Brave Love

Hello and welcome to my Divergent fanfiction! Thanks for choosing to read mine out of so many others, it really does mean a lot!

This fanfic will tell the story of *ALLEGIANT SPOILER ALERT!* Uriah and Marlene if there was no war against Divergence and, basically, neither of them had died. So there's no war and they're just two Dauntless initiates.

Chapters may not be uploaded regularly as I'm currently studying for my AS levels AND have a job AND am in a theatre group so it's difficult for me to find time. But I'll post when I can and hopefully you'll enjoy it! ~ Viola xx

I do not own these characters, they belong to Veronica Roth. I'm just borrowing them for a bit.

Chapter One - Similar Beginnings

Uriah

"Alrighty little brother! It's the big day!" Uriah sat up, rubbed his eyes and looked around the room. His brother, Zeke, was stood in the doorway, grinning. "You ready to go choose Dauntless?" He joked. Of course, Uriah could choose any of the five factions he wanted but everyone knew he'd choose Dauntless. He'd known it before his aptitude test. It was where he belonged.

Uriah climbed out of bed and walked to the door. "I was born ready, big brother." He pushed past Zeke and headed towards the bathroom. Today was gonna be a good day.

Marlene

Marlene stood in the semicircle of fellow sixteen year olds about to choose their all looked so nervous, shuffling from foot to foot. A short blonde Abnegation girl a little further away looked like she was about to cut her hands open with her finger nails. Marlene couldn't work out why she was nervous, Abnegation never changed faction, and they rarely ended up factionless due to failed initiation. There was nothing for her to be nervous about.

There was nothing Marlene to be nervous about either. She was Dauntless through and through, to the end. That's why, when her name was called, she strode to bowl of Dauntless coals, slid the blade straight across her palm and let her blood fall into heat. She ran over to join the fellow Dauntless initiates with a small "woop". Of course, not all those surrounding her now were as confident as she. There were some transfers who looked even more nervous than before they'd chosen. Marlene wondered what Dauntless initiation would entail. Something thrilling, something scary. Something awesome. A rush of excitement ran through Marlene's body.

And suddenly they were off, running down the stairs, two, three, four at a time, and bursting out onto the street. Marlene had grown up in Dauntless so knew how to keep up with the pace of the group around her. Left, right. Left, right. They were heading towards the train tracks. Is this it? Marlene thought, if we just have to jump on and off a train this'll be a doddle. She had grown up doing that too. But she knew there must something more, why else would there be a few initiates who never actually turned up at the Dauntless compound?

She looked behind her. There were a few stragglers, mostly Amity and Candor. Marlene was surprised to the small blonde Abnegation girl. So that's why she was nervous, she was transferring. Marlene respected her for that. And not only had she transferred, she was keeping up with the Dauntless. But would she make it through initiation? Uriah's brother, Zeke, had said that Dauntless initiation was tough. No place for a weak Abnegation. Only one Abnegation had passed Dauntless initiation at least in Marlene's lifetime. That was Zeke's friend, Four.

They reached the tracks and milled around on the platform. Marlene searched a bit and found Uriah, jumping up and down, grinning like a loon.

"Hey," Marlene said when she reached him, "having fun?"

Uriah stopped jumping and looked at Marlene, "oh! Hey!" Somehow his grin widened, "yeah, loads. You?"

"More fun than I've ever had. And we grew up having this kind of fun!"

Uriah started jumping again, pumping his arms back and forth, back and forth.

"You're gonna kill your energy Uriah. You don't know what we're gonna have to do."

"Me? I'm an endless ball of energy darling! I could keep going for years!"

Marlene laughed, "alright, but don't come crying to me when you collapse." She wasn't really bothered, the adrenaline rush was so fantastic she felt like she could go on for years.

There was the sound of a train approaching. Marlene looked around to see the right light on the front of the train. There was the sound of a horn and then the rush of wind as the train screamed past her. The carriages rattled past and, slowly but surely, people jumped on. Marlene fell into step behind Uriah. Suddenly he grabbed the handle, jumped and pulled himself in through the gap. Marlene could see the muscles in his arms rippling and expanding. She blinked and she was back in the real world, racing along next to a train. She reached out, grabbed the cold metal hand and jumped, using all of her force to pull herself into the carriage. She thought she'd made it safely but slipped, the train was travelling faster than normal and was going around a bend. She started to fall. She felt a hand grab hers and pull her into the carriage safely. She fell into the carriage, on top of Uriah. "Oops." She got up and brushed herself off, giggling, "sorry. I normally make it in fine."

"Don't apologise, we're all nervous and excitable today."

"But I'm not -" Marlene turned to Uriah to find him lying where she fell on him, sprawled out. Her stomach twisted. In that moment, he was beautiful. She shook her head and reached down to him, "come on, get up. You look ridiculous!"

"Oh, really? I thought I looked rather dashing." Uriah chuckled in a British accent, getting to his feet.

"Yeah, right." Marlene replied, turning to look at the train carriage. There were no seats. "Floor?"

"Floor." Uriah confirmed, sinking back down.

Marlene sat with her legs crossed, leaning against Uriah. He was so warm and big. Was the right adjective? He seemed to take up the whole carriage with his presence but it also felt like he was just hers. He was big and little and warm.

They must have gone into a daze in the hot, packed carriage because one second Marlene was closing her eyes and the next she was opening them and everyone was getting to their feet.

"Okay! Everybody off the train please!" A voice called. Marlene and Uriah headed to the open space that would hold a door if there was a need for one. They were rushing past a platform high above the city. Marlene jumped, flew through the air at breakneck speed and landed. The shard jolt up her legs reminding her she was human, not bird. She stumbled but managed to stay on her feet.

"Nice landing." Marlene turned around and saw Uriah, striding towards her.

"Thanks." She smiled.

Suddenly, there was a screm. They turned to see a crowd forming at the very edge of the rooftop.

"Someone didn't make the jump." Uriah said, turning away. So this was why a few initiates made it. The transfers weren't used to jumping off trains.

Marlene looked away but not before hearing a girl say something about a sister. Despite being Dauntless, she still couldn't deal with heights and rooftops were the worst. A man made surface towering high above the ground, not meant for standing on and so easy to not be standing on anymore.

She looked at the side of the rooftop away from the tracks. Max and Eric were standing there, talking to the initiates. It was so windy Marlene could barely hear them. "What are they saying?" She stood on tiptoe and whispered in Uriah's ear.

"Something about entrance to the compound." Uriah replied with a smile.

Oh no. Marlene realised exactly what rooftop this was. The back entrance to the compound. She didn't like standing on rooftops and she liked jumping off them even less. Then the small Abnegation girl stepped forward and up, onto the ledge. She threw her tight grey jacket behind her, her T-shirt billowing in the sharp wind, and jumped.