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Chapter 7: Four
I wake up in the middle of the night to the faint knocking on my door. It is early in the morning, why would anyone be up at this time?
I drag myself out of bed. My body is heavy with sleep and it takes a lot of effort to cross the room.
"Four! Wake the hell up!" I recognise the voice instantly - Tris.
I fumble with the key as I try to get it in the door. The door opens but I can't see Tris in the pitch black.
"Tris, what are you doing here?"
"Are you decent?"
"I have sweatpants on, that's it." As soon as I say this, Tris grabs my hand and pulls me down a corridor. Last second I grab the door and close it; I don't want anyone going in my room.
She pulls me down winding corridors, to places I have never been. She doesn't stop to look behind her or check on me. She doesn't answer my questions of where are we going.
After many twists and turns, she finally stops and turns to face me. "Okay, just shut up and listen. Eric and I were not allowed to tell you this but we both decided to tell you what's happening."
"Well it would be lovely to know what's going on." She laughs at that.
"So after Jeanine's death, Dauntless found she was planning something against Abnegation and we found why. They hold information on something outside the fence, like people and lots of them." A noise comes from a distant corridor and Tris lowers her voice even more making it hard for me to hear.
She continues explaining. "We knew that Amity would agree as long as the other Factions did, so we were fine with them. Now tomorrow we are going back to Dauntless to collect Peter, he is the only one who could persuade Candor. That's why Eric and I were chosen; to get our parents to say yes. That's why Max needed you. If we don't get this information then everything can fall through."
I frown, "What can fall through?"
She hesitates for a second but eventually tells me, "getting rid of the Faction system."
"How long has this been going on?"
"Since you came in as an initiate."
"So why now? What's different?" She was going to answer before I realise. "You."
"Yeah, me." She nods.
During last year's initiation, a new technology came that tested the Divergence of each person. This was to study the amount of Divergent that had emerged. The Factionless were also tested and some were welcomed back into their old Faction or the one the test said they should be in.
This year when the test happened, Tris received a 100% Divergence; something that had never happened before. She is what was missing to this plan. If the Divergent have grown in number and one is fully Divergent, then there is something strange about the Faction system.
"So what's going to happen?" I ask.
"We don't know until we hold the information. I have told you everything you need to know and the information that will keep you safe, so you have to keep quiet. No one can know you know this information."
Tris walks away and I follow. She doesn't speak to me at all for the whole walk and when we arrive at our rooms, she just walks straight into hers without a word.
If Tris is the missing piece, then her parents should have always known. Why would they do this to her?
