Chapter 9

Adam's Point Of View.

I woke up, The last thing I remember was the cannon. Was it for Drew? Katniss or Peeta? Maybe Foxface? Definitely not Cato...Right? I sat up and looked around. Nothing, Clove wasn't anywhere again. No way the cannon was for her, right? No she was with me. Why does she keep leaving? I stood up and felt a sharp pain in my leg but it soon settled. I looked at my leg and saw that the gash Cato left was gone but still sore, as were all my other cuts. I limped over to the mouth of the cave and saw that it was mid day. How long was I out? Well, All I know is that I have to go pee really badly. I walked out the cave and next to and open bush, I unzipped my pants and started going. I really could care less if the whole country of Panem sees my dick. I zipped my pants back up just as I heard foot steps coming closer. I took out my dagger and followed the sound. It was Clove.

"You're going to need to be quieter. If I was Foxface, I would've ran away." She said with a plain look on her face.

"Well I mean I was just going to the bathroom, and I hear some kind of movement. I wanted to protect myself from any threat."

She nodded "Why so far from the Cave?" She asked.

"Just in case you came back early, you know. Where did you wonder off to so early this morning?"

"Hunting. We need more than just bread and some soup."

"Oh, So who's left?" I asked.

"Cato, Katniss and Drew."

"That's it?...What happened to Peeta? Foxface?"

"Both from poisonous berries." Clove said handing me some bread.

I felt something crawling on my hand, I looked to see what it was... A fucking big ass centipede. Hell No!

"AHH!" I screamed trying to get the bug off of me.

"Calm down." Clove said grabbing my arm.

I feel a sharp pinch in my arm, the damn thing bit me. Clove pulled the bug off and looked at it, then stomped on it, then she ripped a good chunk of her shirt off, exposing her stomach.

"What's that for?" I asked as my arm started going numb.

"That bug was poisonous, it numbs the body then soon injuries the muscles. I have to stop the venom." She wrapped her shirt around my wrist and where I got bit. "That'll have to do till we find some medicine plants.

"Just fucking great. I'm going to be fighting with one arm now?"

"Possibly, but I doubt it. You can still fight with both."

"Hey, Moron!" A voice said from the mouth of the cave.

Me and Clove looked to see who it was...Drew?

He was all cut up and bruised, bleeding badly on his leg and shoulder. If I have to fight him it would be uneven and unfair.

"Wanna fight?" Drew challenged more than asked.

"It would be unfair. Don't you think?" I asked him standing up.

"I don't think remember, You always called me stupid and retarded, But hey! That's the past right? Who cares about fairness or smarts. I just wanna kill you once and for all. Another thing before I kill you, I always wanted to." He said waving me to him.

I walked to him, taking him up on his challenge. We walked towards a small stream that was not to far away from the Cornucopia.

"Drew think about this, What about Bianca, Mom, Dad?" I said "If I make it back I wouldn't be able to live with them, knowing I killed my brother."

"Oh I know. That's why I'm not letting you go back!" He said cutting my arm with a sword, creating a huge gash.

"Adam!" Clove screamed.

"No!, Clove stay out of this." I yelled, "Drew...Don't do this. I know you don't want to do it." I said pleading.

"Aww, Adam's trying to protect his girlfriend and plead to his big brother? It's a shame he won't listen." He cut me again. The sword looked familiar.

I'm weaponless, nothing to protect myself with. He might get what he wants.

He brought down a deadly strike with the sword, I grabbed his arm stopping his swing. I turned the sword sideways shoving him backwards. Now I had the sword, the power. I tossed it aside. I punched him in the gut then the face, he kicked my side making me gasp for air. I didn't know what to do, he was a fighter. I have no idea where his weak spot is besides his nuts. Wait...his legs. He never worked on his leg muscles! I kicked his left leg hard, making him kneel. I kicked his other leg so he was on his knees I kicked for the side of his head but he blocked it.

He managed to stand up, I ran behind him and kicked his back, the stomped on the crook of his knee. Once again he was on his knees. I kicked the back of his head, then went around and kicked his face. He spit blood standing up, a fist came towards my face, catching me by surprise. I ran at him pushing his up against a tree.

"Stop this Drew!" I whispered to him.

He punched me in my face, I flinched back a little but pressed harder on his neck.

"Stop, Please! I don't want to kill you." I continued to whisper.

"Then I'll kill you." I saw a shine of light but it was too late, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach. My grip on him loosened. I put my hand to where I felt pain. A knife? Where did he find a knife? I was in shock.

"How?" I pulled the knife out.

I stared at it, not caring about Drew at the moment. Not until his fist hit me again. I cried out in pain, holding my face. I looked up at him tears forming in my eyes, how could he? I pushed him down on the ground and sat on his stomach. Punching his face in, not stopping. Not for Clove, not for him, not for anyone. He wanted to kill me so badly? I would kill him painfully. I got off him quickly and stomped on his side, more blood came from his mouth. I didn't care, how could I? He deserves this, He let Tori and Katie die. His eyes were barely open.

"YOU FUCKING DICK! YOU LET THEM DIE!" I kicked his face twice, I was so angry, frustrated, sad.

I flipped him over and grabbed his head and smashed it into the ground, not once, not twice but multiple times. I knew he wasn't dead but he was close. I rolled him over toward the stream and had him face up.

"Adam..." His voice was weak. I had no sympathy left for him, not anymore.

I said nothing just looked at his bloody, dirty face, I knew I broke more than I wanted to. I bet a couple of his ribs and some of his spine.

"I'm sorry... I-I just wanted you dead so badly, I don't even know why. Maybe jealousy, maybe anger, maybe both." He coughed up some blood into the river.

Again nothing from me.

"I...always wanted mom to look at me how she looks at you, always wanted friends like you do, always...always. Everything had to be about you!" His voice raised as he was on the verge of tears.

"Everything I do is to try and get attention, It was like no one ever cared about Drew. When I was in that gang fight...No one bothered to look or call for me. Only you, Adam." He said my name like it was poison in his mouth. "It sometimes seemed like only they cared for you! Adam this, Adam that. Oh my god where's Adam? I'd sit there saying who cares? He'll show up sometime. I didn't care! Adam one night I wanted to kill you so badly, finally get my dad to notice me, his son. But not when your involved."

"Drew..."

"I bet your all feeling bad now aren't you!" He shouted into the sky.

More blood, tears sliding down his cheeks, into the bloody water.

"Adam you will forever be my step-sibling but you will never be my brother, sister, cousin, or any kind to me."

I looked down, my shirt even more bloody than ever. The worst part...It's mine. The stab wound stretched and opened wider, more blood. I was scared.

"I don't care." I walked up to him, I knew my eyes showed nothing by the way he looked. Shocked. I pushed his face under the water as he tried to come up, I let him as I went to pick up the knife he stabbed me with and made my way back over to him.

"Drew, Drew, Drew..." I stabbed his stomach making him gasp for air.

His last words coming up with blood.

"I never hated you. I've always loved you." I slit his throat. His eyes looked up to the sky as he drowned in his own blood. I waited till his eyes went dull and his chest didn't rise again. BOOM! His cannon sounded.

I kneeled down and touched his forehead, rubbing it and running my hands through his hair.

"You could have stopped this" Tears form "It didn't have to end this way!" as they slid down my cheeks "You could have lived!" as I punched the ground "Why?" I looked up at Clove who was staring "Why!" I looked back at Drew's bloody body "I did this! Of course I did." I cried harder "I always hurt the ones I love, I loved you Drew."

I stood up and started running, running to where, I have no clue, my feet where moving on their own, tears still streaming, I was screaming, in pain and from sadness. There where foot steps close behind me knowing it was Clove.

Mother and Father crying, knowing there only true son is dead. Bianca knowing her boyfriend is dead, Friends knowing their friend will not return, Me knowing I killed my only brother! Tori, Katie, and now Drew! All dead! Because of me! I didn't watch out for them, I couldn't help them, I couldn't protect them! Not even in this fucking game!

I stopped running "I have nothing left" I walked over to a water fall and sat down in the water. I took off my shirt and let it float down the falls. I was lost, no...I had lost. Adam was dead, all that was left was a ruthless, soulless monster in his place. I've been hurt so much I don't know what to do.

The cut was so much worse than before. Arms wrapped around my shoulders, knowing that it was Clove, I placed my hand over them, using the other to clean the wound.

"I don't know anymore." I say digging my finger into the wound "I don't want this anymore." I let the wound bleed, "I want to die...Kill me Clove."

Aw such a dramatic way to end a chapter huh? Well that sucks for them. I would love to go to the hunger games. Chapter 10 will be up soon!