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Chapter 7

Morning arrives, and Katniss is the first to awake... like normal. She immediately looks at Alex's arm to see that it's indeed healed. Katniss sighs in relief knowing that Alex is ok.

Just then she hears a sound like someone is trying to get your attention. Katniss looks to where the sound came from and sees Rue.

Rue points at something above her, and when Katniss looks up, she sees a wasp nest.

She looks back at Rue. Rue makes a signal, telling her to cut it down with her knife.

Katniss nods and wakes Alex up.

"Stay here until I tell you. Ok?" Katniss whispers.

"Ok." Alex nods and quickly puts the rope in the bag as Katniss climbs with the knife in hand.

Alex hears the knife come into contact with the tree branch. She watches Katniss nervously as Katniss cuts the branch down with the wasp nest.

Alex closes her eyes and remembers from the training center that it is really called a tracker jacker nest. When a tracker jacker stings you, the easiest symptom you get is hallucinations. The worst... death.

Alex's eyes snap open and look up at Katniss in time to see her get stung. Katniss cuts the branch once more and it crashes to the ground. The nest bursts open and begins to attack the group below them.

As the group begins to fled, Katniss climbs down then Alex climbs down. As Alex gets her feet on the ground, she watches scared as Katniss walks over to the District 4 girl and grabs the bow and arrows.

"KATNISS! ALEX!" Alex's head snaps to the right and sees Peeta and Justin run over to them.

"GO! RUN!" Justin shouts at Alex. Alex feels Katniss grabs her hand and they begin to run.

~K&A~

It has been 3 days since the tracker jacker nest thing. Alex and Rue has been taking care of the knocked out Katniss and Alex has been the one hunting and killed the guy from District 10 because he almost killed Rue.

There are only 12 people left.

Alex, Katniss, Rue, Peeta, Justin, a District 5 girl by the name of Foxface, Marvel, Thresh who is Rue's partner from District 11, Clove, Cato, Glimmer and a District 3 guy.

Rue is currently sitting with Alex as they watch Katniss carefully.

"Here's a lizard leg." Alex hands Rue a lizard leg that she caught, killed and cooked.

"Thank you." Rue smiles. Alex killed 4 lizards, and cooked them. Rue and Alex each get a full lizard and an apple.

As the two 12 year olds eat, they hear Katniss groan.

"Oh no." In a blink of an eye, Rue runs and hides behind a nearby tree.

"She won't hurt you Rue." Alex reassures as Katniss sits up.

"Who's Rue?" Katniss asks looking at Alex.

"She helped me take care of you for the last 3 days." Alex explains, "She's my age and from District 11."

Katniss smiles as Alex hands her cooked lizards.

"Come out Rue." Alex calls to Rue. Rue walks out from behind the tree scared, "she won't hurt you."

Rue nods, trusting Alex. Over the last 3 days, Alex and Rue became fast friends and protect each other.

~A&K~

"So what happened over the last 3 days that I have been out?" Katniss asks after they finished eating.

"Alex killed the guy from District 10. He tried to kill me but Alex shot him with an arrow." Rue smiles.

Katniss looks at Alex really impressed.

"What?" Alex looks at Katniss, "I will not let anyone kill either of you. You two are family." Katniss smiles and hugs Alex tightly with Rue.

"Did anyone else...?" Katniss trails off.

"Just the one from District 4 that you took the bow and arrows from." Alex answers.

"Where are they?"

"Across the river." Rue answers

"They have all their food in a pyramid." Alex tells Katniss with a smirk, "Rue and I have made up a plan and have it already. We just wanted to wait for you to wake and are full strength before we start."

"What's your plan?" Katniss smiles.

"Well, Alex made a bow and arrows for herself and a spear for me. But I light the fires to distract them while you and Alex sabotage the food." Rue informs her.

"They buried mines so one wrong step, you're dead." Alex whispers.

"How do you both know all this?" Katniss looks at Alex suspiciously.

"I have been spying on them while Rue guarded you. Then at night she slept while I guarded. Then I sleep that night while she guarded." Alex answers.

"So you two have been on alert."

"Yes." Alex and Rue answers as one.

"I'm proud of you two." Rue gives Katniss a hug before standing. Alex kisses Katniss' cheek before grabbing her homemade bow and arrows.

"Let's go." Katniss stands up and grabs her bow and arrows and the three of them heads out.

~K&A~

Katniss and Alex stand side by side waiting for Rue to start the fires.

"Hey look!" Clove smirks pointing at the first fire, of 4.

They watch as Cato, Clove, Glimmer, Peeta, Marvel and Justin head out leaving the District 3 guy to stand guard.

"Just as I thought." Alex whispers. The two of them gets ready to fire when Foxface runs in, jumping over the mines carefully before stealing strawberries.

Alex fires her arrow first, hitting the apples. Katniss fires next, breaking the bag of apples open. They watch the apples bounce down setting off the mines. Thankfully, Alex and Katniss are far enough away, or they would have been blasted.

As the two of them runs, Alex hears a faint crack of the District 3 guy's neck breaking. A cannon goes off, telling them the guy is officially dead.

~A&K~

Katniss does the call that the three of them agreed on to be their signal that everything is ok.

Katniss does it twice, but Rue doesn't answer back.

"Come on." Alex jogs in the direction of the fires. The first one is lit.

They arrive to the second... lit.

Third... lit.

Alex and Katniss runs full speed to the fourth to find it isn't lit.

"RUE!" Alex and Katniss call together.

"ALEX! KATNISS!" They hear Rue scream.

They run in the direction that they heard Rue's scream and see Rue in a net. Katniss runs over to help as Alex gets into her ready position, knowing that someone could have heard them.

"ALEX!" Rue screams. Alex turns and sees Marvel's spear coming at her. Alex fires her arrow and feels the spear cut her neck as it flies passed.

Alex turns around to see the spear sticking in the ground. Katniss ended up tackling Rue to the ground. The spear is where they once were.

Alex looks at Marvel to see that her arrow hit him in the forehead.

"Are you two ok?" Alex asks turning about to Rue and Katniss.

"Ya." Rue nods.

"Are you?" Katniss asks nodding.

"It's just a cut." Katniss stands up, pulling Rue up with her. Katniss checks Alex's neck to see it's like a cat scratch.

"Good." Katniss gets Rue to jump on her back, knowing she is scared and gone into shock.

Alex and Katniss walks deeper into the forest and they quickly gets some berries that they know are not poisonous.

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