Chapter 26: End of Stage 2

WARNING: SUICIDE OF CHARACTER IN CHAPTER

Edward POV

When we heard of the news of Christina's death, we all cheered. Ever since initiation started all Christina did was cause trouble. She got beat to a bloody pulp by Lynn, Eric pointed a gun to her head and Mia schooled her on little Johanna, who should be making her grand entrance very soon. Hell, even Harrison's five-year-old daughter punched her in the stomach. I loved Eric's plan of getting rid of Christina during capture the flag, but it ended up being temporary. Tobias told us that it was her former faction leader that got rid of her permanently and she's where the other criminals were after receiving the death serum: ashes scattered outside of the fence. As for Molly and Drew, Harrison returned the bodies to Candor so that their families can have their funerals.

Harrison told us to calm down

"Since you all here," Harrison said, "we will now announce the rankings for stage 2."

Eric and Tobias flipped over the board and it displayed the rankings and the average time of the simulations.

Tris 2:30

Will 3:45

Caleb 4:00

Uriah 6:20

Suzy 6:25

Lynn 7:26

Edward 7:35

Marlene 8:00

Myra 8:30

Rita 9:30

"Wow, number one," Tris said. "I thought that I would be at least fourth, this is very surprising."

Everyone nodded their heads in approval. Natalie looked proud as her children made the top five of the second stage of initiation.

"You were made for Dauntless, Trissy," Uriah said.

"Call me that again and I will make sure that you will never have another piece of Dauntless cake again," Tris said. "Yes, Uriah, I know your fear and I will tell Tobias to tell Rod to have Dauntless cake to be removed from the menu permanently."

"Please, don't do that," Uriah practically begged to Tris on his knees. "I can't live without Dauntless cake."

"You have a week off from initiation," Eric said. "You can do whatever you want, but you still cannot leave the compound without a Dauntless member. You may, however, spend some time on the roof."

Eric, Tobias, George, Amar, Natalie, Hana and Harrison all left the training room.

"So, what do you guys want to do today?" I asked.

"Well, Caleb have not made his jump from the roof, so we could watch him do that," Tris said. "That is, if he is ok with it."

"Wow, I never got the chance to jump the roof, so I will like that chance," Caleb said. "Rita, you ok with going on the roof, considering what happened to Emily?"

"I do want to make happy memories on the roof," Rita said. "It took Eric some time to calm me down before I was able to make that jump."

"Well, what's we're waiting for, let's go," Myra said.

Eric POV

After the second stage rankings were announced, Harrison received a message that there is something up at the city cemetery, so he had me, Natalie and Tobias to investigate.

"What do you think it is?" Tobias said as set out on our mission. Due to initiation, we didn't get a chance to go out on patrols, but today is our lucky day.

"I really don't know," I said. "I just hope it is not some factionless stealing valuables from the graves or Erudite stealing bodies for 'research' purposes." My mom told me that before Jeanine came into power, that Norman stole bodies from the cemetery for his 'research' on a serum that brings people back from the dead.

"I could visit Andrew's grave and tell him that our children are doing well in Dauntless," Natalie said.

Edward POV

The gang is on the roof and before we decided to jump, Uriah decided to do the "welcome to Dauntless" speech for Caleb.

"I'm Uriah, your future leader," Uriah started. "If you want to enter Dauntless, this is the only way in. If you are a pansycake, you don't belong in Dauntless. Who's first?"

Everyone looked at Caleb.

"I'll go," Caleb said.

"Wait, before we start jumping, there is something that I want to do," I said. I pulled out the engagement ring that I got for Myra, black diamond with blue sapphires around it, a nod to our Erudite roots. "Myra, can you come here?"

Myra came close to me. I opened the ring box and got down on one knee.

"Myra, I know that we are not officially Dauntless, but I wanted to do this," I said. "Ever since lower levels, we were inseparable to the point that we will go from Erudite to Dauntless together. Myra, I love you so much and I want to spend the rest of my days with you, so will you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?"

"Yes, Edward, I will marry you," Myra said with tears in her eyes. I placed the ring on her finger and our friends cheered. We returned to the compound through the net. Caleb and Rita jumped together, followed by Tris, then Uriah, Lynn and Marlene, finally Myra and I made the jump into the net.

Eric POV

We reach the city cemetery, where we split into three different directions. I went to the section where Dad, Mom and Cara laid to rest, so far, nothing out of the ordinary.

"Hey, sorry for not visiting, but I want to tell you that Will is doing very well in Dauntless," I said to the family headstone. "He and Lynn, a Dauntless born, have recently started dating. Well, Jeanine escaped from prison with the help of Christina, a former initiate that was made factionless. Jack executed her recently. Mom and Cara, your killers have been executed, so you two can rest in peace."

Natalie POV

I decided to check on the Prior plot and make a quick visit to Andrew. I saw somebody by Andrew's grave, so I went to investigate. I pulled out my gun, just in case, and went closer.

Who I saw standing there shocked me.

"Jeanine, what the hell you are doing here?" I said as I pointed my gun towards her.

"You stole him from me," Jeanine said. "Andrew was not meant to die. I told Jonathan to kill you, not Andrew, but he thought that I meant Andrew. My plan was to kill you so that I can Andrew all to myself."

"What about your Divergent witch hunt?" I asked. "Did you know that Andrew was Divergent too? You told your minions to kill all Divergents regardless of who they are. When my children were seven, you put out the hit on Marcus because of his Divergence, but the bullet hit Evelyn, killing her. You left Tobias to grow up without his mother."

"What's going on?" Tobias said as he and Eric approached us.

"Looks like that Jeanine is confessing," Eric said. "Claiming that the deaths of Andrew and Evelyn were accidents and that Natalie and Marcus were the intended targets."

Jeanine pulled something from behind her and placed it at her temple.

"She got a gun," Tobias said.

"Jack is going to execute me anyways, so what's the point?" Jeanine said before pulling the trigger.

Just like that, Jeanine Matthews and her witch hunt against Divergents are over. I just wish that she didn't took her life on my husband's grave.

A week later-Tobias POV

Jeanine was cremated, and her ashes scattered outside of the fence. Nobody at Erudite mourned for her, not even her own family. Zeke and Mia had their baby girl Johanna Marie and I hope that she is mellow like her mom and grandmothers, not obnoxious like her dad and uncle are.

The initiates went through Lauren's fear landscapes yesterday to prepare them for today. Today, we are all in the fear landscape room for them to go through their fear landscapes.

"Initiates, today, you will go though your fear landscapes in front of the Dauntless leaders and all of Dauntless," I said. "You will start from the last ranked initiate to the first ranked initiate. Rita, you're first."

I took Rita to the chair and gave her the serum.

"Be brave, Rita," I said.

Author's note: Fear landscape chapters are next. Each initiate will have their own fear landscape chapter. Rita will have 10 fears, need ideas for those fears. One fear will be in relation to her sister's death.

Number of fears for the others

Myra: 11
Marlene: 8
Edward: 11
Lynn: 10
Suzy: 7
Uriah: 6 (two of his fears have already been decided, will need 7 more)
Caleb: 6
Will: 7
Tris: 6 (she will NOT have the intimacy fear)

Fear landscapes, the final rankings and job choosing plus an epilogue remains in this story. There will be NO sequel.

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