Chapter 7

At the Careers campsite, Alex and Katniss stare at each person. Once each person rolls over, Alex and Katniss begins to move in.

Katniss quietly grabs a knife for Rue and a bow and arrows for herself. Alex grabs a bow and arrows for herself as well and grabs a spear. She quietly walks over to the final person she doesn't know the name of and stabs the girl from 7.

Alex and Katniss takes off running into the woods just as a cannon goes off and the girl's picture comes up, waking everyone at the camp.

"Who killed her?" Steven asks loudly.

"Obviously the girl from 12, 13 or 11." James answers like it's obvious.

"They are killing us off one by one." Erica states.

"We have to hunt them down." Alexander points out.

"You're willing to kill your girlfriend?" Dave asks James in surprise.

"I don't want to, but to win, ya." Samantha rolls her eyes disgusted.

"One of us stands guard." Steven orders as he lays down, going back to sleep.

Dave and Samantha stays awake as the others fall asleep.

"Them dating is a lie." Dave whispers to Samantha, "I watched Russo kill that bitch."

"Why didn't she kill us as well?" Samantha whispers back.

"I don't know."

"I don't want to kill her, Everdeen or that little girl from 11. We are older than Russo and the little girl. They are 14. Everyone in this alliance is 17 and 18. James is 18, I'm 17, you're 17, Erica is 18, Steven is 18 and Alexander is 17. Everdeen is 18. It's obvious that Everdeen is their protector."

"Maybe we can play this to our advantage. I don't want to kill them either. What about when we stand guard, and Russo and Everdeen comes to kill, we can let them and just tell them we want nothing to do with this."

Samantha nods understanding where Dave is coming from.

"I like it."

"Now go to sleep, I'll watch."

"Ok." Samantha closes her eyes and uses Dave as a pillow.

~K&A~

Over at the girls' camp, Rue is standing guard waiting for Alex and Katniss to come back.

Rue hears beeping and stands up. She follows the beeping and sees a ball on a hook. Rue opens it to see a container. She takes it out and sees Alex's name on it. Rue recloses it and heads back to camp.

Back at the camp, Rue sees Alex and Katniss coming back with weapons.

"Samantha and Dave from District 2 are like us. They don't want to kill us; they just want to stay alive. When it comes to it, and when they least expect it, we will go in to kill. We won't kill those two." Katniss smiles at Rue.

"What's that?" Alex asks putting the bow and arrows down as Katniss puts her's down and passes the knife to Rue.

"Medicine." Rue smiles and hands Alex the container. Alex feels a piece of paper on the back and sits down at the fire, where it's only a glow. She flips the container over and pulls the sheet of paper off.

Alex begins to read.

"Alex,

The plan stays the same, but because of the stunt Snow did to you, the war begins today.

We are in the aircraft over the arena and know how to break through the forcefield. We are just waiting for the right time. Trust Samantha and Dave. Their parents are against Snow. Samantha and Dave are trustworthy and they are honest. They will help you.

Coin"

Alex opens the container to see gooey stuff to put on where she got hurt. Alex puts it on and closes the container, slipping it into her bag.

'They are watching in the aircraft above us.' Alex mouths to them.

"I'm tired." Rue pouts.

"Let's go to sleep." Alex tells them. Not even a second later, the three girls' fall asleep, all staying alert.

~A&K~

Alex's eyes snap open hearing a twig snap. When another one snaps, Alex sits up grabbing her bow and arrows. She pulls out an arrow and points it in the direction where movement is.

"They have to be close." Alex hears Erica say to the Careers.

Katniss gets up with Rue as Alex stands up. Rue quickly puts Alex's hair in a high ponytail for her getting ready with her knife.

Not even a second later each girl has their bags on as the Careers steps out of the forest and into their clearing.

"Hello girls." Steven smirks getting ready to throw his spear. Erica smirks with James and Alexander.

Rue sees Samantha and Dave take a small step back. It turns out that Alex used Dave's spear to kill that girl and Katniss took Samantha's bow and arrows. Alex ended up taking Erica's bow and arrows as the knife Katniss took belonged to Alexander.

James gets his stealth ready as Erica points her knife.

Alex glares at each person, but not Samantha or Dave.

"When I say so Rue, run." Katniss orders Rue.

Rue nods as Alex smirks suddenly.

"So James, you really want to kill your girlfriend?" Alex keeps her aim steady as Katniss does the same.

"I don't want to. But I need to." James answers.

"Really? Why do you need to?"

"To get out of here."

"Whatever. You know from the last two years, that's a lie. Sure, we would have to find a new way to break the rules, but it is possible."

The Careers looks at Alex like she is nuts.

"They changed the rules Russo. Only one person lives. The person who breaks the rules gets killed." Erica snaps.

Alex snorts and begins to chuckle, shaking her head.

"Rules are meant to be broken Erica. Kat, Rue and I always make it to the end. We normally just abandon our weapons and wait it out. My first year; Rue, Kat, Peeta, Justin and I lived. Last year it was Haymitch, Rue, Kat, Peeta and I. So obviously they are meant to be broken."

"Yet you, 11 and 12 are here again this year." Alexander narrows his eyes.

"That is because Snow is jealous of my awesomeness." Alex answers simply, "He's jealous because I am awesome and cool."

The Careers all rolls their eyes as Dave and Samantha bites back a laugh at Alex's random moment.

To everyone's shock as Steven takes a step forward, Dave cuts in.

"Guys, is there even a point to fight the three girls?" Dave asks, "I mean they are keeping you all alive. They could have killed you guys instead of the other 4. Yet they didn't."

Steven rounds on Dave and pins him to a tree.

"Are you on our side or there's?" Steven snaps.

Dave gulps and looks at Samantha, who is his sister.

"There's." Just as Steven is about to kill Dave, an arrow goes into his neck... killing him.

"Oops. My arrow slipped." Alex frowns and looks at her bow and grabs another arrow.

Erica, James and Alexander charges at Katniss and Alex as Rue flees into the forest.

Katniss fires an arrow at Erica at the same time as Alex fires one at Erica as well.

As Erica falls to the ground dead, James and Alexander stops and runs into the forest.

2 cannons are heard and Erica's and Steven's pictures come up.

Alex sighs and looks at Dave and Samantha.

"So you both are on our side?" Alex asks as Katniss looks at the two 17 year old twins.

"Yes." Samantha answers.

"Cool. Let's go get Rue." Alex begins to head the way Rue ran with Katniss next to her and Samantha and Dave following.

~K&A~

"So you both killed Erica as Alex killed Steven." Rue states after Alex and Katniss filled Rue in on what happened. The two 17 year old twins, Katniss, Rue and Alex are sitting in a tree together eating their dinner that Rue made for them.

"Yup." Alex answers popping the p.

"You are too proud of yourself." Katniss informs Alex, "You almost got killed by that spear and explosion and yet you are random."

Alex looks at Katniss with a smirk.

"That's because the Games is finally almost over. There's James and Alexander, who we are against. Then there's you, me, Rue, and the twins; by the names of Samantha and Dave. I suck at math, but that comes to 2 against 5. The total... 7."

"7 out of 26. 19 people are dead." Samantha whispers surprised.

"Yes you are right. We are in the top 7!" Alex claps her hands together as a round of applause.

"You know Russo. In the darkest of times, you still find a way to be random." Dave gives Alex a tiny smile.

"Why thank you. After doing this for 3 years in a row, I have to find a way to be random. Like when we were under attack by the dead undead corpses. Like when I was stabbed by Thresh and Kat killed him..." Alex gets cut off when Katniss slaps her in the head gently, "What was that for?"

"For getting yourself killed that day." Katniss answers.

Alex begins to laugh.

"Hey I killed the corpses that were in my way. It's not my fault that Thresh turned into a ninja and appears out of nowhere."

"She has a point Katniss." Rue agrees with Alex.

"I still hate that shark..." Alex mumbles in a growl as she narrows her eyes.

"You do know that shark is dead right?" Samantha asks.

"Yes I do. It doesn't mean that I get to still hate him. He's a royal jackass." Alex continues to mumble to herself incoherently about the shark that broke her leg the year before.

While Alex mumbles Katniss, Rue, Samantha and Dave talks about ways to save themselves, yet kill Alexander and James.

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