Marvel recognizes the pudgy little mayor and his squeaky little voice calling out "welcome, victors Katniss Everdeen, Cato Antom, and our very own Marvel Tarrian!" Marvel resists the urge to roll his eyes. He looks over at Katniss giving her speech. She looks so beautiful. Even though she looks like a piece of charcoal, she looks wonderful. She finishes and then Cato goes. He finishes and now its Marvel 's turn. "I am proud that I have brought my district pride. I am proud to have fought and won the Hunger Games and...he speaks the rest without knowing what he is saying. Enobaria has drilled his speech into his head so that he cant forget it. He hears applause and knows he must have finished. They take a car to his new house, in the grand victor's village. He sees his mother there. "Oh Marvel, I'm so glad you've come home!" She says. "Whatever. That's not true. Shes just putting on a show for Katniss and Cato. She didn't even come to say goodbye after the reaping." He thinks. "Your father would like to see you. He is upstairs waiting for you. Katniss and Cato, come with me." Marvel walks upstairs and finds his father waiting. His father grabs him roughly by the arm and pulls him into a door and locks it. "Marvel, president snow will kill us all if you don't put on a good show. So win over that 12 girl. Think of your parents. Think of their lives that are in danger." Marvel just nods his head. "Ok. You can go now." Marvel walks into the living room. He sees Cato trying to put his arm around Katniss's shoulders, but she keeps smacking his hand away. He gets mad. Seeing Cato so close to her like that when he doesn't even care about her, it makes him mad. Wait, since when does he care? _

Something about the way Marvel seemed uncomfortable around his mother bothered Katniss. She seemed like an okay person, with curly brown hair and green eyes. She led Katniss and Cato to the the living room. While they were walking, Cato kept trying to hold her hand, but she kept pulling away. He didn't like her, it was just to mess with her mind. Then again on the couch. He kept trying to put his arm around her. Then Marvel came in. "Come on. Ill show you the guest rooms. He showed Cato his room upstairs then waved to Katniss. Her room was across the hall from Cato's. Good. "My room is right next to yours. So if you need anything then just knock." Then he grabbed her unexpectedly and kissed her, right on the lips. She widened her eyes in surprise. This wasn't like when Cato had kissed her...this was... like Marvel actually cared. She pushed away. She still didn't like him. He walked into his room. It looked like something was bothering him, which was completely not like him. He was always smiling or laughing, and tonight she hadn't seen him smile once. She went to her room to freshen up a bit, but as soon as she saw herself in the mirror, she knew she didn't need too. She was still in her dress and she looked wonderful thanks to Cinna. Then someone knocked on her door. She opened it. It was Marvel's mother. "Dinner is ready." She said kindly. "Thank you." Katniss replied. She followed Mrs. Tarrian downstairs. A dinner of corn, mashed potatoes and chicken sat on the table. Dinner was pretty silent. Marvel's mother tried to make conversation, but Marvel only answered in small sentences and Cato seemed to be in a bad mood. Marvel wouldn't meet her eyes. She didn't like him, but she was wondering why he was acting so weird. Once everyone was finished, Mrs. Tarrian started to collect the dishes. "Would you like any help? " Katniss asked politely. "Oh no, that's alright. You can go on and do whatever you like." She said. Katniss headed up to her room. She thought she would just go to sleep. She was tired from the long day and her nightmares last night. She tried to sleep but couldn't. She was too afraid of nightmares. Finally she drifted off to sleep. She awoke crying silently, watching rue die yet again. She couldn't go back to sleep, and she didn't want to go to Marvel, he was being all weird. But she was so curious on what was with him. But she had the suspicion that he wouldn't tell her. So she did the only thing she could think of. She went to Cato's room. She knocked five times. He swung the door open, Blonde hair a mess, ice blue eyes filled with sleep. _

Cato awoke to a knocking on his door. He looked at his clock. 3:06. Who the HELL would wake him up this late? He opened the door and started to get the sleep out of his eyes when he saw the girl on fire. He raised an eyebrow in question. "I came here to ask you something..." she trailed off. He was about to make some cocky remark when he remembered. He had seen Marvel kissing Katniss earlier. That pissed him off. Katniss was supposed to fall for him, not Marvel. He dragged her inside of his room and shut the door. She was wearing loose pajama pants and a tank top. He once again had her trapped. He was leaning against his door, there was nowhere for her to go. "What is it princess? Come to ask me for tips on kissing Marvel?" She looked shocked. "I-I wasn't kissing him...he kissed me..." she trailed off. "That little shit touched her? God I'm going to kill him." He thought. "Well then what do you want? " he asked boredly. "Do you know why Marvel was being so weird at dinner?" She asked. "She actually cares about that loser?!" He thought furiously. "Why princess! I didn't know you liked him." He said teasingly. "I don't! I was just...wondering I guess." She said, her face flushed with the idea of her liking Marvel. "Well I dunno, ok?" "Alright." She says and goes back to her room. He goes back to sleep, thinking of the girl on fire.
_

Marvel lay awake until two in the morning, thinking about how he felt about Katniss. After awhile, he realized, he did in fact genuinely like her. "No, he thought, I love her." He tried to deny it again, to push his feelings away, but he couldn't do it. He really loved her. But there was no hope. She absolutely despised his very being. Somewhere in the hunger games the love triangle became real. He didn't think Cato likes her, but Marvel sure did.