Disclaimer- I do not own the Hunger Games, nor any part of the world created in it.

"One."

Their lives will never be the same. It will twist and turn in so many ways, leaving them hurt and stranded by a thing they started, but can no longer stop.

They cannot live without the other. One is undoubtedly sure it is love.

The other is not. She does not know, and will not know for a long while.

The berries are cold and soft in their hands. They are the end of everything. Everything will be gone.

"Two."

She is asking herself why the gamemakers haven't ended it. Surely they want a winner alive?

He is thinking how much he will miss her when they are gone.

The cold is slowly eating away at them. Life is slowly seeping away, with the blood pouring out of his leg and the hope leaking from her heart.

They were supposed to stop the Games.

They were supposed to live.

But she supposes that there cannot be 2 winners.

"Three."

They raise the berries to their mouths.

This is the end.

"Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy -fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you—the tributes of District 12!"

They are alive. They can live. They spit out the berries and rinse out their mouths.

They collapse against each other, weak and exhausted and relieved.

"You didn't swallow any?"

He shakes his head, and she is so relieved she might faint. "You?"

"Guess I'd be dead by now if I did."

They are not dead.

They are not dead.

But something has changed. They will be wounded, tested, tortured. They will sometimes only get through the day by thinking of each other. Their old life is gone now.

It is the death of what had happened before.

A new life, strangled and stunted at first, will grow from the old.

Against all odds, it will flourish.

A/N- Aw, my last note of this story. So, did everyone like it? Surprised? Or not? I'd like to thank all of you amazing and wonderful people who have read and reviewed. I have gotten more than 100, 103 to be exact. Thank you all so so so so much! But the way, the title of the sequel for the 75th Game is- dun dun dah dah- We All Fall Down! LittleMissMellark suggested that; thank you so much. Emma Fried, I really liked Together We Won and Now We Fall. I will end up using it in some way or another. Special thanks to mystic night92. For this idea and the ones for my next story.

We All Fall Down will be started on Sunday or Monday. Talk to you people soon! :) Thanks again.