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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2343 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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It didn't take us long before we find it, the source of the water that fills the bottle I found on the boy who tried to kill us. Both of us still has his blood on us, my hands are stained by it, my knees covered and his blood drips from my new axe, Katniss has little patches on her clothes and looks pleased at the water, at the chance to wash it from her clothes. I'm glad too but it seems a shame to dirty the clear clean water with our dirt and blood covered clothes and bodies, it feels like it would desecrate the water if we were to even touch such a clear pool of water. But never of us what that boys blood on us or on our clothes so we do desecrate the pure beautiful water, we both strip off our filthy clothes and take a bath, a cold but refreshing bath. As we soak we let our clothes float gently on the water seeing nowhere for them to float off to, we will have to wash them better than that later on but right now we just soak in the water cleaning our own bodies. The water feels nice, it's cold and made me shiver when we first got in but it sure feels nice now as the sun shines warmly onto my naked body, it's refreshing and relaxing but the more we soak the more the water changes. The once clear water is now clouded with red blood clouds and brown dirt ones, our bodies may be cleaning but the water is getting defiled by our presences.

I smile as I take my hands out of the water and see them blood free, it's a good feeling to rid my hands of his blood. I regret that I had to kill him but I had known choice, it was him or me back there and I won. I hate the feeling of guilt about it and know his blood will always be on my hands but I think that is a good thing, it reminds that I am human and not a monster. The guilt I feel after killing a human is the best thing I can feel after committing the act, its better then disgust and life scaring horror that could get me killed later on in the games when I hesitate to kill someone else. Guilt I can work with, guilt will keep me reminded of what I am and won't get in the way if I have to kill another Tribute later on in the games. I look up to the sky as the hovercraft appears to collect the boy's body, I watch it descend through the clouds and stop hovering perfectly still above the boy's body making only a quiet buzzing sound. I watch as the giant metal claw drops out of the hovercraft disappearing in the trees and returning second later raising with the boy's body in its grip, his body is hanging lifeless in its grip with his arms and legs dangling and blood still dripping from his head wound. I stare as his body disappears into the craft and the craft quickly raise up before vanishing into fin air, I know that it's using a cloaking device from my father but it still amazes me that they can just disappear like that.

I look back at the lake to an even more surprising sight, the lake water has cleared become beautiful and clear once again sparkling in the sun light. It must be the Gamemakers, this little pool of water must be manmade and controlled by them. They must have cleaned the water for the audience more than for us, they must have cleared it so some sick fucks can get off from our wet naked bodies bathing in this sparkling water. I look up at Katniss and quickly wish I hadn't, her skin is sparkling in the sunlight thanks to the water soaking it, her hair has been let out of her braid flowing freely and dripping wet but beautiful, her eyes are closed shut as she enjoys her bath and her mouth hums a quiet song to herself. He lips smile as she washes her hair and continues to hum, I struggle to keep my eyes above her shoulder as I watch her wash. I feel a little better about those sick fucks now, I'm really struggling to not become one of them. I have to distract myself before I do something I regret, I look down at my hands and actually hope there is dirt or blood from that boy still there for me to wash away. But no, my hands are sparkling just as clean as the lake. Luckily my clothes float by me and give me the distraction I so desperately need. They are still filthy and need to be cleaned, I quickly grab them and start to scrub them taking my mind off of Katniss's soft wet naked flesh. I scrub and scrub and scrub until my clothes are free of dirt, blood and whatever else covers them, I scrub them until my hands sting but finally they are clean and my mind was taken off of Katniss. I just need to not look up and I'll be fine, just not look at her until she is clothed again.

"We should hurry up and get moving before someone comes by" Katniss voice tells me as I was just finishing washing my clothes.

"Yeah we should" I reply standing up. "There might be a good place to sleep nearby"

"I hope so" Katniss says and I hear also stand up and the water flow off of her body splashing back down into the lake. "If not it looks like there's plenty of trees that will take our weight to choose from"

I look up and for the first time notice the trees, they are all tall with thick branches and a lot of bright green leafs to hide us from unwanted deadly eyes. With my new axe and Katniss with the knife we can defend ourselves but with the element of surprise, even a Career won't stand chance if we jump down on them from one of tree branches. Also if we do need to run we can always go up out of their reach, all of the Careers weigh at least twice as much as Katniss and I combined and would easily snap these branches. They all look safe too with no birds nest, knowing the Gamemakers the birds may be deadly and no Tracker jackers in sight or one of their nests. I sigh with relief because Tracker jackers are deadly and I know from experience that just one sting can mess with your head, I've been stung several times in my life because the Capital forces us to cut down a tree with one or more Tracker jacker nests attached to them. I was trapped in a never ending nightmare and the things I saw still hunt me to this day, that was just from one small little sting and I nearly lost my mind only snapping out of it when the venom in their stings wore off. I was in the woods collecting fire wood the last time I was stung after accidently walking under one of their nests, I woke up at home in my bed the next day my father apparently found me curled up in a ball screaming my head of like a banshee terrorising some nearby kids.

"That's not a bad idea" I tell her after snapping out of my flashback about the horrors of the Tracker jackers venom, I turn round to see her fully dressed and a blush grow on her checks as she quickly looks away. I'm about to ask her why when a cold breeze reminds me that I am not wearing any clothes, I quickly turn and start dressing myself. "Yeah I think a tree is are best bet for a peaceful night's sleep" I finishes getting dressed and find my clothes still soaking wet, at least it's a nice warm day and there's plenty of time before sunset to dry off. "We should still look around and let our clothes and bodies dry before we pick one though"

"Ok" Katniss replies as I turn around again and only this time I find she has her back to me, I smirk at the sight before I say.

"You can turn around I'm decent now" She does but slowly and I see the small bit of her blush still fading away from early on her cheeks.

"So where should we go?" Katniss asks clearly trying to take her mind of what she saw, that little fate blush is all I need to see to know I'm still on her mind.

"I think we should circle this little lake and see what's around us" I answer looking u to see the sun and how much time we have left till dark, we have plenty of time.

Before we start to walk around the small pool of water we fill up are water bottles and add some drops Iodine to clean the water. We walk around the lake in a small circle at first but it quickly grows until we are walking through where the boy died, we take in everything surrounding us. We learn where every tree is that we can sleep and hide in, every tree that's opened and hollowed up to allow us inside, where every animal lives and where ever animal track is mainly spotted by Katniss. By the time we return to the small pool of water the sun is starting to set but we thankfully we still have light to help us climb into the tree we chose for tonight, it's a tall oak tree with hundreds of bright green leafs to hide us from unwanted eyes. Come to think of it all of these trees have too many leafs and all of those leafs are too bright and green to be real, the Gamemakers must has done something to them when building the Arena to make them look this way. Today has been tiring but thanks to the bath we took I feel clean and more like myself again, we scouted our surrounds set snares and found water. A tiring but productive day, it's a pity I had to kill that boy today with so many good things happening after then. But it looks like at least we can get a good night's sleep, the Careers are nowhere in sight and I can't even hear their brutish voices or heavy stomping footsteps, we are very well hidden from the world and we can see out through the leafs and see any approaching Tribute long before they reach us. As long as we are quiet I believe it is impossible for anyone to see us, as long as the approaching Tribute isn't quiet we can hear them as already I can hear sounds carrying from animals across the Arena.

"I think this branch is high enough to keep us safe" Katniss says as we climb onto a thick strong branch that should easily take our weight and we both could sleep on.

"Yeah it looks big and strong enough" I reply as I take of my backpack and start to pull out the sleeping bag, Katniss in the meanwhile takes the length of rope to help secure us to the tree. "So who what should we have for dinner tonight"

"I think we should open one of the bags of dried fruit and share it between us" Katniss suggests holding up one of the packs of dried fruits.

"Sounds good to me" I say as I finally free the sleeping bag from my backpack. I spread out the sleeping bag and we sit on top of it, Katniss opens up the pack and holds it between us so we can both eat from it as we watch the sunset. I was about to eat a piece of fruit when a cannon sounds followed quickly by another, The Careers must likely found a pair working together like Katniss and I are. Ever that or Thresh the giant from District Eleven managed to kill two of them, Thresh is the only Tribute capable of killing two Careers one after another with his big powerful muscles that even made Cato nervous during training. "I don't think these Games well last much longer if they keep on going through us like this"

"I know" Katniss replies before putting one of the pieces of dried fruit in her mouth and slowly chewing it.

We eat the rest of our small meagre diner in silence, never one of us wants to talk about death or the fact that maybe even tomorrow we will have to split up and fight each other. I hardly taste the dried fruit as I eat piece after piece of it, the thought of that I may have to kill Katniss in the morning has taken everything away from me. I can't taste the dried fruit, I can smell it, this tree I'm in or Katniss sat so close to me that I can feel our shoulders touching, I barely feel her touch as if my shoulder though it's as if my entire body is numb, I can see anything also, I see the world but it's like none of it is really their and don't even notice the sun go down and the Arena turn to darkness. It's as if I'm not really alive and the only thing that reminds me that I am in fact alive is one thought, in the morning I may have to fight Katniss and kill her. Can I really kill Katniss though? I would like to think I could so I then could win the games and go home to my loving father and horrible mother but, every time I even think about hurting Katniss no matter how small hurts me and there's something deep inside me that is telling me that I won't be able to kill her even if my life depended on it. I sigh and look up at the sky and finally hear something, the national anthem of Panem playing loudly to show todays tributes faces who died today. The first one is the boy I killed here was the male Tribute from District five, the other two other two are from District ten, they must have been working together and died at the hands of the Careers. As soon as they faces are gone the Arena becomes dark.

"We should get some sleep" Katniss suggests as the darkness settles over the Arena.

"Sounds good to me" I say as I look down from the dark sky that doesn't have a star to light it or a moon that is most likely hidden behind a cloud. Or by the Gamemakers to make the Arena darker for some reason.
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