A/N: This is only a short chapter, but fear not! The next chapter will be longer, trust meh!

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoy it :) 3

Lauren awoke to someone knocking on her door. For a blissful moment she had no idea where she was. She knew she wasn't at home but she couldn't quite put her finger on where this place was. It was an in-between place. A happy place.

Another knock threw her out of that world and into the real one. "Come on, they're about to show the training scores" her mentor called to her. She slowly sat up, rubbing her sore eyes as she remembered what had happened.

"I'll...be there...in a sec" Lauren muttered. She moved as slow as possible to avoid going out there, but seeing as she was near the end she'd have to take an awfully long time and they'd probably would've dragged her out by then. So she took her hair out of its messed up ponytail and went into the lounge area.

Everyone was already there, their stylists, their escort and their four mentors. Jim sat beside Taalia, their mentor, who had obviously been trying to teach him to sit up nicely as he looked extremely uncomfortable; Lauren opted to sit between two of their mentors, Kay and Buck. Buck was a giant man who's stature managed to hide Lauren from the rest of the group and Kay was a calm woman that was always nice and understanding, Lauren hoped that she'd understand this time. Their other mentors were Wheatley and Rye; Wheatley was quite young, it hadn't been long since he'd won his own games although how that happened no one knows as he was a complete idiot and seemed worse than useless, and Rye just stared at everyone as if she was still in the games and planning how to kill you. Lauren didn't mind their stylists, Indi and Luchee, but they were very much capitol people and she had nothing in common with them.

The scores came in and everyone watched with baited breath, making comments as they came up.

District 1
Darren Criss - 10
Devin Lytle - 10
Wheatley: No surprise there

District 2
Joe Walker - 10
Alle-Faye Monka - 9
Buck: Ooo she's gonna hear about that!

District 3
Corey Lubowich - 5
Meredith Stepien - 3
Kay: Poor thing! I wonder what happened.

District 4
Joey Richter - 9
Jaime Lyn Beatty - 9
Taalia: Well that's to be expected

District 5
Brian Holden - 7
Arielle Goldman - 4
Kay: Not too bad

District 6
Jeff Blim - 7
Sango Tajima - 5
Taalia: Hmm, that boy seems like a strange one

District 7
Dylan Saunders - 10
Julia Albain - 7
Buck: Wow! I was not expecting that!

District 8
Joe Moses - 4
June Saito - 6
Wheatley: Hm, the usual

District 9
Jim Povolo - 8
Lauren Lopez - 1
Kay:...well done, guys

District 10
Brian Rosenthal - 7
Denise Donovan - 9
Buck: Yeah I thought that girl had something about her

District 11
Corey Dorris - 7
Britney Coleman - 8
Wheatley: That doesn't surprise me, that girl looks bat-shit-crazy

District 12
Nick Lang - 2
Lily Marks - 8
Taalia: Well I didn't expect that from her.

There was silence for a while afterwards. Lauren was in a state of shock. Kay had put her arm around her and was trying to think of a way to change the subject. "So, Jim...what exactly did you do?" Kay asked. Lauren looked up at this question, it was something she'd been wondering herself. Jim took a moment to answer.

"I just roared at them." He told them. There was a moments pause where nothing happened, no one reacted, then Lauren let out the tiniest giggle and the whole room erupted. Everyone was in fits of laughter at the thought of the gamemakers being so taken aback by Jim and his almighty roar.

That night everyone slept peacefully. The only thing left was the interview and whilst they weren't all comfortable with the idea of one wrong word meaning certain death in the arena, they were all exhausted from their training and all the emotions that had rushed through them throughout the day.

That morning they all woke up, were pulled about by their prep teams and then got into their outfits. They were all reminiscent of their parade outfits and luckily a few of them were a bit better.

When they were all herded into the line, the nerves started to creep in. This was their last chance to get any help from the outside before the games began. No one, apart from Jeff, looked comfortable. Jeff kept looking behind him to smile at Denise, she looked absolutely stunning in her dress and, seeing as he'd probably be dead soon, he wasn't going to pass up the chance to look at a beautiful girl.

After what seemed like an age, they were called into the studio and into their seats.