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The girl from 9

I´m ready to fight but she helds her hands into the air.

"Please, I don´t want to fight!", she says. Is she trying to act weak? I don´t lower my spear but as well don´t attack.

"What do you want?", I ask and watch her closely, ready to defend in the case that she tries something.

"Look, there are 4 Careers and all of them are still alive. They are dangerous and I have a plan how we can kill them. But for this I need your help. We could be allies for a bit and when my plan is complete we could go different ways. What do you think?", she explains.

I think about it. If she was right and the plan works it would be an advantage for all of us. But it could be a trap. But then Robert and I are two and she´s alone.

"I´ll have to ask Robert", I answer.

"Good, then lead me to him", she responses.

"No, you´ll go in front of me and I´ll tell you where to go", I say.

"Good, then let´s go", she replies.

"Wait, what´s your name?", I ask.

"I´m Camille and you´re Finnick", she answers. I nod. Then we go to our camp where Robert is sleeping.

"Wake up, sleepy head", I say to annoy Robert. "Shut up!", he snaps but gets up. "What´s up?"

Then he sees Camille. "What is she doing here?".

"That´s Camille. She has a plan to kill the Careers but needs our help. What do you think?", I ask him.

"We´ll listen to your plan. When we think it´s useful we´ll go along when not you´ll leave us. Deal?", Robert asks Camille.

"Deal", she replies and they shake hands.

Then she begins to explain the plan to us and I have to say it´s pretty good.

When she´s finished she asks:"So what do you think?"

Robert and I look at each other and I see him nodding slightly.

I turn to Camille. "We´ll help you. When do we start?"

She smiles. "It´s pretty late, what about tomorrow?", she asks looking at me.

"Yeah, sounds good to me", I reply.

Just after I said this the anthem is playing and shows who has died: John from District 2 - that´s not very surprising: Camille told us – and the boy from District 9. Quickly I look at Camille.

"Did you know him?", I ask.

"He was in my class. We weren´t friends or anything but we got along", she answers.

I don´t question her further and tell her to get some sleep and continue to take watch but Robert says: "Go, it´s my turn now". He ignores my protests and I decide it´s the best to do what he´s told me.

The next day we get up early. Camille´s plan involves a big net and a snare and therefore I´ll need some time to make them.

While I begin to do this Camille and Robert are making breakfast. I watch them and begin to get a bit nervous. Camille´s plan is good but it isn´t flawless, there are some things that could go wrong. But we have to take the risk and I know this. It´s better than facing the Careers when you don´t expect it and without any plan.

"Are you sure they´ll separate?", I ask Camille when I´m almost finished.

"Definetly, I watched them and there are always leaving someone behind to take care of their belongings", she replies.

"You know the plan isn´t flawless, don´t you?", I want to know.

"Yes, I know but when the plan doesn´t go horrible wrong we´ll be more than them", she answers.

I nod. "Come one, let´s go. It´ll take a bit to get to their island", I comment. Robert and Camille agree and we make our way towards the island where the Cornucopia is standing. That´s the island where the Careers decided to camp. Luckily Camille can swim, so I only have to help Robert.

We arrive and after making sure the Careers havn´t moved their campwe begin to set the trap I´ve prepared.

"Does everybody know the plan?", Camille asks.

Robert says:"Yes, I´ll wait in the tree. When someone walks into the trap and his hanging upside down on the rope, I´ll immediately kill him or her." She nods and looks at me.

"I´ll hide behind this bush", I say pointing at it, "And will use the moment of surprise. When the Careers are staring at the one who´s in the trap I´ll throw the net over them and will kill at least one of them", I response.

"Very good. And remember that I relay on you. When you fail I´ll probably die", she says.

We know this. Camille is supposed to play the bait. She´ll make sure the Careers see and follow her hoping to kill another tribute. Robert and I both offered to be the bait but she says the Careers know we´re allies and therefore would suspect something. With her they think she´s just one more weak tribute to kill.

"You ready?", I ask her.

She nods. "Yes, I´ll go now. Be prepared, they´ll be here pretty soon".

Robert climbs up the tree, I hide behind the bush while grabbing my spear and Camille goes to the camp of the Careers. What if Robert is too slowly with killing the Career in the trap? What if the Careers get Camille before she arrives here? What if I catch only one of the Careers in the net and then can´t kill him or her because her partner is fighting with me?

Breathe, Finnick. It´ll work and remember: you´re 3 and the Careers are 3. When the plan doesn´t go horrible wrong at least one of them will be killed and then they´re only 2. Before I can worry much longer I see Camille running towards the trap, Julia, Trinity and Onyx following her.

The Careers laugh. "We´ll get you, stupid girl!", Onyx shouts out and looks so excited about the idea of killing someone I think I might vomit.

Then everything happens very quickly: Camille hops over the trap, Trinity walks right into it and immediately is killed by Robert while I throw my net over Julia and Onyx. Both of the are shrieking and I manage to stab Julia right into the heart.

Onyx succeeds to free himself and fights with Camille who´s standing next to him. He jams his sword right into her body and she lets out a cry and falls down. Quickly I go over and block his sword with my spear. But he´s good, he´s very good. And strong. I´m beginning to think that there´s nothing I can do and he´ll kill probably both of us an axe is sticking in his head and a cannon fires.

"Thank goodness", I sigh relieved and smile at Robert. Then I remember Camille and quickly walk towards her. When I see her I get sick: it´s worse than I thought. The worst is that I know she´ll die and that there´s nothing I can do to prevent that. I look at Robert and see that he knows as much as I do.

"Camille", I whisper with tears in my eyes. We aren´t friends but I know her a little bit and seeing her die is pretty hard.

"It´s okay, both of you were good. It was my plan, it´s not your fault that this happened", she manages to say while coughing blood.

"If I had killed him as planned...", I begin.

"No!", she interrupts me, "No, Finnick, it wasn´t your fault. It was my plan. I don´t want that you blame yourself for this. It was my fault, I shouldn´t have underestimated him. Both of you have good hearts. Just make sure that one of you wins, will you?"

We nod. "Good", she murmurs and closes her eyes for the last time.

We leave her body and decide to go back to the island where we stayed last night. During the whole way nobody of us utters a word. We both have much to think about: the death of Camille, and our first kill/s.

The rest of the day is a routine: setting traps, filling our bottles with water and eating in the evening.

I wince as I look at a wound on my left arm where Onyx cut me. Robert watches me. "That looks like it hurts", he comments concerned.

"It´s alright, it´s not that bad", I response although it hurts like hell.

Before Robert can reply a parachute sails towards us with a 4 on it.

"It´s for you", Robert says, "Probably medicine". And he´s right. It´s a salve which I put on the wound. Immediately I feel better.

Then the anthem is playing and we look up: first the face of Julia, then Onyx, Trinity, the boy from 5 and Camille.

5 dead, that leaves only 8 and it´s just the third day. That goes pretty fast, but at least the Gamemakers will leave us alone.

"I´ll take the first watch today", Robert announces and I don´t protest: I´m too tired. When I lay down I fall asleep easily.