((-sudden realization- FINNIK is meh mentor! <333 xD))

I sat down on the metal bench in the Justice Building. I looked at the large wooden door across the room from me. I felt a tear begin to gather in the corner of my eye. I snapped my head up.

"No! Think game plan." I whispered to myself. "Know your competition. Jerad; dead  in the blood bath, along with five other boys, at least. All but Jasmine are going to die in the first two days. That one boy... Joseph. He can win. He's got the skills." I said, going through the people and weapons they had skill with. The 19 other people only kept my thoughts occupied for about thirty seconds. I waited, looking at the brown door. I waited. And waited. I heard a low voice from the other side of the door.

"Darek? Darek, is that you?" I said and jumped up to the door. I pressed my ear onto it, listening.

"Yeah, I know. These 4's don't have a chance this year." It was one of the two peace keepers outside of my door. I fell back to my couch.

"Why? Why?!" I almost screamed. "No!" I said just as harshly to myself. I wasn't going to let this get to me. I had to win! I was going to win!

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"T- thank you..." I managed just before the boy closed the curtain and rushed out of the room.
((Yay! Kit now knows how to work the shower ^^ xD))

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I crept quietly around in the long train. I sat down in front of a door. I waited for a moment before a older looking woman with a cart walked up to me. I looked at the cart and immediately plucked a cupcake off of it. After trying a small bite, I took about six more of different colors off of the cart, then waved the woman on. She passed quickly.

After I finished the cupcakes, I stood up. I walked over to the door and opened it. I walked silently into the dining room and spotted a boy.

"Great. You." I muttered under my breath and slipped down into a chair next to Joseph Wolfe.

When Joesph heard someone slide down next to him, he nearly shooed what he thought was an Avox away. When he heard Kit's voice, he responded in a tone that was almost mocking, "if I'm so disturbing to you." He paused. "Why did you sit next to me?" 

"Because," I growled. "We need to talk the game plan. I suggest we first find some sort of water, then make a hide out. Don't worry if you can't do Camo; I'm almost an expert at it. Once we are that far, I suggest we take turns hunting and guarding the Home-Base, if you will. Also, I think that Jasmine would be a good ally. She is the small one with the medium brown hair." I told him. As I said this, the thought crept into my mind that he may not want to be my ally.

No. If you're going to have a chance, Kit, you need him. I thought to myself. An odd thing about me was that I always had someone else in my head. Most of the time even more than one.

"Hunger Games survival tip one; don't listen to the other people in your head." I muttered to myself. "Moving on. Jasmine would be good for natural resources. You can give her ten gallons of Nightlock and put one blue berry in there. She can find that one blue berry, no problem. I didn't see anyone else that I think would be useful." I said, scanning my mental list for the other seventeen people.

"She can stay at the home base while you or I are on guard, that way we can make sure she doesn't try anything with our food supply." I paused and looked at the large dinning room table. "Speaking of food. We better get stocked up. Unless it is either an ocean, desert, or a forest out there, I don't think my snares, bow, and trident will be of much use." I slid a turkey over to my plate and began taking the meat off of the two legs.

"Salt?" I asked Joesph, who was sitting closer to it. I may not have had many manners, being the only one in my family, but I was courteous enough not to reach across someone at the dinner table. I picked up a piece of my meat and began to nibble at it.

"You got any ideas for allies?" I asked him. I looked over at him, my eyes peering deep into his.

((Someone should be Avalia's Ally... She is a career, albeit, a small one XD))

Joesph laughed, "isn't that nice. You think that just because I'm from district four, like you, that I'm automatically your ally? Maybe I don't want to be your ally. Ever thought of that?" He slid the salt over to Kit, avoiding her gaze. Joesph tore a leg from a chicken, gnawing it thoughtfully. Finally he frowned and said carefully, "if you want me to be your ally, fine. It's going to be hell in there anyway, might as well experience it with a buddy." 

"Yeah. It is going to be hell in there." I said as I finished my plate of meat. "Now, as far as you not wanting to get wet, I guess I'll just have to go in without you!" I roared and pushed myself away form the table. I stormed over to the door, yet my feet still didn't make a sound, as usual. I threw open the door and thundered into the wall way.

"Now, if you decide that you won't drown, I'll be outside!" I shouted back into the dinning room, then slammed the door behind me. I raced into my room and tore off my dress. I ripped through my dresser and pulled out an overly-fancy shirt and very, very, short shorts and worked them on. I turned around and noticed that I had left my door open, but I didn't care. I ran out of my room, leaving my door, and all of my cloths laid out, and ran to the very back of the train. I pushed open the door that led outside, and for once in the past five minutes, closed it behind me. I walked over to the railing and flung my legs over the side.

You know this can get you arrested, right? Another voice asked me in my head.

"Shut up!" I yelled at myself. "It's not like they can do anything. They need all of the tributes." I said to the passing trees. I guessed we were about an hour away from the Capitol. But it didn't matter. I'd be dead either way once the Games started.

((Okay. So. Making fun of her being a girl is fine. Making fun of her having no family is fine. Anything is fine, practically. But making fun of Darek's nickname for her? Well. If she were allowed to (and most of the time when she isn't), you wouldn't be able to say another word. Ever.

So yeah. Have fun sleeping on that one, Joesph. =P

Okay. The last comment was kinda rude. But she seriously will probably cut his tongue out for that one in the Games, if she gets a chance. >>))

Joesph watched as Kit stormed away, and he waited until she had went to the outside area before he followed her. He settled down next to her, and looked at her, careful not to upset her. "Look Kit." He paused, "I meant it as a joke-okay-joke. I'm not good at jokes, I've never...experienced anything like that. Training kind of...takes the fun out of living, agreed?" He nudged her gently. "Look, I'm sorry."

((Are we almost done with the train ride, with no one else in my district, I can't do much right now...))

My eyes were fierce as I turned to look into his. "And so we have another handy-dandy career, then? Wonderous." I hissed at him.

"So no. I'm not forgiving you that easily. You think you were the only one that all fun was taken away from? Ha! At least you had parents! Or family! If not that, you had other people! I've had no one, Joesph. The only person I've ever known is a boy. A boy that I met because he had known just as much pain as I had. Because he has a family, and they were all starving. Because he cared about me." I ranted on.

"And then right when I think I might be able to trust someone else. Let someone else into my life, then come and do the one thing I can't handle!" I continued. "So believe me when I say this. I will never, ever forgive you. So don't even try this 'Oh , I've never had anyone. I've just been trained for my whole life so I can actually come back to the ones that care about me.'" I said the last part in a perfect imitation of Joesph's voice.

((Yeah, we are almost done ^.^))

Joesph's eyes narrowed, "you aren't the only one suffering." He growled, "you're a selfish, immature little brat, do you know that? I make a joke, a tiny little thing to lighten the mood. Oh, but poor you, you can't even take a joke because you're too busy, whining and crying about you're non existent family. Let go of the past, Kit. It's gone now. Now you only have to worry about being murdered in an Arena, but don't worry Kit. You'll probably just cry until you see your own blood through your tears!" He hissed, and stomped off. He called over his shoulder, "oh, and by the way Kit, survival of the Games tip one: Grow up!"

To my own surprise, I actually growled at him.  I leaped off of the railing and stormed after him. "See? Exactly what I am talking about!" I hissed back at him. "And the name is Kenania! Key-Non-E-Ya!" I pronounced it for him.

I grabbed him by the arm and turned him around. I stared into his eyes, mine blazing. Then they suddenly lightened. "For the record, that's tip two." I said in a much lighter, joking tone.

Mental note: question myself on why I'm not punching his teeth out right here and now. I thought o myself, and wrote it down on my mental note-book of Things To Do.

Joesph gave a strangled laugh, "that's funny. I thought you'd never forgive me. Any way, give me a chance to be you for a second..." he took a deep breath, and in his most female voice, he said, "OH MY GOSH LIKE. JOESPH YOU ARE LIKE. SO MEAN. OH MY GOSH." He half skipped, half stopped out of the room, flailing his arms.

"Wow. Very, very, good feminine voice." I chuckled and walked after him. I took a small breath and lowered my tone to mimic his girl voice. "Oh look at me! I'm going to try to be like Kenania, but I'm actually going to be more like myself!" I squeaked and began to do the skip-stomp-flail dance he was doing. I actually began to laugh as I saw one of the faces of another tribute, his head sticking out of his almost - closed door.

((Very, very mature of Kit, eh? xD This sounds like an argument my brother and I have on occasion... -rofls-))

Joesph stifled a laugh, but couldn't contain the glee in his eyes. "Very mature of us, huh?" He shook his head, his eyes serious now, "Kit, let's start over. Pretend that the games was all happened tonight, okay? We were...eating, correct? Okay, let's eat instead of imitating each other perfectly."

I let out a sigh. "The name is still Kenania. I told you that I wasn't going to forgive you for that. But I will agree with this. But only this time. And again, you are seriously imitating yourself more than me." I said with a sly smile. I took a few steps and walked back into the Dining room. I gestured to his seat.

"Please, sit, my lady." I said with a grin. "Oh, and Hunger Games survival tip three: always let the other know who is in charge." I said and my grin faded into a serous mask of no emotion; my usual face.

Joesph frowned, "I like Kit better." He followed Kit back to the dining room, and when she called him a lady he scowled, "is that all you can come up with?"

((Ok, Can the train ride be over now... My post will be here on this post if it is.))

I laughed at him. "True about getting yourself killed, but no. I am in complete control." I said with a smile.



"Oh, and by the way, I have an idea. If we can get enough people that
are skilled with the bow, we can form a sort of army. Get them to trust
us. Then kill them once enough other tributes are taken care of. It
would help with the Careers." I said. The word career sparked a fire in me.

"Also,
 I want to make one thing clear. We are in this as a team. We stick
together. Got it?" I asked him. And when I said this, I meant through
the whole thing. I left out the way it would end, though. We both knew
how that would end.



I felt the train suddenly slow, throwing me and my chair to slam into the wall. "We are now approaching the City. Buckle your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" I muttered in perfect synchrony with the woman in the speaker. I managed to squeeze out of my chair that had pinned me to the wall, and walked out of the dinning room.

"You coming?" I called over my shoulder as I began my trek to the back of the train for the best view of the city.

((For any that may have seen my post before, I edited it xD; ))