The Hunger Games Page #12

MARVEL:

Twelve down and eleven to go!

Shouts of agreement from the mob.

CATO:

We’d better clear out before the

body starts to rot.

The mob unknowingly walks towards the tree that Katniss is

in. They walk a few yards pass, then stop.

CLOVE:

Shouldn’t we have heard a cannon by

now?

CATO:

I’d say yes. There’s nothing to

prevent them from blowing the

cannon immediately.

LACEY:

Unless she isn’t dead.

GLIMMER:

She’s dead. I stuck her myself.

CLOVE:

Then where’s the cannon?

CATO:

Someone should go back. Make sure

the job is done.

MARVEL:

Yeah, we don’t want to have track

her down twice.

GLIMMER:

I said she’s dead!

They break out into a loud argument. Peeta interrupts them.

PEETA:

We’re wasting time! I’ll go finish

her and let’s move on!

Katniss gasps, then slaps her hand over her mouth. The mob

doesn’t notice.

CATO:

Go on then, lover boy. See for

yourself.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:
74.

Peeta walks to the campfire and examines the body of Karma.

The careers talk among each other in hushed, quick voices.

GLIMMER:

Why don’t we just kill him now and

get it over with?

CATO:

Let him tag along. What’s the harm?

He’s handy with that knife.

Besides, he’s our best chance of us

finding her.

GLIMMER:

Why? Do you really think she bought

into that sappy romance stuff?

CATO:

She might have. She seemed pretty

simple minded.

MARVEL:

Every time I think about her

spinning around in that dress, I

want to puke.

LACEY:

Wish we knew how she got that

eleven.

CATO:

Bet you lover boy knows.

Peeta returns to them.

CATO:

Was she dead?

PEETA:

No. But she is now.

The cannon fires.

PEETA:

Ready to move on?

The mob runs off into the woods. Off in the distace, Cato is

heard.

LACEY:

Hey you guys, look! Someone set up

a snare and caught a rabbit. Lucky

day, right?

75.

CUT TO:

WATER:

INT. Woods, Arena- DAY.

Katniss puts all of her sleeping wear in the backpack and

unbuckles the belt. She throws the backpack down on the

floor below her. She jumps out of the tree. She puts the

backpack on. She spots a berry bush. She strips it down of

its berries until her hand is full. She hesitates. She then

opens a berry up to see the insides. She puts them away. She

begins walking in a different direction.

FADE TO:

She walks across the fields.

FADE TO:

It is night. Katniss slows her walk to a stop. She leans

against a tree.

KATNISS:

Water.

She stands up straight against the tree. She talks louder.

KATNISS:

Water.

She slips down the side of the tree. She slumps. She then

lays down. She notices she has laid in mud. Her eyes widen.

She gets up frantically. She follows the mud path. She comes

to a clearing- there’s a pond there. She rushes over to it.

She scoops the water from her hand frantically, gulping down

as much as possible. She quickly takes the bottle from her

backpack. She fills it with the water from the pond, then

sits back. She sighs, smiling to herself. She notices the

tree nearby. She climbs onto it, puts her backpack away,

buckles herself to the tree, and goes to sleep.

CUT TO:

KATNISS, THE GIRL WHO WAS ON FIRE

It’s nighttime. Katniss awakens to the crackle of fire and

the smell of smoke. She looks underneath her. A fire is

starting all around her, particularly underneath her. She

fumbles, trying to unbuckle the belt around her and retrieve

the backpack and sleeping bag. She falls to the ground with

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:
76.

a grunt and recovers with a jump up and run through the

smoke. She runs through the smoke, coughing d gagging, she

falls down and pukes. She gets up slowly, and recovers yet

again with a run in the same direction. She reaches the

point where she fumbles out of the smoke and fire. That’s

when a fireball is hurdled at her. She dodges it. Another is

hurdles. She dodges it again. Another fireball is hurdled,

yet this time, she gets skimmed on the right calf. She

screams out in pain. She limps to the side to take cover.

She collapses to the ground, putting out the fire on her

pants leg. She rips off the fabric and quickly examines the

damage. She has a extreme second degree burn. Her hands have

minor burns. She winces, tears filling her eyes and pooling

over. She suppresses her sobs. She looks beside her and sees

a cooling agent, mud and water. She crawls over to it and

gingerly sets her leg into it. She follows that with her

hands. Footsteps of the mob are heard. She gets up, limping

to a tree, and climbs up it. She sits there as the mob

confronts from under the tree.

KATNISS:

How’s everything with you?

CATO:

Well enough. How about yourself?

KATNISS:

It’s a bit warm for my taste. The

air’s better up here. Why don’t you

climb up and join me?

CATO:

I think I will.

GLIMMER:

Here, take this, Cato.

Glimmer offers him an archery set. Cato pushes it away. He

motions to his sword on his belt.

CATO:

No, I’ll do better with my sword.

Cato begins to climb it. He fails.

CATO:

What the hell?

He attempts it again. He falls off. Glimmer pushes him aside

and attempts.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:
77.

GLIMMER:

Move over, idiot.

She climbs a few steps, but falls off. She tries to launch

an arrow at Katniss’ head, but it gets lodged in the tree.

Katniss takes it out of the tree and mockingly waves it. The

mob mutters curses and argue quietly

PEETA:

Oh, just let her stay up there.

It’s not like she’s going anywhere.

We’ll deal with her in the morning.

The mob mutter agreements. They go to sleep underneath the

tree. Katniss keeps her backpack on and everything else

away, except for belting herself onto the tree for security.

She goes to sleep.

CUT TO:

TRACKER JACKERS:

Katniss flutters her eyes open. It is very early

morning. She looks at the tree next to her. Rue stares at

her. Rue points to a branch. Katniss looks there, and right

nearby her, she sees a tracker jacker nest. It emits a low

hum of a sound, the tracker jackers buzzing around. She

looks at Rue with wide eyes as she realizes what it is. Rue

makes sawing motions with her hands. Katniss hesitates. She

takes out the knife and begins sawing the branch. As she

does, three tracker jackers sting her. She squeaks and

winces, but keeps going. She pushes it off of the tree as

hard as she can. The tracker jackers swarm the mob in their

sleep. The mob members awaken. They jump up and run towards

the lake. They shout cries of various types from "Tracker

jackers!" to "The lake! To the lake!". Glimmer falls to the

ground, covered in sting. She dies. Lacey does as well, but

farther away than Glimmer is. Katniss pulls the stingers out

of the stings she got. She then climbs down. Once she hits

the floor, a tiny parachute carryng extreme relief burn

ointment drops in front of her. She picks it up, opens it,

and skims the top with her fingers.

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