Hello this is my first fanfic so please enjoy. Please review and tell me your thoughts and I'll try to update often. I do not own Divergent it belongs to Veronica Roth. Only my OCs belong to me.
Song of the Day: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
It was today. Was I nervous? No, but I wasn't sure what the test would tell me, and I wasn't sure if I knew what I would want to do anyway. I tugged at the hem of my blue T-shirt and fingered the eye symbol on my bracelet the symbol of my faction. Erudite.
"Hey Bella." I herd a girls voice call.
"Hey Lee." I replied not knowing what else to say.
"So are you exited or what I mean todays the day right well I guess tomorrow but who cares right but I bet it will be so much fun and…" She talked and talked not bothering to check if I was listening, which I wasn't. She was the only person I knew that wasn't bothered by the choosing ceremony tomorrow, or course nothing bothered her much.
"Didn't you hear me?"
"I'm sorry what?" I asked.
"I said do you know what faction you are going to pick?"
"Oh um no I'm not sure, most likely erudite but maybe the test will say something different." She scoffed at that.
"You know you don't have to really on the test."
"I know that, but it could tell me something I never would have guessed like maybe I'm cut out for amity or something."
"Pfft, Amity you yeah right and I belong in candor, please.
"Lee I'm serous."
"So am I you know how honest I am." This was of course sarcasm as she was one of the biggest liars I knew.
We walked to the hub and she headed to Math class while I made my way to English. I was walking past the front windows when I heard the train I turned to see the Dauntless proving there bravery or as many people in Erudite called it stupidity, by jumping off a train. Sure it sort of looked fun that is if near death experiences were the definition under the word fun. Some people tucked and rolled others stumbled at first before gaining their balance. I turned away from the window and made my way to class.
It went by way to quickly, I took notes like I always did and like everybody else should but I noticed a couple Candor kids drawing "pictures" of the teacher on their paper and laughing silently.
When it was lunch I sat next to Lee like I always did and I took out a book on Roman Warfare that I had been reading. That was when they started calling the names two from each faction. After about thirty agonizing minutes of torture they call me.
"From Erudite Lee Spinner and Bella Aspen." We both stand up and I nervously shake my hands.
"Good luck Bell," she says as she skips off to her testing room. I look at the door in front of me take a deep breathe and walk in. The room is covered in mirrors I see my reflection staring back at me with wide eyes. My brown hair is barely touching my shoulder because I cut it short last year.
"Hello" says a soft voice behind me. I turn around though it was unnecessary because I could have looked in the mirror. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you" says the woman, a stiff. Her brown hair was pulled into a bun and was streaked with gray but she smiled with kind eyes. Her gray robes ended just above her ankles and were long sleeved.
"My name is Natalie Prior and I will be administering your test today." Prior, Prior I knew that name. I was trying to remember where I knew it.
"Are you related to Caleb Prior?" I asked and she stiffened.
"Yes I am" she paused. "He is my son."
"Oh well he is a great researcher." I said not knowing what else to say.
"Is he now, I'm glad to here that he is doing well he always loved learning. Now Bella is it, please have a seat." I sat down and she gave me a small glass of clear liquid.
"What is it?" I asked wearily.
"Your test it will induce a simulation that will place you, it is completely harmless." I took a deep breath closed my eyes and waited.
I was in a room that looked like the cafeteria only no one was there and lying in front of me were two baskets one filled with cheese and another with a knife.
"Choose" a voice said.
"Why?" I asked
"Choose" It said again. I looked at the baskets again what would the cheese be helpful with? If I were hungry sure it would be helpful or if someone or something else was hungry. The knife on the other hand would be handy in a fight or for self-defense. It would also be good for cutting things. I couldn't decide.
"Why do I need to choose what's going to happen?" I asked
"Choose," said the voice again.
"But I can't I need to know what I have to do."
"Suit yourself" and the baskets disappeared.
"Wha…" I started to say but I herd the hinges of a door squeak and then a growling a big dog barked and barred its teeth at me I now know why the cheese and knife would have come in handy. Panicking I tried to think of what to do the dog took a step closer to me and I did the first thing hat came to me I jumped on the table and grabbed a chair holding it so that the legs stuck out toward the dog. But the dog suddenly stopped barking and looked at me with big puppy dog eyes. I stepped down from the table and knelt down, the dog bowed its head and I pet it on its head. I put my hand down on my lap but it nudged its head under it forcing my hand back on top of its head. I laughed hard to believe a few seconds ago I was afraid of it.
"Puppy!" A little girls voice cried. I looked around and saw a little girl with blond pigtails in a white dress running toward the dog, which was now growling again. Oh no, I thought the dog started running toward her it would only be a few seconds until it reached her. So I did the first thing that came to my mind, I grabbed the chair next to me and threw it as hard as I could at the dog. It missed be several feet but it diverted its attention long enough for me to move closer to it, making the dog realize that I was a bigger threat that the girl.
Suddenly the scene changed I was on a bus holding the pole in the isle. I looked around and saw a man holding a newspaper.
"Have you seen this man?" He asked in a gruff voice.
"No" I replied instantly though something told him I had.
"Are you sure please tell me if you have it could save me." But something told me not to tell him.
"No" I said again.
I was back in the test room Natalie was pulling the wires off her forehead and had a grave expression.
"What?" I asked self-consciously.
"Nothing its just…"
"Just what. What were my results?" I asked
"You see that's the problem they were inconclusive."
"What how that's impossible?"
"No it's not, just extremely rare." She took a deep breath. "It's called divergent. That means that you have an aptitude for more than one faction." More than one faction, how was that possible.
"What were my results?" I asked.
"Erudite, Abnegation and Dauntless." I was a little shocked at that. Erudite was my guess just because I really could not see myself in any other faction. Abnegation was in no way expected and I wasn't sure I wanted to be a stiff for the rest of my life. But Dauntless, I had no reply to that but now that I saw that it was a possibility to me I started to wonder if maybe I could fit into that lifestyle.
"Bella listen to me no this is important, you cant tell anyone about your divergence ok, trust me on this."
"But, why?" I asked.
"Just trust me please Bella I don't have time to explain." I could desperation in her voice and something inside me said to trust her.
"Ok" I said and she sighed in relief.
"I'm going to manually put your result in as Erudite ok."
"Fine."
"Here come out the back, and good luck tomorrow."
"Thank you" I said before she closed the door. I don't really remember the walk home, but when I arrived I tried to rest but I was to jumpy so I scribbled down a note to my parents telling them I was going to the library. I grabbed my bag and left the apartment.
The library was always where I went when I was stressed out. Being surrounded by books always comforted me so I walked over to the history section and picked a book at random. I sat down at one of the desks. The book was about ancient Rome; it told how the government was made up of senators and two consuls that made the decisions. Turning the pages I was already feeling better my mind was completely focused on the words and not about my test. SPQR was the motto of the Roman Empire; it stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus. This means the senate and the people of Rome. In the back of the book was a glossary full of Latin words and their English counter parts. I glanced at the clock and it read 4:30, oh crap I thought. I put the book back on its shelf and grabbed my bag heading out the door.