Summary: She has always had a curious mind and a wild spirit. Good thing she has also always known where she belongs, Dauntless. Choosing that as her home brings changes that she couldn't have imagined, and she isn't sure that all of them are good. Between her best friend and a former boy in blue; she seems to always be wondering…what is going on behind those eyes.

Rating: T/M (May change later, rating for language and sexual content)

Casting and character inspiration: All characters are inspired by their movie counterparts. The OC's or characters that do not have a clear inspiration are as follows:

Avery King: Alexandra Daddario

Alec Kind: Clive Owen

Michael: Guy Pierce

Shauna: Jenna Coleman

Scott: Aidan Turner

Prologue - How it all began

Behind closed doors. If walls could talk. To be a fly on the wall.

All of those sayings that all mean the person is just a busybody that can't keep their noses out of someone else's business. Those sayings weren't openly used in my faction but I always wondered, what did go on behind closed doors?

Were the other families like my own when in the privacy of their own homes? Did their parents seem to come alive or almost become different people at the end of the day? If so, was it like that for every faction? Were the people they seemed to be out in the open, change once they got in private?

I can remember asking my mom and dad this once when I was younger. It had amused my dad and he had said something about me being so much like my mom. I didn't understand what he meant then but after they explained things and then the years passed I began to understand.

Let me explain.

The world I live in is broken into factions. Five factions of people that are dedicated to a certain way of life, a set of ideals and behaviors. When children age into adulthood at eighteen, we are given the choice of what faction we will then go live in. It isn't all based on choice and there is a lot more wrapped into that big decision but that is how our society breaks down. How we have lived and worked together for going on two hundred years now.

Before then the world was full of people and cities. The city I live in, Seattle, was once one of many major cities that covered the continent; the United States. Across vast oceans were other countries that had more cities and peoples spread across it.

Sometimes I sneak into the basement of the library at school and stare at this big map they have of the world painted onto the walls there. It is so old that most of the names of places, countries and cities are faded to the point of nonexistence. Just the scope of the map itself makes my mind spin. I can't even imagine how that must have been. To be able to leave from one city and encounter others without having to travel for days and days. To not have to go through almost impassable land just to reach any other signs of life.

You see over two hundred years ago it all started to unravel and now humanity is relegated to smaller populations dotted across the country. We are told that there are other cities, or there were when my own was formed. We don't know if they still exist or not because there hasn't been communication from the outside in forever.

You might be wondering what happened? What could cause such a widespread and diverse civilization to fail? That is where the factions come in and how my society decided to organize its government; with the five different beliefs on what caused the downfall of our world.

It wasn't just war that took out more than half the people in the world. It wasn't just disease either. It wasn't just the lack of looking out for or caring about others. It wasn't just the dishonesty of the ordinary people and more importantly those that held positions of power. It wasn't just the loss of focus on knowledge to better man and not just oneself. It wasn't just the attitude that kindness was weakness.

It was all of it that began to chip away at everything society was made up of until it started to collapse. The founders of my city recognized this but not everyone agreed on what to focus on to try and prevent it from happening again. So the factions were formed.

Those that believed that the downfall of society was because of cowardice and forgetting that justice needed to be upheld; they became the faction of Dauntless. Whose job is to be both military and police for our city.

Those that believed that the downfall of society was because of selfishness and losing the ability to put others before oneself; they became the faction of Abnegation. Whose job can cover anything from running the government to making sure that those that find no place in a faction are clothed and fed.

Those that believed that the downfall of society was because of the total lack of honesty from the top people down to the lowest; they became the faction of Candor. Whose job it is to act as lawyers, counselors and law makers.

Those that believed that the downfall of society was because knowledge of all kinds wasn't being used properly and for the benefit of humankind; they became the faction of Erudite. Whose job it is to serve as teachers, doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical and industrial.

Those that believed that the downfall of society was because of the loss of kindness and the thought that love of peace is weakness; they became the faction of Amity. Whose jobs are the farming, livestock and artists of all kinds.

Five very different ideals that bleed into every part of the factions life. From the type and color of clothes they wear, how they behave in public and to each other, what they can or cannot do in school or work, and every little aspect of life. For two hundred years, the system and how it was set up worked. Though each faction had their own roles they tended to overlap and interconnect with others to be able to keep the city running and the people happy.

Almost twenty years ago, changes were made when it was discovered all was not as it seemed, or as perfect as we were being led to believe. It took time for the changes to be put through and take hold but because of this the world I am about to enter into as an adult isn't the one my parents did on their choosing day.

It is better, they said, safer. Because of the changes I know that when I choose my faction tomorrow I will not have to say goodbye to my parents for good. I will be in another faction but where once contact was forbidden before, now I can email or call….even visit twice a month.

This all came about because of a pact that was made by a group of elders that knew things needed to change for the good of all, but to do that...they would need to sacrifice their children. Children like my mom and dad; who were given the task of leaving everyone and everything they knew behind and go to another faction. To become leaders among leaders and make the needed changes. It was dangerous and their parents had no idea if they would succeed or not. It was a risk they and their children had been willing to take to prevent the city from collapsing in on itself like the world before it had so long ago.

So that families could close their doors at night and have the freedom to be who they are on the inside without fear of reprisal or being hunted, accused of treason. Of being divergent.

My name is Avery King from Abnegation and I am divergent but tomorrow on my choosing day, I will be Dauntless.