Chapter 21
A/N~ New update schedule! I know I've been updating every day but I don't know how long I can keep up these regular updates and it won't be very long. I have decided to update definitely on Wednesdays and Sunday's but sometimes I might update more. If I can't update on one of these days then I'll warn you. :)
This chapter is dedicated to...
Bonnie- thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy this story and I guess you'll get to find out what happens like right now. ;) x
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Tris's POV
We sit in the canteen with my friends, smiling like crazy, I can't believe I was actually scared of that, it was such a stupid fear! My friends obviously notice our smiles and Christina (knowing me so well) shouts, "We can officially call Tris Six! About time you two." I slap her (semi light)trying to shut her up while trying to cover up my blush. I glance around to see if anyone noticed but it seems that everyone else is too busy wrapped in their own conversations. My friends all laugh and Tobias squeezes my hand, knowing that I don't like all the attention on me- or us. After they settle down again into a relatively normal conversation (I mean, you can't really call my group of friends normal, can you? That's what makes them so unique, they don't care if they stick out of the crowd- then again, most of the dauntless are like that...), Tobias goes to get us a muffin. When he gets back, he tries to give me a blueberry one (I do like them,) but I take the chocolate one out of his other hand, just to be difficult. He rolls his eyes but doesn't make a comment while I nibble it like a mouse. After breakfast we gather all our initiates together and only then do I notice that one of our initiates is missing. "Um, where's Jack?" I say and the initiates look at me strangely. "You're our instructor, surely you should know who got cut. If you hadn't have been skiving off your job then you would have known that Jack got kicked out." Guess who said that... Ava. "Actually I had some family problems that I had to deal with." I haven't thought of my dad much since I came back here but now a sudden rush of sadness slips through me. When will be the next time I see him? "Don't say that, haven't you heard what happened to Natalie and Andrew Prior? If anything their son and daughter had 'family problems', I actually feel sorry for them you know, it's horrible that it hardly ever happens yet it happened the other day." Wow! Ava feels sorry for me. Yeah she might not know that I am their daughter but still she said she felt sorry for her- me. I'm going to keep it that way (her not knowing) because then she'd tell all the other initiates and they would know I was from abnegation- making them more disrespectful. "Actually I did hear what happened and it's so sad but it's nice to know that you actually know how to feel sorry for someone. But anyway despite the loveliness of this conversation we have to get to training. No more questions and no more interruptions." Ava closes her mouth which was open ready to talk back- she knows she's put me in a bad mood. Tobias squeezes my hand to let me know that he's still there. I reach up to kiss him quickly before we start to lead them up all the steep paths to the fear landscape room.
It might be slightly mean but I find it quite amusing how the way that all the initiates start sweating and try to calm their breathing as we draw closer to the door. Is this the way we acted last year? "As you know from yesterday, you will be going through one of your individual fears as part of stage two, no one will be cut from this stage but you will still be ranked and given a progress report of sorts. Okay so Emma's up first, come on." The others looked relieved as they aren't going first but Emma just stands up with dread. This stage is always the most tiring and most terrifying- leaving you with nightmares that haunt you for weeks. Emma shuffles her way into the room slowly and takes a deep breath before positioning herself on the chair nervously. Tobias shuts the heavy door while I go to inject Emma making sure I'm careful not to hurt her too much. Although when Ava comes I'll probably just jab her really hard not caring at all... Tobias comes and connects all the wires and sets up all the technical things before we're plunged deep into Emma's fear. (Not literally). She sits in the middle of a seemingly endless room that's pitch black, then a hollow scuttling sound appears and Emma tries to break free from the ropes that restrain her from moving. She's scared of spiders. A spotlight appears out of nowhere and it shows all the black creatures moving towards her, Emma screams but they continue on their path to her. Even though it must be scary for her, I've never really been scared of spiders and it's quite a boring and common fear so I take of the wires attached to my temples and sit there bored, soon after Tobias does too. We sit and talk waiting for Emma to calm herself down so she can get out of her fear. I guess it's going to take a while- she's already been in there for 10 minutes.
Emma's POV :)
I open my eyes and find myself in the darkest room ever, no windows just darkness. Ropes bind me to the floor wrapping around my arms and legs keeping me there. That's when the scuttling first it's subtle but then it grows louder and an endless stream of spiders comes swarming towards me. I scream in terror and notice that they aren't just any spiders, they're mutated and look like metal robots but also looking like the black widow. I keep thrashing about trying to escape even though I know it won't work but right now it's fear that's controlling my brain. I keep wiggling and squirming until a spider crawls onto my leg and I stare at it in pure horror, my body going completely rigid. I read in erudite once that if you move you're more likely to get bitten. I then try to remember what Four and Six told me to do in order to get out of the fears. Oh yeah! They said something about calming down your breathing and controlling your fear. I try this by lying down and breathing in and out, ignoring everything around me I let the darkness cover me like a shroud. When I open my eyes again, I'm back in the fear landscape room with Four and Six sat in the corner. They look up when I gasp, trying to get more oxygen in my lungs from that room from hell. They nod and tell me that I was actually in the for 20 minutes- I hoped I wasn't that slow but oh well. If I want to stay in dauntless then I'll have to do a bit better than this! I nod at them and stand up slowly on my shaky legs and walk out the door, my whole body still trembling.
Tris's POV
After that drag of a fear, we take in Jason ready to get his fear over with so we can go to lunch. You don't know how hungry this job is- putting up with people screaming and watching people's fears is horrible! (And hungry). After Jason's fear of books that have teeth and eat people, I'm practically running out the room shouting over my shoulder, "You lot can get yourselves down to the canteen for lunch. I hope you remember the way!" I run, dodging people and hear heavy footsteps behind me- Tobias. I laugh as he catches me around the waist and we go swerving to the wall in which we collide with. We slide down in a laughing heap, none of us hurt at all- it wasn't that hard of a collision, I might have over exaggerated a little bit. *hee hee*. Since I landed on Tobias, I lean down to kiss him but just as our lips touch, we hear a cough behind us. I whip my head around (flicking Tobias with my ponytail) to see who's standing there and when I look up I laugh. Christina stands there with a disgusted look on her face watching me and Tobias kiss. Just to annoy her I turn around and kiss Tobias again, this time for longer. "Eww! Seriously you guys are grossed and all loved up. It disgusting!" I laugh at Christina's scrunched up face. "Says the girl who's happy with will who also has a baby on the way!"
"Yeah well that's different, we don't do anything in public like you do." Both me and Tobias snort in disbelief. "Um yes. You do."
"Whatever Tris, let's go to lunch, I'm starving! I didn't have any breakfast today dos I had to go have a scan to see the baby this morning before training."
"Oh ok then let's go now because I'm so hungry as well!" Christina rolls her eyes and I grab Tobias's hand after getting up, pulling him up after me. On the way to lunch Christina tells me that Natalia is scared of the old roller coasters that people used to play on for fun. I'm surprised really, that seems like a truly dauntless thing to do yet she's scared of them. When we get to the table, I see Callum flirting with my friends and I internally groan. How annoying can he possibly get!? "Um Callum, can you go now? I'd like to talk to my friends without any initiates around us." He saunters off looking irritated and my friends all shout, "Thank You!" Which makes Callum glare at us over his shoulder.
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