kill for your love - the hunger games

(013) and now, it was justified

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act one.

(chapter thirteen, and now, it was justified)

the arena, 72 ADD.

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THE WISH PERPLEXED JUNIPER. 

Kill him? Was that what Justice was asking of her? No, no he couldn't be. That was something Juniper had heard, something her mind made up so she had a valid reason to feel rage at Justice because as she thought this over in her head, as she would multiple times in the future, she really had no reason to hate him. He had tried to save her. 

But District Ten tributes always died together and there was no possible world where Juniper Hale lived without—

"What?" Juniper spat, convinced she heard wrong. She begged that she heard wrong. 

"I need you to kill me..." Justice croaked out. No, Juniper had not heard wrong and that thought alone was enough to send her into a homicidal rage. "You've always said you didn't want the Careers' to kill you... well, I don't want them to kill me either."

Kill Justice. Justice wanted Juniper to kill him. He was asking his sister to kill him. Justice had betrayed her, lied to her, broke their agreement, and now he was asking her to kill him?

"No!" Juniper immediately yelled back. "No, absolutely not! How can you ask me that?"

"Because I would do it for you—"

"Would you really?" Juniper snapped. "If our roles were reversed, would you really do that?"

"Yes."

That answer alone was enough to have Juniper jolting backwards, but Justice had somehow grasped her arm, holding her close to him. With his other hand, shaking, he reached into one of the numerous pockets in his blood-stained jacket, pulling out the dagger he had taken from the Cornucopia during the raid the day before. The dagger he must have intended to give her. 

"Kill me, June." Justice coughed as he took ahold of her hand, opening it and placing the knife on her palm, wrapping her fingers over the handle. "I don't want to die from the Careers'. They don't deserve another notch on their belt, like you said."

"How can you expect this of me?" Juniper sobbed as she stared right into Justice's eyes. The handle was cold against her flesh. "How can you? How could you?"

"I ask because I know you can get through it." Justice sighed when Juniper let out a strangled sob. Tears were running wildly down her cheeks. "You'll live on because you just will, June. You're strong. You were the strongest out of the two of us. You always led the way, I just followed—"

"Just—"

"Shh," Justice tried to assure her. "It'll be okay, June. It'll be okay... you're gonna be okay, I know you're gonna be okay."

"I can't... I won't—"

"Please..." Justice begged. Oh, he begged and begged, even as he felt life slip away from him. "Please, June... if there was anyone I wanted to kill me, it would be you."