Games 14

"Attention, attention!" the speakers somehow managed to be right in my ears again, because the voice from some Gamemaker made my heart stop beating for a minute or two, "all remaining tributes! In the Cornucopia, you will find a supply of all you need to ensure you and another's surrival! Be there by sunset, or we have a little...surprise in store. That is all."

"And may all odds be ever in our favor," I mumbled under my breath, causing Rue to giggle.

Water. That's what we needed. Rue and I had us covered on plants for food, and Peeta could always camoflague us, but there was certainly no more water source. We'd all decided that that flood drained all of it out.

"They're luring us into a fight," Peeta spoke what was on all of our minds, and I reached into my pocket, bringing out my new pocket knife.

"And we'll be ready," I told them, and they grinned, despite the fact we were headed straight into our deaths.

"Ya know...this is probably going to be our last time with us three together," Peeta mumbled as we all crouched into the underbrush. Cato was already at the statue, pacing around and swinging a mace casually in his wait.

"I don't want either of you to die," Rue got teary, and he kissed her lips soft and sweet.

"It was an absolute pleasure to know you two," he spoke softly, and I gave his hand a squeeze.

"Win for me," I mumbled before charging in headfirst.

I only had to face Cato for a minute. In the time I was lunging for his heart, I got a glimpse of all burns.

Bug zapper burns.

"You little..." and he never got done. Peeta slammed into him at full force, yelling for me to run and get the supplies.

Running. Yes, I could do that.

Rue and I. It was just we two, just like at the start of these awful games. She got there first, snatching the little green bag with a number 12 on the front of it. We turned as one, just in time for a cannon to fire.

Cato's cannon.

"We just wrestling around...he tried to stab me in the heart...and I crushed him," Peeta was telling us how he'd managed to kill him as the helicoper disppeared in the sky.

"That's amazing," while Rue and Peeta made out, I slumped against the Cornicupia.

Just we three allies. And as I looked up at the big gold statue, I realized a horrifying thought: It was going to have to be me that died.

They loved each other. Rue and I's alliance was pretty much lifeless, since Peeta was the one who truly kept her safe when I was wandering around like an idiot. I was different now...a killer. I actually cheered with Cato was murdered by my ally.

I was just another piece in their Games now.

I started to climb to the top of Cornucopia.

I'm sorry Foxface. I'm sorry Rue. I'm sorry Peeta. I'm sorry District 12. I'm sorry mom, I was whispering all my aplogies into the hidden camreas every time I made another heave up.

"I'm sorry Katniss," I was crying heavily now, "I'm so sorry!"

I promised her I'd live. That I'd try my very, very, VERY best. And I failed.

I looked down. The ground was so far away...my head was spinning. I couldn't jump...they might try and save me or something. Besides, I wouldn't let go of the statue top, even if I wanted to with all my heart. My nerves were just too high-shrug at this point.

And then I noticed a tracker jacker nest parrel from us.