Chapter 14- Switch

Chico

"Chico! You should be resting." Alpin jogged over to me as I gulped, looking over at the body of Seamus Finnigan.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay." I grinned, trying to hide my true thoughts. 'Maybe Alpin really was against me, and Seamus and Hermione were the better people… But they attacked him. But Alpin said himself that I was gullible and simple minded…'

This battle of my thoughts continued inside my head. "You want me to take the bags back?" I asked him. He nodded and smiled in response. "You go ahead, I'll catch up." I told him, as I watched his retreating back.

'What do I do?' I thought, trying to decide what the wrong and right choice really was. Then I thought back to that day when I gave Hermione Granger pointers on knife throwing.

"So what did you really come here for?" She asked before throwing another knife that hit exactly next to the one I threw as an example.

I smiled before answering. "Nothing, I just thought I'd give you a pointer."

"No one does that in the arena. This is a battle for our lives, you don't help people that you may have to kill without wanting something." She glared at me as I shrugged.

"This isn't the arena."

I trusted her enough to give her pointers before. Why did I? Everyone deserves to try and get the best chance they can to win and survive.

Then instead of following Alpin back to our shelter, I picked up all the bags, turned, and walked in the opposite direction.

Alpin

It was too easy. I had been concerned that Chico had heard the whole conversation with the Finnigan boy before his death. Apparently I was wrong, after all, I did say how gullible and simple minded he was.

I debated on if I should just kill him now, or go after the Hermione girl first. She seemed weak enough; I could go either way and still win. 'Chico is the bigger threat.' I decided. 'I have to get rid of him before his moronic mind finally puts the pieces together.'

I chuckled as I saw the blood beginning to dry on my scythe and wiped it off with a spare rag. It was beginning to get dull so I decided to chip a rock and sharpen the blade for a clean, fresh, kill.

A grin spread across my face at the thought and I looked back towards where I had come. "Chico should be back now." I muttered to myself, hissing in annoyance.

After fifteen more minutes I stood "Time to win this thing." I picked up my scythe and walked back in the direction of the town square.

Ron

"NOOO!" The roar was in my ears so loud that I clamped my hands over them.

We all had to leap over and hold Dean back from smashing the screen to smithereens as Alpin grinned down at the body of Seamus.

"I'm sorry Dean! He's gone, there's nothing you can do!" Lavender tried to calm him over his cries and struggles of mourning.

"No! There is! If that Alpin bloke wins, I swear on his bloody victory tour I will kill him myself!" Dean screamed, finally giving up his struggle and breathing hard.

"You never know. Hermione or Chico may win." Ginny pointed out as we looked back at the screen.

I narrowed my eyes as we watched Chico pick up all the backpacks in the clearing and begin to walk in the opposite direction of where Alpin had gone.

"Where is he going?" Harry murmured beside me.

"Wait… That's where Hermione is!" I almost screamed and leapt at the screen like Dean.

Hermione

"Get off me!" I felt someone trying to put something in my mouth, but it was as if I was blind. My eyes were open but I couldn't see the person, just a blurry figure.

"This is going to help you!" The figure hissed above me as I tried to shove them off.

I continued to struggle until I couldn't any longer and felt a liquid pouring into my mouth and down my throat. I felt my entire body go limp until everything just went black

Later I woke up on a couch and saw Chico standing over me. I jumped off the couch and drew my knife. He just raised his hand, dropping his spear to the ground and going to sit down.

"What are you doing here?" I growled, my knife still at the ready.

He didn't answer and that's when I realized Seamus wasn't here. "Seamus! What did you do to him?" I hissed at him.

His response was just a shake of the head. "Alpin killed him."

Before I knew it my knife was pressed up against his throat. "You two killed Seamus? I'm going to kill you!" I added more pressure to his throat.

"No. Just Alpin." He spoke and then made a little gurgling sound as he choked from the pressure of my blade. "I didn't even know… But I heard him tell Seamus that he didn't need me anymore, and that I was gullible…"

I narrowed my eyes at him. "We tried to convince Ernie before that he would kill you two, but he didn't listen." I slid my blade away before sitting down across from him. "So you finally open your eyes." I murmured.

"We need to take him down, before he kills us." He said, looking grim.

"It's not that simple." I told him. "He's a monster, and he's going to just murder us."

"Not if we work together."

I was silent and felt my brows knit together in a frown. "How do I know I can really trust you?"

"You can't." He shrugged. "Take your best honest guess."

I was going to answer in agreement before we heard a bang on the door. "Darling Hermione!" It called. "Come out and play!"

"Alpin!" I hissed. "Hide!" Chico dove behind the couch as I opened the door to see Alpin with his scythe in hand, a deadly smile playing on his face.

"And then there were two." He snarled.

Author's Note- I'm back from my trip! And ugh, I got hives from something! But they're almost gone thank goodness.

Anyways, this chapter had many POV changes and was a little difficult for me to write. The next chapter will most likely be the last and I just was trying to get them all in a spot where I could tie up the loose ends.

Well thanks for listening to my rambling, so thanks for my reviewers wizard muggle, Victoria3612, obsessivegirl73, Arcticmist, Alyks, HarryPotterFanGirl, and bluemickey22.

You guys are great!

(And to HarryPotterFanGirl, I hope you didn't mind that I used your "and then there were three." Quote.