HungerGamesGleek123: =) I'm glad you liked it :)
scoco: There's probably gonna be more talking in this one. I'm not sure though because I'm doing this first so I don't forget. Thank you for reviewing=)
geranium08: It might take a little while longer for Katniss we all know how long she took in the books. Cato might figure out that he so does love he in the next couple of days. I'm glad you reviewed!
Tally Jennifer Youngblood: Short, simple, kind thanks!
98nomes: Yay! You love it=)I love to hear it from my readers thanks!
Dramione-Fan 17: He is fooling himself by thinking that he doesn't like her. Thanks for reviewing!=)
okinawa haruhi: I'm not sure if I would do a sequel about Katniss in the 71st Hunger Games, I haven't thought much about it. I thanks for the review I loved it.
Bere132: I'd tell you but the answer is in this chapter. I'm glad you loved it.
Captainspittlebug18: Thanks I figured Cato would be dead if he did it while she was conscious so I did the next best thing=). Good question and I can't say much but Cato might have had a little influence on that one.
Shloh : Yup you got that right. Also he will call her Kat. It's funny cuz I thought I did that then once it's up I see that I didn't ;).
Sweetviolentlightning: Yeah, I'm thinking of that when he like thinks he might like her. Thanks for the review=)
Olive Monster : I'm glad you like it. Thanks for your review.
AliceW : yeah funny isn't it? If I have him die it won't be too gruesome. As for Rue I'm not sure he always seemed like a solo kinda guy.
Sophie : Hehe I use to have trouble with that too. Thanks for the review=)
muzicoftheheart : She did get the note and that would be funny, I might do it.
Dragon K1ss3s: I'm sure weather I would do that or not, I'll have to think about it. Also WOW that's like 1400 words. Thanks for reviewing!
Anon : I'm glad you love my story=) and I think you'll like my plan for Gale. I know exactly what to do with him, well when he's in thew games I'm not quite sure what I'll throw at him but I figured out if he's gonna die or not and if he lives would he try to be with Katniss. That I figured out.
Wow that took up like a whole page. Thanks for the reviews=) I broke 100!=)
KATNISS
I had the weirdest dream that night. It wasn't like a nightmare. So there was a princess who was under a curse. Her curse was that she would be forever tired but never able to sleep. Weird curse, anyway she was kept in a tall tower so people would not look at her. She wasn't ugly though,in fact she was beautiful and eternally sixteen, but since she had no sleep she wasn't able to do anything because she was so tired and for some strange reason the more people around her and looking at her made her more tired. The King had food sent up to her by a servant and as the years passed he grew old and died.
He died as the oldest King ever, the one thing that kept him alive for so long was hope that the her one true love would come and finally let her sleep. He wanted to be there when it happened but then he died so he missed it.
Her true love was a dashing young man. She didn't get a good look at him but from what she saw he had many muscles and was quite a skilled fighter. His hair was cover by a hat and his eyes by the shadow cast from it. The boy/man leaned down and kissed her, it lasted but a second. The princess fell backwards in the deepest sleep, one she wouldn't wake from. The witch who cast the stupid curse was pretty dang smart. She instituted sleep for death so no one would try to modify her curse. Her true love saw that she had died so he impaled himself on his sword. Nice Romeo and Juliet ending,huh?
I woke up from the dream and one thought kept bugging me. I thought back to the boy and I'm pretty sure I've met him before. It didn't matter thought, what are the chances of meeting him? Besides it's not like he's really my prince charming, if those even exist.
I yawned and decided to eat breakfast before getting ready for my sponsor meeting, it's not I'd eat there anyways. In the dinning room Cato and Effie were sitting across from each other and it appears that they were having a stare off.
"Come on Cato just admit it," Effie coaxed. He glared at her.
"No, I d-,"
I chose that moment to clear my throat. Both of their heads snapped up. "Katniss! How are you? Did you sleep well?Are you excited for the games? What did you dream about?" Apparently Effie babbles when she's nervous.
"I'm fine, I sleep okay, no, some weird things. Does that answer your questions?" I said as I sat down for breakfast. Effie nodded rapidly before hastily leaving.
"So what were you and Effie talking about?" I asked Cato. He stiffened and stared at the table cloth.
"How much of it did you hear?" he asked me. "All I heard was Effie try to get you to admit something and you denying it." He sighed in, relief?
"It was nothing. Now I get to ask you a question. What did you dream about?" he asked.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Was it a nightmare?" he pressed.
"No but it was...I just don't want to talk about it," I said. I had a dream about a princess and prince. Can you picture that? I'm not telling that dream to Cato. I just know that he would never let me forget it.
"Katniss tell me. It doesn't seem bad but you seem disturbed by it." I shook my head.
"No" Cato grabbed my shoulders and looked me in the eye.
"Tell me. I won't laugh, tease you, or make fun of you just tell me." His grip tightened, it kind of hurt.
"Will you let go of me?" I asked.
"Not till you agree to tell me about your dream." His grip tightened even more. I sighed, it looked like I was going to have to tell him. Why did he care so much though? It was strange, he was becoming less like the guy I would gladly kill and more like a more annoying form of Haymitch subtracting the drinking part.
"Fine, but let go of me." Cato grinned and let go, then sat back in his seat and wait for me to talk.
"I'm telling you now that it was a stupid dream. So there was a Princess..." I told him the whole story but when I got to the part about the kiss he stiffened up and sat there rigidly When I was done he said he had to use the bathroom and left.
The rest of the training days went by without anything interesting happening. Cato also never spoke to me about my dream again, which I find quite strange considering that he was begging to hear it in the first place.
Finally the day Gale and Minnie would get their training score came.
"Okay, Gale I want you to show them your archery and maybe you snares too. Minnie I want you to show them anything you're decent at. You two got that?" I asked. They both nodded as Cato walked into the room.
"Make sure you eat enough food. You want to be energized and think clearly, but don't eat too much food you don't want to be sick either," Cato said as he sat down and started eating a banana.
Gale and Minnie both cleared their plates and got ready to go.
CATO
Katniss and I went to wish then good luck at the elevator. I just muttered good luck to Gale and Minnie. I'm not really a sentimental type person if you haven't caught on yet. Katniss gave Minnie a more warm good luck. For Gale she smiled and said "Shoot straight" Before giving him a hug. I felt something-sadness, jealousy maybe?- in my heart but I shook it off. What was there to be jealous of? I just wish that...she would look at me like...she does to Gale. I shook my head, trying to clear it of these thoughts. Effie must be really getting to me.
This a few days ago she was trying to convince me that I liked Katniss and she keeps trying. I thought back to that day when Katniss interrupted Effie. She remembered the kiss that's for sure even if it was in her subconscious, I just hope she doesn't make the connection. At least I wasn't the prince in her dream.
After we sent Gale and Minnie on their way, Katniss kept yawning so I told her to go get some more sleep and she actually agreed with me.
I plopped down on the sofa and flicked on the TV. I sat there for three minutes before my peace was disturbed by Effie.
"Cato I want you to get Minnie a quick death." I shoot her a confused look like I didn't get what she was saying. I did though.
"Oh don't give me that Cato. I know how Brutus thinks you are on his side, and how you told him that by killing Minnie Gale would do worse."
"How?" I asked because I mean really. Effie missed a lot of stuff but she got that?
"District Two's guide is very chatty. Now please get her a swift and generally painless death. She's going to die and you didn't direct any Sponsors to her. It's the least you could do for her." I sighed she had a point there.
"Okay I guess I'll go now while Katniss is still asleep," I said.
I walked took the elevator down to floor two. When I arrived at the floor I went straight to Brutus's room and walked right on in.
"Brutus I have something to tell you," I said. He yawned.
"Speak then."
"Gale and Minnie have a plan. They both know she's going to die and they know how ruthless Two can be so Minnie wants to have a big torturous death. Then Gale would get some more sponsors by swearing to kill whoever killed her. If you give her a quick and painless death their plan won't work," I told him. He grinned.
"That's great Cato! This girl won't feel anything at all. Now you might want to go before the tributes get back they don't know that you're on their side, yet." I nodded and left. To be truthful I was glad to be out of that place.
Back on floor twelve I figured I should try to get as much sleep as I could. Even though I wasn't in the games I still wasn't sure how much sleep I would get.
I had a surprisingly good sleep, I didn't dream at all. I woke up to a knock at my door.
I groggily called "Come in." It was Katniss. She walked over to my bed and shook me. "Wake up Cato. Come on Cato you need to get up. Would you please get off your lazy butt we have stuff to do!" I just ignored her and tried to go sleep some more. When I heard her get up I thought she was going to let me sleep so I stretched back some and got more comfortable.
She dumped a ice cold pitcher of water on me. Let's just say that that got me up very fast.
"Change your clothes and get out there. They are going to announce the training scores soon," she said and walked out.
I pulled on a clean pair a clothes and went to join everyone else. When I got out there Katniss said "If you were up earlier you would have got to hear what they did, but now you have to wait for tomorrow."
The careers got good scores between eight and ten except for the district two boy he got a six. Brutus told me that he was going to one of the first to die. The middle districts passed by in a blur. They got nothing special.
The boy from elven got a ten-not surprising, he's huge- and his little partner managed to pull a seven, which I didn't expect. Minnie did better than I thought, she got a five and Gale got an...eleven,just like Katniss did. I saw her give him a big grin and then they were hugging and hugging and hugging and hugging and,man were they ever going to stop hugging?
I felt that twinge in my heart again. I didn't like Gale being by her. I hated that I hated that, if that makes sense. I can't help it though. I hate to admit it, no I REALLY hate to admit it but Effie might be right. Maybe I do have a tiny, stupid little crush on Katniss. Or a big one I thought as I watched Gale grin down at her and swing her around.
Cato FINALY thinks that he might like Katniss a little, yeah just a little. Now I have to work on Katniss. Thank you for your wonderful reviews please leave some more I love them. R&R.
