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Chapter 4
Soon as Panem's anthem is over, a group of peacekeepers leads us through the Justice building's entrance, where I am taken alone to a room. Now, it is the time the capitol gives me to say goodbye to family and friends before the games start.
Margaret and my aunt come in first. She jumps on my lap and hugs me, while our aunt hugs our both. We stay like that for a minute, apreciating what can be our last time together. They let go of me, and I start reminding them of all the things they have to do since I won't be there to do for them.
It won't be hard. They can survive by the milk of Margaret's goat and from the store for mystic fall's people aunt Jenna has.
" Damon is going to bring you food everyday, and probaably won't ask anything for it" I reassure them. "But you should pay him somehow." I add fast. Damon is my best friend and is going to take care of my family for me. He deserves to have some kind of payment.
I finnish instructing them by saying how going to school is important, and influenciating Margaret on her dream to be a cheerleader. I want them to be happy.
"Promise you'll try really hard to win for me." She says.
I know I have no chance of winning this games, and deep down, so does she. This competition needs skills that I don't have and are ilegal, including how to kill vampires.
" I promise I'll try!" I tell her, so she still keeps some hope. And I'll really have to try anyways, for Margaret.
The peacekeepers take them away and all I have time to say before they shut the door is that I love them very much.
My next visitor is someone I never thought: Stefan's father! We stay silent for a few minutes, until he reaches for his pocket and gives me a cookie's bag.
"Thanks" I say, and he nods.
"I'll take care of your sister. Make sure she is eating properly." He says, and I haven't got words to say how much I am grateful for that.
My last visitor is Damon. There is nothing romantic between us, but when he offers me a hug, I take no time on accepting it. He seems to have been crying, and this breaks my heart badly. Damon isn't supposed to cry. He is supposed to be the bad guy and a great friend.
"Listen." He says, very softly "you need to get a bow, it is your best shot at winning."
"They may not..."
"Then make one yourself." He interrupts me.
"I don't even know if there are going to be trees in the arena!"
" Trees are almost always there." I nod at this.
"Elena, this is nothing but a hunt. You are the best hunter I know! You know how to kill!"
"Animals" I state, quietly. Damon looks deep inside my eyes.
"It's not different." He says, and the worst part is that he is right.
The peacekeepers take him away too fast, and the last thing I say to him is to take care of my family.
"You know I will! Just remeber that I..." The peacekeepers close the door and I'll never know what he wanted me to remember.
After that, me and Stefan are lead to the train station, where there are lots of cameras. I state that Stefan have been crying, and that almost brings tears to my own eyes, altough I have no idea why.
We get inside the train, and I have to hold myself not to fall at it's speed. At this rate, we will get to the capitol by tomorrow. Each one of us recieve a very fancy bedroom, with a bathroom and a closet.
I take a shower and dress up, making my way towards what I think that is a dinning room. My guess is right, as I see Stefan sitting on a chair, with a plate in hands.
"Where is Alaric?" I hear Isobel asking.
"The last time I saw him, he said he was going to take a nap." Stefan answered simply, and Isobel seems relieved. But honestly, who could blame her? He used to be a vampire slayer!
The dinner is completely perfect, but there is so much food that I can't eat it all. I'm not used to that. And, judging by Stefan's green face, neither is he.
After dinner, we watch a rerun of all of the other reapings. Some tributes catch my attention. The male vampire from district 2, the witch with a foxface from 5, a bou with problems on it's foot from 10 and a girl from district 11. She doesn't seem human at all, and I'm surprised to find a witch living on one of the human's districts.
Right after we are done watching it, Alaric comes in with a bottle os whiskey in hands, pukes on the floor and falls on is own puke. I can't help but to laugh a little.
"Keep laughing!" Isobel says, angrily, and Stefan starts laughing too.
She leaves the room pissed, what only makes us laugh more, and we are left alone with an very drunk Alaric to deal with.
A/N: I bet you guys didn't know that happened on the books, did ya? Things will change a lot from the books and movies once we start with the games, and...
Stefan: "Hey! Don't spoil them!"
Me: "Fine!"
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