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CHAPTER 14

Katniss didn't know what to believe anymore. Her world was spinning, not sure what to do. Her weapon dropped dead on the floor. She was in a middle of a battle, and had acquired some painful truth. Then Cato was convincing her that it was how it started but that wasn't how he expected it to end. What Katniss didn't expect was what he said.

"I'm in love with you." Those words kept repeating in her head. Katniss really wanted to believe those words, she really did but she couldn't tell if it was just a big lie. She searched Cato's face; it showed nothing but pain and anger. When she looked more closely his face seemed so sincere, so honest.

"Please… just remember the words 'I love you.' You don't have to even believe me, just know that I do love you." Cato painfully spoke. Katniss could feel more tears spring into her eyes. She wanted so much to trust him, and tell him 'I love you too,' however he played against her. Letting her fall completely into his trap. Betrayal. But then again Cato did say things somehow changed when he was with Katniss…

"Cato… I don't know what to believe…" Katniss finally answered, through her tears. She opened her mouth to say something more but closed it in doubt.

"Do you two even realize I'm here?" Clove broke in their conversation. Cato gave Clove a hard cold glare. He threw her against a tree and pinned knives on the edges of her clothes, not allowing her to move.

"Just shut up already." Cato spat. He raised his swords and Clove screamed in despair. She was thrashing to get out, but the knives were pinned pretty deep into the tree trunk.

"Cato, stop." Katniss stood in between Cato and Clove and pushed him away from Clove.

"What are you doing?" He hissed.

"Stopping you from killing her and regretting it for the rest of your life." Katniss replied.

"Maybe I won't even live on. Maybe I'll die today," Cato responded, "Why do you even care? You don't even seem to believe me." He looked at Katniss harshly.

"Because… I do care… and I want to so much to believe you Cato, but with the lies I'm hearing and me getting hurt every second… it just doesn't seem to make sense…" Katniss casted her gaze down to the grass.

"I know you believe me, I may have different intensions from the beginning but now it's all mixed up." Cato slowly lifted her chin up. Katniss slightly flinched at the contact.

"I'm sorry that I hurt you, I'm so sorry…" Cato said with flooded emotions.

"Cato…C- can I trust you?" Katniss words quivered.

"If you can forgive what I've done and believe that I really do love you, then of course you can trust me." Cato whispered. Katniss had two choices push him away, don't believe him, and kill him or believe him and figure things out.

"I think I can trust you for now… but you don't have my complete trust…" Katniss finally responded. It didn't matter if she didn't trust Cato completely, he was relived. He leaned in with a passionate kiss, Cato's arms wrapped around her waist and Katniss accepting the kiss and had her arms around Cato's neck. A deep kiss between meaning more then love.

It is way too early to be celebrating kids. That is what Haymitch was thinking when he saw that those two were engrossing each other. He was happy for them of course he was. Everyone was, well almost- just maybe people like Enorabia. She was frustrated with the fact there was love blooming from Cato.

Otherwise, when people watched Cato and Katniss's little love story there was always, Aww's and Oooh's. Clearly the Capitol people would be upset when one of them dies.

Haymitch simply sipped his wine as his eyes were stuck onto the T.V. screen.

'Everything's just going to turn out just great, that's just Effie. Nope everything's going to change. I just know.'

Clove watched them all over each other. It was sickening; she didn't want to see any of this. Not one bit, but her eyes wouldn't move they were focused on them. It was like her mind was forcing her to watch this and making sure she knew that, they were meant to be.

Clove however just wanted to kill Katniss, she didn't need a reason. It's the Hunger Games, it was the reason to kill. She reached at the blade of the knife next her hand and yanked it out, though blood seeped through her skin she didn't care. As she pulled out the other knives more blood covered her hands.

She threw one of the knives hitting the other side of the trees.

"Let's just finish the fight," she sneered.

Cato and Katniss pulled apart when they heard Clove's voice. Cato had this killing look, wanting just throw her out of this arena with blood all over her.

"Ok, then we will." Katniss reached down for her bow and arrows, before Cato did anything rash.

"Cato stay out of this." Clove ordered him. Cato didn't answer, but he wasn't going to interfere.

"Honors go to you first," Clove dared Katniss to shoot her.

"All right then…" Katniss muttered and took aim, then let it fly. It missed Cloves heart but it did pierce through her thigh. Clove pulled the arrow out and started throwing knives. Katniss could tell that Clove's aim was off. Sure her aim was Katniss but it didn't make any close contact with her.

Katniss continued running from Clove's knives- some slightly cut her, and by then she found herself near to the edge of a cliff.

'Where the hell did she get all those knives? Plus she has more, shit. Her whole idea was to trap me at the edge of the cliff.' Katniss thought frantically.

"What… are you… going to do… now?" Clove panted. Katniss shot another arrow at her knee, having her limping forward. Katniss ran father away from the edge. Now it was Clove at the edge and Katniss ready to end her life.

"I hate you so much. You don't know how much I do." Clove coughed, "You become known as Fire Girl, then you get an 11 in your training score, and you stole Cato." She practically yelled those words.

"I didn't steal Cato… it just happened…" Katniss looked for the right words. Clove was still standing strong even though there were plenty of wounds on her.

"Yeah just happened." Clove let out a laugh, "Please, Cato isn't the kind to just easily fall in love like that. Plus more over, he confessed it to not just you but everyone. Everyone knows the fact that you two are utterly in love." Katniss stared at Clove. Was Clove just mad at the fact Katniss and Cato are sort of together?

"I don't understand what you're saying Clove, why do you hate me so much? Just Cato? Is that it?" Katniss questioned.

"You don't understand how painful it is!" Clove yelled, "I thought we had a through out plan, but it seemed he never came back. I looked for him, not easy when rain is covering his tracks. I nearly died in the storm! Then when I do find him he's with you and he had no intention of killing you." Clove had tears streaming down her face, which she roughly wiped away.

"So you love him?" Katniss tried to clarify it.

"That doesn't matter anymore," Clove scoffed, "He clearly doesn't like me one bit." She shook her head. These two weren't actually fighting; they were more like talking it out.

"You may be wrong, he thinks of you as a pretty good friend." Katniss said.

"I don not need your pity, Fire Girl." Clove sneered.

"I'm not pitying you, it's the truth." Katniss replied. Clove looked at Katniss in disbelief; she was different than anyone Clove met. Katniss Everdeen was indeed powering with fire.

"Fire Girl, kill me." Clove bluntly demanded. Katniss blinked at her.

"What?" Katniss blurted out.

"Kill me. Just do it." Clove shrugged. Katniss unsteadily lifted her bow.

1…

2…

3…

4…

5… seconds go by.

"I can't."Katniss sighed. Clove made one movement, just one and the edge of the cliff where Clove was standing, came crumbling down. Clove fell screaming. Katniss completely shocked, stood over watching her fall. Clove's screams of agony filled Katniss's ears. Katniss shot her arrow, piercing through Clove's heart. The screaming came to a silent end and Katniss didn't watch Clove reach the end of her long fall. The canon shot and she knew that Clove wasn't alive anymore. She let out a long sigh, another gone. Just her and Cato.

Katniss ran back to the Cornucopia, to find Cato silently standing under the shade of the tree.

"Katniss." Cato came towards her, "It's just the two of us," He gently stroked her cheek.

"What do we do now?" Katniss whispered. Her hand fell into place with Cato's free hand, his hand grasped hers and tightened.

"Greetings to the last two tributes! As you both may know there may be only one victor so, good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor. " Claudius Templesmith's voice was loud and clear in the arena. The last two tributes were quite aware that there must be one victor.

"You kill me." Cato said evenly.

"N-no… I can't do that to you." Katniss fiercely shook her head.

"I have nothing back home, you do." Cato reasoned with her.

"If you die… I-I'll… I…" Katniss stuttered with her words. Cato leaned down and before he even reached her lips, her mouth came crashing to his. It was so much more intense than any of their kisses. Both of them pressed closer than imaginable, and tongues exploring each other's mouths.

Cato and Katniss finally pulled apart for long, deep breaths. "I can't lose you, Cato. I cannot." Katniss said in a low whisper.

"Katniss…" Cato trailed off.

"You kill me Cato. Just kill me." Katniss stared into his blue eyes.

"No way, I'm doing that." He didn't even give it a second thought. There was a moment where they gazed into each other's eyes. It seemed as it they were talking through emotions. Cato then all of sudden reached into Katniss's jacket pocket. He took out few of the Nightlock berries.

"Cato, what are you going to do!" Katniss exclaimed. She looked back and forth from his eyes and the berries in his hands.

"Katniss, I'm sorry. I really do love you." Cato gave a quick soft kiss to Katniss and before she could react, Cato dropped the berries into his mouth and he fell onto the floor. Katniss screamed Cato's name over and over.

Katniss kneeled down next to Cato's body, not hearing anything around. Not her sobs, her tears. Maybe there was the canon shooting, she didn't know. But she did know that the berries were deadly poisonous and Cato just ate them. She had started crying again, "Why Cato? Why! I didn't even tell you I love you!" Katniss sobbed, "Why would you just leave me in despair!...Cato...why...?"

I had so many alternate options for this chapter. I could not decide so I mixed them up and came up with this chapter. I hope you liked chapter 14. Chapter 15 will possibly be the last chapter, I'm not sure yet.

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