Cato

The blizzard that followed stopped Katniss from going out of the house, but it didn't stop the peacekeeps and it didn't stop Cato. This is what he is had been planning for with Cinna. This is what those months on the train had been about.

Katniss had pissed over a lot of high-ranking people with her stunts in the arena and her actions following. But Cato had out right broken laws and spit in the Capitol's face. Retaliation was never a question it was a certainty.

So he had changed a few things with the kids, run a few games where they had to spy and destroy pretend structures. They had loved it. But a month was a short period of time to get them ready for this.

Still they were good. No one was caught from the Hob. Sure it burned but the kids, so used to crawling around in the dirty and looking for hidden places had found replacements. There were basements all over the district, hidden from years of disuse. Cato set up head quarters in one of them.

They started simple. Trace the peacekeeper, know when they go where, and know when they sleep and when they eat and when they look for lawbreakers. It took several of the kids days to get the hang of tracking. They had to do it all hours of the day, every day.

It took two weeks to get the routes mapped and the new people analyzed.

It took another two to get counter active measures in place. It was hard to get to the new structures in the square, but they needed to be picked apart slowly. With each person arrested they needed to take the structures integrity down. They would be rotting by the time summer came in full.

"Cato, have you turned us into a military state?" Prim asks when the snow lets up and the girl gets a good look at the operation he is running.

"Are you mad?" He asks his little sister, because he thinks of her that way. Primrose belongs to him just as much as she belongs to Katniss.

"Sad really." She looks at his office in the dirt floor basement. "I wish it didn't have to come to this."

"Would you do anything differently?" Cato wanted to know, because her opinion mattered. Katniss always seemed to be so worried about Prim that some times she missed the person her sister was. Prim was a natural leader. Everyone liked her, and respected her and she was able to make hard choices and still be carefree. She was impossibly complex.

"I don't know. If I was in charge they wouldn't have been prepared, and that has saved people." It was a question but it wasn't all at once.

"Yes, we have kept half the town out of the stocks." Cato told her.

"This is going to last forever isn't it?" Prim asked him with wide eyes and a sad smile.

"Nothing lasts for ever little duck. This too will end." They left the office and walked home holding hands in the snow. This would not last forever. Worse things would be coming, that was how the world worked.


Hey you get a new chapter. Its tiny but you are going to like it. I am having a kind of weird week and am on some decongestants to hopefully clear up my sinus pressure. But the side effect of those meds is that they make me kind of loopy and unable to eat properly. So what you get this week is going to be tiny or weird or both.

Also I got in the mood to write something silly so I have a Teen Wolf story now as well. Its super porny, so kids don't read. It is in no way shape or form tasteful. And I love it to pieces.

Anyway please review. And come off guest already, how am I to say sweet things back if all of you are on guest? I mean really, how? -E