A/N: Sorry I am late in updating. I have been away at a June Dally Watkins course. Got to meet her in person :D! Enjoy.

Katniss' POV

"Cato…Where are you?" we were in the forest in Twelve. Cato had decided he wanted to play Hide and Seek like a child. I was searching for him everywhere. He was a good hider, I'll give him that.

"Cato…Come out wherever you are"

I felt on yank on my arm as I walked past another tree and fell down on top of him. He flashed a boyish grin at me.

"Found you" I said smiling back at him

"I know and here's your prize" He leaned down to kiss me. Our lips almost touching…

BOOM!

I jolted awake at the sound of a cannon. It was a dream. A beautiful one. Of course we wouldn't be in Twelve. We were in the Hunger Games. I wondered who had died and by whose hand. I looked around and saw that I was sleeping next to; quite closely I might add, to Cato. His face looked so peaceful and vulnerable. Not like the killer he was. I gently nudged him awake. He rolled over and smiled as soon as he saw me.

"Good morning" He said sleepily

"Good morning, did you sleep well?"

"Very well, thank-you"

"So who do you think died?" He looked at me confused. Had he been asleep that deeply that he didn't hear the cannon? Obviously, I woke him up after the cannon, so that answers that stupid question.

"What cannon?" Yep, definitely asleep.

"A cannon fired while you slept, it woke me up though and disturbed my dream. How did you manage to sleep through it anyway?"

"I don't know, probably some defenceless kid. So what did you dream about anyway?"

"Huh?" I was distracted again by my thoughts again.

"Your dream, you said that it was disturbed by the cannon."

"Oh my dream" I didn't exactly want to tell him that it was about us or mainly him. I knew we were closer but still. "I was back home in the woods. It seemed so real until I woke up" I must have sounded convincing enough due to his response.

"Don't worry, you'll be back home before you know it"

"Where will you be then?"

"Let's have breakfast, what would you like?" He got up to leave but I pulled him down. He was avoiding the question.

"Cato, If I'm home alive, then where will you be?"

"Katniss"

"It's a simple question Cato, just answer it" I was getting angry now. So was he.

"Fine! You're going home because I say so. When you go home, I'll be dead alright. I couldn't live with myself if I won and you died"

"And you think I can? Cato you aren't going to die so I can win. I won't let you. We'll figure something out"

"Katniss, there is nothing to figure out. My plan is set and will work. You're going home and that's final. You know we wouldn't be in this mess if you hadn't volunteered!" I couldn't believe what he just said. He was blaming me for this whole situation. For saving Prim's life.

"Katniss…I'm sorry. I-" I had already stormed out of the tent grabbing my bow and arrow as I went. I needed to cool off. I needed to hunt.

Cato's POV

What had I just done? I yelled at her for saving Prim from these terrible Games. I didn't mean it. I was just angry at her. Why couldn't she understand that I was saving her? I loved her and wanted her to live.

"Katniss…I'm sorry. I-" She ran out with her bow. Clove came in just after she left. Just what I needed.

"So I guessing you two had a fight?" Clove said

"Yeah, she won't accept the fact that for her to win, I have to die. But then I told her she shouldn't have volunteered for Prim."

"Man you really screwed up. If I know one thing about Katniss, it's that she loves her family more than anything. She risked her life to save her sister. That's real family love Cato. It doesn't go very far when it comes to the Hunger Games but with her it does."

"I know. I didn't mean it. I was just angry. Spur of the moment kind of thing."

"Well then I think that you should follow her and apologise. Don't you? It was your fault and you should patch things up."

"No need to rub things in Clove, but thanks"

"I'll save you some breakfast for when you come back"

"Thanks, also do you know which way she went?"

"Let me think, she left with a bow and arrow. Where did she go?" Clove looked at me, smiling. The woods of course.

"See you later Clove." I ran off into the woods, in hopes of finding her again. But what happened during my search for her was the greatest thing ever.

Katniss' POV

During my hunt, all I could think of were his words to me. Blaming me for saving Prim. Shooting really helped me cool off releasing my anger.

BOOM

Someone had died but this time I really didn't care who it was. All my thoughts seem to consist of Cato. I was debating whether I should go back or not. I decided that I would. I needed him. I loved him. I just didn't want to lose him. I headed back to where we set up camp. Everyone was up now. Glimmer and Marvel sat together. Clove was practicing, training I should say, with her knives but I didn't see Cato anywhere. Had he stormed off as well? I decided to ask Clove.

"Hey Clove, where's Cato?"

"I don't know, he went of looking for you. He wanted to apologise. He really does love you."

"I know, thanks" I sat down and on a log next to Glimmer and Marvel. Glimmer seemed to hate me a lot less now that she was with Marvel. She really was a nice girl if you were in her good books.

"So Glimmer, now that you're back with Marvel, does this mean you'll quit flirting with Cato." I asked

"Definitely, He's all yours." Glimmer said happily

"Glimmer, why did you keep flirting with him when you said you were still in love with me?" Marvel asked

"I don't know actually, I guess, it was just too hard being around you so I needed to distract myself. I mean Cato is an attractive guy and all, so who wouldn't want to be with him?"

"I know exactly what you mean Glimmer."

"Yeah, Cato's a great guy…Hey!" Marvel's face was priceless. Glimmer and I cracked up laughing.

"It's alright, I still love you. Don't worry. We're just saying how lucky Katniss is to be with him."

"That doesn't help. How is Katniss lucky?"

"I'll explain it later. It's something only girls understand. It's our third instinct." Glimmer said

"Our what?" I asked

"Instinct. Girls have three natural born instincts. One, How to shop with a sense of fashion. Two, how to run in high heels and Three, knowing when a guy is hot. My mother taught me that and it is so true."

"Not for me. Especially the second one. You should have seen the heels Effie had me train in for the interview. I could barely walk in them, let alone run. The only instinct I have is how to shoot an arrow perfectly. And keen hearing."

"Yes, but you know Cato is hot, so you have the third instinct. I told you it was true."

"Still not helping Glimmer. You talking about hot guys is getting on my nerves." Marvel grumbled.

"Yeah, but how many girl's ass how you boys stared at checking her out?" Glimmer objected

"Hey, it's natural for a boy to look at a girl like that. We can't help if we like what we see."

"No you can definitely help it, you just chose not to. Guys only have a few things on their mind. Girls, beer and getting laid."

"I guessing you learnt this from your mum too?" I asked

"No actually, from the library books…Yes, I have been to a library. I know I seemed like an airhead while trying to flirt with Cato, but I am actually smart. I get A's in most subjects."

"So, what are we doing today? More hunting. Do you know who is dead already?" I asked

"Yeah, we've been keeping count. We killed thirteen at the bloodbath. Two have died today so that leaves eleven left."

"Yeah but do you know who is left besides us. The five of us are alive, but what about the other six."

"Well, I reckon that Thresh is still alive. So is Foxface probably, but I don't keep track of everyone, just who is dead." Glimmer said

"Ok, let's go hunting then and narrow those numbers" Marvel said

We hunted for most of the day which seemed short due the Gamemakers no doubt. We killed the girl from 10 and the boy from 8. They had formed an alliance together. I saw Rue up in the tree but she fled before the others saw her. Now there were nine left to kill. We sat down and had dinner while we waited for the faces of the fallen to appear. Finally the anthem played and the faces were shown. The boy from 3 must have been the one who died this morning. 10 and 8 showed up, but then the fourth face killed me. Up in the sky, I saw Cato's face.

He his canon must have shot while I was out hunting after our fight. I couldn't believe he was dead. I know that no one could have killed him, except Thresh possibly but I didn't believe it. I knew that he must have killed himself. To save me, but wouldn't he do that when it was just the two of us. It didn't make sense. The anthem stopped. He was dead. I could feel the tears running down my hot checks. I dropped my food and ran into what was our tent. I just wanted to cry, but in privacy. Thankfully, I was left alone for most of the night until Clove came in to wake me for my watch shift. She said she was staying up with me too. We devised a plan to break off the alliance now that Cato was gone. Neither of us wanted to actually kill them, so stole half of the remaining food and poisoned the rest, so that when Glimmer and Marvel would wake up tomorrow, they would die after eating the poisoned food. We also took our sleeping bags, and some rope to tie us to the trees which Clove had reluctantly agreed to sleep in. When late morning came, we heard two canons. We knew that Glimmer and Marvel were dead. Two down, six left to play. Later that we found Rue. I stopped Clove from killing her, and somehow managed to convince her to align with her. She took us back to the hidden cave she was living in.

"Peeta, look who I found." So Rue had decided to align with Peeta. Great, just great. You lose the boy you love and you align with the other boy who is pretending to love you. Peeta looked up at me and his whole expression changed. But that was before he saw Clove.

"Katniss…what is she doing here?" Peeta asked ready to defend himself. He had dagger in his hand which he probably stole from another dead tribute.

"Relax, she's with me. She's not going to hurt you with her knives. Speaking of which, who's the dagger from? A dead tribute?"

"Haymitch actually, I got it yesterday."

"Haymitch sent you a gift, he hasn't sent me anything. I always knew you were his favourite."

"Katniss, think logically. What reason does Haymitch have to send you anything? You had everything at the cornucopia being a Career and all. You've been living it up in luxury with your precious Cato. Sorry to hear about his death, but when you look at the bright side, now you don't have to kill him."

Peeta's POV

As soon as I finished, I was met with a punch to nose. A broken nose that was now bleeding.

"Don't you dare say anything about Cato. I know you don't care about him but I did. And when it comes down to us, I'll be the winner Peeta. I want you to feel the pain I feel." She was crying. Tears were flowing down her face. I heard a beeping noise from above. One that comes from a sponsor's gift. I looked up and it was coming down through a hole that wasn't there before. I reached up and grabbed it.

"Oh great, another gift from the wonderful gift-giving Haymitch." Katniss sneered. I looked inside to find only a note.

"It's not a gift, just a note from Haymitch" I replied

You stupid boy. You're supposed to be in love with her. The Capitol hates you and worse they're mourning the death of Cato ending the Star – Crossed Lovers. You better pull yourself together if you want any more gifts from sponsors.

– H

"So what does the note say Peeta? That you're a heartless jerk and you're going to die." Katniss said

"Katniss calm down, you don't need to stoop to his level" Clove said warningly

"You know Peeta, you should count yourself lucky that you're alive. The night before the Games, Cato asked me when he should kill you. He said either in the bloodbath or later to let you know he was coming. I was a fool to tell him to let you live."

"Katniss! Stop" Clove pulled me back "I know you're mourning Cato's death, but you don't need to act like this. Sure Cato would love brutally attacked him, but not now. We need a place to stay until we can be rid of all the other tributes. Once everyone else is gone and he is left, I won't stop you when you kill him. In fact, I give you one of my knives to use. The small curvy one does the worst damage. But until then just ignore him. Now let's have some dinner and go to sleep."

"Ok fine. But if you do anything, I won't hesitate to kill you, Bread Boy"

Katniss' POV

I had been asleep for a while but I woke up multiple times screaming and crying until I fell asleep again. I missed him so much. I just couldn't believe he was gone. At one point, when I woke up. Rue was awake too.

"Katniss, you're not really going to kill him are you?"

"I don't know. Everything would be so much easier if he was already dead. Maybe I'll be lucky and he'll die by some natural cause or by someone else. Maybe Clove can kill him."

"Are you sure that isn't just your grief talking. I know you miss him, but he has to die for you to live, doesn't he?"

"Yeah, He said he would, but it doesn't make sense. Wouldn't he leave it until it was just the two of us left?"

"That would make more sense"

"I going to sleep now Rue, goodnight"

"Goodnight Katniss, sweet dreams" Oddly enough, I did have a sweet dream until it turned into a nightmare.

Hey, the dream will be on the next chapter. Thanks for reading.