The Hunger Games: Prim [REWRITING]

Chapter 24: Where's Cato?

"I still don't get it," Peeta says. Katniss and I have to explain all over about what nightlock is and about how that killed Jacqueline.

"Oh wow," Peeta says when he finally understands. Then Katniss starts to scoop up more of the berries and opens up her pouch, putting the nightlock inside.

"If it fooled Jacqueline, Cato may be fooled as well," she tells us. I open up the zipper in my jacket and show Katniss the nightlock that I had already stored up.

"Smart girl," she tells me.

"Wow," I say. "There's only Cato left."

"And Enobaria" Peeta adds.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about her.

"Let's make a fire and then cook the food that I got, I'm starving," Katniss says.

"What if Cato finds us?" Peeta questions.

"There are three of us, and only two of them. Would he dare? We're practically sending an invitation with the fire," Katniss says as she starts to rub sticks together that she has miraculously found in a few seconds. Peeta processes the thought then gathers some damp wood. Soon, rabbits, squirrels and roots wrapped in leaves are baking in the damp wood.

I stand up, being fully alert, just incase Cato comes. But he doesn't.

We decide that when the food is finished, we would take it with us and go somewhere else. I look around and find some big leaves that we can wrap the food in. But he doesn't come. Where's Cato?

We pack up the food in the leaves, and walk back to the cave. I walk in the front, and from the corner of my eye, I notice Katniss planting a kiss on Peeta's cheek.

"I shouldn't have seen that," I mutter under my breath and walk a bit faster.

I open up the leaf that I am carrying, and take out some rabbit meat and start biting off the leg to keep myself occupied. The meat is good. We haven't eaten in a while.

With the meat to boost us up, we're already at the cave. We open up the leaves and eat properly, not as we climb over rocks.

"I'm so glad that we are three people, Cato's scary!" I exclaim as I bite into my second rabbit.

Thank you Claudius. Thank you Gamemakers. For sending Katniss to me.

Then we watch the seal in the sky, and the picture of Jacqueline, then her little sister. They were both young. No one deserved to die.

We wrap up the food that we will save for tomorrow and decide on shifts.

"I'll go first," Katniss volunteers. "I'm not sleepy anyways."

Peeta and I drift off to sleep...

The next thing I remember is Peeta shaking me slightly, telling me to wake up.

"Prim, wake up," he tells me. I open my eyes then yawn.

"My turn?" I whisper, barely audible.

"Yeah," Peeta replies as he lays down, probably tired from his shift.

"Ok, sleep well," I tell him as I sit up. Peeta soon drifts off to sleep.

Nothing is happening, what will the Gamemakers do? I don't want to find out. I remember when nothing happened last time, they made that fire wall, and Rue and I ran away. That was scary. What will they do next? Something big... Yes definitely.

I think for a while by my own, watching the sky turn purple, pink, orange, then finally blue.

I watch as Katniss and Peeta both wake up at a similar time.