Hey Guys,
So here is chapter 3, The Actor I see as Barker is Logan Lerman, the guy who plays percy Jackson, but I don't know, picture who you want. Please excuse any spelling mistakes I am tired.
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PeetaKatnissEverLark
chapter 3
Rowan peeks around the tree and sees a girl facing away from them carving into a rock while humming. (A/N when I rote this I pictured her as Ashley Tisdale at 17) Rowan thinks she is from 4 about 17, but she doesn't remember her name, the girl has a spear next to her but quite far and if Rowan or Barker were to come up behind her she wouldn't be able to grab it in time. so Rowan turns to Barker nodding at him telling him she will do it and he gives her an uneasy nod, unsure if he can watch someone so innocent kill someone. Rowan comes from around the tree shaking, her heart beating in her chest, am I really going to do this? she thought. she tiptoed closer and was standing right behind the girl raising her tomahawk aiming for the girl back, She swings and hits the girl, the girl gasps, she can hear the thump her tomahawk made hitting the girl and burying itself deep into her back, as the cannon goes off and the girl's lifeless body slips onto the ground. She walks over gulping, she pulls the tomahawk out of her body, the tomahawk blade covered in fresh blood.
"Are you ok?" Barker asks her.
"I'm fine. We need to keep going." She says grabbing the girls pack that was on the ground next to the big rock she was sitting on. As Barker grabs the spear. They walk in silence. Then it hits her, she replays in her head what Barker said this morning, "I've killed someone. Someone had a life, someone had a child, someone loved them and I took them, I killed him. I saw the life leave his eyes, and everytime I close my eyes I see his horrified face when I picked up that knife." Barker talking brings her back into reality.
"Rowan, Are you ok." He says.
"I didn't even know who she was." She says.
"Her name was Coral. District 4." He says. She looks to him.
"I do my research." He says.
"What about that guy." She say, he knows she's talking about, the guy he killed.
"Harvey, District 9." He says. They walk in silence.
It starts getting dark so they sit in a tree and eat the same amount as last time using up nearly all of their food, When the names and faces come on the screen, she see's the girl she killed for the first time Rowan feels like she's gonna throw up, she was blonde and quite pretty. 2 people died today, 13 left. And they fall asleep high up in the tops of the tree.
They wake early again, on the 3rd day, to the sound of a scream and a cannon. They are low on food.
"Maybe we could find berries?" he suggests as they climb down. She nods. They find a lingonberry bush and grab as many as they can get putting them in the ziplock bag that had the dried meat and fruit.
"There are only 12 left." Rowan say,
"Mhhhmm" Barker says, nodding while eating berries.
"What do we do?" she asks. He thinks for a moment.
"Stay away from the cornucopia, avoid the Careers. We'll last longer." He says.
"Ok." Rowan says they get up and start walking back toward the lake but they go diagonally, it may take longer but if they are in front of them they shouldn't cross paths with them, it takes a couple of hours but they make it. They fill up the bottle and redress their bandages, the cut on Rowan's leg is basically gone just a very nasty looking scar, same with Barker's cut above his eyebrow. They both decide they smell horrible and remove there over clothes but keep their underwear on to rinse off all the dirt and blood on their bodies from these past few days, along with their clothes. Rowan washes her hair and then puts it up again. Then decide to continue going in the direction they came from originally as the Careers should have passed them by now. They eat more berries and continue walking forward. When It gets dark they find a tree and sit up there and eat some more berries. as the sky darkens and they see the face of the girl that screamed this morning.
"both from 1 and 2, boy from 4, us, girl from 5, girl from 9, both from 12. So 11 including us." She says.
"so apart from the girl from 4 all careers are alive?" He asks.
"Yep." She says.
"We should get some rest." He says.
The next morning they travel north away from the cornucopia.
"I can't believe we have only seen 1 person since the cornucopia." She says.
"Hey, you'll jinx our luck and make us die." He says with a chuckle. Rowan giggles. Over these past 4 days Rowan has really grown close to Barker, turns out he wasn't the guy she thought he was, he was nicer, more caring. To her it seemed as if he didn't want to kill her. It was true of course he knew he would never be able to do it. Suddenly they heard laughing, Career's laughing.
"Careers." He said under his breath.
"What do we do?" She said.
"Hide." They ducked behind a fallen log hoping the careers would keep walking.
"Ashlar! We would do better going south I told you, I saw heaps go that way." Says a Girl with a bit of giggle left in her voice.
"Oh shut up Lana, everyone goes north, everyone." A guy Rowan assumes is Ashlar says, his voice is deep. He sounds deadly. And Rowan guess' the girl that talked before is Lana. Their names sound district 2 like.
"Let's just keep going this way, ok we are wasting valuable time." Says a girl with a higher pitched voice.
"I agree with Paris." Another deep voiced guy says.
"You always do Price." Paris says with a giggle. There names definitely sound like district 1 tributes.
"Nemo?" Ashlar says.
"Yes?" Nemo says.
"We are gonna find that person who killed Coral. You hear me?" He says. Rowan gulps, I'm dead.
"Yes Ashlar." He says his voice sadder.
"And then tie them to a tree and carve them up. Alive." He says. Rowan feels lightheaded.
"Now let's go kill some tributes." Lana shouts. They all run off north. Barker looks over the log.
"Their gone" he says, she doesn't answer. Tears sting her eyes. No she is not going to cry, not now. She cried entering the arena but not now.
"Rowan?" He shakes her shoulder.
"I really don't want to die that way." She says looking at him tears threatening to spill over. He rubs her shoulder.
"Hey, you won't ok." He says soothingly. She just nods.
"We should get going." She says wiping the few stray tears that fell.
