This is the second of three requests for specific points of view that I have had in reviews and PMs. The first was in Random Voices- Divergent and that is Will. The last will be in Random Voices- Allegiant (hopefully up before the end of this weekend) and will be Amar.

WARNING: Some of you might think that Zeke seems a little out of character here. Sorry, but to me Zeke, especially at this point in the story, has more depth than people usually give him credit for. At this point in the story Shauna has been shot. He's concerned about Shauna. He's afraid that he's about to lose her. How can Shauna stay in Dauntless if the nurse is right and she'll never walk again? What is he going to do then? There has to be a lot going on in his mind at this point, and it's not fun and games.

I think it's a good thing he ran into Tris at this point in time. Her combination of Divergent abilities makes her the perfect person to talk to. She's Abnegation, so inspite of the fact that Shauna's mother has half the family (including Shauna) avoiding the Divergents, Tris will still look for how she can help Shauna. She's Erudite, so she'll look for the logical answer to Shauna's problem. She's Dauntless, so she's not afraid to take risks. The perfect person to solve the problem for Zeke and Shauna.

Also, Veronica Roth(still) hasn't offered to sell me the rights. They belong to her.

From Insurgent Chapter 24

"Hey, Tris," Zeke says, joining me at the railing. His eyes are red and swollen, but his mouth is curled into a small smile.

"Hey. You made it."

"Yeah, we waited until Shauna was stable and then took her here." He rubs one of his eyes with his thumb. "I didn't want to move her, but… wasn't safe with Candor anymore. Obviously."

"How is she?"

"Dunno. She's gonna survive it, but the nurse thinks she might be paralyzed from the waist down. And that wouldn't bother me, but…"He lifts a shoulder. "How can she be Dauntless if she can't walk?"

Back to Dauntless- Zeke

I look around the Pit drinking in the site of it alive again, but with only half of Dauntless. I'm not sure this is the safest place to be right now, but I am sure that it's safer than staying with Candor. Things are almost normal here. It is loud in the Pit, that is normal. The people running around shooting at every camera they can find and any person who gets in the way is not. For me the noise bouncing off the rock is too jarring after the time I've spent in Shauna's hushed room. I look around trying to find someone I can talk to. Four met us when we first got here, but he's a leader now, so he's with Tori and Harrison talking strategy. Uriah and Marlene are happily splatting away at cameras. This isn't the time to try for a serious conversation with him. Mom would be perfect, but... I don't know where she is, and I don't want to go running to Mom with every problem I have. Shauna, I sigh, Shauna the one I want to talk to most of all has been knocked out to make her transfer here easier on her. She won't be awake for another couple of hours they tell us. It doesn't matter. I couldn't talk to her anyway. How can I tell her what I'm afraid of for her?

Right as I see her I realize who I must have been looking for.

I cross over to the railing over looking the Chasm. The railing I was leaning over the night I began to suspect that Four might have feelings for her beyond what an instructor should feel for an initiate. I might have been drinking that night, but I wasn't so far gone to miss the fact that he singled out one trainee, or that for a brief moment like he was going to kiss her.

"Hey, Tris." I lean casually on the rail next to her, and try to smile.

"Hey. You made it." She sounds pleased to see me.

"Yeah, we waited until Shauna was stable and then took her here." I stab at one eye with my thumb rubbing it to erase the tear that is gathering there. Dauntless don't cry. "I didn't want to move her, but... wasn't safe with Candor anymore. Obviously."

Tris turns to face me. "How is she?" Her eyes search mine.

"Dunno. She's gonna survive it, but the nurse thinks she might be paralyzed from the waist down. And that wouldn't bother me, but…" He lifts a shoulder. "How can she be Dauntless if she can't walk?" My voice trails off. I finally admitted it out loud, but my thoughts continue on to all the other things you need to be able to do to be Dauntless. She'll need to run and jump on trains, and. I force myself to stop before I can't control these stupid tears.

Tris stares across the Pit intently. She seems to be thinking hard. Looking past the children running up and down the path with their paintball guns. Seeing something that only she can see. I'm about to ask her what she is looking at when she finally responds,"She can."

"Tris. She won't even be able to move around." The admission is painful for me to say, but we have to face reality here. Unless the nurse is wrong and she can walk, I see no way Shauna will be able to stay here.

"Sure she will." Her stern eyes focus on me. "She can get a wheelechair, and someone can push her up the paths in the Pit, and there's an elevator in the building up there." She points at the Pire. "She doesn't need to be able to walk to slide down the zip line or fire a gun."

The tears prick at the back of my eyelids again. Shauna loves zip lining, and Tris has no idea what Shauna was trying to learn the last time we went. "She won't want me to push her." My voice cracks, just a little, but it's enough for Tris to hear the desperation I'm feeling over this. "She won't want me to lift her, or carry her."

"She'll just have to get over it." Her voice is strong and commanding. "Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk?"

She has me there. I'm lost in thought. Am I really contemplating the idea of letting Shauna just leave Dauntless, of letting Shauna leave me? I look at Tris through squinted eyes. Shauna has been treating her like a pyriah ever since she found out Tris was Divergent. Why is Tris not pushing me to face the reality that Shauna would need to leave? Why is Tris the one and only person who seems to think that Shauna staying is possible? Is it because she's Divergent? Because she sees things differently than the rest of us, or is it just because Tris is a good person?

But whatever the reason is, Tris is right. Not being able to walk is a stupid reason for Shauna to leave. Espeically since she'll have me next to her every step of the way. We've been best friends forever. I care about Shauna in a way I don't even completely understand. Tris is right. Somehow I have to convince Shauna of that. I forget for a moment that Tris is a born Stiff like Four, and I wrap my arms around her. I'm shocked when she stiffens, and pleased when she relaxes just a bit.

"I'm going to go shot things." I say to break the tension when I step back. "Want to come?" Shooting things will make me feel better too.

She shrugs pretending she doesn't care and chases me across the Pit to Bud. He gives us each a paintball gun, and we load them while Bud informs us. "We've mostly got the Pit and the underground covered, but you should tackle the Pire."

"The Pire?" It surprises me when Tris doesn't know what the Pire is. Like Four she fits in so well that it seems like she has always been Dauntless, but they haven't. And she, like Uriah had barely finished initiation when all of this madness started. Bud points through the glass window above us to the Pire. I take off up the path and Tris slowly follows after me. She must not like to shoot things as much as I do.

When we reach the Pire I realize that working in the control room the last two years will be helpful with this. I know where the cameras are. There are a couple that I'm not quite sure where they are, but all I'll need to do is look around at points of references, and I'll be able to locate them pretty easy.

I find the first camera almost immediately. I lift up my gun, aim, and pull the trigger.

"Ohh," Tris says wincing when I miss it. "Ouch."

"Yeah, I'd like to see you do it perfectly the first time." I challenge.

"Would you?" She lifts her gun up to her left shoulder. I haven't been around her a lot, but I never noticed she was a lefty before. She peers through this scope taking careful aim. She's not going to get it. I've been shooting a gun a lot longer than she has. She squeezes the trigger. "There. Now you have." She informs me when the blue paint covers the lens. "And with the wrong hand, too."

"Damn Abnegations," I mutter softly under my breath. I'm sure Four would have made that same shot if he was the one with me.

"Hey!" Marlene's cheerful voice floats up from the glass floor. I look down at her peaking at us with her head just above the glass floor. Her eyebrow is purple from where someone, possibly Uriah, got her instead of a camera. Suddenly she smiles, a devious little smile and before I can realize what she's up to I've been hit in the leg. Then so quickly that I don't think Tris has registered that I've been hit she shoots Tris in the arm.

My leg stings a little from the paintball. I look for just a second at Marlene, then back to Tris. Wordlessly, we take off after her. Marlene laughs and runs with Dauntless abandon down the paths to the pit. She weaves in and out of people on the pathway in an attempt to keep us from shooting her. I aim at her and fire. I miss, and the ball splats on the wall smearing it in yellow paint. Marlene takes aim next. I prepare myself mentally for the sting of the ball, but there is nothing. I glance at Tris, but see no new paint on her either. Then I realize she shot Lynn's brother, Hector, instead. "Hey!" He yells at her and quickly joins us in the fight. We chase her for a moment then Hector thinks he has a shot. He aims for Marlene, but instead he hits the innocent person standing next to her.

Suddenly it is full fledged war. Everyone is shooting everyone else. We forget about the cameras and form teams. The teams seem to be constantly changing. Really they are not set teams so much as short lived alliances. You just shoot whoever you can and try to stay as clean as you can, but none of us stay very clean.

For me it is healing. This moment of Dauntless fun. It may not be zip lining or Dare, or Capture the Flag, but this is what being Dauntless is all about. When it is over and we are back to shooting cameras, I pause and think for a moment on my way back to Shauna's room. Could she have done that? I picture her in a wheelchair, me pushing her, her shooting. My heart is lighter when I continue on to check on Shauna's condition because I can. I debate talking to her about what Tris said. Part of me wants to start preparing her for the idea. Part of me thinks I should talk it over with her mother, or Lynn first. All of me knows that with this family I need to leave Tris out of it, at least for now. If they find out the idea came from a Divergent they will never go for it and Shauna will leave.

And I won't let that happen.

(AN If you want to know what Shauna was trying to "learn" on her last zip lining, it's explained in Random Voices- Divergent Chapter 2 Zip lining- Shauna)