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Katniss sings to Rue until she dies. In an act of defiance to the Capitol, Katniss decorates Rue's dead body with flowers, refusing to let the people of Panem watch Rue's death and think of it as inconsequential.

Later, a new rule is announced over the arena's loudspeaker: two contestants from the same district will be declared winners if they are the last two alive. Excited by this change, Katniss searches for Peeta. She finds him badly injured by Cato and takes him to a cave to recover. When fever sets in, Katniss knows Peeta is close to death. Against Peeta's wishes, she risks her life to retrieve the medicine necessary for Peeta's survival right before another girl attacks her. As the girl prepares to kill her, another contestant, Thresh, kills the girl. Thresh is from the same district as Rue, and when he learns what Katniss did for Rue, he tells her he will spare her life this one time.

Katniss flees the scene and returns to Peeta with the medicine. Since Katniss first found Peeta, Peeta has been very affectionate with her; Katniss begins returning his kisses when she realizes that doing so will garner much-needed supplies from Haymitch. Soon, Peeta's condition improves and they're able to go hunting. The deaths of two more contestants — including Thresh — leave only Katniss, Peeta, and Cato alive. When the water is drained from the arena's ponds and streams, Katniss and Peeta are forced to head to the lake for a final confrontation with Cato. When Cato arrives, he's running from a pack of killer dogs. Cato, Peeta, and Katniss all take refuge on top of the cornucopia and begin to fight each other. Eventually, Cato falls off the cornucopia and is slowly devoured by the dogs.

Then there is another rule change: only one tribute will be allowed to survive. Katniss proposes to Peeta that they simultaneously eat poison berries, knowing that the Capitol won't want to lose face by having both contestants die. Sure enough, a final announcement hastily declares the Hunger Games over — both Katniss and Peeta have won. Katniss and Peeta are quickly taken back to the Capitol, where Katniss learns from Haymitch that the Capitol is furious about their attempt to eat the berries instead of trying to kill each other. Haymitch advises her to keep up the pretense of a romance between her and Peeta in order to make people think she wanted to die because she couldn't live without Peeta.

On the train ride back to District 12, Katniss tells Peeta about the need to fool the Capitol with their romance. Peeta is deeply hurt, as his feelings for Katniss are very real, and he had thought that Katniss had grown to return them. Katniss is torn — she feels affection Peeta, but she also has feelings for her friend Gale, and wonders what will develop between them when she returns to District 12.

The Hunger Games closes as Katniss and Peeta, keeping up their "pretense" one last time, arrive in District 12 and emerge from the train hand-in-hand.

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