The Blue Flame of Erudite is the daughter of Jeanine Matthews and an Erudite transfer from Dauntless. Juliana wants nothing to do with her mother and changes everything about herself to become Dauntless. Even her name, as she is pulled from the net she becomes McKaven Blaine her father's daughter. Four years after Tris's initiation. The war was stopped before it could start but Jeanine still wants the Divergence dead.
"Eric," shouts a voice from below.
"What is it, Four." Eric calls down in an annoyed voice.
"Max wants to see you." Four calls up.
Eric narrows his eyes as he watches the other man from his living room balcony. On days like today he hates that he accepted the leadership role nearly six years ago. "You may go now messenger boy."
"Fuck you, Eric." Four barks out.
"You're not my type." Eric walks back into his apartment before Four can respond.
"You asked for me?" Eric asks as he takes a seat across the desk from the oldest leader of the dauntless.
"Yes, the initiates come tomorrow. I want you to oversee the training. Help the four trainers again this year." Max replies.
"That's what I thought. Part of my job now isn't it?" Eric asks with lack of emotion.
"That's right." Max replies as Eric curses. "Fifth year in a roll. It was bound to stick."
"Yeah. Has the results come in from the testing as of how many to expect?" Eric asks as he slumps into the chair.
"Quite a few this year. 14 returns and 12 transfers had the dauntless result." Max answers the younger man.
"26 this year? That is the most we've had since I've been here. Have we heard what factions?" he asks as he spins the stud in his bottom lip.
"Just a rumor about one." Max replies with a smirk.
"Well out with it man." Eric questions when he sees the spark of mischief in the other man's eyes.
"It is said that one of the transfers is none other than Jeanine Matthews's daughter, Juliana. Did you meet her while you where still in Erudite?" Max asks with real interest.
"Not really. I saw her with her mother but she was still just a child when I left. All I can remember is a small girl with reddish blond hair and these weird grey eyes." Eric says as he pictures the girl that was ten at the time. "She came that year when I choose."
"She comes every year. She sits with her mother and just watches. She never says a thing to anyone, she just sits there all straight with her head up." Max comments
"If she does transfer to dauntless than this shall be a very interesting year." Eric says with a smirk as he goes to leave.
"Juliana," my mother calls from behind me. I turn to see her with her assistant Stella Allens. They nearly match in their blue and white Erudite clothing.
"Yes, mother?" I ask as I walk over to them next to my mother's town car.
"What was your result, Juliana?" my mother asks with her watery eyes as we slide into the car.
"I cannot say." I tell her with all honesty. For one it is against the rules and secondly if I told the real truth my mother would kill me. I am divergent. Natalie Prior warned me of my mother's hatred. I have already known from growing up in the same apartment as her. She was the one that murdered my father when I was six. My mother said it was a heart attack but I was there I saw it happen.
*Flash Back*
"Alec...I know what you are." My mother said to my father as they walk into the apartment from a late night at the labs.
I was in the kitchen so I pecked around the wall to see my mother's back and my father's startling silver eyes. They widen slightly as he sees me and he mouths the words, 'stay quiet.' I was scared but I did as my father asked and I stayed quiet.
"What is it that you are talking of Jeanine?" My father asks as he looks over to her as she hangs up her jacket in the closet next to the liquor cabinet by the door.
"You are divergent, Alec." My mother says coldly. I cannot believe that she accused him of such a terrible thing. For the last few months my mother has been ranting about the divergent and the destruction they will bring if not dealt with. I am terrified for my father as he stands in front of my crazed mother.
I watch as my mother walks over to the liquor cabinet between the front door and the closet she had just hung her jacket in. She starts to make my father a scotch and slips her hand into her skirt pocket to pull out a vial of clear liquid. She tips it into the drink. I bite back a cry as my father takes the drink from her hand.
"Is this going to kill me, Jeanine?" My father asks her without a trace of fear.
"Yes, Alec. It will be painless and quick. You gave me my daughter so I will be merciful. Drink it before she wakes." She tells my father as he looks over at me hidden from her view.
My mother has never shown love to either of us. But my father I know has always loved my mother. He told me once that she and I are his only weaknesses. I know before he does it that he will drink the poisoned scotch as he knows that I will not look away as he does. He puts the glass up to his lips and tips it up as I watch him drink every last drop as he looks into my mother's eyes. He gives me one final smile before his silver eyes start to cloud over and dull to listless grey as he drops to his knees before crumpling to the floor. The glass shatters when it hits the wooden floor near my father's lifeless body.
Tears rush down my cheeks as I watch my father's last moments as he dies by my mother's hand. I sneak to my room while her back is still toward me as she goes to check his pulse. I know in my heart that my father is dead and with him the last person that I love.
*End Flash Back*
"Did you hear anything I have just said, Juliana?" My mother's agitated voice cuts through the last moment of my father's life.
"I am sorry, mother, I did not. What is it that you said?" I ask with false serenity.
"I said that I will not be home when you awake tomorrow but I want you to come to my office so that we can walk to the ceremony together." My mother answers with an air of disdain. She believes I will also be leaving with her. That I will stay Erudite. She does not know that since the day before I turned seven when she murdered my father that I knew I would leave her clutches. She has controlled every aspect about my life since I was born. She wouldn't even let my father name me or give me his name even though they had been married for over two years. His surname ended with him, Alec Blaine.
My mother gave me the name Juliana Jeanine Matthews. Not even my name is my own but hers flipped around from Jeanine Juliana Matthews. I despised being her daughter. Every fiber of my being cried out MURDERER each time I see my mother. After the choosing ceremony tomorrow I will never be Jeanine's daughter. But McKaven Blaine, it was what my father wanted to name me. I would be my father's daughter. He left his faction for my mother even though he was dauntless through and through.
"Juliana!" My neck snaps up to look my mother in the eyes, she had never raised her voice at me before.
"Forgive me mother. I was thinking of my father." I tell her.
"He is dead, Juliana. He wasn't logical enough to stay and raise you. Do not think of the past you have a big decision ahead of you tomorrow." She says with venom dripping from every word.
"I know, mother. I am ready." I tell her with real honesty.
"Of course you are. You are my daughter after all." my mother says with a smirk as my soul cries out 'never'. The town car has stopped in front of the Erudite apartments and I slip out. I am glad that my mother takes my confidence as my telling her that I am staying Erudite. I am top of my class with the highest GPA of course. Nothing less for the daughter of the Erudite faction leader.
*AN*
This is my first Fan-fiction. Let me know how I do and if I should continue.
*Disclaimer: I do not own Divergent.