Next Day in the arena

The gong went off and almost everyone was running to the Cornucopia to get supplies. Haymitch was not joking when he said there would be a blood bath. Peeta ran into the forest, but not after seeing Katniss run to get the bow and arrows. He just sighed and continued to run. After a bit he stopped and waited. Soon enough he heard a branch snap and saw Clove running over to him.

She finally got over and said in a mean, fake way, "I've been looking for you lover boy. Come on. Our leader Cato wants to talk to you. If you even think of running away, I will stick a knife in the back of your leg."

With that she began to drag Peeta back to the Cornucopia. When they got there, there was blood everywhere. Peeta pretended to flinch at the sight of it.

He decided to ask, "Is Katniss okay?"

Clove said, "Yea. Wish I killed her though."

They finally made it over and Clove unceremoniously shoved Peeta in front of her.

She said to the others, "Here is Lover Boy. Took me awhile to find him. Can we stop faking now? I don't like it."

Glimmer said, "Sure. Our plan is working just perfect. Cato went out to fill the water bottles and Marvel went with Jen to find food. We also have a new ally from District 3. Says he can rewire the bombs that are planted here."

Clove said, "Good. Peeta, have a seat. We are no longer pretending so you can relax now."

Peeta sat down and waited for Cato to return. When he did, he only had enough time to put down the water bottles before he got an armful of Peeta. He laughed and spun Peeta around.

Cato asked, "Did you miss me that much?"

Peeta said, "Fuck yea. I was worried that you would be hurt."

Cato smiled and said, "You know that it is hard to kill me."

Soon everyone was together.

Glimmer said, "Okay. It is time to set up camp. How many tents do we have?"

"Four."

Clove said, "I want my own."

Cato said, "Okay. Glimmer and Marvel will share one. Jennifer and the boy from district 3 will share one. Clove will have her own. And I will share with Peeta."

"Just make sure not to have sex with him yet. We will want him to be a virgin when you have to "rape" him."

Cato groaned and said, "Must you be like this Clove? I know. I will not let any harm come to him."

Clove said, "Okay just making sure."

With that everyone went to bed.

The Next Morning

When Cato woke up, he found Peeta still asleep with his head lying on his chest. Cato could not help but smile. After all, it is not everyday you find the one you want to spend the rest of your life with. He then began to shake Peeta.

"Wake up Peeta. It's morning," said Cato. Peeta though did not wake up. He sighed and leaned down to kiss Peeta. After a few seconds, Peeta was wondering why he couldn't breath. He opened his eyes and saw Cato French kissing him. He moaned and then pulled away because he needed air.

After catching his breath Cato said, "Good Morning my angle."

"Good Morning," said Peeta as he yawned, "What time is it?"

"Time to get up. Come on. We are going to spar today. You're going to need a lot more than just strength to survive."

With that Cato got up and went outside to get ready. Peeta sat for a few minutes then got up himself. The sun blinded him when he went out. He quickly got used to it and saw everyone doing something.

The boy From District 3, whose name was Jake (A/N: made it up) was rewiring the bombs that were set next to the platforms. Clove was no where to be seen, Jennifer was sharpening the weapons, and Glimmer and Marvel were watching the lake to make sure no one would sneak up on us. I saw Cato going and getting two swords.

"Clove went hunting if you want to know," said Cato as he came over, "here is a sword. I am going to show you how to defend yourself."

The second Peeta had the sword Cato attacked him. He barley had enough time to raise it before Cato's sword clashed with his own. This continued for about 3 hours until Cato disarmed Peeta and held his sword at his neck.

"Wow. Who knew that Lover Boy could go on that long," said Clove, who returned 2 hours ago, "I am really surprised."

"Yea so am I. Never knew he be able to hold his own."

Cato said, "Okay. That's enough for now. Go wash up. Clove here said she saw smoke from somewhere in the forest. We are going hunting."

Peeta nodded and did as he was told. It was almost time to put the plan into action. He walked to the lake and got in. The water was nice and cool on his hot skin. After a few minutes he got out and changed. When he got back to the camp, all the weapons were sharpened and everyone was ready to go.

Cato tossed him a spear and said, "Here is your weapon. Also here is a dagger. It is time to make it look like we forced you to join us. Jake, you stay here and watch the supplies. Jennifer, I want you to go into the forest and find edible plants that we can eat. You are the best one for this cause you aced the edible plant test. The rest of you follow me."

With that everyone split up. Peeta ended up being dragged by Clove with Glimmer right behind him. Marvel was on his right and Cato was in front. They found the person who made the fire. It was the girl from District 8. Clove grabbed her arms and held her while Cato gave Marvel a dagger to kill her.

The girl was shouting, "Please! Please don't kill me!" Marvel shut her up by stabbing her in the stomach. The girl screamed and went silent. They quickly left the area and were laughing.

Clove said, "That was the best! 'No Please don't kill me!' That was so pathetic!"

Glimmer said, "Shouldn't we have heard the canon by now?"

Marvel said, "That means she's not dead. Someone should go back."

Peeta said, "Fine! I'll go back."

He took out his dagger and went back. A few minutes later he returned. He had blood on his face and in his hair, as well as on his clothes. A canon fired seconds later.

"There," he said, "She's dead."

He was about to go back to camp when Cato grabbed him. He pulled Peeta against his chest and held him tight. He then licked some of the blood off his cheek.

Cato smirked and said, "Tasty. Never knew you had it in you to kill some one Lover Boy."

Peeta began to struggle and tried to get away but Cato held him tighter.

Cato whispered in Peeta's ear, "Sorry I had to do it. Katniss is in the tree above us. She does not know that we know she is there. Continue to struggle. She will think that we are forcing you to stay with us. She might come and try to rescue you. Now I am going to bite your neck. It's my way to tell you to stop or you will be punished. Okay?"

Peeta said, "Okay"

As soon as he said that, Cato bit his neck so hard he was bleeding. Peeta stopped his struggle and went limp in Cato's arms. He whimpered as Cato began to lick it.

Cato said aloud, "Good boy Lover Boy. That was a warning. Next time you act like this, I will punish you. Am I understood?"

Peeta weakly nodded and said, "Yea. I understand. I'm sorry."

Cato just nodded and held him by the neck as they walked away.

With Katniss

She could not believe what she just saw. Cato had bit Peeta and said that if he struggled against him again he would punish him. She knew she had to rescue him from those monsters. She first needed a plan to do so.

When morning came, she went back to the field and saw them. All the supplies were piled up in the middle of the field. She then saw the boy from District 3 working on what looked like mines and setting them down to bury them. Katniss saw the other tributes including Peeta. Peeta was curled up in a ball and looked scared. She then was thinking of what to do.

Katniss was so deep in thought she did not notice that someone was sneaking up behind her. She then felt something cold touching her neck. She looked down and saw a knife there.

She then heard someone say, "Well if it isn't the Girl on Fire. Here to rescue Lover Boy? Well forget it because he belongs to Cato now."

Katniss recognized the girl as Clove. She did not dare move, but retorted, "Peeta does not belong to anyone. Especially Cato."

Clove replied, "I really don't want to hear you right now. Get up. Cato will want to meet you in person before he kills Lover Boy."

Katniss had no choice but to get up and have Clove lead her into the field with a knife on her neck. As she got closer, she saw that there was the girl Foxface sharpening the weapons.

Clove called out, "Look here everyone! I caught a cat!" Everyone looked over and saw that the cat was Katniss. She saw that Peeta look at her with eyes that were wide with fear. He was about to get up when Cato held the back of his neck and pressed the bite mark there, causing Peeta to whimper in pain.

When Katniss was there and had her weapons taken away from her and was tied up, she shouted, "Let Peeta go you monsters!" She did not have time to say anything else before Glimmer bitch-slapped her.

She said, "Don't you dare say another word. If you do, Cato will kill Lover Boy."

Cato came forward with Peeta still in his grip. He then forced Peeta to sit in front of her before he sat behind him and pulled Peeta to his chest so he was sitting on his lap.

Cato then said, "It's nice of you to join us 12."

Katniss growled and said, "Cut the crap! Release Peeta!"

"I can't do that," said Cato, "you see, Peeta belongs to me."

"Peeta doesn't belong to anyone!"

"Oh but he does, " said, Cato, "Peeta. Whom do you belong to?"

Peeta tried to look down, but Cato grabbed his chin and forced him to look at him. Peeta then muttered something.

"What was that? I could not hear you," said Cato.

Peeta said louder, "I belong to you Cato."

Cato then released Peeta's chin, and held him tighter so Peeta was forced to bury his face into Cato's neck. Cato then began to run his fingers through Peeta's hair.

He said, "Good boy. You see now Katniss? He belongs to me."

Katniss shouted, "No! Peeta. You said you loved me! Was that a lie!"

Peeta looked at Cato, who nodded, and said, "Yes. I love you. But they threatened that they would kill me if I did not join them."

Katniss said, "But you told me that you asked them and they let you join them."

"That was a lie. They came up to me and said that Cato wanted me to join them and if I didn't join them, they would torture and kill me."

"Why didn't you say anything then?"

"I don't want to do this! Cato, please get me out of here! I can't deal with this!"

Cato replied, "Okay Peeta. Don't worry. I'll protect you. Jennifer! Take Peeta back to our tent. Tend to him. I will be there soon." With that Cato handed Peeta over to Jennifer, who took him away to the tents. He then turned to Katniss and gave her a look that said murder.

He said, "Well as you can see Peeta does not want you. What will we do with you now?"

Clove then suggested, "How about we leave her out here to freeze? It's supposed to be cold tonight."

Cato replied, "Good idea Clove. Okay people time to turn in. Don't worry Katniss won't be going anywhere because she's tied up."

Everyone then left to the tents and left Katniss alone, who had tears streaming down her face. She began to think that this would be the end of her.

The moment Cato entered the tent, Peeta jumped on him and kissed him so hard their teeth hit each other. Cato immediately wrapped his arms around Peeta's waist to keep him steady as he kissed him back just as hard. Cato then thrust his tongue into Peeta's mouth and dominated him. Cato this time was the first to pull away and was panting.

He then asked, "What's got into you?"

Peeta said, "I am tired of faking! I want to get it over with!"

Cato sighed and said, "I know sweetheart. Just a little more time and she will be dead."

Peeta then said, "You know. Jennifer had a really good idea. She said that I could free Katniss in the night, and then run away myself. In the morning, you guys would find Katniss's ropes and me gone. You would go after me and have the others chase Katniss down. You would soon catch me and punish me for running away by beating me up a bit. Then you would drag me back to the others, depending if they found her, and make sure that, in front of the cameras, that I never left your side. Jen also said that you could ask your sponsors to get you a shock collar that I could wear so that I can only go about 10 meters away from you before I get a nice shock. This way if we see Katniss, she will now that I can never leave you because you would be the only one who could take off the collar." Peeta then stopped to catch his breath.

While he was doing that, Cato replied, "That is actually a really good idea. I will have to thank her later for that. But before you run away, make sure you take a few supplies with you, like water, some food, and a weapon, just in case you run into another tribute."

Peeta, once he caught his breath, said, "Okay. Jen probably told everyone else by now. Wake me up so I can go free her. I am tired." It was only a few seconds after he said that did he fall asleep. Cato could only smile at how cute his angle was. He then laid down beside him and fell asleep.

Later that night

Cato, who told him it was time, awoke Peeta. He gave Peeta a dagger to use to cut the ropes. Peeta gave his a nice long kiss before Cato decided to bite his neck again. Peeta let out a soft moan and then gently squirmed out of Cato's arms and left the tent.

Peeta ran up to Katniss as quietly as he could. He saw that she fell asleep and was shivering slightly.

He shook her said said, "Katniss. Katniss wake up." Katniss slowly woke up and saw Peeta. She began to wonder what he was doing here. She soon found out.

Peeta cut her binds and gave her her weapons. He said, "Go. Get out of here. Run as fast as you can. I am going to go a different way. This way it will force them to spilt up to find us. I will see you later." He gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and ran into the forest, carrying a spear and a dagger. Katniss stood there for a bit before running the opposite way into the dark forest.