Here's the next chapter. I own nothing, A/N at the end!
I wake up to Tobias turning over in his sleep, almost crushing me. I nudge him slightly. "Hey, watch where you're going!" I kid.
"Huh? What?" He sits up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"You almost smashed me, babe." I laugh to myself. We never called each other babe or baby or sweetie or Hun or anything like that. We always use it as a joke.
He smirks back at me. "Oh, sorry, honey. I didn't see you there." I stick my tongue out at him before he pulls me into a kiss. "Good morning."
"Morning," I return. "I'm going to go take a shower." Today is the day for stage three of initiation to start. We were using Christina's fear landscape because obviously we can't use Tobias' and I sure as hell wasn't letting anyone see mine. If my seventh fear made a comeback… I shudder. I can only imagine the harassment I would get from the initiates. For my initiation, and last year, we had used Lauren's. But this year she decided not to train. I'm not really sure why. At any rate, I was still unsure of what was in Christina's. She was not happy about her moth fear being exposed to anyone. To say the least. But she eventually agreed to use hers as the example.
I take my shower and get dressed while Tobias takes his. After he's ready, we walk down to breakfast, with our hands laced together. When we get there, we find our usual table and Uriah sits down just after we do. "Hey you two," he greets us.
"Hey yourself," I return. "We haven't seen you in awhile. How's it going?"
"Oh, pretty good," he says. He looks up as Marlene walks in and then darts his eyes back down."
I raise my eyebrows and Tobias asks, "How are things in that department?"
Uriah's cheeks flush. "What?" he mumbles. Uriah had always had a thing for Marlene, but never asked her out. She dated this guy named Jake for a while, but they had broken up a few months ago. Uriah had never gotten over her. Not that he has ever said anything to any of us about it; we could all tell though. It was easy to read in his eyes.
"Oh come on, Uri." I roll my eyes at him. "Just ask her out already!"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Tris," he defends himself.
"Yes you do!" I practically shout at him.
"Do what?" Marlene joins us at the table.
"Nothing," Uriah mumbles and pokes at his pancakes with a fork.
Tobias half snorts at him and then goes back to his muffin. I just shake my head. "Did I miss something?" Marlene looks at us, confused.
"Nah," I say. "Uriah's just being a dork, as usual." I smirk at him.
"Anyway," he changes the subject for Marlene asks him anything. "Christina's meeting us there because she an Will were making breakfast at her place this morning."
I nod. "I bet she's delighted for today," I say, sarcastically.
"What's going on today?" Marlene asks.
Uriah jumps in before I can, just so he has an excuse to talk to her. "Today's stage three and we're using her landscape."
"Ooh. That's going to be fun," she raises her eyebrows.
"Yeah," Tobias speaks up. "We better get going." We say goodbye to Marlene and Uriah says he'll meet us there in a few minutes. Christina beats us to the fear landscape room and is already setting up the computers to run her fear landscape.
She greets us with a cheery smile. "Hey! How was Abnegation?"
Great. I'd tried forgetting about that. "It was, uh, fine." I say "I'll tell you about it later."
Tobias shifts uncomfortably and runs a hand through his dark hair. "Do you need any help with that?" he asks Christina.
"Actually yeah," she replies. He goes over to the computer and begins typing things before she can even tell him what she needs. It amazes me how good he is with computers. I would never be able to do that kind of stuff. He gets everything set up and the initiates start filing in, all looking nervous.
When they all arrive, I start telling them more about the fear landscapes and then Christina tells them her fears and we split them all into groups. She has eleven fears, but we only use the following five: fire, her sister dying, falling to her death, moths, and watching Will die.
Since there are fifteen initiates, we use five of her fears so it divides evenly. As I'm walking around them, putting groups together, I notice that one person is missing. There are only fourteen initiates here. "Who's not here?" I call out, hoping someone would know who the missing person is.
Everyone begins looking around them, trying to figure out who's here and who's not. Finally someone yells out, "Connor! It's Connor; he's not here."
"Has anyone seen him today?" Tobias shouts.
Nobody says anything. A few heads shake no and I start to get worried. Where could he be? And is he okay? Uriah says he'll go back to the dorms and look to see if Connor's there, but I can't just stay here and wait. "I'll go with you," I say, taking off toward the door. Tobias gives me a warning look that says, Be careful. I nod at him and hurry out the door.
Uri and I begin walking toward the Pit to get to the dorms, but it quickly turns into speed walking, then into a slight jog, and eventually into a full on run. I look at the faces that pass in a blur around me to in case he's out somewhere.
We arrive at the dorms panting and the panic is growing inside me when I don't immediately see him. "Connor?" I call out. Uriah and I tear through both the transfers' dorm and the Dauntless born, but there is no sign of him at all. A chill runs through my entire body as I remember Connor's stage two results. One person comes to mind. Eric.
So I'm really sorry it took me so long to update! I had a really rough week with school this week and I was super busy with work and school and my internship and just blah everything. So yeah no real excuse, I just had no time. I'm sorry! Anyways, I'm not sure where this story is going right now. It took me a really long time to write this today because I just didn't know what to do. Pleaspleasepleaseplease review and leave your opinions! Here's my dilemma: Do I focus on the initiates and what could happen with Connor and his Divergence, or do I let that go and focus more on Tris and Tobias and the wedding and Tris' parents and all that? I just don't know. Help me out guys! and as always, thanks for reading and reviewing(: