Hey guys! Can you believe we are on the very last two chapters of Convergent?! This is crazy! I can't believe it. It's been a along and great ride and I hope you have all enjoyed reading this story. I know have really enjoyed writing it! So in these last two chapters I have added some scenes that were never in the book or movie. I thought I would have a fight scene between Jeanine and Natalie and some flashbacks to when they were younger just to explain the hatred between the two. I thought it'd be interesting and I am super happy with the way this chapter turned out. I hope you like it!
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~Wallflower95
29
Then and Now
The city is quiet. So quiet. Not a sound. I have the gun in my hand as I walk down the empty streets. Many, many years, living in Milwaukee I never would have imagined this sort of future for myself. I was no longer the girl who ran away from home. I am Natalie Prior and I am Divergent.
I round the corner. Someone grabs me by the shoulders and shoves me against the wall. I have the gun pointed at his gut.
"Touch me and you die." I say calmly. He holds his hands up.
"I am not here to harm you, Natalie Prior." It's a boy, tall and blonde in different faction clothes. He has a cloth wrapped around his head, part of it covering one eyes. His one good eye looks at me.
"Who are you?" He shakes his head.
"Not important. I am only here to tell you that your daughter is in Abnegation." I'm staring at him. Who is he and why is he giving me this information.
"But you must hurry. Jeanine will kill her." My grip on the gun tightens. He slowly backs away from me, his hands still up.
"Hurry. Save your daughter." He disappears around the corner. I breathe out slowly. The serum they used to control the Dauntless, it didn't work on Beatrice. She was still awake and Jeanine has found out. I break out in a run. I have to get to her.
I have my gun ready. Screams and cries echo throughout Abnegation. I look around the corner. Men, women and children are lined up against the wall on their knees. I see many of the council members. The Dauntless stand before them with guns pointed in their faces. The Dauntless look mindless, controlled. My heart is pounding. I see friends, people I've worked with. They will all die. I cannot let that happen. Dauntless march out of one of the buildings. In between two Dauntless is a boy. Tobais... Four. He looks... normal. He is Divergent. The two Dauntless march him towards a car that is waiting for them farther down. Next to exit the building is none other than Jeanine Mathews. A feeling takes a hold of me. A feeling of pure hatred.
"Delicious food, Natalie." Jeanine sits in the kitchen, he body poised. Her blonde hair tied back in a bun. She wears a blue dress suit. She places her hands on the table as I clear the dishes. I smile politely.
"So, Jeanine, what can I do for you?" It's been a year since I married Andrew. We have settled down in Abnegation. Everything has been quiet and peaceful. Andrew was recently asked to join the Abnegation council. He spends most days working with the other council members. Jeanine leans forwards.
"I must admit, I was hoping your husband would be here so I may have spoken to him in person." Her lips are pursed, her blue cold eyes set on me. I am sitting across from her.
"Andrew is always busy. Trying to make this city a better place." I said with a smile. I can't say the same for her. I don't know her personally, but I know what Jeanine Mathews is capable of.
"As the new leader of the Erudite faction," she began. "I am now part of the city council." I nodded.
"I was hoping I could talk to Andrew about... certain subjects that were left unclear after his departure from Erudite." Jeanine said. I frowned.
"Why are you only coming to him about this now?" I asked.
"I am sure that is none of your concern." She said coldly.
"Andrew is my husband. Whatever he is managing is my concern." I said.
"I am sure a former Dauntless would not want anything to do with Erudite matters." Jeanine said. I leaned back in my chair, forcing myself to keep my mouth shut. I had a feeling she wanted to know what Andrew knew about their many projects and experiments.
"I am sure Andrew has nothing to say to you about any Erudite matters. He is no longer a part of it. He is Abnegation." I said.
"I have come to believe my father had shared something with Andrew before his untimely death." I knew what she was talking about. Project 12212. But I didn't want to say anything.
"Does it not seems strange that a perfectly healthy man with all the medical attention he could ever need just died in the middle of a speech of unsolved causes?" Jeanine's expression changes.
"It seems odd to me."
"My father died..."
"He didn't die. You killed him." Jeanine stood up so fast the chair she was sitting on crashed to the ground. I didn't take my eyes off her. In her own way Jeanine Mathews was a force to be reckoned with. But she did not strike fear in me. I pity her. She set out for power and to get it she had to kill the only family she had left. Desperate and alone.
"You may have everyone fooled. People believe that you are trying to change things. To make everything better. But I can see right through you. You are a murderer who only wants power and control." I said calmly. She glared down at me. Her looking at me like that reminded me of young she still was. How much the evil consumed her heart.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She snapped. I stood up and leaned against the table.
"I know about the serums, the projects, the experiments and about your father. I think your know exactly what I am talking about." She glared at me.
"I underestimated you, Natalie." She walked towards the door and looked back at me.
"That will never happen again."
She was close. Why do I despise Jeanine Mathews? Because she a is a cold hearted murderer. A dictator who would do anything to get what she wants. She had no guards on her. She was getting close to the wall I was hiding behind. I want her to suffer. As she stepped past me I reached out and pulled her into another building. She opens her mouth to scream but I have my gun pressed into her back.
"Stay silent or I'll put a bullet through you." She whipped around and stared at me.
"You should be dead." I smirked.
"Guess that didn't work for you." Jeanine chuckled and fixed her clothes.
"You're too late. Soon all of Abnegation will be destroyed and Erudite will take over. And then the Divergents will be eliminated." Beatrice. I point the gun at her face.
"Where is my daughter?" She smiles.
"Did you know about her? Tris? That's what she calls herself now. Tris. It is fitting."
"Where is my daughter?"
"She is Divergent, you know. Very strong willed. Doesn't give up. Such a shame that she must die." I resist the urge to hit her with my gun. That would make me just like her.
"You can't do it, can you?" Jeanine asked.
"I cannot believe you were in Dauntless. You can't even shoot a gun." I lean towards her.
"Believe me. It is taking every ounce of strength I have in me to keep myself from shooting you now." Jeanine laughs.
"I don't believe you." I lower the gun. Jeanine laughs.
"Cowards." My fist clenches and I swing. Jeanine falls sideways, her hand on her cheek.
"I've been wanting to do that for years." There's a yell and Jeanine throws herself at me. The gun flies out of my hand, sliding across the room. I throw her off of me.
"This isn't exactly a fair fight." I laugh. Jeanine glares at me.
"It doesn't matter because it won't change the fact that I have won." Jeanine picks up a chair and throws it at me. I dodge the object and run towards her. Erudite are not warriors but that wouldn't stop Jeanine. She grabs a sharp piece of wood and lashes out at me. I dodge it every time. She kicks at my leg. I twist her arm and throw her onto the ground. The air is knocked out of her.
"Not as young as we used to be, are we Natalie?" She spins and swipes under my legs with her leg. I fall to the ground. She kicks at my side.
"All those years you have stood by as I moved on with my plan. Why try to stop me now?" I grab a plate that was lying on the ground and throw it at her head. Jeanine stumbles backwards.
"Because you have my daughter!" I shove her into the wall and my hand is at her throat.
"You are a psychopath! You have murdered and deceived everyone. You have threatened this city and you have made life hell." Jeanine struggles against my grip but I have her pinned against the wall. She is no match for me.
"You have hunted down and killed everyone like me. You will not get my daughter." Her eyes widen.
"You're... you're divergent?" I smile.
"I have been here this whole time and you haven't noticed." I let her fall to the ground, she gasps.
"You will not win this." She looks up at me.
"All these years..."
"I was then... I am now. I am divergent." Jeanine launches herself at me. I pull her down by her hair. She yells in pain.
"Your day will come Jeanine... when you lose everything." I throw her to the ground and pick up the gun.
"You're right about one thing. I'm not a killer. I refuse to be like you." I shoot at the ground, right next to Jeanine's head. She flinches, her hands on her ears, her eyes closed shut. I walk out of the building. It's time to find Beatrice.
