Sorry I haven't updated in awhile!

I'll get some chapters done with weekend :)

In the four months that had passed, there wasn't a moment that passed that I didn't think about her. Even now, stalking through the decaying Abnegation village, every Abnegation I saw reminded me of her. I knew it would break her heart to see how her once home was now destroyed. Any surviving Abnegation were taken as prisoners, Jeanine tested them for Divergents. Those who failed the tests were taken as prisoners and put through painful interrogations.

Jeanine had the city by the balls. She played her propaganda messages on every monitor in the city. She blamed the Divergents, saying that they were the ones who orchestrated the attacks on Abnegation and then they blamed them on Erudite. It sickened me that I was forced to follow these orders. Suddenly doing the right thing and following orders became blurred.

Still, following orders was part of how I was going to stay alive. So one bright early morning a month ago, Jeanine summoned me to her office to give me my new mission. I knocked on her door lightly, in my now all blue and black attire. I hated the blue, it didn't look good on me.

"Come in Eric," she called from behind the door.

I didn't even have to ask how she knew it was me, she had cameras everywhere.

I entered moodily and just stood there with my hands behind my back, waiting for my orders.

"I need you to find this," Jeanine said handing me a picture.

It was a drawing, in a blue pencil of course in different angels. It looked like a tall five sided box, on each panel there was the symbols representing the five factions.

"What is it?" I asked harshly.

"It's a message from the founders," Jeanine replied staring at it anxiously.

"A message?" I replied looking at the drawing. Something about it seemed…daunting.

"I believe that it contains something vital to maintaining our peace," Jeanine openly explained, "You will find it and bring it to me."

"Ok," I said turning to head out the door.

"Eric!" Jeanine called out, "Wait."

I stopped sighing quietly and turned around to face her.

"Is everything alright?" Jeanine asked trying to soften her expression.

"Yeah," I said briskly.

"You've seemed…tense the last we weeks," Jeanine said walking closer to me, "Would you like some time off?"

"Time off?" I asked surprised.

"Yes," Jeanine replied, "Maybe you need some time to clear your head."

"No," I said shaking my head, "I'm fine."

Jeanine's expression grew more grim, "Very well…if you ever change your mind, the offer is always open to you."

"I'm fine," I replied, "really…I'll head down to Abnegation and start looking."

After four weeks of tearing up every Abnegation home and digging around, we finally found it. I stalked through the broken homes while more Abnegation was being hauled away. At one home that was no more distinct than the next had half of its wall blown away. I climbed over the rubble to find a few Dauntless/Erudite soldiers standing over a hole they had dug up. They all looked up at me with a satisfied grin, probably waiting for a compliment. I just grabbed the box and walked out. With the box in hand, I felt a wave of contempt for it. I ran my hands over the intricate pattern. Just like the drawing had predicted, it had five sides, at the top of each panel had the different logos for each faction. What could possibly be in here? I remember in my youth, the way that Erudite talked about the founders was like talking about some mythical hero's.

Part of me wanted to run away with the box and find a new place to hide it. But I knew Jeanine would stop at nothing to find it. So I took it over to Max who was standing over a ling of kneeling Abnegation. They were all either elderly or just men. Each had the same sully face or tears running down their face. What stunned me the most is that none of them looked angry. Just sad…

With a new invention built by Jeanine's team, he held up to the face of the last Abnegation in the line, the machine responded with, "Divergent… seven percent."

Max laughed coldly, "Another one! Every single goddamn one of them."

"Go figure," I mumbled gripping the box harder. I knew what was coming and tried to not look at the face of the damned before me.

Max and a group of Dauntless standing behind the group of Abnegation raised their guns to their heads and opened fire. The Abnegation fell face first into the ground. The Dauntless began gathering their bodies to threw them into a maxx grave a few yards away which was nothing more than a large hole in the ground. I didn't have the stomach to go over there and look into it, it sickened me more than I could bare in hearing everyone talking about how it was nearly full.

"How you doing son?" Max said putting his gun back in his holster and turned to me. Max, never called me by his name now. He always called me son.

I handed the box over to him and Max's grin grew, "Tell Jeanine we got it…"

Max nodded to me and pulled out a cell phone that Jeanine had given to him while I walked off.

"Where'd you find it?" Max said following me after a brief phone call.

"In that house," I said pointing to the one, "buried."

"Imagine that," Max said with a grimace as he looked at the house grimly.

"What?" I asked curious. Max had forgotten about any mistrust from the past months and Jeanine was pulling me closer that now they hardly withheld any information from me.

"You know who's house that is?" Max said glancing up at me.

"No," I replied looking at it. It didn't look any more distinct that any of the others.

"Andrew and Natalie Prior…" Max stated as he clenched his jaw, "they've been hiding it all this time…and to think their daughter was trying to get in with us all this time."

"Yup," I said with a dark tone really unsure of how to respond.

I had gotten a slap on the wrist from Jeanine and Max about not finding out she was divergent and reporting it. I made up some bullshit story that she was throwing herself at me, I knew the real suspicion started during her final testing. She had a sim of my attempting to rape her. I told them a whole bullshit story where she tried to come onto me and I stopped her. I told them I scared her off by yelling at her and berating her, it worked out to my advantage that Four was discovered as being Divergent too. I told them that he trained her how to hide. They bought it and Jeanine made me go through all these books and reports she made up about how to recognize a divergent. I barley read through any of it, it was all bullshit.

I got the point across to them that I was only a man of action and that was why I left Erudite. That seemed to strike a nerve with Jeanine. However she kept her cool demeanor and just said that I'm just what she needed.

"After all…you did save my life," she said to me once.

Once Jeanine heard that we had found the box, all the leaders reported back to Erudite. Max and I took it directly to her in a new lab she had designed. I hadn't been to this part of the lab before. It was all sleek and dark; the only light came from the white room with on glass wall. Jeanine placed the box on a pedestal and stared at it admiringly.

"You found it…" Jeanine said breathlessly.

"It was in the home of Natalie and Andrew Prior," Max replied holding his arms behind he back, "just like you said."

I glanced around the white room…there was something daunting about it. up on the ceiling, was a black hole that seemed to dark to tell if there was anything up there. On the ground were silver sensors underneath the black hole.

"You mind telling me what's inside?" Max pressed on.

I chuckled to myself silently, so Jeanine had told me something and not Max huh?

"A message from the founders that will ensure the future our people deserve," Jeanine explained not looking away from the box, "Divergents will destroy our society unless we destroy them…and now we can. However, only a divergent can open this box. Find them, every last one of them."

"Yes ma'am," Max said with a wicked grin and nodded to me.

Together we left the lab heading to a separate living quarters for the Dauntless.

"Hey son," Max began to invite, "why don't you come over for dinner tonight? Zara's making chicken casserole and Alexis would really like to see you."

"I don't know," I started to shrug trying to soften my demeanor, "I'm kinda tired and…"

"Ah c'mon," Max encouraged, "you've been working too hard. I can see it, come spend the night over with us. I know Alexis is dying to see you."

I didn't want to but it was for the best to keep this up, "Alright…sure. Only if you got good shit to drink."

"Son," Max said with a grin and slapped my shoulder, "have I ever let you down before?"

"Nope," I said faking a grin.