Chapter Four: Cato's POV
I was shocked when Hadley got a twelve, but at the same time, I had expected a high score for her. Just maybe not the highest score you could get.
"Where are you going? We have to talk about your strategy for the interview tomorrow." Brutus called as Enobaria sighed at me.
"Out on to the roof to think. Do not follow me." I told them as I shut the door. Walking over to the elevators, all I could think about was why Hadley should be a career. The pack would be so much better with her.
When the doors opened on the roof I saw the bright almost red brown hair. "What did you do?" I asked her knowing she would know what I was talking about.
"Scared them shitless,"
"And how did you do that?" I asked again. "I shot out all the lights, started a huge fire and threw a knife at a pig." She said to me. My eyebrows rose at the fact that she had threw a knife at one of them.
"You threw a knife at one of them?" she laughed at the question then said, "No, I threw a knife at the roast, but I was tempted to throw one at them."
"Why though?" I asked yet again. She then went in to how they think they know everything about her when they haven't got the slightest clue about her. I nodded as she spoke and watched the way she spoke.
Acting on a whim, I leaned in and kissed her. You could practically feel her surprise but she kept kissing me anyways.
When I leaned away and waited for her to freak out on me I felt her lean in to me this time and kiss me, to which I eagerly responded.
"You still want me to be a career?" she asked and I smiled hoping she had changed her mind. "That's too bad babe."
She left me there stunned for a second before I realized she had walked away from me. I caught up with her right before she was about to get in the elevator and kissed her while she was up against the wall.
She pushed me off of her after a little while and walked in to the elevator while I stood there, smirking at her.
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"What're your tactics for tonight?" Brutus asks as Enobaria and clove watch as I move the piece of oddly colored fruit arounf my plate.
"Vicious, ruthless. Like I already am." I say as I look up at him. Clove snorts, "Like you are with that water warrior?"
I glare at her, "I already told you. I'm going to get inside her head and make her seem like I care and then kill her while she's vulnerable."
That was not actually my plan. I was too intrigued by her to kill her off. It was horrible too, knowing that I would have to at some point, if I planned on going home which I most definitely did. Plus, if I killed her, I wouldn't get any sponsors, considering the Capitol loves her.
Clove rolled her eyes at me then went to wherever her stylist was. After I had finished talking to Brutus and Enobaria, I went to where my stylist was also.
"Cato!" My stylist, Relle, said as I walked into the room. I nodded at her and sat down on the counter like I had down on the first night here.
"I've been meaning to ask you," she started as she walked out of the closet with a black suit in hand, "Are you planning on screwing the water warrior once you get in the games?"
I shrugged in response and quickly changed in to the suit I had been forced to wear. She continued to rattle on about Hadley while I continued to only half listen.
"Alright, it's time!" she said excitedly as we walked out of the room and towards the place where Caesar would be interviewing us,
Standing in line, I saw the Glimmer go on to the stage in her translucent dress and Hadley come in to the room with a white one on. Holy Fuck.
The dress came down to a little above her knees, was a long sleeve with the sleeves the lace pattern thing that very few capitol people wear. The dress was tight and made her curves obvious and made her already big breasts look even bigger.
She walked in with Finnick trailing behind her and quietly saying things to her in which she nodded in response.
Marvel had just come off of the stage which meant that I would be going up soon. Clove went on to the stage and portrayed the vicious person she was. Caesar seemed to like her. When her time was up, I walked out in the stage with a cold smirk on my face.
"And here we have the great, Cato Hadley!" Caesar called as I sat down in the chair. I kept the look on my face then looked out at the crowd.
"So, Cato, tell me, are you ready for the games?" he asked. I nodded, "I'm vicious and ready to go."
Caesar grinned, "That you are. You are supposedly the head of the career pack this year, is this true?"
"It is," The crowd all let out ta cry of what seemed to be like happiness then let Caesar continue.
"How does that feel? Knowing that you're district is going to be watching you lead the careers?"
"It makes me feel proud that my district will be brought honor because of me." I told him. He nodded and smiled, "they'll also be proud. But what we all really want to know is how you feel about a certain girl here if there is any. Any comments on that?"
I grinned, "Sorry Caesar, no girl here. Or at home for that matter either." The crowd all let out another cry but this one seemed to be of anger.
"Not even Miss Hadley Valor?" he asked with a smile. I looked him dead in the eye even though it was kind of hard, and said, "Not even Hadley."
The crowd roared with disbelief, in which Caesar calmed them down. When they were finally quiet, he asked, "Then what in the world was that when you both arrived at the capitol? You seemed to like her very much,"
I shrugged, realizing this wasn't what I had wanted to happen. "Yes, she's hot. But this is the games that we'll all be in a little more than twelve hours. Nothing is going to happen other than Hadley dying along with twenty two other tributes and me going home to my proud district."
Caesar nodded and mumbled the word understandable a few times. We talked for a minute more and then it was the end of my turn. When I walked behind the curtain and in to the place where every other tribute was, I saw Hadley coming over towards me. I held a hand up, "Listen, I kn-"
I had never been able to finish that sentence do to the fact that she had fallen on me. We had landed with me on my back and Hadley on top of me. Her mouth was right next to my ear and she whispered, "Don't take anything the boy from three offers, he plans on slitting your throat while you sleep."
Soon after that she stood up, while I stood up too and I nodded at her. We had looked at each other before she broke the silence, "So, you think I'm hot, huh?"
I rolled my eyes at her, "As if anybody doesn't." she grinned then hopped over to where she was next in line for an interview.
"And now, we have the ever so lovely, Hadley from district four that we all voted to have a couple more minutes with."
She walked on stage with a smile on her face, but just like when we arrived in the Capitol, it was completely and utterly fake.
I could tell she would much rather be doing something else. "Hadley, my dear we've all missed you so much!" Caesar spoke, for the audience. They all roared in approval.
"I've missed all of you too." She said while sweeping her eyes over the audience. "Your all so extravagant and unique, it's odd not seeing the way you all portray those qualities, for a long time."
I had to try to stop a laugh form from her sucking up to them so much. She definitely knew how to manipulate them though. Some of the capitol had, even though they were sitting down, passed out.
She chuckled at all of their smiling and tears stained faces. "We all miss not having you here for a long time too." She smiled at Caesar and his comment.
"But tell us, what have you been doing when you're not with us?" he asked her. "While I'm in four I'm usually fishing or practicing with a various amount of weapons. But, so far in my stay in the Capitol, I have been training, racking up twelve's, sleeping and shooting water out of my hands." She laughed as the capitol laughed aloud with her.
"Other than all of those things, Hadley, what is your favorite thing about the Capitol?" she thought for a second, "So far, My stylist, the view and my bed. That thing is so soft, you wouldn't believe it."
The audience laughed again. She was really good at this. "Don't forget, I live in the Capitol. I do know how soft the beds are. And tell us, why do you like your stylist so much?" Caesar asked.
"Opal just seems to understand me a lot. And she is also a genius when it comes to what clothes I should wear."
He nodded, "That really was something, that water." She nodded at him and said, "I actually have something like that today. Want to see it?"
He nodded along with what was almost the whole capitol as she stood up. She raised her arms up and out shot the water from her hands. Then her hair started to look like it would like if she had just jumped out of the salty ocean.
But she didn't stop there.
She spun around twice and she changed. She had caught on fire but the fire started to die down. Her dress that was white turned black but still had the same pattern. And her hair that was once damp also caught on fire, but the fire went down and when it did, it left her hair in curls or whatever.
She had gone from something so light to dark in a matter of seconds. When she sat down in her chair, it had finally sunken in to to the audience at what she had just done. They all stood up, laughing and cheering for her.
"Hadley, that was amazing. You had gone from light to dark so quickly. Wow, that was just, wow." Caesar then started clapping. Hadley smiled and waved her hand at him.
"With something like that, there has got to be some boy." He said passionately. She laughed, "I wish, Caesar. I wish."
If he brings me up again I'm going to be pissed. But the fact that there wasn't anybody that even slightly interested Hadley made me sort of relieved.
"Not even Cato?" Caesar pried. Son of a bitch. Hadley pursed her lips, "Not even Cato," the fact that she could lie that smoothly startled me. Every day, I learn something else about her that doesn't settle well.
How often did she lie to the Capitol? If she lied too much, the Capitol would take it as a threat and she'd be in danger. Which is good! I need to stop thinking about her like this. I'm going to have to kill her. I can't let her mysteriousness stop me from doing that. She didn't even care about me in the slightest way.
The crowd all let out the loudest roar at how they were disappointed. "I do not believe this! There has to be something going on between you two! What was that when you first arrived then? And what was that at the parade? Hm?" she chuckled at Caesar's outburst.
"Believe it, Caesar. When we got to the capitol, he was just doing it to mess with me." She paused, "And at the parade I was proving to him that I won a bet we had made."
"And what was the bet about?" he asked. "Who would have the better outfit for the parade." She supplied. "I think we all know who won that one. What a shame though, about you and Cato."
She shrugged, "If we weren't going in to the games, I can promise that something would happen, but we're not. We're going in to the games and only one of us will make it out. Maybe neither of us will even make it out." She finished saying as her buzzer rang. The crowd roared with disapproval.
When they have quieted down, Caesar lifted her arm up and she said, "The only people I am winning for are my sister, Dad and Mom. Not any boy."
Then she walked behind the curtain, going straight for Finnick. He started to whisper stuff to her as soon as she walked up to him with wide frightened eyes.
The district four boy went on to the stage, and spoke to Caesar about four. It seemed like an easy going conversation, up until he brought up who was going to be his first kill.
"The first person I kill will be that girl, Hadley. She's a bitch that everybody loves and I hate. She's going to be the first one dead." The crowd that was just full of emotions today all gasped at what he had just said.
I turned to look at Hadley and saw that she was standing there with Finnick trying to calm her down. She looked around with her wide eyes and looked at me.
I started to walk over to her, but she turned around and bolted out of the room like she was on fire.
I followed her until she rushed into the elevator and the doors closed behind her. I went up to the door and hit my hands up against it. Damnit!
I hit the button and hard and waited for the elevator to come back. I jammed my finger in to the district four button and waited as I got up there.
Throwing open the doors, I heard somebody crying down the hall. Rushing over to where the sound was coming, I saw Hadley sitting there, clutching her blanket on her bed with tears all over her face.
I walked over to her and sat on her bed right next to her. "Make yourself right at home." She managed to sarcastically spit out. I grabbed a pillow and put it under my head, "Think I will,"
She stared at me for a second, "Why?"
"Because, I can." I replied. "No. Why are you not threatening to kill me?" it was my turn to stare at her.
"You're weird, that's why." I said as a frustrated look made its way on to her face. She looked at me for a second in rage. Then, she was on top of me smothering me with a pillow.
"Why are you laughing, you devious dick?" she yelled. I quit laughing then pushed her off of me. She was strong; there was no doubt about that. But I was stronger.
When she was off of me, I rolled on top of her. "Because, I can. The capitol loves you yet you hate them, and that's strange. I'd like to figure out why, but seeing as that's not possible, I've been trying to do that before the games."
"It's going to take more than a couple days to do that, buddy." She grit out, as she tried to get me off of her. I grinned at her attempts, "Little shark, you're strong, strong enough to be a career, but you're not stronger than me."
She glared at me. And then I realized, she wasn't going to be a career. And if she wasn't, she'd be dead within a couple days. She had also said it would take more than a few days to figure her out, and if that's how long it was going to take for her to be figured out then I would.
"Don't go in to the bloodbath. I'll get you the shit you need then, run." I told her as she stared up at me with wide eyes.
"What? Why?" she asked. "I intend on finding out as much as I can about you, little shark."
"Is the big bad career forming an alliance with little old me?" she said with a raised eyebrow.
"Sort of. I'm staying with the other careers, but once they're all gone, I'll come find you." I decided.
"And what if you can't find me?"
"I will."
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