A/N: Enjoy! BTW, sorry it's not 1,000 words! Please don't hate me! Also, I am SOOOOOO sorry I didn't upload this chapter earlier! I thought I did!
Chapter 9: The Talk
(Katniss POV)
"You thought I had a better chance at winning," I asked shocked.
"Yeah," he sighed. "You had an eleven and a district mate who would die for you so you could make it home. Clove would have killed me if it was just us at the end, while Peeta would have killed himself."
"Yeah," I smiled thinking back to us in the cave. "He loved me."
"You never told me how you really feel about me," He said looking at me right in the eyes.
Immediately, I looked away and tried not to panic. Cato told me that he likes me, but I still wasn't sure how I felt about him. I mean, yeah, he wasn't nearly as bad as I originally thought he was, but he was still the career from District Two that almost and did kill Peeta. I wasted my last arrow on Peeta to make sure he really was gone and wouldn't suffer being ripped apart and eaten by those dog mutts, while he didn't care about him at all.
When Cato was standing there, telling me to just shoot him because he was dead anyway, there was something telling me not to. Was that because I was attracted to him? No! It was because I'm not a killer. Cato could have died and I wouldn't have cared.
"Katniss," he said getting my attention. "Well?"
"I don't know," I said looking at him. "I mean you're not a bad guy and I might be able to learn to love you in time, but right now I really don't know how I feel about you besides that I don't hate you as much anymore."
"That's better then nothing," he smiled. "How did you get along with my mother? You couldn't have been with her long."
"I wasn't," I honestly said. "She threatened me."
"What," he asked shocked.
"Yeah," I sighed. "I actually got up half way through her threatening and came up here to find you because I refused to be spoken to like I was the villain when YOU killed him! I wasn't acting! I was really in love with him! I didn't try to stop you from killing him because if I shot you then you both would have gone down, like you said! I would have done anything to end your life and save his! I was in love with him! The only reason you're alive is because I couldn't kill you! You could have killed me and become the lone victor, but you didn't, leaving us to act like we're in love when we're obviously not!"
(CATO'S POV)
"Look," I said picking her up and sitting on Melody's bed. "I understand that you loved Peeta, but I was just trying to get home to Melody. I didn't care about how you felt because I was planning on killing you after him. I'm sorry I hurt you, but you would have done the exact same thing if it was the only was you could make it home to your mother and sister alive."
"I killed three people," she said laying her head in my chest. "Glimmer-"
"Which I'm glad you did because she was WAY to clingy! I only kept her around because she was't a bad shot."
"Marvel-"
"Who was way too attached to Clove and was almost asking for me to kill him to leave her alone."
"And Peeta."
"Who I was accredited for killing. You tried to end his suffering, though he wasn't suffering because he was already gone."
"Either way, I'm the reason that two people aren't able to be with there fam-"
"Stop," I said putting my hand on the side of her face. "If either of them lived then we would have had to die. The only reason we both won is because they needed a winner and we were both going to die. I blacked out and was bleeding to death while you passed out and probably wouldn't have made it through the night from the urge to die. When I first woke up, they said I had won, not mentioning you. They made me fall asleep again because I wasn't 'healed' enough. The next time I woke up Brutus tole me the news. Until the next morning, I couldn't even remember what happened."
A/N: Sorry it just ends! I'm currently watching a show that I MUST watch! I'll add another chapter Sunday! /= 5 reviews for 500-600 words and 6+ reviews for 1,000+!