Katniss POV:

I just have to keep walking; I can't think straight all I know is that if I stop walking I will break down into a mess. He is the first person that I have killed in these Games and if I want to win then it can't be the last. I think I understand why Haymitch drinks; it probably drowns out the pain of knowing all these deaths are on his shoulders. I think that right now I could use a bottle. In the Capitol, the betting will have started to heat up now. I can imagine that my odds won't be nearly as bad as they would have been before, I can imagine that they still aren't great but the odds are never in my favour anyway, much opposed to what Effie says. I keep walking but now I have my bow loaded, I can't look lost, I need to look like I have my wits about me if I want sponsors. I haven't had anything yet, not even a match for a fire, but I haven't needed anything. I suppose even if I had sponsors they wouldn't spend their money now because I don't need it. I was only stung once and after I pulled out the stinger out the wound and slowly it has healed after two days.

I stop walking and think, I need to stop hiding now, the amount of us left in the arena is thinning down. And maybe I could kill the tribute from five, I know that I shouldn't plan on killing someone but I need to fight, I can't hide anymore. I keep walking with my eyes alert for any signs of life both human and animal; I need food right now because everything I got from the cornucopia has run out. I am lucky because I shoot down two large birds and two land creatures. I realise that now I am starting to run out of arrows, I couldn't face collecting the arrow from the boy I killed and both arrows I used to kill the birds are nowhere to be seen. I also lost two arrows on the run from the trackers so I only have seven left. I close my eyes and mouth 'arrows Haymitch arrows'.

"You now talking to yourself is the first sign of madness." I turn round and see that it's Gale. I run to him, but before I get close is see there is something wrong with him, he isn't stood lazily as usual his body is scarily tense and his eyes look all wrong.

"You killed Thresh, you lied to me, and you never cared about me did you." I back away slowly until my back hits a tree, "A little scared, realising I am going to make you pay for everything you have done to me. I have stood by whilst you threw your relationship in my face, turned my family against me and all because of what? Tell me why." I don't know what to say so I just stand there. "TELL ME." He screams. That's when I spin so my body is against the tree and I climb. I climb faster than ever, I scale the tree but it isn't tall enough. It is a short and fat tree so Gale is behind me.

"I am going to kill you." His voice hissed at me, he sounded so fake, he didn't even sound like him anymore.

"Gale," I plead as I climb, "This isn't real, I didn't kill Thresh."

"You're a liar, your just a lying bitch." I saw my chance to get off this tree, there was a branch from another tree ahead of me, I steadied myself and then I grabbed it and crawled away. I knew that the branch would hold be but it wasn't strong enough to hold Gale. So long as he didn't try to get on I was safe.

"Gale I promise you, none of this is real. You are confused, yes it is true that I have a boyfriend back home but I never threw the relationship in your face. I can tell you frankly that I didn't kill Gale. Your family aren't against you either so I defiantly didn't turn them against you. Please just listen to me. None of this is real. None of it."

"You liar." Then he leapt at me.

The branch immediately snapped off and we both fell through the air. My body slammed into the grounded and then there was a loud crunch beneath my body. Please no. I can't have broken something; I won't survive this time with a broken bone let alone the next week in the games. Gale is knocked out cold. The sensible thing would be to run get as far away from this madman as possible but I can't leave him now, I just can't.

Peeta POV:

"Run Katniss, run now please go." I can feel the tears streaming down my face; my voice is barely a whisper because all the air seems to have been sucked from my lungs "You have to run please Katniss, you can't save him." My last words are barely audible because I think I have lost all will to speak. "Run."

But Katniss is too loyal to run; she stands over him, her tears flowing like mine. She waits with Gale, Caesar tells us that after five hours Gale comes round. The scene on the TV fizzes into one of a similar essence but the sky is slightly darker. Gale's eyes open and I can immediately tell that he is still mad because his eyes are still glossy but Katniss mustn't see this because she stands by his side, slightly farther away than what would be gullible but still close enough to be in danger. Gale scrambles to his feet and looks straight at her. Katniss has an arrow in her bow loaded and pointed at him, I thank heaven that she isn't without weapons. She is leaning against a tree and has a grimace on her face, I think her leg is broken but I really hope not. If it is she probably won't survive.

Gale laughs at her, "Want to add another to your kill list?" his voice is snarling, "I think you are a vile little girl who will never understand the effect she has on people (Sorry I twisted the essence of that line), you have ruined my life Katniss, you will ruin Peeta's life too. I bet you don't even love him. Admit it, he is a bit too sappy for you isn't he, your baker boy." How dare he, he is turning her against me, "I mean he didn't even stop me coming in here did he, he didn't come in her with you like I did, didn't want to protect you." The cameras go into slow motion, his eyes suddenly clear up, but it is too late, the cameras show Katniss' arrow fly.

"KATNISS, NO." I scream but it is no good, the arrow penetrates Gale's chest exactly where his heart would be. Gale's body crashes to the floor.