I don't own Harry Potter or Divergent, first from both fandoms so I appreciate reviews, positive and negative, enjoy!
"Prior, Beatrice!" The sharp looking woman, Professor McGonagall, calls my name and I walk with shaking steps to the front of the great hall.
I sit on the short stool and sit politely with my hands in my lap. I look down at six tables, six futures. Would I be kind and work hard, in Hufflepuff? Or seek knowledge in Erudite? Honest Candor? Cunning and ambitious Slytherin? Dauntless, where dwell the brave at heart? Or would I follow in my parent's footsteps in selfless Abnegation?
After what seems like hours, the hat lowers over my eyes. A small voice jumps out of the blackness, making me start.
"Where shall I put you? Abnegation maybe?
You do have selfless traits, were your parents from there, yes? Good mind indeed, perhaps Erudite? But I also sense Dauntless in you too. Very interesting…my Dear, you may very well be in grave danger. Divergent is the word, tell no one of what I said to you.
Now where to place you, deep inside you seek adventure and danger… better be DAUNTLESS!" The last word it yells out loud.
The hat is taken off and I can see the dauntless table cheering, my eyes find my brother at the Erudite table and I walk over and sit next to a young man, prefect I think. He looks at me and smiles. "I'm Four, welcome to Dauntless. What's your name?"
"Umm…" I don't know why I hesitate, but Beatrice just doesn't sound right anymore."
"Think about it." He says. "You don't get to pick again."
"Tris." I say firmly. He smiles and looks like he wants to say more, but then a new member of Dauntless sits down next to me.
"I'm glad I got Dauntless, I was scared for a minute that the hat would put me in Hufflepuff!" She is tall with dark skin and short hair. "My name's Christina, you?"
"Tris." I reply.
The headmaster clears his throat and makes a short speech. I notice one teacher, with greasy hair and a hooked nose, staring at me. He catches my eye. I feel like I should look away but the dauntless in me wins out and I stare him down until he sneers and looks away.
Dinner is amazing, and I take in my surroundings. Two red haired, freckled twins are making inappropriate jokes, and I wonder why Four isn't telling them off, he is a prefect, after all. Instead he is laughing along with everyone else at the table.
After dinner we make our way to the Dauntless dormitories, with my newfound friends Christina, Al and Will. Being raised by two Abnegation parents I never got the chance to make friends.
We approach a hole in the ground, just along the outside wall next to the greenhouses.
"The other houses have a password, or have to answer a question. But here in Dauntless bravery is required to enter, our new first years have the privilege of going first." Four explains.
"Is there water or something at the bottom?" another first year asks? Four smiles, "that's for you to find out, isn't it?"
The dauntless aren't suicidal; I know that, so there has to be something at the bottom. I take a breath and walk to the edge of the hole.
I hear whispers behind me and I don't think, I just jump.
Into the hole.
Into my new life in Dauntless.