Wicked Game
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The admission hits him like a bucket of ice water. Carla looks oddly vulnerable in the moonlight.
And Samuel—
Samuel cares too much, is the thing. Her words shouldn’t mean anything to him. But they do. His heart – his treacherous, human heart, beats a little faster. And that’s dangerous because it will make it that much harder to kill her if he must.
Samuel doesn’t know if he could do it, anyway. Confessions like these won’t help him.
No, if he’s to have any chance of going home, Samuel must distance himself from the girl with the bread.
There is no other way.
Or: Samuel and Carla in The Hunger Games.
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- Part 1 of Wicked Game
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“Do you regret it?” she asks him finally. “Coming up with the love confession?” Her voice is blank, but genuinely curious. Despite that, Samuel recognizes it for the weighted question that it is.
Does he regret it? It certainly would have made his life a lot easier if only he had come out of the arena, if he hadn’t been forced to get to know her. But could he have lived with himself if Carla died in the arena? He would have spent his whole life wondering what her motivations were when she killed the girl from four moments before he dropped that tracker jacker nest. The recap of the Games would have shown that Carla was protecting him all along. Could he have lived with himself then?
“No,” he replies, honestly enough. He glances at her from the corner of his eye. “Do you hate me for it?”
When Carla looks at him, Samuel redirects his gaze to the ceiling. It feels too intimate, looking her right in the eye.
“I could never hate you, Samuel,” she whispers.
Or: Samuel and Carla in The Huger Games: Catching Fire (sequel to "the world was on fire and no one could save me but you)
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- Part 2 of Wicked Game