Promises (A Clato Fanfic)

Chapter 16: Blow it Up

Cato POV:

It's been 2 days since Glimmer and Hanna died. It is much different without them. I guess it's a lot quieter. The only people left are Marvel, Clove, me, District 3 boy, District 5 girl, Rue, Thresh, Katniss and Peeta. 9 people left. 7 more people to kill and me and Clove can go home. Clove hasn't woken up since she blacked out after the tracker jackers. I'm really worried, but her canon has gone yet.

Me and Marvel don't talk much. Just about food and the arena. Sometimes it gets awkward. We found the District 3 boy, Ian, yesterday. He reset the mines around our supplies. I hope it works as good as it sounds. "How long have I been out?" Clove says. She's finally awake. I run up to her and hug and kiss her. I've missed her kisses.

"Oh my God Clove, you're awake. I thought you were dead. You scared me to death." I tell her.

"Well I'm awake now, so how long have I been out?"

"2 days."

"2 days! Why didn't someone wake me up?"

"You looked so cute and peaceful, I didn't want to disturb you."

"Fine, who died?"

"Glimmer, Hanna, and District 1O boy."

"Ok, who's he?" Clove asks pointing to Ian.

"I'm Ian, District 3. We found him and he reset the mines around our supplies. Anyone who comes close to it will blow up." Ian says confidently.

"Well what about us? How do we get supplies?" Clove asks.

"There's a pattern around the mines that can get you to the supplies." Ian states and shows Clove the pattern. "Hey, look over there smoke!" Marvel screams. I look to where he's pointing and sure enough there's smoke.

We start to run, but Ian stops us. "What do I do?" he asks.

"Stay guard." I say and throw him a spear. He looks at it like he doesn't know what it is and what it does. We just leave him.

After we run about 2 miles we see a pile of leaves burning, but no tribute. Then Clove spots another one about another mile away. Someone's playing us. Trying to get us away from the supplies. All of sudden we hear a big boom. Louder than a canon. The supplies. The others seem to notice and run back to the supplies. I follow them.

When we get to the supplies, there's nothing there but a big pile of ashes. Clove and Marvel try to find anything useful and I storm over to Ian. "Why the hell did our supplies blow up? I thought you were supposed to keep guard." I yell at him.

"I-I'm sor- sorry I do-don't know. I-" he's cut off by me snapping his neck. His canon booms. Clove comes over to me. "Hey, whoever did this, had to die in the explosion. We wouldn't have heard the canon over the explosion. We didn't find anything useful. We still have our back up packs. Marvel went to check his snares. He'll be back for dinner." She tells me.

"Ok. You're right, whoever did it, died. We finally have some alone time.'' I tell her. She smiles and I go to kiss her. It turns into a 5 minute make out session. We finally pull away for air. "Best kiss ever." Clove says. I laugh and kiss her again. This time it's short and sweet.

Dinnertime has come and we have heard 2 canons since Marvel left. I hope it was him. One less person I have to kill to go home. I guess we'll find out tonight. We go ahead and eat without Marvel.

The anthem blares through the arena and we look up at 'the fallen'. First, Marvel's face appears. Then Rue's. They must've killed each other. Oh well. Wait, if there was only two deaths today and that had to have been the two we heard earlier, that means no one died in the explosion. A part of me is happy because we can get revenge and another is angry that they made it out alive. Clove snuggles up against me and we fall asleep in each other's arms.