No Time To Die | A Hunger Games FanFiction TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED

𝖳𝗐𝖾𝗅𝗏𝖾

Glimmer wasn't a bitch. Marvel wasn't naive! I couldn't sleep last night, I had too much to think about. This whole situation is terrible. We're just kids, teenagers, KIDS! I couldn't stop panicking. I didn't want to wake Cato up, but the more I thought, the more I couldn't stop.

I even got up, threw some knives at a tree, heck I drew my own target! Nothing seemed to help. I couldn't escape the fact that even though I wasn't the biggest fans of the two of them, they were still just like me. Mind controlled into thinking this was an honor. Thinking this was a privilege. They were just as scared as I am.

Once Glimmer was gone Marvel knew it was over. He completely lost it. He watched his childhood friend die right in front of him. I'll never know how he truly felt about her, but all I know is it broke him.

Glimmer was just holding onto the biggest person for protection. Which in this case was Cato, it was always Cato. Glimmer knew she couldn't win without piggybacking off of us, so she stuck to it, and in the end she took it to her grave.

Marvel was overcome with celebration that he made it that he didn't give enough time for his brain to catch up with the fuck of it all. Marvel was proud to be representing district 1, but foolish for not thinking things through. When he chased Rue in the forest, he didn't stop and think of the critical things that was happening. He didn't ask us what was going on, he was just hectic. I think loosing Glimmer was like unplugging a socket in his brain that unleashed the beast. He was hungry for murder, and justice, and was just hoping that maybe this person that was leading us astray was the person who took her away from him.

These things keep me up all night. I don't even realize when the sun starts to rise. I sit a good distance away from the cornucopia, hugging my legs. I sit and watch the forest. I play with the grass and I don't quite register that I'm even here. All I can think about is how scared Glimmer must've been, how crazy Marvel became. This drove me into more insanity.

No matter how much I didn't want to admit it, they were my friends. I just couldn't shake the feeling at all. I looked up and it was fully bright again. My eyes were heavy and my thoughts dizzy. I heard ruffles behind me.

"Clovie?" He says.

I'm in a dizzy haze, completely zoned out. He sits next to me and pulls my hair behind my face.

"Were you up all night?" Concern fills his face. I nod and he looks around, "Why not?"

I shrugged. He didn't say a thing but just allowed me to put my head on his shoulder. We sat together in silence, my hair flowing in the wind. With his help my mind was able to go blank, freeing me from all my thoughts. His hand rubbed my arm as I slowly fell asleep in his arms.

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I woke up in a sleeping bag, under the shade. I look around for Cato. I knew he brought me over here but where was he now? My head ached, and when I tried to get up I winced, lying back down. Cato pops his head in and smiles. He comes up to me with water and a care package.

"Eno sent this in, if I didn't leave I would've been here when you woke up. Here, she said it's for your headache."

He sits next to me and helps me slowly sit up, I lean on his arm and take the medicine.

"Thank you."

We sit there as I wait for the medicine to kick in. He rubs my back and we sit on a comfortable silence. Neither one of us wanting to address the elephant in the room. With so little of us left, what's going to happen between us?

"Attention tributes, attention."

The speakers blast. It shocks us as we snap out of our separate thoughts.