CHRSTIAN'S POV
So here I was, VC concert, great. Wait, hold that thought.
"Damn, what do the Victor's put in their water to their kids so hot?!" I think out loud, in return getting a slap from Andy and a punch from Cato. Whatever, back to perving on the chicks. Hello District Eight, S'up District Seven.
"Christian, what are you doing now?" My view is interrupted by Johanna Mason and her stupid sister Annabeth. Both sneering at me with their criticising eyes.
"Oi, those are my friends!" Annabeth exclaims.
"You're the sister of a victor, not the child of one, so I'm glad you're not in this concert." I said rolling my eyes.
"That doesn't mean anything, JoJo won the Games only a few years ago." She pointed out.
"I wish you would stop calling me that Annabeth." Johanna said, rolling her big brown eyes.
"Hello pretty ladies," I said out loud as two giggling girls walked past and I tripped and fell into the punch bowl.
"You need to watch where you're going," Cato laughed, helping me out of the punch bowl.
"But you've got to admit, pink's his colour definitely." A familiar girl's voice points out, laughing. Oh great, Raina Odair. My ex-best friend.
Shaking my wet hair from my face I studied her. She looked different from the last time I saw her! The same blue eyes and light brown hair, but her hair had blue and green streaks that seemed to mix together. Funnily enough, she wasn't wearing a dress. Her denim cut-off shorts and a sea-green shirt went wonderfully with the wave patterned belt. In her hair was what looked like a necklace braided into her hair, ending with a glowing pearl set on her forehead. "Christian." She smiled.
"Odair."
"Faggot"
"You've gotten hotter from the last time I saw you." I think aloud accidently. Andy snickers and Cato sneers.
"I say again, faggot." She sneers.
"Shut up," Cato yells, "he's not a faggot!"
"And you know this how?" She yelled back.
"Don't talk to my brother like that you whore!" I butt in.
"Excuse me you dyke?" She said, narrowing her eyes dangerously. "Do you want me to kick your ass?"
"I'd like to see you try!" I taunted. Big. Mistake. She throws a punch, but I grab her wrist. Surprising me thoroughly, I get a roundhouse kick to the face and fall to the ground. I feel someone pulling her off me, so I get up and prepare to punch her, but she's restrained by her brother.
"Raina, get off him." Finnick Odair said sternly. "We're guests here, I've told you before. You want respect, act respectfully."
"Let go!" she screamed. "You've been against me since I won the Games!" Raina pulled out of Finnick's grip and ran out the door.
"I'm sorry about her," he apologised to us. "She's been weird since the Games."
"It's okay, I guess." I muttered. "Is she okay?"
"I don't know." Finnick shrugged "She won't talk to me."
"Yeah, she was weird on her Victory Tour." Johanna commented, I only just remembered they were still here.
"You're an ass, why would you do that?" Annabeth pipes up and walks out after Raina.
"Ha, you got beat up by a girl!" Andy laughs.
"Chris," Cato says "Go say sorry to her."
"No" I say "She started it."
Ten minutes later I'm locked in a cupboard, with her. She's sitting in the corner, playing with water.
"You guys aren't coming out until you're friends again!" Andy says in a sing-song voice outside the door.
"Good luck with that." Raina mutters. She sniffles.
"Are you crying?" I ask her.
"No, there's something in my eye."
"Yeah, it's called a tear." I could see her eyes glistening in the light of her pearl.
"Fine, laugh then."
"Why would I laugh?"
"I'm crying…"
"Yeah, that is funny."
"What happened to us?" she whispered "we were best friends."
"Yeah I know. You've lost weight." I pointed out.
"Well you know, being in the Hunger Games really helps your figure."
"Maybe I should try it…"
"I wouldn't suggest it. Unless you want to die or go entirely insane… like my soon to be sister-in-law."
"I'll take my chances."
I'm shoved against the door. I can feel her breath on my neck.
"Don't." She shoved me against the door, her eyes flashing wildly.
There's a banging on the door. "Are you guys fighting in there?" Cato shouted.
"No," Raina said sweetly "Chris just tripped."
"Yeah, that sounds right, now hurry up or we're leaving you in here till intermission."
Raina swore loudly in Greek.
"Yeah, I know he is." I laughed
"Wait, you can understand me?" she looked shocked.
"Well obviously. I agreed with you didn't I?"
"Yeah," she grinned. "Hey we're friends now!" I yelled through the door. Raina looked up at me and I swear her eyes turned green before she left the tiny space.
"Oh, what happened in there?" Cato smirks his little Cato smirk.
"Nothing, she just told me something funny." I smiled as I pushed past him to get to my seat, just as the lights started to dim.
An hour and a half later I walked out into the night air for a breather with Andy.
"It's cold out here." Andy complains for the fifth time in two minutes.
"Go back inside then, problem solved."
She turned on her heel and went back into the warmth of the Justice Hall. Shaking my head, I started to walk around the building when I was pulled into a dark space.
"What the…?" I said, startled. I looked around and grinned when I saw Raina's blue eyes reflecting the light of her magic pearl.
"Hello stranger." She smiles.
"Hi. I figured you'd come out here."
"Oh really? Why would you think that?" she asked innocently.
"Well, it's cold…"
"Aww, does Christian need a hug?"
"Maybe." I wrapped my arms around her and held her close. She smelt like the beach, reminding me of the last trip my parents took Cato, Andy and I on to District Four. That also was the last time I saw Raina, other than when they covered her Games.
She manoeuvred herself around so she was facing me and stood on her toes. Slowly she kissed me.
"Damn that felt good!" I exclaimed.
"Oh really?" she raised her eyebrows. I pushed her against the wall and leaned my head down to meet hers, why was she so short?
"Christian, you need to shrink," she laughed, as though reading my mind.
"Maybe you need to grow?" I teased. "Do you know how long I've waited to do that?"
"Well I've been waiting since I was 11…" Raina grinned.
"I've been waiting since I was 12."
"Shut up!" She pulled my head down to hers and this time we didn't stop with one kiss. I grabbed her hair and wrapped it in my hand pulling it softly and stooped down so I could get closer to her. I felt her cold hands on my stomach and helped her start to pull my shirt up.
Bam, I was knocked to the ground.
"Ow, what the hell?" I muttered. Finnick was standing between us.
"I thought you guys had stopped fighting!" he yelled.
"We weren't fighting." Raina protested.
"What were you doing then? He had you against the wall!"
I suddenly became interested in my shoes.
"You shove Annie against the wall all the time." She pointed out. "Now can you guess?"
"Oh, ah. I'll just go now." Finnick looked embarrassed.
"Christian?" he said
"Yeah?"
"Hurt her, I'll hurt you." He walked down the alley to Annie.
"Have fun, just don't kill each other in the process." Annie said cheerfully.
"Curse him and his overprotectiveness!" Raina exclaims stomping her foot like a child having a temper tantrum.
"He ruined a perfectly good moment" she said sighing and leaned into me.
"Yeah! I could have scored!" I say with a mocking tone.
"Sorry, bro!" we hear Finnick's voice travel down the ally way.
"That's cool." I called back. Raina shook her head.
"Come on you idiot." She grabbed my hand and walked with me back to the Justice Building.
Another gruelling hour passed until it was finally time for District Two to take to the stage. First out, and the only one I cared to see, was Clove and Persephone. What did they do? Persephone was playing her guitar and Clove was singing a song called 'Both of Us,' if someone else I knew was singing this I would feel so… I'm just not gonna finish that sentence.
Once the acts were finished, everybody was invited to the Grand Hall for the Opening Feast, as the festivities would last a few more days. I felt a tug at my hand.
"Hey," Raina said "can you walk me up to my room? I'm kinda tired."
"Sure." I smiled, squeezing her hand. We walked silently to her room, Level Four, room A.
"Well, goodnight." She whispered, hugging me tightly. I held her close and rested my chin on her head.
"Goodnight."
She pulled herself away and disappeared into her room. I started walking down the hall.
"Christian!" Raina came running down the hall. She jumped into my arms and kissed me hard before running back into her room. I smiled the whole way home.
*Knock, knock* What the hell? Someone was knocking on my window. I can admit I was scared. Cato and Andy weren't home, so I grabbed Cato's sword from under his bed and slowly opened the door to the balcony.
"Surprise!" A cheerful voice called.
"Raina, what? How? Why?" I was confused. How did she know where I lived?
"I couldn't sleep."
"Oh, but how did you know where I lived? How do you know which room's mine?"
"I have a second sense when it comes to you, and we were best friends." She grinned sheepishly. "Are you gonna invite me in?
I opened the door wide so she could come right in. She flopped onto my bed with a sigh.
"Nice music," she grinned, hearing the music coming from Andy's room. She'd left it on.
"Ah, this is a disturbing song. I'll go turn it off."
"No. It's catchy. I-I-I wanna go-o-o all the wa-a-ay, takin out my freak tonight." She grinned.
"Wow, you can sing."
Raina blushed and got up. "I'm gonna put a new song on."
She walked out and I put a shirt on quickly. Slow music was playing. She came back in.
"Dance with me Christian." She held out her hand to me. I took it and danced with her slowly.
"I have died every day waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years, I'll love you for a thousand more." Raina sang softly. We continued to dance until the song sounded like it was going to end.
"All along I believed I would find you, time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years, I'll love you for a thousand more." I finished for her.
"You can sing!" she smiled as the song finished.. She climbed into my bed and gestured for me to join her. Raina cuddled up to my body, and I stroked her hair as she fell asleep. It felt as though we were 11 years old again, before I had to go into training and never saw her again.
When I wake up Raina's not there. I freaked out.
"Raina, where'd you go?" No answer. Crap. I jumped out of bed, but got tangled in the sheets and hit my head on the bedside table. Through my haze I reach up and feel something warm and sticky on my forehead. Just then slick, red liquid made it's way down my face and my vision goes even more hazy. I see Raina run in and yell before I pass out.
RAINAS POV
Crap! Christian was passed out on the floor. I shook him roughly. His eyes flickered.
"Raina…." He moaned.
"Shh, it'll be okay Christian." I ripped his shirt into strips from the bottom and used them to bandage his head. The blood is slowly stopping, I wiped my sticky hands on my stomach so I could touch his face.
"What happened here?" Cato asks from behind me.
"Not what you're thinking. Help me!" I yell. Together we put Christian on his bed and I sit with his head in my lap as I clean the rest of the blood carefully.
"Ah! What did you do to Christian's shirt?" Andy screamed. I turned to face her with a shocked look on my face.
"Your brother's unconscious and bleeding, and you're worried about his shirt?"
Andy realised how bad this sounded and shut up instantly. I turn back to Christian and pushed a stray lock of golden, blood-soaked hair from his face. His hand came up to hold mine and his eyes opened slowly.
"Christian, are you feeling okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, are you?" He stroked my face, wiping blood onto it but I didn't care.
"You scared me!" I lay down and put my head on his chest "I thought you were going to die!" Tears made their way down my face. The sound of his breathing calmed me as he stroked my hair.
"I won't ever leave you." He smiled weakly.
"You'd better not." I fell asleep, absolutely calm.
I woke late that afternoon, safe in Christian's arms.
"Afternoon," I smiled,.
"Afternoon." He grinned back. He looked at me intently and pushed me out of the bed.
"What was that for?" I protested.
"Go have a shower, you've got blood all over you. I'll have one later." He pointed to a doorway. I reluctantly made my way to his and Cato's bathroom, peeled off my clothes and got in the shower. Oh my gods, it was so warm. It was good to get the blood off my body. After a few minutes there's a knock at the door.
"Come in." Christian comes in holding clothes with his hand over his eyes.
"I brought you some clothes." He said, I watched as he sat down the clothes and made his way back out.
"I'll talk to you later," I called out, I was proud of him. I'd expected him to try something with me. Maybe he wasn't like the other guys. I pondered over this as I put on the clothes he left for me. They were comfortable and smelled like him, perfect.
Christian's POV
Raina came out of the bathroom in a set of too big clothes. I would have given her some of Andy's clothes, but I didn't want to risk getting my ass kicked.
"You. Shower. Now." She says, pointing to the bathroom she'd just vacated. I obliged, but found the room occupied.
"My shower time now." Cato grinned.
"Sorry little bro, my turn."
"You've had the shower for ages though!" he protested.
"That's your fault for staying at Clove's, therefore, I get shower privileges." I say in my best Capitol accent.
"We haven't had 'shower privileges' since we were thirteen." Cato says, rolling his eyes.
"Wait," Raina said, coming into the room "You haven't had a shower since you were thirteen? How old are you now?"
"No my mom would kill me, and seventeen, duh!" I say faking a look bewilderment.
"Wait! You're fifteen aren't you?." I say, looking at her curiously.
"I'm sixteen." She says folding her arms in front of her chest
"Good, you're legal then." I shout, grabbing her and hugging her close.
"Shut up, don't get any ideas. I might not come back tonight if you do." She scolds, turning to face me.
I kissed her, much to Cato's disgust.
"GOD, THERE'S A ROOM JUST THERE. I NEED TO USE THE SHOWER!" Cato shouts.
"Now you know how I feel with you and Clove." I smirk at his gagging.
"Whatever. Out. Now. Don't be doing anything indecent when I come back into our room, or you die."
"Dude. We practically just got together!" Raina glared at him, I couldn't help but laugh at her.
"You two have been practically dating since you were 5 years old."
"Whatever Cato," Raina rolled her eyes "Christian needs a shower. He's covered in blood."
"Okay, he can have a quick shower." He leaves the room with Raina and I have a quick shower. When I exit I find Raina sitting on the couch playing video games, looking really cute in a pair of Andy's jeans and an old sweater she never really wears.
"You're playing my video games? Nice, just nice." I smirked, leaning against the doorframe.
"Feel free to join." She smiled, quickly patting the seat next to her and continuing the game.
"Fine, but I intend to kick your ass. Video games are a man's thing."
"I'd like to see you try to beat me," she smirked determinedly. It was on.
RAINA POV
I want to live in this moment forever. But my visions stopped us from continuing. It started with a sore head.
"Ow." I muttered, dropping the controller. He sounded worried when he spoke.
"Are you okay?" I looked up, he was worried. His gorgeous face was not as happy and complete as it was a few minutes ago. It was the complete opposite.
"I…I have to go, ARGH!" My head was killing me.
"Come on." I felt his hand pull mine. My head felt like it was going to explode.
I tripped down the steps of his house, completely unaware that I was there. I was going back and forwards between a strange place, I couldn't grasp what was real and what wasn't. Christian gave in and picked me up, carrying me. We were on his front lawn when I screamed.
I was in a dark room with flickering candles. I tried raising my arms, but they were chained to the chair I was sitting on. I looked across the room into Christian's eyes. He was also chained to a chair. A woman in a long gray dress was chanting in Greek. I could tell it right then and there. She was a daughter of Hecate. Her eyes locked onto mine. They were gold and glinted in anger.
"Now you'll see what happens when you cross me, you pathetic little demi-god. Now you will always be together!" She laughed evilly.
Then I fell unconscious.
When I woke, I was in my room at the Justice Building. I reached out for Christian, but he wasn't there with me.
"Raina, be honest with me now. Did you have a vision?" Finnick asked quietly from the depths of darkness surrounding me.
"Yes," I say answering him looking down sheepishly.
"You know what they told you! They taught you how to control your visions. If getting so bad you can't control it then it's too dangerous now, I'm sorry Raina but you can't go see Christian again."
"WHAT?" I yelled "YOU CAN'T KEEP US APART."
"I'm sorry, it's dangerous. He witnessed you have a flashback." Fin sighed.
"He was in it."
"What?" Finnick's head flicked up. I explained to him what I saw and his eyes widened.
"I'm sorry Raina, I didn't know that's what you saw."
"Does that mean I can go see Christian?" I asked hopefully.
"Yes, but we leave tomorrow. I don't know how that's going to work if you're at his place."
"I'll figure something out." I grinned.
"Be careful." I jumped up and hugged my brother. He left the room.
RING RING. What the hell. I picked up the receiver on the phone in my room and yawned.
"Hello?"
"Raina? Are you okay?"
"Is this Christian?"
"No, it's Cato." Pfft, I know it was Christian.
"Bullshit."
"No seriously. Christian is on his way to your room. Right now."
"Holy shit okay. Thanks Cato."
"No problem, thought I'd give you the heads up." I hung up
As I waited I realised I still had Andy's clothes on. I would have to give them back to her, but they were so cool! I walked into the kitchen and in the search of food, almost missed the knock on the door. I jumped up and unlocked it for him, grinning like an idiot, apple in my hand.
"Hey," he smiled, giving me a quick hug "Are you okay?"
"Yeah," I replied "Do you want to come in?"
We walked in and sat on my bed. I lay down and closed my eyes, taking a bite of my apple. Christian was quiet, too quiet.
"What's wrong?" I asked him.
"Oh, nothing," he replied, but something was obviously on his mind.
"Spill."
He sighed and pulled out a small box. He pushed it in my hand.
"Open this." I opened it carefully. There was a small necklace shaped like a heart in it with mine and Christian's full names on it.
"Do you like it?" He asked nervously.
"YES!" I threw myself at him and gave him a huge hug "How did you know my middle name?" He smiled broadly
"Second sense baby, I'm glad you liked it." I smiled at him and loosened my grip a little on his shoulders.
"You're an idiot." I shook my head, smiling sadly, I didn't want to go home to District Four.
"What's wrong?" Christian asked me, wrapping his arm around my waist.
"I don't want to go home." I said sadly.
"We'll make it work, I promise."