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CHAPTER 12

"Can I?" Katniss quietly asked, barely audible. What was becoming of her? She used to be so much fiercer than this.

"Why would I ask if I am going to say no?" Cato responded. Katniss shrugged and silently walked to his bed, then snuggled into his blankets and sheets.

"Your bed is so warm…" She murmured. She had practically forgotten about her nightmare already.

"Aren't all beds like this? Is your bed like cold or something?" He asked. Katniss just shrugged again. She was sleepy, and her body didn't move according to her mind currently. Therefore every second she inched closer to Cato, until her head was technically on his chest.

Cato however enjoyed the closeness between them. He thought it would be much more awkward after their kiss, but that wasn't the situation. He looked down to find her still not asleep. 15 minutes passed by, Katniss was trying her best to sleep but failed. 4 minutes after that she was still awake, and 10 minutes after those 4 minutes she still hasn't fallen asleep.

Cato shifted to get up and Katniss grabbed his arm, "Where are you going?" she asked.

"The couch."

"Why?"

"Because you don't seem to be getting any sleep with me around," he simply replied. Katniss tightened her grip around his arm, which Cato barely felt.

"Don't go please?" She practically pleaded, "I'll sleep, or at least try." She just didn't want his warmth to go away.

Cato gently tousled her hair, "Fine, but you really should sleep." Since when were they so reserved with each other?

"Yes I will Master," She lightly smiled.

"Don't call me master. I like it better when you call my name." Cato shifted back to his sleeping position.

Katniss yawned, "Why? Calling you Master is more appropriate."

"I just don't like it," He growled.

"Whatever you say Master Smith," Her smile grew wider.

He narrowed his eyes and threw a pillow at her face, "That's what you get."

Katniss lightly gasped and threw the pillow back at his face, "What was that for?" she hissed.

"Well I did tell you not to call me Master, right?" The corner of his mouth began to curve into a smile.

"You never said anything about Master Smith."

"Same thing." She glared at him in response.

"You aren't very attractive when you're angry," Cato said. Katniss's face flushed with red and she turned the other way, facing her back to him.

"I need to sleep…" she murmured.

He smirked, "I'm serious, you look better smiling or embarrassed." She blushed even more, heat rushing to her face.

She pulled the covers over her face, doing her best to ignore him. She closed her eyes and the sudden nightmares came relieving back in her dreams. She popped her head out of the covers abruptly. Katniss shook her head to snap back to reality. She wrapped the blankets around herself, trying to warm the coldness from the nightmare.

"Hey why are you getting all of the blankets?" Cato turned around to face Katniss.

She didn't respond, instead she wrapped her arms around him. He was her only source of warmth.

Cato was obviously stunned, "What's wrong?" Katniss just shook her head. She just wanted to engulf all of that heat off him.

"Are you at least okay?" Cato whispered.

"Yeah…"she muttered into his chest.

"Try to get some sleep. One's with no nightmares."

Katniss nodded and continued to cling onto Cato. When she finally fell asleep, there weren't any nightmares to scare her.

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Katniss rubbed her eyes as she heard a sudden loud noise.

"Who the hell is it?" Cato nearly groaned.

"Come on Big Brotha! Kat, it is all white outside!" Eric jumped up and down on the bed.

"Eric, where's Mum?" Cato got out of the bed and stretched.

"Ummm... Momma left to do work. Won't be back until very later," Eric answered and tried to think of what else Regina said, "Momma said to wake Big Brotha up and you wake up Kat."

"Then why couldn't you wake me up nicer?" Cato asked.

"You would not wakey if I did not jump on you," Eric smiled.

Eric tilted his head to the side, "Why was Kat sleeping with Big Brotha?" Cato tried to think of an excuse. Lucky for Cato, Eric easily forgot about it and continued to jump on the bed.

"Come on! It's snowing!"

"I'm coming," Cato sighed and pulled off his t-shirt, "Let me just take a shower." Katniss stared at his well built body and instantly blushed. She couldn't take off her eyes at the well toned abs display in front of her. His skin seemed so soft and smooth.

"You should get ready too," Cato indicated to Katniss. She nodded, still blushing and headed to her room.

Katniss opened her clothes to find filled with more clothes. That was probably more of Regina's doing. She found clothes that fitted the current weather. She threw a scarf, mittens, a cotton snow jacket, waterproof pants, some other underneath clothes, and fuzzy snow boots, onto her bed. After she finished her shower, she wrapped herself in a towel and went to her room to dress herself. She didn't wear the jacket, mittens, and boots yet, and was warm enough in a long sleeve shirt. She also tied her hair into a braid.

Katniss walked downstairs putting the jacket on the coat hanger and the pair of boots and mittens by it. She headed towards the kitchen to find Cato already eating.

"Toast?" Cato nodded to the plate.

"Just toast?" Katniss mumbled. She had made sure Eric wasn't around before she talked.

He bit into his piece of toast, "What's wrong with toast?" She just figured he was the one that made such a simple breakfast.

She simply shrugged, "Nothing." She sat down and took a piece of toast, smothering it with butter. She bit into her piece of toast, it actually tasted really good.

Katniss licked her lips, "It tastes good." She finished off that piece of toast and went to the fridge to pour herself some milk.

"KAT!" Eric shouted, running up to her, "Come on lets go play outside!"

"Eric just wait, we're almost ready."

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It was white. Literally everything was covered in snow. Katniss smiled at the cold air brushing across her face. They were outside at the spacious garden and they would have gone outside to the streets but Regina had instructed Eric not to.

Katniss heaved a breath which she saw in the cool air. Why did snow seem so much prettier here than the Capitol?

"Aren't you cold?" Katniss asked quietly as they waited for Eric to come out.

"No not really," Cato responded. He wore a cotton jacket, a scarf, waterproof pants, and snow shoes.

"I meant your hands," She said.

"They're fine."

Katniss didn't believe him, so she scooped up some snow and placed it in his hands. Cato widened his eyes and narrowed his eyes at her.

"What was that for?" He wiped the snow off his hands.

"You said your hands aren't cold? So when you do play in the snow it won't be cold right?" She smiled.

"You want to see how cold my hands are now?" Katniss gave him a confused look and let out a small yelp when he placed his hands on both side of her face.

"Get your hands off my face! It's freezing!" She shrieked as she tried to pull his hands away.

"Shush will you? You're too loud," He smirked, "You wanted know if my hands were cold right?" He still hadn't pulled his hands away.

"I didn't expect it to be this cold." She gave up on pulling his hands away.

"Maybe it's just your face that's warm." Katniss just noticed that she was blushing.

"Your hands are just cold…" she mumbled, "Now get them off me Cato!" she protested.

"Why? Your face is like my own personal heat source," he snickered which made her blush even more.

"BIG BROTHA!" Eric jumped onto Cato, "I finished going potty!"

"Good for you." Cato dropped his hands from her face.

"Can we make a snowman?" Eric asked.

"You start," Cato told his younger brother. Eric immediately began rolling a huge snowball. Katniss sat down on the back porch watching the two play.

"Big Brotha that snowball is too small for the head!" Eric complained.

"How big is it suppose to be?" Cato questioned.

Eric expanded his arms to show how wide, "This big!"

"That's too big for the head."

Eric thought for a minute, "No, it's perfect!" Cato let out a frustrated sigh and saw Katniss just sitting there with an amused look.

"Katniss get over here and help!" Cato shouted. Katniss just shook her head no.

"My hands are numb," He pouted. Oh shit, he looked so cute like that. Cato pouting just made Katniss's heart go wild.

Katniss got up and began walking toward him, somewhere along she picked up a ball of snow. Once she stood in front of him she threw the snowball at Cato's face and stifled her giggles.

Cato's eyes glowered and his lips formed into an evil smirk, "You are so dead." Katniss gulped and began to run away. Too bad she wasn't fast enough. Cato grabbed her around the waist, lifting her up. Katniss quickly held onto his shoulder, making sure she wouldn't fall.

Eric marveled at the two, "Is Big Brotha and Kat going to get married?" he thought out loud. Cato hearing that, accidently dropped Katniss.

"Oh!? You dropped Kat!" Eric stated the obvious. Cato crouched down by her and scratched the back of his head in somewhat shame.

"Are you hurt?" Cato asked. Katniss shook her head, she was actually perfectly fine. She found it interesting how Cato was worried about her.

"Are you sure?" He made sure. Katniss nodded and threw a ball of snow in his face again. She smiled and laughed at Cato's angry face.

"You are not getting away with a second time," He had his evil smirk back on. Katniss shrieked when he threw two snowballs at her face. Their little snowball fight didn't last very long.

"Help me with my snowman!" Eric whined. So the two did and they accomplished a pretty decent snowman, well the head was too small.

Katniss tapped Cato and pointed at the snowman's head and mouthed too small.

"Who cares?" Cato growled.

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Katniss gave Cato a questioning look and looked back to her mug. In it was some weird warm, foamy chocolate drink which was called hot chocolate.

"Drink it. I didn't poison it, just for your information," Cato said. Katniss continued to stare at it.

"Try it Kat! It tastes good!" Eric took a sip of his hot chocolate. Katniss brought the mug to her lips and drank it. Matter of fact it did taste good. It was thick, warm, and sweet all together.

Once Katniss had finished the hot chocolate she went to take another shower. When finished taking the shower she noticed the small envelope on the table of her room. She almost forgot about that envelope from Snow. She opened the envelope and the disgusting smell of roses entered her nostrils. Can't he do anything without roses? She took out the thick white card and flipped it open. Her eyes skimmed the card and her eyes widened, the card slipped from her hands, fell to the floor.

Katniss couldn't believe it. It has to be a lie. She had to be reading it wrong.

Katniss Everdeen,

Say your goodbyes to the Smith family.

~ Cornelius Snow

OH WOW. What a chapter this is! All Eric knows is that Katniss can't talk, so that doesn't mean she can't laugh or shriek, well to Eric anyways. I made the characters sooo OOC! Oh wells, I like it better that way.

I began righting the next chapter and I already started crying .・゜゜・（／。＼）・゜゜・．yeah the next chapter is going to be pretty sad...

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