The Capitol's Darling - The Hunger Games

twenty-five: sponsors

"It's a good plan, but you can't fight with that leg." Brutus stated.

As of on time, an electronic chime sounded. We all recognised the sound immediately as everyone but me stood up to find where the sound was coming from.

The electronic chime was something everyone knew all too well. It meant someone had received a sponsor.

"Got it!" Gloss announced as the small parachute landed in his hands. I watched closely as he opened it and took out a piece of paper before reading the first part aloud, "For Katia,.. Katia it's a sponsor for you. What a surprise." He spoke sarcastically as he handed the sponsor over to me.

I ignored what he said as I read the rest of the message;

"For Katia,

Remember who the real enemy is. Don't kill Katniss.

-H"

I scoffed as I finished reading the paper before scrunching it up and throwing it somewhere behind me. I hope Haymitch watched me do that. Deep inside he knew that I wouldn't follow his instructions, it was simply impossible.

The real enemy to me is Katniss Everdeen. If she hadn't pulled out those poison berries, then me and the people I love wouldn't be back inside this arena to die.

Everyone watched me with curious eyes as I removed the lid to the container to see what Haymitch had given me.

It was some sort of cream?

"Hey Cashmere I think this is the medicine you're after." I said as I motioned for Cashmere to come to me.

She grabbed the container from my hands and inspected it for a moment before squatting down beside me and prepping my leg. "Yes it is, once I put it on you should be all healed in a few hours." She replied.

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It had been less than an hour of us just sitting in the same spot they had found me. Yet in this short period of time, all five of us received many sponsors from different people that contained food and water that we all ate.

It was still dark and I had insisted we circle the arena to find more tributes before going back to the cornucopia, but when Enobaria heard me wince when standing up, she forced us all to stay put until i'm healed. I hated the idea of course, but E wasn't someone easy you could argue with.

I hated sitting around doing nothing when there could be tributes to kill, so I groaned out loud before standing up. The pain wasn't merely as bad as before but I still felt pain when standing up.
"My legs all good now, now let's stop wasting time and go." I announced to everyone. I didn't even let anyone get a word in before I grabbed the spear that was previously in my leg and walked off. Since Johanna had took my precious weapon from me, I had no choice but to use the spear for now.

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A/N: Short chapter I know, but i'll be posting the next chapter hopefully soon !

Updates may be slow for a while as I'm starting to plan out how i'm going to end this book so I would love to know what you guys think,

I would also love to know if you guys like the flashbacks to Katia's games, if so i'd be happy to add more
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