Hey everyone! Here's another chapter for you all which I hope you enjoy :) It's been pointed out that I have muddled up the characters a little and confused some people with who was currently dead or alive, so I send out my apologies for that and I have edited chapter one a little to sort out the problem. And while am here I would just really like to thank everyone who has been reviewing and story alerting and putting me on their favourite stories and authors listing and so on. It really does genuinely keep me motivated to carry on this story and I'm very grateful. Now the reason this chapter has taken so long to update as I am actually writing most of it on my phone which is far more difficult and you'd think! I have to write it on my phone as I don't have access to my laptop for a week :(
Okay, right this is the re-edited chapter I added a few more thing in as this chapter was relatively short when I first posted it so...
Anyway back to the chapter.
Cato stared at all the beautiful girl's in front of him. However, when Cato eyes fell onto Katniss, he was certainly taken back by her flawlessness. She was stunning. Toned slim stomach, olive skin and she didn't have a bad chest on her either!Taking in everything he saw, but being very careful to not get too excited and make a fool of himself.
He turned to the boys and saw them all gorping as well. He laughed silently at them all throwing his head back and they all turned to him with grins on their faces. They looked like children on Christmas.
Marvel put his fingers to his lips smiling wickedly and waved his hand as as a signal for them to follow him. Thresh and Cato nodded and made their way down the rocks and Peeta needed a little helpful nudge off Thresh to help him peel his eyes of what seemed to be Foxface, and Thresh laughed at Peeta's childish pout on having to leave.
Once they reached the bottom, Marvel turned to them with a look of mischief on his face.
"There better be a good reason, that I'm standing down her and not up there right now" Peeta said with slight frustration to his tone.
"I second that" Cato said, earning a snort of Thresh.
"Trust me I have an idea, that will be definitely be worth it and plus it will be hysterical to see those girls faces" Marvel said laughing at his own plan.
Katniss started to feel sleepy with the hot sun across her face, she felt so peaceful just lying there. Like the outside word didn't exist and she was calm. She could hear the rest of the girls talking in the background, and she smiled at their conversation.
"So you really have never tasted ice cream before?" Glimmer asked Rue with a look of utter disbelief across her face.
"No!" Rue told her for the millionth time as it seemed Glimmer just didnt believe her no matter how many times she asked. "Ice cream wasn't very common in district 11 and its very rare. My parents could manage providing for me and me bothers and sisters, but it was only ever the basics".
"Oh that's so sad!" Glimmer said placing her hand over her chest as if it had hurt her feeling. "Well Rue I promise, if we ever make it out of here, the first thing we will do is buy you some ice cream in as many flavours you want!" Rue smiled and giggled at Glimmer and her silliness.
"I wonder what the boys are doing, they've gone very quiet" Clove said suspiciously.
"I know I thought that before but couldn't get in a word edge ways with Glimmer and her serious talk of ice cream" Foxface said earning a glare of Glimmer.
"Now that you mention it, they have gone very quiet" Glimmer chipped in sitting up on her elbows.
"Too quiet" Katniss add sitting up completely.
Clove was the first to stand up and walk over to the edge of the rocks to look over to the lake and they weren't there. She told the others and they all soon followed her making their way to the lake. As they reached the bottom they were all looking around them to see if they could see them.
"Cat-" Clove began to shout, before all four boys came running from the lower rocks, picking them up and sprinting into the water with them, earning screams and squeals of laughter.
Cato ran and picked Katniss by her waist and carried her into the water bridal style. Before Katniss could even react she found herself in the water. Looking around she could see that Rue and Clove had been thrown over Thresh's shoulders, Foxface was with Peeta with her arms half around him, and Glimmer was with Marvel, laughing and splashing him excessively in revenge of throwing her in.
Once Katniss initially got over the shock of being in the water she burst out laughing and started doing the same to Cato. All the boys started laughing and giving each other high fives and punching each other's fists.
"You guys are asses you know that!" Katniss said laughing as she started to slash Thresh and Cato as they were both closest to her.
"Oh you should have seen your faces!" Peeta said between breathes.
Foxface looked at him with a raised eyebrows and a cheeky grin, "Oh yeah?".
Quickly and swiftly, she kicked Peeta in the back of his shins causing him to lose his balance, and Foxface dunked hi m under the water catching him totally off guard. As soon as Peeta head was under the water she began to run away from him knowing he would seek his revenge, but running through water is hard enough without laughing so hard you can just about see where you're going. Once Peeta stood back up he started to chance after her yelling she was gonna get it.
Glimmer and Marvel then started wrestling in the water bad mouthing each other which made Thresh distracted and start laughing. Both Rue and Clove saw this as an opportunity as the both jumped on his back catching him off guard.
Both Katniss and Cato watched everyone play fighting and then they turned to each other, and Cato counted help a cheeky smirk come to his face.
"Personally I don't think you've got it in you if am honest" Cato told her with a smug expression.
"Oh really, and what's that be exactly" Katniss asked with a smirk on her face as she played along.
"We both know you couldn't take me on now don't we Kitty-kins" Cato said using Marvel's nickname for her.
"Well we'll soon find out wont we" Katniss said quickly as she dived for him making him lose his balance and they both went under the water.
They both wrestled under the water both occasionally coming up for air. However the two were only play fighting. Cato grabbed Katniss by her waist and threw her a good five foot in front of him earning himself a laughing scream along the way. Jumping after her Cato reached where she'd landed but he couldn't feel her in the water anywhere.
"Shit!" Cato said. What if she's hit her head. Frantically he starts shouting her name catching the attention of the other tributes. Cato dives under and searches for her. Nothing.
As his head re-services, Cato is jumped on and immediately goes back under the water. Out of reflex he wraps his arm round the person putting them in a inescapable lock, kicking his feet of the floor he re-services with a leap. Opening his eyes he smiles to find Katniss in his arms with leg around his waist and her arms over his shoulders. He had to admit it; he liked her in this position.
"Thought that was funny huh?" he asked her as he squeezed her body towards his making her giggle.
"Oh I wouldn't even say 'funny' is the appropriate word for how hysterical that was!" Katniss told him inches away from his face as he continued to push her into him.
"Well who's laughing now?" Cato asked as he locked Katniss in one arm and began tickling hr with another. Katniss started screaming laughing telling him to stop. After another five minutes of laughter and tickling Katniss surrendered.
"See, I told you I would be too much for you to take on!" Cato said still as her held her.
Katniss looked at him with fake aggression as if she wanted to hurt him. Cato saw this and decided to play along and he got in her face putting his forehead against his
And that's when she suddenly flashbacked and began to remember when he had made similar facial expressions, as she watched him murder those other districts. That little boy from four and Katniss shy smile dropped and her face went emotionless.
Cato looked down at her as her face went blank. "Katniss? Are you all ri-". Before he could finish is sentence she had quickly unwrapped her legs from him and pushed herself from his grip and began to walk back to the rocks.
Cato stood there baffled at what he did wrong. "Katniss, I was just kidding" he said walking after her, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over to them.
Katniss ignored him and carried on walking. She walked past the girls, even when they were shouting her name, and stormed back to the cornucopia.
"What did you say?" Glimmer asked if a viscous tone.
"Don't talk to him like that" Clove glared at Glimmer in Cato's defence. "What did you say Cato!" Clove asked in pretty much the same tone Glimmer addressed to him.
Cato looked around to see everyone waiting for an answer.
"I don't know! One minute she was fine and we were joking and the next she stormed off!" Cato said with both anger and frustration in his voice. "And who the hell does she think she is storming off like that. Ignoring me as if I wasn't there the cheeky bi-"
"Watch it" Peeta through his teeth.
"Ahhhhh, and here's lover boy in the bitch on fire's corner" Cato said snarling Peeta in disgust. "Shocker!" he finished whispering with sarcasm.
"Shut up Cato!" Foxface said getting tired and frustrated with the whole situation.
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Clove argued talking a step towards Foxface with a look aggression on her face.
Peeta instinctively stepped in front of her. "Back off Clove"
Clove looked at Peeta and laughed at him with no humour.
"Or what?" she challenged him and Peeta looked down at the girl who was a full foot smaller than him.
"Not really a very wise idea, you challenging him right now is Clove. Your knives aren't here they are up on the rocks. So honestly what have you and your little self got?" Foxface face told her laughing at Clove and her audacity to Challenge someone twice her size without any weapons on her person.
"She got me" Cato said as he stood in front of Clove. Foxface looked to Cato then to Clove who had a extremely smug look growing on her face.
"I knew this alliance was far too good to be true" Marvel said shaking his head at all those arguing in front of him.
"Maybe your right Marvel, maybe it is too good to be true" Cato said as we began to make his way over to Peeta and Foxface.
"Stop! Just stop it!" Rue shouted standing herself in between them. "Look, you guys need to stop this I'm 'better than you' act! It's ridiculous! We are all stuck in this Arena you guys need to start recognising that we need each other to survive. All of us are agitated because where missing home, if there is even still a home for some of us out there! We all need to stick together and you guys need to stop this Macho thing!" she was directing this at both Peeta and Cato. "Now, I am going to go follow Katniss and make sure she alright. Do not start another possible death match while I'm gone!".
Everyone looked at the little girl in shock. Who knew she had it in her?
Thresh turned to Rue holding out his arm for a high five. "Couldn't have sai any better myself".
"I know" Rue answered him with a self satisfied look as she made her way out the water.
"I'll come with you" Thresh told his small fellow tribute. "Marvel, Glimmer, make sure they don't kill each other and try and get back as soon as".
Both Marvel and Glimmer nodded their heads in agreement and stayed behind as Rue and Thresh began their journey back to the cornucopia.
When they returned, Katniss was sitting in a chair by the fire she had recently lit.
Thresh looked to Rue and told her to give them a minute. So Rue hesitantly agreed and made her way to her and Katniss' shared tent. Placing his rucksack on the floor Thresh walked over towards Katniss who was strain into the fire with an annoyed frustrated look on her face. Thresh took the seat facing her and sat down.
"So what did, Macho muscles out there say to you to piss you off so much?" Thresh snorted laughing at the thought of what happened.
Katniss turned to him and could see if funny expression and raised eyebrows and couldn't help but laugh at him. Then as she answered she went serious again. "It was just when he gave me this look, he looked vicious, dangerous and angry for a split second at me, then I just remembered everything he was, no sorry, everything he is and what he's done. What they've all done" Katniss said with anger and sadness I her voice. "All I could think of when he looked at me like that, was the little boy from four, and his parents, friends and family. And how they watched as that baby, because that's all he was a baby, get slaughtered by them monsters who call themselves careers. It's like they enjoy the idea of causing pain. And I don't know yet if I can get my mind around that yet", when Katniss had finished it left Thresh thinking, as he knew he would have to be very careful how he could help her with this.
"Look, I'm not saying you're wrong, because you're not. But the careers have been brought up into a world where they are trained from childhood to kill. They are praised to make others 'inferior' to them feel pain, and if they don't their teachers and parents look at them as if they are wrong and weak. I'm only saying this to you because I felt the same about them only a few days ago, but Marvel and Glimmer, they spoke to me about what it was like growing up in a district where literally from the day you start school, you are taught techniques in how to kill" Katniss listened to him trying to take in all he was saying to her, "they didn't have it easy, especially Marvel. Ask them about it and you'll understand better. It's better you hear it from them from me anyway". Thresh looked to her and gave her a small smile. "There is more to it than what you'd think".
Thresh then stood up, grabbed his rucksack from where he'd left it then made his way to his tent, thinking to himself, 'I guess living with the enemy, really is more difficult than you'd think!'.
Okay guys so I have swapped and changed a few things around as I didn't really think that this chapter was at its best as I did rush it as you could probably tell from reading it. I hope you like this version just as well as I felt I might have rushed Cato and Katniss a little there. Hope you aren't too mad at me :)