A/N I'm back with another update! Umm, I'm honestly getting bored with this story, so I know you guys are, so I would really appreciate some suggestions to make this juicier. Disclaimer chapter 11.

Tris's P.O.V.

Today, Eric has informed us that we are doing something different than hitting targets, so I'm curious as to what we will be doing now. Tobias and I get to school at 11:00 today, not leaving a lot of time to do nothing. When we get into our usual training room, the set up is completely different. There are about 30 punching bags hanging from the ceiling of the room, and a boxing-like ring in the back of the room. Red mats cover the rock floor. We must be fighting today.

"Fighting?" Peter shouts when he walks in, two minutes late. Eric shoots him a glare.

"Hello, Captain Obvious. How was the past two minutes, because they better be worth getting kicked out of the school." Eric says in a serious, flat voice.

"Are you saying I am being expelled?" Peter asks.

"No, you were never in this school to begin with." Eric turns to us. "Remember, all of you can be kicked out, but being expelled is out of the picture right now. You are not yet part of this school, therefore, you may never be."

I look toward Tobias, stifling a laugh.

"Now, Peter, get out, and the rest of you walk to a punching bag, and put on the boxing gloves beside the bags. Start punching, and I am going to escort Peter out of the facility."

We all move to the bags, and put on the boxing gloves, then start punching as hard as we can. At first, very few bags move when the gloves make contact, but everyone in the gang's bags move from the start, then Eric comes in. He applauds us on our abilities, but quickly moves on to the initiates that are having trouble moving the bag.

"Tris, you are doing very well with the punching, but also try using your knees and elbows; you have the potential to do some serious damage." Eric says from behind my back.

"Okay, thanks." I say, hoping he will move quickly. Eric is beginning to get creepy, and I'm afraid he is going to try to make a move on me soon.

I shoot a look to Tobias when he leaves, and I can tell he is beginning to see the same thing as me because his punches get harder than they were before.

"No!" I protest. "You can't do that! I can't do that! I don't want to hurt you!"

I look desperately into his eyes.

"I'll never forgive myself if I hurt you." Tobias whispers, equally as desperate as I am.

We wok on the punching for the rest of the day, and then go home. My arms are sore, although Tobias says his aren't. It's probably because he works out daily for football, basketball, and baseball.

-The next day, 11:30-

Today, the gang has decided to wander around the campus before going to class. I am happy that Peter isn't around to ruin any of this, and he can't try to hurt me like he used to.

When we enter our room again, it looks the same as it did yesterday.

"Today, we will be fighting, rather than just punching a bag." Eric announces at 12:00 sharp. "Here, you can see who you will be partnered against today." A picture shows up on the wall beside him.

Molly-Edward

Drew-Mira

Al-Nita

Christina-Will

Marlene-Uriah

Zeke-Shauna

Lynn-Matt (a guy that she has been hanging out with and seems to like)

Four-Tris

After seeing Tobias and me paired up, I don't think, I just start biting my fingernails and nervously glancing around the room. Everyone else seems to be mad, since Eric has paired us up with our friends, or who we are dating. We all know what will happen if we don't comply, but we also know what will happen if we do.

"The only way that the fight will be over is when someone passed out, which means they lose." Eric shouts.

"What?" "No way" pretty much everyone shouts.

"I'll let you win, I'll pretend to pass out after you get in a few good punches." Tobias whispers in my ear.

"No." I protest. "You can't do that! I can't do that! I don't want to hurt you!"

He looks desperate, more desperate than I feel, when he says, "I can't hurt you, I will never forgive myself."

Then it dawns on me. "He is just trying to see if we will go for it, he is testing us!" I whisper frantically.

"If we go for it, he probably won't make us do it, and we'll get brownie points." Tobias says, catching on.

"Wait, but what if he is trying to break us up by doing that?" I ask.

"It won't work," Tobias kisses me.

I smile. "We'll go first!" I shout over the sound of everyone else's voices, raising my hand.

Eric raises an eyebrow, but nods toward the ring, so Tobias and I walk over.

"I don't wanna do this now." I mumble on the way over.

"I know, but do what I told you." I mumbles.

We crawl into the ring, and to drive Eric crazy, I lean in and kiss him deeply. I hear a grown behind me, and smile against his lips. Now, he clears his throat. Tobias smiles now.

"Okay, stop it and fight." We continue for a few more seconds. "Now!" Eric shouts.

"Okay, okay." I say as I get into place.

We begin to fight, and I throw a few punches, and Tobias also does, but he purposely makes it to where I can dodge them. After about seven weak punches that looked pretty convincing, Tobias collapses to the floor, and pretends to pass out. When Eric starts tapping him, he stays the same, but before he can be moved to the infirmary, he gets up.

Everyone else refuses to fight, so Tobias and I get a half-hearted applause from Eric, proving that he did hope this would break us up. He stands there and explains what fighting will be like tomorrow, and that anyone that doesn't want to fight can just not come back tomorrow.

When everyone starts to leave, Tobias and I hold back.

"Lets drive him crazy. Pull me out like you're mad." I whisper to Tobias.

He grabs my hand, and starts to stomp out of the room. As we turn at the doorway and down a hallway, I glance back, and Eric seems intrigued. I smile.

"It worked." I whisper. "Continue walking I think he'll follow."

We continue down the hallway, and I think I can hear footsteps following us. We stop by one of the water fountains, where a blue lantern is illuminating the hall.

"Why did you do that?" Tobias is a pretty good actor, he sounds mad.

"I don't know, I thought it might be some sort of trick, like he wanted to prove something like that." I plead, somehow believably. "I'm sorry."

I start to fake cry, and Tobias hugs me.

"I know you are, I just didn't think you would ever hurt me like that." Tobias says tenderly, but loud enough that Eric should be able to hear it. I can now see him vaguely in my peripheral.

I lean in, kissing Tobias so he knows that Eric is there. We stand like this for a few minutes, until we are sure that Eric has left. Then, we walk back down the hallway, hand-in-hand.

A/N I just reread this looking for something and I guess there were technical problems because a whole section of the story is in the wrong spot. The first part about Tris and Tobias being worried about hurting each other shouldn't be there and I don't know how it got there...? Anyway here's the a/n since it wasn't here originally?