A/N This is my first story so please help me to improve this by reviewing)
Beatrice's POV.
Two days until the Choosing Ceremony. Two days until I know where I belong. Everybody says that you don't need to worry about the Ceremony, because the Test will show you where you belong. Most of the people stay in the same faction either way so it's not a big deal.
But for me it is.
"Caleb! Beatrice! Your dad and I are going grocery shopping! We will be back in an hour!" My mom yells up the stairs. Then the door shuts.
I sit frightened on my bed and hear Caleb walking to my room.
"I hope you can keep control of your power at all time. I also saw that you had a 9.5 out of 10 with the mathematics-test today." He says, as he enters my room.
"Yes, it was pretty easy to make." I say, as a responds. I hope he has a higher score than me.
"If it was so simple, why did I get a 8.9?"
Oh no, I think.
"I-I don't know Caleb, maybe the teacher made a mistake."
"Teachers never make mistakes. They are Erudite. You know what's going to happen next, right?" He says, as he shoves his sleeves op to his elbows. I know what's going to happen next. He is going to beat me. I wait anxiously to feel the first hit.
When I finally feel it, I scream though my teeth. If I scream too loud, the neighbours can hear me, and I really don't want that. He trows me trough the room, kicking and punching every place he can find on me. But he doesn't even get near my face, because what if our parents or someone else sees this?
️After fifteen minutes, the pain becomes to much and I pass out.
When I wake up, I'm in our basement, the lights are out and the door is locked. After what seems to be at least an hour, Caleb comes down, and tells me to clean up the blood I lost when he was beating me. I do as he says, and I even clean the whole floor. I step into the shower, and look at the damage. When I get out of the shower, I put a shirt on, similar to the one I was wearing before.
When our parents come home, we sit in the living room, as if nothing happened when they where gone.
The beating thing is happening for almost 10 years. It started when I was six, and discovered my power. My brother, Caleb, was also good as school, but not as good as me. I'm too smart and being smart is a bad thing. It's also a bad thing to come home late After school, get up too early in the morning, etcetera, etcetera.
The next day we walk together with Susan and Robert to the bus-station. Most people in Abnegation don't have a car, so they all take the bus.
When we arrive at school, we go sit at a table, and wait in silence to hear what an Erudite women has to say. After she said five words, I quit listening.
~~~TIME SKIP ️AFTER THE SPEECH.~~~
We are called in groups of five persons. Then I hear Caleb's name. He stands up and goes to one of the five rooms. ️After 10 minutes, he returns, but he's very pale and sweaty. I want to ask him what the problem is, but we are not allowed to ask anything about the test. Then the women says: "... and from Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior."
I stand and walk shaking to one of the rooms. I enter and see a Dauntless women with a needle in her hands. "Close the door." I do what the women asked, and I see myself standing in a room with mirrors instead of walls. I immediately look to the ground, anxious to look to long to myself in the mirror.
"What is it with Abnegation and mirrors?"
"We reject vanity." I answer.
"Yes, I know." She says. "I'm Tori, Take a seat."
I sit down and Tori turns back to the table. As she does that, her hair flips over her shoulder and I can see a tattoo of a bird in her neck.
"What's your tattoo?" I ask, not thinking that proper Abnegation-members don't ask such things.
"I never met a curious Abnegation before." She says, as she turns around with a needle in her hands. "This is going to stitch a little bit OK?" Then she shoves my hair to the back, and stick the needle in my neck. Everything goes dark peace by peace.
When I wake up again, I'm alone in the room. Then a voice says,"choose". I look to where I think the voice came from, and see two baskets. In the first basket, there's a huge piece of cheese, in the one next to it, a knife. "Why?" I ask.
"Just choose."
"What will I have to do with them?"
"CHOOSE!"
The voice became more and more pushing, so I just put my arms over each other and wait.
"OK then." The voice says.
Then the scene shifted. I hear a loud bark, so I turn around and see a massive dog with big teeth staring at me. The knife would have come in handy now, I think. Even the cheese was worth it.
I quickly think about what our teacher said about dogs. Don't look them in the eyes, then you are insulting them. They can smell fear. But if looking the dog in the eyes is a dare, what would be a sign of admire? I go down on my knees. The last thing I want is the teeth of the dog at the same height as my face, but I haven't got any better ideas. Then I feel a lick on my cheek. I look up and see a lovely puppy. "You're not so scary at all, aren't you?" I say, while cuddling the dog.
"Puppy!" A voice says behind me. I turn around and see a little kid smiling a bright smile at the dog. But the dog has become the big one with big teeth again. So I do the only thing I think is logical. I throw myself at the dog. The dog vanishes, and I'm standing in a bus. There's a man in front of me with big scars over his arms and hands. He looks at me and asks suddenly,"do you know this Guy?" He points to a picture in the newspaper he is holding. I think I know him from somewhere, but it feels wrong. So I say, "no, I don't know him." "You could safe my live if you tell me you know him." "Well, I don't know him, sorry." I feel kinda bad for the old man now, but then the scene vanishes AGAIN, and I'm back in the test-room with Tori.
"That", she says,"was extraordinary." Extraordinary? I ask myself. Did I do something wrong? She quickly says,"no, you did nothing wrong, except, I'm very surprised by your results." O no, I thought out loud. I really need to control that. "Wait, you said results, that means more than one. What was my result?" I ask, clearly confused. "It's Abnegation." Tori says,"and Dauntless. And Erudite." Wait what!? "But that's impossible." "It's not impossible, just extremely rare. Look, you can't tell anyone about your result at all, at any time. It is very dangerous to have multiple factions. They call it divergent." I really don't understand anything of this. Dauntless? I'm suitable for DAUNTLESS? I never ever expected that to happen. "You need to go home straight away. If your parents ask you why, you said that the serum made you sick." "Wait but what do I have to do at the Ceremony?" "You just have to sort that one out yourself." She pushes me out the backdoor, and shut the door immediately after I step through the doorway.
~~~TIME SKIP UNTILL SHE IS HOME AGAIN~~~
When I got home, I start cutting the vegetables and potatoes for dinner. After a while, I hear a door shut. Caleb, is all that I think. After a few seconds, I see that I was right. He stands next to me and started cutting the vegetables to. When we are finished, he says, "Why weren't you at school after the Test?" "I felt a little dizzy and sick because of the serum so I went home early." It's half of the truth, I actually felt a little dizzy, but not from the Test. No, it was from the result.
"You're lying."
"No I don't, what makes you think that?"
"I can see it in your eyes, Beatrice."
Damn it!
"Well, I don't know what you see in my eyes, but I'm telling the truth.", I spit out, getting pretty annoyed of him.
"Beatrice you're not supposed to speak like this to me, I'm older than you."
Punishment-time. Yeay... (You notice the sarcasm?)
I walk upstairs and when I do that, he grabs the knife that I was using and walks after me upstairs. He grabs my arm and make a cut in it. Not too deep, but deep enough to make it bleed. After He cuts this cut, he makes one on my other arm as well. Then he starts to kick my back, and hit it as well.
~~~TO MUCH TIME FLEW AWAY~~~
The next morning, I stand up and get dressed. I go to the kitchen and sit down. Then Caleb comes in.
"so... Today... You know what to choose, right? It better be Erudite, otherwise I will find find you, and you will be punished. Severely punished." He says. I nod, but I only because of fear. Only because of my fear of Caleb. He has planned this for years. We go together, as transfers, to Erudite. After Initiation, we go live in an apartment together. All the money would go to Caleb, since he's older than me (less than a year) and knows how to use it wisely. I need to take care of the household, and cook anything he wants me to cook for him. He would beat me when I did something wrong, which was, unfortunately, almost everything.
~~~TIME'S BEEN SKIPPING~~~
It's Caleb's turn to choose now. He looks at me, stands up and walks to Marcus, who's handing him a knife. He cuts in his hand, and while he keeps looking me straight in the eyes, his hand goes to the water, and a drop of his blood falls in it.
"Erudite." Marcus' says, with a shocked expression on his face. He recovers from his shock and calls the next person.
"Prior, Beatrice."
I walk slowly towards the five bowls. Then a thought comes in my mind, and when it does, it hits me like a truck.
If I go to Erudite, I get to live with my abusing brother for the rest of my life.
If I stayed in Abnegation, he will find me, and that won't be a nice reunion. By the way, I'm not good enough for it, I've tried it for 16 years.
The only option left is Dauntless. Now I know it would hurt him the most, and if he comes for me, I'm trained and I know how to fight.
I've arrived at the five bowls. Marcus gives me a small smile. I smile back and cut my hand. F*ck, I cut it too deep! I look over to mom and dad. Then I see mom nod a little bit. How does she knows what I'm thinking? I feel bad for them now. They started with two children, now they are going to have none. But, I think, they can handle this. I sigh and hold my hand above the coals.
"Dauntless."
I can hardly hear him over all the cheering Dauntless people, even though I stand next to him.
~~~WHY ALL THE SKIPS?!~~~ (I know I skip WAY too much)
We stand on the roof of a building we just jumped on. A guy with loads of piercings stands on the edge and speaks, "You choose Dauntless, the brave faction, today. If you are a true Dauntless, you could do this without hesitation. If you want to be Dauntless, this is your way in." He points over the edge downwards. I'm very happy I haven't got a fear of heights.
"So... Who wants to go first?" No-one steps forward, not even the Dauntless-born.
"I do." I say, as I step forward. Someone's gotta do it, right? I don't try to look down as I go stand on the edge. I slowly lean backwards, and then I fall.
I feel a net underneath me, and the air is smashed out of my lungs for a moment. I lay down for a while, but then someone pulls at the net, so I roll out of it. But before I can hit the ground, he catches me. I look up and see great blue eyes. They look like an untamed ocean, where you can drown in just matters of seconds.
"What's your name?" I snap back to reality when I hear him talk. He talks with a low voice, and he looks very young. I guess he's 2 or 3 years older than me.
"It's Be-" New faction, new personality, new name, right?
"What, is it a hard one? You can make a new one if you want, but choose carefully. You don't get to choose again.
"It's Tris."
"FIRST JUMPER: TRIS" he yells. Then cheers erupt from the shadows. "Welcome to Dauntless." He adds. Then Christina, a girl from Candor I met on the train, falls down.
After everyone is down, he introduces himself as Four and shows us the places we are going to use very often, like the Pit, or the Chasm. After that, he shows us the bedroom. A former Candor asks, "Boys or girls?"
"Both."
"Nice." (sarcasm)
"If you like this, you're gonna LOVE the bathroom"
When we get there, everyone has gone quiet. What we see is this:
5 toilets next to each other with no privacy at all.
10 showers behind the toilets. Also no sign of privacy.
"Get dressed. I see you tomorrow at 7 in the gym. Third floor, seventh door on your right." And with that, he's gone. We all throw our stuff at a bed, and start changing our old clothes with new ones that lies on the bed. After all the Initiates are dressed up, we walk to the Pit and go sit at an almost empty table. Only our trainer and some Dauntless-born Initiates sit here. Then Christina asks, "Hey Tris, would you please get our food, then I hold your spot at this table."
"OK, what do you want?"
"Maybe a hamburger and a piece of the famous Dauntless cake."
"I'll be right back.", I say.
"Bye."
As I walk to the line, I started thinking. What is a hamburger actually? And what cake is the 'famous Dauntless' cake? Sooner then I expected, I stand in front of the line. I see a round piece of meat, but I don't know the name of it. I guess that must be a hamburger. I grab two of them, and go looking for a 'Dauntless cake'. Sadly, there are only muffins left, so I take two of them to. Then I walk back to the table.
Four's POV
As Tris comes back, she's got two muffins and two hamburgers.
"Where is the Dauntless cake?" Asks Christina.
"There weren't any left, I'm sorry." Answers Tris.
I can't stop thinking I know her, but I don't remember were or what. Then I see her turn her back to Christina and waits. I can see fear in her eyes. Wait, fear?! Why is she afraid? We all stare at her, confused. After half a minute, she turns around, and sees everyone staring at her. She starts blushing, and speaks.
"Aren't you going to beat me?"
Christina's eyes widen, and she immediately says, "Why would I beat you?"
"Well, I made a mistake." She says it as if it's obvious, but it's not.
"Look, I don't know who taught you that, but I'm not going to hurt you because of a stupid little thing that isn't even your fault!"
I heard enough of the conversation between Tris and Christina, so I jump in.
"Tris, come with me for a second." I see confusion flicker over her face, but it is gone so quickly, I don't even know for sure that it was there. She stands up, and follows me. I lead her to a hallway with no camera's, I don't want this conversation on tape.
"Who was beating you, back in Abnegation?" I ask, turning around to face her. She almost walks into me, but stops just in time. "My brother, but I deserved it." She's avoiding my eyes at the moment.
"What's your brother's name?" Anger is boiling up inside me, so I clench my hands into a fist.
"Caleb." She keeps talking softer and softer.
"Do you mean Caleb Prior, Son of Natalie and Andrew Prior, brother to Beatrice Prior?" If it's true, that means she is Beatrice Prior, my neighbour back in Abnegation.
"Yes." She is talking so soft, I almost didn't hear her.
"So you are Beatrice Prior?"
"Yes."
"And the papers didn't lie about abuse by your brother?"
"No."
"Where is your brother now?" I clench my fist.
"In Erudite, as a transfer." Then she quickly adds, "But please don't hurt him, he only did what was necessary."
"Necessary? Tris, he ABUSED you!"
"Just when I did something wrong!"
"Name an example of something you did wrong then."
"Loads of stuff, like, I when I didn't be quiet enough, come home to late After school, get a higher score then him on a test, didn't control my power -" I cut her off, I've heard enough of it.
"Why is getting a higher score on a test something wrong?" I really want to kick his ass right now. Who wants to abuse such a kind girl? But what is that power-thing she says?
~~~ANOTHER SKIP... SORRY...~~~
Training the Initiates to fight went like I expected. They were all rubbish. Knife throwing went better. I saw Tris hit the target at least 5 times the last 4 minutes. I trained them super hard, and luckily they all pass stage one. I'm not watching the fears, my friend Zeke does that, so I have nothing to do and think about Tris. She became friends with Uriah, the little brother of Zeke. She also went zip lining with the Dauntless-born Initiates. She's come up with the winning idea of Capture the Flag. Her eyes look like an untamed fire.
I'm rudely interrupted by Zeke, who's storming trough the door and says, "Tris is divergent!" Then he adds, "oh yea... She was abused by her brother."
"I know the brother-part, but are you sure about the divergence?"
"Wait, you knew? Never Mind, yes I'm sure, she made a gun appear to shoot the birds!"
"Do not tell anyone this, not even the leaders. If she really is Divergent, she's in great danger."
I run after Zeke to the test room, and see Tris in the chair, nervous.
"Zeke, can I talk to her alone please?"
"Yeah sure." Then he leaves the room.
"Tris, what were your test results?"
"Abnegation."
"Don't lie to me Tris, I know what you are."
"What am I then?" She is either acting really good, or she has actually no idea what I'm talking about.
"Goddamn it Tris, you know just as good as me that you are Divergent, so I'm asking you one more time: What were your test results?"
"Abnegation." I try to say something, but she interrupts me. "And Dauntless." I open my mouth to speak, but then she opens her mouth again. "And Erudite."
"You had THREE results?! How did you get that?!"
"Well, I choose neither the cheese or the knife, I kneeled in front of the dog, saved the girl's life by throwing myself in front of the dog and lied to the man in the bus. Why are you so shocked?"
"Nobody has ever had three results. Some have two, but nobody has three. OK, you must say nothing to no-one, they'll kill you if they find out."
"Who's they? And what am I? What does Divergent mean?"
"Who took your Test back then?" Please not Jeanine, Eric, Max, or any other leader who hunts down Divergents.
"It was a Dauntless women, her name was... Ehmm... O yeah, Tori, her name was Tori." I let out a sigh of relieve. She's not in danger if Tori took her Test. Tori's brother was murdered because he was Divergent, so she won't say anything.
"And to answer your questions, you are a Divergent. That means you know you are in a simulation and you can control them. Your mind doesn't fit in one category, so they can't control you. You have a whole different way of thinking, and that frightens them. 'They' are the leaders from Dauntless and Erudite. They kill Divergents because they are afraid of what we can do." Damn it! I said WE! Great, Tobias, let everyone know you are a Divergent.
"You are one too?"
"Yes."
Then Zeke comes crashes in the door and starts talking to Tris.
"You've got to go. The leaders suspect something strange because you've been in here for to long. Go to the Initiates training room and say that you felt a little dizzy because of the serum. It worked with the Aptitude Test." Tris runs over to the training room and starts kicking one of the boxing-bags.
~~~ANOTHER SKIP IN TIME (GOD THE TIME FLIES BY QUICKLY)~~~
The rankings are on the board.
1. Tris
2. Uriah
3. Lynn
4. Marlene
5. Christina
6. Will
7. Peter
8. Dylan
9. Natasha
10. Martin
Molly and Drew are out. The friends of Tris are all official Dauntless members now. I heard Uriah was going to give a party when he was in Dauntless, with all of his friends, and Zeke's. They expected that Tris, Lynn, Marlene, Will, Christina, Natasha, Shauna, Martin and I are coming. I don't know if I go. But why not? I don't have to work tomorrow morning, only 5 in the afternoon to help the Initiates to choose jobs.
Then maybe I go to the party. There are loads of people, but at midnight, Uriah stands on a table and shouts, "All of the people that I did not asked to stay, please leave right away. Thank you."
After everyone left, I see that Zeke, Uriah, Marlene, Lynn, Will, Christina, Shauna, Martin, Natasha and Tris are still here.
Then Zeke says, "Let's play Candor or Daunless, shall we?"
"Ehmm... Former Abnegation here?", Tris says.
"You choose between Candor or Dauntless. If you choose Candor, you have to answer a question truthfully, no lies. If you choose Dauntless, you have to do a challenge. If you don't want to do it, you have to take of one article of your clothing of", Uriah explains. "OK, who starts? Shauna, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless, duh..."
"Drink a cup of my homemade beverage."
"Never." And she takes of her jacket.
"Next. Christina, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless."
"Kiss Will for 10 seconds."
"What!?"
"I saw you liked him in the way you look at him the whole time."
Christina looks at Will for his approval, and he nods.
"OK then. Here it comes." And she pushes her mouth at Will's. After 10 seconds they don't stop, and they both don't want to stop. When they finally quit, Christina says, "Tris, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor."
"Rate the boys on a scale of one to ten."
"Four: 10, Zeke: 9.5, Uriah: 8.8 Martin: 8.3, Will: 7.9"
Wait she said I was a TEN?! Holy crap, I think she likes me a lot then.
"Next one. Ehmm... Martin, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Candor"
"How many fears do you have and name the first one you saw."
"I have 13 fears, and I'm not going to tell you what the first one is."
"Then you have to take a piece of clothing off." Tris reminds him. He decided to take of his shirt. This goes on about half an hour, but then someone asks me, "Four, Candor or Dauntless?"
"Dauntless" I say.
"Kiss Tris." Wait what? Kiss Tris? Why not? But what if she doesn't like me? Well, that's a risk you got to take.
"OK" I walk to Tris and pushes my lips on hers. She doesn't pull back! I knew it! We kiss way longer then they expected us to kiss, because when we are finished, everyone is staring at us. At me, mostly.
"What?"
"You just kissed her like half a minute." That was Uriah.
"And?"
"Dude, you like her!" And that was Zeke.
"So?"
"Tris, I think you should better say it." That was Christina. But what does Tris needs to tell?
"I kinda like you too?" It sounded like a question coming out of Tris's mouth. But all I can think is, she likes me too! she likes me too! she likes me too!
A few rounds later, Tris doesn't want to do a challenge, so she has to take a piece of clothing of. She chooses for her pants. You still see scars on her legs from Caleb, but she sits down on her knees so you don't see her legs to much. Another couple of rounds later, Tris failed a challenge again, so she has to take of her sweater. She rapidly takes her shirt of, and pulls a pillow against her body. But it's just a couple seconds to late, because everyone saw the one big scar on her thigh.
"What was that?!", Christina says. I know she had scars, but even I didn't know they were that big.
"What?" She says, avoiding peoples eyes. Christina pulls away the pillow, and we all see several scars, run over her body.
"It's nothing. Just training bruises."
"Training bruises? These scars are way worse then just training bruises."
"Christina, just leave her alone." I'm glad Zeke defends Tris, the three of us are the only ones that know of her brother. Then it gets extremely hot in the room so we look at the radiator to see if there's anything wrong with it. When we turn back to Tris, she's gone. And her clothes also.
So that was my first chapter. Please let me improve this by reviewing. Any grammar-mistakes? Let me know. Any vocabulary-mistakes? Just let me know that to.