I cut this along with a few other things because it didn't really add much to the story and I wanted to trim out 3-4k words of filler.


"Are you sure about this?" Tris hovered behind Christina while she unloaded her backpack in search of something.

"Yes." Christina was determined.

"You can't take something like this back."

"He started it. He knew exactly what would happen." She pushed even deeper, groping around under her clothes.

"And, what are we doing?" The two girls jumped when his voice boomed behind them.

"Nothing." Christina yelped, clasping her bag shut.

He evaluated them from shifty eyes to the backpack in Christina's hands to the white bag on the floor, he repeated, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing. There's nothing going on." Tris said as calmly as she could, stepping forward and pushing him around and back.

"Tris?"

"It's nothing, really," she insisted.

"Something," Four persisted, pushing back past her and crossing his arms.

"You're too skinny to be intimidating." Christina rolled her eyes, restarting her hunt in her bag.

"Fine, just don't come griping to me," he dropped his arms and turned around to find something else to do.

"God, sensitive little flower. We're pranking Zeke, okay?" Christina held up the white bag as evidence.

Four's mouth twitched in disgust, "What's in there?"

"Snakes," Tris shrugged with a small smile.

"That's just wrong."

"Zeke put a bunch of dead moths in my jacket pockets. Two can play that game." Christina declared, finally curling her fingers around the small pouch of lock-picks.

He shot a glance at Tris, she just shrugged with acceptance. Christina closed her backpack, pocketed the picks and then opened the top of the bag, a pillowcase, to thrust it at him. A half dozen little snakes were piled on top of each other.

"Don't touch me with those." Four stepped back quickly.

"Not you, too?" Christina pulled out a little Gartner snake and let it dangle out of her hand.

Tris started to reason with her, again, "Christina, you saw him camping. He came out the tent almost naked he was so freaked out."

"Moths. In. My. Jacket!" Christina punctuated each word.

"So, what's your plan?" Four was feeling a little old for pranks but expediting the activity meant more time with Tris.

"Pick his locks and put them in his apartment. Bed, shower, pots and pans…"

"You know he lives with Shauna, right?"

"Casualty of war." Christina was determined.

"And if he doesn't find the snakes? They could die. Come on." Four started down the hall.

"Moths!"

"I know, I know. If you want this to work, you have to make sure he's going to find them. And that means you have to put them in his gear. Plus, everyone on patrol will see."

Four watched the door and distracted a few members while Christina lowered a snake into each of Zeke's boots, his patrol jacket, and even slid a small one into a pocket on his utility belt. Tris did her part in coming up with the placements and then helping with the distraction.


In case you missed it, I posted a new story "Can I get a Pikachu". It's... uh... very different from Something New, but people seem to like it. I might make something more out of it, but I'm in the middle of re-writing a lot of SN stuff.