Lethal Lovers - Cato Hadley

chapter eleven

I wake up with the ugly salty smell in my nose again. Slowly I open my eyes and look around. The sun is just rising behind us and everyone is sleeping. Only Cato is sitting next to me, awake. 
"Hey" I say weakly. 
"Athena" he says clearly relieved to hear I'm kind of okay. "How do you feel?"
"Shitty" I say, and chuckle. He laughs a little.
"Does anything besides your arm hurt?" he asks.
"No. The baby is okay, is it?" I ask slightly panicking.
"I think so. I mean nothing came near your belly, right?" he asks, and I shake my head.
"They're going to be okay, don't worry. We have a little figher here" he says, and I chuckle.
"Is everyone else okay?" I ask, and he nods.
"Apart from you, everyone is doing okay. The bite in your arm is really deep and we're afraid that it'll infect or something. We put some bandages on to prevent it from getting worse"
"Who was the person Peeta held in his arms when we arrived at the beach?" I ask.
"The female morphling. She saved Peetas life" he says.
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah, she pushed him out of the way and got her throat slashed by one of the mutts. She died" he says.
"Oh" is all I can say. I feel weak, must've lost a lot of blood. My arm is burning like hell and to be honest, I feel horrible.
"Go back to sleep" Cato says with a soft smile on his face.
"Are you sure?" I ask, and he nods. He leans down and places a soft kiss on my forehead before I close my eyes. I grab his hand with my not-injured arm, making sure he's next to me. I feel myself drift off to sleep not short after

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I wake up again, not holding Cato's hand anymore. He's talking to Finnick and Katniss a little further away.
"I hope she won't get an infection, she won't stand a chance in that case" Finnick says. I see the frustrated look on Cato's face.
"We have to get her medicine somehow" Katniss says. 
"How do you want to do that?" Finnick asks. 
She starts thinking about a solution when her face suddenly lights up.
"Haymitch," she says. "Please Haymitch, we need it. She saved me, she can't die now" 
"Who said I'm going to die?" I ask, sitting up and chuckle.
"Athena" Finnick says with a smile.
"How are you feeling?" Cato asks walking over, followed by Finnick.
"It's okay. I've had better days though" I say and Finnick laughs. 
"Can we see?" Cato asks, and I slowly nod. 
"Does it hurt?" Finnick asks.
"No" I say, and they both look at me confused. "Of course it hurts. I'm missing a fucking piece of my arm"
Cato slowly goes to unwrap the bandage, as I slowly start feeling it hurt more and more. With every wrap he untakes, more and more blood is appearing. He then untakes the last layer and we all stand there in shock. The mutt did get me good. I have a huge hole in my arm and you can even see my bone at this point. It's still bleeding a lot though. 
"We can fix that" Cato says, and I look at him annoyed.
"We can not. Can you see the bone there?" I ask him. 
"We really need medicine or you're for real going to die" Finnick says.
"Thanks for the positive words asshole" I say, and shoot him a fake smile. Cato gets another set of bandages and goes to put it on, when a parachute comes flying. Katniss starts sprinting towards it, opening it quickly before she runs over. 
"I got it" she shouts over and over, making Peeta come over now too. He was trying to catch some fishes in the water with Finnick's trident.
"This is going to hurt" she says, taking out a chunk of gross looking cream.
"No way" I say laughing.  Finnick and Cato look at eachother before Finnick grabs my arm, as Cato holds my hand.
"It's okay" Cato says, in a weak atempt to make me feal better. I can see that he's freaking out on the inside, he's not good in pretending. At least not to me.
I feel a shot of pain rushing through my whole arm up to my shoulder and into the rest of my body. I start screaming like crazy, as I feel like I'm being burnt alive right now. 
I clench my teeth trying not to scream incase someone is near us right now. 
"You got it" Katniss then says, and my whole body relaxes. I lay down on my back, covering my face with one of my arms. 
"Fuck" I mutter, trying to breathe again.
"You did great" Finnick then says. I glare at him and he apologieses.
"Couldn't someone shoot me with a knife or something. At least I'm used to that" I say angrily.
"You're used to getting knives shot at you?" Peeta asks.
"Brutus has always hated me" I say, and shrug my shoulders.
"I do not belive you" Finnick says, as Cato wrapps my arm again. The pain is a bit better now.
"You wanna see?" I ask, and he nods. 
I pull down my outift a little until my right shoulder is free. I show them the big scar I've got there.
"And Brutus did that?" Peeta asks, and I nod.
"When?" 
"I don't know. I think I was about fourteen. It was during a training day. I had been shoting a knife all day because Brutus was drilling me and unfortunately I couldn't throw them good anymore. I was just too tired to. When he saw, he got mad and made me stand where the mannequins are. He then shot a knife into my right shoulder infront of everybody. I then had to keep shooting infront of everybody for another thirty hours before he let me go to the doctor" I say as Finnick and Peeta look at me with open eyes.
"I remember that day" Cato says.
"For real now? Where do you live?" Finnick asks.
"In district two. Either you do the training to be a tribute or to be a peacekeeper" I say.
"Wow" he then says making me laugh.