Grain & Blood | A Hunger Games collection

So wrong

Once again I'm not getting any sleep. I guess it can only be expected, these are the Hunger Games, after all. But without Robin, I just feel like I'm pulling an all- nighter back at home.
I sort the two packs, basically shoving everything into my bag, and wait for the careers to leave before dropping to the floor and running. My feet lead me to the stream, so I fill up my bottles and keep going, wandering in a big circle.
The sun is already a big blotch on the horizon. I think sunrise is becoming earlier everyday, but that might just be the disorientation I'm getting  from lack of sleep.

Now I'm running through the woods, trying to get away from where Nikki died. A death that was my fault. I shouldn't have left her there, lying on the tree branch. And I totally understand why she gave me away to the careers, even if it was unintentional. I would have done the same if my so-called ally left me to die at the hands of the most bloodthirsty tributes in the games. I will remember her, for the brave 15 year old who risked her life at the cornucopia, the girl who came 9th, not for the girl who died at the hands of Rift from District 1. I will remember her until Kamalyn ends my life in the most brutal way possible.

A rustle from above alerts me. I expect it to be a bird or a rodent of some kind, but I am wrong. Oh I am so wrong.
It's Kamalyn.
She hasn't seen me yet, she's raiding a bird's nest for eggs, but in a few seconds she'll notice and come after me. I have to run. But in which direction? If she's here, then there are probably careers nearby and I could run straight into their camp, which would be literal suicide. However if I wait any longer, Kamalyn will see me and I will be dead.
Just as I decide to turn back and go where I came from, a cannon booms and Kamalyn looks up.
Looks around.
Sees me.
And I run.
I'm not safe, she has knives, I have knives. I have an axe, she's faster than me. I have a backpack on, she can throw through the backpack. She's catching up, I'm running faster. She's going to get me...
I take a sharp detour to the left and keep running. Kamalyn slows down a little bit, turns the corner and keeps following, but with less speed than before.
She shouts out for help, so I know I'm within range of another career, so I dart up a tree faster than ever before. I know that I'm on camera at this very moment, being watched by all of Panem.
Benedict from 4 comes running to Kamalyn's side. He sees me up in the tree, and starts to climb. I can't go any higher, the branches are too unstable. If I fall, Kamalyn will kill me, if Benedict catches me he will bring me down for Kamalyn. So either way I'm dead.
Benedict is high up enough to pull me down, if he wants to. But he doesn't. I think he's too concentrated on not falling himself to look at where I am. So I will use his ignorance to my advantage. As carefully as I can, I pull out my axe and shove it into his chest.
He falls down and lands with a thump on the ground.
"Benedict!" Kamalyn shouts. "Benny?"
"Kammy... It's okay. I will die, but at least..."
Kamalyn starts crying, something I have never seen her do before.
"At least I got to be in the Hunger Games, right? And at least we got to be together. I'll watch you from heaven."
"I love you Benny..."
"Make that District 9 scum pay..."
"I will. I will kill her in the most painful way possible, and then I will win and go home. For you."
"Thank you Kammy... I love you"
Boom.

Welp, that's today's upload done... lol jk, I'll do another later. And btw, it's 00:22 at time of writing this sooooooooo. Yep I'm awake.
Meme:

-Katherine