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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2344 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Later that evening Johanna kicks in my bedroom door, literally she kicks it in. The loud bang made me jump out of my skin and wood showers over my bedroom floor. Johanna steps in looking pissed and staring at her advancing towards me makes me shake, I can feel sweat all over my body and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, there's no point denying it, an angry Johanna is a scary Johanna. Blight and my dad follow her looking annoyed but not as angry as Johanna, I can't be sure but I think they may have heard about what I did. I look at all of them but behind them hiding in the doorway I see Karl looking worried and just as scared as I must look, I don't know why he's scared I'm the one in trouble.

"Get up we are tired of waiting for you!" Johanna shouts as she reaches my bed and tightly grabs my wrist, her grip is strong and hurts like hell, I can't help but wince as she roughly pulls me off the bed, it doesn't take a doctor to know that Johanna is going to leave bruises all over my wrist. "You've missed dinner and I'll be dammed if I let you miss seeing the training results"

"Can't you…" I start to protest but one look from Johanna is enough to shut me up, she looks like she would rip my throat out if I refuse to obey her. "Can't you at least let me walk by myself?"

"Not going to happen" Johanna replies as she relentlessly pulls me from the room.

Johanna drags me out of the room never once loosening her grip, a large purple bruise is already starting to form and I'm starting to worry that she's cut off the blood circulation to my hand. She pulls me into the lounge area and dumps me onto a sofa before taking a seat beside me. She really doesn't want me to run off and I have no trouble believing that she is waiting and ready to stop me from running. Everyone else takes their seats and I notice they are trying to sit as far away from me as possible, most likely so they don't get dragged into the middle of Johanna forcing me to stay. The only person to sit near me willingly is my father, but he does sit as far away as possible and is practically siting on the arm of the chair.

"Welcome ladies and gentleman to a night I know you've been looking forward to" Caesar Flickerman announces as someone switches the TV on. "It's time to announce the training scores for our brave, valiant Tributes so sponsors and betters pay attention" The District One emblem replaces Caesar on the screen but the District One boy's face quickly replace it. "District One Marvel, Nine" His female District partner replaces his face. "Glimmer, Six" The District Two symbol now fills the screen only to be replaced by that brute Cato's face. "District Two Cato, ten" his District partner now takes the screen. "Clove, Ten" No surprise there that the Careers scored high, they always do but I believe that Glimmer may have scored lower than any Career in the game's history. Now onto District Three"

The rest of the scores go by in a blur with only the District Four male Tribute standing out with a score of eight, the rest score five at the most. Both District Six Tributes also score lowly with the male scoring three and the female scouring only a four, now though is the scores I am interested in. Mine and Karl's scores something I've been waiting for, I hope that my axe throwing and attitude is something they will remember, if I score lowly then I know it will be. That will be a good thing to remember as I die, think about the Gamemakers being pissed off with me as I drift of and leave this world behind. I can die happy knowing that they will remember me, let's be honest and face the facts, in a few days I will most likely be killed. It's something I've come to accept, I just hope that Karl will come to accept it too otherwise he'll end up not sleeping the night before we enter the area, dying because he can't stay awake. I hope he will accept it to and so will Katniss… Why I'm I thinking about her and why is that girl always on my mind? She is my enemy, someone who I may have to kill and who may kill me. I can't let her get into my mind. I need to stay focused if I want to return home.

"The moment of truth" My father says out loud to no one in particular. "Good luck you two"

"District Seven Karl, seven" Caesar says and as his face fades and mine replaces it I look over to him, he looks dumbstruck and in a trance like he can't believe it. I can't believe it ever, I know its mean for me to think so little of him being from my District and all but I thought he would score a five at the most. I turn back to the TV just as my face takes the screen. "Lisa, Eleven"

Eleven… He just said eleven. I can't believe it, I thought I would get a zero, the first zero ever given for what I did and I thought they would score me so low that no one would ever think about sponsoring me. I must be dreaming there's no way I be given a score that high. I look around to see everyone looking at me smiling, I really can't believe it but the tight grip Johanna has on my arm tell me I am not dreaming. The throbbing pain from my arm must mean I'm awake, no one can sleep when they are in a steady constant pain like I am.

"Did I really score an eleven?" I ask still not believing it as Caesar announces that the District Eight Tribute has scared a two.

"You sure did Brainless" Johanna answers but somehow her new nick name for me doesn't seem to rub me the wrong way.

The female from District Eight also scores one and Caesar moves onto District Nine, the boy scores five and the girl scores three. District ten and the boy scores one the girl six, District Eleven and the giant male known as Thresh scores an impress ten which I have no trouble believing. Next is the giants District partner a young twelve year old girl called Rue who looks like she couldn't harm a fly but she does something that I didn't think possible, something that I also can't believe, she scores a seven and stuns everyone in the room including myself. I wonder what she did, I've seen her climb and run around the training centre but as impressive as that was I can't see that scoring her a seven.

"No then onto District Twelve" Caesar says as Peeta's face fills the screen. "Peeta scores an eight" I have a feeling that he used his strength to get that score, as much as he tried to his strength I knew the moment I saw him he is strong. "Now then on to someone we all know and remember, the Girl on Fire miss Katniss" Katniss's face fills the screen and I swear my heart skips a beat, I don't know why this girl has such an effect on my body but she does and it is going to get me killed if I can't find a way to stop it. “Katniss scores and impressive eleven, our second eleven of the night meaning she and Lisa are tied for the top place"

"Congratulations Brainless you and Twelve have been marked for death" Johanna says as the screen goes blank getting everyone's attention. I look at everyone in the room and know she must be telling the truth, the eyes of Blight and the eyes of my father confirm what Johanna has just said, I am marked for death. The only people that don't seem to know it are Karl and those in the room from the Capital, they all look at Johanna like she's crazy but I know she's telling the truth. "What it's true"

"You shouldn't say stuff like that Johanna Lisa has a just as much of a chance of anyone to win the games" Lena replies looking sympathetically at me and angrily at Johanna.

"Yeah scoring higher than the Careers wouldn't piss them off at all" Johanna rhetorically tells her. "Fighting and out shining them wouldn't make them target Lisa first right?"

"Well they…" Lena begins to counter but she stops herself, it clear to everyone that Johanna's right and I'm marked for death.

"Like I said they both are marked" Johanna tells her before she turns to face me. "I hope you can out run Twelve because that's your best chance of survival kid"

I start to picture myself running with Katniss with the Careers hot on out tail, they are taunting and mocking us trying to get us to fight them and meet our end. As we run at one point Katniss trips and falls but I don't stop to help her, it isn't until I hear the Careers stood over her that I stop and turn back to look at what is happening. They have her, they have Katniss. Marvel is holding her arms behind her back and forcing her to kneel, Clove is sorting through her large collection of knifes and Cato and Glimmer just stand there laughing and tormenting Katniss. Katniss looks scared out of her mind as she is most likely listening to how the Careers plan on killing her, she look at me and when our eyes meet I see only one thing. Betrayal. Seconds later Cato slices her throat open with a knife handing to him by Clove. Katniss falls to the ground as her blood pours out of her, her eyes remain looked on mine and I can see the life drain out of her. Seeing her dead body on the ground makes my heart ache and knowing she died thinking I betrayed her only increases the pain tenfold.

"Don't worry too much" My father tells me putting his arms around me and being me back to reality, my heat is still in pain though. Even though it was just my imagination seeing her die really hurt, I can't imagine what seeing it for real will do. "Just because they marked you doesn't mean they will kill you" He says lifting my chin so I look him in the eye. "I was marked in my games and survived so you can do it too"

I wake up the next morning feeling tired after not a good night's sleep, I kept having the same nightmare over and over again. I was watching Katniss die. I saw her die and suffer in so many different ways all night long. Every time I woke up I looked for her but of course I never spotted her, that only made it worse because I couldn't confirm what I knew deep down, that she was ok. Every time I closed my eyes I saw her looking happy only for her to die an agonisingly painful death seconds later while I am powerless to stop it. Every time I tried to some unseen force would stop me from helping. I blame Johanna. If she wouldn't have made that comment of me needing only to out run Katniss then this wouldn't have been happening. I have come to accept that I may die in the area but knowing that Katniss will die is unbearable. I should even care about her, I should hope she dies because that will make me on step closer to home but I can't hope that. Every time I even think about her in pain hurts me. How can she affect me like this? I should be wanting her not to live.

I lay on my bed holding myself trying to push the images of Katniss's death and the painful sounds she made out of my head. I'm covered in sweat and struggling to breath, the last time I saw her die was unbearable and the pain she felt I know I felt it worse and I still feel it right now in my heart. She was tortured to death by that monster Cato while Marvel held me and forced me to watch. She was suffering so badly that I cried every tear I had and screamed for them to stop until my throat was painfully raw. But of course they didn't stop, my cries and pleas only made them laugh and stir them on. It was awful and I don't know I survived something like that. I know going through that in really life would have killed me. The sun still isn't up yet but looking out the window I can see it starting to light up the horizon, there's no point going back to sleep since someone most likely Johanna will be here to wake me up soon. To be honest I don't want to go back to sleep after my last nightmare only to face another possible much worse one.

I quickly get up and in the shower hoping to wash away the memories of my night along with the sweat. Once I'm clean I dry myself off and get changed into a plain grey jumper and blue jeans before leaving my bedroom. I need to get some air after the night I had so I quietly leave my floor and head to the roof, it's the best place I can think of going to get some fresh air and clear my head. I only have about half an hour at the most before Johanna comes looking for me so I might as while enjoy this moment of peace while it lasts, I think I'll watch the sun rise and sunset my last sunset to enjoy in safety. Tomorrow I'll be in the area fighting for my very survival so I want to take my time and enjoy what possible could be the last day of my life, I will watch this rising sun even if Johanna tries to wrench me away from it. But when I get to the roof its clear I am not alone, my heart flutters and I feel butterflies in my stomach. Stood on the roof before me is Katniss Everdeen the Girl on Fire looking out over the horizon towards the rising sun. She hasn't noticed me so I could slip away but that would mean missing the sun rise, so I take a deep breath and approach her.

"Enjoying the view Twelve?" I ask nearly making her jump of the roof in fright.

"Yes I am thank you" She replies stepping away from the edge. "I take it you came to watch the sun rise too"

"Yep I might as while considering we both might end up dead soon" I tell her taking a step closer. "So what did you do to piss off the Gamemakers?" I have to ask this I've been wondering this ever since I heard the score, if I got an eleven for getting back at them in a small way then she must have too. "I got mine for throwing an axe at them how about you?"

"I shot an arrow at them" Katniss answers with a smile no doubt feeling proud of what she did, I know I am. "They weren't paying attention to me and when I saw a dead pig out staging me I lost my cool and fired. My arrow shot the apple out of the pigs mouth and stuck it to the wall behind them"

"Nice" I reply with a smile of my own which seems crazy because of what brought it on. After how much trouble we caused there's no way we will live through these games. I'm just glad we made a small rebellion against them before our end. "I throw my axe for the same reason apart from alcohol out staged me instead of your pig. I smashed the light above them and showered them with glass"

"I was wondering why it was so dark up there" Katniss comments. "Now I know "

"It scared them shitless too" I add. "I bet you did too"

"Yeah one of them fell into the punch" Katniss says with a giggle.

"I wish I was there to see that" I reply laughing now too.

"There you are Brainless!" Johanna's unmistakable voice angrily shouts across the roof, both Katniss and I both look to find Johanna and Haymitch the District Twelve and Katniss's mentor stood at the entrance to the roof looking annoyed with us for some reason. "I've been looking for you now follow me we have work to do!"

"We have work to do too Sweetheart so you come with me" Haymitch tells Katniss in a much nicer voice then the one Johanna used.

"While I guess I'll see you in the area then" I say as we make our way over to our mentors. "Goodbye"

"Bye" Katniss replies before we part ways.
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