Author's Note: Hi everyone! Thanks for reading, this is my first ever fanfic. I got inspiration from the song Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons, one of my favorite bands, please review! I DO NOT OWN THE HUNGER GAMES OR THIS SONG. No copyright infringement intended. Thanks again, here we go! (Lyrics are in italics) –OliviaHG4215
Cato's POV:
Clove went off to the Cornucopia to get our necessary supplies. So I sat down and waited. After a while, I started to worry, I wasn't hearing any cannons. I stood up and started walking the way Clove had.
Suddenly, I heard Clove shriek. "CATO! CATO!" I took off in a dead sprint. "Cato please!" she screamed. I started calling back to her, "Clove, I'm coming!"
I do not feel, my legs were moving faster than my mind. "Clove!"
I break through the trees and see Thresh running towards the field. I look over and there she lies next to the Cornucopia.
I run over, my heart pounding. I skidded to my knees and pick up her delicate frame in my arms.
When the day has come, that I've lost my way around. And the seasons stop and hide beneath the ground, when the sky turns gray and everything is screaming, I will reach inside just to find my heart is beating.
Her eyes are still open, and I feel my tears streaming down my face, she says in a frail voice, "Cato, it's going to be okay, I swear."
"No! You're coming back with me, don't give up Clove! You're okay!" I say as my tears choke my voice.
"Hold on Cato, we'll be together again. Just hold on."
You tell me to hold on, oh you tell me to hold on. But innocence is gone, and what was right is wrong. When the hour is night, and the hopelessness is sinking in,
When the wolves all cry, to fill the night with hollering. When your eyes are red, and emptiness is all you know. With the darkness fed, I will be your scarecrow.
I swore to myself to protect her, I failed. I failed her, the one person in my life I truly ever felt love for, is dying in my arms. My Clove, my beautiful Clove.
Her eyes are fluttering. Her breaths shallow, my tears dropping to her cheeks as I hold her.
Again she says "Hold on Cato, just hold on. I love you."
"I love you too. You can't leave me, not here, please Clove."
Her eyes are shutting now, and I lose it. I scream to the sky, "Take me too! Please, she's everything to me, I'm dead already…"
Her breathing stops. I can't control the tears now.
Cause I'm bleeding out, so if the last thing that I do, is bring you down, I'll bleed out for you.
So I bear my skin and I count my sins and I close my eyes and I take it in.
I'm bleeding out, I'm bleeding out for you. For you.
I lay her body down, now rage mixed with my sadness is burning inside me.
I stand and draw my sword. I yell "I'm coming for you 11! You hear?"
"I'd die for you Clove. I promise we'll be together again."
I kneel down and with one last kiss, I leave my love on the blood stained ground, and take off.
Cause I'm bleeding out, I'm bleeding out for you, for you.