Hey Guys,

Welcome to chapter 2 I really wanted to update and there are only 5 chapters in this story so it should all be up quite soon. But yeah here it is.

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PeetaKatnissEverLark

chapter 2

The killing machines had already gotten rid of the really weak ones next was the ones with the high scores. She only received a 6 so she probably wasn't high on their list. Even though she knew she would die eventually. She was a scared, silly little 15 year old girl that has used a tomahawk many times to help her Father chop down wood to sell in town to people who didn't own a tomahawk or were too old or young to use one, she had a little muscle and she certainly could not kill someone. As she walked for the first time since she entered the arena she thought about her district partner. Barker Anderson. Was he alive? He was 16, he was strong from chopping trees, he had black hair and blue eyes, he was a year ahead of her but she sometimes saw him at school. He was quite hidden, hated being noticed yet almost every idiotic girls had a crush on him. Barker didn't seem like the kind of person to die in the cornucopia, and he got a score of 9 from the gamemakers. He was strong he should have gotten out.

She continued walking until she heard some rustling in the bush naturally holding up her tomahawk willing to fight to get back home.

"Rowan?" A weak voice said. She didn't lower her Tomahawk. Out of the bushes came a weak looking Barker. He had multiple cuts on his arm, and a big slice on his eyebrow his weapon a big knife, he had a similar looking backpack, she reached her hand to the knives she got in the pack of a dozen that was hanging from her belt ready to pull out and throw. She raised her tomahawk higher. He raised his hands in a surrendering way.

"I want to ally with you." He said, his voice dry and weak. She half lowered her tomahawk.

"How can I trust you?" She said her voice sounding more confident than she felt.

"Where from the same district." He said.

"What happened to you at the cornucopia" he said. Her tomahawk lowered.

"I just ran, picked up a backpack. someone threw a tomahawk at me, I grabbed it then got out." She explains.

"What about your leg?" Barker asks.

"Stabbed by the branch of a pine tree." She explains, he half chuckled then sees the seriousness.

"Do you want to ally? We can help each other." He says.

"For now, we can ally for now." She said. Barkley nodded in agreement they both know one has to die for the other to win but he doesn't want to kill her, she is so innocent, but for him to get home she has to die. Rowan on the other hand didn't want to kill anyone but if she wanted to get home she would have to, but she didn't want to kill him.

"Do you have water?" He asked her. She nodded and went over to a rock near by taking off her backpack and handing him the water flask, he opened it.

"Did you find a source or did this come in your bag." He asked.

"The bag." She said. He nodded and took a small sip.

"Thanks." He said to her.

"So what happened in the cornucopia to you because that cut probably needs stitches." She said.

"Is it that bad?" she nodded taking out her first aid kit.

"I had to wrestle over the backpack, and I had too-" He swallows, he looks down at his hands, he doesn't know how to admit to killing someone. But he doesn't because she looks at him with understanding and sympathy and nods.

She cleans his wound and he yelps in pain, she then uses some tape from the kit, to stop the bleeding.

"That should do it." She says. When she finishes wrapping the cuts on his arms up.

"Let's keep going it's getting dark." He says.

"Do you have food?" She asks.

"A little bit of dried fruit. Do you?" He asks.

"I have dried meat and apples." She answers. They walk for a bit until they find quite a good tree that should give them the protection they need. They climb it and sit on a high branch and feast on a slice of meat each and a couple of slices of apple. Praying to survive the night.

They watched the names and pictures come up on the night sky all of them looked young, so weak, The 13 year old girl and 12 year old boy that were standing next to her just hours ago are gone. Dead.

They woke up before dawn wanting to get as far away as they could get and to try and find a water source as their flask was running low. They climbed down the tree and walked in silence him holding his knife and her the tomahawk, they decided to split the little knives so he has some too, they have also divided up the food incase they get split up.

"I never expected to get this far into the games." Rowan tells him. He doesn't say anything so she continues.

"I thought I would die in the blood bath. But when I saw the arena was like my woods, I thought of home and I knew I couldn't give up like that, I mean I know I'm gonna die, but I thought I might as well die trying." She said with a sigh. Then there is more silence.

"I've killed someone." He says.

"Someone had a life, someone had a child, someone loved them and I took them, I killed him." He says. She looks at him with sympathy.

"I saw the life leave his eyes, and every time I close my eyes I see his horrified face when I picked up that knife." She stops and turns to him,

"Let's take a break." She says. As she walks over to a rock covered in moss to sit down. Wait moss? But moss means, WATER! She thought. She followed the trail of moss down a hill and sure enough there was a small stream with a little water fall. She goes back to where he was sitting sipping on what little water they had left.

"I found a stream." Rowan says. He gets up and follows her down the hill to the small stream where they fill up the drink bottle and wash their faces, so they are free of sweat and drink as much water as possible. She quickly undos her sweaty hair from the ponytail and puts it back up into a neater one with all her hair. They eventually decide to keep walking but to remember where this place is, They continue walking and hear someone humming so they hide behind a tree, weapons ready.

Ok sorry for cliff hanger new update will be up soon

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PeetaKatnissEverLark