Eric and Tris walked towards the cafeteria together to grab lunch. Wondering eyes watching them as they passed hand in hand. Tris felt glares from the young girls who'd had a crush on Eric since their arrival. Eric felt wide eyed stares from the lookers who had wished they were in his position. They looked at each other and smirked.
Eric had told Tris not to talk about the problem at hand in public, just to be safe. He was convinced that someone among them was a traitor.
Tris spotted Christina, she looked to et go of her hand and started making a tray of food for the two of them.
"Hey Chris," she said when she reached her, she was sitting with Al and Will.
"Hey, where've you been," Christina asked, scoring over a little for Tris to sit down.
"Rough night," she lied. She really wasn't hung over. She didn't want to tell Christina about the cameras yet, she didn't need her making a scene.
Christina laughed. Al looked behind Tris to see Eric walking towards them. Will stiffened like a board when he sat down next to Tris.
Eric looked at him, "I don't bite," he stated, then looked to where he had bitten Tris' neck earlier, before adding, "much."
Everyone chuckled timidly before returning to their food.
"So how's initiation going, Al," Tris asked, trying to start a conversation to ease everyone from their awkward silence.
"Um," he cleared his throat and glanced at Eric, then back to Tris, "it's going good, there's a lot of room for improvement."
"Need to get meaner," Eric spoke up, "they'll improve twice as fast."
Tris laughed at Eric's remark, Al wasn't very mean. He was like a big teddy bear when it came to being mean.
"Maybe Tris and I will come by the gym later today and check it out," Eric added when no one said anything.
"Yeah, that would be great," Will spoke up, "give them a taste of what we went through."
Eric smirked, "was I that scary?"
"With all due respect you still are," Will replied smiling a little, Eric even cracked a small smile.
Eric kept his word and he and Tris showed up in the training room later on that day. Tris stayed with Eric the whole time, noticing Four was keeping his eye on her. Lauren too.
"Have they fought yet," Eric asked Will.
"They're no where close to ready, it's only been a few days."
Eric grunted, "too soon my ass." There he was, the old scary Eric. Tris groveled at the memory when he made her fight, how he had scoffed at her, and how she was here with him now. "You! The blonde," a girl turned around from her spot at the punching bags, "in the ring."
She was a tall blonde, but heavier set. Eric looked across the room, everyone's eyes now on him, "you," he pointed to another girl with brown hair, it was cut short like Christina's, "get in the ring."
Both girls now stood in the ring, both looking scared to death, "you will fight until you can't fight anymore, keep in mind that here at Dauntless. There are no quitters," Eric said in his deep booming voice.
When they stood still he motioned for them to fight, he winked at Tris. He remembered her first fight too.
The first sound of flesh hitting flesh made Tris' jaw ache at the memory of Molly punching her during her first fight. Tris turned away slightly, looking around the room. Four stood by the knife table, twirling a knife in his fingers.
After the girl with brown hair had been knocked unconscious, Eric looked to Will and said some things quietly. Then turned to Tris, "are you ready?"
Tris nodded, "yeah..." Four had disappeared. Eric turned to follow her stare.
"Are you ok," he asked, concerned.
"Yeah, sorry..." With that they walked out of the training room together, back to the office.
"Eric, who do you think would be giving Intel to Jeanine," Tris asked hesitantly, watching him read through files.
"I don't know, what I know is we can't trust anyone, other than a select few."
"Do you think Four has something to do with it," she asked. His head snapped up at the sound of his name.
"Yes, I think that scumbag is capable of something like that...but I have watched him, he doesn't leave Dauntless...other than to meet with factionless leadership for his bullshit."
"What exactly is he doing meeting with them all the time," Tris asked. He had never told her his reasoning.
"He wanted to offer self defense training to them, since 'everyone is out to get them.'
Tris saw his irritation and dropped the subject of Four. She knew how badly Eric wanted to kill him, and it scared her. She didn't want Eric killing anyone, even Four. It would come back as a shit storm.
"What about Lauren," Tris asked quietly.
Eric looked up at Tris again through squinting eyes. "What about her?"
"Have we documented her actions, have we followed her?"
"Tris, I don't know that she is a threat..."
"You said not to trust anyone."
"I did say that...but I didn't say to assume everyone is a traitor."
Tris got silent again, then stood and grabbed a stack of files from Eric's desk. He'd already read through them. "Where are you going," he asked suddenly when she headed for the door.
"Putting these away," she said holding up the files, not looking back.
Tris closed her office door behind her and set the files on her desk. Four and Lauren's files were both in the stack.
She sat down and shut her eyes. She didn't want work to come between her and Eric...especially by questioning him.
Tris opened the first file. Lauren's file.
Originating faction: Erudite
Faction of Choice: Dauntless
Family: -
Tris wrinkled her nose. The family section had been removed. She was from Erudite. Why would they remove her family. As for her originating faction, wasn't she a dauntless born?
Tris picked up Four's file.
Originating faction: Abnegation
Faction of Choice: Dauntless
Family: Marcus Eaton (father) - Abnegation
Evelyn Eaton (mother) - factionless
Name: Tobias Eaton
She dropped the file to her desk. Four was really Tobias Eaton...why hadn't she remembered him back in Abnegation?
Maybe he was the one giving Intel to Jeanine. But Eric said they had watched him, he only ever went to the factionless sector. To see his mother.
A sharp knock came on Tris' office door. She scrambled to throw the files in her drawer. She picked up another paper and starter 'reading' when Eric walked in.
He stood in front of her desk. "We need to talk. Now."
Shit.
Hey readers, so I know Lauren is originally Dauntless born...but that's the great thing about fanfiction, you can manipulate it ;)
i hope all you all are enjoying
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