Hey Guys! Sorry for not updating as often these days. I've been hooked on Tumblr… if you have one you know how it is :D This part is one of the few scenes that is shown in the movie that has Glimmer in it, but I wanted to write an alternative to that story. So here it is! And if you haven't watched the movie… WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! JK but seriously…watch it. -_- Happy Reading!

Chapter 10

Clove points out a small pillar of smoke rising in the darkening sky. We decide to follow it and kill the idiot that is stupid enough to start a fire. It's can't be Katniss or Peeta because they're smart enough not to start a fire knowing we are looking for them. We take a small twenty-minute hike and find the young girl from nine sitting with her hands clasped near the smoldering embers. She turns around just in time to see me hand Cato the sword so he can stab her. She lets out a brief scream but does not make any more sounds after that. We all joke around, while walking back towards our camp. Marvel and Clove are ahead of us having a small side conversation.

"Did you hear her," I ask, laughing, "NO! Please don't kill me! HA! Such a weakling!"

Cato wraps his arms around me and carries me princess style. This, knowing we haven't done much since the night on the roof, except when we sat together to watch the training scores, happily surprises me. I look into his beautiful eyes and give him a kiss on the cheek. He stares back at me and puts me down. Then pushes me against the tree puts his arm on the bark, closing me in. Then, he kisses me full on the lips. I kiss him back and then he moves to my neck and then back again to my mouth. It feels weird, but a good kind of weird. As we continue, my thoughts wander off. This is a situation I would have never believed I would be in. During the 74th Annual Hunger Games, with a guy I've known for a few days, seriously making out for the first time in my life. But I couldn't imagine it any other way. With Cato, everything is perfect.

After the best five minutes of my life, I pull back, both of us breathing heavily. Our faces are still inches apart and we stare at each other for a few moments.

Clove and Marvel's voices get us out of our daze. Reality comes rushing back. Cato gives me one more, short, sweet kiss, takes my hand in his, and walks in the direction of their voices. I cannot help but smile. I don't think anyone else could be happier than I am in this moment in time.

We finally locate Marvel and Clove who are also locking their hands and we all burst out into laughter and tease each other in response to the pair of joined hands. The all lock arms like childhood friends and get back to camp to start a fire.

The anthem begins to play and we see the Capitol's emblem appear in the sky. The dead tributes are shown and we see who we killed, not that it matters much. Either way they are dead. Thirteen down today. Our alliance is really killing it, literally.

It's Marvel's turn on watch tonight, but we don't expect anyone to attack us. Still we are Careers, always ready for the worst. We all grab some sleeping bags and blankets from our big pile of goodies and snuggle to get warm. I spread out a bag on the ground and one on top to act like a blanket. Cato crawls under the blanket with me. I was going to ask him to join me, but I think he already knows that's what I want. The only thing that could make this better is all of us not being in the Hunger Games. Disregarding the thought once again, I fall asleep with my head on his chest and Clove mirroring me with Marvel.

The second day in the arena start with a fairly good breakfast, some bread and apples that we find in the cornucopia. We now we are ready to start looking for Peeta. We begin yelling his name as loud as we can while walking through the thick forest. Cato thinks it would be funny to occasionally call him lover boy. So we continue shouting until we can't shout anymore. Exhausted, we collapse on the ground and snack on some beef jerky and drink some water. Then we hear a crack of a twig and I whip out a knife, adrenaline pumping. I see Peeta's eyes peek over a small bush. Then my muscles relax and my friends to lower their weapons. Our buddy is here.

Peeta stays behind the shrub still looking at us questioningly. "What do you want with me..."

I take a step closer to him but, he creeps back. So I step back again and put my hands in the air showing that we wont hurt him. He remains where he is.

"We want you to join our alliance," I say calmly.

"Why? You already have about a third of the remaining tributes in your alliance. Why would you want me?"

"Because," Clove says impatiently, " you can help us find Katniss. And we are giving you a chance NOT to be killed... in case you haven't noticed, that's pretty rare in these games."

She looks at him expectantly knowing she has won him over with that last sentence. So we slowly climbs out of the brush and joins us. Marvel hands him a spear for protection to show him we don't want to hurt him, only his terrible girlfriend.

We all feel tired from yelling and trying to find Peeta so we decide to go back to camp and rest. Peeta offers to make dinner with whatever supplies we have. He seems pretty hungry too. I think I remember him running off into the forest right after the gong to start the games sounded. That was a pretty stupid move. Running blindly into an unknown terrain, with no food, water, or heat source. His stupidity astounds me. But, the one thing he is good for will get us Careers back on top. And that's exactly what we'll do.

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