So now the remaining tributes have a week at home before they are whisked off to the Capitol for the second and final round of these games. Any time for being treated by the Capitol is included in this. This chapter is quite short compared to my other ones so sorry about that. Hope you enjoy and please review :)

Iris Hound D2

I didn't need any treatment after the first round. Seeing as I was only in there for a couple of hours and I didn't get wounded they let me out of the hospital within half a day. They gave me some special Capitol cream to put on my back but that's all. I must have been hit with something there or fallen on it but I don't feel a thing. They released the final list for the district victors yesterday. Of course Yoko and I from 2. A brother and sister from 1. A 12-year-old from 7 which is extremely surprising. She must be good. There's also a 13 and a 14-year-old from 8 and 3. Both girls. Most of the other people range from 16-18 with a couple at 15. That's not surprising though. It'll just make this next round even harder to win. I will win it though.

For the last few days, i have been with my family. I've been going round saying goodbye to people. I don't know why, I just guess there's a part of me that thinks I might not come back, or that when I do eventually come back, I won't be the same person. Oh well.

I've gone to the training centre each day too. I need to get in as much practice as possible for these games. Not so much in fighting but definitely in the survival skills. These will be very important and could be the difference between life and death. It's all very well-being able to kill someone in 1000 ways but if you can't light a fire in the games, of catch a rabbit for food or know the difference between poisonous and edible berries, you're as good as dead. I think that's why careers die out quite quickly some years, because they're all amazing fighters but when it comes to staying alive, they're about as good as a 12-year-old in the bloodbath.

In 2 days I go to the Capitol so in just over a weeks time, I'll be in the arena again. It's not too daunting though. I'll be coming home, I know I will.

Connectus Jones D3

It still hasn't quite sunk in yet. I survived the first round and will go onto the Capitol games. I have been awarded another week to spend with my family, well it's actually about 5 days because I was in the hospital for 2. They had to treat my wounds, I had a huge gash running all the way down my left leg. I only realised I had that when I won and pain began to be felt properly again. Within a day of careful resting all my wounds were healed up thanks to the amazing Capitol medicine. The next day was just making sure I was OK to go back into the world and be independent.

I got given a tribute list the other day. I'm the 3rd youngest on there, behind a 13 year old from 8 and a 12 year old from 7. That's ridiculous. How on earth did a 12 year old get into the 2nd round. She must be absolutely amazing, or just very lucky, like me. I certainly don't deserve to be here.

My father and siblings were over the moon at me surviving. Because I won out of the girls from our district, I was given a victors house in the victors village and even if I die, which I will, in the 2nd round, they will live off a victor's salary for the rest of their days. At least I can die in peace, knowing that they will be alright.

Tomorrow I will get onto a train and taken to the Capitol. I will know how the 2376 boys and girls felt before me. 2376 people have competed in the games for the previous 99 games, with only 99 actually coming out. That's a disgusting statistic, but that's the nature of the games, and by the nature of the games, I will join that statistic of deaths very soon.

Danny Draddock D9

It probably hasn't sunk in for most of the other tributes either that they're into the next round, all except the careers. I can't even begin to imagine what they'll be like in this next round. They're the best of the best. I brush the thought away, all I want to think of now is caring for my mother. After my games, she took a turn for the worst and is gravely ill. I took her to the district hospital with my new money but even they're finding it hard to treat her. 40 years of starvation hasn't been very good for her and she's very weak. I moved into the house the other day. It's enormous so i invited my aunt and her 3 year old to come and live with us. I might as well do 1 good deed before I die. Well, I mean I do have a chance of winning, but it's miniscule, especially against these careers.

After the games, they had to treat my wounds. The one that went into my waist didn't go deep so that healed up quick but the one into my ankle shattered a bone. It hurt loads when I got it and it still does. They healed the wound and gave me some cream from the Capitol to put onto it. They let me go within 2 days but told me not to put too much weight on it. It should be alright by the train ride. I'll never get sponsors if I'm weak.

Of course I have been with my mother and my aunt but I have been going around the District being friendly to people and giving money to the poor. Maybe the district will give something back when I'm starving to death in the arena as thanks, maybe not but I want to go into the arena knowing that my district will be OK. I visit Melissa, my district partner everyday and our awkwardness at first has turned into a friendship. We get along very will and I know we have only known each other for a couple of days, but she is the only 1 that understands how horrible the arena was. I hope we can ally in the next arena, whatever it may be.

In 3 days, we will be escorted to the Capitol by Quetz Himmle and dressed up and paraded around before our near-certain deaths.

Katniss Everdeen D12

The last few days have been packed with drinking and sleeping. The same for Thomas. Having to watch 48 of District 12s poor children massacred. I've tried to be nice to Blake and Lea, our victors, but it's just so hard. Near impossible in fact. I just can't stop seeing the faces of the 46 other boys and girls.

Watching the highlights of the other games has been horrible too. I mean, watching 552 children die! It's disgusting. I really can't take it anymore, so this is why I'm drinking. I guess Thomas is feeling the same, I mean he cant feel happy at all. I've been a wreck all week and in 3 days, we go to the Capitol. I really need to get out of bed and up my game a bit. I don't want to go to the Capitol feeling like this.

They gave us the list and I'm surprised by the young ones, the 12, 13 and 14 year old girls from 7, 8 and 3. Everyone else is 15-18, which doesn't surprise me, Simone from here is 15, she only won by luck, she didn't kill anyone until the end. She just ran around screaming and hiding for the rest of it. I bet she'll pick up loads of sponsors.

I go downstairs and pour some cereal for myself, the first thing apart from vodka that I've consumed this week. Over the years, I've grown to sort of enjoy my time in the Capitol. I mean I hate what they do to 24 children a year, 576 this year, but I like seeing my fellow victor friends there and they treat me so well there. I'm not going to enjoy this one, I just know it.