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- Payback Much (The Next Day) –

Tobias P.O.V.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

"URGH, no." I roll over in bed and turn off the alarm, its 5:45 am, urgh too early, way too early. I roll over again trying to find Tris, but only find cold sheets, panicking I sit up, as I do I hear the shower running and realise she must have gotten up earlier. I lay in bed until I see her getting out of the bathroom wearing black skinny jeans, a tank top and has left her button-up shirt un-buttoned,

"Wow." Is all I say when she walks in, looking at me she laughs,

"Hi Tobias, I'm going to run down to the Cafeteria and grab a couple of muffins, I'll be back soon." She walks towards me, bending down intending to give me a quick kiss, but I deepen it and we stay like that for a few minutes. When we break apart she sighs in content,

"You really have to get going if you don't want to make us late for training."

"Ok fine," is all I reply. I heave myself off the bed and make my way into the bathroom, turning the shower onto hot as I undress.

P/B

We work in silence setting up the targets, putting out knifes and cleaning the training room ready for the initiates. It's nice to be able to have this silence between us, we don't need to talk, we just work, knowing that each other is close by. Looking at my watch I see that we have twenty minutes to kill before the initiates arrive, "Do you want to see if you can beat me this time?" I ask mockingly, nodding me head towards the fighting mats.

"Hey I've beaten you before" Tris retorts, I look at her, with my eyebrow raised

"Have not," her face breaks into a smirk,

"Oh you are so on." We both walk towards the fighting mats, taking off our shoes, and Tris taking off her button up shirt. We stand opposite each other, with bent knees and our arms in front of us, I step forward ready to throw the first punch….

Willow P.O.V. (Amity Transfer)

Chloe and I walk into the training room, side by side, we are wearing some of the clothes which we went out and bought yesterday in the Pit. When we walk in we see that we are some of the first ones here, only a couple of Candor boys got here before us. They don't turn to look at us when we come in; instead they are concentrating on something else. As we get closer I realise that is isn't something, it's someone, or more precisely Four and Six. They look to be fighting on some mats, throwing a few punches and kicks at each other, a couple of times one pins the other on the floor, both continuously smiling and laughing. The room slowly fills up with more and more people, all of us are engrossed in this fight between our instructors. I can tell from chatter and the looks that most of the boys really like Six and even more of the girls find Four hot, especially Chloe. Personally I like Four, but he probably has a girlfriend and I don't want to be that girl who runs after an already taken man, that's just rude, respect the girl code, unless she isn't worthy of him, then throw the girl code out the window. I wonder how many years of training initiates and flirting have Four and Six had to endure?

At 7:00 am they both stop fighting, breathing heavily they step off of the mats, putting their shoes back on they walk towards us, immediately losing their smiles. Four and Six look around,

"Who's missing? There should be two more of you." Six practically growls.

"James and Tim," one of the Erudite girls says, Alex I think she said her name is. Right at that moment the two boys – James and Tim – burst through the door.

"Sorry we are la-" Tim starts, he doesn't even finish before Four interrupts him,

"Tim, James you are both two minutes late, you will stay behind at lunch to receive your punishment. Today we will be generous as it is your first day, but from now on anyone who is late is factionless." Indicated Four, he moved his eyes from the both of them towards the rest of us.

"There are three stages of initiation; the first is physical, the second emotional, and the third mental. Each of these stages will push your body and your mind to the breaking limit, you will need to learn how to push your limits. After each of stages one and two the lowest four ranking initiates will be leaving us, after the final stage those who are not in the top 16 will become factionless. The next three weeks will decide the rest of your lives. Rankings will also decide which job you will go into after initiation. You are not allowed to leave this compound unless accompanied by a Dauntless member" Indicates Four, "Any questions?" Only one person puts their hand up, Stella.

"What rank were you?" I expect neither of them to answer but instead they both just say,

"First." Everyone looks surprised, we all kind of expected it of Four, but not Six, she is so small, none of us would have guessed. How was she ranked first? She couldn't have been that good at the first stage, what are the other stages then? If they were ranked first why did they choose to train us? They could have done anything and they choose to train us. Who would do that? Suddenly Oscar puts his hand up,

"Oscar," Six says.

"What do we have to do in the other two stages?" he asks, Four and Six smile at each other,

"You'll find out if you get there." Six answers.

"What kind of answer is that?" James asks annoyed.

"The only answer you'll get, initiate," Four says forcefully, James shrinks back.

"The first thing you will learn is how to throw a knife. You are expected to all watch Six demonstrate, learn from it and copy it," Four voiced to us as he walked towards a target. We all watch as Six walks towards a table by the edge of the room and collects three knives, turns around and goes back to where she was beforehand. She repositions her feet, takes a breath in and lifts her arm ready to throw a knife at a target, which is directly where Four is standing!

"Wait! You're not actually going to throw knives at him are you?!" exclaims Rose. Six looks at her, then at Four and releases the knife, it lands 10 centimetres away from his hand with a thud. Well I guess she got her answer. The room is dead silent, what the hell is going on? She does the same thing twice more with the other knives in her hand, one landing less than 5 centimetres away from his shoulder, the last landing by his ear. As he pulls away we can all see that she nicked the top of his ear, as a dribble of blood falls from the cartilage. He smiles saying "payback much," obviously referring to Six, they look at each other and smile. Four collects the knives from the target, as Six turns her attention to us, frowning,

"Each of you collect three knives, practice until we say stop, Four and I will be coming around talking to each of you."

P/B

It takes over two hours for me to get the hang of it. We never armed ourselves with knives in Amity, unless we were harvesting the crops, as a result the knives still feel unnatural in my hand. After what seems like forever Six finally calls,

"Lunch! Those who have not hit the target will stay until you do. James and Tim you will also stay. The rest of you collect your knives on the way out and put them on the table, be back in half an hour." Most of us collect our knives from the targets and floor, returning them to the table by the edge of the room, before walking out. Julian, Rose, Tim and James all stay behind.

P/B

"You need to loosen the grip on the knife," a voice says behind me, I jump, then I see Six, I let out a shaky breath,

"I didn't hear you behind me." I say, she smiles before continuing,

"You're holding it too tight, which means you release too late and the knife travels downwards not forwards." I adjust my grip on the knife, turn back around to my original position, breath in, breath out, and release. It lands on the target with a thud, only a couple of centimetres away from where I aimed it.

"Good, continue practicing" Six comments before walking away and watching Noah, the Candor on my right. I grab another knife from the small pile by my feet and position my body to throw again,

"Willow, Willow!" Chloe whisper shouts next to me, startled I turn to her,

"What?" I say,

"Were you even listening to me?"

"Sorry, I was distracted,"

"I was just talking about how hot Four is, don't you reckon?"
"Definitely, I bet he has a girlfriend though."

"No way, a man with a body like that has got to have high standards," we both just stare at him for a minute. I shake my head, I can't be getting distracted, I need to focus on passing initiation, dating can wait.

For the rest of the day I continue to throw my knives, eventually I only have a couple of outliers, most are clustered around the centre two circles. I'm returning to my spot after collecting my knives from the target, when Four says,

"You are all done for the day, collect your knives and put them on the table as you leave."

Finn, Charlie and Tom all race through the door, not wanting to spend another minute with Four or Six. I walk towards the door with Chloe by my side, dropping my knives on the table by the door, we walk straight to the cafeteria, eager for dinner.

A/N Please Review, tell me what I can do better.

WhiteWolf74 xx