... Sorry for the 'threat' at the end of the previous chapter. I was seriously annoyed by the lack of response though.

Rose POV

There were three of them. Good.

The three of them took in the scene. All their supplies, gone. Cato snarled and turned to the boy from three.

He grabbed the kid and there was a loud crack, followed by a cannon. The kid was dead in a instant. It was that easy to Cato; a quick tensing of his muscles, and bam. One dead.

"What value does a human life hold in your eyes?" I asked, slightly furious. He laughed.

"Before my own? An ant, dust. Of course, there are exceptions. But yes, other districts, it's all meaningless. The lower number districts will forever be superior." He said. I frowned. There was a little truth in it.

"Hey, I have a little...issue to settle with you." Clove said, looking at me.

"You mean your sister? I'm sorry about that." I meant it for real, but she seemed to take it wrong.

"Stop laughing!" She screamed as she charged at me. Cato headed to Katniss.

if I was facing anyone else, I would have probably sighed at her approach. Full of openings.

but not her. She was like that because of fury and grief. Even if I tried to attack, her basic instincts sharpened by her feelings would have been more that enough to defend.

I dodged the oncoming knife and took out my own, one for each hand. She did similar.

She threw the one in her right hand, switched the other knife to her right hand at the same time. I dropped to the ground to avoid it, and rolled as she stomped down.

getting back up, I ran behind a tree to avoid the next attack.

now, we were in the thicket. I was used to it, she was not.

The forest was my home, she was an intruder. I threw one of my knives at her, which she easily dodged. However, I had planned that. I three my next knife to the direction she dodged and it scraped her arm.

The poison on it would take a few minutes to activate, and then she would have three days at the max to live.

All I had to do know was to get her moving, so the poison could spread.

I darted around, hiding behind trees, bushes, occasionally throwing a few knives. She was getting more and more frustrated. Good.

As I watched, I saw sign of the poison. Trembling, sweating.

She suddenly fell to her knees.

"What did you do?" She gasped. I walked out.

"Poison." I moved in to make the kill when she suddenly threw her own knife. It hit my shoulder. I cried out.

Glaring, I decided to let her be. she would die soon either way. I gathered the knives that were farthest away from her and left. A few seconds later I heard Katniss scream. I ran toward the voice and saw that Cato pinned her against a tree. I quickly threw a knife at Cato's back. However, he seemed to sense danger and tur ed away. The knife missed, but Katniss was freed. We ran away and I screamed,

"Better go look for Clove before she dies!"

He glared at me, but thankfully ran away to find his partner

We were still alive.

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