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Chapter 4: Stingers and bloody thorns of the heart

"Ow..." Clove hissed as she pulled out another Tracker Jacker stinger.

Cato and Glimmer and the District 3 boy tried to avoid the pain that had started to come back from the Tracker Jackers. Glimmer tentatively reached up to pull out a stinger that was buried deep in her neck but she felt too afraid to attempt pulling it out. She felt like such a fool. She was a Career, trained to kill and fear no pain and here she sat, faced with the decision of having to pull out a stinger from her neck. Glimmer let her hand drop in her lap, deciding not to bother with the stingers. Suddenly, she felt rough, calloused hands around her neck and she jumped. Cato laughed.

"Relax, its only me, the big, bad Cato."

Glimmer let out a humph and crossed her arms, ignoring Cato. He leaned forward and whispered something in Glimmer's ear that only she could hear.

"Want me to help you pull out those stingers?" Cato whispered.

Glimmer remained silent. Cato took her silence as a yes and yanked out one of the stingers in Glimmer's neck, which caused her to jump. She whipped around to glare at Cato.

"What the hell are you doing?" She asked.

"Aw, chill, Glimmer." Cato said, twirling the stinger he had just removed between his fingers.

"I'm just trying to help here." He said.

"Well, I don't want or need your help." She snapped and then started to pull out Tracker Jacker stingers on her own, taking care not to yelp out in pain as she pulled each one out.

Sure, Glimmer was grateful that Cato had saved her from the Tracker Jackers but did he really have to treat her like she wasn't capable of pulling out a stupid little stinger? Since when did that level of familiarity settle between them? Or was that Glimmer's inferiority to Cato's strength? She wasn't sure but right now, she sure didn't give a damn about Cato's cocky attitude.

Cato stood up sometime later and pulled out his sword that he had thrown into the ground.

"We should try and get some kills in before the day's over. Clove, you head north to try and find Lover Girl, Glimmer, you head west and I'll head east." Cato said.

"What should I-"

"District 3, stay here and guard the pile. Make sure nobody steals anything from it." Cato ordered.

District 3 nodded. There was honestly no way Cato could have expressed the importance of it any more than he already had. And without another word, he, Glimmer and Clove set off in their respective directions, each of them hoping that they them would run into the Girl on Fire, Katniss Everdeen, the surviving lover from District 12. They all wanted to kill her but only one of them would get the chance.

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Somewhere along the way, Glimmer knew she was being followed. She wasn't exactly impressed, since that person really didn't know who they were up against but Glimmer knew there was a chance that it could be the Girl on Fire. Somewhere in the back of Glimmer's mind, she knew she was District 12's number one target, because she had her weapon. The bow and arrows. However, Glimmer was ready to shoot to kill. The person who had been followup her suddenly leapt out of the trees from behind her and Glimmer spun on her heel and shot an arrow. She fell on her back and her follower stood frozen, the arrow lodged into the bark of a nearby tree, inches away from his head.

Of course, it was Cato.

"Cato, what the hell are you doing here?" Glimmer hissed, still laying on the ground. "I could have killed you just now!"

Cato chuckled and yanked the arrow Glimmer had shot out of the tree and walked her to her. He knelt down beside her and grinned, twirling the arrow back and forth between his fingers.

"Too bad you missed." He said with a taunting tone of voice.

Glimmer rolled her eyes at him.

"Asshole..." She muttered. "Be glad I did."

Cato chuckled louder. Glimmer was unimpressed.

"So, want to head back?" Cato asked, standing up.

Glimmer nodded and stood up. She started to hop back to camp with a limp to her step, which meant that she had twisted her ankle in an attempt to defend herself against him. Cato chuckled and walked with her, giving her a teasing smile.

"Want me to carry you?" Cato asked.

Glimmer scoffed. "Please!" She said sarcastically.

Cato smirked. "That ankle's only going to get worse if you keep walking on it."

Glimmer stopped and glared at Cato. She put her hands on her hips.

"Oh, thanks, Doctor Oz! I didn't know how good you were with medicine when all you really can do is sneak up on your teammates and break a couple necks here and there!" Glimmer shouted.

Cato's grin seemed to just be getting wider and wider with every comment that Glimmer made about him. When she wasn't looking, he scooped her up into his arms, catching her by surprise.

"Cato, what the hell-"

"Shut up, Clove." Cato snapped.

Clove. Cato thought she was Clove. Glimmer's heart sank. Glimmer said nothing as Cato carried her back to camp. Actually, Glimmer didn't let Cato carry her back all the way. At some point, she slapped him hard enough that made him let go of her. Glimmer limped back to camp, although there was nothing left of their camp. Cato ran up to the District 3 boy. It had all been obliterated by the mines.

"What the hell happened?" He shouted.

District 3 tried to respond but Cato had no patience left for him and simply snapped his neck. District 3 fell limp on the ground and a cannon boomed, signaling his death. Cato started to scream in fury, destroying whatever he could get his hands on so he could let out his anger. Glimmer sat down where she stood, watching Cato go on a rampage and she suddenly realized her bow and arrows were missing. Glimmer knew who had destroyed their camp.

The Girl on Fire had destroyed their camp using their weapons and their brilliant thinking against them. But for once, Glimmer didn't care. She didn't care one little bit.

I am really trying to keep to the plotline of the book but pretty soon, just as a warning here, the plot will move away from that of the book. Just for a little while. Reviews are well appreciated!