The tributes run towards the Cornucopia. Gale and Claudia get there first and Gale gets his hands on a sword while Claudia looks for things they need to survive with. Gale slits the boy with the orange hair in the throat. I guess he learned a thing or two while in combat with the Capitol. Claudia gets some knives and throws them in a back pack then they both head off towards the woods. The boy that was really strong stayed at the Cornucopia. Gale and Claudia are sprinting through the woods then eventually stop and climb into a tree. They start talking about something that no one can hear when the cannons start to go off. Thirteen are dead which means eleven are still alive. I was shocked how big the number was that are still alive. I was guessing that twenty would be dead at the blood bath. I’m watching the Games when a Peacekeeper comes up to me and tells me that Peeta wants to see me now. I decide to go but I’m going to tell him that it might be the last time we see each other. When I get into his room I see him through the glass in handcuffs watching the games. I take a deep breath and go into his room.

“I’ve been yelling your name for the past hour,” he says. I feel bad for doing this to him.

“I know,” I say.

“Why didn’t you come?” I start to stroke his hair and sigh.

“Peeta listen,” I say lowering my voice. “Remember what I told you not that long ago. He nods his head. “Well the reason why I didn’t come is because if I die today I wanted to make it as easy on you as possible. I love you and I just thought it was for the best.”

“You won’t die Katniss, you’re stronger than them. I know you can do this. Why else did you think I married you?” I laugh.

“Because you love me.”

“Exactly, now thank you for doing that for me. I really appreciate it but I know you won’t die. Compared to what you did to the Capitol not that long ago this is nothing. It’s like a walk in the park for you.” I give him a kiss.

“I love you.”

“Love you to.” I give him one last kiss then leave his room without turning around. I think he knows what I’m doing with all of this. If I die today, I know I will see Peeta again soon. But right now I can’t afford to think like that. I go to the Control Room one last time and see that everything is going alright. Gale and Claudia are still in the tree and I’m pretty sure they are going to be staying the night there. Perfect, all I have to remember is tree 285. Everything in the arena is labeled. I go back to the room where all of the surveillance footage is and no one has been in here. I lock the door and I will keep that door locked. No one will catch me. I’m about to strip the Peackeeper that is dead of his uniform when I see that all the plugs are plugged back in and the security footage is live. Someone has been in here but they never saw the Peacekeeper. I start to unplug the plugs again when I see a different Peacekeeper guarding a door. They must have shifts here. I plug back in all of the plugs and time how long until a new Peacekeeper guards a certain spot. It’s roughly about an hour until they switch. So I unplug all of the plugs again and take the Peacekeeper uniform. I put the bulletproof vest on top of my jacket then put on the rest of the uniform. I see that the Peacekeeper has a watch and I take it to keep track of the time of the shifts. I don’t want anyone to come in here and I don’t know how to get out without unlocking the door. I check to see if the Peacekeeper had any keys and he does. I’m about to leave when I realize that if he has a key then almost everyone does. So I just put the keys in my pocket and put a chair under the doorknob so no one is coming in here.

I think of how to get out when I see a vent on the ceiling. I stand up on the chair and pop off the top of it and throw it on the floor. I pull myself up into the vents and start crawling. I didn’t know that there were so many twists and turns in a venting system. I eventually find where I want to be, the hovercraft lift off and landing station. There is a Peacekeeper guarding the entrance. If I wait about fifteen more minutes there will be a new Peacekeeper. I watch as one of the Peacekeepers walks into the station about to get into the hovercraft that goes and picks up the dead bodies in the arena. All I have to do is get into it and kill the pilot right when we get into the arena and fake a malfunction. I only have one chance to get this right and my chance will come in a few seconds. They are switching positions. Right when the new guard gets in place I realize that that is the same Peacekeeper that was at my house right before Peeta and I left for the victory tour, not the man, the woman. The person who tried to arrest me under Snow’s power. I open up my jacket and take out a dart and drench it in the poison. Some of the poison gets on my skin by I let out a little weep since it started to burn my skin. I check to see if the Peacekeeper heard me and she still stands firm. Focus Katniss, you only have at the most one minute to do this before the hovercraft takes off. I start to hear the engines of the hovercraft warming up. Focus. I put the dart in the blow gun and I get her right in the heart. Dead.

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