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Chapter 7: Nightmare
The audience were all sent out before the tributes could leave so the rest of the glee club was gone by the time I was allowed to leave. I head towards the elevator, hoping I get my own. I can't cope with talking to anyone other than my friends and family right now. I especially can't cope with Kitty. Just as the elevator comes in I hear footsteps behind me and see May headed to the same elevator
"Ugh" she says as she comes up to me "I hate my costume, you looked stunning."
"Thanks but you look good too" I tell her, stepping into the elevator, nearly moaning in defeat as she gets in too
"Hardly. My designer sucks." She rolls her eyes "Yours is really good though. I mean, the dress you wore in your first opening ceremony was amazing. I just wanted to rip it off your back." I'm sure she did. Along with a few inches of my flesh. May won the games seven years before me at the age of fourteen. She didn't pretend to be weak like me but people thought she was because she was tiny and only just fourteen. By the time everyone realised she was a vicious killer it was too late. I'm pretty damn well glad once I get out of the elevator on my floor.
"What took so long?" Quinn asks me as I walk through
"The audience took forever to clear out and then there was the awkward conversation with May in the elevator."
"As in May May?"
"No." I answer sarcastically "Oh by the way Kurt she loves your work"
"Really?" He asks
"Yeah. Apparently she wanted to rip the dress I wore at my opening ceremony right off my back."
"Wanky!" Puck teases
"Uh uh uh" I shake my head jokingly at him
"I was thinking more along the lines of along with her flesh" Alice points out, I nod in agreement and plonk down on Brittany's lap
"My dress!" Kurt complains
"What it's not like I'm going to wear it again." I tell him, leaning into Brittany as we watch the repeats.
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After a quiet dinner we head up to bed. Britt and I managed to get the master bedroom to ourselves but something inside me is nagging that sleep might not be such a good idea. That something was right.
"Santana!" It's Brittany screaming. I look around me, I'm in a forest. No, not a forest, the arena. I run to Brittany's screams and find May and Owen pinning her and my children to a tree. I try to move to save them but my feet are stuck
"Mami help us!" Marcus screams, but I can't, suddenly a new scream echoes through the forest and Kitty comes into our part holding Alice in her arms. Dead. I try to scream but nothing comes out. I can only watch as all the other victors come into the clearing and kill my family. Brittany's the last. I scream at May to stop, to kill me instead but she doesn't hear me. I watch Brittany bleed to death on the floor.
"You're worthless." I hear her voice
"You could have helped us" Alice
"Mami why didn't you save us?" Sky cries
"Santana this is your fault." I turn to the other side of the clearing and see the man I haven't seen in over five years. My father. My mum comes out behind him as he walks up to me. I can't run, I can't scream, I just watch as he spits on their bodies before coming up to me. I see a close up of his wedding ring in my face before I hear a scream. It's mine.
"Santana wake up!" my dad says, I feel myself being shaken "It's just a dream baby, wake up!" It's Brittany's voice coming out his mouth
"Santana wake up!" She pleads, I open my eyes and grab onto her as tightly as I can
"Did I wake you up?"
"You were screaming honey. What happened?"
"All of you, they killed all of you."
"Who?"
"The victors. They killed Alice and they killed the kids then they killed you and I couldn't stop them! Then my dad was there"
"You haven't had nightmares about him for years" Brittany tells me, worried
"I guess this situation is bringing it all back" The bell rings signalling we need to go to breakfast but I don't feel like it and Brittany can see that
"Shall we see if this hotel does room service?" I nod thankfully. It does and she orders us bacon and eggs with steaming mugs of hot chocolate. We meander to get ready, not in a rush to get downstairs until Quinn bashes on our door
"You guys better get out of that room in the next five minutes!" She yells "We have big news!"
"Are the games over?" I ask, sarcastically but wishing it could be true
"No but there's still news so hurry up!"
"Coming!" Brittany tells her. We still take as long as possible to finish getting ready before walking slowly to the dining room
"Where were you?" Quinn asks angrily as we walk in "You're late"
"Well sorry for sleeping in but nightmares kept me up half the night" I say, my voice catching on the end of the sentence
"They're back?" Alice asks, worried, I nod. Rachel looks like she wants to give a speech on the importance of punctuality but bites her tongue
"So, what's the big news?"
"A group training scheme is being initiated." Rachel tells me
"Meaning?"
"Meaning you have to train in a hall with the rest of the tributes using President White's hired trainers." Quinn tells me "It's so no one can hide their talents" She explains
"So it's my fault. Great, another reason for them to hate me." I sigh "Any more news?"
"I managed to get us tapes of all the hunger games whose victors you'll be competing against" Puck says proudly "if we watch them we can see how all of them fight and give you an extra edge in the arena"
"So you want me to be a career?" I raise an eyebrow
"No, just to train like one"
"Is that it?"
"Yeah," Quinn tells me "training's at ten, you have a quarter of an hour to get into this" She passes me a bag; I roll my eyes before going to put what I assume is my 'training suit' on. It's latex and skin tight, only not covering my hands and head
"This is ridiculous" I tell them as I walk in before smirking as I see the look on Brittany's face "Britt you've got a bit of drool there" She blushes and hides her face. I turn to the glee club
"What's the plan in there?"
"Don't hide anything," Tina tells me, I nod in understanding
"Show off" Mike adds
"Also make some friends" Quinn tells me
"No." I say flat out "I don't trust any of them, I'd rather work alone."
"That won't work" Puck tries to convince me "Most of them know each other, they have friendships from hanging backstage whilst they were still in McKinley so who do you think they're going to target first?"
"Me." I tell him "And nothing I do is going to stop them"
"You can fight." Alice tells me "You're a favourite with the crowd already. You just have to let them know you're prepared to be allies"
"I'm not being a career" I scowl
"You don't need to be" Mercedes reassures "You just need to make some friends"
"This sucks" I sigh before heading out to the 'training centre'
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Parallels?