My parents band me from the computer for two days so thats why I'm late getting this up... I also just noticed that I've been spelling grammar wrong EVERY time! Now I feel smart... I think I'll continue to do that just to prove my point that if it wern't for Microsoft Word, I would have 80 million spelling erros... Anywho, I changed things up again in this chapter. I did some of it from Odyssey's pov. Hope you like! Sorry for any spelling or grammer errors,:) I know I stink! PLEASE review! I LOVE to know what you think of my work! Now, chapter 16

Chapter 16

Glimmer

I woke up the next morning to silence. Not even any birds were chirping. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised; we were in an artificial arena after all. I got up from my sleeping bag and stretched. It had been a dreamless sleep for me last night, which was actually good. I didn't need to be woken up in the middle of the night because I was dreaming of my family dying.

I pushed open the flap to the tent and went over to the pile of supplies. I pulled out some dried beef that would make a fine breakfast.

"Glimmer, don't eat that," a voice called to me. I turned to see Cato and Clove coming toward me. They were carrying a huge deer over their shoulders. I had no idea how Clove could carry that.

"How did you…"

"I might have stolen your bow," Clove interrupted me. I rolled my eyes and held out my hand. She handed over the bow and sheath of arrows. She mouthed sorry and went right back into the woods with Cato. Those two scared me sometimes.

"Where did they go?" Marvel asked, appearing next to me.

"Probably to get fire wood," a new voice piped up. Then Lover Boy appeared on the other side of me.

"I guess you would know, being as you were on fire and all," Marvel taunted him. "Is the fire a part of you or something? Do you have an inability to stop being near it?"

"Marvel stop," I nudged him.

"Gosh Glimmer, can't you take a joke?"

I stood silent for a minute. Joking around was not something I was used to, it was all serious back home, with my dad. He was too much of a neat freak.

He rolled his eyes and headed over to the lake that was behind the cornucopia to refill his canteen. I saw Cato and Clove reemerge from the forest, their hands full of fire wood. I could see that they were laughing about something.

"What's so funny?" I called to them.

"Nothing," Clove called back. She said something in a different language and they both started laughing harder. I sighed, seemed like no one around there appreciated me.

They put the fire wood in a big pile and lit one of the matches we had. With some extra wood, they built something so they could cook the deer over the fire.

"Where did you learn all this?" I asked them.

"Back home, where else?" Clove replied, a bit sarcastically.

Marvel rolled his eyes at me, and turned to ask her the same question. "Where did you learn all this?"

"My older brother, Bret, is an expert in hunting and cooking. He taught me how to properly cook a deer and other smaller animals," Clove told me. My suspicions were confirmed, she still didn't much like me. Maybe it was because I hadn't killed anyone yet. She still thought I was a weak link. It was time to change that.

"Hey guys, what smells so good?" Odyssey asked, coming out of her tent.

"Fresh deer," Cato replied.

"Ew, gross," she said.

"Actually, when done right, it's really good," Clove told her.

She shrugged and sat down next to Clove. Her district partner, Reese, came out as well. He sat down with out a word; I don't think I ever heard him talk.

When the deer was done, they cut it up and passed it around. Clove was right, it was really good.

"So what's the agenda for today?" Marvel asked.

"More searching," Cato replied.

"Who gets the next kill?" Odyssey asked.

"We all know that I get Fire Girl and Cato gets Lover Boy. You guys can choose who gets who," Clove explained. "Oh, but I wouldn't suggest giving anyone to Glimmer, she'll never be able to kill anyone."

Did she really think I was that weak? Of course she did…

"No, I can kill someone."

"Then why didn't you kill that girl at the bloodbath?"

The stopped me. The girl had tackled me from behind and knocked my bow out of my hand. I grabbed Clove's arm and pulled her aside.

"What can I do to gain your respect?" I asked.

"Kill someone," she replied, as if it was the simplest thing in the world. I guess for her, it was.

"Who?"

"I don't care, the boy from 10? The girl from 11? Just stay away from Fire Girl and the boy from 11, they're mine. If you can find them and kill them, you will earn my respect."

I thought about that for a moment, it wouldn't be hard. Yet, I couldn't kill a little girl. I wasn't that desperate. Then it struck me, what good was the boy from 4, Reese? He did nothing but sit there…

"What about Reese?" I asked.

"He's one of our allies!"

"He does nothing."

"If you want to fine, but don't come crying to me when Odyssey turns on you and most likely kills you."

I nodded, "I won't."

Odyssey

I watched as Glimmer and Clove came back from talking. Clove never kept her discontent for Glimmer a secret, whereas I kept my feelings for Reese a secret.

It's not like I was in love with him or anything, well I was, but not in that way. He was my brother, but we were closer than normal siblings. We wouldn't let anyone in the capital know about that because any of the other tributes could have used that against us. So, we'd decided that he would never talk. I knew it was hard for him, because back home he could never keep his mouth shut.

Glimmer picked up her bow and notched an arrow. She pulled the bow string back and aimed, at Reese.

I grasped the hilt of my trident and jumped up into a defensive position in front of him. What had gotten into Glimmer? I would have expected something like that from Cato or Clove, not Glimmer. She wasn't normally like that. She was, as Clove constantly said, more on the weak side. Don't tell her I said that…

"What are you doing?" I asked desperately.

"Proving my place here, now step aside Odyssey. I don't want to kill you," she replied, no remorse in her voice. She was going to kill Reese, and not regret it.

"No!" I yelled back. I would never let her kill my brother. I saw Clove give me a suspicious look, maybe this wasn't the smartest way to go about protecting him.

"Odyssey, move," she said again, her voice shaking. So maybe she was nervous about her first kill.

"Glimmer don't," Clove called. I took a step back; I didn't know there were any feelings in Clove's cruel heart. Well, other than the person she mentioned in her interview, which could have either been Marvel or Cato, I hadn't decided yet. If she did care so much about someone, she did a very good job of hiding it.

"Clove, I'm doing this for you," Glimmer retorted. I thought Glimmer was soft, I guess the games bring out the bad parts in everyone, me included. I had never used a trident to kill anyone before, only fish.

Clove rolled her eyes and jumped on Glimmer, knocking her bow out of her hand. She had Glimmer pinned down with in five seconds. If I'd learned one thing from my experience during the games, it was to never judge someone by their size. When I first saw Clove, I thought she would be weak. Boy was I wrong; she turned out to be better than me. I'm tall for seventeen, at about five foot nine. Reese was eighteen and only and inch taller than me.

"I said, don't shoot," Clove hissed. "Go find someone else to kill, or be killed. Am I clear?"

"But I…" Glimmer started. Clove gave her a deathly stare, "Fine, I'll go find someone else."

Clove jumped off her and stalked over to her jacket. The whole time this was going on, Marvel and Cato had been watching from the sidelines, amused. If they thought it was funny that my brother was almost killed, then eat my trident. Well, that was easier said then done. If I even got any where near either of them with my trident, I was as good as dead.

Glimmer got up, grabbed her bow, and ran into the forest.

"So," Cato said, coming toward me. "Why so protective?" Clove appeared at his side and glared me down. She defiantly didn't want there to be another pair of lovers in the arena, good thing there wasn't. She might have saved me this once, but I knew I couldn't count on it again. Clove didn't seem like one to help someone, even once.

"What do you mean?" I asked them. I was going to try to find some way around answering their question.

"I mean, why did you almost get yourself killed to protect him?" Cato answered.

I looked to Reese and he nodded sadly, time to spill. "He's my brother, ok? Don't get your knickers in a twist."

Clove burst out laughing, but not her normal maniacal laugh. A normal laugh, like something was actually funny. I gave her a what? look and she started to laugh even harder.

"Dude," she gasped out. "No one wears knickers anymore! Maybe in a time before Panem, but not anymore."

"What?" I asked. I didn't know knickers were clothes, I always just knew that was an expression people used to use to say calm down.

"Don't they teach history in 4?" Cato asked, looking just as surprised as Clove.

"Yeah, but nothing about before Panem," I replied.

Clove whispered something to him and he gave her a panicked look. He turned back to me, "It's uh, nothing. Forget I ever said anything."

I nodded. "So why didn't you tell us he's your brother?" Marvel asked.

"We didn't want to come across as weak because we're related," I explained.

Clove laughed, "If that were true, that you were weak because you loved someone in the arena, then I'd be the weakest one here. We all know that's not true."

Cato smirked and turned to head into the woods. Clove and Marvel followed him. I turned back to Reese. "You didn't have to do that," he said.

"Yes I did! I couldn't just let her kill you."

"Really Odyssey, you didn't have…"

"Yes I did!" I interrupted him. "Do you think I would have been able to let her live, knowing she killed you? No, it would have been two lives lost. Not worth it, to me."

After I said it did I realize what I had said. I had said I didn't want people to die. I was mentally slapping myself for being so insane. I was hoping the cameras were on the others search, not us. Finnick was probably screaming his head off at me. Just my luck.

We guarded the supplies with 3 and Lover Boy for the rest of the day. Eventually, the others came back empty handed.

The anthem started blaring, but no pictures were show that night. I knew the gamemakers would be getting bored. They would have to intervene, soon.

We headed back to our tents for the night. I laid on my sleeping bag and thought about how our parents must be so upset. They were so heartbroken when Reese volunteered at the reaping because of me. We told them we would be strong, and one of us would make it back. I also told them they were the best parents I could ever ask for and to never forget that I loved them. I fell asleep with thoughts of home almost haunting my dreams.

Did you like? PLEASE tell me! I REALLY would like to know! Next chapter will be Clove's pov, like normal! I don't know when I'll have time, probubly not tommorrow... :( Don't ask why... :(

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KATE