Cloves POV
Me and Cato have been living together for days now and all of a sudden there was a knock on our door. We were snuggled on the bed and I said "I'll get it" and went to the door to open it. To my horror it was the last person I wanted to see it was my dad. I panic and yell "Cato!"Cato comes running out "clover! Is everything alright??" He says before his eyes land on my dad "you have 5 seconds before I slam this door in your face" Cato says with his jaw clenched while pushing me behind him "just let me have my daughter you asshole what I do to her is none of your business" then all of a sudden Cato slams the door in his face "pretty sure that was 5 seconds" he says with a shrug and I was hyperventilating "cato what if he tries to break in!" "Hey hey you have me and your knives" I suddenly remembered I can protect myself too!
The day of the reaping
I walk to the center of the district where we do the reaping. I remember what me and Cato planned I won't volunteer this year. Farina and Collin are going to be pissed but I don't care as long as me and Cato can be together..."Hello hello" Crystal the escort says I've heard the speech many times so I just zone out until she starts walking to the girls tribute bowl "Clove Kentwell" What?!?! This wasn't supposed to happen I feel like having a panic attack when walking to the stage. No one volunteered as I was chosen for the games anyway. Oh my god oh my god...how bout Cato? Will he still volunteer?? "Now for the boys..Jonathan White" "i volunteer!!" I hear a boy scream I look to see already knowing who it probably was and to no surprise it was Cato...I was scared part of me was scared that maybe he would kill me...I know I could never kill him
He came up with a cold look and so I put one on too...he couldn't be mad at me right? "Alright shake your hands you two" I reached over and clenched my jaw as he did the exact same. I had been waiting in the room where they say goodbyes when farina and Collin come in. "Oh clove! I guess it was fate that you'd be in this years hunger games!" She says excitedly "yea...I guess it was" I say with a sigh.
As they put us in the train we meet our mentors say our greetings and put our stuff in our temporary rooms. But me and Cato haven't spoken... I guess we're not gonna talk about our plan going wrong...but we absolutely have to talk about our plan for the games. "Cato...we need a plan, you know for the games" I say while sitting next to him and he takes a sigh "clover...I have no intention of winning the reason I volunteered is so I could protect you" I was flabbergasted. "What no! I'm not going to let you die in there!" "Clover what other choice do we have" he asks giving me a small and accepting smile "I don't know! I'll find a way alright! Together or not at all." "Alright clover...together or not at all"
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Two halves of a whole (Clato)
RomanceWhat if Cato and clove met before the games? What if they were enemies? Turned friends, turned to something else... What if Katniss and Peeta weren't the only star crossed lovers?