The Hunger Games AU: Katniss joins the careers
It’s only just now that I realize I can’t do it. I can’t kill him. I had thought, maybe, it wouldn’t come down to me; that Cato would’ve wanted to do it himself, especially after he blew up our supplies. But somehow, I always knew it would be my job, in the end. My aim is locked on his chest and yet…no…I drop my bow. This isn’t how it’s going to be. Not now. Not after everything. I’m not going to kill the boy who, truth be told, is the only reason I’m even alive to kill him. Life is sick and twisted sometimes. Most times. Cato isn’t going to be pleased. But it’s not him that I’m worried about so much as the girl. Cato has something in him - a kindness that was lost a long time ago. A shadow of decency. But not Clove. She’s heartless. A trait I can only assume is developed early on in the children of those districts. I watch Peeta’s blond head disappear between the trees, and now that this is where it all ends for me - there is no going back to the Careers. That alliance is gone. It’s been gone since the moment Peeta admitted his affection. It was never going to last. I stand, frozen for a moment, unsure what to do now and knowing full well that my next move could change the course of the games; of my life.
And then I turn and run after the boy with the bread.
