I totally forgot to add that that song in the last chapter isn't mine, it's Heart of the Darkness by Sam Tinnesz. Once again, big thanks to those who followed/favorited/reviewed!
She doesn't know what to think but one thing she realised in the sim room was that she realised who Lucifer's voice belongs to. Eric. Its a warped version of Eric's voice and slightly deeper. Her fear is being practically nothing to her family and friends and especially to Eric. Fuck. She rolls onto her side so she's facing the wall, cursing her mind.
It takes her probably ten more minutes to sort her thoughts out before she jumped down from her bunk and joined Flare on what was once Korey's bed. Issy sagged against Flare not even trying to hide her exhaustion.
"We made an agreement that we'd wait for the others to join us so we wouldn't have to keep repeating and reliving what our fear was today." Hector quietly mentioned and Issy was thankful for the thought. She raised an eyebrow at them when she spotted something familiar in Kayden's lap and they ducked their heads sheepishly.
"You don't mind do you? We just wanted to have a look." Kayden almost blushed and Issy laughed, shaking her head no.
"And maybe have a tatt designed for us?" Flare asked with puppy dog eyes. Issy grinned as she stood up and went to her locker by her bunk. She pulled out her drawing pencils and her coloured pencils and sat back on the bed next to Flare, taking the pad back from Kayden's lap and flipping to a new page. She looks at the three of them in turn, raising an eyebrow in question. Kayden, Hec and Flare loses themselves in thought until Flare raises her hand with a smile on her face. Issy smiles as she draws what Flare describes to her until fiery petals surround a beaten compass, the needle pointing North. Issy boxes the drawing off from the rest of the page and writes Flare's name above it.
"Next?" The next design was Hector's. It was a simple Latin phrase IN OMNIA PARATUS meaning 'Ready For Anything' in a red battered font. She boxed off the design and labelled it with his name. Kayden's took longer to complete. His was two shackles with a broken chain dangling down. When she was finishing the shading off, Alec sped into the room, straight towards Issy and practically glued himself to her side. She tried to move away so she could move her elbow to draw comfortably but Alec moved closer, eliminating any space between them.
"Do you not understand the concept of personal space?" She questions as she elbows him to move.
Alec shoots her a crooked smile but she notices it doesn't meet his eyes. "As your twin, I feel like it is my duty to remind you that we gave up the idea of personal space the moment we both decided to be stuck in the same small space for nine months." Their friends laugh as Issy mock glares at him.
"If you're referring to when mum was pregnant, I had no say in that!" Issy has an idea of what his fear was today so she begins to draw out a design. One side of it is a half of a blue dragon's head and the other half is a black wolf's head. Both creatures have golden eyes and Partners In Crime is curved below it. Alec squeezes her arm and backs away a bit.
Eleven designs later, all the initiates are in the transfer's dorms, grinning as Issy hands them their designs. They had yet to discuss their fears but they'd wait until everyone was comfortable on a bunk. Lilah sat next to Alec, Issy noticed that it was closer than normal but she didn't comment. Bree snuggled into Noah. Crystal and Meg sat on the bed next to Kayden and Hec and Sam, Luke and Charlie chose different beds around them. Issy had stayed on the bunk with Flare.
"So I have no idea how to start this," Kayden began. "So I'll go first. My fear today was needles. Fucking hate them."
Issy smirks lightly. "Do they have to hold you down too, huh?"
Kayden laughs. "How did you think Four got that nice shiner on his face?" The initiates laugh, all off them had noticed the new bruise Four was wearing this morning. It also explained the crashing about coming from the room.
"Caterpillars." Crystal cringes.
Slowly they all say their fears and Issy is surprised that all of their designs are based off of the fears from today or yesterday. They were in the midst of laughing as Luke and Sam described a prank the Pedrad brothers pulled on them in retaliation to dunking them in water when the door opened to Four and Eric. Their instructors appeared surprised and Four began shaking his head when some of the Dauntless borns started to get up.
"No, no! You're fine here." Four glanced around. "It's just that no one has seen any of you since you came out of the sim room so a search party was sent out." The initiates exchange a glance before bursting into a fit of giggles.
"Oops." Hector grins as he stands up and looks around the room, his gaze falling on Issy. "It's fine we were all about to go to the tattoo shop anyway." A roar of approval comes from most of the boys as everyone either stands up or jumps down from the bunks. They pile out of the room leaving their confused instructors behind.
Meg pushes Sam into a wall before yelling. "Tag! You're it!" The initiates run after her yelling and laughing as they push people out of the way, racing to the Pit. Through trickery and straight out cheating, Bree made it to the shop first. Every head in the shop popped up as the initiates fell into the main room puffing and panting lightly as Bree did a victory dance.
"May we help you?" Tori asked as Bud watched from over the rim of his mug.
"Yeah, we'd like some tattoos done?" Hec said smirking.
"Who does?" Josh looked between them all as they grinned, raising a hand and laughing as the artists groaned. "Call in any workers Bud. This is gonna take time." Issy pushed Kayden to Josh as Meg followed Tori and Hec and Lilah followed two more artists, a female with a purple pixie cut called Lexi and Owen who is skinny and ginger.
Issy watched as her friends got their tattoos done. As soon as one was finished another started soon after. Like Josh had asked, Bud had called in more workers and she was surprised when Tris turned up, leading Flare to a station. With Tris came two males and two females. They introduced themselves as Andy, black hair with green highlights, Dean, every bit of his skin inked up to the max, Annika, long blonde hair and loads of ear piercings and Tessa, she was the only one that looked relatively plain until she stuck her tongue out and that was pierced everywhere. 'I think I'll just stick with the one I've got.' She loved how Kayden's turned out especially. The shackles went around his wrists and the chain fell down to his elbows with the broken link just above his bone. She also liked how Luke's turned out. His fear today was falling and so he asked her to design a pair of black feathery wings to go on his shoulder blades and down to his elbows. Issy liked how some of the girls' tatts looked too. Flare's came out quite nicely as did Crystal's. She got purple and teal butterflies flying up her leg.
The queues went down until Issy was sat at Josh's station, Alec was on her left with Owen, Bree was on her left with Tris and Noah was with Tori. They were the only initiates left in the shop as it had gotten pretty late and they still had sims in the morning. The rest of extra help had also left once the remaining workers said they could handle it. Issy drew herself a small design to go behind her right ear. It was a small version of Lucifer, from her fear sim that day, howling.
Around ten o'clock, the four of the tiptoed into the dorms, laughing quietly to each other as Alec tripped over a bar. Issy's head hit her pillow with a smile on her face.