AN: Hey guys! Thank you to all those who have reviewed, fav'ed or followed. It means a lot and encourages me to post more A lot of you guys are wondering when Tris is coming and trust me when I say that Tris is almost here! Just a bit longer.
Keep the faith cadets;)
"Four, get the fuck up man. You have less than 20 minutes before the recruits arrive" Zekes pulls on my blankets but I pull it back and over my head. Today is Monday and the recruits should be here in a bit and the thought alone has me groaning. After finally reaching the building on Friday night we were all dead on our feet. We immediately passed out in the living room and woke up on Saturday. We then checked the building out, which was fucking huge.
The building itself looked worn, old, crappy, but it has an amazing front yard with a track in and obstacle course in the back along with a shooting range. Besides the building there were no other houses, or offices or anything else beside the green that surrounds it. It felt like I was in the middle of a forest because it had tress surrounding every bit of area, creating a fence of sorts between us and the outside world. Not that the outside world could ever find this place, even I had trouble finding this place even with the directions because there were so many turns and twist in the road to get here and even then the places was hidden behind a huge mountain. We legit passed this area almost 4 times until I got pissed and called Amar, who between laughter told us we had to actually drive through the small fucking opening in the mountain to reach the building. If you didn't know to actually look for an opening, you wouldn't ever find it because it was hidden. After we drove through it, there was still several twist and turns and it took us another good 15 minutes until we finally reached the place.
Waking up on Saturday morning, we went around getting a feel of the place and I had to say it was actually quite huge, with 3 floors and a basement. The main floor has the kitchen with a living and entrainment room, and the basement was turned into a fucking large gym with all different types of equipment, even some I didn't recognize. The second floor had 12 bedrooms for the cadets with 2 bathrooms at the end of each side of the hall. The last floor had two bedrooms and one large room with nothing but a big table. Zeke and Shauna had one room and I had a separated one and decided to leave the large room alone for now. After familiarizing ourselves we then full filled our promise to Shauna and scoped out a mall so she could go shopping. We stayed there all day and I don't exaggerate when I say that she legit bought the whole store. After we had a small dinner, we decided to turn in early.
Sunday was spent making a training schedule with Zeke. We stayed up pretty late until Zeke decide to hit the hay. I followed to, my eyes to sleepy to keep open but fuck it, if last night's nightmares weren't brutal. Unusually when I have a nightmare I've controlled myself enough not to scream, I wake up shaking, convulsion, sweating and feeling like I might just have a heart attack right there but no screaming. If I do need to scream I stuff my fist into my mouth, smothering my loud screams so not to wake anyone but last night I just woke up and bolted to the washroom, throwing up everything in my stomach and trying desperately to hide my scream into my fist but knowing that Shauna and Zeke could still hear me. I had given up trying to sleep after few hours and just played my guitar up until an about an hour ago when my eyes finally decide to get heavy and I fell asleep
"Four" I hear Shauna's voice and I groan. I rather take Zekes annoying yelling then get all emotional and sappy with Shauna. I know she heard me screaming and then me softly playing my guitar all night. My head hurts and it's too early for this shit. Shauna starts to tug the blanket off my face but I hold on to it
"Shaunaaaa" I groan and even I can tell how whiny that sounds. I hear Shauna chuckle and huff, letting her pull the blanket off my head but not letting her get pass my shoulders
"What" I snap, holding on the blanket at my chin. She looks at me with concern in her eyes and I roll my eyes at her. I hate the look of pity I get every time I get a nightmare. Shauna knew I get nightmares- I couldn't hid that if tried- but she didn't really know what they are about. Just that I had a bad past that gave me vivid nightmares
"Come on four. You have to get showered and shaved and in the gym" she stops and looks at the clock "in 15 minutes" She says softly and I huff. I glare at her and pull the blanket back over my head
"Four. I'm done coddling you. If your lazy ass is not up and in the shower in 2 seconds I'm dumping water on you" She scuffs, getting off the bed and standing beside it instead. I ignore her and she gives a frustrated growl and leaves the room. I smirk and close my eyes again but within minutes I hear Shauna's voice
"Don't say I didn't warn you" She says and before I can do anything she dumps whole bucket of cold water on my head. I spring out of the bed, the cold water shocking my system.
"What the fuck Shauna?" I growl at her, stepping up to her face. She doesn't even flinch and instead smirks and pushes on my shirtless chest, making me stumble back a little.
"10 minutes. Go" She ordered, pointing to my bathroom and I roll my eyes and turn to look at my bed. It's soaking wet
"Where the fuck is am I going to sleep tonight Shauna" I hiss at her. She shrugs her shoulder and walks out my room, closing it behind her
"Fuuuuckkk" I growl frustrated. I strip the wet sheets off the bed and put them in my laundry basket deciding to put them in the dryer tonight. My bed is still soaking and I pray to god that it's dry by tonight. Once again I growl and walk into my bathroom and stare in the mirror at my shirtless form and cringe at the red puffy eyes on display. Kicking of my pants and boxers, I jump into the shower and quickly wash my body and hair. Within 10 minutes I'm done my shower and wrap a towel around my waist, deciding to forgo the 3 day stubble on my chin. I put a black long sleeved t-shirt with some jeans. Usually I would be wearing my training officer uniform but this isn't a normal situation so I decide to forgo it. I run my hand in my hair a few times, not even attempting to comb that crazy shit down. I grab my badge shield and let it hang around my neck. After I feel presentable, I walk down to the kitchen where Shauna is making some breakfast. I zero in on the pancakes and before she can stop me I grab a piece.
"Zeke is already in the gym. The recruits are already there" She says waving her hand in the direction before offering another pancake to me. I smile and take the pancake, kissing her on the cheek, I walk down stairs with the half eaten pancake dangling from my finger tips. I walk down the stairs and hear loud whispers. As I approach the recruits I stare at them hard, stuffing the last piece of pancake in my mouth, I look over at each one of them, glaring at them. It's time to put my instructor four intimidation face on and from the looks I'm receiving, its working. There are 9 guys and 3 girls. All the recruits range from small to large built.
I turn to the clock in the back corner, it reads 9:20. Alright time to begin. I indicate Zeke to start and I fold my hands over my chest, standing beside Zeke as he talks
"Attention" Zeke calls and everyone immediately falls into 3 rows of four. "Welcome cadets. I'm Officer Pedrad and this is sergeant Four" He says indicating to me. "Were going to be your -"
"Four? Like as in the number?" A black haired girl pipes up. She looks around eagerly but then settles her gaze on me.
"Exactly like the number" I shrug, trying to keep my anger under control
"What happened? One through three taken?" She chuckles, looking smug that she made that pathetic joke. I try to keep the anger off my face as I walk up to her,
Leaning my face into hers I ask her with a smile "What's your name cadet?"
"Christina" She chirps happily. I smile at her and then drop it and glare at her, my teeth clenching in anger
"Well Christina. The first lesson you're going to learn from me is to keep your mouth shut. Am I making myself clear?" I hiss at her and it goes so quite that you could hear a pin dropping. She slowly nods her head, shrinking back and I walk back to Zeke.
"Like I was saying before, Where going to be you instructors."Zeke continue on. A medium build, blonde hair boy raises his hand and Zeke and I both look at him. He took this as a signal to ask his questions
"What about Officer Wyatt? We were trained by him, why do we need to be trained again"
"Well as you know you guys are in a load of shit. Amar sent you here to us to make sure you can protect yourself in case erudite did come after you" I run my finger through my hair, getting frustrated every passing second. Were here to fight not ask questions all damn day.
"But the captain–" The blonde boy starts again and I lock eyes with him, glaring at him and he stops talking
"Silence cadet! Your here to train and were here to train you. No questions asked. You got me?" I growl, looking at an each of the initiates and internally smirking when some of them don't even make eye contact with me
"Half of you are going it be training with me, the other half with Officer Pedrad and occasionally Officer Williams" I say.
"Officer William is my girlfriend. She's qualified just like us. She will be joining shortly" Zeke continue before anyone can ask him questions. Everyone nods their heads but still look a little confused and I roll my eyes at them. Zeke numbers them off, sending 6 to train with me and 6 with him and Shauna. We talked about Shauna helping Zeke here but we both agreed it was better if Shauna stayed mostly away from the gym, just in case erudite did attack or something. However, Shauna being Shauna threatened to rip our dicks out with her bare hands and we finally agreed she could help Zeke train the recruits occasionally.
I internally groan because out of the 6 recruits I got all the 3 girls on my team and not that I minded Girls it's just harder for them to train because of their size and strength. Also, they were just fucking frustrating at times
"Alright you 6 are with me. I'm going to give a small tour of the building , then were going for a run and after you can do whatever the hell you guys want" I say,
"Sir yes sir" they yell and I roll my eyes, having forget how formal this all is suppose to be. Turning around and leading them up the stair case and into the main living /lounge area. I point out things to them
"When you're not training you can come here and relax. The kitchen is fully stoked as of now, but starting from this point on you're in charge of your own damn food" I turn to the side wall which has a map of the whole city. In yellow highlighter, I circled the places like resturants, malls and other things the recruits may need. "If you guys want to do something, the map is right here. Don't come asking one of us to show your around. You're not ten" I huff. I see Shauna walk in from the kitchen, standing beside me
"As you probably already know by now, I'm officer Williams but you can call me Shauna. You will see me downstairs in the training room occasionally but if you guys need some pointer in anything, you can ask me. Unlike sergeant Four here, I don't hate everything" She says, slipping her hand around my shoulder. I narrow my eyes at her but then smile
"What the fuck can she teach us" a blonde guy mumbles so low I didn't think it was meant to be heard. I narrow my eyes at him but he doesn't flinch back. I step up to him but Shauna pulls me back and walks up to him. While he may be 2 years younger, he is tall, just the few inches smaller then me and reaches Shauna's head. She smiles at him walks up to him
"What's your name cadet" She asks, slowly, seductively. She runs her finger through his hair and I stand back and smirk. This will be interesting
"Peter" The guy answer. He smiles widely and then smirks at me. Shauna walks behind him and puts her hands on his shoulder, running her fingers up and down his arms. The other initiates look around confused and I can't help the smirk that linger on my face
"Oh! Feel these muscles" Shauna sighs, running her hand over peters biceps.
"Yeah! I know right "Peter smirks "I work –"Peter suddenly gasps. Shauna has Peter in a death hold, holding his arms at a painful angle. She bends down, bringing him down with her easily. She switches her position so she holds both his hands in an awkward angle and slides her forearm around his throat and squeezes. Peter starts to squirm and gasp for air as he hits Shauna's arm. He then tries to reach for her body, somewhere he can grab on but Shauna shifts always. She finally releases him and Peter lies on the floor gasping. I can't help but chuckle loudly.
"Ruler number 1" She says turning around to face the recruits who look scared "Never underestimate your opponent. If you do then you'll end up like him" She mentions back to Peter. She places her foot on peters chest hard and peter visibly cringes in pain. She leans in to peters face and smirks darkly at him
"Rule number 2: This is no place for sexist pigs. We respect each, acknowledge each other's strengths and help each other out." She hisses at him loud enough that everyone can hear her. "Got it" She smiles at him as he nods his head. "Good glad we understand each other. I'll see you around...cadet" She gets up, smiles at all the initiates and leaves. I don't hide my smile as I watch her leave. I turn to the initiates, still smiling.
"Any questions?" I ask and every shakes their heads "Good, follow me to your rooms"
I spend about an hour and half showing them the place, pointing out important things and rules.
"Alright it's time for the run. There will be a pair of clothes for training in each of your rooms. Put them on and meet me in front of the door in 2 minutes" I say. I walk into my own room and slip my shirt off. Instead I slip on a muscle shirt and put on some black slacks. I grab my pistol and after making sure the safety is on I slip it in the back of my slacks and walk down to the door and wait for everyone. Better safe than sorry.
"Alright, we will run for about 3 miles. If you can't keep up and get left behind don't bother coming back" I say after all 6 recruits arrive at the door. I turn around and start a slow jog and after a few minutes speed up my pace until we are running at full out sprint.
We run for a good hour and a half and surprisingly all the recruits where able to keep up.
"Alright, you guys are free. Go relax, do whatever you want for today. The real training starts tomorrow." I say as we enter the house. "Oh if you go out under no circumstance are you allowed to tell anyone where you live, why you're here or anything like that" I say and they all nod their heads. I watch as everyone slowly walks up to the stairs and into their rooms, and I fall on the couch in the living room, utterly exhausted. No sleep has really fucked with my schedule this morning.
"How was the run?" Zeke asks as he sits on the love sit, across from me. I shrug my shoulders and lay my head against the back of the couch, closing my eyes
"Where are your recruits" I ask with my eyes still closed
"I think they went to go check the neighbourhood out" He says. My eyes spring open and turn to look at him
"Did you tell them that there not allowed to tell anyone where their staying or why or anything like that" I ask them and he rolls his eyes
"Obviously" he says and I sigh. After a few minutes I get up and crawl into my room, my legs feel like lead and it hurts to even walk. I decide another shower is required and I jump into the shower and take a long hot shower, letting the day and last night wash over me. I tie a towel around my waist and start shaving my stubbly jaw. After 10 minute, I put away my shaving kit and walk into my room, putting on a pair of boxers and black jeans. I pick up my phone and see that Zeke left me a text message saying he took Shauna out for dinner and that the rest of my initiates also left. I shrug, having gotten used to being alone. I decide to forgo a shirt and go down stairs, walking into the kitchen I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit down on the couch and turn to some random TV show, not really paying attention. Before long I hear the door opening and closing and turn to see the girls laughing and giggling. They stop and stare at me and I raise an eyebrow at them.
"What? " I asked casually as I take another bite out of my sandwich. They all shake their heads and I roll my eyes, turning my attention back to the television. Note to self: Start wearing shirts. It's not my fault, for years I lived with Amar and I didn't need to wear a shirt around him seeing it was just me and him and even when I moved in with Zeke and Shauna, we were all comfortable with each other that they didn't care if I wore one or not. It's just a habit I got into, but I guess looking at these initiates I'm going to have to try and break it.
"Um, sir" one of them says and I turn to look at them. A blond haired women steps up, twirling a strand of hair. I cock an eye brow at her
"Permission to ask a question" She asks and I roll my eyes at her
"Granted" I say, chewing my sandwich
"Do you know where any bars are around here" She asks and I stare at her.
"There's the map" I say pointing to the map in front of me. I stuff the last piece in my mouth and make my towards the stairs. I stop at the first stair and turn to them
"I'm going to my room. When officer Williams gets here, send her up" I say and one of the other girls nods. I walk up the stairs, aware the stares on my back and probably my tattoo and walk into my room and fall into the bed face first.
This is going t be a difficult few weeks' maybe months. I need Shauna's advice.