Katniss POV:

I look behind me assuming Gale would be hot on my heels but he is gone, I try to retrace my steps to find him but I can't find him at all. How could he have not kept up? I don't know where Thresh is either, how could I lose them both? I can't remember a cannon being fired but my feet were pounding so hard of the floor and I was so focused on surviving that I mightn't have heard it. I try not to think of them as dead but Gale is a faster runner than me so he wouldn't have lost me. I don't think so anyway. I don't know if Thresh could... can run but I do know that however much I think I want him alive there is that little voice saying He had to die at some point. A new wave of guilt floods through me. I shouldn't think like this, why should I value my life over his? For all I know he could lead the districts to rebellion and all I can think is one more down.

I spend what is left of my day attempting to walk back to our lake but I can't find it. I shoot an animal I find and even though I know it isn't safe to eat meat raw but all I can think is that cooking it would attract both animal and human predators. I clamber up the tallest tree I can find and immediately fall asleep, I know that I can't think about Gale dying because I can't find out if he has until tonight when his face may or may not appear in the sky. I let sleep consume me but to be honest I'm not that tired.

I sleep until the Capitol's anthem wakes me to announce the death toll. Thresh's face appears in the sky and my heart drops just a little and them the Capitol seal reappears. Relief floods through me when I know he is alive. I start to think that maybe each night I don't see his face in the sky means that I am one step closer to having to kill him. I know that if I don't win, I want Gale to but I also know that I can't kill him because he volunteered to save Peeta and that is a debt I will never repay, especially when I will have to thank him for it before I kill him. I can't even imagine killing him because it is all wrong. Never did I think I would have to think of a way to avoid killing him, let alone when I owe him so much.

"I can't kill you."

I whisper it to myself but I know that when it comes down to it I will, if it means I can see my sister and... Oh Peeta. I miss him so much. I carefully remove the pin he gave me a clutch it in my fingers, it is the only piece of him I have left now. I just want to look into his blissful blue eyes and lose myself in them. I want his comforting arms wrapped round my body, the feeling that I get every time his lips touch mine. The feeling that fireworks are exploding through my body, I just want him to hug me tightly again letting his lips touch my neck so lightly yet I still feel waves of heat shoot through me. That is all I want and just two weeks ago all I had to do was walk over to his house and he would be there, now it wouldn't matter if he was in the damn Capitol he still would be unreachable. Just this is what spurs me on to win.

I have had more than enough sleep because for some reason I have only seen two tributes in my entire time in the arena and it's been just over a weak since I was dropped in here. I load my bow and decide that I should carry on looking for my lake because I am starting to run out of water and that is the key to my survival and my returning to Peeta. Slowly my walk becomes a power walk because I don't want to run because that would waste energy but I do need to find water quickly. Again I hear a familiar trickle ahead of me and my pace quickens as I hurry towards it but once I am at my knees and the water is filling my flask I notice that the birds are no longer singing, I look up ahead of me and there is a shadow ahead of me. My body reacts before my mind.

Peeta POV:

"Katniss run." I start screaming at the TV but she can't hear me. "Please run you can't die now! Go." I am yelling so loud but it is pointless. She is so far away from me and I can't help her. There is a shadowed figure ahead of her. She won't know it yet but it is the male tribute from district one. He was sent out by the careers to find some water because the lake closest to the cornucopia was drying up. They were going to travel in a pack but both district two tributes had seen the boy from seven so they decide to send out Marvel, if I remember correctly to find water whilst they killed the boy and collected whatever he had. The cannon still hasn't gone off so I fear that there will be a long death for this boy. Marvel wasn't happy about it but he was outnumbered so he didn't argue just made comments under his breath that everyone watching could hear.

I expected Katniss to run but she just drew an arrow in her bow and let it fly so quickly that the boy didn't have time to see her properly before he was killed. Katniss gave her usual clean shot and he was almost instantly dead. Katniss doesn't really do anything after he is dead. She walks up to him, takes his backpack from him and then walks away. Her flask for water is filled up and she just walks away. To anyone who doesn't know Katniss like I do, they would think she was a cold-hearted unfeeling word-I-tend-to-avoid. But I do know her and Katniss has three stages of pain. Stage one: goes into a complete fury and gets immensely angry. Stage two: cries and shakes until she eventually comes to terms with it. Stage three: doesn't function properly. I have only ever seen her once in stage three and even then the next day she had started to form a plan on how to survive and that was when her father died, but I didn't understand then because I didn't know her. But I do now and I know that there is no one to help her.

Well, apart from Gale but he appears to have gone mad since the Tracker Jacker attack. He never sleeps only eats small portions of food and his eyes are glassed over. But there is something that isn't human about the way he is acting. He seems too alert, too ready to kill even for Gale. It isn't that I even worry about him, it is that for the first time since these games I actually want him to find Katniss because he might be able to comforter her through this. He may seem slightly crazy right now. But I think a crazy Gale must be better than no one at all, right?

A/N: Thanks for all the follows and reviews. Please keep reviewing because it really makes me want to write more. I recommend to anyone that likes Percy Jackson to read Liliputdemigod's fanfic.