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My eyes slowly open. I see Clove sitting on my bed. I sit up, "How the fuck did I get here?" The whole room starts swaying so I lay back down.

"I don't know what happened so don't ask me! They just told me to wake you up so when I opened the door I saw you passed out and blood all over your sheets and you all black and blue with scrapes on your face. So, since I can't tell you how you got here I'm guessing you can tell me what happened before this point?"

I look at her trying to process what she has just told me and connect it to what I remember. Everything is fuzzy. The more I think about it the more clear it becomes and the more my head hurts. I am about to say something when I hear, "Cato? Clove? Come out to breakfast you don't want to be late to training!"

I look at Clove and see that a devilish grin has grown across her face, nerves shoot through all of my body.

"Help me, please." If the mentors or Athena see me like this they will be so mad they may as well just kill me now.

Clove smiles and says, "I'm really hungry I will meet you out there." She winks and gets up, swiftly leaves my room. I'm left alone.

I slowly get myself out of bed. I look at my mess of a bed and see that it was painted red. I tear off the sheets and throw them on the ground so that the Avox know that they need to be washed. I go into the bathroom and stop in front of the mirror. I slowly move my head back and forth looking over my bruises and cuts. I smile. I turn so I can see my back in the mirror and see that it too has multiple bruises from being thrown on the ground. I take a shower, quickly get dressed. I take a deep breath and head out to breakfast.

As I pull out my chair and sit down everyone is looking at me. I pick up my fork and start to eat, hoping that no one says anything.

"What the hell happened to you?" Brutus finally asks.

"Oh, well, I tried to do my own makeup but it didn't really work out," I scoff.

I look up to see all the adults staring at me emotionless and Clove laughing her ass off.

Enobaria sighs, "Seriously what kind of trouble did you get into? Because a couple of Peacekeepers came up here last night looking for two people and asked if you and Clove were here, so I looked into both yours and Clove's room and Clove was there sleeping but you weren't! I covered for you, but you have to tell us where you were."

"I was in the Training Center," I decided not to lie, "and I cut my hand on the sword," I hold up my hand to show the deep wound, "So I went around looking for some medicine." I didn't lie, I just didn't tell the full truth.

"I still have three more questions. One; why were they looking for you? Two; why were they looking for a second person, a female to be exact? Lastly; why are you all beat up if you only cut your hand?"

I look around the table unsure if I should tell them or not. I think about all the pros and cons and realize I have nothing to lose "Okay, fine, I wasn't completely honest with you. I did go down to the training center, but I immediately cut my hand, but I just rapped up and continued to train. Then Katniss came in."

I stop to see what their faces are like, the mentors are staring at me, Athena looks disappointed in me, and Clove looks really interested in my story, "I was trying to figure out her specially when about five Peacekeepers came in, so we just ran. We went up to the roof, to hide because we knew they would be after us and we also knew they wouldn't check the roof. We started talking and she got medicine and a bandage for my hand and then we talked some more. After that Peeta, her District partner came up and I wanted to know his specialty and I realized he would do anything for Everdeen." I hesitate, thinking about the kiss, I leave it out of the story, "So Peeta and I got in a little fight...but I found out what his specialty is!"

"What is it?" Clove eagerly asks.

"That is beside the point!" Lyme interjects, "Cato, what you did is unacceptable!" There is a long pause as people think about what to say.

"What I don't get," Enobaria says, "is why didn't the two of you just go back to your rooms and pretend to be asleep while the Peacekeepers looked for you? Why did you have to be together?" I know what she is hinting at, and I don't want to answer. I get up and go to the elevator and say without looking at them, "I'm going to head down to training I don't want to be late."

*HG*

At training, I look at Everdeen, then at Loverboy. I watch as they work and see that Loverboy is walking stiffly. Everdeen on the other hand glances at me every now and then, and then looks at Peeta.

Glimmer, the girl from One, keeps coming up to me and trying to talk to me. I keep trying to push her away but she doesn't get the hint one bit. She keeps putting her hand on my back to get my attention but the bruises decorating my back don't appreciate the contact. I try to walk away from her, so she shuts up and stops touching me. It doesn't work, Glimmer continues to follow me. I look up to see Everdeen laughing at my failed attempt to get rid of Glimmer. I glare at 12 resisting the urge to go over there.

Glimmer continues to push on, "Cato, why do you keep looking at the loser girl from 12 and not at me?"

"I keep looking at 12 to find out her specialty, and my eyes can't really handle looking at you." I tell her.

"Is it because I'm so pretty?" She smiles at me stepping closer.

I look at her like she is the stupidest thing alive, because she is. "No, the opposite." She looks startled at first but then she laughs a really annoying flirtatious laugh, "Oh Cato you're so funny." She touches my arm but I flick away her hand.

I hear Everdeen laugh and I look up to see her watching Glimmer and I. I mouth to Everdeen "Fuck you!" She mouths back, "Having fun?" I flick her off but she just laughs.

Glimmers annoying voice breaks our conversation, "Is there something between you and 12?"

"First of all: stop bugging me; I am not in the mood. Secondly: no there is nothing between me and 12! So, fuck off!" Clove comes up from behind me, making is obvious that she was listening in, "Well actually 12 and him were cau-" I put my hand over her mouth to shut her up, but she bites me.

"Don't you have a deal with the mentors that you can't hurt me?" I say to Clove, as Glimmer leaves angrily.

"I have told you before; my deal with the mentors is that I can't kill you! I just bite you because you put your dirty hand on my mouth, and since you are breathing I'm guessing you're still alive."

I walk away to where the knives are; I stop. Where is it, where is MY knife? Then I hear the familiar sing song laughter that could bring me to my knees. I sharply turn to face her. She stops laughing as I walk towards her.

"Where is my knife 12?"

"I don't have your knife Cato." She looks at me and I sense that she isn't lying.

"Then where is it?"

Her eyes start wondering around the room, "I don't know."

"Bullshit Everdeen, you know who took my knife and you are going to tell me." I take a step towards her and she takes a step back. I then feel someone behind me, I turn expecting to see bread boy but instead I am face to face with the boy from 11. I am close to his height and muscle mass, but as much as I hate to admit it, he has more of both.

"What did you take my knife?" I say to him.

He stakes his head, "Boy from 6" is all he says, and he crosses his arms. I push past him to 6. I start cussing him out and yelling at him to give me back my knife. The kids looks like he is on the brink of tears as I get dragged away by the Peacekeepers. As I am getting dragged I look and see Everdeen and 11 laughing and looking up at the ceiling. As they get my out the doors I see what they are looking at; the little girl from 11 has my knife.

*HG*

After my fight they sent me up to my room, and the mentors had me on detention for the night. I fall asleep thinking about what I'm going to do to little 11. I don't sleep long before I wake up again. I hear people talking outside of my room, so I get out of bed and head down the hall. I hide behind a pillar so no one can see me.

"...I don't know, something is just different."

"I just don't think it would be good for them to get involved with each other!"

"I don't see why it is so bad; one of them is going to die. Plus they are just kids, and we don't know for sure what is going on between the two of them."

I take a chance and sneak a look at the discussion that is taking place. I see Brutus and Enobaria both glaring at each other, I realize now that they were the ones talking. I also see Lyme seated at the end of the table playing with a glass, obviously she is just letting them yell at each other. I continue to listen to their conversion trying to make sense of it, although I already have a clue on what they are talking about.

Enobaria talks, "Yes, one of them is going to die, and hopefully it will be her, and he will win, but you have seen what happened to Haymitch, her mentor, he lost a love when he was in the games! He was a great fighter, but now he constantly drinks, and you saw him; he fell off the stage at this year's reaping. Haymitch is just one of the people, and what about Finnick Odair? Finnick is a close friend of ours, and we were all there when Annie was put into the games, yes she got out, but she didn't get out of the games the same person she used to be."

Brutus pauses before saying something in response. We all know that is true, we all know the games have done horrible things to people. I jump at Brutus's voice, "We don't know if there is something between Cato and Katniss. You have heard him and Clove talk about ways to kill her. Even the look in his eyes is pure hate, he is not stupid, and I have talked with Cato before these games. They sent him to me because of the promise that he had, and he was only ten, he had been in the Academy only four years. After only four years they already had him programmed to kill, and he still had eight more years there. I don't think we have to worry about him going soft for some pathetic girl from District Twelve!"

I want to just jump out of the window. They don't know me, and they are already debating my lack of a love life, and how I have been "programmed", whatever that means.

Lyme starts giggling. The giggling turns into laughter. I look around the pole Brutus and Enobaria look puzzled, but before they can say anything Lyme explains, "You really think that Katniss is pathetic? Are you seriously that blind? Are Cato and I the only ones who see it? The way she walks? The determination in her eyes? She started something... something... dangerous the minute she volunteered for her sister. And how could you forget her costume at the Parade? She is something special, something that Panem has needed for a while. She has a talent that she is just hiding."

I can't take it anymore. I walk out into the room and don't make eye contact with them; I just keep my eyes set on the window across the room.

"Cato," Brutus says with a slightly shaky voice, I stop, but don't look at them, "How long have you been there?"

"Long enough to know what this whole meeting was about..." I try to keep my voice stable, but it fades out at the end, and I don't know why.

Everyone else is quiet but Brutus continues to ask questions "Are you going to the roof to meet with her?"

"No!" I say loudly staring at them, "Are you guys seriously having a meeting about my love life? Isn't it bad enough that I am going on live television to kill kids?" I stop. It's the first time I actually realize what the games are. I look at my mentors; they are not only mentors but Victors, people who have won these games. People who have realized a long time ago what the games really are.

I hear Brutus voice in my head "After only four years they already had him programmed to kill..."

It can't be true, it just can't be. I was taught that the Games were a way to show your strength, courage, and honor. The reaping was a happy event, and the outer Districts, like 12 and 11, were frowned upon because of their dislike for it.

It can't be true.

It can't be.

It can't.

I shake it off and say, "I'm...I'm just going to go to bed now. Please try and keep it down" I turn and walk back to my room, and fall asleep.

*HG*

The next day in training, I look around for little 11 but I don't see her anywhere. I'm guessing she is just hiding from me, which is a good idea.

I go over to the swords and everyone is watching me as I let my anger flow through my sword and slice down the dummies head. The conversation the Mentors had comes back to me full force.

Programmed to kill? Fuck no! I was born to kill. I was born to win. I put away my sword and walk over to the hand and hand combat and get in line behind 11, I ponder asking him where his partner is but then he goes up for his training. I watch as he easily takes down the trainer. He walks off and he glances at me. He gives me a smirk, so I glare back at him.

I get ready to fight. I throw some punches and block some of his with ease. We continue with the fight but I am not trying that hard. My eyes wander behind the trainer to where Everdeen is. I see her not looking at me but at a weapon, a bow and arrow. Since I am distracted the trainer punches me in the face right where Peeta had punched me not long ago, and I stumble backward.

The trainer says, "Come on you have to stay foc-" I kick him in the stomach and he falls down onto the floor. I walk off and over to Everdeen.

"I saw that!" I proclaim

"Saw what? You really should be a little more specific."

"I saw you gazing longingly at the bow and arrows." I say semi-mockingly

Katniss says laughing, "Cato, you are going insane! You keep accusing me of things I didn't do! Did you bump your head on something when Peeta beat you up?"

I hear snickering behind me, I turn to see Clove. "Why do you keep following me? Go follow Marvel around or someone else!" I yell at her.

"If I didn't have to I wouldn't follow you around then I wouldn't!" Her face then looks shocked, like she told me something that she wasn't supposed to. I turn back to Everdeen and see that she had left and went to another place away from me, so I focus my energy back at Clove.

"What did you say? You have to follow me?" I step close to her, so I look even bigger and more intimidating which is something that I learned to do at the Academy.

"Fuck it, I will just tell you!" She said without even thinking if she should actually tell me or not, "Brutus, Enobaria, and Lyme cornered me and told me to follow you around. They also said that if you talk to 12 to report back to them every word that you said."

"Every word that I said?" I say getting an idea. Clove looks at me but I continue to clarify, "We could have some fun with this." She gives me an evil smile of understanding.

For the rest of training, we plan