Authors Note: Well I would like to do a personal shout out to Finnislife because he is the reason I got 10 reviews and the reason that I am updating. I thank all the people who did review and honestly gave me some really good feedback, I love and appreciate that. Now what you guys have hopefully been waiting for is Chapter 4. Hope you guys enjoy.
I never stopped looking for you Katniss.
I stare at him in shock. Not knowing what to say, what to feel. What do you say to the person who gave you hope, the person who made you feel safe, gave you a choice, didn't force you into anything, took care of you and saw you as a person; not as something that can owned.
"T-thank you" I stutter after finally getting my voice back. I suddenly feel overwhelmed and I get up and speed walk out of the hospital not wanting to draw more attention then I already have. When the automatic doors open I feel a refreshing gush of air, I look around realizing that I don't have my car here so I just run. I don't know why I just ran away from what might be the most amazing human being on this planet but I just have to get away from this situation. I run and run, I stop when I see a no entry sign at the entrance to the cliff. I just need to release some energy so I hop the fence and run up the curved road and when I get to the top I look at the horizon and it really is relaxing up here.
I hear foot steps behind me and I turn around and see that Cato has followed me all the way up here. How did he even keep up with me? Why did he follow me?
He stops a couple feet in front of me, his face is flushed but he doesn't even look tired like this was just a jog to him.
"You're a hard woman to keep up with Katniss" He chuckles lightly. Obliviously trying to catch his breath.
"Well I wasn't expecting to be followed" I snap. He is suddenly way closer than I thought, only an arm length away.
"Well it wasn't that hard considering you're the only person in Panem that would sprint 2 miles" He says jokingly.
"Well that's true, I have a history of running so that helps" I joke back but when I look in his eyes I see that they have become suddenly serious.
He moves closer and becomes face to face with me.
"Why Katniss." He asks. I know what he's talking about, but not wanting to talk about this right now I quickly change the subject.
"Well you know my mother was a runner-"he interrupts me.
"You know damn well what I'm talking about Katniss, that day in the park. Why did you run away? I spent hours looking for you." He says almost on the brink of yelling. "I was worried sick outta my mind, do you know how guilty I felt that I just let you run away probably back into worse than before. I wanted to get you help Katniss, I wanted to be the one to help you." He finishes his voice much quieter than before.
"I didn't want to go back!" I yell back, getting mad at the fact that he thinks that I would just go back so easily after everything that he did for me.
"Then why did you." He says now yelling again.
"Because I had no choice! I didn't just go running back into his arms, when you left he found me sitting there on the bench he threatened your life if I didn't go, I didn't want you to get hurt let alone get in more deep in my fucked up life then you already have. You were a stranger to me but you gave me hope and I would've been damned if I let him take another person that I cared about away from me." I finish with tears yet again in my eyes.
"I'm not going anywhere Katniss" He puts his hands around my face, making me look at him. I move my face out of his hands. He opens his mouth to speak again when I cut him off.
"Just leave; I don't need your pity. Besides you don't want to get involved with me it only leads to destruction and pain." I say not meeting his eyes. He grabs my chin forcing me too look at him. I have a feeling this guy has a thing about eye contact. Once he figures that I'm not going to break eye contact he moves his hands down to my arms.
"Katniss shut up and just listen to me." He says. I keep my mouth closed having the feeling that he has something important to say. I nod silently telling him that I won't interrupt and to continue.
"Now first off I don't pity you, not even back when I first met you. All I was thinking is that how can someone do that to this beautiful creature, all I wanted to do is ring the neck of the sick bastard that hurt you. I have a short temper it took all the strength not to bust into the house I found you in front of and bash a couple heads and demand answers but I knew that you needed help. When we got back to my house you barely conscious so I cleaned you up, put you in some of my sweats and laid you in my bed. Now I know what you must be thinking, trust me when I cleaned you up and undressed you the last thing I was thinking of was anything inappropriate. Anyways later on at the park when I came back with another hot chocolate and I saw that you weren't there I lost my mind, I was flipping benches, punching light posts, I remember being so pissed that I was so stupid, that I did something to scare you, hell I didn't even introduce myself I was just some stranger to you and I didn't blame you for running away because I probably would have too. I just felt the need to comfort you and make you feel safe, to take you away from all the pain and show you that I could be your savior. And still can be." He looks at me intently, and I can't detect any hint of lying or anything, just pure honesty.
"You are my savior. After he found I prayed every night that you would somehow find me and safe me again. But I figured that you were just being nice and went back to your normal life."
"After you left Katniss nothing ever felt right, I thought about you constantly and when I saw you run away from me at the hospital I never felt so empty."
"I didn't know you cared so much, I thought you would have just let me go." I whisper. He tilts my chin up.
"I let you get away once Katniss, I'm not planning on it happening again" He says in a whisper back but loud enough that I can hear him.
With that he presses his lips against mine and I immediately kissed him back. Our lips fit like a puzzle and I feel like my body has been set on fire, this is the most amazing feeling in the world. Never wanting it to stop I pull myself closer to him. Finally he pulls away after a couple mins with a smirk on his face.
"What?" I ask him.
"I knew you could resist all of this handsomeness" He says cockily. Taking a seat on the ground.
"Trust me, I've met better." I smirk back. Suddenly I am pulled down and I land on top of him and he puts an arm around my lower back, trapping me so I couldn't get up.
"Really?"
"No" I say and I capture his lips again and again after that I lay my head on his chest watching the sunset and listening to the water below and for the first time in my life.
I finally found happiness.
Authors Note:
Sooooo what did you guys think? Cato finally admitted his true feelings, so will everything be perfect or will something send everything crumbling down. Review and find out the next time I update. I really appreciate all my fans out there that stick with this story and review. Hopefully I get some more reviews this time because I will not update again until I reach 20 reviews. So only ten more to go, how fast I update is completely up to you guys.! I love you all.
-Nique