Happy Easter everyone! Some of you are having it tomorrow and some today (or yesterday depending on when you read it) so have a good holiday and here is an Easter present from me. I thought last chapter may have been a little dark and the last couple chapters may have had some dark moments so here are some light moments. Also we get some insight on Eric's story but not too much, or a lot idk.

My lungs burned for air but I kept myself at the bottom of the pool. Eric's burns and what he said was still in my head. I opened my eyes in the dark water then pushed myself up to the surface. Suck in the air and let out a couple of coughs because I took some water in. I swam to the edge of the pool and pulled myself over. I lay back on the stone floor and kept my legs in the water. With my mom being a medic and me helping her so often I knew injuries not many but I knew a few. I knew burns and injuries from the farming equipment. I knew the degrees of the burns and how fatal an injury would be from the equipment. I knew if someone was going to lose an arm by looking at it or who will have scars the rest of their lives. As far as I could tell Eric's burn was a second degree burn. Of course for all I knew it could have been just a fire and nobody did it to him. Would I even try asking? My hand found the place that his hand had been just that morning. I could still feel the warmth and dryness of his hand. I could feel the clauses of hard work either from exercising or anything Dauntless worthy. Eric was right though it was going to be hard for me to be Dauntless if just someone touching me was going to cause them a win. I hated my fear of touch; it caused me to not experience many things that my sister had. Friends had been one of those things for a long time. I was so surprised that my friends hadn't ditched me yet but of course I was Dauntless and so were they. Everyone back in Amity was indeed Amity and I was too wild for them. They were all for happiness yet they were against the things that made me happy. I decided to go back to the dorms it had to be about dinner time now. I stood up and changed out of my wet underwear and put on my dry cloths. I pulled on my tank top and jeans ending with my jacket. I slid out of the room and jogged all the way down to the mess hall with my boots socks in my hand. I got into the mess hall and sat down next to Will and Al.

"Where were you?" Abby asked me.

"Exploring." Abby nodded and went back to her piece of chicken.

"Find anything interesting?" Christina asked.

"Not really."

"Then why are you soaked?" Will asked me.

"I just got out of the shower. I figured since everyone was here I could get some alone time." I lied, I figured I would either tell Abby or Will about my private spot one of these days but right now I needed it to be private. I gathered up some food and started chowing down.

"So what did grouchy ass talk to you about earlier?" Abby asked. Everyone started laughing.

"Do you mean Eric?" I laughed.

"Who else would be grouchy ass?" she asked.

"Four" Tris told her.

"Okay then Grouchy Ass is Four then what should we called Eric?"

"Giant Prick," Christina said with her mouth full of food.

"Or small prick given what Zed's said about him," Al added.

"Wait didn't you say you were wrong though?" Will asked.

"Oh no, I'm not going to say something only to have Eric walk up behind me and give me a look again." I told them "I'm not doing it I am so on to you guys!"

"Zed he's way over there." I looked over and there was Eric eating by himself. I felt a pang of guilt in my stomach when I noticed the burns made it all the way to under his sleeves. My hand reached up to my short hair and messed with the hair back there.

"You okay?" Will asked me. I looked up at him and put my hand down.

"Yeah why?"

"You were messing with your hair," Abby noted. "You only mess with your hair when you're nervous feel guilty or really thinking over something." I looked back at Eric and asked them.

"Do you guys wonder how he got those burns of his back?" I asked them.

"I thought he had a tattoo on his back?" Christina said and looked over at Eric.

"No I've seen them too they're being covered up by the tattoo." Will told her.

"He probably did something Dauntless like," Al said and took a drink of his water. I looked over at Tris and she was watching him too.

"Maybe it has something to do with his time back in Erudite." She said.

"I thought he would have been Dauntless born." Abby said as she leaned forward against the table.

"He's that Eric!" Will said out of surprise. Will was staring at Eric now with his jaw dropped.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"His mother Pema Williams is one of the best scientists in Erudite!" he told us. "She finished first in her initiation year all with a new born son as well!" Will seemed absolutely amazed and awestruck now. "Everyone thought he was going to be just like her until he transferred." We all looked at Eric now.

"Do you know how he got the burns?" I asked him Will shook his head.

"All I know is that they found him one day when he was fourteen just outside of the factionless territory." Will looked over at Tris then "How did you know he was Erudite?" he asked Tris.

"Four said something about it on choosing day." she told us. I looked back at Eric as he stood up from his table. His mother was sixteen when she had him, I couldn't imagine having to deal both with initiation and a baby at the same time.

"Well I'll see you guys later," Abby said as she got up.

"Where are you going?" Christina asked her and raised an eyebrow at her. Abby blushed and smiled a bit. I knew that look all too well.

"I'm going on a date."

"Is it that Dauntless born guy? Taylor?" Al asked.

"His name is Trevor and yes I'm going on a date with him." I rolled my eyes.

"Don't forget to wear a condom," Christina teased.

"Like Abnegation, Amity doesn't believe in sex before marriage." Will stated.

"THANK YOU!" both me and Abby yelled at the same time.

"You won't believe how many times we've heard that were all about orgies there!" Abby said out of announce.

"I've nearly stabbed people in the eye for saying things like that. And that's when I was still in Amity." I added.

"You and me both." Abby shook her head. "Well catch up with you guys later," she walked away and Christina kept the conversation going.

"I knew the orgy thing probably wasn't real but I didn't know about the 'no sex before marriage thing'."

"Amity doesn't correct people because they believe it would start a confrontation." Christina shook her head.

"If it was the truth you should have said something." She told me.

"It would have started an argument and Amity is all against it." I told her.

"You, avoiding an argument? that's rich."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Please you're more Candor than I am at times. Especially, when it comes to Eric!"

"This is why Candor and Amity never get along."

"Ah but we're in neither right now are we?" I rolled my eyes and started laughing.

"That is true." Christina snorted and grabbed a roll and threw it at me. I flinched and it hit me in the shoulder.

"come on Amity worked hard to make those," I protested.

"I'm Dauntless what do I care?" she smiled. I rolled my eyes then threw the same roll at her hitting her in the collar bone. She scooped her hand into the mashed potatoes and flung them at me. The mashed potatoes splattered all over to me and Will and Al. Tris started laughing then Al through some peas at her but missed completely and hit a blonde Dauntless born girl. She looked away from the angry girl I ran into yesterday. The two girls looked at each other and the angry girl; Lynn? smiled wickedly, both the girls shot up scooping hand fulls of food and both yelled.

"FOOD FIGHT!" suddenly food started flying through the air left and right. I could feel my old faction cringing right now about how all this food that they and I had worked so hard to harvest. but the Dauntless in me didn't give a rat's ass anymore. I grabbed hand fulls of mashed potatoes and threw them at Lynn; it hit her in the face so she grabbed peas and threw at me. Tris threw a roll at Christina hitting her in the stomach. Chris at the same time chucked some macaroni and cheese at Will. Food was flying through the air to the point nobody knew who was throwing what at whom. I was laughing hard and at the moment didn't care how much my ribs were killing me. I looked around and was surprised to see who was actually having fun at the moment. Four was covered in pudding mash potatoes and was throwing some food at a couple of friends. Even a few leaders that looked more serious than anything were getting coated and throwing food as well. Peter had a stupid grin on his face as I saw him throwing chicken without bones (I guess peter had limits on his assholeness). I looked towards the entrance and saw Eric just standing there and… he just looked too clean. I grabbed a hand full of mashed potatoes that had a mixture of carrots and peas and a snuck along the wall. I watched him to see if he saw me at all. Eric stood there like he was waiting out our childish behavior. But what the one thing I did learn from Amity is that joy should be shared with everyone. So when I was close enough and he least expected it I chucked the food at him. It hit him directly in the chest; he backed away fast and looked down at his black shirt that was now stained. He looked up and around till his eyes landed on me. My blood ran cold as he gave me a death glare. I was too focused on his glare to not realize that he was now throwing vanilla pudding at my face. I screeched and grabbed a piece of cake and threw it at him. He ducked but it hit him in the side of the head. I wiped some of the pudding out of my eyes and saw he was grinning now. It wasn't one of his cocky or cruel smirks but a genuine smile and goofy looking. It was weird to see his face lighten up and he actually looked like a nice guy. Of course everyone including him took that opportunity to throw food at me. I screeched again covering my head and my new piercings. I ducked under a table and grabbed some food into my hand and waited for a couple seconds. As soon as Will came into my view I jumped up and chucked it at him hitting him in the forehead. As it did food it the back of my head. I whirled around to see peter laughing and then get food thrown at him by Eric. I started laughing again just as Molly threw food at Eric. I didn't remember how long it had been since I had this much fun. I grabbed some peas as soon as Four came into view and was descending on Tris. I threw that food at him just as Tris turned around. I watched two guys one Four was throwing food at earlier and one that looked like his brother. The brothers jumped onto a table and were throwing food at people left to right.

"Abby is so going to wish she didn't miss out on this," Will said while laughing. I laughed and looked at the room on the plat form was a single leader who hadn't been in the fight, Max. He was observing everyone with a half-smile on his face.

"Zed! Will!" Al yelled we looked over just as Tris, himself, and Christina throw tons of food at us. I grabbed his sleeve and pulled him behind a wall just as the food hit where we were once standing.

"Thanks," he half smiled.

"What are friends for?" I shrugged. Will held out his fist and I bumped it with mine. I ran out behind the wall and grabbed a hand full of food and chucked it at Molly. She squealed as it hit her hair and threw food at me. It hit me in the ribs and I winced a bit. It wasn't bad but it still stung. I looked round again to my friends. Will was throwing food at Christina while Tris was throwing food at one of the brothers. Four was teamed up with the older looking brother and they were using tactics in their fight. Al Had moved off to the side and was cleaning off his face. I looked around and I suddenly realized I couldn't see Eric.

"Twin One!" I spun around and a pan full of whipped creamed was smashed into my face. The pan dropped to the floor leaving all of the cream on my face. I heard the sound of laughter and I wiped the cream away. I looked at Eric who was bent over laughing his ass off. I scooped some of the cream off my face and flung it at him.

"Alright!" everyone stopped and looked to Max. "I hate to be the one to ruin your fun but initiates your curfew is in ten minutes. I don't care what the rest of you do but it's best that the initiates call it a night." All of us initiates groaned and started to leave the mess hall. I wiped more off the cream off of my face and started out.

"Zed," I stopped as Eric said my name. I turned to him and he just nodded. "You have good aim. And if you get me into something like this again."

"I'll be factionless I know." Eric just nodded and walked away. I know he tried to kill me just yesterday but it was great to not care at the moment. For the first time in Dauntless since when the initiates were picked up I felt like I belonged here. I wore a bright smile as I jogged down to catch up with my friends. When I got there Al knelt down and let me climb on his back giving me a piggy back ride. Will did wrapped an arm around Christina and Tris walked with her hands in her pocket, all of us had large grins on our faces.

"What did the Giant Prick want?" Chris asked.

"All he said was I had good aim."

"That's it?" Tris asked

"Well he threatened to kick me out of dauntless again but I don't think he was serious this only time." I told them.

"Don't get used to it." Al told me as he adjusted me on his back.

"Not going too." We got back into the dorms and we found Abby with Trevor on her cot. They were close and talking. Trevor looked up at us and scowled.

"What happened to you guys?" he asked. Abby looked up at us and her jaw dropped.

"You guys just missed the most Epic food fight ever!" Christina said as she started stripping out of her food coated cloths.

"It couldn't have been that good," Trevor commented.

"most of the leaders were throwing food too." Al told him as he dropped me.

"yeah but Eric and Max defiantly weren't because they are to above that sort of thing. Especially Eric." I snorted causing him to look at me. "Eric was throwing food?" I pointed at my whip cream covered face.

"Eric's handy work. Plus most of this food" I pointed at my front.

"how did he get into it?" Trevor asked.

"Zed threw food at him first," Will told him as he was kicking off his boot and pulling off his shirt.

"nark!" I took one of my dirty towels and whipped off my face.

"wow I'm kind of sorry I missed out on all of the fun." I looked at abby and I realized something I hadn't noticed.

"did you get a haircut?" I looked at her hair and it was a paler blond and one side of her head was shaved and all the rest of her hair was on the right side of her head. and her hair now went to her chin instead of her mid-back. She now had a tattoo on her that started at her right wrist wrapped around her neck and ended at her left side of her jaw.

"yeah what do you think?" she asked me. My sister actually looked like she belonged here now.

"You look good," I told her. Abby smiled, Trevor cleared his throat and stood up.

"Well I guess it's time for me to leave." Abby stood up with him.

"Can I walk you out?" Abby was blushing hard with a soft smile. Trevor smiled at her and held a hand out to her.

"Sure." Abby took his hand and started walking out of the dorm room with him. I looked at our friends then my sister. As soon as they were out the door the five of us rushed to the door and peaked out side. Abby was smiling and still blushing.

"You know I wasn't expecting you to get a haircut" He told her. Abby shrugged

"I'm going to be dauntless so why not look the part?"

"you don't have to look it. I thought you looked fine just the way you were the day you jumped off the train." I rolled my eyes but I could tell he was genuine. Normally I could tell when guys were just feeding my sister lines but this time he wasn't. Abby blushed and looked down at her hands. She was picking at her nails something she would do when she's nervous. Abby looked back up and spoke.

"can I kiss you?" in amity we were taught to ask to kiss but it was supposed to be the guys asking. Abby was defiantly pulling on her big girl dauntless pants. Trevor blushed this time and bit the corner of his lip at the same time.

"Get to your dorms!" Eric yelled. I rolled my eyes as he came walking down. Trevor looked back at Abby and nodded. Abby pressed her lips to his in a quick kiss. When they pulled apart both were blushing hard. "now initiates." The two separated and abby started heading back for the door.

"Shit!" Tris said and the five of us ran off into different corners of the room. I ran to the showers while Will and AL started talking over at their bunks. Christina and Tris were grabbing things like they were on their way to the showers. I stripped off my cloths and jumped under the water.

"Looks like the softie likes going commando!" Peter called out. I rolled my eyes and started washing the pool water and food off my skin. Abby came into the shower and stood next to me. She was still blushing and smiling but now she was humming. I rolled my eyes but I nudged her with my shoulder.

"Did you guys enjoy the show?" she asked me as she poured some shampoo into her hand.

"I'm surprised that you actually asked him the stuff guys usually ask you," I told her. Abby shrugged and smiled.

"I like the roles reversed" I stared at my sister and thought for a moment. Maybe traits could be learned from the different factions. I know that I'll always have amity in me but I'll also have Dauntless. Abby was only Erudite, Abnegation, and Amity; so could she learn how to be dauntless or since dad was is it already in her? Once we were done showering we got ready for bed and crawled into our cots.

"Zed?" I looked up at my sister and she was sitting on her bed smiling. "Thank you." My eyebrows pulled together in confusion.

"For what?"

"Telling me you were dauntless and saying you would stick with me." she told me. "being in Dauntless has been some of the best days in my life. It's been hard and I miss our family but I'm glad we got to stay in the same faction." I smiled and I sat on her cot next to her. "I think I'm going to be alright here." She told me. I smiled and I hugged my sister.

"I think you are too Abs," I whispered to her. I pulled away from her and rubbed her arms. "your changing a lot." Abby shrugged.

"You are too," she told me.

"How?" I asked her.

"You came in on the back of Al one of our friends." She smiled "you never had friends back in Amity" I looked behind us to see our friends getting into bed or getting ready for it. I smiled as Will and Al looked at us.

"Are you two talking shit about us?" Al called.

"Only about your horrendous order Al," I teased. Will started laughing and Al shoved him slightly.

"good night guys." Both Abby and I said at the same time.

"night," Will said.

"good night Zed Abby." Al said and pulled his blanket on his shoulder. Once everyone was in bed the light went out. I smiled and stared at the ceiling. Today may have been shitty but it ended on a high note. My sister felt like she belonged here we have friends. Hell I even forgot for a while that Eric tried to kill me or whatever he thinks he was doing. I rolled onto my stomach and closed my eyes.

I hope I have more days like this.

Food fight scene was written while listening to Immortals by Fall Out Boy. short sorry but I hope it put a smile on your guy's faces. :)