CHAPTER 1 TRIS POV
I am at home, chopping up the potatoes for dinner tonight. I decided I wanted to make meal that was different to the other meals that I have made. I am humming, and chopping the vegetables to a certain beat. Suddenly I hear the front door being unlocked and being opened. "Honey I'm home!" an all too familiar voice greets.
I come out of the kitchen to see Tobias walking down the hallway. I walk up to him and he embraces me in a hug and kisses me on the lips. We have been married for about 5 months now. I a work as a nurse at the hospital in Chicago and he is a gym trainer at 'Fire Workout Gym'. We met in high school, I was seventeen and he was eighteen. It was one of those cliché relationships; you know the nerd and the most popular person in school fall in love? I bet you have heard many of those stories before.
"So how was your day today?" he asks. "Well, there was this really impatient and annoying patient in the dorm I was working in. He kept bugging me about letting him out of hospital and about me bringing him food." I say with a sigh and he chuckles a little. "So how was your day today?" I ask trying to deflect the attention off myself just like I had been taught when I was still a child.
"Oh, it was good. The students that I have are improving, but they're still afraid of Four." He says and I start laughing. Four is his nickname which everyone calls him by except me. I feel something strange when he talks about his day. He has always been one for short answers but I also feel like he is hiding something from me. The tattoos on his arms and his back make me suspicious of his activities but he has had them since I met him so it doesn't bother me that much.
He then starts sniffing the air. "Ooh. That smells nice, what are you cooking babe?" he asks in a sly tone and I just roll my eyes. "I am just mashing up the potato for the shepherd's pie that I am making for dinner." I answer for him and he just nods. "Sounds nice." He says in an excited tone. Hungry as always.
"Okay, dear can you set up the table for me? Then we can eat." I say with finality in my voice. "Okay hun." He replies taking out the placemats and the plates. He sets up the table and puts a jug of water at the end of the table. We eat in silence, me hearing the occasional munching and slurping of Tobias. I smile a little at this; this means that he likes my cooking.
"So what's on your mind?" he asks from the other side of the table. "Oh…nothing." I say with a deflated voice. "What's wrong Tris?" he asks concerned. "Oh don't mind me; I'm just thinking about how we met in high school." I say reminiscing the moment we bumped into each other. He raises and eyebrows at this and then relaxes. "What part of that moment were you thinking about?" he asks again and I giggle a little. "Oh the part when I saw the tattoos on your arms, and wondered how painful it would be to get that many tattoos." I say laughing a little. He laughs as well. "Yep, it was painful to get these tattoos." He states, answering my thoughts.
Suddenly I remember something important. "Oh no! I almost forgot. I need to fill out some medical forms for some of the patients that I am looking after." I say rushing my words. "Okay, have fun." He says sarcastically and I just stick my tongue out at him. I walk to the study and start filling out some of the forms. I just sit there, my mind jumbled by the questions written on the paper. I then hear the phone ring from outside. I hear Tobias answer it.
"Hello? Oh hi Max." he greets and I am immediately drawn to the conversation. Max, I recognise that name. I just can't place it anywhere. I continue to listen. "Yes, yes, yes. The new shipment will be coming soon." What shipment? "Oh yes. Zeke and Uriah will take care of it." He continues in a hushed tone. I stop eavesdropping to the conversation, reassuring myself that it was nothing important. I keep filling out the forms, losing myself in the monotonous actions.
After I'm done, I go to our room to get ready for bed. Suddenly the door swings open. Tobias's hair is ruffled up and his eyes dart in random directions. His loud breaths and alert posture shows that he is stressed. He sighs and falls on the bed. "Tobias, what's wrong?" I ask concerned. He just looks at me and smile. "Nothing really. I just got more work at the gym." He says reassuring me. I just nod in response, letting his answer sink in. "Who's Max?" I blurt out suddenly. Why do I let my curiosity get the better of me?
He just looks at the ceiling and gulps. "He's my boss at work." He responds, a bit too quickly I think. I narrow my eyes at him, trying to find any dishonesty in his answer but I find none. "Oh, okay. I was just wondering. I've heard that name before though. That's why I asked." I respond. Aren't you going to change into your pyjamas?" I ask him, looking at his gym clothes that he is still wearing.
He just takes off his shirt, revealing a six pack. "Nah, I don't own any pyjamas anyway." He says casually. I am still staring at me and he smirks. "Like what you see? He asks in a flirtatious tone and I just roll my eyes. "Way to ruin the moment number boy." I say huffing. "Number boy? That's a new one." He says going under the covers with me. "Mmmhm. But seriously, if you ever need to tell me something, then just tell me." I say to him and he just hums in response.
He pulls me towards him, engulfing me in his arms and holding me tightly against his bare chest. He kisses me on the neck before switching off the light. "I love you Tobias." I say yawning. "I love you to Tris." He responds, and that is the last thing I hear.
FOUR POV
"Hey man! How is life for you?" Zeke comes up behind me putting his hand on my shoulder. "Same old, same old." I respond, still hitting the bag with force. "You seem stressed out today." He states, watching how I punch the bag. I stop punching and contemplate what he has said. Am I stressed, maybe I certainly do feel stressed today. "I don't know." I say sighing. "Why are you stressed? I mean you're always mopey and grumpy but rarely stressed." He states confidently.
"I'm not mopey or grumpy." I reply harsher than I meant to. He backs away at my response. "Woah, calm down man. I know exactly how to make you feel better." He says in a soothing tone. "What about, you and me can go on a double date together?" he says trying to cheer me up. "No." I say bluntly. I said no because I am happily married to Tris and I only love her and her only. No one in Dauntless knows that I am married except for Max. Marriage is a dangerous subject when you're an undercover agent.
"Okay, whatever you say Four." He says raising his hands in a symbol of surrender. He then turns and walks away. "See you at lunch!" he calls from the entrance to the training room. I touch my wedding ring that hangs around my neck. I don't wear it around my ring finger, because that will raise suspicion among the members. No one has ever seen the ring before because it is well hidden under my shirt. I turn back to the bags and when I am about to punch, I think of something.
I think about the lies I have told Tris. I told her I was a gym trainer and whenever I came back home beaten up, I always used to lie that I had an 'accident' in the gym I worked at. I don't know how much longer I can hide the fact that I am an undercover agent and how longer until my friends can tell that I'm married. I just sigh, and walk out of the training room. I'm just digging a deeper hole for myself.
I walk down the tunnels towards the cafeteria. I go towards the table which my group of friends usually sit at. I sit next to Zeke and Will. "Woah, Four why are you so sweaty?" Christina asks in disgust. "Um, I totally wasn't in the training room just then." I say sarcastically. She just scoffs and rolls her eyes. "I know you were in the training room dumbass. Just dry up before you come here, we may be part of a dangerous spy agency but that doesn't been we can't be hygienic." She states with all the girls nodding in agreement.
"Whatever." I say. I then look down to the table. Crap. I forgot to get food from the lunch line. I see that Zeke is busy talking to Uriah and Shauna, so I swipe his two pieces of Dauntless cake. "Hey! Where did my cake go?" Zeke says in a whiny voice, looking at his tray. "Mmm?" I ask, still chewing the cake. He looks at me in shock. "Oi! Go get your own." He says, pulling his tray closer to him.
"Zeke, I'm happy that Four took your cake." Shauna says, shocking Zeke and I. "What!?" he says in surprise. "Yep, I don't want a fat Zeke." She says and Zeke just looks defeated. "Fine, whatever you say babe." He says, looking sad. The table is quiet for a while and the only sounds are of those from the other tables in the cafeteria. Suddenly, a high pitched noise rings throughout the room. Max, the main leader stands on a raised platform in the centre of the cafeteria.
"Greetings everybody!" he shouts through the microphone. "This message is addressed to all Dauntless leaders. So after lunch, I would like all the leaders to head to my office." He says and steps off the podium. "I wonder what this is all about?" I here Marlene say while I leave the table. I walk into James, another Dauntless leader. He has dark brown hair with tattoos going down both arms like mine. He has three piercings on his left eyebrow and one on his nose. "Hey." I greet. "Hey." He replies still looking forward.
When we get to Max's office, all the leaders are standing in a circle. The doors then swing open and Max strides into the room. The rest of us, stand up straight and look at him. "Greetings leaders." He says. "Greetings Max." we all say in unison. "You are probably wondering why I called and emergency meeting." He says and we all nod. "A new organisation has come up and they pose a threat." He says and we all mutter among ourselves. I speak up. "How do we know that this organisation is a threat? Have they sent any threat messages to us or have they created a dangerous technology?" I ask him and he smiles at me.
"Ah, the legendary Four being smart as usual." He compliments. "This organisation is called Erudite, we believe that their leader is a woman named Jeanine Matthews." He says and then puts a picture up on the screen. The woman has blonde hair and is in a blue skirt and dress shirt. Her cold and dark eyes pierce through the rectangular glasses that sit on her nose. "This is her." He says. Then the image changes.
An eye enclosed in a circle now is on the screen. "This is their symbol." He says. "It's just like our one, but with an eye in the circle." Eric comments amused. I just roll my eyes at his stupid comment. Max just ignores him. "They have sent the U.S government and us, the Dauntless agency war threats. We believe that they are creating lethal and dangerous serums." He continues in a stern voice. "To test these serums, they are looking for a certain group of people." He says and I lean forward in curiosity.
"This group of people are called divergents." He says and I am instantly taken aback. I though divergents were just a myth. The rest of the leaders are probably thinking the same thing because they are now talking among themselves. "We are organising a squad for this mission. I will post up the names tomorrow." He says ending the meeting. "You all are now dismissed." He says and everyone including me gets up. "Four may I talk to you?" he asks and I nod. "There is no doubt that you will be going. You are one of our best soldiers in Dauntless, even better than the U.S undercover agents." He talks quietly the entire time.
"You have to be careful. Also, this may include 'her' as well."He warns and I start shaking my head in disagreement. "No, no, no!" I almost yell. "I am not going to drag her into this mess that I'm already in." I say. "She doesn't even know I work for Dauntless!" I say my voice raising. "I know, I know." He says trying to calm me down. "I'm just suspecting that she has a relationship with Erudite." He says and I just stand there angry and shocked. "She doesn't have any connection to anything dangerous. Especially not Erudite." I retort. He just sighs and closes his eyes. "Just...think about it. Also Matthew will be taking care of the new initiates while you are on the mission. Your group is still being formed." He says and then leaves the room.
I just stand there thinking about what he just said. Does Tris really have a connection with Erudite? Is she keeping something from me? But then again, I have secrets that I haven't shared either.
(Time skip)
After Tris leaves to finish her medical paperwork, the phone rings. I then pick up the phone.
"Hello?" I ask. "Hello Four." The voice says from the other side of the line. Max. "Oh hi Max." I reply bored. "I just got a call from the C.I.A saying that there will be a new shipement of weapons and recruits? Am I right?" he asks. "Yes, yes, yes. The new shipment will be coming soon." I reply, eager to get his conversation over and done with. "I have just chosen Uriah and Zeke to be on your team. There will be others to come." He says. "Also, is there anyone that is efficient in using explosives?" he asks. Uriah and Zeke are fanatics about explosions. "Oh yes. Zeke and Uriah will take care of it." I respond. "Good." He is all he says. "I will see you tomorrow then." He says then hangs up.
I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
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