Clove's P.O.V
Why would they just leave me? I use a crate to climb onto the top of the cornucopia, it's dark out and I feel safer up here. I don't want to be cornered in the cornucopia if someone came.
I didn't scream for Cato because I figured if I did that someone might hear me, but obviously someone else didn't have that worry.
"Clove!" I hear very faintly from the distance, then again, "Clove!"
"Cato?" I whisper under my breath before screaming, "Cato! I'm at the cornucopia!" I yell, my fear of being heard vanishes, I just want him back. I slide to the edge and slip down the side of the cornucopia. Suddenly, a large man shoves me against the metal, cutting off my oxygen with his hands on my throat. Thresh.
"Clove!" I hear Cato shout in the distance. I should have gone for my knives, but the sudden blockage of my airway has me distracted. I try prying his hands off of my throat but with every second I grow weaker and weaker. Thresh's sweaty face is in mine, staring me down.
"I'm sorry for this, but I need to go home." He whispers and squeezes my throat tighter. I can see the guilt in his eyes, his eyes don't say 'murderer,' though he looks quite menacing. I'm kicking and scratching at his face but he is unfazed, I am small prey underneath his predator fangs. My vision starts to blacken, growing more intense with every second. This is it? This is how I die?
Like a flash of lightning, Thresh's neck is snapped from behind and he falls to the ground, lifeless. I fall to my knees, trying to comprehend what is happening. I feel two familiar arms wrap around my back and hold me. Voices are echoing in my ears but I can't make out who they are.
"Clove? Clove? Are you there?" I hear as each word echos around my head. My vision begins to come back and I see those ocean blue eyes staring down at me.
"Cato?" I croak, my throat feels hoarse.
"Clove, I'm so sorry, I thought you were ahead of me." Cato chokes as I feel a wet tear hit my cheek and I begin to regain touch with reality.
"I went to the bathroom, I didn't know you left." I tell him, panting for air.
"Oh no, we almost didn't make it." I hear Glimmer say in a sarcastic tone.
"Shut your mouth, go make us a place to sleep in the cornucopia." Cato snaps, sending her a cold glare.
"Yeah, yeah, okay." She huffs and stomps inside.
"I'll never leave your side again, I promise." He whispers as the cannons go off. 17.
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forever & always - 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙤
FanfictionCato and Clove's love story through out the 74th Hunger Games. Would you volunteer just to be with your best friend? Would you kill for your lover? Would you die for your lover? Together or not at all, right? Cato's love for Clove is everlasting, sh...
