Before you read, I'd like to warn you... My English is really bad, I hope it won't prevent you from understanding my fic, but I prefer warning ! Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it. Reviews are very appreciated, since it's one of my first time writing a Fanfiction in English !

Disclaimer : I do not own either Divergent or its characters, they are Veronica Roth's. Only the Connor family and the 6th faction is mine.

And for those who want to get to the point, the Divergent fanfiction (with the recurrence of Veronica Roth's characters) really starts from Chapter 8.

Hi, this is a new Divergent fiction with - once again - some elements changing. Here, I added another Faction called Essential. It gathers all the people living for the good working of the city, they are usually labourers working within the public utilities. Their dress code is based on brown and white shades (but many of their outfits also contain some denims stuff) . Most of them have - well it depends on their jobs - brown trousers, a white shirt and a brown jacket upon it, or a brown suit.

Their main features are being resistant, stubborn, hard-working, perfectionnist and sociable. They are rather close to Amity and Abnegation, but display overtly a certain animosity towards Erudite and Dauntless. First because they are often looked down upon by Erudite, as Essential are considered gregarious workers by the intelligent ones. And then, they usually don't get along well with Dauntless, because those latter ones often destroy what Essential build and trigger conflicts with them. Moreover both of those two Factions are known for having members with rather quick tempers. In Dauntless or Erudite slang, Essential are called "Brownies" or "Ashies".

Emmeline Connor was born and has been brought up in Essential. When the year of her Choosing Ceremony arrives, she is well decided to remain in her Faction. Her dream is to work on the huge clocks, a very valued position only a few Essential members are given the opportunity to reach. Yet, Emmeline displays a true determination and a pleasing stubborness, that's why the instructors contemplate giving her a work placement there, but she has to pass through some must-be chores before reaching this level.

Chapter I : Waking up, to ash and dust.

"What are you doing Emy ? We're going to be late !" Christian shouted hammering on my door. Christian was my twin brother. We were 6 in my family, the youngest was Adele, a 10 year-old young impish and yet adorable girl. Then, Matthew was 14, he was a bit withdrawn into himself, contrary to the rest of us, but still he was a very kind-hearted boy. As for the oldest, there is Maggie, our oldest sister who is 18 and has transferred to Dauntless, and last Bartholomew who is 21 and works in the cleaning service (don't you see the men suspended in the emptiness cleaning the skyscrapers' windows ?) and cleans the eggheads' offices. On the whole, we've been a rather united family, even though Maggie's leaving has a bit disoriented everyone. Our father was a quite important Essential even if his humbleness prevented him from being an Essential representative. As for our mother, she died a decade ago, in a factory explosion the Erudite accidentally caused. My father had always been involved in our cause ever since, defending Essential against Erudite. Well, I think that's all for our grumpy family.

"Emy !" Christian yelled. I eventually openned the door "What were you doing ? We have to go now !" He grabbed my wrist and we ran out of the house.

"Good luck !" Adele shouted with her pussycat voice. We rushed in the streets, slaloming between the small lanes until we finally reached the train station, which wasn't that far from our house.

"Hey juniors ! I'm Jimmy, and I'll be your instructor for today. You've been chosen to pursue the special mechanical formation. This week, you are going to be taught the very basis for the good working of the railways. Get prepared for those who aren't, you have three minutes and that's all, we can't miss the train !" Fortunately, my brother and I were already prepared. Christian was wearing used jeans and a white tank top, which had turned a bit grey because of the dust. His outfit was putting forward his muscles, especially his arms and shoulders. He had brown curly and scruffy hair, with emerald eyes - our mother's ones - and a rather casual attitude.
As for me, I was wearing large brown trousers, with brown braces, and a white tank top as well. I looked quite the same as my brother. Of course I was not as brawny as he was, but I had green eyes as well, and long brown curly hair. And seemingly, my twin brother and I are said to have the same attitudes and habits. We will often look "melancholic" or kind of "wandering", as people say. We will also have the same smile and so on. It didn't bother me having a twin brother, with whom I have always been living, but sometimes, it's true that we we're both always on the same place and the same time, we had never really seperated since our birth.

"Oh, two Connors ! It's going to be a bloodbath !" Jimmy joked, when he saw us.

"I'm Christian Connor, and this is my twin sister Emmeline" Christian presented us. I said we were pretty alike, he and me... Except for that. He had that Amity stuff I didn't have. He will always be very formal and nice to people he meets for the first time.

"I've known Bart during the initiation ! And my father was a friend of your mother" He cheerfully added, as if he was greeting people he has been looking forward to meeting for a long time. "Get prepared, we're leaving at any time. The train will pass by and we will have to jump on it"

"Isn't it what old punks do ?" A boy asked, referring to Dauntless.

"Yes, but we also do it from time to time, since we don't work on trains transporting passengers, we have to work on the trains that are not in-service"

"But why don't we just go to the terminus ?" The boy added, totally astonished. Jimmy sighed.

"We haven't the right to. Terminus are located either in Dauntless or Erudite... And as you know... "

"That's ridiculous" I spat "I can understand we that don't get on well... But they prevent us from working in good conditions by doing that"

"I know... But with the tension growing up between Abnegation and Erudite, we can't allow ourself to create more troubles for the moment... " He sighed, trying to canceal his bitterness. That was a very typical Essential situation. Frustration. Our faction should be called the Frustrated. Our faction was told to be one of the greatest ones, before the Erudite tried to get the best of the deal. Animosity towards them has thus become commonplace. I think that if a conflict between the factions should ever break out, we already knew which side to join.

"Here is the train coming" Jimmy shouted "Remember, run onto the platform and grab a handle before grabbing the scale bars. Once you got them, go onto the top of the train, and we'll meet there. Don't worry, those trains are not that fast, especially when they aren't in-service." And the train indeed arrived, but at a huge speed, well it seemed to me. We all started to jog on the platform, and the most audacious of us grabbed the first handles. My brother and I were still jogging, when we decided to take the plunge. He grabbed a handle, and started climbing up the scale. I came a bit after him, but managed as well to grab it. Jimmy was the last of us. He jumped in a single leap and reached the scale. When we all reached the top of the train, it was windy, very windy in fact, and it was terribly pitching. I felt like I could fall and crush at any moment. Not to forget we were at more than 20m from the ground, which wasn't really reassuring.

"Okay kids, that's great, the 7 of you have reached this first step. Now, do you have your special belts?" Jimmy asked. We all grabbed our 'special belts'. They were consisting of long elastic bands wound up around a heavy metal buckle "Put it on and fasten it over here" He showed us a bar crossing the roof of the car. We did as he was saying, until we found ourselves hanged in the emptiness, facing the windows of the car.

"So, at that level, you have to wash the train. Remember to be careful, there are some tunnels on several lines. That's why you'll have to learn all the rides. Now get back on the top" I was having kind of an adrenaline feeling. I understood better the punks now. Being hanged in the emptiness like that... That was just completely mad, and I had to admitt I didn't dislike it.

"Now, I'm going to show you the most dangerous part of the train maintenance. Please, watch carefully, you'll have to repeat exactly the same gestures" He declared with a true warning tone in his voice. He first took a look at his belt. He violently pulled it to him, making sure it was well fastened. Then, he went down, but this time between the two cars' coupling coil. He dragged a kind of stretcher from underneath the car and lied on it and then... disappeared between the rails and the car. Then, he reappeared and came back to us.

"Have you all understood what happened ? I went down, because as mechanics, we also have to check for the good maintenance of the engines and mechanisms. I will let you try it one by one, but I'll be watching you carefully. Many have had accidents doing that, even some experimented Essential mechanics" And so we all tried, one by one, to get there. When I lied on the stretcher, I felt terribly cramped for space and found that is was very hard to breathe, in addition to the huge heat. However, seeing the mechanisms like that was really amazing. There was a "stop" red button on my right. I suppose it aimed at stopping the car's mechanism so as to check it up, or to fix it, if broken. But though it was really interesting, I was glad to come back to fresh air on the top of the train.

When we came back on solid ground I was having mixed feeling. On the one hand I was happy to walk again without swaying like a drunkard, but on the other hand, that had been really thrilling, and very exciting, and I was feeling like if I was getting closer and closer to my goal. Christian smiled at me :
"You were very focused, weren't you ?"

"Of course I was, that was very important. How did you feel ?"

"How my stomach felt, you mean ? I think I'd better eat less the next time ! I thought it would forsake me during the initiation, but it held on !" He joked, making us chuckling.

"Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next time !" I grinned at him.

"So do I !"