Tris POV

"Tris! Tris!" I heard through the darkness. My eyes were shut tight, and I was having a good dream involving Tobias, mum, dad and a white gown, and very smartly dressed people… Okay, well, ignoring the fact I was dreaming about my wedding day, which is a bit far forward considering I'm not even engaged yet, and I was freaking out, it was still a good dream. "Come on beautiful, it's time to get up," Tobias' voice interrupted me again, and I sighed.

"I'm getting up, give me a minute," before turning back over where I was led. I heard Tobias laugh, and felt the rustle of my bed, and his lips oh so gently brushing past mine.

"Training starts in twenty minutes," he pointed out quietly, and my eyes went wide. Without saying anything more I jumped out of bed. He laughed as he watched me rush around my apartment.

"Why didn't you get me up earlier?" I glared at him, and he shrugged.

"You looked peaceful."

I rolled my eyes at him, quickly throwing on a low cutting v neck shirt and a pair of tight black jeans. "Do we know who's fighting who today?" I asked. Tobias shook his head. "Better go work it out then."

I grabbed his hand and dragged him out towards the training rooms. I knew he was still laughing behind me, and resisted the urge to kick him for it.

We're at the training room in minutes, and I quickly walk over to the board. "Boys against boys and girls against girls?" I ask, "Or a mix?"

"Put it as a mix," Tobias shrugged. I nod, remembering the names and how well they did before writing their names down.

As I finish writing the initiates make their way into the room. Tobias leans against a table, waiting for them, and I stand behind the whiteboard.

"Before we start on what we're doing today, we're going for another run, so following me please, and Six will be at the back again." Tobias said, looking purposefully at Emily as he spoke. She sighed and ran with the rest when she had to. It was about an hour before we were back in the training room again. Tobias had extended the run by about five minutes, but I didn't dare tell the initiates that.

"Today you start fighting. You will be ranked on this. The better you do, the more your rankings will rise, if you lose, your rankings will fall. This should help us to determine who the best out of all of you is. Those of you not fighting will be practicing on punch bags. Lunch will be after the second fight." They all nod, I notice Becca glance at Daniel, and he smiled slightly at her. I held in a laugh, thinking of Will and Christina, and their hidden glances that I sometimes noticed.

Jay - Becca

Alex - Daniel

Jace - Nadia

Athena - Logan

Grace - Emily

Becca groaned, and I gave her an apologetic smile. "Jay and Becca, in the ring. The rest of you to the punch bags, practicing is the only way to improve!" I shout. They do as I asked, and once the rest of the transfers were busy, with Tobias sometimes correcting them, I turn to Jay and Becca. "Your fight will continue till either one of you concedes, or one of you is so injured that you can't continue today. Understand?" I ask, and they nod. "Go."

Becca was into position quicker than Jay, giving her the chance to strike first. She delivered a solid punch to his chin, and his head flew back, so she followed it up with a kick, but rather than dodging it, he grabbed her foot. He seemed to try and lift it, as if to flip her over, but wasn't fast enough, and she twisted her body round as much as she could, hopping slightly as she did so. It only took her a moment to realise how close her foot was to his face, and she immediately kicked out, catching his nose, and causing him to let go of her foot. She stumbled for balance, but quickly regained it, as did he.

"Stop playing with each other. Get a move on and fight!" I say, frustrated. Becca takes a deep breath, and Jay launches a punch towards her, but she grabs his arm, spinning round and holding it at an awkward angle. She followed it, still holding his arm, with a punch to the ribs, causing him to double over, and she kicked him so he fell on his side. Rather than following that to knock him out, as I'd had to do in my initiation, Becca put her foot on his back.

"Concede," she said simply, staring at the back of his head. Slowly he nodded, and Becca removed my foot from his back, sighing with relief.

"Well done Becca," I said, and she smiled.

"Thanks Six." I circled her name on the board to show that she'd won, and then called the next pair up to the ring.

"Alex and Daniel!" Their fight was long, and both were well matched. They were both trying to knock each other out. Alex's nose was bleeding, but he continued fighting, his face slowly turning red from the blood. Eventually he threw Daniel to the floor and kicked his head, and I sighed sadly. I'd hoped he'd lose, but wasn't so lucky. "Well done Alex," I say, not showing how I felt. I circled his name as a winner, and Alex left the ring. "To- FOUR!" I call, I'd almost forgotten all the initiates were around.

He looked round and nodded at me, turning to one of the nearby initiates, "Logan, could you take Daniel to the hospital please?" Logan nodded, jogging to the ring and picking up one of Daniels arms, Nadia got the other, and they dragged him slowly through the compound.

The rest of the initiates disappeared for Lunch, and Tobias and I walked together to go eat as well. We sat with Christina, Will and Uriah, but didn't speak much, just listening to Uriah and Will chatting. It was over far too quick in my opinion though, and soon Tobias and I were heading back to the training room.

Once they were all back, they set to work on the punch bags, and Nadia and Jace had their fight. It didn't take long for Jace to be on the floor. Nadia didn't try to knock him out, so he stood back up and shook hands with Nadia, congratulating her. The last two fights passed slowly for me, but finally they finished, and the overall results for the day were:

Jay – Becca

Alex – Daniel

Jace – Nadia

Athena – Logan

Grace – Emily

It wasn't bad overall.

"Initiates!" Tobias called eventually, and they all gathered round. "Well done to those of you who won. Tomorrow we start at 9am instead of 8. We'll be going to the fence, so make sure you're here on time, or you'll be Factionless. The day after will be the second round of fighting." They nodded, some looking thankful for the day off fighting, others looked like they could carry on all day. "Go spend the rest of your time how you want." Tobias said, and immediately some of them were out of the door. I leave the results on the board, so I don't have to remember them, and head towards Tobias.

"Early finish," I grin, he nods. "Any reason?"

"No, just makes it easier, they can go start recovering before the next round." He smiles down at me and starts taking the punch bags down. "Go put these away for me please?" I nod, and he takes them down as I shift them to the corner.

Once we're done, he takes my hand and we head to his apartment. "So, I er, wanted to ask you something." He looks at me, as if debating it, "Well, a few things actually," he admitted, rubbing his hands on his jeans, a nervous gesture.

"You can ask whatever you want Tobias," I smile. He smiles back gratefully.

"Well, the first is, would you like to go on a date with me in a few days?" I laugh a little.

"Tell me when and where, and I'll be there," I grin, and he smiles back appreciatively.

"The other main, or important, thing, is… This isn't insinuating anything, it's just so I know…" He starts mumbling as he speaks, but I just watch him, intrigued. "How old did you want to be when you get married?" he asked very quickly. My eyes went wide, and Tobias looked away from me. "Sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up…" he mutters. I turn his head to face me, and smile, giving him a gentle kiss.

"Not yet, Tobias. I love you, and everything about my life here with you, but maybe wait a few years, I'm only seventeen anyway," he nods looking down, and I sigh. "I really do love you, Tobias, that's just a step too far for me at the moment." He still doesn't raise his eyes, so instead I decide to jab him in the ribs to see if he reacts. He jolts up, eyes wide.

"BEATRICE! That was cheating!" He fakes glaring at me and I laugh, glad that it was that easy to distract him. "Mean." He says, I lean in and kiss him softly, snaking my arms around his shoulders and feel him relax. "You're welcome to keep doing that, though" he grins as I break apart. I shrug and sit on the sofa; he glares and kneels up in front of me, leaning in to kiss me hard on the mouth. My eyes automatically shut as Tobias guides me slowly back so I'm lying on the sofa. He climbs on top of me, and leans down to kiss me again. We remain like this for a while, and my hands wonder up his shirt, I feel him tense his muscles and laugh into the kiss. One of his hands is holding him up; the other is on my waist, under my shirt. I shiver slightly, and slowly pull back.

"I love you," I smile at him, bringing a hand up and resting it on his cheek. He shuts his eyes and leans into my hand.

"I love you too."