Daughter (Hunger Games Fan-Fic) {Watty Awards 2015} (COMPLETED)

Chapter 13

  My head still spun from earlier events. But I am not giving up now! I am one step away from getting Max home. 

  "I love you." I smile and prepare to leave Max behind.

  His big blue eyes make me sink.

  "Promise me one thing..." I nod, "You'll come back...for me."

  "I promise." I kiss him one last time before leaving.

  "Can you guys get a room once in awhile?" Jonny seems desperate to end this thing.

  "You are the one who is living in our cave." I smirk.

  "I am also the one who saved your ass... So I'd shut up if I were you." He grows irritated and jumps through the water fall and into the icy lake below.

  "What the heck?" His head bobs up from the water as I shout.

  "Aren't you coming?" He just smiles and heads for the bank.

  "Are you crazy? I am taking the rocks." I hop one rock to another till I hit the snow covered ground. Molly's body has been moved, along with the careers. Probably the hovercrafts.

  "Try and walk on rocks or grass patches, or..." He has no more ideas and fades out after pointing at a rock.

  An idea comes to my mind.

  "Or swing through the trees!" I run towards a tree and begin to climb.

  "What?" Jonny looks at me in confusion.

  "I saw Rue do it, when my parents were in the games!" I reach a branch where a bramch from another tree is less than a foot away.

  I look at Jonny, below, and give him a nervous smile.

  With one swift movement I jump and catch my hand on the branch.

  I swing back and forth for a couple of seconds, the ground below rocking side to side.

  I inch myself towards the trunk of the tree. I reach the trunk and swing again from one branch to another.

  "What are you waiting for? Come on!" I smile and begin swinging again.

  The icy branches carry us for many miles. But we are still miles from the cornucopia when the afternoon comes.

  We eat freeze dried meat for lunch and begin our trek again.

  By the time the golden cornucopia comes into view it is almost time for the feast to begin and the hovercraft above is lowering down peacekeepers to set up the feast gifts.

  Something shuffles in the distance. 

  "Jonny? Whose left?" I whisper.

  "Maddie Robbins, Georgia Matheson, Max, you, and I. Why?" He says quietly.

  "We've got company." I point at the underbrush where the shuffling came from.

  "Maddie." He replies.

  "How do you know?" I reply.

  "I have everyone mapped out, where they were or are camping out, where they are headed, how they move, why they kept moving... I know everything about them." He says.

  "Impressive." I giggle a little bit, but he just simply tugs at my hair and I shut up.

  "When you are in the games you learn too do anything to help keep you and your friends alive."

  I nod knowing what he means. I wish I could've done more to help keep Finny alive, or Molly. But now Jonny and Max are the only people I have left. I am not letting them go.