After school, Beatrice was at her locker figuring out what books to bring home. Her brother, Caleb had gone already. He said he was going to be late for his community service. Sometimes, she thought that everyone was more humble and selfless than she was. Why was it easy for everyone else in our faction? It came so naturally to Caleb, why not her? Beatrice didn't usually dwell on this thought. Thinking about one's self could also be taken as vain.

She was stuck in a crowd of students trying to leave. She didn't really have anywhere else to be at the moment, so why go home just to start chores any sooner than she needed to? There she was again, thinking about herself. She waited for the crowd to pass and was now walking by herself when she heard screaming down one of the alleys around school. She wondered if she should call for help. But something inside her told her to check it out herself. For a moment, she thought she was crazy, what was she doing? As she got closer, she could make out the voices.

"You're supposed to protect him from people like you, Eric. That's what your faction does."

"Don't tell me what my faction does. I think I know that better than you, Stiff."

At that moment, someone grabbed Beatrice from behind, "Hey look what I found." Beatrice tried to scream and struggle out of his hold but he had his hand on her mouth and she couldn't make a sound. Why did she get herself involved in this? That was so stupid. He brought her over to where the others were.

"Let her go! What are you doing? Let them both go!" The abnegation boy said.

Beatrice saw now that this didn't look good at all. Two dauntless against three abnegation were not good odds, especially when the other abnegation boy near Eric was smaller than she was.

"Just because your dad is head of the Council, doesn't mean I have to do what you say, Tobias." Eric said glancing around the alley. He saw me in his friend's arms and watched the little boy as he tried to get away from him. Tobias just starred him down. They were at an impasse. "Fine, I will let them go, but now I want you instead!" Eric threw the kid to the ground and jumped at Tobias and started punching him. Tobias tried to hit him back and got a couple hits in. Beatrice tried to squirm out of the other dauntless's arm but she couldn't.

Someone had heard all of this commotion and was running down the alley heading toward the noise. It was a dauntless patrol. The boy holding Beatrice let go immediately and ran away in the opposite direction. Beatrice ran over to the little boy in the corner.

"Are you all right?" she said.

The boy nodded and buried his face in her chest. He was about 12 years old. He probably had just come out of school and just wanted to walk home like everybody else.

"What is going on here?" the patrol yelled. He stepped right in between Tobias and Eric, breaking up their fight.

Tobias got his bearings and then said, "Eric was bullying that kid and I wanted to stop it."

"Is that true, Eric?"

"No! Tobias thinks he's tough and tried to pick a fight with me." Eric turned around and just starred at Beatrice and the little boy threatening them both not to talk.

Beatrice started feeling brave. She looked over at Tobias. "That's not what happened, Tobias is telling the truth."

"Are you going to believe a couple of Stiffs over another dauntless?" Eric interjected.

The patrol did not look pleased, "Shut up, Eric. You two are coming with me." He pointed to Tobias and Eric. "And I think you should go home." He motioned to Beatrice and the little boy. Beatrice paused and looked at Tobias and he nodded, silently telling her to go. She put her hand on the kid's shoulder and walked him out of there. She looked back as she left the alley. They were all walking the opposite direction. She hoped Tobias would be ok.

"What's your name?" Beatrice asked the kid when they had been walking for a while.

"It's Jimmy."

"I'm Beatrice. What happened? Why was that guy picking on you?" Beatrice knew that she should walk Jimmy home but she desperately wanted to go and see what would happen to Tobias and Eric. She kept looking back, but she knew they were already gone.

"I was just walking out of school when Eric was walking next to me. He had tattoos on his neck so I looked at them, but I must have been looking too long because then he took my arm and brought me over here to ask me what I was looking at. That's when Tobias came. I think he followed us. And then he stopped him. I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't come." Jimmy finished his story and then said. "I'm never talking or looking at another dauntless ever again."

"You know Jimmy, not all dauntless are bad."

Jimmy thanked Beatrice and then ran the rest of the way home. Beatrice's house was not far now but she felt like she didn't want to be there. She wanted to know what happened to Tobias and to make sure he was ok. But she didn't know where they went or how to even begin to look for them.

As soon as she got home, her dad was already in her face about what happened.

"How did you know? This just happened, like a few minutes ago."

He said that he had got a call from Marcus Eaton. Beatrice's father, Andrew was on the Council with Marcus. He was his second in command. "What is it going to look like that the kids of the two top officials in the city are fighting with the dauntless?"

"Wait a minute. That boy needed help. Tobias was doing the right thing." Beatrice countered.

"Beatrice, you shouldn't have gotten involved." He said.

Beatrice disagreed with her whole being. Someone was screaming; she had to go see what was wrong. She couldn't have just walked away from that. She started to say something but her father cut her off.

"I don't want to hear it. Go to your room. Next time, don't get involved. Don't you understand the pressure we're under? They are looking for anything to discredit us."

She couldn't believe what her father was saying. She didn't even know what to say back to him, so she just left, walked up to her room and shut the door. If this is what her father was like, she couldn't even imagine what Marcus Eaton would be like to Tobias when he finds out. But, Tobias had to do something. He protected that kid. Beatrice thought that her role in the whole thing was probably unnecessary. She didn't really do anything, but without Tobias, Jimmy could have been hurt. She could have been hurt too. Tobias stood up to Eric, and Beatrice really admired that. That was definitely the right thing to do, no matter what her father said.