Chapter Fourteen
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So there's a plot twist... in the middle. Enjoyyy!
Tris's POV:
I lay awake in my queen-sized bed, that has Chris in it and the other girls are either on my floor or, in Celynn's case, on my couch/bed. Last night was truly one of the funniest nights I had. I am pretty sure Uriah saw pink fluffy unicorns... and there were rainbows and dancing included. On the other hand, that may have just been his imagination running wild.
I stumble out to the kitchen and make a cappuccino. Some paperwork catches my eye and I see that I forgot to lock my study room after grabbing the stash of pillows I kept in there for the girls. I shuffle into the room, inspect the paperwork and the realisation hits me full force.
Erudite are planning to make Dauntless members into mindless drones for two reasons. Attack Abnegation and see which members of Dauntless are Divergent. I groan. Jeanine trusted me with bits of her work, and other bits to Uriah and Max, Ethan, Nikolai, and some over in Erudite. No doubt, Caleb. She has not told anyone the full plan so if one of us are discovered, her scheme is not fully affected. There's also a sphere that if spoken to by a strong Divergent, the truth of what's beyond the fence will be revealed. Jeanine is scouring for this person and the sphere. Someone has it in his or her possession and we do not know whom.
"Tris?" I spin to see Marlene staring at the papers over my shoulder.
"Oh hey, Mar...," I greet nervously. I was so focused in my musings, I didn't hear her approach me!
"What's this about a war?" I groan again and gesture for her to shut the door. She obliges and sits in the chair next to me.
"Jeanine is planning to inject all of us with a serum that she has worked on. Divergents are apparently a threat and she wants to pick them out from here while we're mindless and also attack Abnegation. The Sphere is hidden amongst the Abnegation. Apparently." Marlene nods along to my words. All of the information spills from my mouth.
"I know you're not Divergent and you may hate them but they're just more advanced in the mind I guess? They're able to fit in more than one category. They can be selfless but brave at the same time. Kind but honest. Smart but brave, etcetera."
"I get it. So Jeanine is planning to wipe out a group of people that are able to function differently but they're harmless. Also someone has this Sphere that has the deets on what's beyond that fence. Can't she use that brain and try to cooperate with the other leaders?"
"She suspects the person with the Sphere won't give the information up easily and since Divergents seem to be hidden in that faction or the factionless, the owner of the Sphere is most likely to be one."
"What are you going to do?"
"I can't just storm into Erudite. The Abnegation may not believe me. Plus, I don't know the entire plan. She might be doing this to overthrow the council, rule the entire place or something. She is a manipulative b*tch so if we call her out, she could lie right there on the spot. She is Erudite."
"Truth serum," Marlene blurts.
"We'd have to tell Jack. However, Max may be on in this. Everything I plan to do will have to go through Max but I can't risk that."
"We have to get the gang in on this."
"I don't know."
"What if some of them are Divergent?" I hesitate, knowing she is right.
"Uriah is," she reminds me.
"How do you know that?"
"He told me. He went through his fears one day and I caught him doing some witchcraft. Well, at the time, I thought it was witchcraft. I mean, he has run out of cake then the next thing you know, he is taking one out of the oven! Freshly baked!" I laugh and shake my head.
"Do you really want to sacrifice Uriah? Or someone else in our friendship circle?"
"No." My thoughts are wandering to Tobias as well. God, it's only been a month or so, but I already feel as if he was the missing part of my life.
"Plus, from I'm reading, they are sending crates of them sometimes next month and we could use Zeke's computer skills to spy on them and whatever. See who is involved fully. Then somehow get to Candor and interrogate them."
"I like your thinking."
"My mum was Erudite." I nod, remembering Maddy Connors's file.
"We have to arrange some group meeting. It can't be today or tomorrow."
"Why not?"
"I'm busy tonight, for some paperwork. And tomorrow night, I'm required in Abnegation." I shudder internally.
"Okay. Is there any way we can get to Jack Kang?" I think hard.
"Four has a sister in Candor! I overheard her saying she will be his assistant. I'll send Four over with two or three of you guys."
"Great. We discuss this with everyone in three days' time." Marlene concludes. I finish my cappuccino and we both slip out of the room, thankful the girls were still hungover. I shrug and play a song on my speakers, at low volume of course. Celynn fall off the couch/bed and scream, clutching their heads. Chris launches herself from my room and punches my stereo.
"Gawd, it was like a marching band in my head," Shauna whispers, leaning on my doorframe.
"Morning to you too. There is four glasses of water and four Advil pills on the kitchen table. You have at least an hour or so to get to your job briefings on time. Then you get your phones." The girls sprint to the kitchen and grab the glasses of water. Marlene slips out of the bathroom as she showered quickly, knowing her time was limited. Chris dashes into the bathroom, shoving Celynn and Shauna out of her way. I chuckle and begin frying bacon and eggs, while smirking to myself, thinking about the boys' wake up call.
So that's the females! Let us head over to the males... What was the wakeup call?
Zeke's POV: (Lani, I managed it! Whoop!)
An alarm drags me out of my sleep and my head is pounding. I punch aimlessly, attempting to shut the blaring machine off. It's right next to my head and somewhere in my punches, I punch Four awake and he groans. Wait, how did he sleep through the alarm? I grab hold of it, throw across the room and beam internally at the smashing sound. I realise I passed out on the floor, turn to my side, feel a note crinkle under my torso. I roll back and pluck it up, squinting.
Hi! Knew you would hear the alarm and probably smash it or whatever, lol. Job briefings are in an hour so tell Tobias and Will, get ready. And they get their phones too.
One AKA Tris :)
P.S. I did this during the night, thanks to the spare key I snagged off Mar! X
I grunt, roll towards onto Will who had woken up and he growls in annoyance. Uriah falls out of his bedroom.
"Why the hell was there an alarm? Playing Peanut Butter Jelly Time?"
"Tris. Will and Four have about an hour to before their job briefings. New phones are handed out today too." Four shoots up into a sitting position but without clutching his head at the fast motion. Who knew the Stiff would get drunk? A pillow is chucked at my head and I send a 'what' look.
"You spoke out loud, idiot," he whisper-shouts. I grin and he shakes his head.
"Oh hey look, there's glasses of water with pills!" Uriah tells us as he walks into the kitchen. I push myself up off the floor, jump over the couch, using a hard surface to boost my jump, slide on the kitchen tiles, grab the glass and pill while sliding and down them both.
"Really? You just had to use my chest as your springboard?"
"Oh, is that what it was? I'm sorry, Four. Wow, the girls were right. It's hard as a rock." Uriah chuckles during a gulp of water so we are sprayed by his watered-saliva.
"Uriah!" Will whines. Four rolls his eyes and wipes himself with a tablecloth.
"Do you have any tops I can borrow for today?"
"Yeah, sure. First drawer of my dresser." Uriah tells Four.
"Thanks." Four walks into his room.
"This drawer is filled to the brim with condoms!" Four yells.
"Oh, second drawer!" Uriah shouts back. I clutch my head, the headache not quite vanished yet.
"Why do you have girl underwear?" Four asks.
"Third drawer!" I groan and sit down on a barstool.
"Ewww, you have magazines as well! Do you even sleep at night, bro?!"
"Dude! Fourth drawer!" Uriah screeches. We hear the drawers being opened and shut.
"Oh, thanks!" I laugh at the irony of it.
"What's funny?" Will raises an eyebrow.
"Four had to go through four drawers. Get it?" Will shakes his head and Uriah grins in amusement.
"Will, why aren't you showering?"
"I showered during the night and stole a top."
"Oh. Hey, that's the top I wear during sex, well most of the sex." Will's eyes widen and he yanks it off.
"Really, Uriah?" Uriah shrugs.
"Wait, if you went through his dresser, didn't you see the other things in there?"
"No, I saw the top peeking out of the drawer. And the hangover didn't die." I nod and we chatter mindlessly while Four showers. Will replaced the 'sex' top.
"There's a spare toothbrush in the cupboard!" Uriah says.
"And you have more condoms in here. Wow." Four comments. I snort and Will smiles over his cup of tea. A few minutes later, we're shoving on our shoes and jackets on before leaving the apartment.
"Four. You're with me. Will, you're with Zeke." We pair off and go our separate ways.
Skip. Skip. Skip. Gallop. Gallop. Gallop. (Am I the only person thinking of riding a horse here?)
Tris's POV:
I drop Chris off at the salon/boutique and wave Lynn off at the train tracks with Ezra. Ezra is a fence worker but his line of work is closely related with guard work. Marlene and Celeste head off to the infirmary and Shauna is strolling through the pit with me. Uriah is taking over the leadership briefing today, meaning I cannot see Tobias for a while. Mental sigh.
"Why are you sighing?" That wasn't mental?
"No, it wasn't." Urgh, I really need stop thinking out loud.
"Yes, you do." Starting... now!
"Now, what?"
"Oh my gawd. I can't think quietly, can I?"
"Nope. Now back to my question, why were you sighing?"
"I won't get to see Four...," I pout.
"You two are so adorable, ya know?"
"Yes, I do know."
"Don't get too cocky."
"I just did."
"Four has rubbed off on you already!" she throws her hands up in the air. I smirk at her and she narrows her eyes.
"You still love me though."
"Yes, I do." I do a little dance and mouth 'yay'. She scoffs and drags me to a random shop. Where's Zeke?
"I do not know." I facepalm and chuckle along with her.
Do a daytime skip. Why is she in Abnegation?
I glide through the dark streets of the selfless faction, ignoring the desperate calls and texts the gang are sending and it is even more now that the Fantastic Four received new phones last night. I scroll through all the notifications and reply with a simple 'I am fine' just to pacify them.
It's hard to believe I was born and raised here. I don't have a selfless bone in my body. At all. Well, that's what I think. But the memories of my childhood here, just proves it. I am a former member of the Stiff faction. Not a day went past that I hated living here, since the day my mother died. It was like the sun burning out for the first time in a million years. The little light of my life diminished.
The faction of selflessness, my ass. How is it selfless, abandoning your daughter because of an affair and letting them be the sufferer of a failed marriage? Or abusing the f*ck out of your daughter?
"Beatrice." I swivel at the whisper of my name and am met by my dear 'mother'. I see the factionless are alternating between staring at us and the food they are passing round. I was so deep into my thoughts; my feet pulled me to this sector.
"I see you got my message." I nod, remembering the note Ezra brought me to me during the shift swaps.
"Would you like to meet her?" I am hesitant but I still do a small nod and she smiles, before turning and gliding towards her 'bedroom'. I follow, nodding at all the factionless. Some little ones even hug me.
I see a young woman hacking up her food, so I head over to her quickly, sweep her hair back and rub her back. She finishes and sends me a grateful smile. I nod back and hurry after Natalie. I step into her room and there is the girl. The product of my mother's affair sitting on Natalie's bed gracefully with a nervous expression. My mother taps her shoulder and my half-sister spins to us. I gasp at the similarity of the looks and am instantly envious that she got them but shake it off. Natalie signs and speaks to her.
"Sarah, this is your sister, Tris." I smile, at the fact she used my Dauntless name. Sarah looks at me and waves shyly.
"Hi. So you're the younger sister I've always wished for but never knew my wish came true." I sign, thankful for the lessons I took for fun.
"You sign too?" Sarah speaks.
"Yeah, I took lessons for fun but I guess they came in handy!" I smile slightly for the second time. I look at Natalie.
"Does he know?"
"Jack Black partook in the 'death' I had. It was a moment we both regretted. I less than him. I always thought of abortion but dimissed it because there was a place in my heart that loved her so when she was born, I loved her even more immediately. When I figured out I was carrying a human, I took a test, just to be on the safe side. I forgot to dispose of it, which is how your father found out. The night you laid with me, I was beaten and I was weak. I hugged you because I knew it was the last one you would ever receive. Marcus Eaton also helped." I clear my throat and stare at Sarah who is watching our conversation with a hint of confusion on her face. Wait, Eaton? Crap.
"I never wanted to leave you."
"Then why did you?" I hiss. I smirk at the fact she flinches.
"I wanted you to have a better life than what you would have ever got here. Plus, you got to transfer."
"Fuck that. You have no idea how hard it was to get through initiation. With all my scars and wounds," I pause, to suck my angry tears back in, "You left me. At four years of age. Did you even love me? Did you even want to take me? Did you ever consider how I would have felt? I had to rely on myself from the age of seven. To eat. Wake up. Keep the rules of Abnegation without my mother correcting me? He beat me every time I did one wrong thing. Going to school for the first time without my mother encouraging me? My heart broke. In addition, the fact you loved her enough to keep her, but didn't love me enough to save me, kills. You did not see my results in school. You did not see how well I doing was in school. Even though I was quiet all the time, I excelled for an Abnegation. That blue statue you left under my bed, somehow knowing I would find it, only made it worse. Over the last few years, I adjusted to seeing it on my bedside table. Gawd, I even hate how I still love you deep inside."
"Bea." I sob at the old nickname and before I know it, I'm in her embrace.
"It's been 14 years since I've hugged you," she whispers, knowing I was reluctant to hug her in our last five meetings. I giggle internally. SIX meetings before a hug.
"So it's true? You left because of abuse?" I am looking at her over Natalie's shoulder and I nod at Sarah. She bites her lip and looks away, but without giving me a look of awe. I am confused. We are all silent, for a moment.
"Can she live with you in Dauntless?" What? I pull back and look at her incredulously.
"Why?" I scream. Sarah jumps and watches us. I sign a sorry and she waves it off.
"She's better off with you. She absolutely despises this place. Not many of the factionless members can sign and it is a struggle for her to bond with the youth. In addition, some of them are bullying her. Yes, as the leader of them, they should not be but they're mocking how she has to ask someone to repeat what they say and her lisp. With you, she is bound to have more friends. And she speaks, it's just that the person or people she's conversing with has to remember to enunciate their words properly for her to lip-read. They can sign but they don't have to." Sarah stands beside Natalie and tears are in her eyes.
"Mother is right. I hate it here. I have heard so many stories about you and I admire you a lot. The reason why she has arranged this meeting was because I begged her to." My eyes widen.
"So you never wanted me to meet her?"
"I was afraid you would lash out."
"She's my sister. One I never knew about. Of course I would have lashed out but I'm controlling it here." Sarah wrings her hands and I scratch my neck, motioning for her to carry on.
"Anyway, I want to get to know you. I would have waited two more years but since I am not in a faction, I cannot transfer. I want to experience Dauntless firsthand." I hear how the s's in her words are stumbled on and nod along to her words but something in those statements sticks in my head.
"Factionless can't transfer..." I make a mental note to bring it up in the next meeting.
"Can I? I mean, live with you?" she mumbles, avoiding my gaze. I look over at our shared mother who has a hopeful expression. I sigh and rub my face vigorously.
"I guess so." Sarah brings her eyes back to me and grins. She steps towards me and opens her arms. I pull her into my arms and relax. She smiles against my beating heart because of her petite frame that she also inherited like me.
"Thank you, Bea." I nod at Natalie who is at the door and the three of us walk to the tracks.
"Your first experience will start in a few minutes." Sarah bounces a little and the wind blows, pushing her hair back, showing me her hearing aids.
"How did you get the aids?" I gesture to her ears, looking at Natalie.
"Jack. He may not want to know his daughter or whatever but he helped get the hearing aids and lessons for the two of us to sign."
"Okay." I hear the train whistle and say goodbye to Natalie.
"Thank you again. I love you." I nod, both knowing I cannot say I love you back but I still give her a hug. Sarah and Natalie share a heartfelt moment, then I receive Sarah.
"You have to jump."
"Onto the train?"
"Yes. Do not worry. Have you done running?"
"Always. Mother let me out to run around." I breathe a sigh of relief.
"We have to sprint. Now." We take off and I toss myself into the train. I lean out and hold a hand out. She shakes her head and reaches for the handle. She jumps and grabs onto it before hitting into me. We both fall back, her landing on me, knocking the wind out of my lungs. I hear her laugh for the first time, and since it is so contagious, I laugh too.
I guess having a sister will be fun.
Twist! Sure you all know who Sarah is, I mean, come on! :D. Sorry if this was a bit OOC, but I just had to make Tris lose her strong facade in here. Tris still loves her mother, like of course? But it's going to take time for her to forgive since she was abandoned, with the thought her mother was dead. Hopefully, she'll come to see why Natalie did what she did in a different perspective, therefore bringing her closer to forgviness. Till later, BooksLover2000...