Just Tell Me You Love Me Already

Chapter 23: Anger, Rage and Grief

Cato's POV

I prepare myself to hunt down Thresh. Sword, check, spear, check, extra spear heads, check, sleeping bag, check, blanket, check, food, check, first-aid kit, check, filled water bags, check, matches, check. I found a carving in Clove's backpack, it's a bear. It looks so realistic, making me feel even more homesick. I never even knew that Clove liked carving; add that to the list of things that I will never know about her....

I have everything with me that Clove would have brought, besides her assortment of knives of course. There is one thing keeping me going at the moment, avenging Clove's death, hunting down Thresh and making it painful. I don't care whether I live or die anymore; all I care about is avengement- nothing else.

Ironically the first time Clove told me that she loved me was also the last. I can clearly hear her voice in my head, "There's nothing we can do, Cat. I, I love you." Her voice saying "I love you" never leaves me. When I finally am prepared to go into the grain field, I begin to walk towards it, but something catches my eye. Something is shining in the grass, I walk over to it and find a silver arrow lying on the ground, some feet away from it another silver arrow is ness led in the grass, sparkling innocently in the sunlight. The second one has blood on it, Clove's blood, I know, there was a hole in her shoulder. I look at the two silver arrows in my hands. They are partially the reason for her death, they belonged to Katniss, if not for Katniss Clove wouldn't have been at the Cornucopia so long, if she wasn't at the Cornucopia so long then she wouldn't have been caught by Thresh, if she wasn't caught by Thresh she would be dead. I yell in rage and break the two arrows in half, leaving the pieces on the ground beneath me. I can feel myself losing it. Clove was my anchor in here, my anchor to my sanity, without her, there's nothing to hold me from crossing the line into insanity.

Walk, walk, walk, walk. I push myself forward into the field of grain, Thresh, you'd better look out because I'm coming to get you and there's nothing you can do to, stop me.