A/N: I really want to know what you guys think of this? Is the story line good enough to make a sequel or not? I have a basic idea of where i want this story and the sequel to go and i basically write everyone night in bed on my Black Berry.
Disclaimer: obviously don't own The Hunger Games because if i did most of the people would still be alive...
Chapter nine
"What are you gonna do about it Bread Boy!" Cato snarls at him.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Peeta said and Finnick frowned at him. "I was just gonna say be careful, as soon as her friend Gale comes back you'll be kicked to the floor." Peeta shrugs, nonchalantly. "She's impossible to handle anyway."
"Peeta..." Delly says quietly, Finnick puts his bow down and tries to get my attention but my eyes are stuck on Peeta. Madge is taping her fingers on her bow.
"What else? What else do I need to know?" Cato asks, laughing.
"Well you might as well buy a manual on how to create a nuclear bomb and work with that." Cato roars with laughter and I try to swallow, Peeta is laughing with Cato. "She gets in your head, man, and she worms her way around until nothing is private anymore. Then poof! Big ol' Gale shows up!" Peeta makes a little poofing action with his hands. Cato copies him. "Yeh, just like that." He laughs again and Finnick puts his hand on Peeta's arm.
"Alright, Peet. That's enough." Finnick says quietly.
"She has this inability to be grateful as well!" Cato nods as Peeta continues laughing. "Like, you'd have though getting beaten up, kicked in the face, for her you'd get some kind of thank you?" Cato raises his eyebrows. "Nah, she just bides her time with you until Hawthorne comes back on the scene!" Peeta is watching me now and Cato gets bored and shoots and arrow.
"You're the one that brought him back." I mumble and Peeta laughs tightly.
"I didn't think you'd sleep with him!" He says with exaggerated humour, I pick up and bow and load it. "Maybe that's why you actually missed the board! Thinking about him inside you!" Finnick's hand tightens on Peeta's arm.
"Enough, Peeta." He growls.
"'I'm Katniss Everdeen, and I never miss, unless I have Gale's jizz inside me of course!'" His voice is high and he's still smiling. "Go on, shoot again. Let's see if he's still in your panties?" Peeta asks, pushing Finnick's hand off his arm roughly. I raise the bow and fire. Hitting the tiny black dot in the center. Peeta's face faulters. Suddenly, Cinna starts the machine, sending decoys into the air in quick succesion and I reel off arrows until everyone is down. I don't miss once.
"Fuck you, Peeta." I whisper and drop my bow before running off.
"Katniss," he calls after me. "Wait, please, I'm sorry!" I hear him closing down the gap between us so I run faster. I run to edge of the field where a huge thorn bush stops me. "Katniss." Peeta is right behind me and I go into flight mode, jumping into the bush and pulling myself up and over. I'm vaguely aware of the thorns piercing my skin but I jump down the other side and keep running like Prim's life depends on it. I'm good at that.
"Katniss! What's wrong!" Prim exclaims as I climb through her bedroom window and collaps on the bed next to her.
"Gale says hi!" I blurt out.
"You were just with him?" She asks as she rubs my back.
"No." I say quietly.
"Who were you with then?" I ignore her question and turn away from her and bring my legs to my chest. "Katniss? You're covered in pricks of blood! Who hurt you?" She asks urgently. I close my eyes.
"Peeta made my heart hurt." I whisper, I sound like a child who's just had their heart broken for the first time. I realise that's exactly what has just happened. "I told myself to never love anyone, Little Duck. When dad died mum was so broken. I couldn't be like that. I just couldn't! But then Peeta. I loved him. I let him in. And look where that's gotten me." Prim sighs and smooths my braid. "Boys suck." I say quietly.
"Yeah, they're icky." Prim giggles at my childish words but plays along. A knock on the door shocks us both. "Um, I'm naked!"
"Prim!" I giggle.
"Is Katniss with you, Primrose?" Cinna calls, I shake my head at Prim.
"Y-yes." She betrays me and I scowl at her. The door opens and Cinna walks in slowly.
"Thank you, Primrose." She nods and I stand up. "Come on, Katniss, it's time for our little talk." I look at Prim, bandaged up and weak and follow Cinna out. "So," he starts and I sneeze suddenly. "Bless you. Are you allergic to something?" He hands me a tissue.
"Love." I reply simple, he smiles knowingly and we walk out of Prim's cabin.
"So," he starts again. "Where to begin, Katniss." I don't answer. "The beginning of your story perhaps?" We walk for a long time before I speak.
"My mum and dad were high school sweet hearts. They were young, too young when I came along so they got married and rented a flat." We climbed over a gate. "Dad started to get involved with some bad people when I was little and he started to row with mum a lot. But then Prim came and she fixed everything. Dad went back to normal. Mum went back to normal. Prim was perfect. My parents said she looked like my mums mum. I never met my grandparents, they didn't like dad. Said he was too romantic." We passed cabin 1. "I was good, I think I was happy."
"You think?" Cinna asks.
"I don't remember how happy felt."I said quietly and he nodded for me to continue. "My parents had this big mock vow repeat thing and my dad sang to my mum about how much they loved each other. That's when it went wrong. Dad went out to buy my mum flowers one night and he was in a hit and run. When the police came to my school, I grabbed Prim and we ran home together. Mum was in the bathtub, submerged, gone. With a picture of her wedding day." We got to cabin sixteen and walked up the steps. "I couldn't let Prim and I go into care, Cinna. So, I dumped my mums body. I told Prim she had gone on holiday. She doesn't remember her anymore. That's when I met Gale, he was drinking in the elevator for our flats. His house had just had a fire and everyone in his family died except him. We became friends. Gale and I protected Prim. She was ours to protect." We sat down in two comfy chairs in the corner of the cabin. "Gale and I had it all worked out. We'd get married and have a child and get benefits. We thought it was that easy. Then the letter came for my mum that Primrose Everdeen was recquired to come to camp here and Katniss Everdeen wasn't recquired but could come. Gale called up and got in too. It was fine. Then he told me he loved me and I broke his heart. Then I loved Peeta and he broke my heart." I finish, picking thorns from my hands.
"So you think loved fucked it all up?" I'm shocked he swore but nod anyway. "Katniss, do you want to know what I think?"
"Only if it makes me feel better." I mumble.
"I think you had to grow up too fast. I think life has kicked you whilst you've been down over and over and you needed someone to blame. But no one was there to blame. So, you blamed the only thing that was common in all of these cases. Something that brings people together and pulls them apart, something that makes life and takes life." He sits forward on his chair. "You blamed love because you thought it was easiest to blame, until you felt it. For Peeta." I looked up at him.
"I can't put my faith into something that could fall apart, Cinna. I can't do that!" I say with confidence.
"No, you won't do it. You think that after this summer its done. You'll never see Peeta again. You can change that Katniss! You can see him again!"
"We're two different sides of a coin, Cinna." I sigh. He smirks and sits back.
"But the same coin." I frown. The door to the cabin opens and Finnick trots in.
"See, we're fine. Take a se..." He sees Cinna and I. Peeta walks in with a bottole of drink. "Oh! Well! We'll leave you to it?" Finnick practically asks hoping to get away with it.
"I was just going." Cinna says and stands up, I'm frozen by Peeta's exhausted face. "Where's Haymitch?" Cinna asks and Finnick looks around with a frown.
"Haymitch who?" He asks innocently.
"The Haymitch you got that awful spirit from." Cinna says as he pulls the bottle from Peeta's hand and pushes Finnick out the door.
"Oh! That Haymitch!" I hear Finnick say as the cabin door closes. I gaze at Peeta, I'm trying to figure out what it is about him that makes me go crazy. I decide it's all of him.
A/N: Please review guys, I don't want to be doing typing if no one likes it :P
