DISTRICT 12
Brittany woke up and dawn like she does every day
She went to the kitchen grabbed a small pieace of bread and left the house without a sound
She walked about 10 mintues before coming across and fence then climbed it and quickly moved to the woods about 2 minutes walking she reached a tree and bent down pushing some leafs out of the way to uncover her bow and arrow, she grabbed them throwing the arrows over her shoulder
She Stared up archery about 4 years ago so her family would have some more food, so they didnt have to put their names in the reaping bowl more than they have too, She has little sister Claire she this is her 1st year in the reaping, Brittany had one more year
When Brittany reached the lake she took a seat while she watched the end of the sunrise
"Hey" Brittany heard a male voice from behind and didnt even bother to turn around it was her best friend Ryder
"Hey" Brittany said look to the sunrise
"You ready?" He asked taking a seat next to Brittany
Brittany sighed it was a good question but the truth was she wasnt sure its one thing to have her own name in the bowl but having her sister in the bowl too made her nervous
"Yeah me too" Ryder knew exactly what she was thinking i guess thats the benefit of knowing someone since you were 5, he has a little bother Nick its his first year too
"Well, we better get going" Brittany said standing up reaching her hand to Ryder to help him up
They meet in the same place every morning than go hunting together, Brittany and Ryder both learned archery together
After about 1 hour they got a 2 turkey's and they headed back to the town to get ready for the reaping
When Brittany got home she realized that everyone was up, Claire had already cleaned her self and she asked Brittany to do her hair after Brittany had cleaned her self and got dressed
"Your going to be fine" Brittany said while finishing Claire's hair
Claire smiled "Thanks Britt"
Claire turned around a pulled Brittany into a hug
After getting ready they headed to the court yard where the reaping took place
"Okay Claire Ill see you soon" Brittany gave a her a kiss on the head
Claire nodded but Brittany could see how nervous she was
Brittany spotted ryder and walked over "Hey" she breathed "How's Nick?"
"Nervous, What about Claire?"
"Same"
Both made their way to where the prick you finger and give you name after they both have to go into separte area's so the reaping could start
"Bye" Ryde said pulling Brittany into and hug
"Bye love you" Brittany said into her best friends shoulder
"Love you too"
they let go of each other and went to their area's, then a women walks up to the mic
"Excuse me, Excuse me Ladies and Gentlemen" The lady said as the crowd became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop
"Welcome, Welcome to the 74th hunger games" She said like it was suppose to be exicting "Alright well lets get to it, Shall we... and may the odds be for ever in you favor" She walked to the the bowl on her left, "Ladies First"" She reached her hand into the bowl and pulled one of the card and walked back to the mic
"And this years female tribute is... Claire Pierce"
Brittany heart dropped, The person she loved most in this world was going to be put in a game to the death, she is to young as a tear fell from her eyes she could hear her mother's cry then she saw her sister's face covered in tear's so scared
Brittany pushed past the others and rain into the walk way the peace keepers ran to pulling her back and for a split second she saw Ryder he knew what she was about to do
"I volunteer!" Brittany screamed everyone turned to Face her
"What was that?" The lady spoke into the mic
"I volunteer" Brittany spoke once again Claire was staring at her and Brittany nodded
the peace keepers took Claire to her spott then escorted Brittany up the the Stage
"What's your name sweet heart?" The lady asked
"Brittany Pierce"
"Was that you sister?"
"Yes" Brittany gulped she was doing everything to hold back tears
"Well, Now for the boys" She walked over the bowl
'Not ryder,Not ryder,Not ryder' Was all Brittany was thinking
The lady pulled a name out of the bowl than walked back to the mic
"Now this years male Tribute is... Jake Puckerman"
Brittany knew Jake, He was a year younger then her but he had an older bother Noah thats the same age of her
Jake made his way stage
The lady clapped her hands "Meet this years District 12 tributes"
The peace keeper showed us the way off the Stage
"Wait, Dont we get to say goodbye?" Brittany asked before she couldnt see the crowed anymore
"Yes there will be time" The lady said "Oh and by the way Im effie" She reached out her hand
Brittany shook her hand then Jake did then the escorted them into separte rooms
Brittany said goodbye to her Mother and Claire then Ryder
"Brittany, Win" was the last thing Ryder said before leaving
After we had said our goodbyes then they sent us to the train, they showed us our room then took us to get some food
It was just Brittany and Jake after everyone left
"Are you okay?" Brittany asked breaking the silence
"Im just great" Jake repiled sarcasticly
Brittany chuckled because he sounds just like his Brother
"What?" He asked having a confused look on his face
"You sound like you Brother" Brittany breathed
Jake chuckled a little bit
"So Are you okay?" Brittany asked again wanting a real answer
Jake sighed "I hope"
Brittany nodded
The Carts door opened and A man and women walked threw and took a seat across from the both of them
"Im Quinn and this is Haymitch and we are going to be you mentor's"
they all shook hands
"We are gonna teach you how to defend your self" Quinn said
"We are gonna teach you how to get sponser's" Haymitch chimed in
Both Jake and Brittany shook the heads that they understand
"You guys better get some sleep, you have a big day tomorrow" Quinn said while she and Haymitch made their way to their rooms
Jake and Brittany did the same
But Brittany didnt get much sleep
Brittany heard to a knock at the door
"Brittany?" Jake whispered peaking his head threw the door
"Jake?"
"Breakfeast is ready" He said no longer in a whisper
Brittany nodded and crawled out of bed and got change, she could beileve it was already morning she barley got any sleep
Brittany made her way to the cart they were in last night and took a seat next to Jake who sat across from Quinn and Effie
Brittany ate quitely not really feeling like talking and she thinks Jake feels the same because he hasnt said much since Breakfest started
"Okay we will be their in about an 20 Minutes" Effie said getting up from the table with a giant smile like this is suppose be exicting.
After she left Quinn gave us a im sorry look
"I dont think she gets it" Jake spoke
"She doesnt" Quinn agreed "But if either of you want to win you'll need her"
"Yeah but like you said it can only be one of us" Brittany broke her silence
"Yes... But that doesnt mean you should do your best"
"Best" Brittany chuckled "By best you mean kill people"
Jake who had been looking at Brittany finally looked away so did Quinn
Brittany stood up and walked back to her room to get ready to be greeted by the capital
About 15 minutes later
Brittany felt the train slowly down and she went to meet Quinn in the dinning room and took a seat next to her
"Look, Im sorry about earlier" Brittany sighed
"Its fine, I get it" Quinn said taking a sip of water
They both felt the train stop and quickly made their way to the exit were they were meeted by Jake, Effie and Haymitch
"Wave" Haymitch whispered in both Jake and Brittany's ear before pushing them out their were hunderds of scary dressed people capping and like Haymitch said Brittany and Jake waved and smiled like they were happy to be there
They made their way to the hotel where they would be training and Jake and Brittany would be sharing a big suit
"All right get settle, you training unifroms are in your room" Quinn said leaving their rooms "Be down stairs in a hour ready to train"
Brittany and Jake got changed and made their downstairs, The were shown to a room that had weapons and area's to practice
Brittany grabbed a bow and arrow and Jake grabbed an axe, Brittany agreed with his choice Jake really strong
Brittany looked around and settle on a girl in the corner with slicked back hair, she was beautiful and naturally Brittany walked over and took a seat next to her
"I'm Brittany"
the girl looked up into her eye's
"Santana"
"Im from district 12"
"10" Santana sighed
"What are you doing?"
"Trying to make a fire" Santana Chuckled
"Here do this" Brittany said taking the stick from Santana rubbing the stick fast between her hand and moving them up and down until smoke appeared, Brittany smiled handed the stick back to Santana "You try"
Santana took the stick a mimicked what Brittany had Just showed her and smoke came then followed by fire
Santana smiled up at Brittany "Thanks"
"Welcome"
"Brittany!" Jake called waving her over, Brittany nodded
"See you around Santana" Brittany said get up
"Bye" She heard Santana breathe
Brittany walked over to Jake to see what he wanted
"Yeah?'
"Quinn said that we'd need allies in the game" Jake said
"Yeah?" Brittany was wondering were he was going
"So i figured me and you could be allies" Jake suddenly got nervous and Brittany picked up on it
"Yeah of course Jake" Brittany gave him a resuring smile "I got your back"
But truth was Brittany didnt know how she was going to kill another person, take someone's life, it wasnt like hunting animals, the first Brittany killed an animal she cried for 3 hours but she got use to it so she could feed her family. these people have family and friends who love them.
"I was thinking that maybe we should get a few more people on our side too" Jake said breaking Brittany out of her thoughts
"I dont know" Brittany wasnt sure if she could trust anyone but Jake "how do we know we can trust them"
"We pick carefully" Jake sighed "Look ive been looking and talking to some of the tributes and i have some idea's of who we can trust"
Brittany nodded "Who?"
Jake streched his neck "Him" Brittany followed his finger to a tall asian guy
"Mike Chang, Your age Smart and flexable but also has moral's and he probably wont kill his friends" Jake explained
"Until we are the only one's left" Brittany corrected
"Yeah well that goes for everyone" Jake corrected
"Who else?"
"Sam evans, Strong but not the smartest and seems loyal he's from 10"
"10?"
"Yeah?" Jake gave her curious look
"I think he'd be best" Brittany sighed
"why do you say that?"
"Because we need musle and if his on our side we might be able to get Santana on our side" Birttany explained
"who's Santana?"
Brittany pointed to the the girl in the corner who is picking a knife "She's from 10"
"Alright well ill talk to Sam and you talk to Santana" Jake said picking up his axe moving to the the blonde with the trident
Brittany made her way over to Santana
"Knives?" Brittany asked walking behind Santana
"Yep... Bow?"
"Yep" Brittany chuckled
"I also use swords and stuff" Santna added
"Right, do you want to help each other?"
Brittany could see Santana thinking about it
"Like train" Brittany clairfied
"Fine" Santana sighed
Both girls took 2 dummies and Santana Started they were about 25 feet away
Santana took 5 knives and threw 1 into the dummies legs, the next into the arm then the gut, the chest then head
Brittany gulped Santana was really good
Brittany withdrew an arrow and took her aim let out a Breathe and missed Brittany sighed
"You seem nervous" Santana said
"Yeah just a little bit" Brittany was embaressed
"Just relax" Santana said in a soothing voice and it worked on Brittany
Brittany took her aim now more focussed let out a Breathe and fired the arrow went straight into the dummies chest and Brittany thought it would make her feel better to know that she's pepared but it made her feel worse knowing what was coming
"Good job" Santana smiled
Brittany gave her a hafe assed smile and Santana noticed
"You okay Brittany?"
"Yeah,yeah just not looking foward to whats to come" Brittany let out a breathe
"Yeah me either" Santana took her hand rubbed Brittany's back
Brittany smiled at Santana for being sweet to her
Brittany felt a tap on her shoulder and she turned around to find Quinn
"Hey" Brittany said
"Hey, we have to get going" Quinn smiled
Brittany nodded and gave Santana a quick hug goodbye and follow Quinn out of the Training room to be meeted by Jake and Haymitch
"Alright we are going take you to your styliest" Haymitch said gesturing for us to follow
When we got to the elevator we went to the 3rd floor and soon entered at Dressing room
"Kurt!" Haymitched called
"Coming" Brittany heard someone call back and soon she saw and think man walk from the other room
"Hi im Kurt" He stuck his hand out to Brittany then Jake
"Brittany"
"Jake"
they both said
Kurt shook his head like he already knew
"Okay well we are going to leave you guys" Quinn said giving Brittany's arm a rub
Both Jake and Brittany watched them leave then turned back to Kurt
"Well first im going to have to take your measurements so who's first?" Kurt said clapping his hands
Jake looked at Brittany with a pleading look
"Me" Brittany said
"Alright" Kurt said while taking Brittany's hand pulling her in front off a mirror
After spend aleast an hour with Kurt they both got the measurments done and Both Brittany and Jake thought Kurt was really nice and had good idea's for their wardrobe's
Jake and Brittany went back to their rooms for dinner
"So what happen with Santana?" Jake asked biting into a pieace of bread
"Well, I want to her to trust me first so we i can ask" Brittany explained,"What about Sam?"
"Same" Jake said swallowing his bread
"Well we better go to bed" Brittany said getting up from the table
Jake nodded and stood up too
Brittany was didnt get much sleep last night so she was hoping to get plenty tomorrow
"Brittany?" Jake asked before Brittany left the room
"Yeah?" Brittany said turning around on her heels to face him
"Goodnight" He smile
Brittany Returned the smile "Goodnight Jake"
Brittany laid in bed that night think about Santana ever since Brittany had left her she was all that was on her mind