So this is my other story I have been working on! This is for my friend Victoria who edits my other story, A Little Braver. I think that if Eric was real, that she would be with him so I created a fan fiction about it. She wanted it so… here it is! All of the characters except for one, which will be named later, belong to Veronica Roth! NOT ME….
As she walks down the hallway towards her aptitude test room she thinks about how the previous year has gone. She missed Eric terribly, but he was a year older and had the choosing ceremony a year earlier. In a matter of days she can either see him again or never see him at all. She continued to walk along as she remembered the shock when she heard the next day that he betrayed Erudite to join Dauntless. Then confusion, he was the perfect Erudite, perfect grades, always reading and had a constant thirst for knowledge. Dauntless? It had to be a mistake she foolishly thought. But when she walked to their normal meeting spot after school, reality slapped her in the face. He had transferred.
She finally reached the door and shakily opened it. She took in her surroundings; all around the walls were mirrors. She can see herself in all different angles. There was also a chair that stood in the middle of the room and right behind it was a newly created computer that she had studied. It was specifically made for the aptitude test. Connected to the computers were wires that ended with a piece of tape that also held a specific purpose. Right next to the computer stood a tall woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, who had on grey clothing. Standard Abnegation.
"Come on in, we can get started." The woman said.
She slowly walked to the chair and lowered herself down. The woman attached the wires to the girl's forehead, to herself and the computer. She then hands the girl a clear liquid and says, "Drink this."
"Why" the girl asks.
"It's for the simulation, now please drink it.
The girl drinks the clear liquid and closes her eyes. When she opens them again, she's no longer in the aptitude room; she's in the school cafeteria.
She can hear a voice from somewhere telling her to choose between the knife and a piece of cheese that sits on a table in front of her. She slowly reaches for the cheese, then switched to the knife. Suddenly she hears a growling noise, her head snaps up and she holds out her knife. The growling noise grows louder and the girls hands start shaking, when a dog steps out, the girl drops the knife. The dog comes closer and closer and the girl knows she can't reach the knife. She desperately tries to remember everything she knows about dogs. She can't look into its eyes for that are a sign of aggression, so she should show that she isn't a threat. How? She asks herself when the answer comes to her. She sinks to her knees so that she is eye level with the dog. She puts her hand down on either side of her and looks anywhere but the dogs eyes. The dog creeps closer and closer until it abruptly and licks her face. At this the girl lets out a small laugh. That laughs stops when she sees a little girl come out of the door that the dog came out of.
"Puppy!" The little girl in a white dress screams.
The dog jumps up to it's feet and runs to the little girl, snarling. The girl knows she has a matter of seconds to find the solution. She looks towards the knife and she somehow had managed to come within grabbing distance of the weapon. In one swift movement, the girl grabs the knife and stabs the beast. The growls subside to whimpers, then to nothing at all.
Suddenly the scene changes from a cafeteria to a bus. When she looks left she can see a man with a newspaper. His face is hidden, but on the newspaper is the words "Brutal Murderer Finally Apprehended!"
"Do you know this man?'" He asks.
The man on the newspaper looks familiar, but the girl cannot name him. The city hasn't had a murderer for as long as she can remember.
"I think so, but I can't name him, I'm sorry sir."
The man stands up and starts walking closer to the girl.
"Are you sure you know him little girl?" He asks angrily.
"I, I, um… I think so." She stumbles.
"He's a murderer, how would you know a murderer?" He starts to yell and continues to walk towards the girl. The girl backs up again.
"I don't know he just looks familiar. Maybe its because he's in the newspaper?" She asks trying to get away from the man.
"No, you're lying! You do know this man! Did you assist the murder? He had an accomplice they never caught. It was you weren't it? They think it was me but it was you!"
At this the girl starts to run, when she reaches the doors to the bus, the bus disappears and she's back in the Aptitude room. She looks over at the confused Abnegation women for answers.
"That was… different. I'll be right back." And she leaves the room.