Chapter 12

I barely sleep after getting two night shifts. It gives me a lot of time to think about Marvel and Marina.
Both of them died yesterday, it happened so quick that I wasn't ready for it.
Marvel was a good guy, he never meant to do anything bad. He was a little nervous but kinda sweet.
Marina was really caring and kind. She wasn't really like the other careers, I always felt it. I would hate to watch her get killed by Cato, maybe it's better than she didn't know that he wanted to kill her.

Katniss Everdeen is still alive. That thought doesn't let me rest. She killed two of my allies and now is running around thinking that she is going to win. The only thing that makes me feel better is that her boyfriend is dead and she will no longer be getting sponsors. The audience will soon get bored of the 'sad lover' trope.

I put the hair out of braids since they got messy and fix them to look better.

It's my time.

...

"Glimmer, wake up!" Clove tells me.
Still exhausted I wake up, I can feel the circles under my eyes after getting 3 hours of sleep. I hope the sponsors won't notice.
"How are you feeling?" I ask Clove.
"Better. Who died last night?" She replies.
"Marvel, Marina and Peeta." I answer.
Clove slowly processes the information, she stays silent for few moments.
"This happened too fast, we lost two people in just five days."
"She'll pay for it." I tell her.
Clove nods.
"Alright, ladies!" Cato turns our attention to him.
"We're gonna move back to the Cornucopia since many supplies were left there." "Do you remember how there were bombs near the podiums?"
"The ones that blow up when the tributes tries to get off the podium before the timing?" I ask.
"Yes, indeed. We're gonna use those to protect our supplies." Cato explained.
"Okay but how are you planning to move to bombs around the supplies?"
"We're not gonna do it, we're gonna make someone else do it."
"Like who?"
"At the night, I was walking around and I know that District 3 boy has a camp near."
"So we're gonna make him our second Peeta?" I question.
"Something like that."
Me and Clove exchange a look, we decide to obey, not like we have a choice.

...

Me and Clove traveled to the Cornucopia while Cato took care of the boy.
We put all the supplies in one place, I draw a circle around it to make sure where to put everything.

"That seems to be everything." Clove stated.
All the tents, medicine, sleeping bags, backpacks and food that we had left.
"Putting everything here is really a good idea?" I ask.
"The stuff will attract people and kill them when they try to take something." Clove explained.

Then Cato came and threw a body of District 3 boy.
"Is he alive?" I question and keen down.
"Yep, just unconscious. I brought his stuff too."
Cato threw on the ground the backpack that belonged to the boy, I opened it and found bunch of apples and water.
"Where did he got all the good stuff from?" Clove said while taking the bag away from me.
"He must have taken it from the Cornucopia in the Bloodbath."
I look at the boy and remember that he was standing next to me while I was watching other tributes fail. I don't know why he did that but I also seen him trying to interact with Marina and Clove, maybe he wanted us to like him so we don't kill him?
"He scored a 5 on the training, so I don't think he's much of a threat." Cato stated.

Later on we wait for the boy to wake up. Meanwhile, I managed to shoot some birds and put them on the pile.

It takes almost an entire day but he finally woke up when the sunset came.
"What-" the boy seemed confused and scared.
"Listen buddy, your under our control now and if you disobey, you die." Cato makes it clear.
The boy nods after a minute.
"You're lucky that it's getting dark, tomorrow you will know what your work is." "You got a name?"
"N-noah." He mumbled.
"Noah is not gonna have any night shifts. We can't let him escape."

As he ordered as happened. Our three took the night shift and Noah didn't.
We all made sure that he doesn't run away.
Noah didn't really sleep at night, at least not when I was watching.
He was crying and whispering something to himself.

Noah was tall for 14 year old, unlike his District partner he looked like a healthy teenager. His District partner was a girl who got killed the first, I remember that she was incredibly skinny that you could see her bones.
Noah had dark brown hair and a yellow jacket.

While I had a shift, I noticed something in his hand it was necklace with a small wooden solider figure. It wasn't a solider like a peacekeeper, it had a different uniform. If he wasn't our prisoner, I would ask him about it.

Next day, we woke up and we had a piece of birds that I shot. Those creatures are flying everywhere, all over the arena.

"So, Noah. You're from 3 so you're good with technology, right?"
Noah nodded.
"You're gonna move those bombs around the pile of supplies."
"But I don't-"
"Do it." Cato orders and kicks Noah.

Noah looks terrified at me and Clove. I don't make any eye contact with him.
"Every podium has one under it, you need to move them so they can form a trap around the supplies." Cato explained.

Noah then began to do his job, he was carefully digging up the bombs and putting them in different places.
We were standing quite far from him so when something blows up, we don't get hurt.
"What if it blows him up, though?" I asked.
"We will get ourselves a Peeta number three." Clove replied.
"There are 24 bombs and he already used four, that will take a while." Cato stated.
Clove groaned and sat on the ground.
"This is stupid! Fire girl killed two of our allies and she is planning god knows what and we are here watching a boy from 3 picking up bombs." She said.
I can't say that I wasn't disappointed ethier but we have to listen to whatever Cato says unless we want to get killed. I thought that he would tell us to find her right ahead but I can feel that he is planning something, I have no idea what though.
"We will kill her, we need to prepared first." Cato explained.
"Since when you care about preparation?" Clove rolled her eyes.
Cato didn't answer and sat on the ground.

It was taking hours, I didn't think that I would get so bored on the arena.
"Me and Glimmer will go to grab some water." Clove says, she clearly just wanted to find something to do.
"Be quick, Noah has only 6 bombs left." Cato replied.
Clove rolls her eyes, we both know that it will take six hours.

Me and Clove enter the forest and then she turns to me.
"Bet that I can beat you to the river?"
"You wish."

Me and Clove had a race to the river. Clove was surprisingly fast, she got there few seconds before me.
"I won!" She jumped.
"You're pretty fast on your short legs." I said while trying to catch a breath.
"I am not short."
"Yeah, right." I reply sarcastically.
I jump into the river and pick some water to the bottle.
Clove stares at the place where Peeta died.
"Look, his shoe is here!"
She picked up the shoe.
"Must have fallen of his leg when the hovercraft took him." I reply.
"Do you see this?" Clove pointed the shoe at the camera hidden in the tree.
"This is what's left of your lover boy! He's dead! We killed him! And we will kill everyone else!" She shouted with a smile on her face.
Clove then threw the shoe on the ground and stepped on it.

I laughed as Clove did it.
She's a little bit crazy, that's true but I like that for some reason.
"And Cato can suck our dicks! We don't need him!" She walked up to me.
"He thinks he's so great but it's our two who is actually amazing. Don't you understand? We're powerful!"
Clove seemed to get really motivated as she put her hands on my shoulders.
"Marvel and Marina are gonna be proud of us. Me and you, we can kill whoever we want." She looks me into eyes.
I smile and nod.
"Whoever we want." I tell her.

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