"Time estimate Four?" Eric asked Four while the group of us stood by train tracks. They had woken us up in the middle of the night yelling something about 'War Games,' but it was too early to contemplate what they were talking about, somehow Eric and Four were wide awake, along with the Dauntless born, who were jumping out of their skin in excitement.
"Why are we out here in the middle of the night?" Alice startled coming up from behind me.
"Because Four and Eric are into torturing us," I smirked, not sure if she could see my face in the dark.
"I can think of much better ways to spend the night with Four then waiting for a train," Alice spoke in a light voice.
"Girl, preach," a girl I had never seen before walked up beside Alice, she must have been a Dauntless born. "Four is constantly hit on, and never goes for it," she paused to look in his direction, "But he still looks damn good," our laughs filled the air, which earned us an ugly look from Eric.
"oh no, Mr. Personality heard us," the unnamed girl continued on, "He doesn't like fun," she continued to laugh tilting her head in Eric's direction. "I think that almost makes him better looking as well,"
"Does he avoid the girls too?," Alice interrupted, trying to keep the conversation with the girl going.
"Eric? Oh yeah, and he loves it, haven't you heard about him?" she asked in an offended tone. "Oh I forget you're not from here," she answered her own question. "He's a bag'em kind of guy,"
"A what?" I asked in her direction, while my eyes shifted over to Eric who was having a quiet conversation with one of the Dauntless born.
"He takes them to his room, has his way with them, and kicks them out," she huffed, "He doesn't want anything to do with anyone, except for his friend John," she laughed thinking of the duo.
"Why is he and John so close?" Alice questioned her.
"They transferred here together, I guess they've been friends their whole life,"
"Eric is a transfer?" I hissed in the girl's direction, the train turned the corner making it harder to have a private conversation.
"Yeah, two years ago I think," that was the only information she gave me as she took off running for the train, coming to our senses Alice and I began running after her, after my meal earlier with John and Tori I already felt stronger, faster, more level headed, given the right motivation, I probably could out run the train.
When I finally pulled myself onto the train, everyone else was against the walls gasping for breath, even Four and Eric, no matter how many times you get on the train, it still takes every bit of breath you have.
After everyone had collected themselves Eric began explaining what we were doing out in the middle of the night, but all that kept running through my mind was the information the girl had given me, all I heard of his speech her some key words.
Capture the Flag, Guns. Teams.
I couldn't help but let my mind wander, Eric was a transfer? Looking at him you never would believe it, he exuded Dauntless. He was tall, strong, had muscles onto of muscles, brave, pierced, tattooed, and cold as stone. Wasn't that the criteria of Dauntless? But more importantly, her words ran through my head 'bag-em,' he apparently had a parade of woman running through his room, so the two girls I had seen weren't just a one time deal? Instantly anger filled my body thinking about him kicking the girls out in the middle of the night, probably with his dumb smirk on his face.
"Lana!"
Four's voice pulled me out of my thought process.
"What?" I asked in a snooty voice, why had he interrupted.
"Your on my team, aren't you listening?" Four spoke back as he motioned me closer.
"Oh, yeah." I wouldn't let him know I was zoned out, god only knows what they would do to you for that.
Maybe throw you in a box like Amity.
The thought made goose bump spread over my body. What had my father meant about my grandfather made me forget? Where had I gone?
"Wake up Lana," Kyle's voice spoke "Your team just jumped off!" I did a quick survey of the train and noticed Four was gone and jumped right off into the unknown.
"I was wondering if you were coming," Alice laughed as I pulled myself off the ground.
"Yeah, I was thinking!" I told her honestly, there was never any sense in lying to a Candor anyways,
"I noticed, I grabbed you a gun," she handed me a paint ball gun, and a thing of ammo.
"Paint balls, really, I figured they'd just use the real thing," I laughed.
"Didn't you hear, Eric said he wished they could, and I quote 'we use paintballs, because they won't let us really shoot you,'" Alice laughed as I swung the gun over my shoulder and followed our group.
"So what is your plan," Four spoke once we had finished walking and grouped up.
"Well where did they go?" a dauntless born spoke from behind a tall boy, you couldn't see her.
"Well they are in front of us," I said, I thought it would be obvious, "they got off the train second, and the train only goes in one direction."
"Thank you captain obvious." Four laughed.
"Hey I'm just trying to be helpful!" I laughed back. I thought I had been.
"Nice try!" the girl from earlier voice came up. Now that we were in better moon light I could see her. She was about mine and Alice's height, with a nose and lip piercing, her long curly natural red hair had even brighter red tips, and she was rail thin.
"My name is Becky, by the way," she spoke making herself at home between Alice and I.
"You need a plan, Eric and his group will have one," Four spoke again trying to get us to play the game.
"Maybe this one had an idea," Becky said over the group that began fighting over a plan. Instantly I knew what she meant.
"Yeah," I yelled out, "We know they are in front of us, they know we are behind them." I paused thinking everyone else would get on our wavelength.
"We know that! You clearly didn't come from Erudite," the tall boy spoke.
"Well what about if we fool them, they are only going to be looking in this direction!"
Four smiled catching on, "So what's your plan Lana?"
"Go wide on both sides, once we see them and pass them, keep going and meet up behind them. Sneak up behind them. Shoot them. Get their flag!" I said with a smile spreading across my face. As the group started arguing on who was going to shoot and who was going to find the flag.
The dauntless born, they wanted to shoot.
"Alice and I will get the flag!" I volunteered.
"But its Eric's team, he's not going to let us win that easy," The tall rude boy spoke again.
"You don't worry about Eric, I'll take care of that," Four had the biggest smile I'd even seen on.
"He's probably with the flag," A girl's voice spoke out.
"No," I confirmed in her direction, "Eric isn't going to miss a chance to shoot something,"
The funniest thing about passing a group looking so hard from you is staring at them when they don't know it.
As our group passed them wide in the woods we could just barley make out Eric's team in the woods. They were standing clearly in the middle of a field, hoping to lure us in, and as I predicted, they were all looking left, right and forward, none of them behind where their flag was, right in plain sight.
"You were right," Four startled me while we passed whoever they had sent to get out flag, creeping past us without know it. We had left people behind for them.
"Thank you captain obvious," I replied smartly.
"They don't suspect a thing," he continued talking keeping in pace with me.
"Eric took all the bronze, none of the brain." I tapped my head, a smirk spreading.
" No, I took all the brains none of the bronze," Four joked as we finally passed the group and headed towards the middle, meeting up with the other half of the group.
"Ready?" Four quietly questioned the group. Receiving a bunch of nods, we took off in their direction as quietly as possible.
Until the shots took off, alerting the group for the first time.
"BEHIND US!" a voice yelled out once it was far too late and the attack had already began, silently I grabbed Alice's hand pulling her in the direction of the flag we saw earlier.
Paint balls were flying everywhere as we crept over, the florescent flag stood out in the middle, no one around it.
"It's too easy," Alice said looking around from a big rock we were hiding behind. Luckily, the sound of the war was covering up our voices.
She was right. Someone was watching the flag.
A giggle caught my ear, as we crouched thinking.
Brit.
She was standing on top of the rock, looking in front of the rock, instead of behind where we were.
Without saying another word I grabbed Alice's arm, and pointed up at Brit. Ali nodded her head in understanding.
Before we could get Brit down Four's voice spread across the field.
"GET IT LANA COME ON!"
Without another thought Alice jumped on top of the rock shooting Brit as I ran for the flag. A smile spread across my face as I touched the flag, and it grew even larger as Eric came into sight just before I got it, a growl exited his mouth as I grabbed it between my hand and my group cheered!
The only thing I did in reply to his growl was give him a long exacerbated wink.
AN: Have I said I don't own Divergent and Characters? Because I don't.
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-Lana
