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Chapter 2- Welcome and Pokémon Battles

Peeta

Gale seems pretty interested in the rooms that we all have. Gale will be moving into my room and Finnick will remain on his own for two reasons. The first reason is Finnick has nightmares and will often talk, thrash around and sometimes even yell in his sleep. The second reason is because Annie gets nightmares often and Finnick is the only one who can calm her down most of the time. Sometimes she ends up having to stay the night in his room.

Finnick and I don't tell this to Gale. We know it would be better for him to learn about our quirks on his own, so he doesn't think we are strange or mental from the beginning. Finnick looks around the room and pulls out a blue DS Lite. It's one nobody has claimed yet so it belongs to Gale. He also goes to the shelf and picks a Pokémon Heart Gold, game, like him and Katniss have, and pops it into the DS. Johanna, Annie and I all have Soul Silver. Gale saw none of this so it comes as a complete surprise to him when it is shoved in his hands. "Welcome to Graceland, Gale. The first thing you should know is we all play video games. The second thing you should know is we all take Pokémon very seriously. You have until tonight at midnight to get as battle ready as you can."

I run my hand through my hair and let out a chuckle that turns into a sigh as Gale turns to me and gives me a "is he serious?" look. I pull my DS out of my back pocket as a response. "Don't worry about it. It's just something we do. Although, if you really want to fit in, I recommend you do as he says." I lower my breath even further. "I also recommend you get a Totodile as your first choice. Annie's Typhlosion is killer." Gale lets out a huffy breath and I laugh. Finnick goes back into the living room where everyone else is and I show him around our floor.

"This hallway on the right is where the guys stay. There are two rooms with a connecting bathroom. Across the hall is a storage closet where toilet paper and extra towels are kept. The door right next to it is technically a laundry room, but we converted it into a mini kitchen. The laundry room is the first door on the left on the girl's side of the house. The girls come over here for food, and we go over there for laundry. We get stuck doing all the dishes, sweeping and mopping though. The girls actually do the laundry and fold everything, so it is a fair trade." Gale looks like he is struggling to keep up with everything I am saying, so I give him a reassuring pat on the back. Beside the stairs is an elevator for us all to use, but we seldom use it. I only use it when my leg starts to hurt, as it is right now. When it hurts, I typically use my crutches to support me as well, since I am prone to accidents. I grab them out of the corner of Gale's and my room before we go downstairs. "Do you mind if we take the elevator? We're going to the first floor so I can show you around from the bottom to the top."

Gale shrugs. "What's up with your leg? Did you twist an ankle or something?" I knew the big reveal would have to come sooner or later. I lean down and pull up my jeans until I reach skin, right where my knee should be is where my fake leg ends. "Oh, I'm sorry, dude. I didn't know."

"Don't even worry about it." We step onto the elevator and let the metal box take us down. I hate riding the elevator. I hate enclosed spaces where I can't get out of in case of an emergency. It freaks me out to no end. I am relieved when we can finally step off.

"So I'm sure you saw the first floor when you first came here, but I want to show you around a bit better." Gale nods and follows me to the kitchen. "This is the kitchen." The kitchen is very nice, with teal paint and silver plating on the walls and white cabinets. In the middle of the kitchen is a huge tan and black granite island. By the door of the kitchen are two ovens and on the opposite wall is a microwave. There are two silver fridges lining the wall, with a sink and dishwasher between them. "Most of the time Effie will be cooking, or there will be a volunteer group of some sort. Most people think it is an easy way to earn volunteer hours. Effie will probably start cooking in the next hour. On the white board on this fridge, it says who will be making dinner. In the other fridge, there is stuff of make sandwiches. We mostly have those for lunch." Gale looks around and smiles, but suddenly looks confused. There aren't any tables in the kitchen, just a lot of empty space.

"Are there no tables in here?" He asks. Most of us wondered the same thing when we first came here. I wave him along and show him to the dining room. There are two big brown tables, each able to hold ten people. The dining room leads into another living room, one that is homier, with a fire place. It is the place where we put all the decorations up, come holiday season. "This place it, admittedly, really cool."

I smile and laugh. "Yeah, I guess it is." I remember feeling the exact same way.

We make our way up to the second floor where Effie is rocking a baby boy to sleep. "The baby Effie is carrying is Hunter. He was abandoned here. We assume he had a teenage mother but we all got to help decide his name. The name Hunter was actually Katniss' idea for a name. We thought it suited him well." The baby with light brown hair was almost asleep.

Gale holds out a hand to me as he makes his way over to a little girl with blond pigtails I don't recognize. I assume it is his sister. "Hey, Posy. Did you make some friends?"

Posy smiles and hugs her older brother, and holds up her hands so she picks her up. He obliges and takes her over to where the other two children in the age group are playing. "This is Daliah and…" She pauses as she is thinking, trying to remember the little boy's name. "This is Louis."

Gale places a big kiss on the girl's cheek. "Good job! Go back and play with your friends. I'm going to go play with mine." Posy jumps out of Gale's arms and runs to a battered teddy bear I assume she brought with her.

"Ready to go?" I ask him. He nods and makes his way to the elevator, me following behind on my crutches. I thought it was cool how differently Gale acted with his sister. The way his face lit up, it was obvious there was no one more important to him than his siblings.

When we get to the third floor, there are four kids, three boys and a girl, playing a game of Sorry. "Gale, this is Thea, Daniel and Toby. They are the other people in your brother's age group." The group of kids look up and wave. They all are close in age to Vick, Thea being a year older, Daniel being a year younger and Toby being the youngest at only eight years old. The group looks like they are having fun so we decide to go up to the next floor.

I explain to Gale on the elevator that Toby is Johanna's younger brother and everyone on the next floor, save Rue, is related to someone in our age group.

When we get there Rue, Daisy and Eloise are working on their summer projects and Prim and Rory are on the couch. "Gale, the blonde girls at the table are Finnick's sisters, Daisy and Eloise. The girl with them is Rue." The girls all looked up and waved. "The blonde girl at the couch with your brother is Primrose, Katniss' sister. We all call her Prim." Prim looked up and waved at the pair of boys and Rory winked at his brother, causing Gale to roll his eyes.

"Nice to meet you all." He said before making his way upstairs smiling and shaking his head. I am not sure if the guy didn't talk much, or if he was just nervous about the new place. I don't care either way. We go up the last flight of stairs, instead of taking the elevator. I just carry my crutches under my arm.

"Well, that was the house. I recommend you get started on your game. We take that game far more seriously than we should and wouldn't want you to lose too badly." Gale waves for me to follow him to his room and smiles.

"I don't think you'll have to worry about me not taking the game seriously." He passes me back the DS Finn gave him and pulls out his own, a Heart Gold game all ready to go in there. "My Feraligater is ready to take on whatever is thrown at it." I laugh and put the DS and game back on the shelf and grab my own.

Annie

Well, I really didn't expect the new guy to have his own game. I didn't expect it to be the one we needed him to have either. It makes everything for us so much easier.

I sit on the blue beanbag with my white DS out and ready to go. I'm trying to get some last minute things done before the tradition. All of us are. Finnick, who is sitting beside me, is fishing with his virtual character to train. I am too. I know Gale said he had a Feraligater so I need to figure out strategies to use against him. Goodness, we are all such jerks. I hear Katniss growl in frustration as Peeta beats her in a battle. I have no idea how he managed to do that. The girl uses a lot of fire types while he uses a lot of grass types.

I alternate between my Typhlosion, Firelight, and Dragonair, Trinity, a lot because those are the two I can count on the most. My Vaporeon, Lily, is really good in battle too but I usually partner her with my Ninetails, Princess. That just leaves my Lugia, Twila to partner with my Pidgeot, Freckles. They are all really strong, but I don't know what Gale is going to bring.

Finnick can feel my unease and pulls me in for a small hug. "Hey, don't worry, Ann. Everything will be alright. Don't you worry."

I feel a small blush creep across my face. I can feel the butterflies parading in my stomach. I can feel my worries slowly melting away. Only Finnick has ever been able to get that kind of reaction out of me. Even though there was nothing romantic about the gesture, I can still myself melting, like if he ever kissed me.

"Annie?" He asks. I realize I've zoned out completely while thinking about him. I wasn't looking at him, but rather at my hands. I've had fits where I've gone hours without moving, just completely zoned out. I figure this time though I couldn't have been zoned out for more than a couple minutes.

I zone out because my mother made me insane. That's what everyone says, at least. I'll have nightmares in the middle of the night where I am screaming for my mother to stop.

I sigh and look up. There she is, in front of me. "No!"

"Annie, you ugly, useless girl, what are you doing now?" Her voice, it's chips of ice stabbing my heart. I cover my eyes with my hands and my ears with my thumb. I am trembling now. "Stupid girl! I'm going to make you better. Don't you understand that? You're eyes are ugly. Bright green, like the man who raped me. You look just like him. You're fat like him. You're hair is ugly and dark like his was. You will never be good enough for anyone."

Mom is grabbing my wrists and forcing them off of my eyes. "Come and get it, you stupid girl!" Her hand makes contact with my face and I scream.

I'm crying. I can feel sticky wet tears stream down my face. "Please! Please stop! I'm sorry. Please stop!" My screams are piercing now; I am thrashing my arms and legs out of desperation to keep her away.

"Annie!" I first think the voice belongs to my mother, but the words are too soft and calming. "Annie, you are safe. You are not there. You are in Graceland." I try to thrash around again but I'm being held by an invisible force. "Annie, we won't hurt you. Annie, everything else is fake. Annie, we all love you. Annie, come back to us and be safe."

I give into the voice and close my eyes, trying to ignore mother's presence. Maybe she'll just go away, if I believe hard enough. Maybe if I give into the voice then she can't inject me with anything else. I can only hope. I close my eyes and let myself be taken away. When I open my eyes again, I am crying and Finnick is holding me captive in his arms.

I suddenly realize I've just had another episode. Mother wasn't there and everything I felt that caused me pain, I caused myself. I am crying and Finnick is rubbing my back, making sure I am calm down.

By the time I do calm down, it is time for dinner. Finnick drapes an arm over my shoulder and leads me carefully down the stairs so I don't hurt myself. I tend to get dizzy and disoriented after episodes.

I'm sure that someone explained to Gale what happened to me. I hope he understands, doesn't think I'm too crazy. Sometimes volunteers will come up here and something will trigger a fit and they think I am crazy. I hate it.

Finnick seems to notice my distress and he leans down and whispers in my ear. "Peeta explained it to Gale. Gale doesn't think you're crazy. You aren't crazy Annie."

I look back up at him with fearful eyes. "Finn, even at school I am known as the mad girl."

Finnick squeezes my shoulder. "That's why I made myself get held back, remember? I did that so you wouldn't be bullied."

I shake my head. "They still do it." We enter the dining room and Finnick pulls out a chair between him and Effie for me to sit at. Effie knows to keep the younger kids away from me when this happens. I don't like to talk about my incidents.

Effie stands up at our table once everyone is seated. The food smells really good but we aren't allowed to eat yet. "Who will pray for our food?"

Peeta volunteers and once he has completed his prayer, we all get served and start to eat. Finnick makes our plates. He never allows me to make my own because I hardly put food on my plate otherwise. He puts a bed of white rice with boneless rosemary, thyme and basil chicken, topped off with a cream of mushroom soup based sauce with sesame seed, rosemary and white wine in the sauce. Effie out did herself with the meal. Finnick starts to give me the pate with more food, but I grab the other one before he can set it down in front of me.

The table conversations eventually rise to a dull roar but I hear none of them. The six of us are having little conversation, but we can all tell we are thinking of our upcoming tournament tonight. When we complete our meals we go upstairs. It is the fourth floors turn to do clean up tonight, since we did it last night.

Finnick lets me sit down before he jumps on top of the huge coffee table in the center of the room. "We will start our tournament at midnight!" He announces, being his goofy self. "At this time though, let us welcome the newest member to Graceland by letting us embark on a tournament while watching a movie of his choice. Rules: No horror movies since they tend to scare me." That is a lie. Finnick loves horror movies, but he knows I am terrified of them, and quite often they can trigger a panic attack in me. "You get to pick the moves until midnight. At midnight, we will watch The Princess Bride, since that is tradition to have going on during the battle."

Gale looks at Finn weird, especially when he announces the part about The Princess Bride. "Why that movie? Of all the ones you could have going as a background movie, why that one?"

I speak up this time. "We use that movie because it is a perfect movie for everyone, and it was the background movie during the first tournament Finnick and I did."

Gale shrugs and goes to our collection of movies. "Wow! You still have a VCR player?" We smirk and let him look through our collection. He finally settles on X-Men First Class.

He pops it into the player and we all turn on our DS', preparing for the biggest battle yet.

Come midnight, we are all ready and Finnick has a tournament bracket planned out. The first battle is between Gale and Katniss, the second between Peeta and me and the third between him and Jo. Finnick pops in the movie and we all gather around Gale and Katniss.

It is a close battle. Gale's Feraligator takes down Katniss' Typhlosion, but her Raichu takes down his Feraligator and Fearow. Her Raichu is knocked out by his Ariados but his Ariados is knocked out by her Alakazam. Her Alakazam is knocked out by his Forretress which is destroyed by her Azumarill. His Electrabuzz knocks out her Azumarill and Gligar, but is knocked out by her Flareon. Eventually it comes down to her Flareon and his Jolteon. Gale comes out on top by a narrow victory.

Second, Peeta and I battle. It isn't much of a contest. My Typhlosion slaughters his Meganium and Beedrill. He knocks out my Typhlosion with his Flareon, but I knock it out with my Vaporeon. His Vileplume knocks out my Vaporeon, but I knock it out with my Ninetails. His Heracross and Milktank are also knocked out by my Ninetails. Peeta is good at raising his team, but bad at strategy.

Finnick and Johanna are up but she loses just as quickly as Peeta did, losing her Meganium, Noctowl, Arbok, Jolteon, Rapidash and Ho-oh to his Feraligator, Crobat, Sandslash, Arcanine, Vaporeon and Ho-oh.

By the end of the first rounds, we are all hyped up, but Jo and Katniss aren't used to losing, and are trying to come up with ways to get Gale and Finn disqualified. I laugh at their vain attempts.

Finnick jumps back on top of the coffee table. "The first round between Ghostly Gale and Kitty Kat Katniss was won by Ghostly Gale!" We all let out a groan at the nicknames he gives us. He gives us a different one each time we have a tournament, which we have about once a month. "The second round was between Pie Crust Peeta and Annie is Princess was won by Annie the Princess!" He then smirks as he says the next one. "The third and final round was between Finnick the Sexy," We all let out a groan, except for Gale, who just looks confused, at his nickname. "Excuse me! Can I finish? The third round was between Finnick the Sexy and Johanna the Jerk!" We can see her about to go tackle him, but none of us stop her. She pushes him off the table and he sticks his tongue out at her. "The next round will be between Finnick the Sexy and Annie the Princess to see who will play against Ghostly Gale!"

Gale leans over and whispers to me. "Is he always like this?" I nod and Gale lets out a playful groan, but is smiling while he does it. It is pretty impossible to hate Finnick, because everything he is doing is just for fun. He is also nice to anyone he meets. Just one more thing I like about him.

Twenty minutes later, I am declared the winner against Finnick. "Aww, Annie! I thought we were friends!"

I stick my tongue out at him and giggle playfully. "All is fair in love and war, and Pokémon."

Finnick crawls behind me and puts his arms around my waist and suddenly I feel butterflies again. Peeta is raising an eyebrow at me questioningly, but I shrug and shake my head. He nods and shrugs back at me. Besides Finnick, Peeta is probably my best friend. When Finnick isn't around to calm me down, then Peeta is. He can calm me down too, it just takes longer. I don't mind though. Peeta then goes to sit next to us. Katniss and Johanna are backing Gale. The final battle of the night is a lot of fun, but eventually all good things must come to an end. Fortunately, my winning streak isn't one of them. I defeated Gale in thirty minutes. We do a sportsman like handshake. Katniss, Jo and I then all retire to their room, where we just stay up and talk about Gale.

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