Hey everyone. I know its been ages since I last update but I wanted some time away from this as some people have reviewed and PM me saying that my story is just a copy of Lux in Tebris (which is one of my all time favs!), which has left me a bit torn on what to do, but I have decided to carry on with my story as I have plans for it and I think they are really good. As for those who don't like it, then they don't have to read simple as that!
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CatoPOV
They were at it again and it was pissing me off. Everyone needed to get out of this Arena, and I know I do. The only two people I wasn't ready to kill right now is Katniss and Rue.
Marvel, Rissa an Glimmer are argueing and so the obvious few who usually stick their noses in it get involved which then means those who don't want to get involved then get involved! Their all driving me fucking crazy and I feel like killing them all!
"Right everyone SHUT UP!" I yelled standing up from my seat, catching everyones attention causing them all to stop screaming at one another and stop shouting. "Everyone leave Glimmer, Marvel and Rissa to the own business. I am sick of everyone getting involved in different peoples shit and the argueing over it! Enough! Now you three" I pointed at them, "you can either go in the cornucopia and sort this out or go to the other side of the clearing, but you will be going alone and sorting it out".
"As if I am going to let Glimmer go on her own if that-" before Clove could finish, and before I could swing for her, I felt Katniss squeeze my arm a little and taking a step foward.
"No Clove Cato's right, this isn't the groups fight it's theirs, now leave them be" she finished in a hushed tone.
I could tell Clove was listening to her, but she didn't like it I could tell.
Clove was still not happy, but she looked over to Glimmer for reasurrance, and Glimmer nodded at her and Clove stood up and walked to the otherside of me. I nodded at her letting her know I appreciated her listening to me.
"Look" Katniss turned back round to the three, angered, sad, snarling faces who started this whole thing in the first place, "I don't know what is going on here with you three, but I know that you guys need to sort it out. Not that its your fault, but people are gonna get involved as we don't want to see our friends getting hurt, so it needs to be sorted or games or not, we will all end up killing each other anyway".
I snorted at her last comment, it was quite funny, and I could see everyone else thought so too from the slight grins on their faces. That girl definetely know how to lighten the mood.
No one else was brave enough to say that they had a problem with leaving Marvel, Ris and Glimmer alone, which was clever of them, as they began to make their way over to the other side of the clearing.
Once they finally where a distance away were you could only here the slight humming of their voices I relaxed a little and sat back in my chair. Too far to hear, but close enough to see incase things got out of hand. Perfect.
I watched them in the distance, I could see Marvel and Glimmer were the ones who where mainly argueing, and Rissa was just standing their listening and getting upset.
Marvel...I could smack some sense into that boy. Foxface is a amazing girl who obviously really likes him, and yet the boy is still letting Glimmer pick him up and drop him when she pleases.
"Okay, I know you said you would tell me when you got the chance to but know after all that disaster, I think I need to know what's going down with them three, because that was ridiculous" Katniss said to me as she leaned over the chair front behind with her hands either side of the chair looking down at me.
I looked up at her and smiled then laughed inwardly. She walked around to the side of me and sat on the metal crate which was next to me and folded her legs.
"Okay I will tell you but I can't here not with all the others about. You wanna' go for a walk to the lake and river" I asked her as I grabbed my canteen opened the lid took a quick sip then emptied what was left of it on the floor, "my canteen seems to suddenly be out of water" I smirked at her.
She giggle at me then shook her head, "just give me two minutes". I nodded at her and stay put while she jumped off the crate, and too her tent.
Now...who to put on watch who is unbiased and will watch these three properly without getting involved unnecissarily?
"Phoenix! Alexis come here a second" I shout over my shoulder, not exactly knowing their current were abouts, but surely they were both standing unfront of me with thirty seconds.
"What's up" Phoenix asked and Alexis looked to me wondering the same thing.
I told them to keep watch while I get more water and they both agreed, and Alexis gave me her can as she was genuinely running out of water and I knew she would need it to keep her hydrated as she was still not to her sorts fully yet.
I stood up and told everyone I was going for water with Katniss and they just nodded then carried on with their own business, which I was glad about as I couldn't be bothered with their speculated which is what they like to do with me and Katniss a lot, I have no idea why?
"What are you smirking at?" The very girl I was just thinking about was looking at me questioningly, with her arrows over her shoulder and bow in her hand.
"Oh nevermind, let's go".
So we set off into the woods in the direction of the lake at a normal pace as we needed to talked and where definetely in no rush.
"So...?"
I laughed a little at her impatience.
"Okay okay" I sighed an took a deep breath. "Marvel and I have known eachother since we were 9 we go way back it's why we get on so well. His dad and mine both work in security for President Snow himself when the games are on, because their the best. So once every few moths our dads would take us to the capitol and one year we met, me and Marvel, and kept contact and soon our dads made friends and basically it was a done deal, we where like best friends till we where about 14 years old, then Marvels Dad was killed and he stopped coming down to the Capitol as he had to look after his Mom and younger sisters. So eventually we lost contact, but when we did used to talk and for as long as I'de known him he had akways like Glimmer, well not liked her he'de been in love with the girl since he was ten years old!"
"So when I watched the reaping and I her get chosen and him volenteer I could see he wasn't in love with her anymore. But there was still something there, still she had some contolled over him, when we where little she would make him make a complete ass of himself just trying to get her attention, the girl can be a complete bitch when she wants to. So once me and Marvel finally saw eachother we both knew what we would have to do in the end, but it was just like me and Clove we got on with it. The night after our fist day in training back at the capitol we talked about everything. About our training back home, our districts, families everything. And when I asked him about Glimmer, he told me he was done with her and that she was nothing to him, but I knew different. I mean I hadn't seen him in the past four years but I still knew him just as much now as I did then. And the night before we got send into here, I was doing late night training, Marvel had left his IpodI (future/Hunger games version ;P) so I went to give it to him and I saw Glimmer leave his room, and this was at about 1 o'clock in the morning, I knew in her head it was just a last quick fuck, and I thought he would have been thinking the same, but right now I'm now so sure, but one thing I do know is that Glimmer always knew how much Marvel liked her, and the only reason the girl is interested right now is because he likes Rissa now and is movng on".
KatnissPOV
I couldn't belive half the stuff he was telling me right now. All I kept thinking about was poor Marvel about his Dad, poor Rissy for getting herslef into far too compicated and how I wanted to kick the crap out of Glimmer for hurting two of her friends!
"So you reackon Glimmer is only causing all this out of jealousy" I asked getting a little furious at this girls cheek of causing all this.
"Yep" Cato nodded, "but she doing this because Marvel like Rissa a lot, I can tell he does. Marvel used to be like me back in his district, if a girl didn't like him he would move on as he knew he could get anyone else with the snap of his fingers. If he stook to the one girl, Arena or not he likes her, and believe me he really does like Foxface, I can just see it when he isn't being an ass and they are talking together", he finished.
"I feel so sorry for Rissy right now-wait, you were a ladies man back home then yeah?" I asked him raising an eyebrow with a smile on my face.
"What can I say" he smirked, "they all wanted a piece of me back home", he winked at me before giving me his habd to help me across a log which was full of moss.
"And does it apply to you if you like a girl and stick to her no matter how long it takes to get her attention for the right reasons?" I asked him with a small smirk on my face, taking his hand to step on top of the log, and I felt him pull me quickly by my hand causing me to slip and fall into him and I could fell both his arm around me and breath on my face.
He looked down to me with a half grin half smirk on his face, and I just couldn't take my eyes off his, "yeah I guess it does" he whispered, even though it was only me and him, I smiled at him which he returned then he leaned down and I could feel his lips on mine, it was just a soft tender kiss at first and he pulled away a little to look at me and I could feel my cheeks where warm, he smiled at me again before leaning in kissing me again and all of a sudden I had butterflies in my stomach.
It was just a soft peck this time, I could feel his tongue on my bottom lip as if asking me for entrance which I granted him, soon enough I had dropped my bow his sword was on the floor and legs were wrapped around his waste, and I could feel him against a tree.
Once I pulled away from him for air I could feel my lips were swollen and my cheeks where even hotter now. I looked down from him whilst I caught my breath, girl on fire or not, I as still only a teenage girl and this is my first real kiss with anyone.
He lifted my chin up so I was looking at him, and I was just in a trance with those icy blue eyes.
"You're so beautiful, you know that" he told me. I smiled softly at him and looked to the floor again to hide my now if even possible redder cheeks. Then I leaned in again and gave him another kiss, like the first one and as I did I felt him lower us both to the floor so I was straddling him. After a few more kisses, I told him we should get to the lake as I could hear the waterfall in the distance and it was making me thirsty.
NormalPOV
Cato and Katniss walked to the lake in a comfortable silence hand in hand, Cato rubbing circles in her hand as they did. Once they finally reached the Lake Katniss filled up the three canteens from the water of the waterfall, dropped some water tabltes in them then left them to settle for a while. Once she turned back round to Cato she saw him sitting on one of the large rocks with his legs out leaving a space for her too fit. She smiled at him sat intbetween them, and leaned against his chest.
"You know if somwone had told me this is how things would have been between me an you, about two three months ago at the training centre, I probably would have laughed in their face then knocked them for good measure" Cato snorted breaking the comfortable silence between them.
"I know" Katniss laughed with him. Then she got up and turned to face him. "Come on we need to be getting back. We've been gone near an hour and the others will start to wonder where we gotten to" she told him brushing off her clothes.
Agreeing with her, he picked up the three canteens tying them to his belt and the two of them walked back toward the cornucopia hand in hand.
Once the camp was in sight Katniss let go of Catos hand as there was enough speculation abour the two of them as it is and she didn't want to fuel the fire, which he fully understood. Plus Cato want to explain to anyone about them two anyway as he didn't quite know what was going on homself yet.
When they finally reached the camp Katniss took hers at Alexis' canteen and gave it back to her, as Cato made his way over to Peeta and Thresh as they were both 'handling' dinner, then he made his way to his tent to find Marvel as that's where Thresh told where he was at.
Katniss could see Glimmer with Clove and Rue over near the camp fire and so Katniss went to find Carissa whi was inside the Cornucopia. Once she finally did find her, Katniss knocked on the metal table letting Rissy know of her presence.
"Hey" Rissa smiled at Katniss.
"Hey, was just coming to check on you see if you were alright".
Rissa sighed before answering, "it's just becoming far too complicated" she told her, "an it's not that I don't like him because I do, I really do it's just...her! I don't I am gonna be able to live with either of them for much longer! It's just far too much drama, plus I just wanna go home right now, I miss my family so much".
"We all do, Rissy and I know your current situation right know sucks but we've all just got to stick it out, until we figure out what's going on" Katniss didn't quite know who she was trying to convince, "but we will all talk about it when food ready, and make some sort of plan of what to do".
Once dinner finally did come around Katniss took a seat to Rissy and Cato and spoke to Cato quietly before everyone so he had a bit of a heads up.
"Right guys, I want everyone to listen" Katniss said and everyone stopped their private conversation and looked to her, "we've been stuck in this Arena now for near going on three to four months. We know there is some sort of war going on out there as the smoke and helicopters and planes haven't stopped going past that roof since dome shut down".
"So what do you suggest? We can't get out of here, were locked in?" Peeta asked.
"Well we need to find a way out of here, and to try and get back to our families and make sure everyone is safe".
"Yeah that all sounds good when you way it out loud Katniss, but some of us may not have homes to get back to so if we do break out some how then what happens we all just split and leave each other" Phoenix said, at which point Katniss and Cato shared a quick glance at each other.
"No it doesn't have to be like that" Cato interjected, "If we get out we will all stick together until we know where abouts we are what is happening and then we will think of the next step from there, but Katniss is right we do need to get out of this Arena".
"Well I'm all for the idea" Thresh said.
"Me too" Rue added.
"It's worth a try" Clove shrugged.
And soon all the tributed were in agreement. It was time to get the hell out of this Arena.
For the next few hours the tributes were planning on how to try and get out of the Arena and before long they were all exhausted and it was night.
"Right" Peeta yawned, "I think its time to call it a night guys we can carry on tomorrow, am going to bed night" Peeta said and pretty soon everyone else followed.
A few hours later all the tributes were asleep, when they felt it. The floor began to shake, it was soft vibrations at first however within minutes it became more violent wakign up all the tributes earning serval screams.
Rue began to scream and cry and Katniss grabbed the girl and held her telling her it would be okay and covered her in her blanket so she couldn't see what was around her.
Then it stopped and everythin was still.
Katniss uncovered Rue, and listened to her surrounding. Rue began to say something but katniss hushed her before she could.
She could here footsteps outside.
"Stay here", she mouthed to Rue as she silently grabbed her bow and arrows,quickly stepped out of her tent and had her arrowed aimed and ready for anything.
When she stepped out she was in shock, confusion and awe of the enviroment around her. She was no longer in the forest. She was in large room, with a domed roof about half the size of the Arena roof and this room was huge not as bit as the Arena. Where the hell are they.
They the noise of footsteps brought her out of her wonder and back to her senses. There was a group of people walking toward her direction.
"Who are you!" She heard a Cato shout from her right, and when she look all the other tributes were out of there tents weapons also at the ready.
She turned back to the stranger who where now only twenty yards awayf from them now at least.
They weren't dressed like the peacekeepers that's for certain, however so maybe it was the rebels. Their was a young looking women in her early twenties it look leading them, and she raised her hand and the rest of her followers stopped. She was slim tall and had her thick long hair tied back in a pony which reached her mid back. She was extremely beautiful.
Cato repeated his question again, and this time only the women stepped a little closer.
"My name is Olivia. I am one of the leaders of the Britainna were here to get you out of here" the girl said calmly, everyone listened to the girl and she had the strangest accent they had ever heard. It was sort of like the capitol accent, yet less dramatic and a lot more neutral.
"You're who?" Clove asked her with a unimpressed expression on her face.
Okay I know you guys are thinking. What the actual fuck, but I am just going to clear a few things up so everyone get this chapter.
Firstly, yayyyyyyyyyy! Finally got some real Katniss and Cato action going on woo! Secondly, know we know the whole Glimmer and Marvel situation, and I go into more detail about that love triangle in the next chapter.
And thirdly yes it is British people who have come to help the tributes, hense 'Britainna' however just letting everyone know Britainna is a group of people, it is not the country - very important - and more will be learned about the Britainna's in the next chapters. And of course the whole Arena earthquaky will also be explained later on. Right I hope you guys liked this chapter even though I know it must be a little confusing however everything will be fully explained. In the bext chapter so don't worry too much :D x
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