Careers are running out of food, shiiitttt, but no seriously I'm sorry this chapters so short next one WILL be nearer to the 3k words mark. Hope you like this chapter!

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Chapter 12-Running Low on Supplies

Clove's POV

After spending the night in Cato's warm arms, I nearly forget where we are, and what we'll have to do if we want to get out of here. When I wake up the next morning, neither of having been on watch (oops… he he) I can't remember having ever been happier.

Cato smiles down at me, already having been awake. "Morning Midget." I raise an eyebrow at him, faking annoyance. He barely ever calls me midget, though it is one of the nicknames he gives me, I mean, I know I'm short, but 'midget' is a little too far.

"Oh shut up I am not a midget."

"May as well be." He smirks at me though I just give him a playful punch. "Just pass some of the dried fruits." I say, sitting up and yawning slightly.

Cato turns towards the backpacks next to him and opens mine, the non-broken one, and pulls out a bag of dried fruit, but then bites his lip in slight… worry?

"What's the matter…?"

"We've only got four more bags…"

"What?!"

"Yeah… including this one."

"Then what the hell are we going to eat? We'll finish that by tomorrow!"

"I don't know… I guess we'll have to find our own food in this place. I mean, that has to be what the other tributes have been doing right?"

"Yes but they actually looked at edible plants back in training!"

"Yeah… that… could be a problem."

"Could be?! Cato… without food, we'll die of starvation, and when we're this close to winning, not only by ourselves, but together, I am not dying now!" I look to him and cross my arms. No damn way am I letting either one of us die when we're this close. Only both from 12, Thresh, and the girl from 5 left and then we can go home, victors, and the first ever pair of victors. People will remember us for decades, the first ever pair. Our names will go down in history, Cato and Clove. Enobaria will be blown out of the water!

But… for that, we need food.

"So, today we find food." I look to Cato determinedly. "We're careers, how hard can finding food be?"

"Yeah… we are careers." He crosses his arms and smiles at me. "If the other scrawny tributes can do it, so can we. Easy."

"Yeah! So…. Where are we going to start?" Cato pauses. Having never looked for food… it's not as likely we'll be able to know where to start, and succeed, straight away. But, we can't kill tributes if we have no energy and are basically asleep.

"What about trying to find fish in one of the streams?"

And so, that's where we go… it's a start right?


"Damn fish!" I lie on the banks laughing madly. We made a few spears a while ago and we've been at this current stream for about 2 hours, trying hard to catch something, and we're down to our second last bag of dried fruit. "You're not going to catch ne if you just stab wildly into the water."

"Alright then midget, you try it." He crosses his arms and looks to me smugly, he knows I won't be able to. But, I shrug and kneel at the edge, spear in hand. I was trying earlier as well, though stopped when Cato couldn't stop… failing.

My eyes fix on the water before me, I hate trying to get a target in the water, especially when they're in it and I'm above, the water distorts so I never know if where I'm aiming is right.

A fish swims beneath me and I quickly force the spear down into the water. I clip its tail but it quickly swims off before I can either grab it or try again.

"Ha! See! Not so easy after all."

"Yeah yeah you've made your point. Maybe we're not cut out for fishing?"

"Wish Coral wasn't dead yet… she could fish for us."

"Exactly! But yeah, Katniss kind of killed her."

"Okay so Katniss killed Coral, who would have gathered us food, mainly fish, and she destroyed our pile of supplies."

"Yep."

"Bitch… I don't see why people support her, the only people she's killed have been through luck, and she's hoping we die just through starvation I bet, which is pretty stupid. Well, unless you count Marvel, but we don't know for sure if she killed her."

"Well it's really just elimination right? Thresh was in the grain field, and like hell would Marvel go there, Thresh was the only one he was terrified of. 12 won't be able to do anything after how you beat him up, surprised he's not dead. Then the little girl Marvel must have killed, which leaves Katniss and 5. 5's a coward who I'm pretty sure is just a scavenger. So it must be Katniss." I shrug as Cato nods. We'd discovered this a while ago, though as he said, we're not a hundred percent sure.

"Come on… let's try 5's technique of scavenging."


Day 12

"What about these?" Cato holds out a hand full of berries to me and I pick one up, eyeing it experimentally. "I don't trust leaves or berries… can we try finding something alive? I seriously don't trust the gamemakers, and I'm not about to test it, I'm not that desperate."

"Good point…"

We spent most of yesterday scavenging for food (hoping to catch something alive), and although we found some garlic, the only plant both of us knew that was edible, it wasn't very satisfying, and though we finished more of the dried fruit bags yesterday, we agreed to keep the last one for emergencies, though with how we're doing at 'food collecting' that may very well be tonight.

Both of us, even if we have crap families, have always been fed 3 meals a day, unless we broke a rule or disappointed someone in training so we'd have to skip a meal to do laps, but, other than that we've always been fed 3 meals a day, and when at home, had access to snacks whenever we like. Therefore… we're not used to this 'being hungry' crap.

"Enobaria goddam it send us more food! Aren't you pissed off at Cato and me for kissing and stuff? You were pissed and sent us bread last time!" I shout up at the sky annoyedly. She never sends us anything, and now when we're hungry and need some kind of food she just completely ignores us.

"bitch." Cato bursts out laughing and I raise an eyebrow at him. "What?"

"Well," he tries to cough himself back to sanity "You were always sucking up the gold-toothed bitch, and now you're insulting her and- and it's just hilarious!"

"I did so not suck-up!"

"Oh come onnnn. 'Enobaria I've perfected the technique! Oh Enobaria you should have seen me with the 14 year olds earlier, they were so pathetic."

"Oh shut up." I try to glare at him, but I can't help but feel a smirk playing at the corner of my mouth.

"Make me" He sits up, still laughing but trying very hard to smirk in his usual way.

"Oh you want me to make you?"

"You heard me midget." I smirk and go to kiss him quickly, catching him off-guard. He embraces it happily as fireworks explode through my stomach as I get the usual overwhelming sensation. And then I break away from him and smirk down at his speechless yet content face. "Made ya."

"That doesn't count, I'm still talking." I raise an eyebrow at him, but then he kisses me, and so we simply stand there, kissing happily. That is, until a parachute lands.

"This better be food!" Cato picks it up and opens it and pulls out a… magnifying glass? "Oh you have to be kidding me… what a BITCH."

"What?"

"She's saying focus."

"How the hell do you know that?"

"I know Enobaria…" I take the magnifying glass and turn, throwing it as far as I can, which I must say is pretty damn far. "NO!" And with that, I turn, burning with anger, and wrap my arms around Cato's neck, kissing him again more passionately than ever before, and like hell do I want to stop.

"Attention Tributes!" Cato breaks the kiss gently and looks to me confused, as in unison, we look up. I really need to think why we look up… the voice comes from basically everywhere after all.

"Each of you needs something incredibly badly." I look to Cato, still an eyebrow raised and mouth 'food?'

"Therefore, tonight we invite you to a feast tomorrow at the cornucopia!"

As the announcement ends, an evil grin spreads across my face, my career instincts kicking in.

"A feast."

"Tomorrow."

"All the tributes will be there…" Cato matches my grin as both of us begin to formulate plan on how to catch and kill our two biggest threats, Katniss and Thresh, ironically the two weakest districts, and then how to deal with the other weaklings afterwards.


Sorry it was short! I just found this chapter imparticular kind of hard to write, but prepae yourselves to be sad fo the next week because next chapters the feast and those of you that have read THG will know what happens :'(!

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-Tara