Previously,
Immidiatley, Katniss stands up, grabs her bow and walks into the forest, catching game for her little sister, and whoever else was around her at the time. Now she has more mouths to feed. She saw all of the people camped up in the trees, not to metion the people surrounding her when she woke.
Bigger, more game.
Cato walks after her, slowly so she doesn't turn on him, bow raised and ready to kill. It has happened before and honestly, Cato didn't want to find out what an arrow felt like through his abdomen.
Her tick brown braid bounces on her back as she jumps from branch to branch, shotting down animal after animal. She must have a feast planned.
"Katniss," Cato calls softly and just barely, Katniss turns her head to look at him. "Please, come down here. Let me talk to you."
Katniss tilts her head all the way towards him, watching his movements carefully. Why shoud she trust him? She just lost her memory of him, and everything that they went through.
"How do you know me? Prim wouldn't have told anyone my real name if you weren't important." Katniss says, lifting her chin higher as she slowly dismounts from the tree, keeping a distance.
"Well, maybe because Prim didn't tell me," Cato said, tilting his head the same way she had, "You did."
Katnisss tood there, frozen. Gers seemed to be working overtime in her head. She couldn't have told him, she doesn't even know him. He's a stranger to her but yet he seems so familiar. Cato steps closer to her, holding out his hand.
"Stop," She said, her voice quaking.
"Trust me," Cato pleaded with her, his eyes glistening with tears at her refusal.
"I can't do that, I can't trust you. I don't even know you!" She raises her voice just the slightest and the forest around them seems to stand still all at once.
"Take my hand Katniss. Please, I think I may be able to trigger your memory." His voice cracks slightly but Katniss is still cautious.
"There is no memory. Surely it would have came back by now, Prim can fix anything." Katniss says sure of herself.
"Not this. Give me a chance, please. I can't lose you." Cato whispers, no longer able to hold back his anguish and hurt as tears pour relentlessy down his face.
"What is your name?" Katniss asks, faltering slightly as the sight of him like this pulls at her heart in a strange way.
"It's Cato. Katniss, it's Cato." He cries, burying his face in his hands.
"Don't cry, okay? I'll trust you. But if you think you're going to do something, keep in mind I don't have to have my bow to kill." Katniss says threateningly, glaring at the tear streakd Cato.
"This will work Katniss, I know it will. I don't know how you could forget it." Cato smiles slightly, slowly reaching for her hand, waitin for her to refuse him again.
To Cato's and Katniss's great surprise, she reached out and closed the gap between their hands, letting Cato lead her away.
"Where... where are you taking me, Cato?" Katniss asks hesitantly, looking for a threat hidden behind bushes and trees.
"I'm taking you somewhere you can see this surprise. Hopefully you hadn't forgotten me." Cato says, smiling back at her to reassure that she's safe. "You will have to climb though, Cato grinned even more as a smile broke across her face.
"No problem." She laughed but then remembered why she had stormed off into the woods in the first place and took her hand back from Cato's. They stopped, staring intently at eachother for a second before Cato broke the silence.
"What's wrong?" Cato asked, looking worried.
"What about the food? Everyone must be waiting for it. They looked hungry when I woke up." Katniss, staggers back a little, looking towards the general direction of the camp.
"They will find the food you got for them, I promise. We have a good bit of hunters in our group so theyaren't all defensless. Don't worry." Cato says, beconing her towards him with his hand.
"But, what if-"
"Katniss," Cato cuts her off. "Why, if you have no memory of these people, do you care so much about them?" Cato asked, curious.
"Well, I honeslty don't know." Katniss pauses. "Maybe because of what I had to do when I was little, I don't want others to feel that way. I can change it, you know?"
"Yeah, I do." Cato smiles. "But you can't do it all the time so why don't you forget about the responsibilties for once, and just enjoy it while you can."
"I suppose..." Katniss trails off. "But only until after you show me what you needed to show me!"
"Okay," Cato laughs, taking Katniss hand backin his and hurrieg up a hill.
Maybe five or ten minutes later Cato finds a tall tree.
"This is the tree we will be climbing." Cato grins, looking back at Katniss.
"Okay, am I going up first or you?" Katniss asks, wiping the sweat off of her forehead from the heat.
"We're going up together," Cato says as he pulls her up to the tree with him.
The both scale up the tree. The branches become thiner up at the top as they wrestled through the lower branches. When they make it to the top, Katniss and Cato sit directly infront of eachother.
"Okay, what was the point in bringing me up here?" Katniss asks, looking down to the forest floor.
"Look," Cato points out to the horizon.
Sunndenly, a memory bubbles up to the surface, bringing her to look at Cato. But what confuses her is that it was when she was little. When he dad wasn't captured and her mom was sane. When she had absolutley no worries.
And like a tital wave, it all became undone.
AN: Hey everyone sorry for being gone long I hope this was a fairly long chapter for you although. The next chapter will be giving a back story on what happens and when she truly first met Cato. I hope you all like it, it just need to find out when I can get that typed up as well and posted.
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