What if Katniss didn't Volunteer? (Complete) (2013 Watty Award WINNER:)

Part 18

Just sitting in my little bush, I'm able to take down 3 rabbits and a squirrel. They are good meat, but I hate having to watch them die. I hate pointing the arrow and drawing the bowstring that takes its life. It's like I can hear Katniss saying to me, as she always used to,

"There are millions of animals, but there's only one me, one mom, and one Prim." I try to remember that when some wild bird comes into view. I take it down in a second. I'm about to get up to get it, when I hear footsteps. Not one pair, but several. They sound to be either slowly jogging or walking fast. I think of making a run for it, but I think I might be too weak yet. So I load another arrow into my bow and stay very still. I hear a bunch of laughing.

"Wow, that was almost too easy!" I hear a voice say. I think that's the boy from two.

"Well, she was kind of out in the open. I wonder where the boy was." That's the girl from two. I think.

"I don't know, but he and his district partner are next. I can't stand that girl. What's her name? Prim?" Says the boy from two again. Oh no! Not only are they looking for me, but Peeta too! And I think they killed Rue!

"I don't remember seeing Prim with them, Cato. I saw Peeta? I think is his name. And Rue. So at least we got her out of the way. 1 for 3 isn't bad on the second day." Says the boy from one. So the boy from two's name is Cato.

"Well, I want to find both of them now. We are going back to camp. Marvel, start a fire there. Clove, get dinner ready. And if we find Glimmer, I kill her. I want it to be slow and painful for what she did to us. Oh yeah, what is the watch schedule tonight." Says Cato to someone on his right.

"Well, we each take 3 hours. Me, then Clove, then Marvel, then you." Says a girl who I'm guessing to be from District 4. Districts 1,2, and 4 all team up at the beginning of the games. They aren't looking at me right now so I slowly lift my bow and point it at the girl from 4. When I release, I start to think it's a bad idea, but they won't know where it came from. The arrow hits her head and she goes down immediately. The others look in shock for all of one second, and pull out their own weapons. Cato is looking around and Clove is throwing knives like crazy. In every direction but mine.

"Who did that? Where did it come from!" Yells Marvel. They walk over to the dead girl and her cannon goes off.

"Hey look at this." Says Clove. She pulls out the arrow and holds it up for the others to see. "There was one bow at the cornucopia, but no one took it. So someone has made their own." They look around again, but when they don't find me, they leave.

"Come on, we need to get back before whoever the owner to this is can kill someone else." Says Marvel. As they walk away, I hear Cato say,

"In training, I only saw one person around the bows. So I have a pretty good idea who it is."