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A/N: I was thinking about writing a multiple chapter story, and this ship seemed like a good idea since there's so many places you can go with it. Please let me know if you like it and I will write more chapters! :)
Glimmer was taking a break from training when they met. Glimmer knew how she was supposed to treat tributes from other districts: coldly, with the knowledge that at one or both would dead in the end. In every other case that had been enough to avoid talking to anyone else in general. But when she looked up to see him glancing down at her, she could feel the rules gently blowing away in an invisible breeze.
His handsome face and slight smile were offset by his icy blue eyes. So beautiful, and yet so dangerously cold. She could feel herself flashing her gorgeous smile up at him, a habit she had yet to break despite her mentor's constant reminders. She saw him glance at her again, before sitting down across from her.
"Glimmer," she said coyly, waiting for his reaction.
"Cato," his reply was brusque, and not inviting, but somehow that made it so much more entrancing. She watched as his mentor shook his head slightly, and she knew he didn't want him talking to her. She continued to drink her water while trying to concentrate on her training. But she couldn't help glancing up at him every few minutes, and when it was time to go back to training she had a hard time walking away.
When she exited the training arena later that evening she was alone, due to Marvel's wish to continue training into dinner. Her mentor had stayed with him, and her escort, who was supposed to be walking her up to her room, had been waylaid by Cato's mentor, presumably to tell him to keep her away from Cato, and had forgotten about Glimmer entirely. When she entered the elevator it was empty, and she pressed the button for her floor and waited for the doors to shut. Just as they were closing someone walked into the elevator.
"Cato!" she was surprised. He had been standing with his mentor looking bored when she had passed them earlier in the hall with her escort.
"Glimmer," his voice was yet again much more subdued than hers, and his bored expression still lingered in a sarcastic way.
"We keep meeting like this," Glimmer said in a flirty way.
"We've only met twice," Cato said, raising his eyebrows and smirking.
"Well let's hope it's more than that," Glimmer was in full on charm mode now, and she only barely noticed the fact that they hadn't reached her floor yet. After all, she was on the first floor after the ground level.
"Considering we're going to be killing each other, I'm sure it will be," he was now turning his attention to the elevator, which had seemed to stop moving. "Did you press anything other than your floor?"
Glimmer shook her head and turned to look at the glass. It definitely had stopped. All she could see was the metal of the shaft. Everyone else had already gone to their rooms, and her escort and Cato's mentor would probably use the elevator used by the mentors.
She wasn't claustrophobic, but she could feel herself beginning to panic. These elevators were barely ever worked on, they were supposed to run forever without maintenance, they were in the Capitol for god's sake, how could this happen?
Cato was trying to unlock the emergency panel, which assumed you had a key to the elevator, which Cato and Glimmer obviously didn't have. Glimmer was silently cursing her escort while trying to help pry the panel open.
"Could this get any worse?" Glimmer said to herself.
"These elevators are airtight,"
"Shit." she muttered. She saw Cato smile slightly out of the corner of her eye before he went back to the panel.
He worked on the panel for another fifteen minutes until he gave up and sat down next to her. They had already tried yelling to no prevail, and Glimmer was exhausted and hungry.
"We will get out of here won't we?" she was scared, and she wanted reassurance.
"Well I don't think we're going to die, if that's what you mean," He still didn't look upset, which made her feel a little bit better.
They sat there for a few minutes in silence before she said quietly, "Do you want to be here, at the games I mean?"
"I'm supposed to be here."
Glimmer then took a chance and put her head on his shoulder. He glanced at her and then put his arm around her shoulders. She closed her eyes and focused on being calm.
After half an hour or so she heard the doors opening.
"Glimmer get over here this instant!" it was her mentor. He looked very, very angry. Marvel looked confused. As her mentor dragged her away she glanced back to see Cato walking away with his mentor, still unbothered and calm. He didn't look back.
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