A/N: Hi, One here to bring you an Archer chapter, let's see how far I get with it before Three interrupts me. -Not very far, hehe-


****Archer's POV****

"Archer, you remember what Jared said? I remember." Lilly says and it shocks me. Remember's what? Some memories? This amazes me. I lean into kiss Lilly again and I get pulled into one of the memories. I might just remember.

I sit in Erudite headquarters. I sit in the room Krissy and I share. Krissy isn't in the room, but some 12 year old is. She looks like Lilly, but younger. I look down at my skin. I no longer see the tattoos all over my skin. All I see is the Eye tattoo on my wrist. 'Jer made this' I think to myself.

"Mommy bugs me sometimes," Lil says.

"I know, I know," I say, "We just got to learn to make it through. Once it hits 3 months before your and Jer's choosing ceremony, all this will change. The worst part is we won't remember..." I say quieting my voice at the end.

"Each other," Lilly finishes my sentence. "I don't want to think about that Archy! I can't stand to think about us not even remembering each other! I can't stand to think that way!" she yells.

I cover my face with my hands. The life we are going to live in about 3 years will be lie. We will be living a lie. Jer, Krissy, Lil, and I. Plus Kat and Jay! Our lives will be a lie. "I hope Matt follows through in giving us our memories back. He said when he would put us through our fear landscape he would give us our memories back instead. I sure hope Jeanine doesn't kill him by then. All we can do is hope" I say, leaning in to kiss her. We had just revealed our romantic feelings for each other last month, and were testing the waters.

I come out of the memory when my lips hit Lil's, and I quickly pull away. Matt was supposed to give us our memories back? I wish we hadn't killed Matt!

"Lil...," I say but then quickly correct myself, "Lilly, I remember now too. How much do you remember?" I ask her.

"I saw like one old memory of Jer," she says and then corrects herself too, "Jared and the Eye symbol. Did you know he created it?" I ask.

"I actually didn't," I reply.

"Well he did, and I sorta, sorta feel like I've kissed you before Archy," she says. She said Archy like she said in my memory.

"I hope we get more of these memories," I say grinning, then I look down at Jared, "I wonder how much he remembered."

"Well, now where do we go from here?" Lilly asks me.

I think for a moment. "You go on trial, make up something about Jared. I have the truth serum in you already, we were preparing to take you out within the next few minutes."

New guards can be heard running down the hall, panting from the exertion. One of them comes in the doorway and trips over Jared. I do my best not to laugh and instead help him up.

"We, we heard there was some kind- some kind of problem!" he pants.

"Ya, well you just tripped over it, balatro." Balatro is Latin for idiot.

"Watch it Cross," The Eye member says, emphasizing my last name, "I'm Jake and we are here to take Lilly to the council for her trial."

Something turns in my head. My last name may not actually be Cross. Thats just what they have called me in Dauntless. What else could be a lie? Could Archer just be a nickname? I hear a name echo in my head "Daniel Anderson". So all this is a lie. We need to speak to Jeanine immediately about this and figure out how to get our memories back. These fake memories need to be thrown in the trash!

Jake walks over to Lilly and I stop myself before I reach out and strangle Jake for touching Lilly. I won't do this. Lilly goes easily down the hallway. I find myself picking up Jared and slinging him over my shoulder. When I walk out the door, I see the two dead guards. I try not to think about the life they could have been living for Jared to just kill them. Instead I keep walking.

We reach the room and they sit Lilly down on the opposing side of the glass from me. Edna starts asking her questions.

"State your name," Edna says.

"Lilith..." Lilly is thinking of her last name. Does she go with the fake one or Jeanine's? "Matthews" she says and I hear the lady gasp.

She starts muttering words to the other Eye members and I hear some of the phrases. "She should have already known." "We should inform Jeanine." "Has she been under a rock?"

I look at Lilly sitting in the chair confused why they stopped asking questions. I feel Jared start to move on my shoulder. "Wake up sleepy head," I say.

"Unhand me and listen to me! We are all filled..." Jared starts and I cut him off.

"We realize that dipwad," I say flicking him on the head. Little punk doesn't understand what's going on.

"Then do something, oh wonderful Eye member," he says relaxing in my arms.

I feel my eyes roll. "Like what? It's not as though I can just prance my way in there and tell them that I need Lilly to come with us to question Jeanine. She's in the middle of her trial!"

Jared's mouth twitches. "What about Kat? She... she..." and like that the strong Jared starts crying in my arms.

"She what?" I ask hesitantly. "What happened? I can't help you if I don't know."

"Al...Al... Alex has her. And I left her to find Lilly. I am a terrible person. I don't deserve to live, have to eye execute me," he says bawling into my shoulder.

"No, you don't. Listen, as soon as they let Lilly go, then we'll go find Kat. Then we'll find Jeanine." I can only hope I'm right. They may not let us leave.

Jared clutches onto that piece of hope and stops his crying. I look back into the room to find Lilly already being led out. What happened?

"Cross," Kamelia says, "Take her to one of the rooms. She's been cleared. We have to contact Jeanine."

I nod my head and am thankful for my good luck. She points to Jared.

"He needs to be questioned though. He killed two guards, and I think you know the penalty."

I take a deep breath and decide once I get Lilly we can think of something. I can't let Jared die, we still need him to tell us what he remembers.I tell myself that I'm just as much Erudite as her.

"You think my mother will let you touch me?" Jared asks testing his luck. If they let Lilly wiggle free with the knowledge of knowing she was related to Jeanine, then the same might go for Jared.

"Who's your mother winged boy?" Jake asks. I had forgotten Jared had his shirt off. Jake could see my tattoo on Jared's back.

I can see Jared thinking in his head. "Lilith is my sister, you do the math eye boy," Jared says mimicking Jake's comment on his tattoo.

Jake's face looks like a lemon. The comment must have irritated him. Eye boy. Good one Volatilis boy.

"Just go," Jake says, rolling his eyes.

I grab Lilly's hand and start down the hall with Jared still on my back. "Kat here we come," I say, hoping we aren't too late.

We reach an apartment, the one we found Jared praying in last time. I hear something coming from the couch. I make my way over there, setting Jared down, with my gun at the ready. It still has some knock-out serum left.

I find Kat laying practically on top of Alex. They are both asleep, and Kat is fully clothed. I wonder if she's had any memories yet. I decide to simply not deal with Alex, wanting to go find Jeanine. I put the gun right beside his head, feeling the stares of Jared and Lilly behind me, and shoot. Alex's eyes fly open before closing again.

Kat wakes up with a start and looks all around the room. When she see's Jared, she runs over and hugs him.

"Jared! I- I thought Alex was going to kill you. How did you find Archer and Lilly?" she says.

Jared looks to us dry-mouthed and unable to talk.

"Have you heard of the Eye?" Lilly asks her. She shakes her head. "It's a group created by Jeanine. Archer's in it. I found out he was in it during Truth or Dare, and afterwards he took me there. Jared found us, and we discovered we all had memories coming back to us."

She nods. "Ya! Who put the fake ones there? All I remembered was that Jay and I were siblings and we knew you three."

I furrow my brows. "Matt? What about him?"

She shrugs. "I don't know, something about a youth serum. And… and he's my dad."

Lilly gasps. I swear I see her eyes glisten with tears. "I killed him!"

I grab her hand. "You didn't know. We have to find Jeanine. We have to know what's going on."

Jared pipes up, "Well, I know Jeanine planted the memories in us. I know I drew the Eye symbol."

"Maybe Matt was helping her," Lilly says. "I saw Jared making the tattoo, too. I helped him, I think…"

"We need to go," I say, only to come face to face with another Eye member.

"Archer?" he asks, genuinely confused.

I punch him in the face to knock him out cold. "Yeah," I reply.

We run out of the Dauntless compound, make it onto the train, and stare down the Erudite headquarters. It's where we all grew up. It's where we all might just die, depending on Jeanine's plan for us.

Just before we are about to scale the building to sneak in, we hear a voice behind us.

"You guys realize there's a back door not five feet from here, right? I swear, Lilly, you're the stupidest Erudite I've ever seen."

I turn to see Lilly staring at a man in the shadows, mouth wide open. Her eyes are glistening. She flings herself at him, as does Kat. I hop down off of the small ledge I was using to see inside the window.

Jared's breath hitches, and I finally see who it is.

"Matt?" I ask.


A/N: CLIFFIE! Yep, you can thank One and Three for that. MWAHAHA! You're welcome!