"And what about you Cato? Are you scared at all?" Caesar Flickerman asked curiously, intrigued by the young boys tough façade.
Cato smirked. "I'm vicious, strong. I'm ready to go,"
Caesar smiled at his cockiness as the crowd cheered for more of him, loving the bad ass he was.
Katniss stood in the line of tributes, her arms crossed as her fingers dug into her arms. How could she just kiss him? In front of everyone? How stupid, even gross! But what about Prim? Katniss sighed and stepped out of line, walking in front of all the other tributes before climbing up the three steps and stepped out onto the stage.
Caesar immediately stopped laughing and smiling and turned over to Katniss, his face contorting into confusion. "Well what do we have here?"
Cato looked over to her, standing up to see why she was there. "Katniss what are you doing?"
She only answered by running over and throwing herself at him, grabbing his tux as she pulled him down and kissed him as passionately as she could. Her hate for Snow fueling the kiss as she gently bit down on Cato's lip. He practically growled at her as he wrapped his arms around her, slowly lowering his hands onto her butt.
Mentally she rolled her eyes but went with it.
This is for you Prim.
The buzzer rang,ending Catos interview time but no one could hear it because of the deafening cheer of the crazy, colorful fans. They yelled for more of Katniss and Cato, they yelled at the top of their lungs as they stood up in their chairs, waving their hands for more.
Cato pulled away, a cocky smile on his face as he still held Katniss in his arms. He looked down at her flushed face, her now swollen lips still in the kissing position as her grey eyes slowly opened to him.
Caesar just sat there like an idiot, not knowing what to do. Cato's interview time was up, yet he was still on the stage. Finally he just shrugged and went along with it, now encouraging the crowd to continue cheering for them. Caesar raised his hands in the air, pointing back from the crowd to Cato and Katniss on stage yelling.
"We want more! We want more!"
But the show must go on and eventually Avox's came onto the stage, there sad eyes locked on the ground as they pointed to the exit side of the stage. Cato shook his head before tilting Katniss's head and kissing her again.
The crowd went ballistic!
The Avox's looked up for help, wondering what to do now. Soon enough Peacekeepers climbed onto the stage and ordered Katniss and Cato off.
Cato just laughed at them.
"Oh all right," he said before grabbing her hand and walking off the stage, ignoring the screaming's fans and driving them more insane.
Once off stage, Haymitch turned around the corner and grabbed her arm, violently dragging her away, back to the tribute line that still waited to go on stage.
He let go of her, clearing his throat awkwardly. "Please try to keep you're teenage emotions in control," He said before patting Peeta on the shoulder and strutting away.
Time flew and finally Katniss was back on stage, the bright lights shining down on her porcelain skin as the red of her dress glowed and sparkled, making her look on fire as she twirled for the audience. Around and around, the flames grew, the gems on her shoulder sparkled as it bounced off the lights. Her body and face heating up as she stopped twirling, the fake flames slowly disappearing.
The crowd cheered, asking for more flames, more fire. Some even screaming for Cato. She ignored as she tried to regain her balance. Luckily Caesar came up behind her, gently placing his hand on the small of her back and grabbing her hand, leading her back to their seats.
"Well that was something wasn't it. A bunch of surprises from the girl on fire today huh?" Caesar said.
Katniss raised her eyebrow as she cocked her head in agreement. "Oh you have no idea," She chimed in, not being able to keep the sarcastic smile of her face.
"And can you tell us about the suprises? Start with Cato," Caesar said, leaning in and resting his elbows on his knees like a kid.
Everybody in the audience almost did the same, leaning in as far as they could without hitting the person sitting in front of them.
Katniss just cleared her throat, trying to get into character. This was harder then she thought.
"Oh um… yeah my uh kiss? Yeah I just find Cato's cockyness such a turn on," she lied, closing her eyes and biting her lip gently as if she was thinking about Cato.
Caesar gave a weird laugh, finding the tributes love life interesting. His eyes widened as he continued asking questions about them.
Inside her mind she could only think: Why not ask her about her sister or how she feels about the games? After all this is the hunger games! Nope, let's just focus on my fake love life. Stupid Capitol people. She shook her head mentally as she heard someone in the crowd scream up to them.
"is Cato good in bed!"
Caesar immediately turned to the crowd, smiling, as if saying good question. Katniss just stared, her eyes widening as if how am I suppose to know!
But unfortunately Caesar wanted to know to and repeated the question.
"So…?"
Peetas interview was charming, just as he was. He told some jokes and made everbody fall in love with the sweet baker boy. But no, he wasn't done making everybody love him. He had put the icing on the cake and make everybodies heart melt.
"Here's what you do, you win the Games, and then you go back home to her,"
"Well I don't think that's going to help me in my case," Peeta said sadly, not even making eye contact.
Caesar's blue eyebrows rose. "And why not?"
Peeta hesitated, "Because… because she came here with me,"
The crowd bursted out into tears.
Katniss and Cato had lust and fierceness but Peeta… Peeta had love. They all whipped out there outfit matching colored tissues, blowing their noses before cheering for the sad, hopeless Peeta. Some even yelling advice.
"Go get her from Cato!"
"You can do it!"
"We believe in you!"
Katniss tore off her heels, throwing one at the wall, knocking off paintings and picture frames, while she threw the other and shattered a lamp.
Effie jumped at the breaking sound, "Katniss! Please be calm!" She urged but it was too late. The elevator doors opened and Peeta stepped out.
Katniss charged over to him, his eyes widened immediately in confusion and terror. Good. She grabbed his throat with claw like fingers before slamming him into the wall.
"You don't talk to me, don't defeand me in my fights. Just nag me. And then out of the blue you confess your love to me? What do you think this is, Romeo and Juliet? I'll say I love you to, always have always will like a fairy tale? Do ya?" Katniss asked rethorically before pulling him away from the wall and slamming him into again. "Well sorry but I'm not saying it. This is the Hunger Games," She gritted through her teeth.
"Katniss, get off him," Haymitch said almost calmly.
Katniss still had her hand on Peetas throat, but after a few seconds she let him go.
He hunched over, gasping for air, a red hand print was still visible on his neck when his stylists and Effie ran to his side to see if he was okay.
"Haymitch-," "Shut up," Haymitch interrupted Katniss rant. "This is a game. You think Peeta has any chance at winning? Fuck no."
"That's not true," Effie said reassuringly.
Haymitch ignored it, "But we knew people love young, desperate, hopeless love. Lucky us you threw yourself at Cato, making it seem more sad and desperate for Peeta. And now people love him and want to sponsor him."
"And what about me? How will I survive?" Katniss asked sassily.
Haymitch didn't answer.
Oh of course, he wasn't going to help her. Katniss nodded her head in understandment, her jaw setting. She huffed in disbelief before just storming over to the elevator and pressing the down button.
The doors immediately popped open.
"Where are you okay?!" Haymitch said angrily, walking over to her.
"None of your business," She hissed before jamming her finger on the close doors button, making the doors close on Haymitchs face.
Katniss closed her eyes, relieved for a moment of piece. But she couldn't just stand in this elevator all night. She just needed to get away from them for a while. She opened her eyes and pressed the training floor button.
It was midnight, no one would be training. There she could finally get some peace and quiet.
Maybe.