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Haymitch's POV:
Later that day, once I had taken a little nap, I go back into the compartment of the train that I was in earlier. About two minutes after I had sat down at the table Peeta walks in, and sits down opposite me. He's asking me all these questions about how to find food, the cornucopia and shelter, when Katniss walk in. She changed her clothes from the blue dress she was wearing, which she probably hated, into some black jeans and a dark purple blouse. My god, she is so beautiful.
"Oh joy(!), why don't you join us? I was just telling Peeta how you find shelter. If you were, in fact, still alive." I say to her, smirking. She looks at me then sits down at the table.
"How do you find shelter?" She asks me.
"Pass the jam."
"How do you find shelter?" She says, again, raising her voice.
"Oh please, let me wake up a little sweetheart! This mentoring is very...taxing stuff." Just then she slams a knife into the table in between my fingers. Two more centimetres and I would've been bleeding. Wow, I've got a fighter on my hands! She's strong and beautiful! I can't think like this! I'm a 40 year old man! She's 17! I can't have a crush on her! I tell myself.
"That is mahogany!" I hear Effie scream.
"Look at you! Just killed a placemat!" I say while pulling the knife out of the table. "You really wanna know how to stay alive? You get people to like you!" She looks at me fiercely, but with a touch of sadness in her eyes. "Oh, not what you were expecting? Well if you're in the middle of the games and you're starving, freezing, water, a knife or even some matches can mean the difference between life and death." She gives me a glare. I only told her the truth! Her face is just so perfect. I find myself thinking. "And those thing only com from sponsors. And to get sponsors you get people to like you." I pause. "And right now, sweetheart, you're not off to a very good start." Peeta gets up and starts waving to the people of the Capitol from a window. "You better keep this knife, because he knows what he's doing!"