A/N A new chapter as promised. And there shall be more soon I assure you.

Happy reading 3

After about an hour in the training room Lily had finally calmed down, and headed back to the dorms. When she got there she was surprised to find everyone still awake, and when she looked at the clock she realized it was only 9:30. She spotted Luther, talking to Maya, and went to join them.

"Hey, you're back." Luther smiled, "Maya and I were just talking strategy. We figured we'd probably start fighting right away, so we were putting our people skills to use, sizing up the competition."

"Why is it just you two, and not anyone else?" Lily asked. "It seemed kind of mean to leave everyone else out, if everyone got together and talked we could probably find a way for us to all get in."

"You just don't get it do you?" Maya asked, although Lily didn't think she really wanted an answer.

"Maya, I got this," Luther put his arm around Lily's shoulders, "look around, Lily, we are the underdogs here. Maya is barely 4'11", I have the body structure of a bean sprout, and you have never fought a day in your life. Now look at everyone else, they are big and tall and strong. They are not interested in helping us because they already know they can make it through, and the worse we are, the better their chances. All we have over them is brainpower, and we need to make it work for us."

"Oh, that's a pretty good point." Lily was finally starting to realize just how grim this looked. There were six other initiate transfers, two from Erudite and four from Candor. Four of them were boys, all beefy and muscular. Lily actually got a good look at just how strong they all were, because at the moment they were standing around comparing muscle sizes. One of them, the boy from Erudite, was nearly six feet tall, and could probably lift Lily with one arm.

The two girls, one from Erudite and one from Candor, looked slightly less formidable. The Erudite girl looked strong, but she was shorter than Lily, and kept looking shiftily at the boys, like they were going to attack her at any moment. The Candor girl was probably the closest match to Lily, body-wise, she was tall and thin. But her spiked black hair, pierced ears and face made her look Dauntless already.

"Why do they all look so scary?" She whispered, "Some of them already have tattoos and piercings, and they're all huge!"

"Now do you understand?" Maya sighed, "These are people who joined Dauntless because they want to hurt people and live with as few rules as possible. So we've been trying to spot their weaknesses based on what we know about them."

"Ok, so what do we know?"

"Well," Luther said, "Jason is big, but he has really low pain tolerance. I learned that last year."

"Then there's Owen," Maya continued, pointing to the Erudite boy, "Huge but slow, and he tires easily. I saw him climbing the stairs at dinner and he was winded halfway up the first flight. If you can dodge him 'till he's tired, then you can beat him."

"Next there's Blair, the Candor girl, she can barely see out her right eye. Maya figured that out earlier."

Across the room a Candor boy banged his head on his bunk and then punched Owen when he laughed.

"That one's Rod," Luther chuckled, "clumsy as a bull, but with twice the anger issues."

"What about the other two?" Lily asked.

"We haven't figured them out yet." Luther sighed.

"Oh, okay then." Lily frowned, "Well then I guess we just need to hope none of us gets paired with them tomorrow. If we can watch them fight then we can figure out their style."

"Speaking of fighting style," Maya said, "are you like some kind of psychopath or something?"

Lily stared at her, "I'm pretty sure that question has nothing to do with fighting style..."

"I mean, you transferred from Amity. Normally Amity/Dauntless transfers are easy to spot, but you weren't. Even now you're still acting like an Amity. You're either a master manipulator or/and a complete idiot for being here. So which is it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Amities are pacifists, obviously you are not, so how did you keep it so secret? I mean, even Gideon didn't know."

"That's because I'm not hiding anything. I am a pacifist."

Luther shook his head at her.

Lily heard a sharp cruel laugh behind her, and turned to see the other two girls walking towards them.

"A pacifist?" the strong one, Veronica, mocked, "So what are you going to do, hug us all into surrender?"

Blair laughed and smiled at Veronica.

"No," Lily said, "I'm just not going to fight more than I have to."

"Awww, isn't that sweet," Veronica bent down and pinched Lily's cheek. Lily flinched but didn't pull away. "And maybe they'll let you use a water gun instead of a real one. You wouldn't want to accidentally hurt the bad guys, would you?"

She spoke with the same tone Lily used to talk to her 2-year old neighbor, only meaner.

"No, that would be ridiculous..." she whispered.

"Yeah, almost as ridiculous as you being here in the first place, though I have to hand it to you, you take war horse to a whole new level."

Lily's jaw tightened and she bit her tongue. As Veronica and Blair walked away Luther whispered, "Don't just let them walk away, this is your shot."

Lily stood, puffing out her chest and said, "I wouldn't underestimate me if I were you."

Her voice came out smaller than she had expected it to, it was barely a squeak, but Veronica still heard. She turned and laughed again.

"Underestimate you? And how, exactly, is that possible when you have nothing going for you? Every odd is against you right now. I don't need to make any judgments about you. I just need to sit back and watch you fail."

Veronica and Blair cackled as they disappeared through the shower doors, leaving Lily stunned.

Luther reached up and rested his hand on her shoulder, "Hey, Hun, don't be upset, 'kay?"

"Why would I be upset?" Lily smiled, "I just figured out Veronica's weakness."