Promises (A Clato Fanfic)

Chapter 8: Training

Cato POV:

Our first morning in the Capitol. It's not really as nice as people say it is, but we come from a rich district so we're used to stuff like the Capitol. I wake up and I'm in Clove's room. Like always. Even before we were dating, when she got scared she would always come to my house and sleep with me. We were used to it. I look at a sleeping Clove and still can't believe she's mine.

I decide to get up and get a shower. I head to Clove's bathroom, after going to my room for some clothes. I hop in the shower. When I'm done in the shower, I get out and go wake Clove. "Five more minutes.'' Clove mumbles in her sleep. She is too cute. "Sorry sweetie, you need to get up. We have to be at training in an hour." I reply.

"Uh, why can't we just sleep in and skip training?" I can't help but laugh at her. "What's so funny?" Clove asks angrily.

"Oh nothing. You're just really cute in the morning." I lie.

"Awww. You are so sweet. I love you so much." Talk about mood swings. She's got them bad. She gets out of bed and hops into the shower. She walks out of the bathroom in just a towel. She looks super sexy. She has her back turned to me so I walk up behind her and wrap my arms around her waist "I like this look on you." I purr to her.

"Well, I'll have to wear this more often." I start kissing her neck. She moans softly. I find a sweet spot and start nibbling on it. Her moans get louder. We are interrupted by Brutus screaming at us through the door. "You two get your lazy asses out here now!" We don't think twice about what he said. Clove gets changed and we make our way to the dining room. They are serving omelettes. I grab an omelette with cheese and ham on it and make my way to the table.

"Today is the first day of training. Y'all are automatically allied with D1 so get to know them a little better. Also check out D4. They might be useful. Try to get as many people as you can in the alliance. Don't get to close because they might stab you back. Literally. Don't trust anybody and remember who the real enemy is. Now go and tell us all about when you get back." We both nod our heads and head to the elevator. Me and Clove get in and we go to the floor marked TR.

The only districts there are 1,3,5,6,7,9, and 11. The first place we go is to meet District 1. The girl is a tall blonde with gorgeous blonde hair and emerald green eyes. The boy is tall and really skinny. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. They look like normal people from D1. We go over and introduce ourselves. "Are y'all District 1?" I ask.

"Yea, y'all must be District 2." the girl says.

"Yea, my name's Cato and this is my district partner Clove."

"Well nice to meet you. My name's Glimmer and this is my district partner Marvel." Glimmer says.

"What do y'all think about D4? Are they any good?" Clove asks.

"The girl is okay with an ax and she's pretty good at survival skills. She might be useful, but the boy is 13 and doesn't know anything." Marvel tells us.

"So we ask the girl and the boy and just kill the boy in the bloodbath and use the girl and kill her when we don't need her. That sound good?" I ask the whole group.

They all nod their heads. "Great, Clove go ask the girl and Marvel go ask the boy." Clove and Marvel agree and walk over to D4. "So you have a girlfriend back home?" Glimmer asks me.

"Yea, she's amazing." Glimmer looks disappointed.

"Well what's her name?" Glimmer asks me.

"Clove, my district partner."

"Oh, y'all are the two that were kissing at the parade. She's very lucky to have a guy like you."

"Yea, I guess she is." Clove and Marvel come back over here. "The girl agreed and the boy declined, he said he'd rather be by himself." Clove tells me. The girl from 4 walks over to us. She has sandy blonde hair that comes to her elbows and baby blue eyes. She's actually quite pretty, but not as pretty as Clove. "Hey, my name's Hanna." The girl introduces herself.

"Well Hanna, you probably already know Clove and Marvel, but my name's Cato and this is Glimmer. So what weapon are you good at?" I ask her.

"I'm okay with an ax. I also know a lot about survival skills. Back home I was the best at survival skills." she replies confidently.

"Ok then welcome to the Careers." Glimmer says. We all head our separate ways. Glimmer to the bows, Clove to the knives, Marvel to the spears, Hanna to the axes, and me to the swords. When the others leave I make my way to Clove. "So what do you think of the careers this year?" I ask her.

"Well, I guess we're okay, I mean I haven't really watched anyone. You wanna go watch the others?" she asks.

"Yea." Me and Clove go to the ax station first to watch Hanna. She's pretty good with an ax. She'll definitely get a high score. We then move on to the bows to watch Glimmer. She's terrible. She can't even hit the target. She won't get a high score. Then there's Marvel at the spears. He's really good. He'll get a high score. Our biggest competitor is probably Marvel. Hanna's good but not great and Glimmer's awful. After watching our allies, me and Clove work on our own skills. After 5 hours of training they dismiss us.

On the way back to our apartment, we get in the elevator and D12 is in there with us. It's really awkward, but since they have the penthouse, they're only in there for a couple of seconds. When we get to our apartment, no one's there, so we go shower and get ready for dinner.

After an hour of freshening up, we make our way to the dining room. They're serving lamb stew and cabbage. When we get there, Enobaria, Brutus, Shirley, and both mine and Clove's stylists, are already there. Enobaria's the first one to talk. "So tell me about training."

"Well, we're in an alliance with District 1 and the girl from 4. The girl from 1 is terrible at bow and the boy from is really good at spears. The girl from 4 is good with an ax and really good at survival skills. All the other tributes won't be a problem except for the boy from 11." Clove tells Enobaria.

"Ok, what about the boy from 4? Is he any good at anything?"

"No, not really. He's only 13. We really didn't pay attention to him. But from what I saw, he'll be dead real soon." I tell her.

"Ok. Sounds like you got a good group. Remember don't get to close to them. They can always kill you. Trust nobody. got it?" We both nod our heads yes. "Great now go to bed." Enobaria dismisses us and we head to our room.