The kids were the first ones to get up. They were running around playing tag for a few minutes then Adriana and Gale got up. They came and sat down around the remains of the fire, and we began talking.
"Did you guys have a good sleep?" I ask
"Yeah, it got a little cold though" Gale smirks, rubbing his hands over the fire
"Oh you can have it back now, I didn't realize you were cold" I say taking off the jacket and handing it to him
"No, it's fineI'm better now" He shoves the jacket back to me
"Okay" I begin to put it back on when I hear a small crinkle "What?" I look inside a pocket and pull out an aged piece of paper. I begin to unravel it, I think it's a picture of a girl, when Gale snatches it out of my hand.
"What? I can't see a picture?" I ask
"No" Gale says sternly opening up the picture, and smoothing it out. Thresh leans over to look at the picture and smiles at me.
"Hey Katniss it's a picture of y-" At that Gale lunges at Thresh and pins him down
"Don't you dare" Gale threatnes, as he begins to punch Thresh
"Galeypoo get off my brother!" Adriana squeels. Galeypoo? Did something happen last night that I don't know about? What ever. I think it's time for some teasing.
"Oooh Gale is it a picture of your imaginary girlfriend" I joke as Gale begins to help Thresh up
"Yes" Thresh says. Gale goes wide eyes and punches Thresh in the stomach, again.
"No" Thresh whimpers instead as a few of the adults come running from the tent yelling things like, stop fighting or Gale stop punching Thresh or Idiots for sons!
"Mom, we're not fighting" Gale says putting on his sweetest smile and *graciously* helps Thresh up.
"Then why did we just see you hit Thresh" Charlie asks accusingly
"He just got upset over a stupid photo of Ka-" Gale punches Thresh again in the gut
"God Gale you have to stop doing that" He wheezes
"Oh, I get it" Charlie says ushering the adults away "I'll explain it later, although I'm sure some of you know what it's about"
"I know what it's about" Rory says. The kids had shuffled over towards us when they saw Gale fighting with Thresh
"Me too" Prim giggles. I notice that her and Rory are holding hands and Rue is...um, glaring at them?
"I think I do too!" I cross my arms and give the trio a smug look. Prim's face goes red and Rory let's go of her hand and Rue stops glaring.
"I'm hungwyyyy" Posy whines, changing topics. The rest of the kids join in with a chorus of 'me too's' and 'when are we going to eat' or 'what will we eat?'
"Why don't we go hunting, since we ate all the meat from yesterday and only have a few berries left" Gale says
"We also have our food that we brought" Prim coos
"Yes, but we should save that until we are in desperate need of food" I say. Everyone else agrees. We make the decision that Gale, Thresh and I will go hunting and search for some food. There was a rather long disscusion about who would go, since Adriana is so desperate to be in the same area as Gale.
"But Gale, you said you would teach me how to hunt" She whines
"I will, but not now" He murmers
"Yeah, and besides you would scare off all of the animals with your annoying schoolgirl giggling" I mock. Thresh lets out a throaty chuckle and she just flips her hair behind her shoulder and lets put a hhmph.
"Come on lets go" Gale says. We make our way out of our little camp and begin hunting. We don't talk, just hunt. I don't think Thresh has ever hunted, but he knows a lot about edible and non-edible plants. Even more than me! I guess that's to be expected though.
By the time the sun has risen over the horizon we have caught, 3 squirrels, 2 rabbits, 2 wild chickens and a few magpies. I collected a dozen eggs from birds nests in the trees and some fruits I found growing as well, apples and plums. Gale found a blueberry tree and we spent a while picking those. Thresh gathered wild mushrooms, onions and other various food resources. We trudge back to camp, hauling our accomplishments through the musty forest.
When we get back The mothers are making up the beds and having friendly conversations, while Charlie tends to the fire. I spot Posy playing with her new BFF's, Maggie and Catherine. Vick and Leo are seeing who can jump across the stream farther and Rue and Prim are sitting on the ground, pulling grass and making daisy chains. I can't see Rory anywhere, I assume he gone to the bathroom somewhere away from camp, in the trees.
Just as I take one step into the clearing, someone tackles to the hard forest floor.
"Aaagh!" I scream at the top of my lungs as I fall backwards. I grab the creatures head in frustration, and tilt it up to see who it is. Rory! He's covered in mud and has sticks and leaves and grass, clinging to his marsh covered body. I look up and he's smiling and laughing at me. I frown at him, he really scared me! In fact I even took out the knife I had hidden my belt, I was so terrified! His face looks distorted, but I can make out clearly that it is him.
"That wasn't funny" I mumble as I push him off me and stand to my feet.
"I thought it was" Gale chuckles. Leaning on a nearby tree, holding onto his stomach
"Whatever" I say as I attempt to brush the mud and leaves off my clothes
"Oh, you should've seen your face!" Thresh doubles over in laughter, but not before he imitates my face, very offensively. That just makes everyone burst out laughing again. And I mean everyone. Charlie is sitting on the ground, slapping his knee. Maggie is laughing and pointing at me, Leo's rolling around on the ground, howling hysterically. The mothers are chuckling, their faces red and they even have their hands in front of their mouths and are looking at each other with weird faces. Prim is guffawing loudly, her beautiful lips turned upwards in a smile, while Rue just sits there smiling and blushing slightly.
Then something unexpected happens. Posy comes charging out of nowhere and starts yelling at her older brother.
"Stupid Rory, ugly Rory, Mean Rory!" She charges at him and tackles him to the ground. She's pretty strong for a 4 year old. She begins pounding her fists into his chest while she yells at him" Why you so mean, Rory! You make Katti scared! I hatis(- Hate) you! Die Rory, die"
Gale soon comes to the rescue and lifts Posy off of Rory.
"Posy!" He says sternly "That was not nice of you, apologize to Rory"
"No" She says firmly and crosses her arms
"Do it" He says again, losing his patience
"NO" She screams and slaps Gale across the face, with A LOT of force. Yep, defiantly a Hawthorne.
"POSY" Gale screeches, his voice getting high at the end, which makes me snort slightly.
"Uh-oh, Galeybear's mad" Posy draws out the word mad " Sorry, Rory"
"That's alright, Posy" Rory says, finally standing up. Gale puts Posy down and walks towards Charlie. Thresh follows him, and everyone goes back to what they were doing. It's pretty hot out, and the sun is starting to dry the mud on my clothes. making them hard and uncomfortable.
"Rory, Katniss. Why don't you two go have a bath, in the stream" Hazelle suggests, handing me and Rory each a pair of clothes and a bar of soap.
"Together?" Rory's face perks up in excitement. Boys.
"What do you think?" I smirk as I begin to walk towards the stream
"Yes" Rory says hopefully and wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me in close. He's pretty tall, even taller than me, and very broad shouldered. Just like his brother. Rory has lighter brown hair than his brothers and it's cut pretty short, and isn't very well kept, brown eyes, and a few noticeable freckles. He is rather handsome, just like Gale, but he is far to young for my likings, only 13 years old (I think.)
"Wrong" I say as I as I playfully shove him away.
"Why?" He whines
"You're too young for me" I say teasingly
"I'm 14 in 9 months" He says with his most manly voice he can muster. Then he gives me a seductive smirk and links arms with mine
"That's still 2 years younger" I say as we walk together
"You're 2 years younger than Gale and he likes you" Rory argues
"Gale likes me" I say in a hushed tone, eyes wide
"No duh" He says exaggerating my tone
"Whatever, he's got Adriana" I chuckle
"Yeah they're a match made in heaven" He jokes. I laugh. He's not too bad, for a kid...
We walk for a few more minutes, occasionally exchanging a few words every now and then. We reach a part if the stream where there is a few big boulders stand, making walls.
"I think this is good" I say as we separate "Don't get any ideas" I mock. As I walk down a few meters down. I lay my clean clothes on the grass and take a few cautious steps into the water. It's cold, but feels nice against my burning skin. I make my way behind a few boulders and begin to strip. I already took of my boots and socks, on the grass. I pull down my pants lay them on the one of the boulders and begin to work on my shirt. I undo the first few buttons, then pull the green shirt over my head. I lay it beside my pants, leaving me in only my grey bra and underwear. I bend down to pick up the soap when Rory starts talking to me.
He's leaning on one of the boulders and all I can see his the top part of his chest, thankfully!
"So Kitty" I jump up and land in the cold stream, my whole body soaking wet now.
"Whoa! Didn't mean to scare you, anyways. Do you know how to get mud out of your hair?"
"Oh, just rub gravel in it" I say. He bends down and apparently starts his bath. I begin to wash myself with the water and soap. It smells like vanilla! I'm done fairly quickly and walk out of the stream, not caring that Rory is watching me get out of the stream, half naked. That's right, I have eyes on the back of my head.
Even though I'm soaking wet, I put my clothes on. It's a white tank top, and loose black shorts. I decide to leave my shoes off, and carry them in my hand.
"Rory" I turn around and he's sitting in the stream, pouring water onto his head.
"Yes, Kitty?"
"I'm going back now, I wanted to know if you're done" I say
"Yeah I'm done, I just have to get back into my clothes" He shouts.
"Good I'll wait for you"s
"Ow" I swear under my breath. I hear some splashing, and the sound of feet running towards me. I almost turn around to see if he's coming, but soon realize, who else would it be.
I begin to pick up my pace as his steps come closer and closer.
"Hey Kitty, I though you said, you'd wait for me?" He teases as he catches up to me. I steal a quick glance at him, and notice that he's wearing a clean brown shirt and a pair of faded grey pants.
"Don't call me kitty. And I was, but you were taking so freakin' long" I say as I attempt to ignore him
"Whatever" We walk along in peaceful silence for a while, but soon we get back to camp.
The mothers are cooking the magpies we caught while hunting, and brewing some kind of substance out of the herbs we collected. Primrose and Rue are talking, while they dip their feet in the stream. Charlie is talking with Thresh, and Gale is playing 'pony' with the little kids. As soon as we step into view, Posy comes running at me, arms wide. I crouch down so I can hug her, and she gleefully jumps into my arms.
She's giggling slighty and says" You all clean now! YAY! Where you find duh soap? You smell like soapy-soap! Tee-hee, you smell like sugar! I like suguh, you like sugah?"
"Uhhhh...Yes I am, your mom gave it to me, I'm sure I do. Sugar, that's strange...oh! And yes sugar is very delicious" I attempt to answer all her questions.
"What about me, do I smell nice?" Rory asks, with a big smile
"NO! You smell like rottin' appas(A/N -APPLES)" She quarrles
"Nice to see you too" He mutters sarcastically as he walks away, his smile replaced with a frown.
"Come Katti, I show you somin'" Posy says as she drags me away, this'll be a LONG day.
To be continued...
Okay. So this was originally supposed to have another part to it, but I haven't written it yet. And I know that I haven't updated for a while so I decided to cut it short and post what I have so far. I won't put another Gale/Katniss/Rue/Thresh part for a while until I do a part on foxface(Lexi) and/or Finnick.
I need some more ideas for the story right now, so if you have any ideas PLEASE TELL ME!
Some of the things that I need ideas for is:
-How do all of the characters run into eachother
-Does anybody die
-Should they find district 13(preferably not)
-What will the landscape be like for everyone
-Does anybody get captured by the capitol
-Are there any new friends they find on the way(has to be a hunger games character *OR it can be someone from either Percy Jackson and the Olympions or Harry Potter (will not be allowed to have magical powers of any kind)
I also want to know what pairings you guys want. I already have started making a Rue/Prim/Rory love triangle, and I want to know if I should continue with it or not. I also have a few more pairings that I have thought of:
Katniss/Thresh
Katniss/Gale
Katniss/Cato
Katniss/Finnick
Clove/Thresh
Clove/Gale
Lexi/Finnick
Lexi/Gale
Lexi/Thresh
Please voice your opinions on the pairings and if you have any love triangles or other pairings please let me know.
P.S. I have published a new story, Hunger Games Academy, please check it out!