AN: Okay I am BACK! And with a new one! YAAS! So, yeah, I know, it starts out a bit unoriginal, but have faith in me, I'll make it all better! Also, I will be posting more and more and more because it is SUMMER BREAK! Have fun reading, please give this a chance, no matter how unoriginal it may seem, and trust me, right now it seems very. But don't worry. It'll get better, it's my first shot at a romantic kind of romance rather than a ship romance! It's gonna be very OC for now, but there will be mention of Divergent characters, and I tried not to change too much about the system, and full rights go to Veronica Roth and Suzanne Collins of course, but I took a bit of artistic liberty and literary license to edit their worlds and mash them together. Okay, phew. Now that that monologue is over, get to the reading, you readers you! Happy Reading, Enjoy~

When Factions Collide

Chapter 1

I wake up in the new compound, looking around at the fellow initiates. We're all here for one purpose; to become Dauntless. We need to face out fears, become brave, never looking back. This is our first actual day here.

"Wren, it's five in the morning, we don't have to be up until eight. What are you doing up?"

"Couldn't sleep." I answered callously. "I would rather be up early and I want to get to the showers before other people come in."

"You're such an Abnegation." I heard the sigh from the next bunk over. Payton snorts and smirks, then becomes gentle with me. "Well, since we're all up, guess we should at least get cleaned up and ready for the day. Head to breakfast, eh?"

I nodded my head and got up, grabbing the black clothes we were given when we first got here.

The morning of the Placement Test was almost sullen, definitely nerve wracking. I knew that it would be okay, after the Second War everyone came together again and remade society, keeping the factions for the sake of order. We all agreed, except about what to do with the Divergents. That was the problem, even if you declared yourself one of them, they still placed you in the Factionless. By all means, they were treated better than they were before the War, but they had to go there because they kept switching their ideals, not being suitable for one certain lifestyle.

I was afraid I was going to get an inconclusive result, but the best case scenario was that I would lie at the choosing ceremony, as we ran on the honour code now, and I would declare myself another faction, just bearing with the choice I made. We were now ruled by a central government, which made treatment a lot better now as well; instead of just having the Abnegation rule, we had representatives from each faction.

That morning, like all the people of years before me, I walked into the Hub that was our school, and to the newly rebuilt upper levels. Being Abnegation wasn't as bad as before the War, when Tris Prior gave up her life to save the rest of ours, and for a while the faction even became revered. But eventually things went back to normal, and we were "Stiffs" once more. I was twelve when the change happened.

I walked quietly as the hours passed to all my classes, waiting until after the final bell. My legs were shaky and my palms a bit sweaty. I knew I shouldn't have been nervous, but I let the nerves get to me anyway. It was stupid, most people knew where they were headed in life. I didn't. I didn't know what to do, I couldn't make up my mind about a test I couldn't even fail.

I heard my name being called faintly. "Renata." the voice sounded from the doorway. The name didn't even sound familiar, but my body responded as I got up and walked over to the man standing by the testing room wearing all black- a Dauntless volunteer.

"My name is Theo, I'll be administering the test." he said, his eyes locked on mine. "Relax, it won't hurt. Here, drink this." he gave me a serum to drink, and as it slid down my throat I almost gagged. No one said it was going to taste bad; you would think with all the changes they made, taste would be fairly high on the list.

"The test will begin in about a minute. Try not to freak out." he smiled at me as I went under.

The simulation started exactly like the stories I had been told. I woke in an empty room, sitting down. Wait, my hands were confined. There was a centre light staring down on me, and I see people walking towards me. One of them kneels down and slaps me.

"Do you know this man?" he held up a picture.

"No." I lie, even though I do. This man is my father, who was wrongly accused of murdering his wife. This never happened in real life. My father is a good man.

"You won't be charged. Don't lie."

"I do. But you're not going to get me." I struggled to get out of the rope constricting my hands, and once I did, I backed towards the door quickly so they couldn't get me. Damn. Couldn't lie. I expected to find something better; a way out when I ran. I was wrong.

What I found instead was something much worse. I was in the streets of the city during the War. What should have been a distant memory was now a simulation. What was once my past, I had to relive now. So what was I supposed to change? People were shouting and screaming, guns going off around me. I turned to find someone threatening a little girl, about ten years in age. I ran over to her to get in the way of the two, my Abnegation instinct taking over. But some other part of me stopped to look at the ground, my foot kicking something hard. There was a gun with a few bullets left lying there. I picked it up, shot the man in the leg, and took the girl, running to find some sort of safety.

There was a safe house a few streets down that I ran her into, and I stayed outside to guard her. I heard her in the house crying, and I wanted so badly to go in to comfort her, but I had to move on. I started climbing up the stairs into an alleyway, ducking and holding the gun close to my chest. I had occurred to me that I had never fired a gun before, but something inside me knew how.

After I had pondered that thought, I jolted awake.

"Twelve minutes. Not bad." Theo nodded at me to get up. As I stood, my legs felt a bit wobbly. "Whoa, take it easy instead. The effects will wear off in a bit. Stay here for a little, your time was a bit fast anyway."

The way he looked at me and eased me back into the chair, now in an upright position, didn't make me feel like everything was alright.

"How...bad was it?" I finally got up the nerve to ask. He looked a bit puzzled as he contemplated the response. I started putting my head down in shame, in fear of my results.

"It wasn't all bad...but," he stopped, looking around. "You appear to have gotten more than one result." My eyes widened in fear, this was what I had hoped would not happen. "It'll come up as Dauntless, as that was eighty percent of the result, but you have fifteen percent of Erudite and five percent Candor response as well."
"Will I be factionless? What about the Abnegation part?"

"Your Abnegation wasn't too strong. I believe that you only saved the girl because it was a brave act, not a selfless one. That doesn't mean you're not Abnegation, it just means there was no clear response. Typical of Divergents. If you don't say anything, you'll be fine. Your scores were so skewed towards Dauntless that you could fit in so easily. But don't go blabbing about the test results to anyone. I mean it, Stiff. Just because you're safe now doesn't mean you'll be safe in there, or anywhere. You can never be completely open about it."

I nodded. I knew what I had to do. Theo said I was safe though. He looked like he knew what he was talking about.

"Go. It's been about twenty minutes now. Renata? I think you could fit Dauntless, if you want my personal opinion."

I looked back and went out the door, not saying another word.

AN: Renata. Not the best name in the world, even I laughed, but I had to make something up at the time, and I really wanted to give her a nickname, so there is that. I know you probably laughed too. I know I did, and I was scared to even begin to make this, but it'll get better, I'm planning as I go along. There's just a lot to get right and I'm trying to do my research, so I'm going back through the books and highlighting and annotating every single little detail that I have to make sure fits with the story and vice versa. Hope you enjoyed it at least a little bit and I hope you'll give me a chance to prove my literary genius!