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**TOBIAS'S POV**
I flutter my eyes open and feel tris laying almost on top of me. Her head is on my chest and her legs tangled in mine. I watch her evenly breathe in and out and decide after a while to wake her so we can train the initiates today. I gently slide out from underneath her and take a quick shower. I pick up tris bridal style and she starts to stir so I place her on the bed where she quickly wakes up and falls off the side. When she sees me laughing she throws a pillow at me that I quickly dodge.
"Damn your good reflexes" she mumbles then walks into the bathroom for a shower.
I finish making breakfast which consists of eggs and bacon and set a plate out for tris, soon I head down to the training room to start setting up. I go to the cabinets and grab the sets of throwing knives and lay them out on the table. I go to wipe the white board cleans from yesterday's stage 1 cuts.
1. Trevor
2. Katherine
3. Hayden
4. Taylor
5. Aiden
6. Emily
7. Matt
8. Kayla
9. Maddie
10. Tom
Tris as always felt bad about having to cut Maddie and tom but they were those were the rules. Oddly enough I didn't see Katherine at the revealing of the cuts but I guess I'll have to ask her after training today. I feel bad about asking Maddie to find Katherine right after she got cut but she was the only other person I found in the dorms. I wonder if she did ever find Katherine to tell her I needed to talk to her. I hear tris coming in with two muffins and she throws one to me while taking a bite out of her muffin. Soon its 11:00am and the initiates are piling in one by one until they are all standing in a straight line, training starts later today because the cuts were made yesterday. Eric walks into the training room and stands beside me with his hands behind his back. He comes to observe and 'help' sometimes when he thinks were doing something wrong.
I feel all eyes on me and soon look around to find Katherine but she isn't here. I have a mini heart attack but quickly cover it and hop into instructor mode.
"Where's Katherine?"
Everyone looks around and shakes their heads. Obviously nobody has seen her and that panics me a little. I lean over to Eric and whisper to him, "Can you find the Katherine girl?", I ask silently and he glares back at me, "why don't you" he sneers, "because I'm the instructor here and I need to teach these kids how to throw a knife and you don't so that makes you eligible" I say calmly back. He gives a reluctant nod and makes his way out the door to start looking. I feel tris giving me a reassuring look and lets me lean on her a little while everyone's getting set up.
**ERIC'S POV**
I make my way to the control room, if she is really missing the cameras would have seen it. I walk in the room and kick some guy out to begin searching. I start with the cafeteria but I didn't see her at all there so I checked the chasm where I first met her, not a thing. After a couple hours I go for lunch and get the guy I kicked out to search for her.
It's about 6pm now and I still haven't found her. Once again I check the dorm rooms. She's not there. I was about to call it quits when it dawns on me she might have never got in the dorms. So I check camera 149 where I can see the front doors of the dorms. I fast forward and see Katherine and Uriah coming down laughing and smiling. Ugh. He gives her a quick kiss on the cheek and leaves, she on the other stands there and watches him go. That's when I see Maddie and some girl I recognize as a dauntless born initiate from last year named Megan, kidnap her and take her down the hall. I click on the screen and make the cameras follow them and they end up going all the way down to the other side of the compound. I know exactly where they are though, the dauntless leaders housing in in that side of the compound. Right near my apartment actually.
I look and the clock and see it's now 9:38pm and I start to run to the east compound. I don't see tris, four, or anyone I know so I just go on my own. I take the elevator down to the basement floors and I don't hear anything so that's a good sign. I calmly walk down to the first door and kick it open, nothing, I do this for a couple more doors until I see a bloody and unconscious Katherine lying on the floor with bruises covering her body. I quickly pick her up bridal style and run back to my apartment because the infirmary is on the west side of the compound.
I unlock my door and lay her down on my bed. Her clothes are soaked in dry blood and i'm unsure if I should take them off or not. I decide taking them off wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever done so I gently take off her shirt and pants along with her boots and socks. Her hair is a mess but I just leave it. As I'm getting up to get some cloths to wash her with I take a look at her fully. She's beautiful, much more mature than any other 16 year old I've seen. I shake my head slightly and let out a chuckle, I go get the cloths and bring a bucket of water to begin washing the blood off her. Soon the water in the bucket is red and her body is nice and clean. I'm about to just leave her there and make my way to the living room when I think about what will happen when she wakes up and is just in her bra and panties. I walk over to my dresser and find the biggest shirt I have. It ends up being a black long sleeve shirt that would just cover her butt. I slip it on her and leave a glass of water on the night stand. I close the door behind me and turn on the TV not bothering to track down four to tell him I found the random initiate that can wait till the morning. I lay back and can't stop thinking about the events of tonight and mostly just about 'her' in general.
**URIAH'S POV**
I'm walking to zeke's apartment to see if he knows where four and Tris's apartment is. I didn't see Katherine at all today and I'm starting to get worried about her. Instead of knocking I walk right in and see zeke passed out on the couch with his ear buds in. I see his iPod and blast the volume on it full blast. He jerks right off the couch and tears his ear buds out of his ears.
"WHAT THE FUCK URIAH" he yells while tackling me to the ground. Despite his anger I can't help but laugh at the image of him spazzing off the couch.
"I'm sorry I'm sorry, calm down" I reply and reluctantly gets off of me. He lays down on the couch and asks me what I'm here for.
"Where does tris and four live?"
"Apartment uh 811 I think"
"Thanks bro, and by the way why were you listening to that Hannah Montana girl?"
His face goes bright red and he kicks me out before he replies.
I continue to the 8th floor and look for apartment 11. A couple of really drunk girls walk past me screaming about how good this night is. Its then that I realize that's its already 11:oopm and they might be in bed. When I find the apartment I knock on the door and it opens to find a worried and tired looking four.
"What do you want Uriah?" he sighs.
"I just wanted to know if you have seen Katherine, I haven't talked to her since Friday night" I reply slightly worried he wouldn't know where she was.
"No, I sent Eric to find her in the morning because she wasn't at training, I haven't heard from him since."
"What if he's the one that took her?"
"He's a lot of things but I think even he is above kidnapping initiates"
"Fine whatever, tell me if you find her." And with that I leave and head back to the dorm rooms, I do still having training in the morning.
**KATHERINE'S POV**
I wake up with a huge headache. My hands and arms are bruised as well as my legs and torso, I can't see my face but it's probably bruised too. I remember blacking out because of Maddie and Megan, but I seriously can't remember doing anything to piss them off.
I throw my legs over the side of the bed and that's when it hits me. Where am I? Whose apartment am I in? Who found me? I also noticed I'm half naked, I'm only wearing my bra and panties that Taylor made me buy, thank god because abnegation underwear is the least flattering thing in the world, and some men's long sleeve shirt. So I'm guessing I'm in a guy's apartment. Great. Feeling comfortable with my body I walk into the bathroom and put my hair in a quick French braid and use some soap to smell a little cleaner. I walk out into the main living area and see someone fast asleep on the couch. Eric? I throw a pillow at him casually and he falls off the couch with a thud. He groans and sits up leaning on the couch. I notice his eyes go wide when he sees me half naked casually leaning up against his counter.
"So you're the one who found me? Huh? Thanks I guess" I reply making eye contact with him.
"Uh yeah your um trainer asked me to um look for you. You weren't f-far from here" he stutters.
I walk over to the chair on the other side of the room and plop myself down.
"How come your apartment is so much bigger than the rest" I say trying to make conversation. By now he's sitting upright on the couch.
"I'm a dauntless leader"
"Oh so that's why you always watch our fights during training"
"Uh yeah, you came second by the way, you got taken before you could see I think"
"Dammit who came first?"
"Trevor, and Maddie and tom got cut"
"Maddie got cut? So is that why she decided to beat the hell out of me with that other girl?" I laugh a little as I say this. I'm used to the feeling of being beaten so I know not to cry or complain about it. I've had to do this for years.
"I guess so, she's already been thrown out of dauntless and the other girl Megan will be too. I have to ask, but why aren't you like crying or I don't know feeling the pain of being beaten at all?" he asks uncertain.
"Would it be better if I started balling my eyes out and asking for a million ice packs?" I reply calmly
"No I guess not, but not many people could taking a beating like that and not feel it at all."
"Well that's a little part of why I wanted to come to dauntless, I don't cry or overreact because of some pain" I say not sure if he really cares but it seems he does.
"Good, that will come in handy" he says while getting up I presume to make breakfast.
"Want something to eat?" he asks. I guess I was right.
"Yes please, and maybe some Advil?"
"Ah so she does feel pain" he mocks
"Everyone does, I just try not to react to it that's all". He gives me a glass of water and some Advil then sets a plate of eggs, bacon, and a muffin down in front of me and sits down beside me with his own.
"What does your tattoo mean, the throwing knife?"
"A memory, from Friday night" I say vaguely. He looks at me but doesn't ask again.
"And you're other ones?"
"The one on my wrist I got because my friend suggested it, the 'still I rise' one I got without knowing what it was, I got dared to let my friend pick one for me, and the four because of my family" I completely lie. He seems to buy it because he doesn't press it.
"And the one on your back?"
"How do you know about that one?"
"I was the one who dressed and undressed you" he replies smugly
"Well if you saw my back then I guess it's self-explanatory" I hiss.
He seem to back off and takes my dishes away, to wash them. I know Tobias is probably worried sick I decide to get my clothes and head to the pit to get to his apartment.
As I'm walking out the door I turn around and see Eric watching me.
"Thanks again, and I'm keeping the shirt, its comfortable" I say smirking
He smirks too, "whatever you like".
I close the door behind me and walk into the pit to find the dorms, I forgot training was going on.
