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"Go on," Cato states, gripping Peeta's throat. "Shoot. Then we both go down, and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway."

His bottom lip quivers, thinking back to when he watched Taylor take her final breath. "I always was, right? I didn't know that till now." He grits his teeth, knowing that everyone wanted Katniss to win. "How was that? Is that what they want?"

Katniss makes a move to shoot Cato, but he chuckles.

Peeta tries to move from his grasp, but is unsuccessful at his attempts. "No. I can still do this. I can still do this. One. More. Kill. It's the one thing I know how to do. Bringing pride to my District. Not that it matters."

And in that moment, Peeta draws an 'x' on Cato's hand.

In a matter of seconds, an arrow is lodged into Cato's hand, and he's shoved off of the Cornucopia.

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Ceneca Crane angrily walks into his office, the doors shutting and locking behind him. He eyes the doors warrily, before walking over to his desk, where a glass bowl full of night lock berries lay.

His eyes widen, and he realizes what's going on.

But his intentions were never to have Katniss Everdeen as a winner. After Cato was dead, and Peeta and Katniss were left, he wanted Peeta to win. He had wanted Peeta to kill Katniss.

Taylor- a girl that he had thought of as a daughter- had been friends with the boy, and he wanted her only ally to live. He was furious with the night lock act. But how could he have stopped the two otherwise?

Taylor was gone now, and she wasn't coming back. He had genuinely loved the girl- the way a father would love his daughter. Taylor didn't have a family, and he had intended for her to live. For him to protect her.

But that hadn't been the way it went.

So, Ceneca ate the berries.

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