately the Capitol hadn't been much better than the peacekeepers from Three at stopping her from sneaking things into the arena and Ebony could easily apply more black nail varnish. She giggled uncharacteristically as she did so.

The careers had all moved on. Maybe Shiloh wasn't a ruthless cold-blooded killer, but he'd have to kill if he wanted to get out of the games and get back to Hana. And if he got rid of people quicker then he'd be able to leave quicker and get back to District Four and the life he loved. Silver had got on with it and died eventually, leaving him and Rosemary, Corey, Roxana and Jade. Shiloh didn't like Jade, she was too ready to kill, too eager. And Shiloh didn't like that. He didn't like going to sleep at night, for fear she'd kill him in his sleep. But then again, if you go around killing people left, right and centre you're bound to make a few enemies. Shiloh himself was considering trying to kill her, but she was useful.

Only two had died one the second day. Corey had seen their faces on the sky, but he couldn't remember their names. And so far today he'd only heard the one cannon. Corey was scared, the gamemakers were bound to send some sort of trap in the near future. Shiloh, Jade and Rosemary had gone ahead, they'd thought they'd heard people talking, and Corey had taken the opportunity to take a rest. Roxana was all but asleep next to him, they'd set off in the dead of night. In fact, he wasn't sure what was keeping him awake. Corey sat up dead straight when he heard distant voices yelling, if he wasn't very much mistaken, that was.
"Roxana! Wake up! I think the others are being attacked!" Roxana woke up slowly despite Corey's urgency and Corey was beginning to panic. He finally managed to get her walking, and then running.
Jade was in hand-to-hand combat with Brita, and Shiloh and Rosemary were fighting Tane. Corey had to hand it to them, they could fight. Brita was clearly fighting dirty, jade had several bite marks, including a disturbing one on Jade's throat. Corey would have been scared but he doubted Brita was the cannibal type.

Shiloh had his trident out, and Tane was running about and dodging like crazy, although lucky for him he had a knife which he stabbed at Shiloh when he got an opening. Corey exchanged a look with Roxana before they ran forward to help out, but before Corey could reach them, the world tumbled upside down and he fell into darkness.

Roxana woke to someone calling her name and poking her in the ribs. She couldn't help herself, she smiled. Roxana was incurably and extremely ticklish, and there was only one other person in the world who knew that.
"Corey?" She asked.

"Right here, sleepy-head. Do you remember? We fell in some sort of pit. You hit your head and you've been out cold for about ten minutes."

"What about Shiloh? Rosemary? Why haven't they rescued us?"

"I think they fell into some sort of pit too, I heard Rosemary scream. And maybe Tane as well..." Roxana laughed and looked around her.

The pit was pretty deep and the walls looked like dirt but they were smooth, they'd be hard to escape from. She was beginning to despair.

"There must be a way out..." Corey though aloud. He kicked the wall hard with his boot and the wall shifted slightly, Roxana felt a slight tremor that she imagined was hundreds of dirt clods behind the toe of Corey's boots shaking and loosening.

"Do that again" She commanded, Corey obliged. This time some of the earth fell onto Roxana's feet. "Keep doing that!" She yelled as she helped him out. Before long there was a dent in the smooth wall surface that was the size of Corey's boot. There was another one beside that which was the shape of Roxana's boot.

"I could stand on those, and lift you up. You might just be able to reach the top and pull me out" Roxana nodded as Corey wedged his feet into the footholds.

Corey lifted her up as high as he could and Roxana's fingers were brushing the grass.

"I nearly have it! Just a little higher!"

"I can't...go...higher!" Corey said though clenched teeth. The dirt was strong, but he was scared that they would give way any minute.

"Just give me a push! One more little centimetre!" Corey didn't answer, just heaved and groaned in acknowledgement as he threw Roxana into the air. Well, a centimetre. But that was all Roxana needed. She climbed up and reached down for Corey.

"The footholds have given way!It's just me on the ground with...what's that noise?" Corey tilted his head as if he could hear something, then Roxana heard it too and her eyes widened as she saw what was happening.
Snakes were coming in through the place where the footholds had once been.

"Err...Roxana? Help!" Roxana lay flat on the grass and reached down as far as she could. It became clear to Corey that he was going to have to jump to reach her, but as soon as he did that the snakes might bite. He'd have to make sure that none of them were on him...

"Corey! Jump! I'll pull you up!" nervously, Corey looked between the rising number of snakes and the girl he loved. He closed his eyes for a second, then jumped. His fingers brushed Roxana's, and he was about to fall back down again when her hand found him.

"Gotcha!" She yelled through her teeth as she supported his weight on her one arms. She grabbed his arms with both of hers and slowly pulled him up, heaving as she went. What had he been eating? Finally, after what seemed like forever Corey fell onto the grass, as did Roxana, she was exhausted. She looked around. Tane and Brita had also managed to escape. She could see them running off. Two pairs of hands gripped the edge of another pit. One of the pairs of hands had blood red nail varnish, the other was weathered and unmistakably Shiloh's. There was no sign of Rosemary. Roxana turned to look at Corey.

"I love you so much right now" She said with a smile. Corey beamed at her.
"Me too"

Cole lay back and watched the stars. There'd only been one face on the sky that night, one of the careers, Rosanna? Something like that. Allie was next to him, she hadn't done much all day but cried. And Cole understood how she felt. It had started off about Jazz, but then it had been about the games, and everything else that was wrong. Cole had always wanted to do that, but he couldn't. Not when he lived in the orphanage. He couldn't cry in front of Sam.

"Tell me about your family" He asked Allie impulsively. For a moment Cole thought she wasn't going to answer, then she spoke.

"You saw their pictures in the family book. My mum and dad, Charlie and Claire. They run the tailor shop. But there isn't much chance of me continuing the business. I can't sew for love of money. It'll be Kate, my sister, who'll do that. She's only six but she can make clothes like an angel, if that makes sense" Cole laughed softly. He couldn't believe he'd thought she was spoilt when he first met her.

"And what about your brother? Jack?"

"Hmm..." Cole could imagine Allie stroking her chin thoughtfully.

"I don't know. Maybe he'll get a full time job in the fields, he does like gardening"

"You?" Cole asked. Allie was silent for a while.

"I don't know," She whispered. "I guess I thought...I don't know. I thought I'd marry, have kids, but I never really thought about a job. I'm not good at anything."

"That's not true!" Cole protested.

"Then what am I good at?" Allie asked. Cole didn't have an answer to that. He just knew that Allie was a good person. "Exactly" She said. "I wouldn't have minded marrying you" Allie laughed mischievously. Cole joined in.

Jarsen felt so bad. It wasn't killing Jazz, however wrong it had been killing was a part of the world he was in. The world he hated. The thing that got him was how upset Eliana was, and that she blamed it all on Jade when it was his fault. The worst part was that she'd kissed him, and he'd liked it. She loved him when by all right she should hate him. And he kinda liked her when he should be focused on getting home to help his family, not building a relationship that could never work with a girl he barely knew, or making friends with kids from other districts that would probably die too (Cole and Allie's faces flashed in his mind)

But he was beginning to feel something for Eliana. She wasn't falling all over him like the other girls in Twelve, yet she actually liked him, unlike the other girls in District Twelve.

Jarsen almost smiled. He was so confused.