Katniss POV:

I chase after Clove, she's fast and I soon lose her. "Clove!" I shout looking around frantically, something's happened, Snow has done something. "Clove, please…" I stand there wanting nothing more than to see her face to hold her and somehow make everything alright again.

I scowl deciding to return home. Snow is there, he did this. I need to find out what happened maybe my mother knows. I turn and run home. I take a deep breath before I enter, wanting to appear calm in case Snow is still here.

I enter and my mother approaches me a large forced smile on her face. "Did you enjoy your walk dear?" She asks, at that moment President Snow steps out of the door smiling at me. I stare at him, trying my best not to glare at him. He's hurt Clove.

"Miss Everdeen." He says surveying me with cold eyes. "Have you got a minute? I would like to talk to you."

I glance at my mother who stares at the President anxiously before nodding. He leads me to the study at the back of the house. He sits down behind the desk indicating I should sit opposite him.

"Congratulations Miss Everdeen I see you're moving up in the world." He says smiling as he gestures to the fancy room we're in. I stare at him silently not sure how to respond to his comment. He sighs and leans back in the chair. "Now I think this conversation would be much faster if we agreed not to lie to each other." He says slowly, surveying me with his cold eyes.

"Yes I think that too." I force out, I want him to get straight to the point, why is he here? What did he do to upset Clove?

"You caused quite a stir with your actions in the games and now I have a dilemma." He stares at me and I frown. "The districts saw your stunt with the berries as an act of rebellion."

"It wasn't rebellion." I say but Snow holds up his hand.

"We agreed not to lie to each other Miss Everdeen. Now I'm not entirely sure you are really in love with that District 2 girl and neither are many of the people in the districts."

"I'm not lying." I snap, surely it's obvious enough that we love each other.

"The point is not whether or not you two are in love it's that many people think otherwise…You see Miss Everdeen since people perceived your actions as rebellious, people are starting to wonder if a girl from District 12 of all places can defy the Capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from doing the same? What is to prevent say…An uprising? It can lead to revolution. And then in a fraction of time the whole system collapses."

"It must be a fragile system if it can be brought down by a couple of teenagers and a few berries." I say causing President Snow to glare at me. He stands and leans over the desk.

"You fought well in the games Miss Everdeen, but they were games. How would you like to be in a real war?" He asks threateningly. I catch the slight scent of blood as he speaks and I cringe back slightly. I shake my head, I don't want a war. He sits back down. "Here's what you must do, on the Victory tour you will convince the Districts that your actions were not rebellious. You will…quench the spark of rebellion before it has a chance to turn into a full blown fire. I don't care how you do it. Do you understand?"

"Yes." I whisper, feeling the colour draining from my face.

"Yes what?"

"Yes I'll convince them."

"No Miss Everdeen," he leans forward once more, "convince me." I nod shuddering at the blood scent that emanates from him. With hat he stands and exits the room. I follow him warily.

My mother stands near a couple of peacekeepers she looks relieved when she sees me. "It was nice speaking with you Miss Everdeen… I will see you soon." President Snow says coldly, he nods to the peacekeepers and they follow him out of the house.

"What did he want?" My mother asks, I shake my head still staring at the door where he just left through. I need to find Clove I decide and I exit the house not giving my mother a second glance. "Katniss wait." I turn my mother has followed me out of the house.

She stares at me for a long moment before hugging me. "I have to find Clove." I murmur in her ear. She nods and lets me go staring into my eyes searchingly for a minute before going back inside. I sigh closing my eyes for a moment to allow myself to get a grip on my emotions.

I turn and run to the place where I lost Clove. Looking around a slowly start my search. I need to find her.

Clove POV:

Gale stands in front of me awkwardly, staring at me with an unreadable expression on his face. My gaze lingers on the bruise forming on his cheek. "Clove…" He starts before frowning and shaking his head. "What are you doing here?" He asks.

I shrug not wanting to tell him about Snow. "If you're looking for Katniss, I think she's already gone home." He tells me.

"I'm not looking for Katniss." I tell him, he looks at me in surprise.

"Ok.. Why are you here then?"

"What happened to your face?" I ask, trying to deflect the attention from me. Gale's face becomes red and he looks away.

"Er…" He coughs and looks at the sky. I frown confused by his reaction.

"You're lucky you've got her you know…" He mutters not meeting my eyes. "She loves you."

"I…" I stare at him, not sure what to say. Gale is saying that Katniss loves me but I saw him and her kissing, I bite my lip. What if President Snow was lying? It wouldn't surprise me, what if the clip I'd seen had been fake?

I find my eyes flicking to the bruise on his cheek again a suspicion forming in my mind. "What happened to your face?" I ask again. He shrugs and takes a step back his eyes widening in panic.

"I er... It's not important." He says nervously. I scowl at him closing the distance between us and standing an inch away from him. Although I barely reach his shoulder in height he still shrinks away as I give him my most intimidating glare.

"Did Katniss do that to you?" I ask him, needing to know, He splutters for a moment before nodding in defeat. "Why?" I ask continuing to glare at him.

"I er…I kissed her…"

The next thing I know my fist is colliding with his nose. He stumbles backward holding his hand to his nose and when he lowers his hand I see blood dripping from it. "What the fuck!" He exclaims.

"What did you expect? You kissed my girlfriend." I raise my fist once more and punch him in the stomach. He doubles over in pain his knees give way and he kneels on the ground. "You fucking kissed my girlfriend." I pull my knife out of my pocket and raise it, fully intending kill him, Gale shrinks away holding his hand above his head.

"I'm sorry alright. I won't do it again."

"Like hell you won't!" I snarl, I tighten my grip on the knife, I'm going to kill him, how dare he. He looks up at my fear in his eyes. How often had I knelt in that same position as my father beat me senseless? My eyes widen and I take a step back. No, I won't kill him I'm better than that. I'm better than my father. "Get up." I snap at him.

He sighs in relief and scrambles to his feet. "I'm really sorry, I've loved her for years…She never returned those feelings I guess. I... It was stupid I shouldn't have done it, I'm sorry."

I snort shaking my head at least he has the decency to look ashamed of himself. I push down my own shame at my actions, this is not the arena there is no need for this violence or for me to kill him, I'm not my father and I can't believe I just acted to similar to him. "It's not me you should be apologising to." I growl.

His eyes widen and he nods. "Y…Yeah…She told me not to speak to her again."

I snort in amusement. "You don't deserve to talk to her again." I snarl causing him to look away, I sigh in irritation. "But you should still apologise…" I bite my lip. "I'm sorry for almost killing you." I mutter and he looks at me in confusion and a bit of amusement. "But I'm not sorry for hitting you, you deserved that." I snap at him.

I storm off, I need to find Katniss. I gulp when I realise I left her alone to deal with Snow. I bite my lip hoping desperately he hasn't hurt her. I scowl, President Snow is one person I will not have any problems with killing if he dares to hurt my Katniss.

"Clove!" I turn around but before I can register anything else I'm being bombarded by Katniss as she throws her arms around me.

"Katniss?" I laugh, hugging her tightly.

"Are you alright?" She asks pulling away from me to look me in the eye.

"I am now." I tell her, not wanting to talk about what happened here, my eyes wander over the street and I see quite a few people watching us curiously. Katniss sighs in relief and she takes my hand in hers, entwining our fingers together.

"I'm glad," she smiles happily, "let's go home." She glances down at my hand and frowns at it. "Clove…Why is there blood on your hand?" She asks worriedly. I shrug glancing at my hand and seeing a few spots of blood there.

Gale stumbles out from behind a building and glances around, I scowl slightly annoyed that he followed me. "Katniss, I found you." He forces a smile despite the blood running from his nose. Now that I'm not consumed by anger I can see that his nose is broken.

Katniss glances between my hand and Gale's nose for a second. "Did you?" She points to Gale's nose and I nod.

"Katniss, I wanted to say I'm sorry." Gale says holding his hands up in surrender as he approaches us. "I shouldn't have kissed you, can we at least still be friends?" He asks his eyes pleading.

Katniss glares at him and purses her lips as she considers the question. "That depends… Are you going to try anything like that again?" She asks, Gale shakes his head.

"No, I'm sorry, I get it, you love Clove not me. Like I said I shouldn't have done it, it was just a stupid moment I guess."

"I forgive you, but we're not friends…At least not until you prove to me you can control yourself, seriously Gale I've never loved you that way and I never will." Katniss stares at him as he nods in agreement, she sighs. "Come on I guess you should see my mother about your nose."

"What did Snow do to you?" Katniss asks quietly as we enter the living room. Gale is in the kitchen with Katniss' mother and Prim they're seeing to his broken nose.

"He showed me a video of you and Gale…Kissing." I hiss out the last word angrily. Katniss takes my hand.

"He kissed me, I punched him." She says giving me a small smile. I nod slowly.

"I saw the bruise, the video cut out before you did that though and I think it was edited anyway, to make it look more…Realistic. Snow tried to convince me that…" I turn away and take a deep breath, when I turn back to Katniss I see her looking at me, the love and concern in her eyes is unmistakable. "He tried to convince me that you don't really love me."

"But I do love you." Katniss says leaning in and kissing me. I can feel the love and passion in that kiss. I tangle my fingers in her hair, any doubt remaining in my mind that she doesn't love me disappearing with that one kiss. "I don't even know how to tell you how much I love you." She tells me and I can't help but blush as I kiss her again, wanting nothing more than to have my lips on hers forever.

"Apparently we caused a rebellion." I tell her slowly when we've done kissing each other. Katniss nods.

"He told me that too, he wants me to try to 'quench the spark' or something during the victory tour."

I stare at her wondering if he told her to kill me like he told me to kill her. "He wants me to kill you." I whisper, her eyes widen as she looks at me.

"So that's why he was trying to convince you that I don't love you." She states and I nod. She bites her lip worriedly. "What are we going to do? I don't know if I can stop people from rebelling."

"Maybe we shouldn't."

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe we need a rebellion…Things need to change, what if…" Katniss cuts me off by kissing me.

"Things like that shouldn't be said inside the fence." She whispers, she gives me a smile but her eyes remain serious as she glances around the room, my eyes widen wondering if the room could be bugged. "We'll do what we can to stop this while we're on the tour." She says decisively and I nod in agreement.

Gale enters the room a bandage over his nose. "I er…I just came to say goodbye." He says glancing between me and Katniss.

"Alright. Bye Gale." Katniss says, keeping her expression blank.

"I guess I'll see you after the victory tour?" he asks hopefully and Katniss shrugs. He nods and awkwardly leaves the room.

Katniss stands glancing over at the clock. "Our stylists and escorts will be here soon." She says. I nod our stylists will be coming this evening to dress us up and then we have an interview before the victory tour takes place.

I find myself staring at Katniss, she's so beautiful. I kiss her passionately, I can't believe that she's mine and I'm hers. "I love you Katniss, nothing can change that, even when I thought you didn't love me I still loved you." She grins at me and kisses me, pushing down and leaning on top of me.

"I love you too Clove." She laughs before leaning in and capturing my lips in hers. I find myself moaning into the kiss I slip my hands under her shirt and run them over her back loving the feeling of her skin under my hands.

The doorbell rings and I hear someone answer it. There's a lot of excited shouting but we keep kissing. Suddenly a large group of people are entering the living room. They go silent for a moment when they see us in this position. Katniss blushes clambering off of me and smiling at the Capitol people slightly.

"Cinna!" She says happily when she sees the dark skinned man at the front of the group. He smiles calmly at her as she gets up to hug him. I spot Katniss' escort, Effie standing next to him. Her hair is bright orange and I find myself staring at it wondering what possessed her to dye her hair that colour.

Katniss goes to hug Effie next and I turn to my escort and stylist. I realise I never learnt their names. I suppose it's too late to ask for them now so I just stare at them awkwardly as my surly stylist smirks at me his eyes glistening with amusement.

I smile slightly when I spot Oriel my mentor lingering in the background she nods at me in acknowledgment before continuing to survey her surroundings keeping her expression blank. Briefly I wonder where Haymitch is but then decide he's probably passed out drunk in his house as usual.

My escort has bright green hair and seems to be wearing a dress that consists mostly of feathers. She beams at me and waves enthusiastically. "Come on Clove don't I get a hug?" She asks holding her arms out her eyes flicking over to Effie jealously. I raise an eyebrow at her; I don't do hugs with anyone but Katniss and occasionally Prim.

"Katniss I don't think you've met Silka, Clove's escort and Balthar her stylist."

I glance at Effie suddenly feeling exceedingly grateful that she introduced these to people, Silka and Balthar, I commit those names to memory not wanting to forget them since it seems I'm probably going to spend a lot of time with them over the next few weeks.

Balthar steps forward looking at me speculatively. "Cinna and I have decided to collaborate, so you two will be wearing matching outfits." He informs us. With that we're whisked into separate rooms to be sorted out for out interview this evening. I roll my eyes, hoping that whatever outfit the two stylists have come up with won't be too ridiculous.