We trekked outside and between Uriah whispering in one ear about how could we annoy everyone and Tobias in the other saying how could I not have worn a jacket, but he didn't mind. The train arrived and I climbed on without a problem but I noticed a girl, in red and yellow stumbling around crying. She screamed and Uriah appeared over my shoulder watching her as we sped toward her. Tobias also came and looked,
"lets go get her," He growled and jumped out, uriah followed and I went last. I could hear Max yelling and Seb jumping out. I ran over to her and she paused in her screaming. I didn't think but crouched down in front of her and she looked at me warily,
"Hello, why are you upset?"
"Who are you?" her voice was quiet and sweet. She had large brown eyes and a scratch along her face. She held up both fists.
"My names Tris, this is Four and this is Uriah. Who are you?"
"I'm Grace and I'm 7."
"Hi Grace. Why are you here alone?" I could hear Max and Seb approaching and Four going off to meet them
"How can I trust you? You are Dauntless." She stands up as tall as she can but even crouching I am taller than her, she is tiny. Uriah crouches down next to me.
"No we are divergent, I am half Amity so you can talk to me." I have never heard Uriah talk like this, it must be his Amity coming out. He is calm, almost fatherly toward the girl. She is more scared by men but between me being a girl and Uriah being Amity we are doing okay.
"Fine, my parents threw me out. Told me never to come back, so I hid in the cupboard for 2 days and they kept saying how nice it was without me. How I was a mistake. So I ran away, hoping to find Abnegation for help. Apparently that nice man, Marcus Eaton, is gone but he had a son. Nobody knows who he is but I want to find him. If he is as nice as his dad he will help me." I look at Uriah who's eyes are wide, he glances at me and mouths
'talk to him, he needs to know. I will keep her talking,' "So what do you know about Eaton jn?" I stand up and run over to Tobias, Max and Seb.
"Major Dilema," I mutter,
"Told you ignore her and get on the next train!" Seb growls
"No, I need to talk to Four. Now." I pull him aside and tell him her story, "Now she is looking for Marcus's son but doesn't know where or who he is." Tobias's mouth is in a thin line, his eyes pits. I grab his hand and he bunches his eyebrows
"Okay, how should we tell her?"
"You actually want to!"
"Yes, nearly everyone knows I'm his son, just don't know my name. He never said and anyone who knows doesn't say so I think it will be fine." He pulls me over to the girl who cowers behind Uriah.
"hey, Grace it's okay. This boy is Tris's boyfriend and he isn't mean."
"Grace? Is that your name?" Tobias crouches down as well and lets go of my hand. I pull Uriah up and decide it's up to Tobias to tell her alone. We go back to Max and tell him the story, up to telling him Tobias's real name.
I can hear a small yell of joy and a thump; I turn around to see Tobias hugging the small girl. I take a step back, Tobias hates hugs how come? He picks the girl up who giggles enormously and throws her over his shoulder. Then jogs over to us, the girl laughing over his back. Putting her down next to max he says,
"She is coming too, the next train is in a minute." I can hear the tracks juddering as the train approaches, Grace hides behind Tobias who picks her up. "Hey its okay. Look, I will get on the train with you." I fight a smile off my face, for all the times he says he wouldn't be a good dad, he would be brilliant. I swing on and move aside to let the others on. Grace clings on to the railing for grim death but stands alone by the door. Tobias slides over and down the wall next to me.
"You would make an amazing dad." He glares at me and I rest my head on his shoulder.
"She had a fight with another boy at amity. She we beaten to a pulp, she went to the infirmary first they treated her and sent her home. She told her parents what happened and they went mental. Her father hit her and told her to leave and never come back here again. So she hid, found out what she knows and ran away."
"Who she gonna go too? Chris? Us?"
"Us! No I spoke to somebody who spoke to his girlfriend and then I spoke to her. She is really exited!"
"Who?"
"Secret."
"Foouuuurrrr!" I moan turning to him I can see Uriah and Grace laughing by the door still.
"No, and No persuasion either. I'm not in the mood for making out on trains."
"Abnegation!" Seb yells and jumps out, Uriah and Grace leap out and Max follows. I grab Tobias' s hand and leap out landing on my feet.
"Where are we going?" Grace wonders
"Council meeting." Max replies tersly. I notice as Grace stiffens and stops. "What?"
"My daddy is there!" She whispers.
"Okay don't worry." I bend down, " I have a plan. Are you up for looking Dauntless?" She nods vigorously and I pull out my phone.
"Lucky we left an hour early." Sen looks at his watch. "We normally get stopped for some reason, so we normally leave an hour early."
Christina turns up 10minutes later with a bag of black clothes. Grace recoil again but I reasure her Chris is fine.
"Right, boys go to the meeting. We will be there in a minute, yes I am comming." And with that she leads us off to an alley. She pulls out a black tank top, black skirt, red jacket, black tights and black converses. Pulling Graces hair into a ponytail she secures it with a black head band. Pulling on her clothes Grace grins at Chris, then hugs her round the middle. They bustle behind my back and at one point I feel my hair being pulled slightly but Chris says sorry straight after so it must have been an accident.
"Glad I could help. Now a meeting to get to and some parents to scare. Are you sure about this Grace? After you do this to your parents you can never go back."
"I'm sure. Let's go."
I find Tobias standing on the step of one of the houses. He smirks as Chris as I approach,
"You know, Chris has dip dyed your hair black. It looks awesome."
"Chris you are dead," I smile at her as she passes me a black jacket to cover my too revealing clothes. We saunter into the building and down the stairs into the basement. Opening the door we walk into chatter. We sit down and Chris pulls Grace onto her lap, Grace leans into Chris as the Amity walk in. The walk talking lively until a man spots Grace, his mouth drops open at her dress and the fact she is sitting with the Dauntless. Grace stands up and walks over to Tobias, as if to make a point, she whispers something to him and he smiles.
"I can do that easy spud." Standing up Tobias picks me up, I scowl and Grace giggles, he sits down placing me on his lap.
"Gala, why are you over here. Come home darling, me and your mum miss you. These Dauntless aren't nice people, particularly the boys." The man kneels down in front of her and tried to pick her up. She places a foot in his chest and pushes him away. The hole basement is silent now watching the father and daughter.
"No, you threw me out. You hit me then through me out, these Dauntless FOUND me and helped me out of free will. Chris bought me clothes and Four helped me on the trains, Tris is really nice. Nicer than you, I am Dauntless now, even if I haven't chosen." Grace climbs into the empty, black seat and crosses her arms. The man returns to the Amity who pat him on the back and console him.
"To begin," Susan stands up, "Divergence is now a common thing in Chicago and we need some way to not control but keep track of people who are divergent. This, basically means we need a way to keep tabs of our population. Now please speak." She sits down and speaks with the Abnegation, the Candor begin to debate as if on cue, an Eudite boy start speaking quietly and quickly and Uriah moans that he is bored.
"We need to have a blood test at birth and then a census every two years." Sen looks proud of himself and leans back in his chair.
"Fine, I'm not in the mood to think." Max sticks his feet up on Chris's chair who sighs but doesn't move them. Then without warning Uriah shoots up,
"Guys, I have an idea. Why don't we understand Divergents better before we try to work out how to identify them!" He yells so loud even the Candor hear, everyone looks at him and he grins. "Well we might as well use the Divergent s we have to explain." With that he hauls me up and sits down,
"Right, okay...Uriah you are dead. Divergence is normal, Matthew explained it all. Divergnets are people with more than one brain setting..."
"So most people have been changed to only have one type of brain signal? We have to evonlutionise back?" And Eudite iinterrupts which causes everyone to start talking. After Max has called silence Tobias stands up.
"Some people have Divergent tendencies but they aren't divergent. So they are aware during simulations but only have one brain thingy." He sits back down.
"Thanks to...Four. Divergents are normal people who can be clever and truthful. People outside the fence have all 5 things, brave, truthful, clever, selfless and peaceful. But there are also people who while outside the fence have lost all 5. They are now changing their brains and putting them inside the fence, to change them."
"Sorry guys, we have a major party back at Dauntless to attend, I mean Zeke is hosting it will be awesome so I'm sorry if this offended anyone but we are kicking AWOL!" Max stands up and everyone else does too including Grace.
"Gala please don't go, they are bad people." The man pleads.
"No, go away you...you..." Uriah leans down and whispers something in her ear, "YOU GIT!" She screams then runs out with Tobias and Me.