Tris's POV
They all look at my scars. I can't hide them, so, out of the blue, I heat the room to 30 degrees Celcius. When they look at the radiator, I grab my clothes and run to the Initiates-bathroom. This is one of the moments I'm happy that I have the power to heat things. Why did I even participate in this game? I should have known this would happen. Why can't I just say no?
~~~TIME SKIP~~~
The next day, I stay in my bed until 12 in the afternoon. Then I walk to the Pit, and wait for the choosing of the jobs. I don't know what I would choose. Maybe I can train the Initiates, but that's only for a short amount of time. Maybe the tattoo shop? Let's see what the choices are.
Tris - leader, trainer, control-room
Uriah - trainer, control-room
Lynn - tattoo-artist, nurse, kitchen
Marlene - tattoo-artist, nurse, kitchen
Christina - nurse, fence, Factionless
Will - fence, Factionless
Peter - fence
Dylan - fence
Natasha - fence
Martin - fence
I can be a leader?! Eric comes towards me and says, "we think Max gets a little bit to old for the leadership, would you take his spot?"
"Can I still train Initiates while I'm a leader?"
"We can take care of that."
"Then I would say yes."
"OK, see you tomorrow at 2 in my office."
Then Four comes towards me. "Well done, Tris."
"Thank you."
"So do you know what job you're going to choose?"
"I'm thinking of training the Initiates, and Eric said I can still be a leader if I train them."
"Do you want to train the Transfers or the Dauntless-born?"
"Transfers. I was one myself so I know the feelings."
"Then we are training them together."
Christina hugs me from behind and screams, "YOU CAN BE A LEADER!"
"Yes I know, thank you for making me deaf."
"I'M SORRY BUT THAT IS AWESOME!"
"I'm going to train the Initiates with Four." Lets see how she reacts on that.
"Wait what?! What are you going to do the rest of the year then?"
"The rest of the I'm going to be a leader."
"So you ARE going to be a leader! That's just amazing!"
Then she runs over to Will. They are a couple now. I guess they are discussing what job they would choose. I have nothing to do here, so I walk outside, in to the woods, and let my power take over. At the end, I've burned the grass, the leaves, and an old oak tree that lies on the ground. Then I hear a sound behind me. I turn around and put my hands in the air, ready to burn the person that dares to come to me. But then I see Four, staring at me with wide eyes.
"What have you done?", he asks.
"Well, that depends on what you saw."
"I saw burned grass, burned leaves and a burning oak tree with you in the middle of it. Then you turned around, and I saw fire in your eyes. Then you must have recognise me, because the fire in your eyes disappeared, and this conversation started."
"Then this happened: I had nothing to do in the Pit, so I walked outside and found these things burning. Then I heard a sound, so I turned around and saw you."
"Are you sure you aren't Candor Tris, 'cause you're a terrible liar."
Damn it! Now what? Should I tell him the truth?
"I..."
"Before you say anything, let me tell you that you can trust me, Zeke, Uriah and Tori completely. We won't hurt you, no matter what."
I take a deep breath and start talking.
"I can do something nobody else can, I can control the heat and produce fire. I can control this since I was 10, but sometimes it needs to be released a few minutes. When we are playing Candor or Dauntless, I had to remove my shirt and everyone was looking at my scars, so I really needed to go away and heated the room to 30 degrees Celcius. I heated the Initiates-bedroom to 25 degrees Celcius so it isn't so cold in there. I think that this is also the reason I have light-brown hair, and eyes that look like a burning fire. I almost burned our house down when I was 8 and I hadn't had my power under control."
Peter's POV (didn't see that one coming, did you?)
I expected a lot, but not this. I followed Tris to the woods and hid behind a tree. She did some abracadabra and then Four came, and they had a conversation. Tris can control the heat and can produce fire since she was 6! And she almost burned her house down when she was 8. She is now 16 so that was 8 years ago. Maybe I can find her real name and her family in an article about the fire. Lets see if I can do anything with that. Then I decide to sneak back inside to a small corner and start working out a plan. She will never see this coming.
Tris's POV
I'm sleeping in the Initiates-bedroom until I get an apartment. But tonight I can't sleep, so I get dressed and go outside. I walk and walk until I see a river. I go sit on the edge of a rock and think. But then I get pushed in the river. I can't swim! is all I can think. I try to make fire, but it doesn't work. Then I try to make the water boil, but I can't use my power, it doesn't work at all. I manage to get hold of a rock, sticking out of the water. I pull myself on the rock and try to make fire once again. It still doesn't work. Then I see a pair of feet next to me, and one of them hits me in the face. Everything goes black.
I wake up in a small, dark box, about 1 by 1 meters. This looks like the box Caleb used to put me in when I'm angry and spit fire.
"Caleb! Let me out of this box!"
"Caleb? Who's Caleb?" That voice doesn't belong to Caleb, it belongs to Peter. Then I remember everything that's happened.
"Peter shut up and let me out of this."
"I asked you, who's Caleb?" And he kicks against the box, so I get shaken trough the whole box.
"He's my brother, now let me out of here!"
"No, I think I let you stay in here for a while." I try to burn the box down, but I only heat the metal. If I was a normal person, I was fried as a french frie. But I'm not a normal person, so the heat doesn't affect me so much.
"Oh yeah... don't bother trying to burn this box down, it won't work." Damn it!
"If I cant get out of it, it doesn't matter if you tell me how to get out."
"Well, you can only open this from the outside, and there's a code you have to type before the door opens. But you cant type the code from the inside, so to annoy you a bit more, I tell you the code. It's 2708, not that it is of any use to you." Then he walks away laughing. I curl myself up into a ball, and try to think of anything else then this tiny box I'm in.
Four's POV
The next day, Tris doesn't show up to breakfast, and neither to lunch. Where is she? If I look to Eric, she hasn't came to his office at 2 either. Now it is dinner, and she is still not here. I walk to the Initiates-bedroom, but she isn't there. Then I walk to the Pit, and After that to the Chasm, but there's no sign of her. When I walk back to the lunchroom, I hear a muffled scream and I run towards the sound. It comes from the empty training room, but the door is shut.
"Please let me out of this, Peter, please." I boil up with anger. That voice belongs to Tris!
"No, how will I know you won't burn me to ashes? Now, if you don't mind, I have to go eat my dinner." How does he know Tris's power? I hide myself behind a door and wait until I cant hear him anymore. Then I run to the training room and see a metal box.
"Tris!" I wisper-yell, because what if Peter hears this?
"Who is there?" It is definitely from the metal box.
"It's Four, your trainer? How did you get in there?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I went outside, then I got pushed in the river, I pulled myself up onto a rock, then a shoe hit me in the face and I woke up in here." I walk over to the box and try to open it. But when I try to open the box, I burn my hands.
"I can't touch the box, it's too hot. How can you not be burned to ashes already?"
"I can control the heat, remember? Temperature doesn't affect me, It all feels the same to me."
"O yea.. Sorry... Can you get the heat away from the box?"
"Yes, wait a minute... Almost finished... Done! You should be feeling no heat at all." I try again and open a tiny door. Behind the door I see a keyboard where you have to type a code.
"You don't know the code, do you?"
"Actually, I do. I convinced Peter to give it to me to annoy me a bit more." She's pretty damn smart to do that.
"It's 2708." I type the code and the door opens. Tris looks beaten, and when she tries to stand outside the box, she collapse, and starts shaking. I pick her up and rush over to my room. The infirmary isn't save enough, Peter or his so-called friends could easily come in there.
When I get to my room, I lay her down on my bed, and start cleaning her wounds. Her top has some holes and cuts in it, so I get my sweater and pull it over her top. This is one of the moments my Abnegation comes up, and I don't want to see anyone reveal to much body.
After I made sure her wounds aren't severe, I lay a blanket on her, and grab another one for me. I walk to the couch and make myself comfortable. It doesn't really help, all I can think of is Tris and if she's going to be okay.
Tris's POV
I wake up in a strange bed, with a sweater on that is way too big. According to the smell, it's Four's.
Then I hear voices outside the door.
"No, nothing happened. I slept on the couch, she slept on the bed." That voice belongs to Four, I guess.
"Dude, seriously? Is there something wrong with you? You had her in your bed and you didn't sleep in the same bed as her?"
"No Zeke, not everything needs to be like that, you know."
"Yeah, whatever." the voice who belongs to this Zeke-guy says.
"Let's go to the canteen, I need to grab some food for Bea, uhh, Tris I mean."
"Good idea, I'm starving. Why did you call Tris Bea, actually? And don't deny it, I heard you well enough."
"Promise you don't say anything to no one, okay?"
"I swear it on the Dauntless cake, I won't say anything."
"..."
"What was that? I didn't heard you."
"She was my neighbour in Abnegation."
The voices slowly fade away, and I re-think everything they said. He said he was my neighbour, so he must be Tobias or Brian. But Brian chose to stay in Abnegation 2 years ago. Tobias chose to transfer, but I can't really remember to what faction. I has to be Dauntless then, I guess.
Four's POV
When I come back from the canteen, Tris has decided to take a shower, because I can hear her sing. She's pretty damn good at it too! I recognise the song, it's Just give me a reason, by P!nk. That is a band from Candor, but the singer was born in Dauntless. I put the plate of food down, an listen to her. She hits every high note perfectly, she is even better than the original singer!
"I let you see the parts of me
That weren't all that pretty
And with every touch you fixed them
Now you've been talking in your sleep, oh, oh
Things you never say to me, oh, oh
Tell me that you've had enough
Of our love, our love
Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
It's in the stars
It's been written in the scars on our hearts
We're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again."
She shuts down the water, and start getting dressed. I can't see her though, I'm in the kitchen. When she walks in to the kitchen and sees me, she stops dead in her tracks.
"When did you get here?"
"Just 5 minutes ago."
"So you heard me sing?" It's not a question, really, it's more a statement she makes.
"Yeah, just a little bit." She turns bright red at this point, and looks down to her shoes.
"I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?"
"For the singing, I-I don't know what I was thinking, I was just, I feel like I'm so stupid, I -"
"You know, you need to stop saying sorry for everything you do. You did nothing wrong."
After that, I hand her the breakfast I got her, a muffin and a scrambled eggs with bacon. Typical something Candor would eat, but it's really good-tasting, so why not?
"I need to go to Eric for the leadership training."
"I should probably go to the control room, I haven't been there for a while." And with that, she is gone, and I head over to the control room.
Tris's POV
Everything is sort out with Eric. I didn't told him the truth though. I told him that I was beaten up by some people that didn't want me to have the leadership, but that I took care of them. I didn't say any names, and I certainly didn't want Eric to go after some random strangers who he believed that beat me up. The training starts next week, and he also told me to choose an apartment until I get an apartment in the leader-area. I saw a lovely apartment just next to the Pit, so I choose that one. I need to ask Christina to help me decorate the room when she has the time for it. I move all my belongings to my new home. I only need to walk once, I'm still not used to have many belongings. Another reason Christina should help me decorate.
This evening, I stay in my apartment, since I don't want to see anyone today and answer any questions at all. I put a pizza in the oven, and start watching movies.
After I finished my pizza, I drift of in a restless sleep, filled with nightmares.
Zeke's POV
I wake up by Uriah, who's shaking me up and screaming something.
"What's the matter Uriah, go back to sleep please."
"I HEARD SOMEONE SCREAMING IN THE APARTMENT ACROSS OURS!"
"There is no one in the apartment across ours."
"YES THERE IS, THAT PERSON JUST MOVED HERE YESTERDAY, I JUST DONT KNOW THE NAME."
Now I hear him or her scream very loud. Why didn't I wake up to that scream before? It is really loud.
"Okay let's go to that room and see what's wrong." I jump in a pair of sweatpants that lays in the chair and grab a T-shirt.
We walk to the room across ours, and Uriah knocks on the door.
"Are you stupid? Do you think he or she is able to open the door when they are in trouble?" I try to open the door, but it won't budge. I look under the doormat and see a pair of keys. I try to open the door again, but this time with the keys. The door opens and we walk inside.
There are almost no belongings of the person here, only a pair of shoes next to the door. We walk further to another room, that appears to be the bedroom. There is a girl laying in bed, with gloves on, apparently having a nightmare.
"Dude, that is Tris."
"How do you know that for sure, Uriah?"
"The hair is the exact same colour as Tris's hair, and I know nobody else with this hair around this age."
I try to wake her up, and the same does Uriah. When she finally wakes up, she jolts up, screaming the name Caleb, hands pointed forward, steam coming off the gloves. She looks around with big eyes, filled with fear and hatred.
"Tris, it's me, Uriah, and my brother Zeke. Please stop with whatever you're doing, 'cause those gloves won't last any longer."
She seems to calm down, because the fire in her eyes slowly fades away. I feel like I should say something, but I can't find the right words. Then the smoke around the gloves becomes very thick, so I say, "I think you should put those gloves in the trash can right now, you're gonna start a fire around here."
"I heard your voice before, you were the one who was talking to Tobias this morning outside his door." She gets up, and walks shakily to the closet. Then she opens it, and grabs another pair of gloves.
Who the heck is Tobias? Why does she thinks I was talking to him outside his door? I don't even know one person who's called Tobias.
"Who do you mean? I only talked to Four yesterday morning about you sleeping in his bed and the reason for it."
"I mean Four, I just mistaken myself with another person from Abnegation, he was my neighbour back then, but he transferred two years ago. I never saw him ever since. We were good friends once, then - something - happened, and I pushed him away for his safety."
Four said that he came from Abnegation last morning, and that he was her neighbour. I never actually asked for his real name. I guess Tobias must be his real name. I understand why he changed his name, it is a bit too much Abnegation in my opinion.
"Are you okay now? You scared us to death back there. If you want to talk about it, you just come over at our place sometimes. It can even be now, if you want, just ask."
She turns as white as a sheet and her eyes are widening when I speak those words. I feel really bad now, 'cause I caused this. I quickly add, "You don't have to if you don't want to, though."
She visibly relaxes a bit by it, and I feel not so bad anymore. Tris tries to suppress a yawns, but Uriah and I have noticed it already. Uriah decides it should be time for us to go, because he says, "I think we should go back to our apartment and let you try to sleep again."
"No! Please, would you, please, stay with me? I'm scared the nightmares will come back or even come to life."
Those must be really bad nightmares, I guess. And very realistic also, because the screams sounded very real and terrifying.
"Okay... I just grab a blanket and go lay on the couch in the living room then."
"No, you can just lay in the bed, it is a king size bed so it will all three of us will fit in it."
I hesitate before I lift the blanket and lay down. Uriah scoots over to the other side of the bed and gets under the blanket as well.
When I wake up again, something, or better someone is tossing in bed. It's Tris.
"No, Caleb, please don't. I will not let them know, I promise."
Caleb is Tris's brother, he abused her. But what will she not let them know? And who's 'them'?
"Please Caleb, stop, please."
I try to wake Uriah, but he sleeps like a rock. Really, how can he not wake up to this?
"Not the knife, please, anything but the knife."
Eehmm... what?! A knife?! I mean, I know that her brother abused her, but a KNIFE?! Uriah finally wakes up, and I silently motion for him to listen to Tris.
"Not in my face, please, mom and dad will find out. Please, I promise I won't let anyone know."
His face has written confusion all over it.
"No, please, NOOOOO!" She jolts up and starts shaking. We put our arms around her and begin comforting her. She slowly relaxes and starts silently crying.
"You know, I watched your fears during initiation, so I know about Caleb, but do you want to tell him or not?" She looks over to Uriah, and thinks.
"Yeah, I think he should know it." And she starts talking.
She tells him everything, even stuff I didn't know until now.
Tris's POV
I tell them everything about Caleb, but nothing about my power. Don't know when I'm going to tell them, if I'm even going to tell them. But if I tell them, maybe they think I'm a monster and lock me away in some fireproof box. I'm not going to tell them. I don't care if they say I can trust them, I just don't want a second Caleb. I need to track everyone that knows about my power, and see if I can trust them.
Let's see...
Caleb
Mom
Dad
Four
Peter
Molly
Drew
If Peter knows it, his followers know it too. Let's see who of those are bad.
Bad
Good
Good
Good
Bad
Bad
Bad
3 good, 4 bad. How much Dauntless are there? Peter, Four, Molly, Drew. Bad, good, bad, bad. Ugh, I hate this, I really hate this. I don't even know if I can trust Four. I feel save with Four, like I can trust him, but I can easily be wrong.
"Tris. Tris!" I look up, I guess they told me something, but I was too deep in thought to hear it.
"Sorry, I was thinking, what did you say?" I look between the two guys, not knowing who called my name. Zeke speaks up.
"I was saying that -" there's a knock on the door.
"Stay here please. I'll be right back." I walk over to the door and open it. No one is there. I look in the hallway, but nobody is there either. Just as I'm about to close the door, I feel a hand clutching over my mouth, preventing me me from screaming. Another pair of hands put I blindfold over my eyes, so I can't see a single thing.
CLIFFHANGERRRR... Sorry guys, I just need to end this chapter and upload it, and I couldn't find the right time.
If you guys have more ideas to this story, please let me know.
REVIEW PLEASE ANY MISTAKES YOU NOTICED, I WILL CHANGE THEM TO SOMETHING THAT IS CORRECT! Sorry if I take very long to upload the next chapter, this is the excuse for it: I have to choose my profile this year, and I really suck at Economy, French, and biology, and even if I don't choose those classes next year, I still need to get a good grade for it, so I need to learn pretty hard to pass this year.
I know the excuse sucks, but school comes first, then climbing and friends, then fan fictions. I mean, I've got a life outside writing and reading, you know?
