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Chapter 13: Allies
"Santana why the hell am I banging on your door every morning!" Quinn yells, smashing her fist into the wood
"Because obviously Rachel likes it there!" Santana yells back
"You have literally ten seconds before I come in there Santana!"
"What about me?" Brittany asks
"You too!" Quinn shouts, still angry
"Bring it on mum." Santana teases and Quinn slams open the door to see both women leaning on the opposite wall, completely ready and laughing their asses off.
"I hate you both!" Quinn yells, sounding less angry due to the fact she can't stop laughing along with them
"What's on the rota for today Quinny?" Santana asks once they've finally got their breath back
"We need to talk about your allegiances" Quinn answers as they walk into the dining area
"I already told you I'm not joining the careers."
"We know." Blaine tells her "But you still need to make allegiances."
"I'd recommend Owen and May." Puck tells her
"No." Santana says flat out "I don't trust them."
"Who do you trust?" Finn asks
"Bex and Leon."
"Of course you do." Mike sighs
"It's my freakin life on the line here!" Santana tells them angrily "Let me make my own freakin decisions, they might be the last freakin ones I ever freakin make." She stands up "I'm going to training." Santana walks out, leaving them all sitting there in silence.
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"Good morning tributes." Dianne drawls "As you probably all know this is your last training session before the private one with the game makers so make the most of it." The circle is full from the beginning and about halfway through the session I notice a pattern. They're all trying to impress me. All of them. True, the careers are already formed, a small group of only four, but even they're trying to impress me; Bruce, Keira, Ben and Kitty, who somehow made it in, are all at their strongest stations, working as hard as they can and sending glances my way every ten seconds. Ben even whistles to try and get my attention. I ignore him. I turn my back on all of them and see that the station furthest away is the sword training station. There's one other person there and it doesn't seem like such a bad option. That is until I realise who it is and by that time it's too late; the instructor is tossing me a sword and telling me and Owen to fight.
"You're not too bad at this." Owen comments as I block his first swing
"You are" I tell him, cutting his legs off. Or, at least it would have been something like that if the swords weren't blunt. Like, completely blunt. He glares at me and I actually find myself enjoying the next few minutes, Owen's actually a really nice guy. After we finish we actually end up going onto the now empty knot tying stall together and he shows me how to do that knot I couldn't do in the first session. I try to think back to what I know about Owen from watching the videos of his games. Then I remember; halfway through he got a long sword sent to him by a sponsor. I mean, Owen wasn't great with the sword that he picked up at the cornucopia but it wasn't until this point that people realised the range was too short. The long-sword was a natural extension of his arm; his games were won in a matter of hours. No one ever knew how he knew how to use the weapon so well; there are a lot of rumours involving his dad though, the man who disappeared after his games.
"Can you teach me how to use a long-sword?" I blurt out, too quickly to catch myself. He looks at me, oh shit he heard.
"Yeah if you teach me how to throw knives." Well I guess that could be bearable. So for the rest of the session we take it in turns to work with each-others weapons. I was actually quite good at the long-sword if I may say so myself and Owen was okay but his aim was always just slightly off. He'd still hurt them though. By the end of training I'm exhausted, that's the most I've worked in a session.
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"You look friggin' exhausted" Alice tells me as I walk in, I shake my head, I am but I'll never be able to get to sleep with my mind still buzzing.
"What's the plan for tomorrow?" I ask, sitting down
"We'll talk tomorrow Alice is right." Quinn says firmly
"No. We'll talk now because yet again you're making decisions for me that I don't want you to make." She glares "I'm not a five year old."
"Fine." Quinn scoffs "Just show off like you did in training, get a good score and hopefully make some allies."
"I don't want allies!"
"Santana it'll make it easier." Blaine tries to tell her but she's having none of it
"No. The last person I allied with was Josephine and look what happened, I started to care what the hell happened to her and I can't afford to add that to my list of weaknesses!"
"Santana you're the songbird." Kurt tells her "People are already talking about you leading the rebellion so if you allies with people they're not going to kill you in your sleep."
"That's not what I'm worried about and…wait what the hell is 'The Songbird'" Santana snaps
"You are." Tina tells her
"It's like your superhero name" Sam tells her "You're like batwoman but better cause like everyone's following you."
"I don't even know what you're talking about Samuel but why the hell am I the freaking 'songbird'." Santana asks "May would be a much better option."
"Because to them you represent fighting." Mike says "You won the last games there ever were after volunteering to save your now wife who you had to fight to be in love with. You're strong and they can all see that."
"I just think it's a waste of their time." Santana sighs "I'm a waste of their time and they'd be much better with Owen as 'The Fish' or May as the…whatever the hell she is something heartless"
"Come on Santana she can't be that bad" Rosie jokes
"Yeah she must have some kind of heart" Mercedes agrees
"Yeah buried under all that evil." Santana snarls "I'm going to bed."
"Thought you weren't tired." Quinn smirks
"I am now."
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Okay so next chapter will be the private training session so what should Santana do that is linked in some way to what was in the original book?
Also any ideas for the arena are welcome!
Review pleasexxx