-katnissdeen:

He staggers through the beautiful woods, holding his intestines in, while she stumbles after him, carrying the ax that should deliver his deathblow.  Haymitch makes a beeline for his cliff and has just reached the edge when she throws the ax.  He collapses on the ground and it flies into the abyss.  Now weaponless as well, the girl just stands there, trying to staunch the flow of blood pouring from her empty eye socket.  She’s thinking perhaps that she can outlast Haymitch.  Who’s starting to convulse on the ground.  But what she doesn’t know, and what he does, is that the ax will return.  And when it flies back over the ledge, it buries itself in her head.  The cannon sounds, her body is removed, and the trumpet blow to announce Haymitch’s victory.