Sorry for such the long break. Get a combo of new college life/not caring/writers block and you get my excuse.
Just to address this- someone said that Katniss was out of character. Yeah, I know.
Katniss's personality is a bitch for me to get out. Plus I kind of assumed that anyone who was given weird ass superpowers whether they wanted them or not would be a little more angry/snappy/to themselves. So yeah. Sorry if I disappointed anyone.
[b]Disclaimer[/b]: I don't own this stuff. D:
Beast Boy looked at Katniss silently, observing the white wings that sprouted from her back. He had seen Katniss as a more... quiet girl, though very clever at that. One who would run and take care of their own needs before just thrusting themselves into danger like she had done a few seconds ago. This was a different Katniss than the other Katniss he had seen during the training at the Center. What had they done? "Dude, what did they do to you? Before you looked so...so..."
"Different? You would too if you had wings sprouting out of your back."
"No, no! Not like that! I mean, uhhh..." Beast Boy trailed off, looking into her eyes. God, she was pretty.
Katniss raised an eyebrow and cocked her head left. "The shots change us just as much on the inside as out." She seemed to understand her change too.
"..." Beast Boy had run out of questions. Katniss shook her head before turning, unfurling those wings once more. Despite himself and the situation, he didn't want her to leave. Inside Beast Boy knew it was a horrible idea to run out and tug on her outfit- she could very well easily spin around and stab him on the spot. But when he did Katniss did nothing. She just turned around and looked at him, wings flapping to keep her just in midair. Though he could see in her eyes that she was annoyed- she wanted to leave. Time to make the move now! "Can I...uhh..." He chuckled nervously. "Allies? For now?"
Katniss seemed surprised by the question. Her eyebrows furrowed and she frowned at her shoes. Beast Boy couldn't help but kick a rock around with his feet. 'I hope she says yes! I hope she says yes!'
It was a minute later when Katniss finally responded. "Fine. But I'll leave you behind if you slow me down!" Beast Boy grinned wildly and cheered, pumping the air with his fist. Well, if you were going to die or something in an arena disguised as your home with a bunch of mutant kids with superpowers, you'd want to die alongside a hot girl too! And to make his matter even better that kid with the blonde hair wasn't around at all, so he didn't have to hold anything back.
"Sweet! So where do you want to go? P.I.Z.Z.A? Down near the park?" He asked, pointing behind him. By now Katniss was giving him an odd look, which slowly wiped the smile off of his face. "What? Did I say something wrong?"
"What are you talking about?" Katniss asked. "Park? Pizza?"
Beast Boy's ears pricked as he realized what she meant. Of course he was used to these places ... she didn't even know Jump City existed until now. Did these districts even have parks? "Uhh ... it's just down the street there. They have lots of trees if you want to take some shelter?"
She gave him that same look. Katniss cocked her head to the left, raising an eyebrow. Did she think Beast Boy was joking? "How do you know this?"
"This, uhh..." 'Come on Beast Boy. Spit it out before she chops you up!' "arena looks exactly like my home." He said slowly. "I can recognize everything here."
It barely took a moment for Katniss to figure it out. Her eyes widened at the realization. She had a big ticket to winning these horrible games. "Do you? Alright, take me to the park, I guess. But keep low. We won't be seen so easily that way." She said, giving Beast Boy a more kinder look now. Beast Boy nodded eagerly, that huge grin returning to his face as he transformed into a crow. Katniss in turn unfurled her wings and took off after him, the two flying wordlessly to the park.
It didn't take too long to get to the park, which was drowning in trees. If anything it looked more like Central Park in New York rather than Jump City's little thing. Beast Boy looked over as Katniss's eyes widened at the sight of all the trees, and immediately landed on top of a tree. He made it to his normal form to watch her wings almost melt right into her back. If he hadn't seen her with the wings out Beast Boy would assume she had none at all. Without them she looked a little less threatening. Threatening, of course, but not on such a high level. But at the same time gentle. He shuddered at the thought of the Capitol giving her the shot and somehow granting the ability for her to fly. It was horrible to even try and picture the thought.
"So, uhh..." Beast Boy was currently perched on a branch beside Katniss, looking shyly at his feet. "What's it like at district 12?"
Katniss shrugged, gaze also falling to her own feet. "Tough."
"Tough?"
"You have to work hard for nothing, break the rules for your food. We're no different than any other district."
Beast Boy nodded, though he was unable to picture the thought of people lying in the streets starving to death. "Sounds hard."
"Very."
It was quiet for a while after that. After a while Katniss sighed and looked to the sky. It was just starting to get dark. "Wonder how Peeta's doing."
Yeah, sorry this is so short. I just wanted to get an update out.
Hopefully it's somewhat acceptable.