Tris' POV

Dauntless leadership is becoming too warped for my taste.

Today, Eric announced to the whole of Dauntless that Dauntless is starting a new program- 'Becoming Fearless'- and that each of us are required to participate. We'd have to go into our fear landscape until we eliminate all of our fears, or all but one, or we'd be kicked out of Dauntless.

What kind of twisted rule is that? Dauntless isn't going to have many people by the end of this. Maybe none.

I wonder what fears I'm going to eliminate. I have 6 so far- the crows, the water tank, the ocean, the burning at the stake by Peter and the gang, shooting my family and of course, the men trying to kill me. Each of these fears hold a special place in me- not in a good way. They give me nightmares and are a particular type of fear each.

Then I think of Tobias.

He has 4 fears- heights, confinement, shooting the woman and his dad with the belt (I'm sticking with these fears), so which fear will he eliminate, if any at all? Shooting the woman? He told me once it symbolised the fear of what he'd be asked to do in Dauntless. He's the only person I believe even has a chance of successfully completing this program.

Eric gave us all schedules of our Fear Landscape times. I'm due to go in 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, after Christina, Tobias and Will. I think about the days Tobias used to go into his fear landscape in his free time, for two years, and his fears remained the same. I shudder. Will the program ever really end?

Maybe, maybe not. I think it probably lasts a certain amount of days, weeks or months. But you can just ask people to simply eradicate their fears. Fears reach deep down in you and scare you from there.

My first Fear Landscape's tomorrow, and Tobias' is today. He's in it now.

"Hey Tris!" Christina comes up to me, yelling. "I SAW FOUR'S FEAR LANDSCAPE!"

Emotions overcome me. "WHAT?"

"KIDDING!" She punches my arm, laughing. "What? Have you seen his fear landscape?"

"Don't be silly. It's not like he'd ever show it to anyone," I say, trying to weave my way out of it.

"Tris. Seriously. Yes or no," she asks.

"YES!" I yell, exasperated.

"WHAT? WHAT WERE HIS FEARS?" she yells. I suddenly feel really uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you. It's private. The only person he showed it to is me," I say, trying to explain.

"OK, OK...fine. When are you due for your first FL?"

"Tomorrow. After lunch. You?"

"Same, before breakfast. I'm trying to imagine a good day tomorrow when the first thing I see in the morning are moths." She shudders. "I can't."

"Moths are not THAT bad."

"YES THEY ARE! All those stupid bug bodies, creepy, and papery wings...Ew. They're really bad," she says.

I laugh. "Hey, where's Will?"

"He's in the line. Due after Four." The smile that she was previously wearing melts off her face. "He's really not looking forward to it."

"Think anyone will rebel?"

She shrugs. "Probably. Dauntless, after all."

"Some of them are not so. A couple'll probably jump into the chas."

"The chas?"

I roll my eyes. "CHASM, dummy."

She laughs. "Dummy? That's the worst insult you can think of?"

"I'm capable of doing much worse," I say with a glint in my eyes.

"Prove it."

"MOTHOPHOBIC."

She tackles me. "Moth-phobic. Really? That's low, Tris."

I laugh. "Yeah, I know."

I see Tobias looking slightly shaken, walking towards me. As he approaches us, Christina says, "Well, I gotta go. You tow lovebirds have fun!" and she winks.

"WE ARE NOT-" I start, but she's already running away, laughing.

"How was it?" I ask Tobias.

He looks around, checking if anyone was around us. "I got something to tell you, but not here. My FL was the same though. Do fear landscapes even change? I don't know anyone who's ever gotten over a fear. Except maybe you."

I can't deny it. "Yeah, I guess," I say nonchalantly. "C'mon, let's go to the chasm. I want to hear the sound of the water again."

"I thought you said the water reminds you of the attack by Peter, Drew and Al."

"Well, you saved me. So as long as I'm with you, it's okay." I smile as he kisses me lightly. "C'mon."

"The fear landscape was different, Tris," Tobias whispers to me when we arrive at the chasm.

"What about it?"

"Well, usually you can just calm your heart-rate to move on right? This time, not so easy. You have to find a way to face it head on, maybe even enjoy it."

"WHAT?! But-but that's not fair! Some initiates-"

"Yeah, and Eric loves fair! That's why he makes the initiates beat themselves unconscious and made me throw knives at your head," he says in a mock-happy tone, rolling his eyes.

"We'll just have to find a way to keep surviving."

"Don't we always."

So...first chapter. What do you think?