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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2343 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I walk down the corridor of the train and as soon as I reach the dining car I jump straight into my father's arms and he pulls me into a warm hug that makes me feel safe and that everything will be ok, I know it will I just know it. My dad's warm arms hold me for what feels like eternity and I would have kept hold of him for longer only the smell of food brought into the room makes my stomach rumble and my dad to break off the hug. I turn to the table and find everyone else already seated and watching platefuls of food being placed in front of them. My father takes a seat next to Blight leaving the only spare seat next to Karl which I take just as an Avox places a plate of food in front of me that smells delicious.

I sit down in my seat and look at the meal even though I only at breakfast about two hours ago the sight and smell of the meal is enough to make me hungry again and my mouth water. On my plate is two slices of bacon, a fried egg, two sausages and baked beans with a slice of fried bread on the side, I may be from a well off familiar but even for us bacon if hard to come by and on the rare occasions I had it in the past I loved it. I loved its taste, I loved the feeling of it in my mouth and I always loved it in a sandwich with tomato sauce. I quickly bite into the bacon using my hands to scoop it up not caring what anyone in the room thinks, the instant the bacon hits my mouth I'm in heaven.

"I would have thought the daughter of a Victor would have known some manners" Lean moans taking me out of the bliss of the bacon. I look up just in time to see her slap my father in the arm which he barely seems to notice. "What exactly have you been teaching her?"

"Lay off her Lean" Johanna tells her as she picks up a hand full of beans. "I bet you even ate with your hands before"

I mouth her a thank you and she winks in response.

"Yes when I was a child but I grow up" Lean replies as she stands up and starts to leave the room. "I think you two should do some growing up"

"Thank god she's gone" Blight says he stretches out his limbs. "We will be in the Capital in two hours so now we need to discuss what you are going to do"

"Well that's simple we get there, dress up and then go to bed" I tell him getting a worried look from my father and Blight and a surprised slightly impressed look from Johanna. "What its true isn't?"

"Yes but we mean how you are going to act for your games" My father says mainly directing his words towards me. "Will you be a fighter like me and Blight, weakling like Johanna pretended to be, smart, scary… Sexy"

Well that's one thing I never thought I will hear my father ask me to be, sexy I could probably pull it off but it's strange to hear my father suggest it. I never really thought about, I always thought I'd be myself but my dad's right. Johanna won her games by convincing everyone she was weak but when it was down to a hand full of Tributes she turned out to be a vicious killer, Blight and my father acted like warriors and got in with the Careers before stabbing them in the back. I really don't know how to play it, I look at Karl out of the corner of my eyes and start to wonder how he will play it. He's big and strong so he could be a fighter, he's not bad looking so he… Wait a minute what and I thinking. Handsome, I can't look at him that way or it will get me killed.

"I don't know" I answer after thinking it over.

"While you are fast and a good hider so you can play it sly" My father tells me which makes me feel a bit better.

"Don't forget her looks" Blight points out. "She could probable play sexy too"

"While you Karl are strong enough to make it with the Career Pack or form your own group" My father says turning everyone's attention to Karl and away from me.

"He isn't bad looking ever" Johanna adds. "I don't think he'll have a problem getting sponsors or allies"

"Um well… I'm not… Really good with people" Karl mummers nervously and barely audible.

"Well that can be fixed" Johanna replies before downing the rest of her drink which I'm guessing is some sort of alcohol because I can smell it from here. "Just say and act we tell you and you'll be fine"

"Until he's in the games that is" I mutter.

"That's not helping" Blight comments.

"Yeah you two should work together" Johanna adds sounding as if she just had got the idea. "I think if you two work together then you'll be a team to rival the Career's"

"That could work" My father agrees nodding his head thinking it over.

"I like that idea too" Blight says.

"I don't!" Both Karl and I shout out.

"Ok and since you almost deafened me the most you can tell me why Lisa" Johanna moans as she rubs her ears.

"I'm not getting to know someone I'll have to kill at some point" I tell her pushing my plate out leaving everything but the bacon untouched. "I'll be in my room"

As I start to walk out of the room not wanting to discuss the problem further I hear Karl say "I agree with Lisa"

I start to wonder the train realising that I'm not home, I'm not finding my bedroom and hiding under the covers till everything's alright, I don't even have a room on this train because of how short the journey will be and thinking about how much danger I really am in for the first time. I'm not that big and despite my family being well off because of my father I don't weigh that much, I know how to use and axe but no how to survive in the wild and I have no idea how I will cope with being throw into some deadly area full of tributes and vicious Career's. I start to rethink Johanna's suggestion about working with Karl. He is big, strong and knows how to wield an axe. Maybe Johanna was onto something.

My thoughts quickly turn to my other tributes and I quickly remember I have no idea who they are, what they can do and how much of a threat they are. God I'm so stupid. I run into the TV room on the train to find everybody there not even acknowledging my arrival. I arrive just as Caesar Flickerman finishes his introduction to the Reaping's, Caesar is a face everyone knows as he's been the only face of the games that I can remember and since I like to do nothing I'm often watching him on TV. I take my seat on the arm of the chair next to Karl and look at the TV just as the Reaping in district one begins.

I only remember a few faces of the tributes and learn their names. The Career's Glimmer and Marvel from District One, Clove and Cato from Two along with the girl from four they make up the Career pact. The boy from four would normally also be part of the pact but he's so small and weak look that I doubt they would let him. There's a girl from District Five who looks like she has the face of a fox, then it's me and Karl being reaped and watching the smile grow on my mother's face when my name is drawn only brings pain to my heart. I and my mother were never close but to see her smile at my pending death still hurts. From District Ten is a boy whose limping and I can already tell won't last long, then in District Eleven my heart almost stops at the Reaping, a small beautiful twelve year old girl has her name called and it nearly makes me cry when I see her month the stag with fear in her eyes, then fear takes over my pain as a giant monster with the biggest muscles that I've ever seen takes the stage beside her, his name is Thresh and he's someone I need to lookout for. Finally the last District comes up District Twelve where they produce coal and weaklings according to my mother.

The Reaping from District Twelve is anything but normal. At firsts I thought it was just going to be the same as the others but then I hear someone shout, she sounds like an angle and acts like one too as she stands between a twelve year old girl and the stage volunteering to take the girls place. The older girl now taking the stage has beautiful black hair tied in a braid going down her back, her grey eye's just look beautiful to me and her face is that of an angle that matches her selfless actions. The girl is just beautiful and… Wait beautiful! I shouldn't have these thoughts not about her. Not about any girl. I should have these thoughts about men, get married and have child which I will fear ending up in the games. I shouldn't be thinking this way about her. It isn't right and my mother would flip her lid if she knew what I was just thinking, my father would be ok with it but my mother would beat me till I can't stand and then some. I shake my head clear of those thoughts and turn back to the TV feeling a blush grow on my cheeks. The angles… The girls name is Katniss Everdeen and the sister of the twelve year old girl she just volunteered for.

After that her Mentor, a well-known drunk falls off the stage shouting at the cameras like the mad drunk everyone says he is. Then their district Escort Effie Trinke I think her name is quickly moves onto the boy's name trying desperately to get back on track, her fear of embarrassment and desperation is written all over her face and I find myself enjoying and laughing at every minute of this Reaping. Peeta Mellark, that's the name of the boy going into the area with the angle… Going in with the girl, he looks handsome and strong, his blue eyes are gorgeous. This is it, this is what I'm meant to feel and think but still Katniss is on my mind. I try to think thoughts I know my mother and father would never approve of it, I think about Peeta, about Karl and about everyone else but still my mind quickly replaces them with Katniss and I have the sickening feeling that my face is as red as a tomato and everyone has seen it. Looking around the room and I know they have as every single person in this room is now staring at me which only makes me go redder.

"Are you ok Lisa?" My dad asks making my stomach sink as I'm sure he knows the reason why I am red in the face.

"She's fine" Johanna answers before I can even think of a reply. "She saw that Twelve boy and started fantasying"

"No I never!" I quickly shout back nearly slapping Karl in the face as I spin round to face Johanna. "I was just thinking about that twelve year old from eleven and how unfair it is for her to be in the area!"

"That shouldn't make you that red in the face" Johanna counters winking at me. I know she's only teasing me but her wink just rubs me the wrong way.

"Screw you!" I shot storming out of the room even redder then I thought anyone could ever be. I hide in a cupboard and hear people looking around for me but fail to find me, my father was right I am a good hider. I guess years of hiding from my mother's fists have finally paid off.

As soon as I arrive in the Capital a group of Peacekeepers find me within seconds and drag me into the Remake Centre. There I endure being stripped naked and having every hair ripped from by body until only the hair on my head is left. I try to distract myself from the pain by making fun of the Prep team's looks, everyone from the Capital looks hilarious and strange. They strip my body of hair until my skin stings, rub me down with some cream to remove dirt which at first soothes the aching skin of mine but soon starts to hurt me even more as they scrub it over my body. Once that is done my stylist walks into the room and looks me over from head to toe making me spin round for him so he can see every inch of my skin. My stylist is an old man with wrinkles which he tries and fails to hide, he has next to no hair but what little is left has been died green, he has blue eye's like Peeta but his are not of bright as Peeta's are and his lips look to big to be real.

An hour later and Karl and I are stood side by side in our chariot only seconds away from the start of the Tribute Parade. We are both dressed as trees like are District normally is because our dam stylist can't think of something else to make us. I mean how hard can it be? Anything would be better than this. Anything. I watch the doors slowly open up and the District one chariot lead us out, they are going to be the star of the show like always. Looking once more at my costume and I know I'm embarrassed and so would anyone if they had to wear this tree in public, looking at Karl and I know he is just as embarrassed as I am. We both keep our heads down as we enter the public's view hating every second they have with their eyes on us. I can almost hear the Victors shouting at us to smile and wave but I can't and I won't, this is just too embarrassing.

Thankfully something catches the crowd and my attention I look up on the screen to see District Twelve on fire. I have to blink a few times, rub my eyes and stare at the screen to make sure I'm not seeing things. Once I'm sure I am see this and not hallucinating I'm impressed, burning coal that's smart of their stylist. For the first time in history someone has outshined District One in the parade and I can't help but smirk when the monitor shows District One's reaction they look mortified. Twelve has the spot light and Katniss the crowd as I hear her name being chanted all around me. That angle is more of a… That girl is more of a threat then I first realised. Once the Parade is over and everyone's in the training centre I smirk again at the sight of the Career's giving twelve dirty looks, I lock eyes with Katniss for a moment and nod in their direction, when she sees their faces she smirks back at me before my father takes me off towards the elevator. We may have only locked eyes for a few second but for me it felt like an eternity I spent staring into those pretty grey eyes.
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