Billy sat down and looked at John Grady, all pale and sweatsheened with his cheeks splotched in bright red and his old scar running starkly along the bone of his left cheek. He looked at him for a long time and then he took off his boots and leaned back in his chair with his arms crossed over his chest and looked some more. Dont you die on me now, he said. You hear?

Skylar thought she could forget her past and move on with her life, but an unexpected visitor warns her of great danger ahead. Now, Skylar must leave her fiancé, Ty, in order to figure out why she's being targeted and by whom...all while saving her relationship with the man she loves.

I was reading "Catching Fire" and decided to do a little mini-story that I thought might be enjoyable and entertaining while being heartbreaking and upsetting at the same time.