Catoniss (#wattys2016)

Chapter 13

Author's Note:

This chapter is for all of my lovely readers especially the ones who threatened to stalk and murder me *cough catoniss1213 and emilou_walf cough*. Hope you enjoy!

I can't believe Cato.
Why did he leave me? Even though he's right, I'm still upset. I walk out of the cave and see a package, with a parachute attached to it. I open it and see there's a can of soup, with a note that says:

Stay alive
- H

I'm glad that Haymitch sent me soup, I was getting hungry. I drink the soup quickly and go over who's still left in the Games:

Clove, Marvel, Cato, the boy from four, Thresh, Rue, Peeta and me. We're in the top eight, which means Caesar will be interviewing our families and friends. I'm shocked, yet glad, that Rue is still alive - she's only twelve years old, the youngest. I decide to go find her, and maybe Peeta along the way, those are the two that I wanted as my allies to begin with.

I hear someone whisper my name. I see Rue hiding behind a tree that's a few feet away from me.
"Rue," I say. "You can come here, I won't hurt you."
She comes around the tree and walks toward me.
"Did you cut down the tracker jacker nest?" I ask.

"Yeah," she says, quietly, smiling slightly.
I smile. "Thank you, you saved me. Are you hungry?"
She nods.
"I'll get you something to eat."
We walk around quietly for a while, looking for an edible animal. Finally, I see something that looks like a rabbit. I shoot it in the eye, like I do every time with the squirrels and deer back home.

I start a small fire, cook the rabbit and we each it a thigh.
"So, you and him?" Rue asks playfully, grinning.
"Me and Cato?" I ask and she nods. "We're not a thing."
She smiles like she doesn't believe me, I don't believe myself either.
"He's with the Tributes from One and the boy from Four. They have a stack of weapons and food near the Cornucopia," Rue explains.

"Sounds tempting," I say, smiling.
She smiles. "I saw the boy from your District a few days ago, we didn't say anything to each other. We left each other alone."
I nod. Part of me wants to stay with Rue, part of me wants to go find Peeta and see if he's alright and a small part of me wants me to join Cato.

I see Rue bite off every piece of meat of the bone. I hold out what's left of mine to her. "Want mine?"
"No thanks," she says.
"Here." I smile at her and hand it to her, she smiles back and finishes it quickly.

I think about the pile, that's giving the Careers the advantage of winning. I have to win if I want to get back to Prim, I promised her that I'd win for her.
"We could destroy the pile," I blurt.
"Yeah, but we need a distraction," Rue says.
I look at the trees and bushes around us. I recognize the leaves on the bushes, they make a lot of smoke once they're set on fire.

"Those smoke like crazy when they're lit," I say.
She nods and we quickly form a plan. We create three different fires, that aren't lit, as a distraction. I'm going to go to the pile, when the Careers see the fire, they'll leave and I'll destroy the pile. Rue is going to light the fires.

Just as we're about to separate, Rue gives me a tight and desperate hug.
"Hey, I'll see you for dinner," I reassure her."We need a signal to say we're okay."
Rue's eye catch my mocking Jay pin, looks up at the trees and whistles. Birds let out the same tune.
"Mocking Jays," I say.
"You try," she says.

I let out a four pitched whistled and they repeat it.
"That's our signal," Rue states.
We leave and I go to the pile where I see Cato, Marvel, Clove and the boy from Four. Marvel points out the first fire and Cato, Marvel and Clove run toward it, leaving the boy from Four to guard the pile.

I hear a noise coming from the other side of the forest, so does the boy. So he leaves the pile and runs toward the sound, holding a spear. I then see Peeta run toward the pile, hop over the piles of dirt, take a bag and run. I get it: the Careers reburied their mines around their pile. I then see a bag of apples that could trigger the bombs and destroy the pile completely.

I shoot at the bag, but miss it. I aim at it again, breathe in, breathe out and release. It hits the bag, rips it, a few apples fall to the ground and the mines go off. I fall back and hear a ringing in my left ear.

The boy from Four comes back and sees the ruined pile. The three Careers come back and I haven't seen Cato more furious. He storms at the boy, rips the spear from him and he breaks the boy from Four's neck with his hands. The boy falls to the ground and I hear a canon.

Cato.
My lover.
The Career.
The Boy from District 2.
The ruthless killer.

Author's Note:

This was an early Christmas present for my readers! I hope you have happy holidays and I hope you have a happy new year! I'll only be updating in 2016, because I'm too busy for the rest of the year. Because I already have Christmas spirit, I'm giving you some of you shoutouts.

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