Hey Guys! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, and I'm really sorry about the cliffhanger, and I appreciate nobody hates me for it. So, I hope you enjoy this chapter even more! I'm not Veronica Roth! :) Enjoy!
Grace's POV
I sprint out of school and jump onto the train. But, I don't jump whenever I see the glass building. I jump of onto a roof, and look down and see a big hole. It's near the glass building so it should be another entrance to Dauntless. I stand on the ledge and jump, the wind gently carrying my body below, until I hit something hard. A net. I lay there for a few minutes, then my Dad walks up to the net. He looks surprised to see me. "How did you get here?" He asks, "I jumped." I reply. He lends a hand for me to pull myself off the net. "You jumped, from that building?" He points to the ledge I jumped off, and I nod. "Let's go home."
I was supposed to be in my room alone, but I couldn't help but speak to Hannah and Flora. I tell them about meeting Marcus, and about the building and the net. "It was incredible!" I exclaim, we were all sitting on our beds in our shared room. "And I literally panicked when I saw him, and after my test he said, 'Goodbye Grace Eaton. I know who you are.'"
Tobias' POV
Whenever I hear that, I pull my ear away from the door and go get Tris. She's sitting on our bed, braiding her hair. She see's me and waves me in. I wear a worried expression on her face, "It's Grace." Tris' eyes widen, and I start to explain what I heard. "But that's impossible! We've never told him about Grace and the others." She says once I finish. "But she does look a lot like me, though. And there is no one else in the city with they're last name Eaton." I add, Grace and Andrew inherited my eyes and nose. Tris nods, "But whenever I was administering tests, I never knew they're last names." I guess it'll remain a mystery.
Grace's POV
The next day...
When I wake up, I have my journal on my face. I pick it up and stuff it in my pillowcase, the story's I have recorded in there are personal, including yesterday's incident, with the aptitude test and Marcus. I get up and slide into my slippers and sneak out of the room. I start making a breakfast of eggs and bacon for the whole family. Andrew walks into the kitchen and starts making biscuits. I see Hannah in the living room, drawing on the touch screen computer that Dad brought home a few years ago from work. She basically made it into her electronic art studio. She says whenever she's older she wants to pass Dauntless initiation and become a tattoo artist like Tori. She doesn't even need training, whenever there is a lot of people in the pit wanting tattoo's Tori always calls my Mom to ask if Hannah could help out. I smile, as I flip the bacon.
Mom and Dad wake up, and Mom thanks us for cooking. We all sit down and eat besides Flora, who is still sleeping. "So, are you guys nervous for the ceremony? Remember Mom, you are the Dauntless representative giving the speech each year." Hannah asks, still on the computer (she even eats with it!). "I'm not, I already know what my choice is." I scoop some eggs off my plate and put them in my mouth. Dad looks at me nervously, I wonder why though. Andrew doesn't say anything, I guess he's nervous. We eat the rest of the meal in silence. Once I finish eating, I do my dishes and start getting ready.
"Flora! Where did you put my black headband!" I yell down the stairs when I see Flora walking by them. "In your drawer, where else!" She's lying, "You wore it yesterday to school!" I look in her drawer and find my headband. "It was in your drawer you little liar!" I yell at her. "Young lady, come down here this instant!" I wince, now Mom is apart of the picture. "Apologize now." She demands, "I'm sorry, Flora." I say, at least I don't have to deal with her much longer. Whenever I pass Dauntless initiation, I'm getting my own apartment. We all walk to the train station with Marie's, Cody's, and Jai's families. My parents are quite popular when it comes to the Dauntless.
Whenever we reach the ceremony, we run up the stairs and find our seats, while Mom walks onstage. We're going by alphabetical order, so Andrew will go before me. Whenever the ceremony starts, Mom gives a huge speech about the faction system and starts calling out the names, I don't listen, mostly because I don't care. "Andrew Eaton!" My Mom announces, and I get up for him to move onstage. He walks down the aisle, and steps onstage, and faces the bowls. Mom offers him the knife, which he takes a cuts his palm with. He walks to the Candor bowl and lets his blood fall onto the glass. He turns around nervously, and my whole family is smiling, giving him support. Then it's my turn, "Grace Eaton!" I do the same thing that Andrew does, and except the knife. I cut into my palm, and walk to the Dauntless bowl. I may never know what my aptitude result was, but I know where I belong. My blood sizzles on the coals. The Dauntless abrupt in Whoops and yells. I don't know why though, I've always been Dauntless. I sit back where I was, and look at the empty seat beside me.
I don't really pay attention to the ceremony until I see it's Raina's turn. She turns toward the Dauntless, meets my eyes and mouths Thank you. She accepts the knife from my Mom and faces the cuts her palm and her blood drops onto the soil of Amity, she pulls her hair out of the abnegation bun, and walks to the Amity. After her my Mom says the last name of the ceremony, "Madison Prior." She's the girl from the aptitude test, I never realized it but she's from Erudite before, she let's her blood drop into the erudite water.
We really don't do anything different from our usual routine, we jump onto the train, and ride to the Dauntless compound. I help a Candor Transfer onto the train. "Thanks, I'm Cecilia, by the way." She says, and offers her hand. "Grace." I shake her hand, and motion Marie over. "Marie, meet Cecilia, Cecilia, meet Marie." I introduce them. I see a Dauntless born that I've never seen before, which is really strange. I walk over to him, "Hi, I'm Grace." I offer my hand for him to shake. "Josh." He shakes my hand. "How come I've never seen you before except now? I knew everybody growing up." I question out of curiosity. "Then I guess you don't know everybody." He walks away. Okay, Strange I think.
Once we reach the Dauntless compound, we slow down at the roof of the building I jumped off of yesterday. I sprint off, pulling Cecilia with me, since she's new at this. Mom stands on the ledge of the building with Dad, who drops down. Everyone stands there, wide-eyed."For there to be a last jumper, there has to be a first." My Mom says. I step up onto the ledge, turn around and fall back. I hear gasps coming from the crowd. I feel like I'm flying, the wind carrying my body once again on my journey to the net. I hit the net, and pull myself off. "Hey Dad, nice to see you again." I turn to him. "Move." He pushes me out of the way since Josh just hit the net.
Once everyone is on solid ground, the dauntless born and the transfers were split up. "Dauntless borns are with Uriah, and transfers are with me." Dad motions the transfers to the pit. "Great, well this year we're doing something we've done once before, but we're doing it differently. The dauntless borns are going through they're fear landscape, only once, but the transfers won't. Got it?" Uriah announces. We all nod. He leads us down a corridor that I don't recognize and tells us to sit down. He explains the fear landscape and that we'll go through it again in in stage three. "First up, Grace." He leads me to a room, and tells me to sit down. "I hope you're not afraid of needles." He injects a serum into my neck, and the room goes black.
I stand on train tracks, and hear rumbling behind me. I turn my head, and see that a train is coming towards me, expeditiously. I try to run but I can't, my feet are stuck to the ground. I brace myself for what I know is to come. My parents always said that sometimes embracing death is the bravest thing one can do. Then another image appears, I'm surrounded by mirrors. But, instead of seeing my reflection, I see all my friends and family in pain. I sit in the middle of the mirrors, sobbing, tears streaking down my face. I stand, and walk to the mirror with Andrew shot in the head. I ball up my fist and hit the mirror as hard as I can. All the mirrors shatter, and the shards fly towards me, cutting my skin will I scream in pain. My hands, become a tornado of shards, while I stand there helpless as my cheeks stain with tears. Soon, I become shattered, unable to do anything. Then I awake in the room. I still feel the glass, tearing my skin. And I touch my tear stained cheeks, then I feel a single cut on my cheek. "Are you okay? That was pretty intense." Uriah asks in a reassuring tone. I hug my legs and don't look up. "I'm going to bring your parents, okay?" He tells me, and walks out the back door.
Tris' POV
I run to Grace, whose still hugging her knees, and I hear muffled cries. Uriah show Tobias her fear landscape. "It's okay, breathe." Uriah told us that she saw her loved ones in pain, then she broke the glass which turned to a tornado of shards. "Tris." Tobias says softly, and I see what made her break the glass. I cover my mouth, trying not to scream. Then I see her in pain, which I know is a simulation, but then I look at my daughter, in real pain. "We're taking her home tonight, is that alright with you Uriah?" He nods, and I walk to Grace. "We're going home, come on." I help her to her feet, and lead her out the back entrance.
Hope you guys liked this chapter! And I just want to clarify that Grace has 3 fears, not 2! The tornado of shards is her 3rd fear, and I also based it off of Lindsey Stirling's Song Shatter Me, I was listening to that song while writing it, so I thought that could become a really cool (yet, scary) fear! Well, bye guys! Like it, Favorite, Share it!