I am so sorry for the delay in this chapter, but life happened...

please do enjoy this chapter!

happy reading

x R.

A Dangerous Turn

Regina perked up even more when she heard the beeping sound that alerted her to another parachute. The sponsors apparently were really rooting for the two of them to end up together, or at least end up together for the short while they would be able to be together.

Maybe they shouldn't be together though, it would only make way for a weakness, because now Regina had showed how great her care was for the blonde in front of her. If something like that came out and other people would find out… or well other tributes, they would pref on the blonde. They would come for her, to lure out Regina and kill her before killing Emma, or maybe even kill the blonde in front of her eyes.

That would be something Regina would not be able to forgive herself, if anything happened to the blonde beauty in front of her it would be on her. She would be guilty for it, because she made a silent vow to keep her safe. To let her win these wretched games and make her get out of all of those alive and well, preferably without even a scratch on that perfectly fair skin.

She had to make sure nobody would know of the together, that nobody inside these games knew of her weakness, The Capitol would not prey on her weakness again and get her weakness killed, because after all love was a weakness, that had been showed to her many, many times before. She would not let anyone be the victim of that again, not like her precious Danielle had been. She just would not let that happen again, she would prevent it with everything that she could do to do so.

"Regina? Hello? Are you still with me here?" Emma asked softly and waved her hand in front of the brunette's eyes that had been staring off into the distance for a few solid minutes now.

"Hmm?" Regina said and shook herself out of her revery and faced Emma's sea green eyes with her own brown ones, the emotions of her decision still swirling within them, and if Emma saw that , she didn't say anything about it.

"I asked you several times if we should get the silver parachute before it would give our hide out away to other tributes that are in a close range." Emma said and Regin furrowed her brow, as she got up without answering Emma and walked to the parachute with the shining metal ball attached to it, she looked around if there were any threats out there, and then she walked back to their little camp and sat down on a log.

"What do you think they sent us?" Emma asked curiously, and if Regina was right, she even detected a small amount of hope in the blonde's voice. It was actually rather soothing to hear hope in someone's voice again, since it had been an incredibly long time ago since she had the pleasure of hearing it. Not that Regina thought it stupid to even be a little hopeful out here, since this was not a place for hope.

This was a place for despair, for anger, for evil, for murder. Not hope.

Still, Regina appreciated it, she supposed. It was something fresh, something she would never feel again. Hope. Not anymore she wouldn't, the Capitol and its accomplices had done that for her. They had done a very good job with making sure of such a thing really.

Without further ado, Regina opened the metal container and another little note was there.

Some Food for the failed hunt you had, Don't eat it all at once.

If you want more, All you have to do is kiss.

M

Then Regina smiled as she saw cans of food. Cans of food that would be able to sustain them for the upcoming days. God they were lucky the people liked them, but then again, The Capitol liked a good love story that would probably be impossible in the end, since only one can get out. Only one can survive while the other will die, probably a painful death as well.

This all felt like some cruel version of a bad Romeo and Juliet rewrite, and they had the lead parts in it. They were the couple that was doomed to fail, doomed to be destined for a tragic end to their love story. Regina felt anger flare up inside of her for it.

It felt like hey were just there for pure amusement, well they were here for that, but to fall in love with someone because of those cruel thoughts and games, was just… not fair. Well nothing was really fair here if you thought about it. Only the ones that were liked or fierce enough to be of interest were helped by sponsors, and the others would just have to fend for themselves. District one and Two tributes had been trained for this most of their lives, thus they had an extra advantage, while others had no training at all except for the four days before the actual games began. It was all just so incredibly unfair. So many people would be in an enormous disadvantage so that the people that were the richest could win.

So many children would lose and have already lost their lives to this terrible power play of The Capitol, and its need to show how powerful it actually is, even with its weak system.

Regina shook herself out of the train of thoughts that was making her vision going red. Red with anger and red with another pulsing feeling. What the pulsing feeling was, wasn't something she wanted to give into now. Not when she would probably die in the next couple of days somewhere.

When Regina had recollected her mind she heard twigs snap far too close to her camp for comfort. She shot up from her previous position, setting the newly found food aside, slinging her bow over her back and the quiver filled with arrows, following soon behind. Emma all the while looking at her confused, the blonde probably didn't even heard a sound. Probably because her ear were far more trained for the little sounds like that. It had helped her out of many bad situations previously in her life, and she was grateful for her good hearing again right about now.

Emma was about to open her eyes when Regina shot her a warning glare that would have sent most people running off with tears on their cheeks, but Emma just nodded and kept still as Regina tiptoed out of their camp and snuck a little bit away from it, to ambush the tributes that dared to come that close to them.

A malicious smirk made its way across Regina her face when she saw the damned tributes that were about to try and ambush them. The lovely careers were about to make an attempt to kill her and Emma. How brave of them.

The first arrow flew through the air soundlessly and arrived at its destination as a gruesome scream rang through the air, followed by gurgles that originated from someone fighting for air. Then collective screams of 'Killian!' and 'No!' and 'You'll pay for this!'. Regina her arrow had just killed number one career, Killian. The person that was almost on top of her hate list was now dead. His last gurgling breath leaving his body as a cannon signalled his demise was official.

"Until we meet in hell, my old friend." Regina muttered to a dad Killian, and moved so she was hidden behind a tree when Snow and Charming turned around with fury burning in their eyes. Not that Regina could really see that fury, but she very much knew it was there, she had witnessed that anger many a times already and knew how ridiculous they looked like that.

Precious Snow's skin turning from white to tomato red, and Charming's blue eyes almost popping out that think idiotic skull of his. Oh yes Regina knew how idiotic they looked right about now, and she enjoyed it probably more than she should be doing.

"We know you're there you little whore!" Snow screamed with all the might her lungs could suffer. Her voice sounded broken, in shards. It wasn't as if she had killed her precious boyfriend, Regina didn't really get why Snow would be so sad about the demise of Killian, but the broken voice of her enemy made her enjoy the kill she made even more than she was already doing.

"You filthy dyke! Show yourself or are you a coward?!" Charming yelled in a voice that very ugh showed how much he loathed her and what she was. Regina didn't care what he thought of course, but the word dyke wasn't something she liked to be called right way... Maybe she wasn't in her right mind right there, or the opposite and she knew exactly why she was doing, but she stepped away from her hiding spot.

"Oh I'm sorry, did I just kill your little friend? My aim must be off, I was aiming for that ugly thing called your face." Regina said amused and laughed coldly as Snow turned an even brighter shade of red, if that was possible. And Charming his eyes really seemed to be one second away from popping out of his puny little head.

"You damned bitch! You are so going to pay for what you did." Snow growled and made a move to come closer to Regina but then seemed to doubt it when Charming shot her a look Regina couldn't decipher.

Just when she was distracted by that oddity they both suddenly charged and Regina came Into motion as well, grabbing a new arrow from the quiver and aiming an arrow at one of the two when a scream pierced the night sky. Regina took a moment to realize it as her throat that had just produced such a horrifying sound as her stomach felt like it was ripped in two.

She didn't give into the pain though, and shot arrows at the couple. A warm sticky liquid pouring out of her, as the edge of a blade sliced her face, nothing deep, but there was still a nasty cut left behind.

The dark red liquid now blowing the little view the pale moonlight was providing she just shot where there were sounds, trying to dodge whatever swings that were made at her. Her hearing was now the only thing she could trust as the coughing began, blood spilling out of her mouth.

All of a sudden the attacks stopped and footsteps were heard running away from her, snapping twigs and levels crunching wherever they went until they were out of hearing range.

Queasy. Unsteady. Pain. That were the things Regina was feeling when she tried to make her way back to the camp as fast as her injured body could take her. The blood now obstructing her vision even more as she tried to locate where exactly it was that she was going.

"Regina!" She heard being screamed in fear and she felt two soft hands on her sore biceps, two hands and a soft soothing voice led her back to her camp as she collapsed there. Coughing up more blood as she went down. Her ass hitting the hard, unforgiving ground as excruciating pain shot through her whole body. A cry of pain was begging to be released, but she kept herself silent. Making sounds wouldn't do her or Emma any good anyways.

"Regina what the hell happened out there? How well do you know them, because they seem very familiar with you somehow." Emma said rather angrily, her worry for the beautiful brunette clouding her judgement.

"I hate them, they hate me, very simple." Regina rasped and another cough rattled her whole body, which shook Emma out of her anger and into panic as she saw how much blood Regina was losing.

"We have to stop your bleeding. What can I do?" Emma asked with panic in her voice. this was not what she had thought would happen when a simple sound of a snapping branch was to be heard, something she hadn't even registered in the first place, was now almost going to be the death of the person that was quickly getting a steady grip on her heart. Regina couldn't die, not yet. Not now.