Runaway: Hunger Games fanfic

Chaper 1: Hunting

KATNISS P.O.V.

I go into the forest to hunt for food with him every day. I feel free from all that is going around in our district. From all public tragidies. From my thoughts of what will come to us tomorrow.

The Hunger Games.
It's in five days time but I'm already terrified. Just to think of who will be called gives me nightmares. It's worse for Prim though. She's woken up every night screaming for the past three weeks. Prim had her twelth birthday a month ago and now she must put her name in.

But, when I'm hunting with Gale, all of those thaughts disapear. The only thing I thing about is my bow and arrow and Gale. We smile and laugh together. He make trapes out of vine and plants. I try shooting animals to sell to the peace keepers. I can't find any good food in the forest but I keep looking to pass the time. After about two hours of scouring the trees and rivers, I spot a deer. I'm ready to shoot when Gale interupts my concerntration.

"What're you gonna do with that Catnip?"

I groan with his stupd qustion making me miss my shot. He repeats his question.

"What're you gonna do with that?"

"Sell it to the peace keepers." I answer in a matter of fact voice.

He smiles. Then he starts to laugh which makes me laugh too. "What's so funny?" I say with a giggle. Gale doesn't answer. He just contiues to smile and turns to walk somewhere else gesturing for me to follow. We walk in silence until we reach a small, treeless hill where he sits down. I sit next to Gale who seems to be staring into space I star at him with a blanck face. Soon enough, he started to grin. I laughed at him.

"What?" I asked Gale who was still staring at the hills or sky. Who knows what he was thinking in that mind of his.

"We could get out of here you know." He answered.

"What?" I repeat.

This time he looks at me. "Out there" He says gesturing to the veiw of hills. "We could run away."

I though this was a stupid idea so I thought of all the reasons why it would never work. "And what about your family?"

He only smiled and turned his head agin to look at the hills. He then answers. "They can come too. And Prim. And Your mother. And maybe Buttercup."

I laugh at him and look at the veiw with my head lying on his shoulder until darkness washes over the sky.

He stands up, takes my hand and puls me up beside him.

It's a cold evening so he huddles me into his jacket with him. We wrap our arms around eachothers waists until we reach the gate, where we must let go of eachother to enter District 12 through the hole in the fence. We don't talk when walking home. I can tell that Gale is thinking hard about something anyway. We reach my house first since it is closer to the fence and he walks me up to the door.

"Tomorrow?" Askes Gale.

At first I am confused but soon I figure that Gale Is asking to go hunting again tommorrow, so I answer, "Tomorrow." with a smile.

He smiles too and hugs me. I hug back. Gale loves going in the forrest just as much as I do, maybe even more. He then starts to walk down to his house. But he stops after about five, turns around to face me and with his sweet smile still there he says in the sweetest voice, "Good night Catnip." He waves to me so I wave back at him. Once Gale is out of sight, I open the door of my old, wooden house and creep into the bed I share with Pim. I think about what Gale said about escaping untill somehow, I fall asleep.b