So sorry this is late I was aiming to put it up on Saturday but on Friday night I ended up shutting my finger anymore so I couldn't type and then I was ill and... yeah it wasn't the best of weekends for me. But, I've just this second finished off this chapter and (trying not to jinx it) I promise the next one WILL be up on Saturday Night or Sunday Afternoon (GMT).

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Chapter 11 – The wonderful mind of Cato

Cato's POV

Clove and I sit at the base of our camp waiting for the capitol emblem to appear in the sky. We gathered and salvaged as much as we could earlier, Clove was the one with the 'emergency' rucksack, and although we salvaged another, charred and slightly ripped, rucksack, the important things such as food goes in hers.

To our annoyance, we didn't find much, and unless Katniss appears in the sky tonight, we're pretty sure she's the one that left us in this mess. Clove found an arrow head amongst the wreckage earlier, and we know that Glimmer was the only one with arrows and a bow and we're sure Katniss will have taken them. However, both of us now have a rucksack (even though mines pretty… well, bad) with a few pieces of food that should hopefully last us a while, as well as an empty water canister, and of course our weapons. We've also got a couple of bandages but we don't really need them, Clove just uses them to tie and extra knife to her belt.

"Let's see who's dead then…" I'm brought back to reality as Clove's voice tells me that it's time, I hadn't even heard the music already playing in the sky.

Both of us freeze when we see Marvel's face in the sky, a number 1 beneath it. "He's… dead?" Clove voices my own thoughts.

"I guess it makes sense, I mean… he never came back?"

"Yes… but… I thought he would have just gone off on his own, it's not like there are many of us left and he always said he wouldn't really want to face the guy from 11 if he could avoid it."

"True…" Marvel wasn't really my friend, but I was definitely closest to him in here, after Clove that is, especially when I was trying to avoid her.

"Cato mate… You're not going to avoid her again are you?" 3 and Clove had gone out to get extra firewood and fill up the water, usually we'd just send 3 but with everyone dying and us not being able to get to the pile of stuff, what with the mines, we drew straws and Clove ended up having to go. It was only fair I guess…. Marvel's already gone, and not like I would've gone.

"Avoid who?"

"Don't make me out to be stupid, you know who." He looks at me arms crossed.

Sighing, I answer him. "I don't know…"

"She kissed you. When we went to get wood, 3 and me."

"You saw then…"

"Yep." He smirks at me.

"You're not gonna ignore her after that are you? I mean, dude she snogged the hell outta you." I can't help but laugh. I never really thought how it must have looked, probably like she was eating my face.

"I guess not… but Enobaria doesn't like it."

"Enobaria? The bitch with the Gold teeth? I mean... the scary looking woman who obviously rightfully won her games." At this I burst out laughing once again.

"Hey! Shut it you know mentors can see us dude, and if I win I don't want her out to get me because I called her a bitch when I was in here."

"I guess not. But no I won't… ignore her. But I can't kiss her or be like that with her… gold teeth woman made that quite clear. And yeah I don't care if he hates me when I'm out of here, not like I'll need her anymore, no-one mentors victors."

"Well I guess that's true… but if she was out to get you it wouldn't be that great" As a response I simply shrug, I've never really cared about Enobaria.

"How do you know she doesn't want you guys together?"

"She sent us a mashed up piece of district 2 bread."

"Ah. Wait you got bread? You didn't save me any?"

"Dude we have food."

"Yeah… but I never got district 2 bread."

"Dude it's just bread."

I smirk at the memory, he may have been quiet with Glimmer but he was pretty funny when he wanted to be… and, as surprising as it seems, he could read people pretty well. He knew Clove liked me, knew I liked her, and knew I was thinking of ignoring her again, it's nice enough to be friends… even if I do want more, but he was right, I shouldn't ignore her… ever again… there can only be one victor after all.

"So then. Marvel, 3, and the little girl." I blink at Clove's voice. I really need to stop zoning out like that…

"Yeah… so who's left?"

"Well, you and me, girl from 5, boy from 11, and both from 12. 6 of us." Just 6… 5 more deaths until I can go home a victor.

"How many more days do you think the games will go on for?"

"6 of us… minimum, tomorrow, max… well there was that one games that went on for a month."

"Yeah but that's because the arena was bloody massive." And massive it was, a desert that spread so large it would have taken days to cross. The only water source was a few wells and one spring by the cornucopia but there was practically nothing for cover, save a few holes in the ground that people claimed as 'bases' though travelling was the only way to get out of sight… it… wasn't the best games.

"Not like this one's small Cato…"

"I guess… but the gamemakers will have to drive us together eventually. Won't they?"

"Obviously. They already used that fire a while ago. Who knows what they'll do though."

"I guess…" I twirl my sword mindlessly. "Clove, do you miss district 2?"

She looks to me surprised. "Why?"

"well… we've been away for a while, not like we'd ever left it before."

"True… but no. not really. It's not like there's much to miss…" She looks away from me, owing her head slightly and I know she's thinking about her family. As crap as my life's been, and yes, it has been crap, hers has always been worse but she never complains about it, except for the odd joke about her 'bloody mother' we've only really spoken about it once…

"Do you like your family?"

"Yeah I guess, my brothers are annoying, my little one more than my big one, and my little sister is just a pain always trying to beat me. But worse thing is that my parents never stop arguing, like ever! Do your parents argue?"

"They used to… My dad left with my second oldest sister a few years ago though."

"Oh… don't you ever see him."

"Nope. Don't see Rebekah either."

"Oh… sorry."

"It's... fine." Even now I can still see the sadness in her eyes, her sleek black hair framing her face as she tries not to cry. I wanted to hug her then… just pull her into my arms, not anything serious just… as a friend. Now I've no idea why I didn't…

"Cato we should probably get some sleep and see what else we can salvage before leaving this dump tomorrow. Deal?"

"Yeah."

"I'll take first watch; wake you up in about… 5 hours?"

"Make it 4."

"Hm, alright."

I turn and lie down as Clove puts a few more pieces of wood on the fire and sleep takes over.

"Oh come on Clove, you can do better than that!" I smirk as Clove again tries to actually land a hit on me. We moved camp earlier and , tributes can wait until tomorrow. Even in the arena we deserve a break, right?

She goes for an uppercut, one of her now favoured moves it seems but I catch it easily and pull her up by her arm.

"Oh put me down!"

"Stop going for an uppercut and you wouldn't end up like this you know." I roll my eyes at her in a mocking way before collapsing to the ground.

"Always… the balls…" I fall as her laughter rings happily in my head, my brain concentrating simply on the pain.

"You'd think being so smart you'd learn that I always hit you there?"

"You'd think wouldn't you…?" I curse inwardly at how my voice has heightened in pitch, though this only makes Clove laugh harder.

"So… I win I take it."

"What?!" She raises an eyebrow and then goes to kick me again, and I know where she's aiming, even if my hand is still in the way. I raise my other hand and begin talking quickly, "okay okay you win!"

To my relief, she retracts her leg and smirks down at me. I may love her… but sometimes I seriously hate her.

Concluding the fight, we spend the rest of the night talking and watching as the gamemaker controlled sun slowly sets, lying down, only propped up by our elbows and for once, I'm truly happy. Okay so I'm not perfectly happy, I mean in the next week or so all but one of us is going to die, but I'm with the girl I like, having to do nothing, no training, no working my ass off for my parents, nothing.

"Attention Tributes!" Clove and I look up confused, the voice is in fact coming from everywhere but it's so godlike that we always look to the sky.

"We would like to inform you that there has been a change to the rules." Now I'm really confused… what, we don't have to kill anymore…? Everyone must fight without weapons?

"From this moment onwards, there may now be two victors, should they both be from the same district." What…?

Clove's head snaps towards me yet I'm still trying to work out what's just happened.

"The… the rule change… two tributes from the same district… we're going home? Cato, Cato!"

"Wha-" I look to her confused, we're going… home?

"We're going home! The rule change! We're going home!" Instantly I sit bolt upright, smiling widely at her, and I wrap her tightly in my muscled arms. Then, before I realise what I'm doing, I pull back, look into her eyes as she looks to me, tears of joy spilling from them, before I press my lips against hers.

Screw the games, screw Enobaria, we're going home.