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Katniss P.O.V

I snuggled under my bed sheets tossing and turning with questions. Why did Cato kiss me? Why did Peeta kiss me? Did I have feelings for Peeta? Was joining the careers actually my best option now? Did Cato kiss me because he wanted to, or was he playing some sort of game with me? Why in the world did I even let them kiss me? We hardly even know each other. I should have just pushed them both away, I should have reminded them both only one person can come out of the arena. Anyways I'm not capable of showing or feeling anything for anybody except Prim and Gale. I'm sure Cato is faking, he's probably trying to seem more appealing to the capitol or something although I don't know why he would they already love him. It's so confusing why Cato would need me to be more appealing or whatever he needs me for, but I will not be used in fact it's probably best to just give him the cold shoulder. But Peeta, he doesn't seem like the type to, maybe he actually likes me? Sometimes back in district twelve I would always seem to notice a pair of baby blue eyes staring at me on my walk back home from school, I never thought it actually meant anything. After debating with myself for what seemed like hours I slowly drift off into a stressful sleep.

I dress in my training suit and braid my hair in its usual French braid to the side when there's a knock at the door "Katniss dear, the avoxes have set breakfast for us all. We would like it if you joined us right now" Effie piped. Unwillingly I trudged out the door following behind Effie who today was wearing a baby pink pen skirt with a matching frilly blouse imprinted with golden flowers and by the looks of it golden heels that seemed to push her on the tips of her toes. Ugh! The things people in the capitol wear never disappoint to disgust me. I sit next to Peeta in one of the brown and green chairs, and as usual everyone is already here and eating- wow I guess Effie actually allowed them to before I arrived. One of the female avoxes sets down a plate in front of me filled with eggs, sausages, bacon, and a biscuit and another bowl filled with fruits beside it "Thank you" I nodded looking up at her. Wait a minute I know her, don't I? The dark red hair, striking features, the porcelain white skin. As I'm trying to picture from where I feel my insides contracting with anxiety and guilt at the sight of her, and while I can't seem to place from where, I know a very bad memory is associated with her. Her expression changes to terror and she quickly whips her head towards the others who are working on their breakfast then fixes her sight back on me, she unnoticeably raises a finger to her lips and shakes her head. I'm guessing she was afraid I might have blurted something ridiculous out, in fact I was right about to admit to the others that I knew her. That would have been a mess, she quickly gathers herself into an emotionless mask and hurries away from the table. Without anyone noticing I glance around to make sure none of them saw anything, but of course Peeta is staring at me curiously. Shit. Is he always watching me? Like really what's his deal? Instead of saying or doing anything I decide to focus on my biscuit tearing off pieces and dipping it into my hot chocolate, which a different avox brings me. There isn't much conversation today it's mostly just Cinna and Portia discussing what design we should wear for our interview with Caesar Flickerman and Effie rambling to Haymitch about how inappropriate his head dive off the stage at the reaping was and how if he would just sober up this year one of us may have a better chance at becoming a victor, he keeps insisting he doesn't need to, but being Effie she keeps at it until he raises his hands in defeat and mutters something foul under his breath. I may not personally "like" Effie but you got to admire her persistence.

"You can stop now Effie you already heard me say it, I'll sober up" Haymitch complained

"Just making sure I heard you correctly" Effie mused

"Yeah whatever, so what are you two planning to do in training today? Any special skills you wanna brush up on?" he says pointing a finger at Peeta and I.

"I think I may train with the careers today" I grumbled nibbling on a piece of crispy bacon. They all stop and stare at me crazily, I guess they have a reason to, tributes from district twelve never get accepted in the careers.

"You're actually going to join them?" Peeta choked

"It's not like I have a choice here Peeta, if I say no to them they'll come after me!" I shouted

"I know…I'm sorry Katniss I wasn't thinking" he said apologetically "I'm just worried about you"

He's worried about me? "It's okay Peeta, and come on you know me, I'll be fine" I say smiling, he wearily returns a smile then finishes off his eggs and remaining bacon from his plate.

"At least there's a bright side to being in their alliance, Katniss" Cinna started "Think about it, people will be tripping over their own feet to sponsor you. Especially after what a splash you and Peeta made at the parade, they've even named you the girl on fire".

I somewhat like the nickname, but of course leave it to the capitol to come up with something so obvious. I mean come on, really? I was literally a girl on fire. "That's actually really true Cinna, I never even really thought about the sponsors"

After things die down Peeta starts to talk about how he can use his camouflaging skills in the arena, and how that's probably his favorite station, but today he wants to learn how to tie knots just in case. Then, everyone decides to finish their breakfast and things get very quiet. Haymitch pours a clear blue liquid into his glass cup and swishes it around for a moment staring at me "I hear you can shoot"

Oh, I wasn't really expecting that. "I'm okay" I shrug

"Okay? Katniss, your better than okay, my dad buys her squirrels and he says she shoots them in the eye every time. She can even bring down deer." Peeta admitted

If I wasn't in the careers this probably would have rubbed me the wrong way, but I can see Peeta's just trying to make sure Haymitch know how good I really am with a bow and arrow. I can't even believe he's noticed I'm one of the few who brought deer to the hob, which is a rarity people hardly get. "Peeta don't be like that, I've seen you down at the bakery you can lift hundred-pound bags of flour."

"That's nothing compared to you, Katniss. Anyways I'm sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people" he says chuckling

"But Peeta that's not nothing" I say frowning "You can wrestle, you even came in second last year in that school competition" I add reassuringly

"Yeah, but I can't wrestle someone to death"

"Yes you can, stop saying you can't when you can! All you really need is a knife, and then you could stand a chance with whoever decides to mess with you!" I shout

"Listen to me Katniss, I know I won't be coming back I've already come to accept that. You wanna know what my mom said to me when she came to say good-bye she said maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner, but she didn't mean me she meant you!" he yelled frustrated, pulling his hands up to his face to lean against the table.

"What I don't understand, what kind of mother even says that? Peeta I'm sorry I didn't know, but I'm not going to accept your death I won't allow it." I announced removing his hands from his face

"Why?" he murmured

"Because I owe you too much, and I'm probably never going to stop owing you." I whisper making sure it's audible to only his ears

Were interrupted by Haymitch's "unusually" loud coughing "Alright then now that was entertaining, anyways Katniss there's no guarantee that there'll be bow and arrows in the arena, but I still want you to practice. And just in case see if you can pick up any knife throwing skills from that District Two girl, Clove I think." Haymitch began

"Alright" I mumble looking down at my hands as if their suddenly very interesting

"And Peeta, Katniss is right being strong can give you a huge advantage during the games. But make sure you don't reveal how much you can lift in front of the other tributes, save that for your private session with the gamemakers. Anyways you guys should go to training now." he stated drinking the remains of his blue drink.

Cato's P.O.V

Priceless, was the look on Brutus' and Enobaria's face last night when I told them our plan to get the fire girl attracted to me worked. After I announce to Caesar Flickerman of my so called "relationship" with her we'll be known as the star-crossed lovers, and I'll get all the rich, stupid, lovesick sponsors in the capitol.

The careers and I are as always the first to arrive in the training center, while all the other tributes are probably rocking themselves back and forth terrified of their certain death, and us. I stroll over to Clove who is silently polishing her favorite knife.

"Hey Clove guess what? Girl on fire is part of the careers now." Clove's face falls and the yellow cloth she was using to clean her knife flutters to the floor, her eyes dart up to me, shrieking "SHE'S WHAT?" I can see the anger arising in her face and she raises her arm back and with a flick of the wrist sends her knife flying through the air, towards my head.

As a reflex I throw myself to the side and shoulder roll back up on my knee "Dammit Clove, relax!" I yell furiously. Marvel, Glimmer, and Cleo all pick this time to come over.

"Hey, hey, hey drop the knives Clove! What's going on here?" Marvel shouts

"Fucking Cato over here decided to let fire bitch in our alliance!" Clove growled reaching for another knife and throwing it at a practice dummies head, which then came out of the back of its head, whizzed across the other side of the room and skidded off the floor.

"What the hell Cato!" Glimmer snarled throwing her hands in the air.

"Not cool man, though she is pretty hot so it's not all bad" Marvel snickered earning a smack on the back of his head from Glimmer.

I lifted myself off the floor and dusted off my training suit "Listen this girl is a threat, the capitol already likes her more than us and all she had to do was come out in a fricken cape lit on fire!" I roared "Anyways I met her down here last night and she can shoot really well. Fuck, she shot an arrow in the center of the dummy without even looking!" I push trying to get it in their heads.

"You met her here last night!" Clove shrieked

"What's this all about, Cato? Why did you even bother meeting her here last night?" Kaia questioned who surprisingly hasn't said a word this entire time, I guess she's still upset that she got reaped, since she's that guy's niece and all.

"I'm trying to get her to like me for sponsors, and relax I don't actually like her" I said raising my arms in front of my chest "And I asked her to meet me down here because I could just tell she was a threat and I wanted to check and be sure, so your welcome" I say smug.

"Fine" Clove huffs returning to throwing her knives at practice dummies

"Whatever" Glimmer says flipping her blond hair over her shoulder "And Marvel I'm so hotter" she bragged obviously annoyed

"I don't even have a problem with her, so yeah" Kaia pointed out turning around towards the spear throwing station.

In perfect timing the district twelve tributes decided to join the party, almost immediately the boy left her side to go throw some weights and Katniss hesitantly starts walking towards me.

"Hey guys why don't you come over here and introduce yourselves to Katniss" I suggest giving her my best romantic smile, she wrinkles her face in disgust and turns her head away to glance at Peeta. What the hell?

Katniss P.O.V

Repulsing that's what he is, thinking I'm stupid enough to fall for someone like him. What is he playing me for a fool? If there's one thing I'm absolutely positive on it's that I'm not stupid. A boy with bronze hair and brown eyes gives me a cocky smile to the side and wraps his arm around my shoulder leaning in "Hi there, I'm Marvel. Marvel Quaid" he purrs seductively.

"Hi Marvel, I'm… not interested" I smiled grabbing his arm and throwing it off my shoulder

"Fine I can see when I'm not wanted" he chuckled backing away

Barely I could hear a blonde girl with emerald green eyes whisper something into Clove's ear that sounded something like "I could grow to like her" I grinned at the fact that they might actually like me and my time spent being here wouldn't be so awful, but at the same time I could care less what they thought of me. The girl with the green eyes comes up to me and smiles "I'm Glimmer Ramblin, and trust me Marvel is always like that" she laughed fiddling with her blonde curls and glancing back up at him. Obviously she had some sort of a thing for him, that or she was just a huge flirt. I'm starting to feel a little better and I look up at Clove who has dark brown hair and black eyes.

"Your Clove right?" I ask

Instead of saying anything she nods her head and looks at me menacingly, okay then she does not like me. I study her for a minute, she glances back at me then turns around and throws a knife into the heart of a dummy across the room. This surely is a threat not to get in her way, and trust me I don't plan to. I'm interrupted when a girl holding a silver trident with fiery orange hair and topaz colored eyes awkwardly stares at me then coughs "Hey umm, yea I'm Kaia Odair" Odair!

HEEHEEHE SHOCKER! I REALLY WANTED TO CHANGE IT UP SO AFTER A BIT OF BRAINSTORMING WITH MY FRIENDS I DECIDED TO INTRODUCE FINNICK AND HIS NEICE KAIA A LITTLE EARLIER THAN IN THE ACTUAL SERIES. SO PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THOUGHT, I HOPE THERE WEREN'T TO MANY MISTAKES :\ AND ONE MORE THING...IF THERE WERE ANOTHER DISTRICT WHAT WOULD THEY MAKE? (NO REASON WHY IM ASKING...) THANK YOU! REVIEW! OR FAVIEW!

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