Crimson Abyss

Hell Hole

Thalia's P.O.V

I rolled my eyes at Cato's snarky attitude, slightly wishing I could slap him on the back of the head. My sister was practically drooling over the guy and all I wanted to do was shove my fist in the place where the sun doesn't shine. I groaned, pulling my cellphone out of my pocket to see if Hope had tried to call me back, but there was nothing..even my social media was dead. I groaned as I went to grab my earbuds from my other pocket, but realized they were in my car. "God damn it.." I mumbled, heading towards the exit so I could get to my car.
"Whoa. Where are you going?" Cato asked, putting his arm in front of me.
"To my car, to get my earbuds so I don't have to hear your rude comments all night." I smiled, pushing past his arm only to find it in my way again, "I'd get out of my way if I were you." I growled, getting face with the big buff blonde.
"Or what? Your not risking leading those things back to us." He responded, gasping as I grabbed his arm and flipped him onto his back.
"Don't mess with me, I may be small but I took self-defense classes asshole." I whipped back around and left the hallway to head towards my car, I peaked around the corner to see the dead walking around the mall. Shit. I nearly jumped out of my skin as a hand wrapped around my wrist and another around my mouth right before I was about to go around the corner.
"Are you insane?!" Alex whispered, yanking me back into the store we were behind held hostage in.
"Alex! I was going to my car..if those things have destroyed my baby...I'm going to cry and my earbuds are in it.." I crossed my arms over my chest, glancing at the door as she rubbed her head frustratedly.
"Don't even think about it Thalia." She groaned, knowing me to well that I was about to leave again, "It's a whole mall Thalia..there are more earbuds here and your car will be fine. I'm not loosing my sister because of a car or earbuds."
"Ugh, fine!" I scoffed, pushing past Cato who glared at me from his guarding position, "Don't ever get in my way again."
After entering the room again, everyone knowing I'd tried to leave I felt like a lecture was going to come from the brown haired guy who'd taken a liking to Jazz, or the cute blonde that kept looking away when I caught him looking at me. However, no lecture came from either...instead Peeta offered me a piece of bread which I kindly declined as I went to my own corner of the room and rested my head onto my knees. Scrolling through pictures of the normal life I was living less than 12 hours ago, and now the whole world had gone to shit out of no where.
"Hey...you ok?" Peeta asked, sitting beside me and smiling kindly.
"Uh, ya..I mean I guess..with everything going on." I sighed, putting my phone on the ground and looking over at my sister who was smiling and laughing with Cato. I started to push off the ground and go say something to him but Peeta wrapped his hand around my arm to pull me back down.
"Don't...You can go off on him in the morning, but let them talk..It's been a stressful day." Peeta softly said, releasing my wrist.
I smiled over at him and placed my hand over his, "That girl is my only family left. She's also my baby sister, and he's a jerk..So I'll fight him when I please, don't make me fight you to." I patted his hand and walked over to Cato with a smile on my face, nodding towards Alex like I was going to calmly conversation but threw him against the wall instead, "Listen here bub! I don't like you, and I'm not going to like you. But I'll tolerate you long enough to get away from you, but you better believe I'm not afraid to kill someone with a paper clip. And if you doubt my skills, keep talking to my sister and find out for yourself."
"Thalia! He was being nice! Stop it!" Alex snapped, pulling me away from him.
"Alex, you want to protect me, well I'm protecting you from this buff idiot." I snapped, yanking my arm away from her.
"How about we all just calm down ok? No one is going to kill anyone, let's just all take a breather and calm down." Gale inputted, quickly coming over after I'd been yanked away from Cato, "Thalia..Go sit by Jazz and Johnathan."
"Fine.." I smiled, yanking a paper clip from a stack of papers on the cashier desk, "Don't tempt me Cato."
I began twisting the paper clip apart and forming into something I could cut skin with and smiling every time Cato glanced at me from across the room.
"Thalia..will you stop trying to scare him just because he was talking to Alex?" Jazz laughed, rubbing her brothers head.
"Nope."

Peeta's P.O.V

I watched Thalia as she played with the paper clip she had just threatened Cato with, she was a typical bad ass with attitude..but she was definitely cute. I know I wasn't her type, but it wouldn't hurt to crush on her during a zombie apocalypse would it? Nah.
"Help me keep an eye on those two..the last thing we need is them ripping each other's throats out." Game chuckled, standing beside me and glancing between the Cato and Thalia.
"What do you want me to do..get killed with the paper clip instead." I laughed, smiling over at Thalia again.
"No, but I know you like her..you suck at hiding that. Just talk to her, keep her away from Cato..at least until they can be calm around each other."
"Pfft, yea ok. That's like trying to keep a man eating tiger away from steak with a piece of yarn...Thanks Gale."