Chapter 3

Jackie Pov

Smack! Smack!

I open my eyes and see Four hitting my bed, with a metal rod, wearing an evil grin on his face.

Ass. He knows exactly what he's doing.

"Initiates, get up! Be ready in five minutes and meet us at the training room!"

I stumble out of bed, and the initiates stare at me, the guys with lust and girls with jealous glances.

Oh right. I'm not wearing any pants.

I see Jack giving everyone a cold glare.

I roll my eyes. "Stop eye fucking me, my eyes are up here!"

Jack yells. "If you guys don't stop staring at her, you're never going to see anything ever again!"

The guys avert their eyes and start to get ready.

"Thanks, Jack."

Jack grumbles. "Could you sleep with pants next time?"

I smirk. "Fine."

I quickly put on my ripped jeans, my V-neck, combat boots, and my black feather necklace.

I see Jack waiting for me, I join him while putting my hair up into a ponytail.

Jack touches my tattoo behind my hair and smiles sadly. "Nice tattoo."

I nod. "Thanks. Want to warm up and race to the training room?"

Jack smirks. "On three?"

Jack counts. "1, 2- "

He takes off running at two, cheater!

I groan. "Damn it!"

I take off running, rounding each corner, and skidding as I go. I'm pushing my legs as fast as they can go but Jack is still in front.

If Jack wins he's going to bother me for an hour, oh god.

I recognize where we are, and I know we are really close to the training room.

I break out into full-out sprinting, giving it everything I've got, but I see Jack is doing the same.

Jack runs up to the training room door, opens it, and runs into the room.

I make it into the room a couple seconds later.

I glare at Jack. "Damn it. I would've won if you didn't cheat!"

Jack laughs. "Oh, dear sister, you know I don't fight fair."

"Next time." I promise.

I hear someone clear their throat.

I turn around and see its Four and Six.

I smirk. "Someone looks to be in a better mood than yesterday, I wonder why that is?"

Six and Four glare at me. "Sprint 10 laps now!"

Seriously 10 laps? That's it?

I smirk. "Getting touchy are we now?"

Four shouts. "Get going initiate."

I laugh. "Aye, aye!"

I start sprinting my laps and notice the initiates filing into the room one by one.

This is going to be fun, they're going to crack so fast.

As I'm nearing my 7th lap I see Eric walking in, and I mockingly salute him.

Eric groans. "What did her smart-ass mouth earn her now?"

Six smirks. "She has to sprint 10 laps, she's on her 7th."

Four yells. "By the way, I forgot to tell you, you only have 3 minutes out of your 8 to run three more laps and if you don't, well you just earned yourself 10 more!"

Ass.

I push myself harder, I'm not going to satisfy Four by not making it in time.

Breathe. In and Out. In. Out. In. Out.

I'm almost there, a couple more feet.

"10!" Four shouts.

I smirk I haven't even broken a sweat. "Thanks for the warm-up, Four!"

He rolls his eyes.

Eric faces the initiates. "There's three stages of initiation, after each stage some of you will be eliminated and become factionless. Only 10 of all the initiates will become Dauntless members."

Some girl whines "What? We weren't told that! If I knew- "

Four glares at her. "You can leave now."

"What!?" she cries out.

"I'm not going to repeat myself, leave, you're factionless. You have ten minutes to leave or we will escort you out ourselves."

That was harsh, but if she's not going to make it anyway, there's no point in her staying.

The girl rushes out of the room, crying.

Eric continues. "The first thing we'll teach you is how to throw knives."

I let out a quiet laugh. I've always been a little better than Jack at knives.

Eric glares at me. "Something funny?"

Oh, he heard me.

I smirk. "Nope."

Eric raises a pierced eyebrow. "Are you sure, because something definitely looked like it was funny."

I shrug. "I'm sure."

Eric starts again. "Four will show you the correct stance and form for throwing a knife, so pay attention."

I whisper under my breath to Jack. "You're going down."

Jack rolls his eyes. "I think you are, sis."

I don't really pay attention to Four showing us the correct stances.

When he's done Four tells us to go grab some knives and start throwing.

I eagerly grab 4 knives and walk over to my station.

I turn to Jack. "Ok, here are the rules for each knife that you get in the center you move 5 big steps backward, and if you don't make it you move 2 forward. Whoever is the farthest wins."

Jack grins. "Let the best Dauntless win."

We shake hands and get into our knife throwing stance.

I pull my arm back and throw forward, releasing the knife.

Thunk!

I lands in the center, sticking, so I move five steps backward. I notice Jack doing the same.

I grab the second and swiftly throw it, landing in the center once again.

My grin quickly turns into a pout when I notice Jack had also gotten it on the center.

I take 5 more steps backward, grab the knife, and quickly throw it, landing in the center yet again.

I look to Jack's board and see he also landed it in the center, one last knife to go.

I take 5 huge steps backwards.

I grab the last knife, pull my arm back and release the knife, landing in the center yet again.

I see Jack hasn't thrown his knife yet.

I grin. "Why haven't you thrown your knife yet? Are you afraid to lose to a girl and better yet your sister?"

He glares at me. "No I'm not so shut up."

I creep up to him just as he's about to throw, and I blow in his ear, causing his knife to land just outside the center.

Jack glares at me. "Damn it, Jackie!"

I grin widely. "Karma's a bitch, you should know that!"

Our banter stops when we notice no one else is throwing or talking.

Eric is the first one to break the silence. "Did I say you could stop throwing initiates? Jackie and Jack come with me."

Everyone looks at us with fearful eyes, it's not like Eric is going to murder us, right?

Jack and I follow Eric out of the room, and he leads us to another room, but it has digital dummies on the wall.

Eric faces us. "I assume you guys know the correct places to seriously damage or kill someone."

We nod.

"These are digital dummies, when you finish, we'll add up your score based on the red zones, yellow zones, and green zones you get. The red zones are all major arteries or the heart. The yellow is the shoulder, or stomach. The green are the legs or the upper arms. You have 10 seconds before the target moves."

I laugh. "Prepare to lose."

Jack scoffs. "I think you're talking about yourself."

Eric interrupts. "Get started."

Jack takes one side of the room and I take the other.

I quickly grab a knife, pull my arm back, and swiftly release it. The knife got the heart.

I repeat that and before I know it I run out of knives, and I see each one landed on the target's heart.

I look over at my time and see that it took me 91 seconds for 19 targets.

Not bad.

At 102 seconds Jack finishes and he gets only two yellow, but the rest is red.

I smirk. "So, Jack, I definitely lost, didn't I?"

He rolls his eyes. "Shut up."

I feign innocence. "Me? Shut up? I have an hour to brag about it."

Jack mutters. "Not before I kill you."

I put my hand over my heart. "You would do that to your poor, innocent, unsuspecting sister?"

Jack scoffs. "You're anything but that."

Eric clears his throat. "Is this all you guys do?"

We both shrug. "Pretty much, we're twins, what are you going to expect, of course we'll bicker." We answer at the same time.

Eric looks freaked out. "Never do that again. You guys are weird."

Jack and I both answer. "We know."

Eric glares at us and we burst out laughing. "You guys seriously are weird, no one dares to laugh when I glare at them."

I smirk. "We both know you're just a big teddy bear underneath the Dauntless leader façade."

Eric smirks. "Do you now?"

We both nod.

Eric yells at the top of his lungs, shocking us. "Drop and give me 100! Now!"

I smirk. "I'll be done before you Jack."

We drop down and I start doing push-ups as fast as I can.

97, 98, 99, 100!

I jump up, but I sadly see that Jack was done before me.

I frown. "Damn it! How many did I lose by?"

Jack's grin only grows wider. "10."

I purse my lips together. "I still beat you with knives."

Jack retorts back. "And I beat you with push-ups."

I smirk. "I beat you to the train."

Jack glares at me. "You just broke the hour rule."

I smirk. "Did I now?"

He runs forward and tackles me to the ground.

We roll around together, but then I shove Jack off of me. "Get your fat ass off of me."

Jack smiles. "It's all muscle."

I roll my eyes. "Whatever you say, fat ass."

Eric clears his throat. "Time for lunch, try not to kill each other please, it'll mean more paperwork for me."

I grin. "I'll try but I'm not making any promises."

I take off running and yelling. "Dauntless cake, here I come!"

I hear someone yell. "Dauntless cake, what? The love of my life, here I come!"

Of course, its Uri, before I know it, he's running alongside me.

We run into the cafeteria and I spot the Dauntless cake.

I smile widely and yell. "There's the cake!"

Uri yells. "I see you, my love!"

We probably look like lunatics.

I quickly run up to the line and grab three slices, two for me, and one for Jack.

Yes, I know, I'm crazy, but what's life without a little crazy?

I sit down, and I basically inhale the cake in all of two seconds.

I look to my right and see Uri has already done the same.

I'm hungry for more Dauntless cake but I don't want to get up.

I look to my left and see Jack hasn't eaten his slice yet.

When he's distracted, I quickly grab his piece and snarf It down, making it disappear in seconds.

Jack looks back at his plate and then at me, his plate, me, his plate, and me.

He gets up, grabs another slice, and sits down.

Jack looks at me and says quietly. "If you do that again, it'll be the last thing you do."

I think I'll do it again.

I grab his slice and quickly eat it, swallowing hard.

Jack looks at me, with no emotion on his face.

Oh Shit.

I quickly get out of my seat and start running for my life.

I hear Jack yelling. "Run all of you want! I will find you and avenge my love! My cake will not go down silently!"

I hear running footsteps after me, I run faster and swerve to avoid people walking by.

I run to the one place I can think of, the training room.

I almost fall, as I round the corner to reach the training room. I quickly open the door and go inside quickly.

Jack yells again. "How dare you eat my dauntless cake, Jackie! You're going to regret that by the time I find you!"

I run to the back of the training room and I see Jack enter.

Jack yells in triumph. "I told you I'd find you! My cake's death will not go unavenged!"

I hold my hands up in surrender. "I didn't mean to?"

Jack laughs and runs towards me.

He launches himself onto me and starts tickling me.

Oh god. That is my weakness.

I manage to get out. "J-Jack s-stop I-I'm g-gonna pee m-my pants! S-stop!

Jack tickles me harder. "Do you surrender?"

I shake my head.

I manage to get out of his hold and I get up, but don't make it very far.

Jack throws me over his shoulder and starts running, knowing that my head is probably spinning right now.

Jack asks me once again. "Do you surrender?"

I scream. "Never! You should know that your Dauntless cake was delicious!"

I lift my head up about to say something else but then I see all the initiates, Eric, Six, and Four are laughing their heads off.

Looks like Jack notices them too because he puts me down.

I glare at them. "Stop fucking laughing. Do you think we're funny? Are we here for your amusement?"

They immediately shut up except for Four and Eric.

Jack and I glare at them even harder and they stop.

Eric walks past me and whispers. "Did he avenge his Dauntless cake?"

I mumble. "Ass."

He whispers in my ear. "One that you like."

I smirk. "Maybe."

Eric walks away, and Jack gives me a questioning look. I shake my head, later.

Eric shouts. "We'll move onto how to shoot a gun. Four you can teach them the correct stances. Jack and Jackie come with me again."

We follow him into the same training room we were in before.

Eric questions us. "You guys know how to use guns right?"

We nod.

He continues on. "It's the same thing as before, although you won't be using actual guns, but they'll feel like actual ones. These are pellet guns, they shoot and feel like an actual gun, we just don't want the bullets to ricochet off the wall."

We nod and grab a gun.

Eric yells. "Go!"

I shoot as fast and accurately as I can and before I know it I'm done.

I look at Jack but see he's done 5 seconds before I am, but we both didn't miss.

My score was 58 seconds for 20 targets.

I roll my eyes. "I'll beat you when we start fighting."

Jack nods sarcastically. "I'm sure you will."

Eric grins. "You guys bicker a lot."

I nod. "We always have."

Eric nods. "I wanted to inform you guys that so far, your knife and gun skills are better than the Dauntless-born."

I raise an eyebrow. "Really?"

He nods. "Yup. This is going to tick you off, but you guys are at the same skill level so far."

I groan in frustration.

Eric continues. "Since it looks like I don't need to teach you anything, why don't you guys run 15 laps and when you're done you can go get dinner."

We nod, and the unspoken bet is already in our heads.

I take off running like a maniac, I'm better at running than Jack because I've always liked it because it gave me a sense of freedom.

I see I'm at the front and very quickly I see that I'm done. I just started to break a sweat.

Jack grins. "Well, you have one hour."

I smirk. "I would, but we've had so many competitions today, can we take a break?"

I hold my hand out and Jack shakes it. "Truce."

Eric looks shocked. "Did I just see you guys agree on a truce? Am I going insane?"

I laugh. "You saw correctly."

Eric grins. "Ok, you lunatics, go get some dinner."

I turn to Jack. "Let's just walk there."

He agrees, and we walk silently to the cafeteria.

Since we're a little early to dinner, the line is short. I grab a piece of Dauntless cake and a hamburger.

I sit down with just Jack, since everyone else is training.

We eat quickly, I want to go get another piercing and Jack goes back to the dormitory to probably pass out like a log.

I walk up to Tori's shop and spot her immediately.

I wave. "Hey Tori!"

She smiles. "Hey Jackie, how's initiation?"

I grin widely. "It's going really great, I couldn't be happier. And on that note do you think I can get another piercing."

She grins. "Of course!"

A couple minutes later she's done, and it hurt so much, but it's worth it.

There's no way I can tell Jack I got a nipple piercing.

I walk back to the dormitory and I see that Jack is the only one there.

"Hey Jack."

He grins. "What piercing did you get?"

I shrug. "I decided not to get one, I just talked with Tori."

He nods. "Okay."

We talk a little until all the other initiates come in and then we go to sleep.

Luckily, this time no one cries, so I can get my beauty sleep.

I put on my sweatpants and snuggle myself under the covers.

I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.