Hail James, who gave this story over 20 reviews. Right there, that is a man dedicated to his country. Anyway, this is a more classically romantic chapter with both Peter/Katniss and Cato/Glimmer in. No, I kn ow where I'm going, and to 'Girls Whos Name You Don't Know', Glimmer will be more evil in some other chapters, I've already written them. But this is a nice chapter with cliches! Enjoy, and please review!

"Do you know who you're taking?"

Cato looked up, his spoon hovering above his cereal.

"Excuse me?"

His mentor, Brutus scowled. "I said, do you know who you're taking?"

"To what?"

Clove looked up. "I think we should go as District partners."

Cato looked at her. "I think, no." He looked around at his other mentor, the one with an 'E' in her name. "What is this?"

Brutus scowled. "You have a ballroom dance before you head into the arena. It's your last chance to get sponsors. Ideally, you take someone; so yu don't look like a loner."

Cato frowned. "Okay… anyone?"

"Yes."

"But you'll choose me," Clove assured him.

Cato swallowed. "How long do I have to get a partner?"

Brutus frowned. "Well, you had at least 5 days to get one…"

"And now?"

"Tonight."

Cato stood up. "Oh, shit," before racing to the lift.

Peter leant in to Woody as Katniss walked out.

"I'm going to ask Katniss to the dance."

Woody snorted his milk all over the table.

"That is MAHOGNANY!" Effie screeched.

Woody brushed his hair out of face, and you get the idea.

"Listen, boy, that's like asking for the moon after what you said in the interviews."

"But they'll expect me to go with her?"

Woody nodded. "Good luck then. Why don't you remind her of that?"

Peeta sat back. Woody wiped his hands with a napkin.

"Look, it's easy," Woody told him. He leant back in his hair, looking over at Effie.

"Hey sweetcakes. You're looking sexy under there. Want to go to the ball with me?"

Effie looked scandalised. "I don't think so!" She stood up and walked off.

Woody lurched to his feet, drinking his Red Bull.

"Wait, I'll fix the table!" He ran after her.

Peeta stared at the lift. "Katniss… here I come."

Cato ran through the Capitol streets.

He grabbed a citizen. "I need to find a girl! Neigh high, blonde hair, District 1 tribute!"

The person shook their head. "Haven't seen her."

Cato let the guy go and looked around, hoping to see her. Her mentors had told him she'd gone out to look around the Capitol; no specific info though.

He ran up to a stall.

"Have you seen Glimmer! District 1-"

The woman nodded. "She's very pretty."

"Yes," Cato agreed hurriedly. "Do-"

"Why do you want her?"

"I need-"

"I don't want you taking advantage of her now."

"No, I don-"

"That's what they always say!"

"Look, I'm going to ask her out to the ball."

The woman smiled. "You'll make such a cute couple."

Cato nodded. "Great, you said you've seen her?"

She pointed. "Over there; she was buying an album in a music store."

Cato looked at the store; but in front were tons of Capitol citizens, a heaving mass of movement. Babies screaming, made up woman, whiny men… and Cato needed to get through them all.

Cato ran, trying to force his way through, the people swallowing him up.

Peeta vaulted a rail, flying through the air and landing on the grass, rolling on impact and sprinting after Katniss.

He leapt in front of her.

"Hey Katniss!"

She stopped. "What do you want Peter?"

"I wanted to ask you out to the ball?"

"I don't want to go with you though."

Peeta hitched his smile back up. "Why?"

Katniss shook her head. "I don't-"

"Yeah you do."

"I didn't say anything."

"Go with me?"

Katniss scowled. "No! You're so weird!"

Peeta's face turned stony, and he put his hand s in his pockets.

"You want me to be normal? Boring?"

Katniss looked at him, all excitement gone.

"Well, no, but-"

He moved closer. "I know you're angry about me saying I loved you, without telling you, and I know it was sudden, but I can't change the way I feel about you."

Katniss blushed. "Look, Peeta-"

"Peter," he corrected softly. "I'm sorry this might end Gale and you, or it could hurt you in any way, but I assure you, I want to protect you."

"You want to be near me," she said accusingly. "Stalker."

Peter nodded. "From the moment I saw you, I thought: I can't be with anyone else. You can move on, but I never will. I tried, and tried, but it's impossible. I told myself I just liked you for the way you looked; lust and all, but that didn't explain why I hid under your window just to hear you speak. Why I was beaten for getting you that bread."

Katniss looked down. "Peter-"

"I had to sell my kidney for that 'Waterloo Road' box set, and you know what? I was just going to throw it to you," he said, looking dumbfounded. "And I wouldn't have cared. You would never know how much I sacrificed for that, but as long as it brought a smile to your face, but it didn't matter. In the interviews… it was a confession done with the best of intentions." Peter spread his arms in a mock bow. "But I guess, I'll be off to be weird now. I'll see you at the ball, supposedly with another man on your arm."

He made to walk off before she grabbed his arm.

"I'm not saying anything will happen," Katniss stated, "but… fine, I'll go with you."

Cato pushed past the last person and made straight for a mirror in the album shop, one of those that have a band at the side.

He pushed aside the price tag, and checked his hair, making sure it was right.

He tried sticking the front but it resisted, and he grasped it, pushing it higher.

"You're doing it wrong," a teasing voice told him.

Cato whipped around to see Glimmer standing there, grinning at him, arms crossed, a bag swinging from them.

"What's that?" Cato asked, pointing at the bag.

Glimmer smiled. "Gift from the Capitol."

"We don't have any money, though?"

Glimmer held it out for Cato, who took it.

"Lean down," she told him.

Cato obeyed and she put her fingers in his hair, brushing it back into shape.

"Well," she begun, standing on tiptoes, "I figured, I'd make the Capitol pay for it; if I win, I'll be rich enough to pay it back, and if I die, well, I don't have to pay it back."

"Your family might take the-"

"Stay down," Glimmer told him, pushing him back down.

Cato moved his ahead lower, before beginning again.

"Your family might take the punishment."

Glimmer shrugged. "I've never cared much about my family."

"Why?"

"Because they've never cared much about me."

Cato wanted to nod, but that was impossible with Glimmer working at his hair.

She let go and stared at it critically, her hands suspended over his head.

She shook her head and went back to work.

"What's in it?"

Glimmer didn't look around. "A present for you, my dear."

"Pardon?"

"Pardon," she mimicked, smiling. "Never been given a present before?"

"Call it medieval in District 2; Just stone and fighting."

She smiled lightly, still occupied with his hair. "Well, that won't do, will it?"

Cato nudged it with his foot. "What is it?"

Glimmer let him go, smiling at her work. "Perfect." She straightened his jacket compulsively. "Open it."

Cato leant down and brung it up. He reached inside to find a load of CDs. He pulled them out.

"The Kooks?" he muttered.

He looked up to see Glimmer looking at him anxiously. "You mentioned you like them."

Cato nodded.

"You said we could listen to them together, and these were some special edition, and I knew you liked them, and I figured you didn't have these editions, and I thought, you'd like them, and I wasn't really thinking-"

"Thank you," Cato told her.

Glimmer still looked tense. "Look, I'm sorry about abandoning you to Thresh, and being rude to you, and just generally being a bitch."

Cato smiled. "Do you want to go to the ball with me?"

"Do I want to go to the- wait, what?"

"I said, do you want to go to the ball with me?" he held up the bag. "I don't have anyone-"

Glimmer wringed her hands. "Last choice-"

"-because I was waiting to ask you."

She looked at him. Then she smiled. "Go on then."

Cato blinked. "You'll go with me?"

She nodded. "Of course. I'd love to."

Cato nodded. "We could work together to get tons of sponsors."

Glimmer frowned, before smiling again. "Let me do the talking, yes?"

Cato nodded. "Sure."

Glimmer looked at her watch. "Damn, I said I'd be back at 12."

"And?"

"It's 1pm. So I'll need to head off."

Cato nodded. "I'm going to stay here for a bit."

Glimmer nodded. "See you tonight."

He nodded, and once she'd left, walked off and disappeared into the crowd…

"YES!" He jumped in the air. "YES!"

He ran out, crashing into the Baker.

The Baker looked at him. "What are you running around for?"

Cato grasped his arms. "Glimmer will go the dance with me!"

The Baker gaped. "I asked Katniss! And she said yes!"

They screamed like little girls.

Music started up slowly as they walked through the streets, the Capitol people 'ohhh' ing behind them.

Cato: Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why
Peeta and Cato danced as the citizens around them backed them up, with perfect rhythm.
I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
They stopped, spreading the arms.
Peter: And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind

They clapped their hands as they walked forward.

Cato: She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice
The Capitol citizens built up the 'ohhh's, layering them as they reached a higher level, before breaking.
Peeta: Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win
They started walking to the beat, fancy footwork taking over.
Cato and Peter: And when she's walking
She's looking so fine
And when she's talking
She'll say that she's mine
they held their hands to their chests.
She'll say I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love
With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
The crowd started to disband as Cato and Peeta trailed off.
Uptown girl
She's my uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl

Peter and Cato stopped, before looking at each other, realising they were rival Districts and walking away.

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