A Secret Love - Cato x Reader

Chapter 9 - The Train, Haymitch Abernathy

Y/n's pov

*I open my eyes to my mum, shaking me.*

"Good morning. Now come on y/n, we have to go watch the games. " My mum says. *I get up and get dressed. I walk downstairs to see my parents getting ready to leave. We walk outside the house together soon meeting up with Izzy and her family.*

"Again, we are so sorry that Elsie got reaped. We wish her the best of luck."  Izzy's mum says. WHAT! Elsie got reaped. *We are now at the centre of town. The big screen turns on. I see the cornucopia and all 24 tributes around it. I see Elsie in between two boys, maybe from District 10 and 11. The timer gets to 0, and a cannon goes off. I see s/n run towards the cornucopi,  grabbing a hand knife. The boy from 9, I think, starts running at her with a spear. He throws it but misses as she dodges out the way. He gets closer trying to kill her with a dagger. She waves her knife in front of her, managing to slice his chest and face a few times, but not enough to kill him. He lunges at her briefly, cutting her face. She slashes at him one last time, cutting him in the throat, and he falls to the ground. She runs to grab a bag and leave, but as she turns around to escape, she stands face to face with the blonde from 1. She slashes a knife across Elsie's chest and then impales her stomach. She grabs the knife out of Elsie's hand and her own out of her stomach and runs away. Elsie is left there on the floor dying, but not quite yet dead.*

"NO! She's only 12. She can't die." I shout out. *Her chest stops rising and falling, and suddenly.*

"BOOM!" her cannon goes of. "NO!" I scream. I stand up a bit too quickly as I start to feel dissy and faint.*

"NO!" I wake up screaming, a bit sweaty as well. *I look around me, and I see the fancy capital bedroom on the train.*

"It was just a dream. She isn't going into the games I am. It was just a dream. She isn't going into the games I am. It was just a dream. She isn't going into the games I am." I repeat several times to myself. *I look to my side, and the clock says 5:08am. I normally wake up at 6ish, so it's too early to get up. I lay back down and try closing my eyes but don't even get close to falling asleep. I open my eyes again and see the clock now says 5:31am. I decide to give up sleeping and get up out of bed. I walk into the bathroom and take off my pyjamas. I tie my hair up and step into the cool shower, trying to cool myself down. It's okay, y/n. She's not going into the games. She's at home safe with our parents, Izzy, and Logan. She's safe. I turn off the shower and step out onto the matt, drying myself with a towel. I then change back into my clothes from yesterday, I then put on my necklace and pick up my earrings, putting them in. I stand infront of the mirror brushing out my hair, I braid it into the two dutch braids that turn into ponytails at the back of my head, I tie the two f/c ribbons around it. Yes, my hair looks pretty good, but nowhere near as good as my mum could do it. Oh mum, what will she do if I don't make it out of here, will she never do my usual hairstyle on Elsie as it will bring to many past memory's of me, will she constantly do it as a way of remembering me. Y/n! Stop thinking about this, you'll make yourself cry. Yes, you have to be scared and sad, but in front of people, not now in the bathroom in the early morning. I walk back into the main room.*

"Who else do I know will be a mentor." I say to myself, sitting on the sofa grabbing the remote.

"Ah. District 12 only has one victor. He'll obviously be mentoring this year." I say. *I turn it on, going to the searching option. Thank god I'm from a district with a decent amount of education. The lower the district you go, the fewer people able to read and write. In district 1 pretty much everybody can read and write, where as when you get to district 12, little to no people can read let alone write, they can usally count for like buying things but apart from that their education is pretty shit. But as I'm from district 7, about half of us can read, and just over half can also write. I'm one of the lucky ones who can do both. I search for "Victor's." Two options come up, "Ordered. District." I select on District. Then, all the districts come up, I go down to District 12, clicking on that. The list isn't very long, well, only one name, so I can't expect it to be long. "Haymitch Abernathy" comes up with "50th hunger games" next to it. 50th games that's a Quarter Quell. I'm pretty sure the 2nd Quarter Quell's special theme was double the tributes. This will definitely be interesting. I press a few buttons before I find the familiar option process. Past games. Best bits. 50th hunger games. An image of what I assume is a young Haymitch appears, I click on it, wanting to find out more about the victor of the Second Quarter Quell. A video of the reaping comes up, a woman in blue calls out the four tributes' names. Then the usual chariot ride comes up, all 4 dressed as coal miners Haymitch and a blonde girl in the 2nd to last and then a boy and girl in the last chariot. I see Ceaser Flickerman come on. He asks Haymitch what he thinks about there being 100% more tributes. "Well, I see no difference. They will still be 100% as stupid." He replies. I chuckle at his comment. An image of the bloodbath comes up, most tributes stay still after the cannon goes of, just staring at the arena, I see Haymitch realise this and runs and grabs a knife and bag running off. A long video of 18 of the tributes getting killed comes up. Not long after, a volcano goes off killing five of the remaining ten careers. A video of Haymitch then coming across three of the careers managing to kill two, the last career, then gaining the upper hand. The career was suddenly shot in the back by a poison dart by the blonde female tribute from 12, I think her name is Maysilee Donner. The two 12's made an alliance. A few small clips of the new alliance doing well came up, like sharing food, getting more rest, and killing more tributes. Then suddenly, I see the two arguing towards the edge of a cliff. She wants to go back but he wants to stay. In the end, she just leaves muttering something about there only being five tributes left and not wanting to have to kill him. I see Haymitch play about with a pebble and throw it to the force field, it comes flying back. A video of Haymitch having fun throwing a rock into the force field and it returning to his hands plays until a loud scream comes. He rushes over to see Maysilee being attacked by mutts. He stays with her until she dies in his arms, soon her cannon going off. A clip of the Disrtict 1 female tributes throwing an axe at Haymitch comes on, but at the last second, he dodges it, the axe flys into the force field and then comes flying back killing the female District 1 tribute. The clip ends, and the image of Haymitch's face comes up again. Wow. That's not what I expected, especially from a 12. What can I take from this? Sometimes allying isn't to bad you can get stuff done, but it's hard when the ally dies if you got close but you can't ally and not get close, the actual layout of the arena can seriously help you, and stay the fuck away from the mutts. I look over at the clock on the wall. The time is now 7:05am. I decide to go to the room we watched the reaping in yesterday.*

Don't forget, if I've made mistakes, feel free to correct me.

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