A/N: Thanks for the reviews, and don't worry with Stefan, I took care of him last night... *Evil grin* and I think you'll get surprised with who Cesar is… (I can tell he is one of the originals) Hope you all Enjoy!

Chapter 10

Hurt. That is the first thing that comes on my mind, and yet, it is so wrong. Guess that I expected a little more from the boy that saved my life years before, and borrowed me his jacket, not long ago.

But I don't have the right to be hurt. This is the game where you have to do everything you can to keep alive. And if keeping distant from me is going to help him to do that, who am I to disagree?

"Nice. So how are we going to train now?" I avoid eye contact with Stefan the whole time.

"Each of you will have four hours with Isobel to train for the interviews and for hours with me to train for the games. You start with Isobel, Elena." Alaric says, and I leave the room, as fast as I had gone in, with Isobel right behind me.

We spend our four hours trying to make me look nice to the audience during the interviews, and she likes her work very much, giving the grin she gives me when our time is over.

With Alaric, I get a few tactics on how to kill vampires, and what can I use to do so. By the end, we train my abilities with the audience for a little longer, and when he feels that I am good enough, he lets me go. I decide to skip dinner and call it night, in order to avoid Stefan.

The next day, John and the preparation team work with me the whole day, to make sure I was completely stunning to the interviews tonight.

At the very end, John asks me to close my eyes as they dress me up, with something that I can think that is a dress. He helps me to find my way to my heels and I get curious.

"May I open my eyes?"

"Yes" He answers, his voice indicating he is impressed with what he is seeing. When I open my eyes, I also get very impressed.

My dress has an intense blood color, and the jewels that are on it seem to move every time I move a little. It gives me the impression of girl of vampires that John has fought so hard to give me.

"Thank you so much John!"

"You don't have to thank me." I smile at that.

"So, everything ready to the interviews?" He says, unable to hide the excitement.

"As ready as I can be" I answer, as we make our way to the elevators.

When we get to the interviews' backstage, I see my preparation team, Alaric, Isobel and also Stefan's preparation team, along with him.

No matter how mad I am with him, he seems… no, he IS completely handsome tonight, on the clothes his stylist gave him.

We don't have much time to receive complements from our stylists before the interviews start.

Mikael, the interviewer, looks very fancy tonight on his vampire clothes. The original family is responsible for everything around here. They control the games and the whole Panem. Sometimes one of the originals volunteers for the games, and often wins. Even if he or she doesn't, they don't really die, since no white oaks are in the games to do that. This year, the original vampire on the games is Kol. And he seems very certain that he will win.

Each interview takes no more than three minutes, and soon enough is already district eleven tributes' turn.

The girl, now identified as Bonnie Bennett, is very polite. She conquers the audience in no time, but when Mikael asks her what she is up to, she doesn't say anything, but by the smirk on her face, she is definitely up to something.

The boy, named Luka, also remind me a lot of the witches. He is tall and definitely strong, but also very quiet about everything. Soon as his turn is over, now it is my turn.

I go on stage and the audience receives me with a round of applauses. I sit next to Mikael, who shakes my hand.

"So, Elena, you are from district 12, right? What did you like the most about the capitol?"

"The food." I answer, and the audience laughs, so does he.

"When I saw you on that carriage, my heart almost stopped. What did you think of that clothes you were wearing?"

"You mean right after I stopped praying not to burn down in flames?" Again, everyone laughs.

"Yeah, start by that."

"I thought it was brilliant. Actually, every clothes John makes me are perfect. Have you seen what I am wearing tonight?" I stand up and walk, so the clothes have their effect, and people sigh, admired.

"Do that again." Mikael asks, clearly hypnotized by my "bloody dress", as I called it. I keep rotating until time is over, and I am completely dizzy.

"From district 12, Elena Gilbert, the girl of vampires!" Mikael declares and I go off stage.

Due to my dizziness, I lost half of Stefan's interview, but I could see he had the audience at his feet.

"So, Stefan, a handsome guy like you must have a girl waiting at home, right?" Mikael asks.

"Well, there is this one girl that I had a crush on, like, forever. But she didn't realize I existed until the reaping day" He sighs, and the whole audience sighs with him.

"Does she have a boyfriend?"

"I don't know. Many guys like her, and she is mad at me."

"Here is an idea, you win the games and go home. She will have to go out with you!" Stefan shakes his head.

"It's not going to help in this case."

"Why not?" Mikael asks, frustrated.

"Because she came here with me."

A/N: Let's stop here for now, shall we? Liked it? Hated it? Review!