Georgia: Hey everyone, I'm so sorry this is really late and frankly I have no excuse because its not even an interesting chapter really. I'm a really slow writer and just haven't found the time to sit down and write this week, so apologies for that.

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Georgia: *grins* OOOOH, right! Thanks for reminding me. To my anonymous reviewer, do not worry because I am certainly going to continue my story, it just might take a while that's all. But thank you for your review regardless! It's brilliant to know that people are reading and enjoying my little book. So without further ado, the next chapter. *bows*


An evening of rest


"…G…gia.."

"…org…"

"…Geor…"

"…Georgia…"

"Georgia."

I slowly opened my eyes and blinked rapidly as my eyes became accustomed to the lights above me – luckily the lights in the medical rooms were dimmed for exactly this reason. I looked around to see Sally sitting next to me with a tray of food on her lap, while one of her hands rested on my right arm that she had been using to shake me gently and wake me up.

"Mmmm… 'ally?" I tried to speak but failed miserably as I found my mouth as dry as a desert. Super.

"Shh, don't try and speak," she told me gently as she placed the tray on my lap and put the glass of water from it into my hand. I got the hint and started drinking it in small sips – it rehydrates you better than large ones (I'm full of odd little tidbits of information)- as she ducked behind my bed. I suddenly found the top half of my body lifting slowly as I heard the echo of Sally's voice, "the doctor told me to get you to wake up and eat some food."

She reappeared at my bedside moments later, I assume once I was deemed to be sitting upright enough to eat, and ordered me to eat. I looked down at the plate of food with deliberation, because frankly it looked utterly tasteless and I was always wary of hospital food, even if I wasn't in a hospital I wasn't far off one and the food was of the same calibre.

However, I knew I had to eat something to get my strength back, so I sighed in resignation and picked up my knife and fork with a frown. "So what did I miss?" I asked before taking a large mouthful, because I was hungry after all. It was as I suspected, bland but "nutritious" – everybody's favourite kind of meal.

"Well you know what happened with my fight, and Ben's. Ummm… Kyle had to fight Aaron, they were fighting when we got back from bringing you here, which neither of them were very happy about… Well at least Kyle was until he beat Aaron. I can't remember who we missed but I do know that the results were to be expected. After Kyle won we saw Dan beat Beth and that was it. We did a bit of training and then Four dismissed us."

"'ounds 'un," I mumbled through my last mouthful of food – yeah, yeah, I know its bad manners. So sue me. "'ow –ong hav I bin ou'?"

"Out of what?" I rolled my eyes at once again finding another phrase that wasn't understood here as I finally swallowed my food.

"Unconscious," I replied before reaching for my water once more. Damn this dry mouth. "I mean the fact you've got me food probably means its time for dinner right?"

"Yes. You've been here for about, er, six hours I think." She stood up, took the tray from me and took it back down the hall, calling that she would be back quickly as she went.

I took the opportunity to take a look around and see who else got beaten up enough to wind up in here with me. There were fourteen beds in total – seven on each side – and three of them were currently in use. Yours truly was in the middle bed on the right side, an older Dauntless member was on the end of my row closest to the nurse's station, and the final bed a few to my left on the opposite row was occupied by a Dauntless born initiate I vaguely recognised from the other night. But don't ask me to name her because I really couldn't.

Sally reappeared when I had finished looking around and came back to sit next to me once again. We sat there talking for who knows how long, discussing what we thought about the other initiates, how we thought we were doing and anything else we could think of. That was only after Sally had asked me how I was feeling of course.

We were interrupted by two male voices echoing from the hallway, both of us looked over to the door as it opened to reveal Ben and Zeke walking in, deep in conversation. Zeke was animatedly waving his arms around to describe something that Ben looked very excited about. I was about to call out to them when Ben beat me to it.

"Hey Georgia, hey Sally!" He grinned as he walked over to my bed. "Nice to see you're awake at last, how does it feel to be Steve's personal punching bag?"

"Not great, I can assure you." I replied scathingly with a short glare in his direction before it morphed into a slightly evil smirk. "How come you haven't been at my poor sickbed like my bestest, loveliest, dearest friend Sally here?" His grin was quickly wiped from his face as he stumbled for a reply.

"I – well – it – you…"

I let him suffer for a few moments before letting my mischievous grin break through. "I'm just messing with you dude! How was dinner?"

A look of relief passed across his face before he returned the grin and replied, "boring without my two friends, if I'm honest. When do you get out of here so I can get my friend back?"

"Uuuhhhhh…" I looked hopefully at Sally who just shrugged with an apologetic look. "No idea, sorry. Hopefully as soon as freaking possible, I'll probably die of boredom otherwise. I'll bust myself outta here if I have to!"

Sally laughed. "Don't exaggerate. It's not that bad here."

"Yeah, we'll be here to stop you dying!"

"Wait, who's dying?" Zeke called out from across the room. "Georgia is dying? YES!" He fist-pumped with a grin before morphing into a fake upset display with a tone and pout to match. "I mean, oh dear. What a shame."

I snorted, "yeah, sure, you are sooo upset." My sarcastic quip was met by a grin from him before he went back to his conversation with his friend. "Hey! Zeke!" I called over to him, "who'd you get beaten up by today?"

"How dare you!" He said overdramatically, "I would never be beaten up. How dare you suggest such a thing!"

"I wouldn't get arrogant if I were you Zeke. There are better fighters than you here who I'm sure would love to put you in your place." Zeke's friend was grinning at him while the teen in question was glaring at Ben, but before he could get a word in to defend himself (and more importantly his pride) the injured girl joined in the teasing.

"You'd better watch your step Zeke, you wouldn't want to loose to a transfer…" She let her sentence trail off with a large grin while the three of us transfers laughed our heads off at her teasing.

"What's going on out here?" a stern female voice shouted from the other end of the room. Our grins were quickly wiped off our faces at the sight of the stern looking black haired woman with a piercing glare standing outside the office door with her hands firmly on her hips. The head nurse. "What's all this racket?"

"We were just cheering up Shauna and Georgia, Mrs Raiden. Don't worry about it, Sally already brought them their food."

"Ah. Ezekiel Pedrad. I should have known it was you causing trouble out here. Is your younger brother here to leave mayhem in his wake too?" She moved to crossing her arms as she scanned the almost empty room for Uriah. Who knows why, it was fairly obvious he wasn't here…

"No, just me today I'm afraid."

"Humph. Good." She uncrossed her arms and looked pointedly at us, "remember that you aren't the only ones recovering in here." She nodded in the direction of the older male in the bed next to her then swiftly spun on her heels to retreat back into her room.

"Known for causing trouble are you, Ezekiel?" Ben smirked.

Zeke rolled his eyes at Ben's poor attempt at a jab over his name before laughing as reminiscing smile graced his lips. "Ha. Yeah, my brother and I were in here frequently when we were children. We got into all kinds of mischief and might have been a bit disruptive when we ended up in here, which was pretty much every week for two months a few years ago."

"So they knew you very well in here then, and to keep a close eye on you when you did come," Sally commented with an amused smile. I was beginning to wonder if she had somehow fallen asleep in the uncomfortable chair next to me she was quiet for so long. But then the fact I just said it was an uncomfortable chair probably negates that particular option, so I'm not quite sure why I thought that.

"Well I wouldn't say that…" he replied smoothly, "but they do know us, yeah."

"Hey! Hey! Woah, woah. Wait a second." I glared accusingly at Zeke, "you never told us who beat you up today!"

"That would be because he didn't get beaten up today, he beat me up."

"Oh." I shrugged in my head, 'well that explains why he is visiting her.'

"Aww, and I was so looking forward to teasing you about loosing." Ben pouted at the happily grinning Zeke over missing out on great teasing material, and I sympathised because I wanted to do exactly the same thing.

"Don't tease him," Sally interjected, "or I'll start teasing you about all of your losses to show you what it's like. Especially all the really embarrassing bits." Ben looked shamefaced under Sally's judging stare, although as someone who was very much like Ben I wasn't sure if it was actually sincere or not…

Zeke, on the other hand, just laughed at the pair of them. "Don't worry about it Sally, I would have done exactly the same thing in his position."

"I second that," I said raising my hand with a grin for emphasis. Ben turned around to face me, mirroring my expression, to high-five my raised hand. "Sorry Sally, you tried to do the right thing here." I shot her an apologetic look.

She just sighed and shook her head despondently at us. "Children. You are all children…" she muttered so only I could really hear her.

"You love us anyway, don't you?" I lightly punched her shoulder as I continued, "and don't you dare try and deny it. We are too adorable." We all shot her award winning innocent smiles at the end of my little speech.

Apparently we weren't even slightly fooling or amusing her because she stuck her tongue out at us before getting up and walking away.

"Hey, where are you going?" Zeke asked her retreating form.

"To ask how long these two jokesters have to stay here, seeing as she likes me, unlike some people," she called over her shoulder without breaking stride.

"Cough, Zeke, cough," I said quickly behind a closed fist. But then shouted my thanks at Sally because I really was grateful, which was echoed by . . . Shauna, was it? Yeah, Shauna.

As Sally entered Mrs Raiden's office (how do I remember her name so easily?!) the room fell into, what I would call a "slightly awkward" silence. I looked between everyone repeatedly, hoping someone, anyone, would speak about just about anything, but alas nothing changed. I smiled slightly as a thought passed through my head of something my little brother often did in situations such as these, and put one hand on top of the other – interlocking fingers – while moving my thumbs in small circles each side of my hands.

Zeke was the first to notice my action and so asked what exactly I was doing. "Awkward turtle," I responded without stopping as the other two followed his gaze to see my strange gesture.

"What the…" Ben scrunched his face up in a mixture of confusion and curiosity.

I laughed before releasing my hands to explain to them that the awkward turtle was a gesture used when there is an extended and slightly uncomfortable silence. When both you and nobody else can find something to start a conversation about you make the awkward turtle and more often than not the conversation picks up again.

"So how do you do it?" Zeke asked with a genuinely curious tone.

"OK. So, you put one hand out palm down and spread your fingers out wide. Then put your other hand on top facing the same way and link your fingers together to make a kind of fist, but leave your thumbs free. Now poke them out to the sides and rotate them in circular motions and there you have the awkward turtle," I explained while demonstrating the movements to them all as I went. "Fairly simple."

I was of course at that moment Sally decided to re-join us to exclaim, "what are you all doing?" She was clearly worried about our sanity as we simultaneously burst into fits of laughter at her perplexed expression looking at each of us repeatedly to try and understand our actions. "Seriously, are you feeling all right? Did you all hit your heads or something?"

"We're fine Sally, don't worry," I managed to somehow say between my laughter. Ben had doubled over he was laughing so hard and my face hurt from grinning so much. After a minute or so we managed to stop laughing and breathe normally again, or at least normally enough to speak once again. Ben of course had to ruin that though.

"Sally, you were looking at us like we had lost our minds!" He snickered once again, which soon led the rest of us to follow suit with our own bouts of chuckling that descended once again into wild hilarity as we kept catching each other's gaze every time we started to regain our composure. I was curled up in a ball due to my stomach hurting from laughing so hard – all my other injuries temporarily forgotten in the merriment – and Zeke was quite literally ROFLing at the foot of Shauna's bed. I couldn't see Ben or Shauna from my position, but I could definitely hear their laughter mixed in the noise.

It was a long time before all of us had completely stopped chortling, every time it died down one of us would obviously look at another, as you do, but they would start up again uncontrollably and the rest of us would follow suit. It was infectious, only Sally remained silent in her seat next to me – well other than the guy at the end of the room, he doesn't count though – but even she smiled slightly at the sight of us.

"Honestly, I think you might have," Sally informed us dryly once silence finally fell, only to follow up by sighing and reluctantly agreeing with my earlier comment. "Georgia was right though; I wouldn't have you any other way."

I snorted at that. "Okay, too much sappiness right there, tone it down a bit would ya."

"I'm only repeating what you said earlier," was her sly retort aimed at me with a raised eyebrow. Not that I blame her for it because it was true, I was being a bit hypocritical there but there is only so much sappiness I can take before it becomes too much. I'm a non-sappy kinda girl.

I opened my mouth to reply when the door that Sally had exited only moments earlier reopened forcefully and the form of our resident grouchy nurse appeared once again. With a frown creasing her features it was clear she was less than pleased with us. "What are you all still doing here? They need to rest if they want me to allow them to be released in time for Visiting Day." With that said she closed the door once again to leave us in silence.

"I guess that's our cue to leave you two alone then." I looked over to see Zeke hugging Shauna goodbye, "I'll come see you tomorrow, hope you feel better in time to see your family. You too Georgia," he finished looking over at me, flashing me a quick smile.

"Yeah we'll see you tomorrow, feel better," Ben walked over to my bedside to give me a quick hug. Once he was finished Sally stood up from her chair and did the same, reminding me to rest so I healed properly.

"Thanks for coming to visit guys, it means a lot. I'm really glad you are my friends," I told them with a sincere smile. Yeah, I can do sappy too sometimes, but I was honestly grateful for their friendship and I wanted them to know before I was whisked off somewhere else. I didn't know when that would be so I felt that it was a good time to tell them as they visited me on my sickbed.

"We're glad you're our friend too Georgia," Sally gave me a bright smile while Ben and Zeke merely nodded, each sporting smaller smiles of their own. Zeke decided to add in a little eye roll as well, but he was still smiling so I assumed it was a good natured gesture in answer to our sappiness – I do the same a lot so know the motion well. "Come on guys, lets go. Bye you two, sleep well."

With that the trio left us in peace with smiles and waves as the walked out. Shauna and I shared a smile briefly before bidding each other goodnight. She seemed to be really nice, I couldn't really remember her from the books and only recognised her name. It had been a while since I had read the books, and although I had seen the films more recently you tended not to notice much other than the main characters. That makes a lot of sense though if you think about it, after all they are trying to cram an entire book into ninety minutes of film and that's no easy feat – especially as film is limiting as to what can be conveyed to its audience.

As I went to settle down to nod off I realised something, my bed was still in an upright position that although allowed me to sit up easily, prevented me from being able to lie down comfortably enough to sleep. I let out a frustrated sigh as I threw my covers off and clambered out of bed, now I had to figure out how the heck to get the bed flat again. I ducked down where Sally had been fiddling with my bed and found a control panel attached to my bed, I scanned the buttons to find one that looked like it would raise my bed. I pressed a couple of buttons before finding the one I wanted and hopped back into bed once it was flat. Snuggling down I pulled the covers tightly over me and settled down for a good nights sleep, hoping I would be out of here the next day.

Georgia: So yeah... I did warn you it would be not very action packed this week. I just needed to get something posted for you guys to read, so while I intended for this to only be half a chapter it ended up being the entire thing... I promise you that things start happening soon, so don't you worry. Until next time, cheerio!