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Valeria Meadows

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THE MERCILESS SIREN | CHAPTER SEVEN

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summary: It is the 66th Hunger Games when Oceana Fontaine is reaped as tribute, and at just thirteen years old, the odds are certainly not in her favour. As much as it is seen as an honour for Oceana to represent her district in the games, it is also practically a death sentence. But Oceana knows she needs to go home and is determined to, no matter how low her chances are and with the help of her mentors, she might just do that. But if she is to win, she will have to learn where her biggest strengths start to turn into her biggest flaws and weigh her options carefully as she starts making choices that pushes her morality and the lengths she will go to for love.

tags: slow burn (finnick x oc), eventual violence, the usual stuff when it comes to the hunger games, not sure what else

My sleep is filled with comforting dreams. It’s as if my brain knows what memory to play in order to comfort me in the worst of times. It’s from the day our ancestors liked to call Valentine's day. It is a day celebrated with romantic love, friendship and admiration along with the lovebirds of early spring. Aurelia and I learnt about it as kids when we would read about it in old novels talking about all sorts of love and eventually it became a tradition between us to celebrate it together. We would sit in the meadows near the Fields having a picnic as we made bouquets and flower crowns for one another, then we’d go to the Centre holding them in our arms as we went shopping for each other before finally hiking up to the Cliffs to have dinner at our favourite restaurant and watch the sunset. It was just as good as Christmas or any of our birthday parties. 

I still remember the day she had turned sixteen and how we had thrown a sweet sixteen birthday party for her. I still remember her smile on that day when she saw all her friends show up at our house and how happy she was talking to them around the bonfire. 

I can tell dawn is breaking as small streams of sunlight break through the windows. The Capitol seems to have rather misty air as I can’t seem to see much in the horizon. I let out a sigh, how is it possible for dreams to feel so real? It had felt like I was really back in District 4 until I had woken up to my harsh reality. 

Slowly, I drag myself out of bed and head into the shower. I don’t feel nearly awake enough to bother with the control panel so I punch the buttons aimlessly until the shower feels just right. I wash my body with the fancy soap they had which smelt like lavender and wash my face in order to wake myself up. The hot water doesn’t do the trick so I go back to the control panel to adjust the temperature till it was icy cold and it’s only then that I wake up. I dry myself off and moisturise myself with lotion before changing to the outfit I find has been left for me at the front of the closet. It’s skin-tight black leggings and a short sleeved blue top and leather boots. 

I gather my hair into a ponytail and secure it with a hair tie and find that whoever has left the outfit has also taken my costume and jewellery from the ceremony. I hope it has made its way to Valeria well. The outfit reminds me of my wetsuit for whatever reason and it’s the first time since the reaping that I resemble myself. Perhaps it’s the lack of fancy clothes and hair that makes me look more like myself and I find it comforting.

I head out to the dining room since I feel hungry and hope there will be food and there is. I’m not disappointed. I find Finnick and Dover talking to one another by the table and they greet me warmly, welcoming me to the table as I take a bowl of granola and a glass of milk. I take a seat next to them and they look at me weirdly. 

“That’s all you’re going to have?” Dover asks. 

“Yeah, why?” I ask as I pour the milk into the bowl. 

“That’s way too little, Oce,” Finnick shakes his head. “You’ve got training today. Go get some eggs and some fruit.”

“Alright…” I say reluctantly, walking towards the bowl of fruit and taking a banana and an apple before loading a plate with eggs. I’m not used to eating this much for breakfast, in fact, most days I tend to skip breakfast so I can get more sleep before school, but I know that they mean well. I take a bite into my apple before my mind wanders off. 

I’m nervous about training. Of course, I already know that I’d be coached separately from Gill but there will be three days in which all the tributes practice together. On the last afternoon, each tribute will get a chance to perform in private before the Gamemakers. I feel nauseous thinking about having to meet the other tributes. 

“A penny for your thoughts?” Dover smiles at me and I laugh before seeing Gill and Coral enter the dining room as we greet each other. Gill is wearing a different outfit as me and it’s green instead of blue.

The rest of the victors stroll into the dining room one by one and we greet each other before Clifford gives him pep talk. “Alright, good morning everyone, as you all know, today is the first day of training. Now, I assume you two would like to be trained separately?” He glances at both Gill and I as we both give a nod. “Great, just like what we had in mind. It’s important that you both show your mentors all your skills, no matter how good or bad they are. It’s critical that they’re aware of your capabilities, it’ll help with your strategy as well, and who knows? Maybe you’ll pick up a skill or two. Don’t underrate yourself. Just don’t show your full ability to the other tributes.”

“Well, if there’s anyone I need to fear, it’s Oceana,” Gill chuckles and I give him a suspicious look, I’m not sure what he’s alluding to. “Don’t look at me like that! I’ve seen you with your water guns at the Academy! You’ve got good aim!”

I sigh as the memory comes flooding back in. It’s a rather stupid yet funny one. There was this particular day in which I had brought in a couple of water guns I had found in the back of my house to the Academy and handed them out to my friends for us to have a small battle with. The only reason why I didn’t get in trouble was because we managed to pull some kind of excuse that it would help us with our target accuracy. “Shooting and aiming at something with a water gun is not the same as throwing a trident.”

“No it’s not.” Gill says. “Still, you’ve got good aim and you’d be pretty deadly with an actual weapon.”

“Well, throwing an actual weapon at someone is still not the same,” I argue before Clifford shuts the both of us down as Gill opens his mouth to argue back. 

“Enough, you two. First of all, I’d like to hear that story of the water gun,” everyone at the table lets out a laugh. “Second, remember to focus on your survival skills. I know you’ve heard this a million times by now, but I cannot emphasise on it enough. You’re going to need to know how to trap animals and know what knots to tie, basically skills to help you survive– hunting, trapping, foraging, all that stuff. Know how to quickly familiarise yourself with the environment and how to tell what others are planning by simply observing them. How to stay mentally strong. There is much more to the games than knowing combat, and as much as the Academy can teach you that, only those with experience, so us, can give you the proper advice.” Both Gill and I are paying close attention at this rate, we know how serious it is. We can hear it in his voice. “Meet at the elevator at nine thirty, alright?”

It's nine by the time we’re done with breakfast. I go back to my room to clean my teeth and tie my hair again. I think about what Gill said, I had no idea he had seen me in the Academy. Heck, I had no idea he had even gone to the same Academy as me. How much had he seen? Had he seen me in class throwing knives and shooting arrows? How much of my ability does he know? I know nothing about him except for the fact that he must’ve been extremely good in the Academy for him to be as confident as he is. Had Ms Bronte paid him a visit as well? But for him to say that I was the one that he had to fear, was he making fun of me? Or was it simply a joke? Or had he seen enough of me in the Academy to actually fear me? But what was there to fear in me? He’s stronger and probably more experienced in every aspect, I’m only thirteen. 

My thoughts and confusion temporarily blocks out my nervousness about meeting the other tributes but I can feel my anxiety rising again. I head onto the balcony, and stare down at the teeming with life as cars let out honks like an uncoordinated orchestra. The Capitol is as busy as they make it out to be, just like a heart. The heart of Panem is what the president calls it. Now that training has begun, you can make out a certain heaviness in the air. It sits and lingers and it’s impossible to forget the inevitable. I stand by the balcony for a while, closing my eyes as my fingers fidget. I feel a pit in my stomach and now I feel like crying again. 

“Oce?” I open my eyes and smile at Finnick who approaches me. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” I nod, but I know I’m not fooling him as his lips curl into a frown. 

“No you’re not,” Finnick raises his hand and wipes away a tear that’s running down my cheek. “Come on, talk to me about it.”

“I don’t know how to put it in a sentence,” I admit, wanting to laugh at how stupid I sound. “It’s just, I’m trying to be as strong as I can, but it’s almost impossible to. How do I ignore something that I feel so deeply? I feel it with every breath that I take in every waking second. One day I’m a thirteen year old girl spending her days surfing and studying, the next day I’m not. Because I know I’m not going to be just thirteen anymore. It’s like I’m being forced to grow up all of a sudden and I know it’s so stupid not to be able to cope with that but I just can’t. I don’t know how to, I don’t know.” My voice starts to crack up, but before I can cry, Finnick pulls me into a hug. 

“I can’t say it’s okay because I know it’s not going to be okay,” he sighs as I bury my head in the crook of his neck. “And if I were to give any advice, I’d be a hypocrite because this is how I felt like last year.”

It’s hard to remember that he only won last year, and that he probably is still healing from his very own games. This is the cruellest thing about the games in my opinion, other than making twenty four children fight to their deaths, to make the victors mentor and get to experience every following Hunger Games when they are still trying to recover from their own. To have them to mentor and get close to kids they’re not even sure will come back. 

“But all I can say is that fear is what drives you. Fear drives the human spirit and sparks the fire in you, hope is the one that kindles it. Do it scared but still keep the hope you have.”

“How do I be brave? Everyone else is, all the Careers are, except me,” I say, my voice is reduced to a mere whisper.

“There is a difference between bravery and confidence, Oce,” Finnick lets out a laugh. “Bravery is feeling fear, embracing it, and moving forward with it. It’s the ability to take the leap you know you have to take no matter how scary or big it is. Don’t be so scared about not winning that you let it consume you and most importantly, trust yourself.”

I pull out of the hug and I nod. I’m lucky to not have cried as I know we have to go to the training centre soon and I’m sure it’d be a disaster if I were to show up with red and puffy eyes. It’d be an embarrassment.  

“Thank you,” I smile shakily, trying to control my emotions. 

“You can win, Oceana, I truly do think so,” he says.

“You haven’t seen me train,” I nearly chuckle.

“Yes, but, it’s much more than skill, Oce, it’s about the fire and spirit in you. I told you last night and I’ll say it to you again, you have the spirit of a victor.” Finnick says as we arrive at the elevator. “See you,” he grins. 

“See you,” I echo back before going into the elevator. 

“Be friendly to the other Careers, alright? Try to make friends with them.” Clifford says as he stares down at both Gill and I. 

The training rooms are below ground level and are in the basement of the building. The elevators are fast and the ride is short. The doors open and I step out into an enormous gymnasium that is filled with everything from weights to weapons to obstacle courses. We’re not the first to arrive but certainly not the last and the rest of the tributes are gathered in a tight circle. The atmosphere is tense and I start feeling nervous once again.  They each have a cloth square with their district number on it pinned to their shirts and we’re provided with one as well. Someone pins mine to my shirt and I look over to Gill who mouths to me a word I can’t make out so I follow him. We end up standing next to the tributes of 1 and 2 who smile at us as if we’re old friends.

Perks of being a Career, I guess. 

I smile at them before putting on my best poker face and glance at everyone around us. The tributes from 12, 7 and 3 have yet to arrive. There is a weird silence that falls on us 

Slowly, the remaining tributes start to trickle in and join the circle. Once all of us are gathered, the head trainer, a tall and athletic man named Lysander steps up and explains the training schedule. There would be different stations for each skill and at each station there would be an expert. We are allowed to travel from area to area as per our mentor's instructions which means I have to head straight to where the weapons are at. There are a few stations for that, and many targets to practise with. Some of the stations teach survival skills and the others, fighting techniques. However, we are forbidden to engage in any combative exercise with another tribute, should we want to practise with a partner, it would be with the assistants on hand. Lysander starts to read down the list of the skill stations. A few stand out to me. Archery, wielding, camouflage, edible plants, gauntlets and knives. I know exactly which one I’d head for. 

We are dismissed and we disperse as each of us head for one station or another. I head straight for the knife throwing station where there are a couple of knives sitting on the table next to the expert waiting to be thrown. 

“Hello,” I smile at the man who is standing next to the targets.

“Hello,” he smiles back, “are you here to learn about throwing knives or are you here to practise?”

“Practise,” I smile and he nods, handing me the three knives. I can feel the stares of others which makes me worried. The other Careers are probably looking at me and if I mess up slightly, there’s no way they’d ever take me seriously– much less team up with me.

I relax my body and straighten my posture, holding onto the knife as I shift my right foot forward. I grip onto the knife before letting it go. My mind is now blank as I automatically throw the next one and the one after. I take a deep breath in as I look at each target, I have hit every single one on bullseye. The expert seems impressed as he gives me a nod of approval, smiling at me as he retrieves the knives.

I turn around, about to go to the other station when I see Gill and the other Career tributes. “Oceana,” Gill calls me and I walk over. “This is Oceana, the other tribute from 4.”

“Nice work with the knives,” a blonde girl who has her hair in a braid smiles, “I’m Briar and this,” she nudges the tall, muscular, brown haired guy next to her, “is Alvise.” He waves at me before I’m introduced to the tributes from District 2.

“Chase,” the male tribute who has dark brown hair and brown eyes extends his hand which I shake. “and next to me is Giselle.”

“Hi,” I smile, shaking Giselle’s hand.

After we’ve introduced to one another, we go our separate ways and I head straight to the archery station. I take one of the bows from the stand and an arrow, correcting my stance and gripping the bow loosely. I feel more relaxed now for whatever reason. I place the arrow on the bow before drawing it back and aiming at the furthest target before releasing it. Bullseye. I smile and go back to the rack to take another arrow when I’m stopped by Gill.

“Clifford said not to show our full abilities,” he whispers hastily, looking at me in the eyes with a glare. 

“I’m not,” I walk past him to take another arrow. “This is light work.”

Author's note: BOOM ANOTHER CHAPTER!! i'm kind of on the verge of giving up on the three chapter rule gap i've set for myself but oh well, it's better to have chapters prepared in advance in case of anything i guess. anyways, thanks for reading all the way down here, i really appreciate it! if you like this, consider reblogging and commenting! and once again, constructive criticism is always welcomed!

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Glee OC Masterlist

Name: Aurora Anderson

Story: Somewhere Only We Know

Face claim:  Kaylee Bryant

Love Interest: Sebastian Smythe

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Summary: Aurora had always known that Andersons go to Dalton, she just didn’t think that she would be included in that legacy.  But after the incident at the Sadie Hawkins dance left she and her half-brother in the hospital, their father told them that Aurora would be the first female student in Dalton history, regardless of what she wanted.  Of course the Dalton Brotherhood had always been her family, and being with her closest friends was exactly what she needed, but when a spy shows up in their midst, she knows that her home is going to be changed forever.

Name: Abbie Hudson

Story: Brutal

Face claim: Savannah Lee May

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Name: Betty Fabray

Story: A Family Matter

Face claim:  Sabrina Carpenter

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Summary:  Freshman year of high school was supposed to be the start of the best years of your life, right?  That’s what Betty Fabray thought when she walked through the doors of William McKinley High School for the first time. It’s what she thought when she joined the Cheerios, it’s what she thought when she heard about a singing club, and it’s what she thought when she got accepted to the New Directions.  But then she got slushied, her position on the Cheerios was threatened, and her big sister was kicked out of their house.  Now Betty has no idea what to think, but between Sue Sylvester and Sectionals, no one is giving her time to figure out what she wants, other than to get her sister back.

Name: Christina Hummel

Story: Don’t Stop Believing

Face claim:  Laura Marano

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Summary:  Ever since their mother died, Kurt and Christie Hummel had somehow gotten even closer.  They did everything together; voice and piano lessons, dance classes, working in their dad’s shop, enduring the daily torture that was McKinley High, and, of course, joining glee.  But there was one thing that the twins didn’t agree on: Finn Hudson.  While Kurt saw him as their knight in shining armour, just because he offered them the barest hints of dignity while his friends tormented them, Christie saw him as just as guilty as the rest of his teammates, watching their endless humiliation and letting it happen.  Despite their polarizing opinions, the twins had always been able to look past that - to not let Finn Hudson come between them.  But when Finn joins the glee club, bringing even more jocks and Cheerios with him, their seemingly indestructible bond is going to be put to the test.

Name: Daphne Carter

Story: Anything Goes

Face claim:  Ashleigh Murray

Love Interest: Leon Elliot, Mike Chang, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Daphne Carter didn’t miss Lima.  She hadn’t been there since she was five, back before she booked her first commercial and suddenly found herself as The Child Star of her generation.  And ten years later, starring on Broadway across from her best friend and dating one of the biggest up and coming rock stars around, Lima didn’t even crossed her mind enough for her to miss it.  But once the drugs and drinking that her parents had always chosen to ignore made her the front page of every gossip rag across the country, something had to be done.  Not for her well being, of course, but because addiction wasn’t profitable.  And that’s how Daphne Carter finds herself being shipped halfway across the country to live with her parents’ childhood friends, and being dragged into the McKinley High Glee Club.

Name: Delilah Puckerman

Story: Wish You Were Me

Face claim:  Vanessa Morgan

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Summary: Delilah Puckerman hadn’t actually wanted to leave her boarding school.  Of course, her expulsion hadn’t been a surprise considering what had happened, but being sent to public school?  Unfair and unnecessary, in her opinion.  But nobody cared what the crazy girl wanted, and she found herself sent off to McKinley High.  She honestly thought that things couldn’t get any worse, until she meets a boy named Noah Puckerman.

Name: Dylan Ayers

Story: Bet On It

Face claim:  Liz Gillies

Love Interest: Brittany Pierce

Name: Eliana Lopez

Story: Get It Right

Face claim:  Victoria Justice

Name: Faye Anderson

Story: Teenage Dream

Face claim:  Vanessa Hudgens

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Summary:  To any outsider, the Anderson twins had it all.  4.0 GPAs at Dalton and Crawford, lead soloists of their respective glee clubs, a big house in Westerville, and a celebrity brother.  They didn’t see behind the curtain; didn’t see the absentee parents, the lonely, empty house, or the brother who only texted a few times a year.  But Faye was happy. She loved her school and her glee club and her brother.  And then Blaine decides to go to public school, and her parents decide to send her to McKinley with him.  And although she loves her twin, and would do anything for him, she can tell that her teenage dream is about to become a teenage nightmare.

Name: Gilbert Hummel

Story: Anthem

Face claim: Casey Cott

Love Interest: Blaine Anderson & Sam Evans

Name: Jason Conwright

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim:  Ross Lynch

Name: Jeanie Boyer

Story: Loser Like Me

Face claim:  Grace Phipps

Love Interest: Ryder Lynn, eventual Marley Rose

Name: Joy Schuester

Story: By Its Very Definition

Face claim:  Lili Reinhart

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Brittany Pierce, Mike Chang, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary:  Joy Schuester knew what glee was - how could she not?  Her dad never shut up about the good old days, his glory years at McKinley High.  He even named her after something his old coach would say - by its very definition, glee is about opening yourself up to joy.  Big whoop, she’d never really cared.  Really she was just interested in cheer, drama club, and dancing around her room while singing along to Taylor Swift. But then her dad takes over the glee club and Joy has no choice but to join.  She expected the showtunes, the divas, and even her dad’s white guy rapping.  She didn’t, however, expect to fall in love, and she definitely didn’t expect to find herself caught in the middle of a war between her coach and her dad.

Name: June Harris

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Face claim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Jesse St. James

Name: Kendall Pierce

Story: Songs Of The Heart

Face claim:  Meg Donnelly

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Summary: Maybe it was her age.  Maybe it was the special Pierce… intelligence.  Maybe it was just that she was a better person than most students at McKinley High.  But whatever it was, Kendall Pierce didn’t understand why she couldn’t cheer and sing.  She didn’t understand why Quinn Fabray was so insistent that she not join Glee, or why the New Directions were so suspicious of her “intentions”.  She loved to sing and she loved to cheer, it should have been simple.  But when Quinn Fabray suddenly joins the club, with her sister and Santana in tow, Kendall starts to realize that nothing about high school is as simple as it seems.

Name: Lilibeth Anderson

Story: Untitled

Face claim: Olivia Rodrigo

Name: Logan Hayes

Story: Dream Maker

Face claim:  KJ Apa

Name: Luci Meadows

Story: Maybe This Time

Face claim: Maia Mitchell

Name: Marilyn Pillsbury

Story: Life Can Be Beautiful

Face claim:  Madelaine Petsch

Love Interest: Brittany Pierce, eventual Quinn Fabray, possibly Quinn Fabray & Sam Evans

Summary: When Marilyn Pillsbury was ten, her mother died.  When she was twelve, her dad was arrested.  When she was thirteen, she moved in with her aunt Emma.  And when she was fourteen, she started at William McKinley High School.  And she was nothing but the weird guidance counsellor’s weird niece.  But then, after a fateful encounter with three Cheerios in the girls’ bathroom, Lyn finds herself being dragged into the spotlight. She becomes a Cheerio, she’s hot and popular and the school loves her, she’s everything she ever wanted to be.  And when Quinn joins the glee club, Marilyn is right beside her with Brittany and Santana; finally she can do what she really loves without fearing the consequence.  She’s on top of the world, life is beautiful.  And then she finds out that Quinn is pregnant, and she has to make a choice.  Will she seize the opportunity to rise to the very top, or will she stay loyal to the girl who brought her up from the lowest of lows?

Name: May Taylor

Story: All Rhodes Lead Home

Face claim: Hailee Steinfeld

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Name: Paige Callahan

Story: Light Up The World

Face claim: Zendaya

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Name: Robyn Conwright

Story: All Or Nothing

Face claim:  Olivia Holt

Name: Roxie Flores

Story: The Greatest Star

Face claim:  Camila Mendes

Love Interest: Noah Puckerman, Sebastian Smythe, eventual Sam Evans

Summary: Rosalind Flores was used to living in Quinn Fabray’s shadow.  Quinn was the head Cheerio, even though Roxie was the better cheerleader; Quinn got the boys, even though she had a stick up her ass; Quinn had the friends - lackeys, even though she treated them like dirt.  And then Mr. Schuester takes over the Glee Club and Roxie sees a refuge from her life as Quinn’s understudy.  And it’s great.  Sure, Rachel is as obsessed with being number one as Quinn, but Roxie loves to sing and she’s really, genuinely happy.  It’s everything she hoped for; it’s perfect.  And then Quinn Fabray walks into the choir room and Roxie’s sanctuary collapses around her.

Name: Savannah Evans

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Dove Cameron

Love Interest: Valeria Ramírez

Summary: The first thing that the Evans siblings learned when they moved to Lima was that rumours spread much faster than they did back home.  The second thing that they learned was how to lie.  And lie they did.  They were just three siblings; their financial struggles were because of their dad’s job; they absolutely most definitely didn’t have another sister who’d been in the hospital for as long as they’d been in Ohio.  And everyone believed them.  Right up until Rachel Berry sees Sam hugging some blonde girl outside of a motel and drags the entire glee club on a witch hunt that ends with them meeting the Evans siblings in their motel room.  All of the Evans siblings.  Even Savannah, Sam’s twin and best kept secret who, rumour has it, it about to start at McKinley High.

Name: Valeria Ramírez

Story: Rumour Has It

Face claim: Sofia Carson

Love Interest: Savannah Evans

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