Disclaimer - I Don't own Divergent, it's characters and I do not get any money for this fanfiction
Welcome back to another exciting episode!
Time for everyone's favourite game and iconic scene... Capture the Flag!
Now Enjoy!
Tris didn't see Four during dinner so she didn't get a chance to thank him and give him back his jacket, instead she opted to wear it for 'safekeeping', at least that was the excuse she was using to secretly wrap her body in his scent.
After lights out, later that night they were all abruptly woken up by Four and Eric barging into the dorm followed by some other Dauntless members yelling that they had fifteen minutes to get suited up in their riot gear and get to the train or become factionless.
Christina and Tris looked at each other from their bunks confused as hell before scrambling to the end of their beds to retrieve their gear and quickly get dressed.
"What's going on?" Christina questioned as she slammed her foot into her boot.
"No idea." Tris replied.
From the other side of the room they could hear the Dauntless born yahooing that the game was afoot! and to hurry up so they could get started.
Quickly Tris threw on Four's jacket and ran over to Uriah as he finished tying his shoelace. "What's going on?"
Uriah grinned up at her "Shhhhh, it's a secret." He looked over at Marlene as she stood, then turned back to Tris "Time to run!" The pair of them grinned as they grabbed each other's hand and ran out the door followed closely by Lynn.
Tris looked over at Christina, then at the boys and nodded as they all took off after the trio.
Once they arrived at the tracks they were told to get a hand-rifle from the table and a small cartridge bag from the next. Uriah and his friends already had their rifles and bags slung over their shoulders and were looking rather excited as they talked amongst themselves.
Tris grabbed the closest hand-rifle to her, it felt both light and heavy in her hands. Looking at it closer she noticed the barrel was wider than it should be and it really looked like no gun they had been shown yet. Picking up a bag from the next table she opened it and saw the cartridges were packed with small syringe darts.
Christina, Will and Al came up to stand in a line next to her as she closed the bag and attached it to her waist, then slung her gun across her shoulder by the strap. They all walk up to the platform and stand by their leaders.
"How long till the train gets here?" Eric asked Four.
Four looked down at his watch, "Two minutes." Then over at Eric, "When are you going to learn the timetables for yourself?"
"Why should I when I have you to remind me?" Eric smirked.
Eric turned around and started to count everyone behind Tris and her crew, he looked grumpy for a second then shook his head. She could hear Peter behind her complaining about being up at an 'ungodly hour'. Guess he made it she sighed to herself.
The train arrived and they all made the jump. Once inside they were all herded into one carriage.
"Alright everyone, it's a tradition in Dauntless that we play a couple of games during initiation, this one is one of the simpler ones, it's like capture the flag, only with guns." Four smirked.
Eric held up his gun, "Weapon of choice."
"You call these guns?" Molly snickered.
Eric turned the gun on her and shot her in the leg. She screamed as she slid down the wall of the train, clutching at her leg. Eric casually walked over to her and pulled the dart none too gently out of her leg. Holding it up to show everyone, "Nerve darts." He rolled it between his fingers, "They stimulate being shot like a real gun." Smirking down at Molly, "It only lasts a couple of minutes."
He took two steps to stand back next to Four "There will be two teams, each headed by myself and Four."
"You're the leader, you pick first." Four said boredly.
"Okay," Eric smirked as he looked around the carriage. "Edward."
Edward walked over to stand beside Eric.
Four looked around the carriage of the train as if the whole thing was boring him, then looked down "I'll take the Stiff."
"Ah," Eric replied, "Picking the weak ones so you have someone to blame when you lose." He laughed.
"Something like that." Four replied, meeting Eric's eyes with a mischievous smile.
Tris rolled her eyes from where she stood against the back wall and looked at Christina.
They continued to pick their teams until everyone was divided up evenly, transfers and Dauntless born. At first Tris thought Eric might be right, that Four was only picking the 'weak' people, then she noticed that while he did indeed pick all the small people, they were all the fast people that had endurance rather than Eric's team that was mostly made up of strength - bar Edward -. Endurance vs Strength. Eric may be strong and that matched his team, but Four was smart, which she guessed matched his.
"Okay, the game is simple, get the other team's flag and try not to get shot." Eric smirked at Four, "Your team can get off second."
"What's everyone else here for?" Asked a Dauntless born.
Eric just smirked, "Spectating, and to run a little interference."
Al looked at Tris from the other side of the carriage, he ended up on Eric's team, because he did have strength even if he hated using it. Eric stood by the door and told his team to get ready to jump.
Once the train made its way to the other side of the playing field – which turned out to be an old carnival ground Will informed them – Four told them to jump.
Four led them to the inside of the closest building. It was dark and there was broken glass everywhere. He pulled his backpack off his shoulders and pulled out a smaller bag that had small light badges in it that were lit up with the colour blue.
One by one he handed them each a badge, stopping at Tris as he eyed his jacket that she was wearing, smirking slightly as he handed her a badge and kept walking.
Once done he went back to his bag and pulled out a large glowing blue cloth. "We are team Blue." He said in a hushed voice holding up the cloth, "This is our flag that we must protect at all costs."
"How are we meant to protect it if all we have are the weakest players?" Laughed one of the Dauntless born.
Tris rolled her eyes at him for not seeing the obvious ,"Eric may have made his team based on who he thinks is the strongest players, but Four made his team for speed." Tris said bordly.
"Oh,"
Four smirked before addressing the team. "Okay I'm assuming I don't need to explain the rules to you so it's up to you guys to formulate a plan."
Everyone started to chat about what to do and where to hide the flag. The 'chat' quickly escalated into a heated debate between half saying they should attack as soon as possible, while the other half saying they should wait till the other team attacked first.
Someone from the group yelled out to Four asking him where his team hid their flag, he replied he won't tell them but Uriah spilled the beans since his brother graduated with Four.
Sighing Tris quietly made her way out of the building, careful not to make a sound and checking that no one was around.
Pondering she looked around. She needed to get somewhere high to get a better look at the layout of the place. Looking up she saw a couple of one and two story buildings, but nothing with a good vantage point to look from.
Turning on the spot she saw some of the rides over the top of the buildings. The rollercoaster looks unstable, but the ferris wheel looked stable enough. Keeping to the shadows she made her way to the ferris wheel.
As she approached it Tris heard someone coming up behind her and readied her gun. Turning around swiftly she aimed and was about to shoot when she saw Four smiling at her holding up his hands, "Don't shoot?" He laughed.
"For heaven's sake Four, I almost shot you!" Tris growled at him.
"Lucky for me you're a lousy shot then." He said, smirking as he lowered his arms.
"Want to test that theory?" She asked, pressing the barrel to his chest.
He continued to smirk at her as he walked forward into the gun, making Tris either have to lower her weapon or possibly risk hurting him. Grumbling she lowered her gun.
Four's smirk turned into a large grin as he asked, "What are you doing?"
Tris swung her gun back over her shoulder and turned to point at the ferris wheel, "I need a vantage point, so I'm going up there."
She began to walk towards the wheel again with Four following her. "You're insane."
"Maybe, but with a better view of the surroundings, I think we can come up with a better plan."
When she reached the base of the wheel she unhooked the chain over the gate and climbed up to the platform with the ladder leading up into the ferris' wheel. Testing her weight on the first couple of runs she jumped. They creaked a bit but held. Smiling Tris started to climb.
After she'd climbed a few runs she heard Four also begin to climb. "You don't have to follow me." She said as she stopped to look down at him.
"Yes I do."
"Fair enough, just don't slow me down."
Tris started to rapidly ascend the ladder, climbing higher and higher up the ferris' wheel, Four following closely behind. As they got higher the wind became stronger.
"How about here, is this high enough?" Four questioned.
Looking around Tris saw several buildings in her way, preventing her from seeing further out. She shook her head, "No, we need to go higher."
"Are you even human?" Four yelled up at her as she continued to climb.
Tris stopped and looked down at him, she could see the slight tremor in the way he held the ladder and when he looked back up at her, she swore he looked whiter than earlier. Then it occurred to her, "You're afraid of heights, aren't you?"
"We're all afraid of something." He said looking up directly into her eyes.
Tris leaned out from the ladder smiling down at him "I didn't think you were afraid of anything." A large gust of wind took the pair by surprise and threw Tris to the side. In the process one of her arms was thrown from the ladder, leaving her partially hanging from the side of it.
"Tris hold on!" Four yelled, climbing up to her.
Tris started to laugh as she pulled herself back up to a two handed hold on the ladder and adjusted herself back to the middle. Four came up behind her pressing her to the ladder with his body. "Are you okay?" He asked slightly panicked.
Tris took a deep breath, his scent filling her senses relaxing her into the warmth of his body against hers, "What a rush." She laughs again.
"You're mad you know that." He joked.
"Yep." She smiled against him.
As she smiled up at him she felt something start jabbing her in the side, its hardness making her uncomfortable. She tried to move slightly hoping to move whatever it was aside, her actions though caused Four to hiss, "Please don't move!"
Tris touched his face, "Are you okay?" Concern lacing her voice.
Four bit his lip and nodded, but didn't answer her, making Tris think that he was somehow hurt. "Just give me a minute." He said as he leant forward, head resting on Tris' shoulder as took a deep breath. "Shit that made it worse."
"Four what's wrong?" Tris started to panic.
"When I pull away from you I want to turn around and start climbing again, okay?" He said through clenched teeth.
Tris nodded slowly not understanding what was happening. Four slowly pulled away from her and Tris did what she was told, she turned around though not quick enough because he hissed again and yelled "Go!"
Tris started to ascend the ladder again, increasing her speed until she reached the landing. Sitting on it she waited for Four to reach her. It took him a while but he eventually reached the landing.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah." Four nodded. "Is this high enough for you?"
Tris looked around and found there were still a few buildings in her way making her shake her head as she looked up. They'd run out of ladder but there were still the spokes from the ferris' wheel that were within arm's reach.
"I need to get higher."
"Seriously!?" Four yelled shaking his head. "You should be taking it easy, you've taken a few hard beatings in the past couple of days."
Tris ignored him as reached up for the first spoke and started to climb again. "I'm surprised you even noticed the first one, I saw you left during my first fight. In fact," She said bitterly "The last thing I had to see was Eric walking towards me."
"Yeah well, it's not something I wanted to watch." Said Four, she was barely able to hear him above the wind.
They continued to climb until Tris was above the buildings surrounding them. The view was amazing and the wind felt fresher. Four came up beside her and wrapped an arm securely around her.
"See this isn't so bad." Tris smirked.
Four looked around and she though she saw a slight nod from him, then he stupidly looked down and pales again. "Yeah….. sure" He swallowed, his voice becoming strained as he clung tighter to her.
"How do you cope with walking around in the pit if you're afraid of heights?" She questioned him.
"I don't look down." He responded tightly. "Are we done?"
Tris looked around and spotted the other teams flag on the other side of the carnival ground hanging in the middle of a flat open area. "Over there," She pointed. "See."
"Typical." Four replied dryly, "They're in the picnic area, it's all flat and open."
"We can head down now if you want."
Four nodded and was the first to descend. They made it about halfway down the ladder when one of the ladders runs dropped out from below Tris. Her body swung out to the side and Four's hand shot up and grabbed a hold of her under his jacket. His hand touched her skin and fire spread through Tris' body starting at the point his hand touched. Four pulled Tris back onto the ladder and left his hand there holding her securely to it.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
Tris nodded, not trusting her voice.
"Let's keep going." He said letting go of her leaving her feeling slightly cold.
They reach the bottom and make their way back to the building they left others in. To their surprise everyone is still there and are now in a heated argument.
Over the top of them Tris yelled, "I know where the other team is."
Everyone stopped arguing and looked at her, "How?" Growled Lynn.
"While you were all squabbling over what to do, Tris went and climbed the ferris wheel and found their location."
Christina smiled at Tris, "Okay Tris, what do we do next?"
"Hey! Who died and put her in charge?" Molly growled next.
Christina growled back, "Since she's actually doing something you dumb bitch."
This shut Molly up pretty quickly, probably because she didn't really have an argument to back herself up.
"Right Tris, what's the plan?" Uriah chimed in happily.
Tris grinned at them all, "We need to split into two teams, the larger on the offence and smaller on the defense. The smaller defense team will take our flag and keep it on the move, keeping to the light."
"Phft, why the light?" Molly retorted. "Wouldn't it be better to keep it hidden somewhere in the dark?"
Tris grabbed a flashlight and shone it on the glowing flag. The moment the light touched it it all but disappeared. "Light reflects light, Tris you're a genius." Boast Will as he holds the flag.
"The larger offence team will split again into two teams, team one will draw fire away from team two, who will sneak up behind the Red team and steal their flag."
"Why does one team have to be bait?" Quips Molly.
"They're in an open space. We'd never make it to their flag with a full frontal assault, so unless you have a better plan Molly, Shut the Hell Up." Four said dryly.
Tris turned to Molly and faced her head on, "Molly, Do you want to win?" She asked her simply.
Molly seemed to think about it for a second then smirked and nodded.
"Good." Said Tris. "Let's go."
Four and Tris divide up the teams according to what they think each is best at.
Molly actually volunteered to lead the 'attack' saying she just wanted a chance to shoot people, Tris didn't really like the idea, but she wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Four, Christina and her were going to be the ones going for the flag while Uriah, Marlene and Lynn offered to go with Molly. The rest guarded their flag and were told to keep it moving and stay in the light no matter what.
Team one took up their position at the front of the park, while team two made their way to the back. They sat quietly and waited for team one to start the distraction decoy, it didn't take long for the Red team to start their defense push the wrong way.
While the Red team was preoccupied with the decoy group, team two stuck to the shadow of the large tree in the center of the park to cover them as they quickly made a dart for the red flag. Coming slowly around one side of the tree they all suddenly come to a stop, seeing Eric and Peter protecting the flag on the other side. Carefully and quietly they split up and make their way around either side of the tree.
"Pst!" Four called out to Eric and Peter from one side, waving at them then pointing behind them, "Behind you." He smirked.
Eric and Peter both turn around quickly and come face to face with Christina and Tris, smiling sweetly at them. The girls shoot them both twice each - for good measure - at the same time, making both boys drop to the ground like sacks of potatoes, while Tris grabed the flag, throwing it at Christina. Tris smiled at her as Christina began to wave it in the air announcing their win.
I hope this was enjoyable. I added a few funny things ~_^
Comments and Kudo's are always welcome.
Spoilers Sweety -
On the next episode of Alternate Divergance - Tris does target practice but how did she become the target?