A/N- Oh my god! I haven't updated for ages! Sorry it's so late guys, and that it's a bit of a filler chapter. More action soon I promise!

I grab my knife and run. The blood pounds in my ears as I flee, thinking only of my own survival.I feel a sharp stab of pain in my neck, brush it away and continue evacuating the scene.

Cato grasps my hand and begins to pull me along. I don't object. I clasp his hand tightly and let him lead me through the forest. My heart feels like it's going to burst from my chest. There is another agonizing sting, this time in my forearm and I drop Cato's hand, but I don't even consider stopping.

All of a sudden, without warning everything around me begins to blur. My head feels fuzzy and I try to stumble after the others, but find myself on the forest floor instead. At least I think it's the forest floor. I appear to be lying in a black sea of stars.i reach out to touch them. They're dry and crispy. Or are they leaves? I try to shake my head to clear my thoughts but it gives me a blinding flash of pain in my head, so I stop.

I hear a tinkle of laughter slightly ahead of me and I cautiously lift my head. I thought the others were long gone? I see Cato through a pale pink shimmering haze. Who is that with him? Then it hits me. Katniss.

I try to call out to Cato, but all that comes out is a strangled yelp. Vaguely the words 'tracker jacker' and 'hallucination' seep into my thoughts but I can't focus on them and they slip away again.

Katniss is kissing Cato. What's going on? He has his hands in her hair and she's smiling. Laughing. I can't get up. Can't get to them. To Cato. I try to concentrate, but my ears are ringing and my eyes keep juddering.

But I see Katniss take out a knife. My knife. And as Cato continues kissing her, she drives it into his chest.

I scream as I see him fall to the ground, eyes wide in shock, velvetey red blood blossoming like a rose where the knife point pirced his skin. I can hear footsteps coming towards me, but I'm losing my grip on conciousness.

'The venom targets fear.'

I struggle against the poisin, but I can only form one thought as I black out.

I'm going to kill Katniss Everdeen.

...

I blink slowly and open my eyes to the feeling of cold water on my face and a frantic voice beside me. "Clove? Can you hear me?" Cato! He's not dead? I rub the last tendrils of sleep from my eyes and sit up.

I'm beside the lake, back at camp. Safe. Relatively safe anyway. "Who's gone?" I blurt out.

"Glimmer. And the girl from 4." Cato tells me.

"Oh." I can't pretend I'll miss the District 4 girl. I can't even remember her name. As for Glimmer, I fight the desire to laugh out loud.

I look around me. There is a sort of makeshift tent above my head. The supplies are still in a pyramid to my left and Marvel is on watch. He looks sort of angry. That makes three of us. Katniss doesn't know what's coming. Looking around again I notice something else.

"Where's Peeta?" I ask.

Cato grimaces. "He went back for her."

"Katniss?" I say, bewildered.

"Yeah. I cut him. He'll be dead in days."

I laugh. "We don't need him. One less to deal with I guess..." I trail off. Cato knows as well as I that we will have to split up eventually. That or become the final two. Suddenly I hear Marvel shouting. I turn in his direction. He has his spear out and is pointing it at a terrified boy in front of him. He won't throw it yet. Better to torture him first.

"Wait!" shouts the boy. He's from District 3 I think. "I can help you! I know how to re-engage the mines around your supplies! It would blow anyone who touches them sky high!"

Marvel lowers his spear. "Cato? What do you say?" He asks.

"Let him try." Cato replies. "We can always dispose of him later." The district 3 boy visibley relaxes and walks over to our supplies, drops to the floor and gets to work.

"Guys!" I call. "I can smell burning." We look towards the forest and spring into action. Marvel throws the boy a spare spear, Cato barks, "Guard!" at him and we race off in the direction of the wisps of smoke rising above the trees.