KatnissPOV
My eyes are stinging and I have a headache. My nose feels clogged and my face puffy. What is wrong with me?
I can feel two arms around me and I am facing someone's chest and we are very close, I look up to see it's Cato.
As I sit up I notice the bed we are in is huge! It's like the length of my whole living room and kitchen back hom...home.
It all come flooding back to me.
Us leaving the Arena. Meeting Olivia and the Britanna's. The Districts destruction.
Prim.
Now I know why my eyes are saw and red, I am crying.
I am crying because it's gone. Their gone. She's gone.
I look down at Cato and see his arms resting limply across my lower torso. If the circumstances where different right now I would get that feeling I have when we are alone together but right now I feel nothing, as I am numb.
I move his hands away from me and I look around the room for something to indercate the time. I could a clock on the bed stand.
It was 6.30 a.m. I would usually get up at this time and get myself ready and prepared for the day. But I don't want to. I want to stay in bed and never come out. And that is what I exactly plan to do.
NormalPOV
Joesph ran down the coridoor and swiftly as he could without hurting or knocking anyone. He ignored the stange looks and carried on running towards the living chambers holding the list of names in his arm for dear life.
Once he reached the reception desk he went straight past it ignoring Gretchins screaching protests and into the elevator which much to his advatage was already open. He pressed the button which brought him the 6th floor.
Once the doors opened with a ding, he paced across the room to the big oak door and he knocked loudly, he had his card but he didn't want to seem rude. Even in a rush he still had his manners.
When he tried again and got no response he swiped his card and the robotic voice began to welcome his but he had already entered the room before it got past 'Mr'.
As he entered the room he could see that Team X where not in the public area's which meant they where all still in bed.
Knocking on each room door he asked the teens to all meet him in the living room asap.
Grogerly one by one the tributes appered from their rooms some looking better than others.
"This better be good blondy" Clove spat at him as she rubbed her eyes.
Katniss and Cato where the last to enter the room and Katniss didn't really look quite zoned in.
"Okay now I know it's early and we told you we would leave you to rest but about an hours ago we received a call for the President of the rebels that they have found surviviors of the bombed districts".
Immediately everyone seemed to be awake and alert instantly.
"I have a list of them here" Joesph held up a piece of paper and began to read them out starting with district twelve first.
"District twelve. Lukaa Tyworth, Susan Tyworth, Rory Hawthrone, Gale Hawthrone, Posy Hawthrone, Hazelle Hawthrone, Vick Hawthrown, John Mellark, Celeb Mellark, Gregern Mellark, Jackuil Mayne, Caesur Gred Sr, Caesur Gred Jr, Mason James Franee, Primrose Everdeen and Brenda Everdeen", Joesph looked up at the tributes and was grinning as he new that Peeta and Katniss had some family left.
Katniss was sobbing again on the floor, on her knees she put her hands in front of her and she began to breathe. She could feel the life in her begin to fall back into to place.
Cato helped her to her feet an smiled at her and he was trying to find her eyes and he could see the grin she was hiding.
She looked up to him and laughed and he brushed the tears off her face and he returned the ear to ear grin on katniss' face.
Katniss turned to Peeta and could see his reaction was equally as overjoyed as hers. He was crying with joy too. She ran over to him and jumped into his arms.
"Their alive Katniss, are families are alive, we're not alone" he cried into her shoulder. Katniss nodded into the embrace then pulled back a little, she grinned at him then kissed his cheek.
Turning back around to Cato Katniss ran to him and kissed him. Laughing he wrapped his arms around her and lifted her off the floor.
And this time it really did get everyone attention.
Unfortunetly the luck of other weren't quite the same for everyone. Rue had lost both her parent and one of her brothers and Thresh he only had his grandparent and both of them are in districts 13's hospital but really looking like they'll survive.
About three hours later Katniss had managed to calm Rue down as much as she could and rocked the little girl to sleep.
As happy as Katniss was about her family and Gale's family being safe, Katniss knew what Rue was going through going through. She went through the same thing at around her age. Basically losing both parents as her mother shut both her and Prim out, Katniss had to sacrifice her childhood to care for her little sister.
She wouldn't let this happen to Rue or at least she make sure Rue never felt alone.
Rue had two sisters and three brother, one of which was murdered by the capitol.
The two girls Kekei aged 9, Merisia aged 4 and three boys Maximus aged 7 who has died, Laton aged 2 and Naxon only 5 months old.
Actually thinking about it, Katniss realised Rue had it much harder than she did.
Looking down at Rue, Katniss sighed inwardly, she look so peaceful and at rest when she was asleep. KatnIss bent down and kissed her on her forehead before leaving the room.
Walking into the kitchen she saw Marvel, Rissy, Glimmer and Cato all standing in a line across the kitchen counter and preparing food. Looked like a fry up.
"What's this?" Katniss laughed, "you guys could start your own cooking show" she joked.
"Oh god no, I would never been seen on television cooking! Could you imagine?" Glimmer told her in shock.
Clove inwardly snorted shaking her head at the blonde, as she vigourously chopped up vegetable.
Marvel was get a little messy as he began to mix some sort of creamy coloured gloop.
"Marvel!" Rissy sighed, "your making a moutain out of a mole hill here, I only asked you to mix the pancake batter" she laughed at him. He had more mixture up his arms and on the floor than in the bowl.
"Foxy it's harder than it looks! I told you I can't cook" he pouted.
"I know you can't cook. That's why I asked you to stir the mixture. But I guess your not to cook means anything in the kitchen at all" she giggled at him as he got frustrated and crossed his arms.
"Yeah well I make up for it in drop dead looks and pure chisle!' He said smugly as he flexed his 'guns' and winked at Carissa.
"Oh please Marvel I am going to be sick" Alexis said as she made her way into the kitchen and stood next to Katniss leaning on the counter.
"It look like a diaster in here" she laughed.
"Oh no just in Marvel's corner, as you can see he's pretty new to the whole cooking thing" Glimmer told her.
"I see you two are pretty swarve at the cooking thing" Katniss told both Clove and Cato making them both look up.
Cato was standing by the cooker frying the meats, eggs and pancakes on the stove.
"Well my Mom is a mean cook back home and I love to watch so I got it from her. Plus it's one of my favourite things to do other than training. And Clove here, she used to come round to my house too sometimes and we would both just watch my Mom" Cato told them all but was directing it to Katniss.
"Cato's Mom is one of the top Chef's in all of Panem. She is famous for her cooking. Even owns her own company and" Clocve turned her attention to Glimmer and raised her eyebrows," her own cooking show".
"Wow. Don't I feel awkward" Glimmer sheepishly replied, "sorry dude, it was nothing personal, I just don't like touching cold dead meat". She said as she carried on squeezing like the 100 half of orange.
"Other than the cold live meat, right Glimmer" Mavel joked causing her to glare at him.
Cato shook his head and laughed, "don't worry it's fine". Then he nudged Clove shaking his head at her, but she pelied by only shrugging her shoulders.
"Well other than the mess, it all looks pretty good" Katniss smiled.
"What can I smell?" Peeta shouted as he walked out his bedroom over to them all.
"Their cooking" Alexis answered him.
"Why are you cooking? I mean it smells awesome and I am starved, but you could have just ordered it" he told them quite confused.
"Well Cato said he wanted to cook his own breakfast, and after he got started, me, Marvs, Clove and Glimmer decided to help out" Rissy told him as she finished whisking the last batch of egg so Cato could fry.
"Right. Cool, I'll set the table?" He asked them but Clove shook her head at him.
"No we don't really want to all have to sit all boring and stiff at the table, we where thinking stack of plates and just eat in the living room on the couches. Just be more comfortable" she smiled at him and Peeta nodded in approval.
Picking up a large stack of plates from the cuboard, he began to bring them over to the living room glass table. Katniss and Alexis decided to help by bring over the glasses and aplliances.
Within 15 minutes all tributes except Rue and Thresh where all sitting in the living eating their breakfast. Thresh had come out his room but said he didn't feel like the company so he took his plate and retired back to his room. And Rue must had still been asleep as she still hadn't been seen yet since Katniss got her to sleep.
"Compliments to the Chef!" Phoenix said his mouth half full of food.
"I second that!" Peeta hollered.
A loud knock on the door interupted the tributes from their group conversations, Cato put hus plate down and went to the door and answered it.
Joesph, Olivia, Noah and Liam where all standing at the doorway with packages in their hands and at their feet. Instinctively Cato took the packages out of Olivia hands which thanked him for.
"Good morning Team X" Liam annouced to all who could hear.
"Whats with this Team X business, why do you keep calling us that?" Glimmer asked with a dumbstruck look on her face.
"All will be explained" Olivia smiled as she went outside to bring somemore packages into the apartment.
Once the many packages were all accounted for and in the apartment, the tributes had finished their breakfast and now had their attention focused on the three young Britainna's.
"Right, in these bags are all your new, clothes, uniform and your equipment is on its way the training centre we have on the basment floor. In each if the two packages assigned to your are enough clothes for a month, so I dont think you will run out anytime soon" Noah explained, as he was talking he couldn't help but notice the blonde curly haired girl, Glimmer he thinks is her name, giving him a look. And Noah is no idiot he knows what that look means.
"Also your uniform, it will have your recognision of Team X on it. Now about your team, we didnt really get to finish off your debrief back in the confrience room with my grandfather but we are willing to finish it now if you all agree?".
CatoPOV
We all agreed even though Rue and Thresh weren't here we would finish the debrief as it was doubtful they would be ready for this right now.
"Well, as you know, ever since you guys boarded our ship you have been called as a group as team X. And basically it is the name we have given you instead of calling you all Arena survivours or tributes, although in theory that is what you all are. Arena tributes and survivours of the capitol. Now my grandfather believes that if you all decide to stick together and work as a Team then 'Team X' could be the key to ending this war-" before Joesph could finish, Clove interupted him.
"Wait hold on a second. You have brought us out of one war zone...and expect us to fight in another. And you guys actually had me fooled thinking that there would be no catch in this" she laughed with no humour.
"No! Of course not", Olivia chipped in, "if my brother was let to finish he would have told you that is was a choice. You don't have to fight. If you wish you can just go and return to your families and wait it out. However, if you did choose to fight, we would still reunite you with your families and you would see them after every mission, that we promise you".
I didn't know what I wanted to do at this point. I mean as much as I wanted this war to end, I want to be sure my family is alive and well. Not that I know how to to that considering that they are all in the capitol controlled districts which complicates things even more.
"Olivia it's not that we don't want this war to end, it's just we have only just escaped from one war zone, and to be thrown into another..." Phoenix sighed at the thought of it.
"It is completely your choice. Those of you that wish to join us we welcome you and those who wish to stay with loved ones we will totally understand" Olivia complied with a gentle smile.
"We're in".
All of us turned around to see Thresh and Rue standing at the edge of the long platform which leads to the bedrooms of the apartment.
"Rue and I have lost some of the people we love most from the capitol and not even just through recent events, ever since we can remember they have taken everything" Thresh told the Britainna's. I could see he was acting like he did when he was in training of the games. Detearmind.
"I need to step up now to look after my family, and if this is the best way for that, then I don't think me doing anything else with my time", Rue added. I felt both proud and sorry for this little girl. She was protecting her family but she is only a baby herself, she needs the protection just as much as they do.
"Me too" Katniss nodded. "If we can stop this war and still see are families, then you can definetely count me in".
Olivia and her brothers grinned, and nodded.
Shit. Guess this leaves me with no comprimise.
I nodded at the oldest Britainna, Noah he's called I think. He knew I was getting involved in this Team X crap.
Eventually pretty much everyone had volunteered under the condition that those whose families where under the protection of the Britainnians could be visited first, which they agreed to.
Looking to my right I could see Katniss standing next to me.
"You excited to see you little sister I guess?" I asked her.
"I guess you could say so" she grinned at me. "What about you Cato, how are you going to reach your family?".
"I'll find a way", I sighed with a small smile, don't know who I was trying to convince more at this point. Turning back to the Britainna's when they began to speak again the subject was dropped, which I was silently thankful for.
"Great! Now as you all have volunteered, you will all be recognised as Team X on and off this ship. It will now be how this an other nations will see you. They will not see you anymore as tributes of the hunger games, they will see a Team of survivours of this brutal government and are now willing to stand against it and fight for freedom not 'eternal glory'" Olivia told us all.
I had to say it. The girl could give a speech.
"Now back to your uniforms" Noah began. "Each of of you has a uniform which is tailored to your size and its to be worn whenever you leave your base back in our district, which will be pretty much all the time. Of course you will need to change into clean uniforms every few days so their is six identical uniforms for each of you, so you will never run out. Other items of clothing can of course be worn over then if it makes you more comfortable but these uniforms must be worn. No exceptions. They are designed to maximise your skills no matter what they be. They will stay in tact in in the up most hostile enviroments, and they will keep you from bodily harm as the material has fragments of Cyrptiptianuimal in it which of course pretty much makes it anything proof" Noah unzipped his jacket an lifted his shirt, revealing a dark grey slighty shiny fabric, "All of us has the same uniform however on the shoulders it identifies which program or team I belong to. Yours of course will be Team X. My identification shows I am a trainer and one of the four Britainna leaders, now any questions?".
"You said their was a training room, when can we use it?" Clove asked and I was also keen to know the answer to this.
"Once you have your uniform on and feel your ready, if you wish we could wait for you all to change and then we can all go down together?" Noah asked looking to his sibling you simply nodded with agreement and approval.
"Well I'm up for that" Glimmer grinned as she grabbed two of her boxes and began to retreat to her room.
Marvel looked to me and snorted and I know he was thinking the exact same as me. Slut. We both laughed before bumping knuckles and I began to grab both mine and Katniss crates and walking back to our room, which she followed closely behind me.
"So I'm guessing you want to train too then?" She asked me as she began to rip the seal of her first crate.
"You kidding? I serious do with some down time right now" I told her as I did the same to my own crate.
She shook her head and laughed at me before adding, "only you could say training is how you have 'down time'".
"Well that's not exactly true now is it fire girl" I smirked at her.
"Why what are you talking about now?" She raised an eyebrow at him and stopped unpacking her clothes focusing entirely on him.
"When do you feel most relaxed and at ease?" I asked her smirl still plastered across my face.
"When I'm huntin..." She began to realise what she was saying when she looked to me and laughed.
I only winked and clicked my tongue at her in reply.
"See firegirl, I know you better than you do" I joked.
"Yeah yeah, if you say so smart ass" shaking her head she began to carry on unpacking.
We continued to unpack as we talked about different things like training and other things.
Ten minutes later we had unpacked all the contents in the crates, and I was in the bathroom changing into my 'uniform'.
I did have to say it was a weird sort of feeling this material. It felt sort of like a metal suit except it was completely weightless and flexible. They reminded me of the training uniforms back in the capitol before the Arena except they were dark grey. I quickly tried a few practice punches and swinging kicks in the air, and my body moved well, it moved really well. These suits are frickin awesome.
I threw on a pair a black combats over then and grabbed a shirt before I walked out the bathroom.
Katniss was changed into her uniform and had black pants over it but just had a tan coloured jacket opened jacket over her upper torso of the uniform.
I had to take a deep breath, because from what was available to see. That uniform fitted her for too well in all the right places, and I found myself concentrating on at spot on the wall as not to stare at her chest.
"Ready to go?" She asked me, and I looked to her nodded before walking over to her and putting my arm around her shoulders.
"You know that uniform looks really good on you" I smirked at her.
"Ohhhh, so thats why you were staring at the wall" she said raising at eyebrow as we began to walk to the door.
"I'm certainly not looking at the wall now" I grinned at her as we reached are bedroom door. I stopped and quickly leaned down to kiss her and I saw her grin at before she met me have way. Wrapping my arms around her waist, I pulled her closer to me and her arms snaked around my shoulders.
God I loved feeling her body on mine.
She pulled back and smiled at me, "And what was that for exactly?".
"I just had the urge to kiss you?" I smirk as I tried to sound dignified.
"Oh well I guess thats okay then, but while where on the subject, just quickly before we leave, what is going on her I just want to know so I'm not getting the wrong idea" her smile faded a little and she looked a little nervous.
Had to be the cutest thing I had ever seen.
"You know you look cute when your nervous" she giggled at little and I could see a slight blush creep onto her cheeks but I knew she wanted a answer from me.
"Well as long as you want me I'm yours if you'll have me" I grinned looking down at her. She returned the smile before quickly kissing me.
"Cato Bruxton that was the best reply if there ever was one!".
"So I guess that means yes then?"
"That is a definate yes", she laughed before her lips where back on mine.
Wooo! So finally Cato and Kattikins has become an item yahoooo! Now the nexr chapter we will see quite alot of other couple action, and we will see Glim try all of her being to jump in the sack with British boy Noah which will be quite amusing. Also you guys will see some of the training sessions and some of Team X will finally be reunited with their family yay, happy times! Thankyou to everyone who reviewed and I promise not such a ridiculous wait for an update next time, didn't think school would be so hectic already but hey thats high school I guess! Please review and let me know what you think!
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