After a restless night and a late breakfast, Eric and Tris make their way to Tori's apartment. They arrived at the same time as Christina and Peter. Peter looked rested and excited, whereas Christina looked nervous. Tori opens the door and lets them in. They go to the living room where Four was waiting.
"So, this is going to be weird but remember we are all friends, we are all coworkers and most importantly we are all on a mission." Four stated. "I don't know if Eric told you about the unspoken culture in Dauntless and about The Club."
"I didn't. I just skimmed through it with the Stiff." Eric responded.
"That's all right. I'm going to tell you about it." Then Four turns to Eric, "Eric, remind us of the Dauntless Manifesto."
Eric rolled his eyes at Four. Four was in complete trainer mode.
*"We believe that justice is more important than peace.
We believe in freedom from fear, in denying fear the power to influence our decisions.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
We believe in acknowledging fear and the extent to which it rules us.
We believe in facing that fear no matter what the cost to our comfort, our happiness, or even our sanity.
We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
We believe, not just in bold words but in bold deeds to match them.
We believe that pain and death are better than cowardice and inaction because we believe in action.
We do not believe in living comfortable lives.
We do not believe that silence is useful.
We do not believe in good manners.
We do not believe in empty heads, empty mouths, or empty hands.
We do not believe that learning to master violence encourages unnecessary violence.
We do not believe that we should be allowed to stand idly by.
We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery."*
"Thank you Eric. We all know that that's what we signed up for. However, those things that we believe in make our jobs and lives stressful. If you look around you, everyone is either fighting each other, shooting guns at each other or fucking each other. We do whatever it takes to relieve the stress because if we don't, it's going to make us sick." Four stops his monologue a second to look at his audience, making sure that they understand his points. "Fucking is one the best ways to relieve that stress. We acknowledged this by creating an underground secret society called The Club. And when I say "we", I'm not talking about either Eric or myself, this has existed way before we were initiated. The reason why it's a secret is because some people are assholes, some people prefer monogamy, some people don't like sharing, and some people straight up like the secrecy of it all."
"The purpose of The Club is to fuck whomever, however, whenever and not giving a fuck." Tori states. "When you go, you're going to see people you know, people you would never think would be there. You're going to see adultery and incest. You're going to…"
"What do you mean incest?" Christina quickly asks.
"Incest meaning that you're going to see brothers fucking sisters, cousins fucking cousins, fathers fucking daughters." Tori responds.
"Are you serious?" Christina asks in shock of what she's just heard.
"Yes. The Club was created for fucking as I stated. We don't judge. If you have a willing pussy and a working dick and can keep your mouth shut, we welcome you."
"When you say "we"," Peter jumps in, "that means that you're a regular?"
"Used to. When Four and I decided to get back together, I stopped going."
"Ah, okay."
"The only rule that The Club has is related to privacy. Keep your mouth shut. Once you step in there, you can't say no to a fuck. A woman can go to a man and suck on his dick, and a guy can come behind you and start fucking you. A guy might be fucking you from behind and another guy comes and pushes your head down and makes you suck his dick. That's how The Club works. Once you step foot in there, you are automatically giving everyone consent to fuck you." Tori explains.
"Question," Peter starts, "When you say that we are automatically given consent when we step in, does that include guy on guy? Because I honestly cannot take one for the team."
"There's a section specifically for that, so don't worry." Eric tells him and Peter visibly calms down.
"Wow." The only expression that came to Christina's head. She only had two lovers: Will and Peter, but after tonight she might have two hand-full and not even know their names. Truth be told, this started to turn her on.
"Now, some people don't trust others to keep their mouth shut so they wear masks. Usually women wear masks. I say "usually" because I've never seen a man wear it before. And I've been going there for years. Let me go get the masks." Tori quickly goes to her closet to get them.
"How are you guys feeling?" Four asks.
"Nervous." Christina was the first to answer.
"Curious." Peter cautiously responds not giving away his excitement with the concept of fucking multiple women tonight.
"Horny." Tris honestly responds, which earns her a deathly side-glance from Eric. "Oh don't look at me like that! I know you're all excited about the prospects of being fucked and sucked by different women. I just got the ovaries to say it!"
"You can go fuck yourself, Stiff."
"I won't need to since you're going to fuck me, Four's going to fuck me, Peter's going to fuck me, Max is going to…. No! Not Max! Eric you need to cockblock me from Max."
"Me? Oh no! You're too excited about being fucked, how can I take that excitement from you? Oh no, Stiff I'll hand you over to Max myself!"
"Don't worry, Tris. We'll all cockblock you from Max." Four tries t calm Tris' worry.
"Here." Tori says handing them not only masks but makeup. "The makeup is tattoo makeup to cover up your tattoos."
"Good idea, Tor." Tris says.
The masks that Tori handed out were masquerade masks from the old days. Tori opted for the black mask: it fully covered ¾ of her face with one side fully covered, while on the other side only her eyes and half of her cheek were covered. Christina was given the silver mask, which fully covered her face and was in the shape of a butterfly. Tris was given a black mask with white linings in the shape of a cat's face.
"Did Max tell you at what time he'd be there?" Four asks Eric.
"No, but he usually goes there in the afternoon by 2:30."
"Okay, so we go there at the same time. The girls will arrive together. You need to be there at 2:30 with Peter, when Max ask you why you brought him just say to show him the ropes and then Peter you need to start roaming around. You can't stay with Eric long unless you see the girls approaching. I'll happen to show up 5 minutes later."
"Sounds like a plan." Peter answers.
Four than turns to Christina, "Listen, if he's roaming, he's going to have some form of sexual encounter that will not be with either one of the girls. Remember that in case you see him fucking someone. Also remember, what happens down there is not considered cheating or adultery. A mission is at stake here."
"I understand and have accepted it." Christina says knowing that she'll be fucking herself.
"Good. Now it's already noon so we have 2:30 hours before the mission starts. This is what we're going to do: you boys go do whatever you need to do to prepare yourselves for this afternoon. The girls and I are going lingerie shopping and then back here to prepare." Tori instructs them.
With that each couple hug each other a little bit longer, kiss a little bit tenderly, whisper loving words out of fear that their actions might trigger a change in their relationship.
* The Dauntless Manifesto was copied and pasted from Divergent Wiki. I did not invent it. Veronica Roth did.
*Please review/comment. It encourages me.
