Hey Guys here's my second instalment of Chasing Tails, I hope you guys like it so far, thanks to all who added me to the story alert, favourite stories and author, and of course to everyone who reviewed I'm glad want to know more and that someone actually is reading my story! Well I really appreciate it and hope you guys like this chapter too! :)

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When Katniss woke up she turned on her back and lay still for a few moments. Staring at the top of the tent, she began to go over everything that had happened the last few days. She could not believe how much things had changed. Only a few days ago she was running for her life away from the careers and now she's in an alliance with them?

'Maybe I could learn to trust them, maybe we really all could make it out of here alive?' she thought to herself. 'Yeah fat chance of that'. Sighing to herself decided it was time to get up.

Sitting up Katniss got out of her and Rue's double sleeping bag being extra careful not to wake the little girl up as she was peacefully sleeping. Katniss looked down at the child and smiled slightly. Rue reminded Katniss of her little so much, and one thing she knew for sure was no matter whether her and the other tributes alliance lasts or not, Rue's welfare was always going to be on the top of Katniss' list. Even above her own well being, Rue came first.

Slowly and quietly, Katniss crawled out the tent leaving Rue in her peaceful slumber. Shutting the tent Katniss turned round to find Cato and Marvel inside the cornucopia sitting down on camp chairs with a fire a few feet away from them just outside.

The two boys were talking when they saw Katniss come out her tent. Cato stopped the conversation and turned to look at her. He had to admit it, Katniss Everdeen did fascinate him. She lived in district 12, has had no real training in before, yet she scored an 11 when they were assest by the Capitol. Also she was a very brave girl, even Cato could admit what she did for her little sister was courageous, she did genuinely seem like she was a fighter. Cato would know, he was one to.

"Still to this day I don't know how she scored a 11?" Cato said to Marvel, his eyes never leaving Katniss as she walked over to the table like stand the careers and I had set up. She was getting some food by the looks of it.

"Maybe she slept with the judges?" Marvel smirked turning his eyes to Cato. Cato snorted at Marvel's sarcasm.

"Well they do say you have to be careful with the quiet ones" Cato added, causing both boys laugh at their accusations.

"She does seem to be very to herself though doesn't she? I mean she barely talks to anyone except, Rue or Mr. Gugu eyes from 12" Marvel said.

"Well I can't blame her it was only 3 days ago we tried to kill the girl" Cato snorted.

"I guess".

Cato's eyes fell back on Katniss and he saw her sitting in a chair eating an apple all by herself. He was wondering whether to invite her over considering she was the other side of the clearing from the cornucopia which seemed stupid. 'Me and Marvel don't bite! Well not anymore anyway' Cato thought to himself.

As if Marvel was thinking the same thing the two boys looked at each other, to Katniss then back at each other just to be sure they were thinking the same thing.

"Katniss!" Marvel bellowed across the clearing being completely inconsiderate of his fellow tributes.

Katniss turned to see district one calling her over. She contemplated whether or not to go over, and even though she thought it could be a bad idea, she was already making her way over to the two boys.

"What's the problem?" Katniss asked with no emotion.

"We were just wondering why you were sitting across the clearing like we're diseased or something." Marvel asked with a polite tone and smiling.

"Well I don't trust you." She replied.

Both Marvel and Cato were taken back by her honesty.

"Oh, well you've got to start sometime!"Marvel grinned.

Katniss looked at Marvel and couldn't help but smile at his goofy face. Even though he was a career he was still a bit of an idiot. In a good way Katniss thought.

"I suppose" she answered him sitting in the chair that was a few feet in front of the boys, so they were sitting in a triangle.

"So Katniss, we may as well get to know each other a little, since we may be around each other till we get out of here which could be god knows when" Marvel suggested, and he really did want to start talking to Katniss, things would be far easier if he was at 'able to have a conversation' level with everyone.

Marvel was born and raised to be a killing machine, but he never really got enjoyment as such as playing up to the big bad wolf as everyone expected him to be, although his life literally depended he never admitted that out loud. But as of now Marvel didn't have to be the monster he had been brought up to become, because once again although he would never admit it, he wanted the Games to be over as much as the next person.

"Why not?" Katniss said to him letting her guard down a little, as something was telling her she was okay.

"So Katniss, I know you're from district 12. I know you're a badass with a bow, and I also know that you've got Mellark whipped. What else is there to know about the girl on fire eh?" Marvel asked with humour to his tone.

Katniss smiled at him and just shook her head. "Okay first of all, yes I am front 12, and yes I am pretty good with a bow, but no I do not have Peeta 'whipped', and something else you don't know about me, hmm?" Katniss told him emphasizing the word whipped. "I have been hunting since I was eleven years old".

Marvel raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Wow! No wonder your good".

Katniss smiled at him sadly, remembering the reason she started hunting in the first place. She quickly regained her thoughts and snapped out of it before she got upset thinking of her family back home. God she hoped her family were okay. Whatever was going on outside Katniss really hoped everyone back home was okay.

Katniss then looked over to Cato. He was just watching her and Marvel talk and he remained quite the whole time just taking in everything they said, which Katniss didn't find very fair at all.

"So Cato, why you so quite" Katniss asked with a wary expression. She liked talking to Marvel, she thought he was a bit of a silly douche, but she didn't what to make of Cato, he hadn't said a word to her all morning.

Cato turned his gaze to her "I guess I'm just in the listening mood", he replied with a straight face.

"Which rarely happens by the way so count your blessings" Marvel chipped in, causing all three of them to laugh and earning a nudge of Cato, near knocking him out of his seat. Cato and Katniss laughed at Marvel then found themselves both staring at each other. Katniss broke the glance as no one was laughing anymore and Marvel was just staring at the two of them with his eyebrows raised.

'What going on here?' Marvel thought to himself with a smirk.

"Anyyyyyyy way, now we have Cato's attention, and all of it seems" said marvel breaking the tension and muttering the last part of the sentence to himself, "maybe you can join in instead of letting me and old kitty-kins here do all the talking" Katniss looked at Marvel sourly at his new nickname for her.

"Kitty-kins... Really?" she asked raising a eyebrow.

"I think it suits personally" Marvel said in defence, and then showing a full teeth grins hoping to get away with it.

"Your such an ass you know that!" Katniss laughed.

"Speak for yourself dude" Marvel replied laughing back at the girl in front of him. "Anyway I need some food I haven't eaten yet" and Marvel got up and left Katniss and Cato alone.

"So girl on fire how did you get an 11 at the capital" Cato asked with all confusion and frustration in his face.

"Ahhhhhh! So that's why you keep looking at me like I have four heads. You wanna know how someone from district 12 got a higher score than someone from district 2?" Katniss giggled at his seriousness. Cato and his ego made her laugh, the whole idea in his head that winning comes first.

Cato looked at her not amused that she found it funny, "Well obviously otherwise I wouldn't be asking now would I" he said dryly.

Katniss looked at him and could see he really wanted to know the answer to this, and it wasn't just for his envy of her higher score or so he can be the best. It was something else in his eyes and Katniss could only recollect it to be disappointment. So she looked at him and smiled.

"It wasn't really my skills that got me that high score, it was my mentor and my anger I suppose" she laughed to herself at the thought of Haymitch and Effie's when they found out what had happened at observation that day. Katniss went into telling Cato the whole story of what happened that day and he laughed.

"I do have to say, you are a feisty one aren't you! You got some balls, it could have really pissed off the capital".

"I know but... Urg! They just made me so angry!" she said laughing at her own frustration.

Time pasted and Cato and Katniss carried on talking and Marvel, Glimmer and Foxface joined them. All of them started talking about home and their districts and family.

By midday, everyone was up and out and talking, the tributes had all begun talking to each other and finally began to feel comfortable in a sense. No one had their guard up which was relieving for all of them as the awkwardness they had earlier was beginning to get exhausting .

The day was very warm as the sun was shining outside the dome making the Arena that much warmer.

"Is there any need for this heat!" Clove said as took off another layer of clothing leaving only her shorts and tank top on now.

Everyone else was pretty much the same, leaving only the essential layers of clothing they needed to stay decent.

"Personally I say we all go the lake. We need to clean the pots anyway and if we don't start cleaning are clothes from the supplies, they're gonna start walking around without anyone wearing them" Thresh said with humour but being serious at the same time. He wasn't wrong we must have worn a few different outfits twice now as there weren't supposed to be enough clothes for all of to have.

Everyone agreed and brought their rucksacks full of their dirty clothes they'd been using the last few days. The lake was only a 15 minute hike away from the cornucopia and all the tributes helped each other along the way. 5 minutes in Marvel ended up carrying Rue's clothes as Cato was carrying Rue on his shoulders and his own bag on his back.

Once they arrived at the lake, Cato got rue of his shoulders dropped his rucksack on the floor. Cato, Thresh, Peeta and Marvel, all glanced at each other and grinned.

All four boys threw their shirts off and ran towards the lake as if in competition, they all reached the water and then started to wrestle each other.

Katniss and Foxface where the next to follow the boys and they laughed at their competitiveness.

"Boys" Foxface said as put down her stuff and found a spot where she could lie her towel down.

Katniss looked at her bizarrely and laughed. "You'd think we were on a day out to the beech".

"Well we may as get some enjoyment out of the sun while we can, we don't get gorgeous days like this all the time!" She said in defence.

Glimmer, Clove and Rue all liked the idea and copied her, and Katniss just looked at them all with her eyes wide. Katniss had never been the beach before. In fact she'd never really been anywhere that was remotely pleasant before. She did go to the forest to hunt which was like an escape for her. But she's never actually had a relaxing day which doesn't consist her running round for animals to sell.

"Oh come on Katniss, it'll be fun just soaking up the sun. It'll do your tan some good!" Glimmer added trying to convince her to join them.

"Listen women its either you sit down or I'll pin you down your choice" Clove told her with a sweet smile, and Katniss decided to lay down on her towel. Katniss laughed off Cloves comment not knowing whether she was serious or not.

Rue saw the look on Katniss' face am mouthed 'she's joking'. Katniss smiled at her and nodded.

Glimmer and Clove both took off their tops leaving them in only their bra and shorts, and Katniss, Rue and Foxface left their tank tops on but Clove only went over to them and cut the bottom of their top so they ended showing most of their stomach anyway much to their protest. Well she did this to Foxface and Katniss, she didn't to Rue because she was only a baby still.

Although Katniss and Foxface were uncomfortable at first they soon got used to the feeling of the sun against their skin and were soon in bliss.

The buys could still be heard laughing and wrestling in the water in the background, and the girls began chatting amongst each other.

Marvel had told the boys that he needed some water from his canister before he started drink the lake water and he began to make his way to where he could hear the girl talking. He was wondering to himself at this moment why girls talk so much. Do they ever stop, and he then started to think of his sisters back home and how they would never seem to shut up no matter what he said. Thinking of his sister made Marvel smile to himself and he began a quick jog up the higher levelled rock where the girls were. When he finally reached the top, he tripped and near fell flat on his ass at what he saw. Many sure they didn't he his Marvel froze in his tracks just to take in the view in front of him. Clove, Katniss Foxface and Glimmer were all lying on the floor Half Naked!

He stared for what must have been a good 3 minutes and was shocked that none of them have noticed him yet. He had been standing there, directly at their feet and they all still had their eyes closed.

The rest of the boys came out looking for Marvel to see what on earth was taking them so long. Once they spotted him on higher rocks, they could hear the girls talking away but could see Marvel staring at the floor not talking with a dopey look on his face.

"What is he staring at?" Peeta wondered and both Thresh and Cato shrugged their shoulders but made their why up to him to find out.

When they finally reached him began to ask him what the matter was but immediately stopped when he saw what he was looking at.

And all four boys just stood with their jaws near toughing the floor.

Okayyyyy another chapter done, found this one quite funny as I was writing it as I could just image their faces seeing all the beautiful girls lined up soaking the sun. And to be fair in the poor boys defence , they haven't really seen any girl in anythink less than full body training suit for the last few weeks so i thought I'd be kind to them a little haha, well anyway hope you enjoyed it as much I did writing it and please review what you think, I'd really appreciate it!