Together Or Not At All

Hunting

We pitch tents around the lake but we decide not to stay. We decide to go hunting while Ian stays and starts building a pyramid out of the supply's to make a fortress with the land mines  that go of if you jump off your plate before the time goes off. In this game that hasn't happened yet. I am very grateful for that as the capitol has already sentenced us to death and for one of us, a fate much more worse then death, I don't want them to take another life even if that means one of my fellow tributes takes the lives of another. The capitol has already taken our innocence and I don't want to let them take our lives as well even if the games is there idea and how 23 of us are going to die.

"Ian" Cato yells across to the clearing to the scared boy who is starting to get the bombs out of the ground.

"Ye-yes Cato" Ian reply's shakily, putting down the shower he is digging with.

"Please have this finished by the time we get back, I want to know that my food and supplies will be safe from all the other tributes." Cato commands before grabbing a sword and walking away.

I secure my knifes too the inside of my vest, Glimmer grabs a spear and so does Marvel and I give Peeta a small knife before we all proceed to run after Cato. As we are hunting I hear the crackling of wood. Fire. A person. Someone who is going to die in a matter of seconds. Great. I know Cato hears it too and I'm dreading what he will do, what the repercussions will be.

"Hey can you hear that?" Glimmer says.

Great. Another death on our hands. That's when we see her. She is hunched over her fire putting more wood on it and that's when it happens. Cato moves with quick precision and before I can scream a warning cry, his sword is sunk deep into her leg.

She looks up in shock and horror at Cato, dropping the kindling she just picked up. Cato takes his sword out of his leg and starts walking on. Marvel follows closely behind him and Glimmer after them. Only me and Peeta are left staring at the girl. She stares back at us, willing us to help her to stop the pain. Her brown eyes are rimmed with silent tears and that's when I can't take it anymore. I walk away.

We catch up with the others in what feels like the heart of he forest but is really only a mile or so from our campsite. As we walk, the air is silent. No canon, no tributes no more death for today. I hope. Then I realise, where is the canon for the girl. Shouldn't there be a canon pronouncing her dead, telling us she's out of agony that we put her in. Where is the canon, is she even dead.

As if reading my mind Cato says, "Someone should go back to see if she is dead."

"I'll go Cato" Marvel says eagerly. Almost to eagerly.

"No I think that Peeta should go" I say. Knowing that he will make it short and quick not drawn out and painful lime I know Marvel would.

"Yeah ok, let's see if lover boy will be loyal to us and not run off. And if you don't come back. You'll be dead by sunrise." Cato says grinning menacingly.

So Peeta slowly, painfully make his way back to the girl with a sharp knife ready to do what none of us should of ever had the opportunity to do. As we stand there waiting, only half looking around for more tributes. All in our own heads, well...at least I am. I killed today, I threw knifes at people so that I can live another day. Self defence some would call it but it wasn't. It was cold hard murder.

I slowly look up into the trees with my night vision glasses wishing i was anywhere else but here trying to stop the tears from rolling down my cheeks. No weakness or they won't give you anything and then all they deaths on your hands will be for nothing.

As I squint into the trees there is a slight quiver, I look harder and see a sleeping bag, in it trying to stay hidden is Katniss. She is laying there in one of the hardest trees I can assume there is to climb but at least that means she's safe. Well...not really. I breath in a deep long breath if the cool, crisp air wishing I had found a jacket or something at the cornucopia and then realise. Yes, Katniss has a sleeping bag, she will be warm as well as mostly safe. Yes

I quickly turn my head away so the others don't spot her and I ruin her cover and life, but as i do i think to myself, please, please win Katniss. Please. But that dream quickly fades away as i tune back into reality.

"Why don't we just kill Peeta now, its not like he's any good."I hear Marvel say as I join back into the conversation.

"Yeah but he is good with that knife and-" Catos retort gets cut by the see Peeta coming back. The cannon sounds.

"Worked this time"he says.

As we walk of i side up to Cato,"excuse me i am the knife expert"

"Yeah but would you think that Katniss would really appreciate it if we killed her partner. I saw you looking at her in the trees" Cato reply's.

"Oh, i didn't think anyone saw me looking"

When we get back to the lake we find Ian putting the last of the dirt over the top of the mines.

"Wow dude you work fast maybe we should kill you now before you set a trap on us" Cato jokes.

A look of terror fills Ian's already scared eyes and his face turns white as a sheet.

"Only joking you can live or else we couldn't get any food and this pyramid would be a waste. So come on I'm starving"

Ian visibly relaxes and shows us the path to the food. When we get our share we head to the tents and eat a feast of bread pudding, apples and juice. Overall it was a great day. Well apart from the fact I am in the hunger games and killed five innocent children. After we finish eating we all get into our tents, Cato takes the first watch.