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Chapter 13

Percy pov

Percy took the elevator back up to the twelfth floor. When the elevator doors opened Effie, Haymitch, and Danica immediately ambushed him, while Cinna stayed back a little bit. All three of them started asking questions all at once; "What did you do?", "what were the game makers' reaction?", "Did you embarrass me?" (That last one was Effie.)

"Woah woah woah, I have no idea how I did," Percy said trying to fend off the pack of hungry wolves. "I guess we'll just wait till later tonight."

"What did you do during your evaluation?" Haymitch pressed not satisfied with Percy's answer.

"I did some sort of obstacle course," Percy answered.

"Did you make it all the way to the end?' Haymitch asked. Percy just gave him a look in response.

"Hey that's always the first step, you'd be surprised how many tributes fail." Haymitch said, "what was your final score?"

"One-oh-six." Percy answered.

"What?" Haymitch sounded confused, "that's not possible."

"Why not?" Percy asked.

"The score only go's up to one hundred." Haymitch said still sounding confused.

"Weird…" Percy pondered what Haymitch said for a second before saying brightly, "Oh Well! What's done is done. Where's dinner I'm starving."

"It won't be served until Katniss returns," Effie answered.

Just then the elevator dinged and the door opened revealing a rather frustrated Katniss. "What happened to you sweetheart?" Haymitch asked.

"I…nothing," Katniss lied terribly.

"You're a really bad liar," Percy smirked, "your voice goes up an octave and your left ear wiggles a bit."

Katniss blushed giving Percy a glare. "Katniss if something's wrong you should tell us," Cinna said with concern.

"It's just I might have kinda sorta… shot an arrow at the game makers? Ok?" Katniss said with uncertainty.

"There are many words to describe what you just said," Haymitch said, "but ok is not one I'd use."

"What words would you use," Katniss glared.

"Horrifying, barbaric, heinous," Effie started listing off before Percy could stop her. "Thanks Effie the human thesaurus. But I think that's quite enough," Haymitch said.

Effie gave Haymitch a murderous look that he simply shrugged off.

Percy couldn't help himself, and started laughing, "You might just be the craziest girl I've ever met," everybody started laughing easing the tension in the room.

"Come on we can't change it now," Cinna said beckoning everyone into the dining room, "let's just eat and see what happens."

Katniss pov

Katniss was thankful to Percy for being Percy. He just found a way to ease the tension out of every situation. All the attention was only making her get angry again, and she was dangerously close to wringing Effie's neck. Katniss just couldn't help herself. Those stupid game makers were more obsessed with their stupid pig then doing their job. She felt guilty though too. She made a promise to win the games and make it back to her family. How could she say she was keeping that promise when she purposefully angered the game makers?

Katniss didn't have much of an appetite, for she was feeling too guilty to eat thinking of Gale's and her own families. Katniss pushed her spoon around in the lamb stew making vegetables and lamb float aimlessly. She briefly wondered what would happen if she didn't make it out of the games. How long would Prim and her mom survive? Surely Gale couldn't feed his own family as well as Katniss's for too long by himself? She pushed the thoughts from her head. She couldn't dwell on that right now.

After dinner everyone gather in the entertainment room to watch the scores. Suddenly the symbol of the capitol showed on screen and the anthem blared. After a couple seconds a table almost like a news anchor table appeared with Claudius Templesmith and Caesar Flickerman greeting the audience. A few jokes were shared and some analysis on first appearances was given. She was too nervous to pay attention, but she caught a comment about the stark contrast between the two personalities of the tributes from district twelve. "Now I'm sure you're all dying to hear the scores, Caesar began.

"As are we," Claudias chipped in. "…But remember to tune in after for initial reactions. Now without further ado let's see them." Caesar said with excitement. The anthem began playing in the background again

A picture with each tribute's face would appear on screen for a few seconds before a big silver number would appear underneath that was boomed out live by Claudias Templesmith. No surprise the career kids all got high scores. Marvel got a nine, Glimmer got an eight, and Clove and Cato both got a ten. The male tribute from three, Alton, got a five. The female tribute from three, Fate, got a six. The male tribute form district four got a four and the female got an eight. This continued on for a while with most tributes getting low scores. Katniss saw the district eleven male, Thresh, got a ten, and was happily surprised when she saw the little girl, Rue, got a seven. Not a bad score, especially for someone so young. Finally she saw Percy's face appear on the screen giving the viewers a lop sided grin. Finally a number appeared on screen. A twelve? Have they ever even given a twelve? Apparently Katniss wasn't the only one shocked, because even Claudias was hesitant to read the number. No one in the room was quite sure what to do. Suddenly Katniss's own stoic expression appeared on screen. After a couple seconds an eleven appeared. This time Claudias didn't hesitate. Haymitch shut the T.V off and the room was silent. Suddenly Percy clapped Katniss on the shoulder. She looked up and saw him smiling over her. "Way to go "girl on fire"."

Suddenly the tension was broken and everyone had gone berserk. Effie was giddy from excitement form having the highest scoring duo in Hunger Games history. "Oh this is wonderful! Katniss! Percy! Congratulations. This is absolutely fantastic! I knew all the suffering I'd gone through would finally pay off!"

Katniss saw Danica give Percy a hug and he started blushing. Katniss didn't know why it annoyed her. Cinna came over to her.

"See, looks like I won't be the only one betting on you." Cinna gave her a warm smile and held his arms out.

Katniss couldn't help but laugh and hug him back. "I don't know how I got that." She said.

Cinna held her out and looked at her. "You got fire Katniss, anyone can see that, literally and figuratively."

"First twelve ever," Haymitch said still shocked, "This calls for a drink."

"Like you needed a reason," Percy joked.

Maybe not, but you do," He handed everyone glasses of Champaign.

"To maybe not dying a horrible death in the arena," Haymitch said. Everyone raised their glass and drank.

The rest of the night was spent celebrating. Katniss had a few more glasses but began to feel a little flushed and dizzy so she decided to stop. A few hours later she decided to head back to her room. After all, she shouldn't be celebrating before the games had even begun. Now that Percy and herself were the two highest scoring tributes in the game, she knew the careers had placed a big target on their backs. She got ready for bed knowing she had another long day tomorrow.