A Crafted Kind of Games: A Hunger Games Fanfic

Chapter Twenty-Three

There's nothing I can do to keep the thoughts of Tiffany away.

She was one of the best friends I'd ever had, and I knew her for only a little over two weeks.

Tiffany was supposed to live.

She was. She had a boyfriend back home, a boyfriend who's probably crushed right now, who watched her die, who probably hates me for not saving her...

I shake my head. "Snap out of it." I mutter to myself. "You have to focus."

It's been two days, and I haven't heard a single cannon.

It makes me nervous and jumpy, like anything could happen any minute now that will kill me.

BOOM.

...

Well.

That's convenient.

Who was it? Adam?

Yeah, I haven't found Adam either. Or Jason. I have no idea where they could be.

The sky is starting to go dark, so I climb a tree with some difficulty, and get ready for the night.

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Snap.

My eyes snap open, hearing someone stepping on a twig.

I carefully lean over the side of the tree to see one of the other tributes. I think he was from Eleven, but I can't remember his name. I think it started with a B.

He's with...Jordan? I didn't know they were teaming.

"I think we should probably go back to the Cornucopia, Bodil. We need more supplies."

Bodil shrugs. "I think we're good right now, Jordan. I mean, did you see how fast I took out Wimpy McScrawnyArms from 5? We'll be fine."

My blood runs cold. From Five. And the only one left from Five is...

Jason.

Oh, god, no.

"Smart of Ten to run for it. Didn't even have anything on him at this late in the game. Sad really." Bodil continued.

Adam.

"Still, the Careers are still out there. We should be careful for them. They'll figure out what your style is pretty fast. Explosions are not exactly too quiet." Jordan cautioned.

"You're right."

I had to cover my mouth to keep from gasping when the Careers appeared in the shadows, surrounding the two. There were five of them in all, Mitch and his District Partner, the boy from Two, and both from Three.

Mitch's grin is sadistic when he speaks. "Pity, the only thing you're good at attracts so much attention."

"I want to off the moron." The girl from One says, her bow raised.

Mitch sighs. "All yours then, Ashlee."

"Don't think it's going to be that ea-" Bodil starts to say, but the Ashlee girl cuts him off with an arrow to the heart, and he falls to the ground, a cannon sounding.

The Careers close in on Jordan, who immediatly panics.

"Please! I have a family back home, I promised them I would get back, please, no! I don't want to die!"

Mitch grins. "News flash. This is the Hunger Games. And you were going to die from the moment we started."

He steps away from Jordan, who's cowering on the ground, his face tear-streaked.

"He's all yours, Jerome." Mitch says, and the boy from Three's face lights up.

He pulls out an axe that looks surprisingly clean for a Careers weapon, and...

I shut my eyes, because I know what about to happen, and I hear Jordan scream, and then the cannon goes off.

"Morons." I hear Mitch say. "Come on, let's head back to the Cornucopia."

I hear their footsteps get farther away, and then they're gone.

Leaving me in a tree with two dead bodies below.

That'll help me sleep for sure.

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Dead List:

 District 7- Ian Ssundee/ Killer- Mitch Hughes

District 8- Preston Simmons/ Killer- Dawn Bels

District 2-Dawn Bels /Killer- Skylar Pather

District 5-Maddie Jenkins/ Killer- Unknown

District 9-Ryan Rpem/ Killer-Unknown

District 11- Brice Solace/ Killer- Unknown

District 6- Jimmy Seto/ Killer-Unknown

District 7- Megan Jiggy/ Killer- Unknown

District 11- Olivia Snowy/ Killer-Unknown

District 6- Sammie Cookieh/ Killer-Unknown

District 9-Rose Ender/ Killer- Unknown

District 12- Kaylie Darkclaw /Killer- Skylar Pather

District 4- Eliza Impish/ Killer- Skylar Pather

District 8- Tiffany Garcia/Killer- Blood Loss

District 5- Jason Probst / Killer- Bodil Troll

District 11- Bodil Troll / Killer- Ashlee Marie

District 12- Jordan Maron/ Killer- Jerome Gale