A/N: I hope you enjoy. I only officially got two or three reviews, but I decided to make it a long chapter because over all I had enough reviews!

Chapter 11: Cato Takes Action

(KATNISS POV)

"Well, I guess we have to go find him," I said smiling.

"Ok," Melody said sitting up.

"Where do you think he could be," I asked her, maybe she might know.

"The Justice Hall," She answered quickly. "Whenever he argues with our mom he goes to the Justice Hall."

"Ok," I said getting up and helping her. "Let's go to the Justice Hall.

(CATO POV)

"Your mother," Devon asked shocked. "May I ask why?"

"I'd rather not talk about it to anyone besides Jason," I said walking past him.

Devon was six years older then me and my mentor for the first year of training. If I hadn't been chosen to volunteer, I would have been a mentor at eighteen too. The only reason Devon wasn't chosen when he was eighteen is because his father was killed in the same avalanche that killed mine and his mother had killed herself three days later, making him the only one in his family able to take care of his little brother.

"Cato," Jason said as I walked into his office. "What do I owe this great pleasure to."

"I need to report a crime against my mother," I said walking over to his desk.

"For what," he asked shocked.

"For one, she's been lying to Melody since the day she was born and has been forcing me to do it to. If I didn't lie, she was threatening to take Melody away from me forever. Second, She THREATENED Katniss. I know Katniss is from District Twelve, but she is a victor AND my fiancé. Third, she argued with me, a VICTOR, and grabbed my arm as if she was going to hurt me. I'm not bruised, but she had a strong grip on my arm."

"Your mother threatened Katniss," He asked shocked. Threatening a victor, no matter what district, is a Capital Offense here. Victors are supposed to be treated like the next highest official behind the president.

"Yes sir," I said. "She acted fine when I was there, but Katniss said she did. When I talked to her after Melody ran in crying that our mother called her a nuisance, she didn't deny either of what I has accused her of. She just questioned my taking her with us to meet Katniss sister and grabbed my arm."

"Mr. Cline," He said looking at me. "Do you really want to do this? If you do, your sister will never see your mother again and she will be punished, either killed or turned into an Avox and sent to work in the Capital."

"I know," I said. "I'm tired of being afraid of her. I've come here hundreds of times before to convict her of her crimes, but I've chickened out because of Melody. This time, she caused Melody to cry and I refuse to take that."

"Alright," Jason nodded before filling out some paperwork. "So would like custody of her, or would you like her to be put in the system?"

"The system," I heard from behind me.

Turning around, I saw Katniss and Melody. Melody looked like she was about to cry again and Katniss looked shocked.

"Would you really put me in the system," she asked, her eyes watering.

"No," I said running over and picking her up. "I would never put you in the system!"

"So does that mean you're going to get custardy of me," she asked.

"I don't see why he wouldn't," Katniss smiled at her. "He loves you and I think you're wonderful."

"Jason, I'm taking her," I smiled.

"Alright," he said writing again. "Melody will be yours and your mother will be taken to the Capital for trial as soon as you sign here."

Taking the pen, I signed the paper and smiled at Melody. She was finally going to be treated right, not lied to, and loved like she deserves to be.

(KATNISS POV)

I smiled at Melody and Cato. Cato was the love of my life, or so I'm trying to convince myself, and Melody was like a young Prim. My life was changing fast and it felt like I should have had whiplash. With Cato being Melody's guardian, I was too since we're engaged. I wonder how Prim will take all this.

"Katniss," Melody's voice said taking me out of my trance.

"Yes," I said looking at her.

"I'm glad your taking care of me," She said smiling.

"You should be," Cato smiled. "She's amazing and now you don't have to be with mom. She's lied to you, hurt you, make you cry, and I couldn't take anymore. If Katniss knew the rules in District Two, she would have told me to take you away from Mom."

"The rules here are different then in District Twelve," She asked, amazed that the rules could change from a wealthy district to the poorest district.

"Yeah," I said looking at her. "But not a lot of them, only a couple. The districts have slightly different rules because of what they make. District Twelve has rules about stealing coal and you don't because Twelve makes coal, not Two."

"Oh," she said. "That makes sense."

"Melody," Cato smiled at her. "Let's go home and get your things so we can move them to our new house."

"New house," she asked confused. "Isn't your house in the Victor's Village?"

"Actually, Katniss and I live in the Capital now so we can be together," Cato smiled. "And, now that we have you, we have to pack my stuff and yours before going to District Twelve and getting Katniss's stuff too."

"Oh," she said smiling. "Let's so! I want to make sure I grab all the important stuff!"

"You know, you can bring as much as you want," I smiled. "Once you two are all packed, we can go to District Twelve to meet my family and get my stuff."

"And we need to call President Snow and tell him about the newest addition," Cato smiled at me.

"You two are having a baby," Melody screamed.

"No," I almost yelled.

"What she means is not yet," Cato said cooly. "We will in the future, but I was talking about you."

"So does this make you and Katniss my mom and dad now," She asked un-expectantly, well to me anyway.

Was I ready for someone to call me "Mom" yet? Was I ready to have a child, well eight year old, depend on me to be there? Would this end badly and end up with Melody feeling the same way about me as her mother? How would I explain this to Prim, my innocent little Prim? I'm not ready to be a mother. Not now, not ever.

A/N: From this point on, I will be (hopefully) adding a chapter every other day. For example, I'm posting this and you have twenty four hours to review, determining the length of the chapter. Below is how the length by reviews will be determined.

1-3 reviews will be worth 200 words each and every other review on top of that will be an additional 100 words. I will only take up to ten reviews for wording, but all reviews are welcomed and I will try to make them longer with more reviews.. For example: 4 reviews would be 3 reviews at 200 each and 1 review at 100, so 700 words. At 10 reviews, the word count will be 1,300 words so that's why I'm stopping the reviews for words count there. The number or words will not include author's notes or chapter titles and will be be getting as close to that number as possible, only going a max of 20 words over.

Now, I know this is probably one of the world's longest author's notes, but I thought you all deserved to know exactly what I'm thinking. If you all wand long chapters, it's up to you now. I won't be adding chapters up that are 1,119 words without your reviews. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review. :)