A Game Of Justice ✭ Cato Hadley

Twenty-One - Yes and Yes and Yes

A few mornings later, an incessant knock on the door startles Cato awake, which makes Clio laugh but the knocking doesn't stop. Both of the victors look at each other as they try to work out who could be knocking on their door after breakfast. It's not Brutus or Enobaria – they would have just walked in – or one of the guards; it's not lunchtime yet.

"Can you get it?" Cato mumbles into his pillow before raising his head to look at his girlfriend.

"Yes." Clio laughs, swinging her legs over the side of the mattress until her feet hit the cold stone flooring which makes her hiss. She bends down and grabs one of the large grey t-shirts that the underground district's higher ups have issued to Cato for lounge and leisure, and pulls it over her body, before she pulls open the door.

To her surprise, her redheaded friend is waiting expectantly for her to answer. She raises her eye-brows at her. "Luna, you are lucky that you're not interrupting sex again, or I'd have killed you."

Luna lets out a laugh. "Trust me, you wouldn't have cared about that, with what I'm about to tell you." She explains, pushing her way into their room. "Cato needs to hear this too."

"Cato needs to hear what?" The blonde man calls from inside, looking up again and rubbing sleep from his eyes.

Finally something exciting has happened in this hell of a place, she thinks excitedly as she runs back in, pushing past Luna and jumping back onto the bed where her boyfriend has shuffled up and is resting his back against the headboard. "Cato! Luna has drama to tell us!" She looks at Luna as a large grin spreads across her face. "Tell us, tell us, tell us!"

Cato chuckles. "Yeah, where's the fight?"

"Oh that's the thing." Luna says, unable to stop a laugh from leaving her lips at the cruel irony of the District Two man's choice of wording – not that they know that.

Clio is absolutely appalled at the idea that they haven't been asked to help take down the Capitol, especially after all the help that she and Luna have provided the president. And it seems like Cato is shocked too, wondering why their skills aren't being made the most of, because both District Two victors simultaneously tilt their heads to one side and exclaim, "What?"

"Yes." Luna says, unable to stop the giggle that leaves her at the similarities she can see in the couple before her. "I don't know exactly who was involved but I can place fairly safe bets on Katniss and a load of the soldiers from Thirteen."

Maybe that's where my guards have been this whole time, Clio thinks to herself, they're preparing to head to the fight in the Capitol.

"So why haven't we been asked?" Cato asks what his girlfriend is thinking, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, the reason why I haven't, is probably because I'm viewed as mentally unstable." Luna tries to explain her viewpoint of Coin's belief. "For you two, I would assume that it's because District Two wasn't involved in the rebellion."

That just won't do, the brunette tells herself as a smirk spreads across her face. "I think we should march into Coin's office and demand that we go."

"Right, before you two accidentally start a coup, let's think about it." Luna's laugh is airy as she watches Cato nodding at his girlfriend's outrageous idea; both of them whole-heartedly convinced that the plan could work despite the redhead being fully aware it'll only end in disaster for them. "We, along with Brutus and Enobaria, need to all go together. We need to have a good argument ready as to why we should be allowed, too."

Cato nods his head rapidly. "That's easy. Snow made our lives a living hell, not just theirs."

"And he killed my sister."