Chapter 10: Kiss Me Like You Kiss...

There are only four tributes left: Cato Jr., the boy from 4, the girl from 6 and Katniss. They've been in the arena for a couple of weeks. Sponsor prices have spiked to more than most of the mentors can afford. I have to get Katniss valuable tools if she is to win and I can see her again.

It's the middle of the afternoon of whatever numbered day it is, when Johanna suddenly drags me into the back storage room.

"I have some money that I can use to help Katniss," she tells me eagerly.

"Jo, that's wonderful!" I tell her. But then, Johanna's hand suddenly creeps up my thigh.

"Of course, there has to be a small... concession on your part," she purrs. She brings her face real close to mine and whispers, "Kiss me."

"What?" I choke out.

"Kiss me you like you kiss her," Johanna gives me a very pointed look.

I hesitate. For years, Johanna has flirted with me, even when I was married. During the Games, it was a foreplay that did not mean anything serious (most of the times; sometimes, Johanna could be deadly serious in her overtures). And almost always, these entreaties occurred when all of our tributes were dead, when we were bored and there was no longer anything to do. All of these offers, I brushed aside, because I had a wife to go home to.

But this time, the offer is serious, one of my tributes is still alive, and she happens to be my wife. Whom I desperately want to see again. Johanna has no Games stake in this; all of her tributes are dead.

So, I take her in my arms. Cupping her face in my palms, I pretend this is my wife as I kiss her lips deeply. She jolts, like given an electric shock, before moaning as we finally, after years of foreplay, physically join in this way. It is true magic.

Johanna hitches her leg around my waist and throws her arms around my neck. She wants this.

I palm her small breasts, finally take one in my mouth the way I have wanted to for decades, suckling it. I plant kisses deeper into her lips, before pressing them into her face, her jawline. Johanna closes her eyes in abject pleasure. Pretty soon, we are tearing at each other's clothes. My engorged penis sheathes itself into her vagina. And I don't think about who I am fucking, as we bounce against each other and sweat and moan.

Third Person POV

Meanwhile, Cato Jr. is backing Katniss into a literal corner. Into a tree, to be more precise. But he is not doing so to break of their alliance. To kill her. He wants something more than the pleasure of taking life.

"Please stop," Katniss whispers, as she feels her body bump into the bark and trap her. "This isn't a game."

"Last time I checked, we were in a giant Game, sweetheart. But I never consider this particular game one." Cato Jr. steps closer. The spitting image of his father, he is handsome but deadly.

Katniss actually begins to cry as she shakes her head violently. "Don't, please. I'm a married woman."

"Only on a goddamn piece of paper!" And Cato Jr. knocks her bow aside, raises her arms over her head and pins her there, as he swoops in and kisses Katniss full on the mouth. For even though she is 42 and middle-aged, 17 years his senior, she is still beautiful.

Katniss jumps at his touch, as his mouth dances across her, and she prays her husband does not see, even though he probably is. She stands stock still, not wanting to be unfaithful, not wanting to participate in her own seduction...

But Cato Jr.'s hands are so strong, and his lips taste so good... And she might die without seeing her beloved Peeta again...

So she gives in.

"Hmmm..." She drapes her arms around Cato Jr.s neck and kisses him back. The young Career divests the huntress beauty of her clothes and lays her back in the jungle leaves. He fucks her, their bodies collide and unify. Katniss moans incessantly at being taken by another man, a man who is not her husband. She loves the feel of his hands, his mouth, on her breasts. How Cato Jr. eats out her vagina until she cums under the jungle trees, again and again.

Later, the girl from 6 falls in combat. And together, Katniss and Cato Jr. kill the boy from 4.

So it comes as a devastating shock, when Cato Jr. turns against the woman he seduced and kills her, becoming the Victor.