I don't own The Hunger Games.

"I didn't start it, I'm not a criminal, and I want that bitch locked up!"

Detective Johanna Mason was greeted by a rather angry dark haired girl when she walked into the interrogation room. She was slightly red in the face and her icy glare didn't break even when it met the Detective's own death stare.

"Would you like to explain to me exactly what happened, Miss Wright?" All Johanna knew was that Clove had been brought in for getting into fight.

"She just went crazy and attacked me! She kept saying how it was all my fault and that I'd ruined everything! She's a psycho and she bolted as soon as that cop car showed up. Of course I fought back, she freaking attacked me! I shouldn't be in here, it should be her. I want to press charges!" Clove exploded with information, her glare only growing deadlier.

"And who might this attacker be?" Johanna asked, pulling her notepad and pen from her pocket.

"Do you even have to ask?" Clove scoffed. "Glimmer Carvalho, of course."

"Was she blaming you for the mysterious disappearance of Cato Evans? Your boyfriend?" Johanna asked, not even glancing up at her.

"Wait…What? Cato's gone? What?" Clove frowned in confusion. "I thought he was just…Why didn't anybody tell me?!"

"You just thought he was what, Miss Wright?" Johanna looked at the girl suspiciously. She must have known that her own boyfriend was missing, surely.

"I thought he was just taking some time away, at his parents' house maybe. A breather. College is tough, especially in our situation. So…When did this happen?" Clove raked a shaky hand through her black hair. To the eyes of the youngest detective on the force, the girl looked broken.

"We recovered his car from the lake yesterday morning, but we believe that it had been in there for three days prior to that. His brakes were cut and he slid in a puddle of fish oil, which caused him to lose control." She explained, watching for Clove's reaction.

"Oh my God." Clove's hand hovered in front of her horrified face. "Fish oil…Katniss Everdeen! She-"

"I have already spoken to Miss Everdeen. Now I want to talk to you, Miss Wright." Johanna smiled sinisterly at Clove and leaned forwards. "So tell me. What's the story with you and Mr Evans?"

"We got together halfway through senior year. It's not been easy for us, but we've stayed together for this long and-"

"Anything to do with Carvalho?"

"Do you wanna not interrupt me?" Clove snapped at Johanna. Slowly, the detective reached into her pocket and retrieved her sunglasses. She pushed them up her nose, only breaking eye contact with Clove when the girl could no longer tell.

"I do what I want." She said threateningly. "Now answer the question, or I'll book you for obstructing justice."

"Whatever. And no, she wasn't a problem for us. He met her in Brazil a few weeks before his seventeenth birthday- we were just friends at the time. They dated whilst he was there for four weeks and then they tried to do the long distance thing. It all broke down after a month and he never mentioned her again. We got together the following school year and now we've been together for almost two years. Except, she transferred to Panem two months ago." Clove explained, sipping her water occasionally.

"That cause issues between the two of you?" Johanna asked, making notes as Clove spoke.

"At first, no. He told me he'd never leave me, that he loved me too much. But then he started talking to her again and whatever he felt for her before came back in pieces. It got hard for us because he had feelings for us both- he loved me, but Glimmer was his 'what if?' girl. Everybody assumed he was going to leave me for her."

"Why's that?"

"Well, you'll know when you see here. And because…Well, things were hard for us. We were both under a lot of pressure."

"Explain." Johanna instructed, flipping the page on her notebook.

"I'm head cheerleader, he's a football player. In high school that means you're meant to be. In college, it just means that you both burn yourself out every day trying your best with your sport and studying for different majors. It was a strain, but I knew I had to make it work. I just couldn't lose him." Clove's head dropped into her hands and she let out a long sigh. When she looked up again, there were tears in her eyes.

"I don't know what I'll do if he doesn't make it back to me."

"But he was leaving you anyway, no? He was going to run off into the sunset with Glimmer Carvalho, and you couldn't let that happen." Johanna used her words to poke at her, urging her to take the bait.

"He wasn't going back to that skank!" Clove shot Johanna an icy glare as she slammed her fist down onto the table top. "He loves me. I know he does!"

"Clearly not very much, if he started talking to Glimmer again."

"Don't go there with me." Clove tried to sound fierce, but her voice cracked.

"He was falling for her all over again and you couldn't stand to see it. You-"

"Stop! Please!" Clove dropped her head into her folded arms atop the table and sobbed quietly. "He wouldn't do that."

"Tell me about the classes the two of you took." Johanna said after a few minutes of Clove crying.

"I take biology as my major and cheer as my minor- I'm here on a cheer scholarship. Cato's on a football scholarship so he's on the team and studies sports management, not that he's interested in anything but actually playing." Clove raised her head and explained to Johanna.

"Any other activities?"

"Well, I'm obviously captain of the cheer squad, and he's on the football team. We have to be on those teams because of our scholarships. I waitress on weekends at the campus café and he works as a kids' football coach in the next town over. It's like a twenty minute trip there, and he enjoys it. He was in a frat for the first six months of college, but he dropped out and started to room with Finnick instead. They had a huge argument a few weeks ago though." Johanna furiously scribbled down notes with her pencil as Clove spoke.

"About what? Any details can help with the case." Johanna asked patiently.

"I'm not really sure, he wouldn't talk about but- Oh my God!" Clove cut off mid-sentence, her eyes wide.

"What?" Johanna straightened bolt upright in her chair.

"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! Finnick…He…He…" Clove was unable to finish her sentence, she was shaking so hard.

"What is it, Clove?" Johanna tried her best not to get irritated.

"Finnick's father is a cod fisherman. I'm just realizing what that means." Clove bit her lip, her eyes still wide as saucers.

"The fish oil…" Johanna muttered. Fish oil came from the livers of a few species of fish- cod being one of them.

"I think I need to have another word with Mr Odair." Johanna flipped her notebook shut. "In the meantime, Miss Wright, give me one good reason why you weren't responsible for this. It seems to me like everything was about to fall apart for the two of you."

"That's exactly why I didn't do it." Clove snapped at her, forever on the defensive. "I love him, and I need him now more than ever. Whether he was gonna leave me or not, which he wasn't, he wasn't going to just up and drop me completely. I was still going to have in my life. Why would I want him gone when I'm dropping out of college in a few months anyway?"

"Why are you doing that?" Johanna asked, the dark sunglasses hiding her surprise.

"Because." Clove stood up from her chair, revealing a small rounded baby bump. "I'm not exactly going to be a good head cheerleader anymore, am I?"