Chapter 8

The doors to the elevator opened and revealed a spacious room. The bricks were made of stone and I could hear a distant trickling of water. We were under ground, so it was probably ground water. There was 2 cage-like structures in one corner of the room, in another corner there was another door, and to my right there was a chair sitting in the open. The chair was turned to face the wall but I could tell who the figure was. Long blonde hair fell across the cold, metal chair. A large masculine guard stand off to the side. I circled around the chair to sit in front of the Erudite girl.

"Cara, what are you doing?" I asked her wildly.

She looked up at me and kept her hands in her lap.

"You shouldn't have been walked around here." I scolded

"Tris I had to talk to you." She said

"Let's not make this personal I'm a Dauntless leader now and have a job. Now, I'm going to ask you a series of questions and I expect you to answer honestly." I said. I didn't mean to sound harsh but I didn't need her ruining this job for me or I'll find my ass in the factionless.

"If either one of us expect you are lying we will either execute you or we will put you under truth serum. Do you understand?" The guard asked.

Apparently he was only partly her guard, he was going to watch our little interrogation and butt in when he feels like it.

I looked at him then to her and sighed, signaling I would start.

"Why did you come walking around the Dauntless compound grounds, knowing the compound was here, knowing the consequences?" I asked

Cara stared at me for a while and then glared.

"I was supposed to bring you a message. I suppose my tactics weren't as cunning and thought through as I would have wished." She said seeming bored.

Her attitude immediately started to kick in.

"A message from whom were you supposed to bring to me?" I asked.

There was only two answers I could think of, Caleb or Cara herself.

"Caleb." She stated

"Caleb who?" The guard cut in

"Caleb Prior, a fellow Erudite." She said staring straight ahead.

"What is the message he wishes to bring upon Tris?" The guard also asked

"He wanted to meet her at the park where Tris first visited him during initiate training." Her voice grew strained as she realized the situation. The meet up would never happen.

I could not speak for a moment I thought I might cry; I would never get to see my brother again.

"Do you know why he wanted to see me?" I asked

"No, he didn't tell me." She replied

I looked at the guard. He ran off to go talk to Max I assumed. I looked at Cara.

"You're smarter than this. You knew you would get caught, you wanted to. Why?" I asked

"Caleb wanted me to deliver you the message but he also wanted me to find out the position you took up. The only way I could do that was get one on one action with your job. I saw on the Eruduite data base that there was only a few jobs open. Initiate trainer, computer manner, nursing, leader, and one other I can't remember. You would never choose initiate trainer because you get easily annoyed by people, you wouldn't man computers ever to be with Four because it's too boring, you would never be a nurse because that's not enough action and just not you. That left leader and it said the leader position was only offered to one person. I assumed you were the one they offered it to and you probably took it, Caleb refused to believe me for some reason and still sent me. I only came because I have to say, curiosity did wash over me." She explained

"Yeah well, curiosity killed the cat." I snapped

I was only slightly offended by her reasons for me not choosing the other jobs, mostly because she was right. She knew better than I liked.

The guard came back after that,

"She may go back to the Erudite but first we need her name. Max wishes to see this Prior boy." The guard boomed.

"Cara is my name. I'm the only Cara in Erudite, you should find my last name easily in any data base." Cara spoke

He nodded and then went to help her up. I wondered why they wanted Caleb, would they hurt him?

After I saw Cara out of the compound I went back to Max's office.

"I want to see your brother, Caleb." He said

"Why?" I asked with slight attitude.

Max looked at me for a moment contemplating whether to tell me. At that moment, I realized it couldn't be good.

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