Smirking, she pulled out her speaker and places it on an empty station before she turns it on. It beeped three times before it connected with her phone and a song automatically started to play. Cheers go up making Issy laugh a little as she goes to where her bike is parked and she wheels it to her station.
Three days passed and Issy had finished her training early that day. It was her and Hec's last day of training and Captain said they had passed with flying colours. She and Hec had the weekend off before their squad was put back onto the patrol rota and started some real work and Issy was looking forward to it.
She passed Alec in the hallway as she walked to her flat, smirking as he flinched and avoided her gaze, trying to get away from her as quickly as possible. Two days beforehand she knew little of a prank that Alec was going to play on Cody but she didn't know when and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thick green slime had covered her mostly from head to toe and Alec froze. Cody muffled his laugh as Alec paled, his mouth parted and eyes wide and even paler golden blue. Slowly Issy had flicked some of the slime off of her hands with a frown before glancing at her brother, her own eyes bright and promising. Her lips twitched, remembering how Alec had gulped and a slight shake took over his body. She walked up to him in three long strides and stopped when they were shoulder to shoulder. Alec swallowed again, the shake in his limbs strengthened as she raised an eyebrow in his direction before walking away silently. Now, every time Issy had seen Alec he had flinched or swallowed nervously. If there's anyone who knows Issy well, its Alec and Alec knows that she doesn't wait around for no reason with payback. If Issy was being honest, she liked Alec's reaction but she wasn't drawing his torture out on purpose. No, Issy had a plan and it took her two days to complete. It was a leaf out of Alec's book and she couldn't wait, nor could she wait for the other things she's had planned since somewhere in initiation.
Her musings were cut short when someone placed a hand on her shoulder and turned her around. Red stood behind her huffing slightly.
"Do you know you walk really fast when you're lost in thought?" He asks rhetorically but Issy shakes her head in an answer anyway. "No? Well you do. Captain wanted me to remind you that the squad is meeting up at the main entrance at seven and to wear warm clothes."
Issy nods her head once. Captain had said something along the same lines that morning and the rest of the squad looked raring to go. "Did I get to know why yet?"
Red smirks at her pout. "You'll find out in a few hours." He winks as he takes a step back. "Don't worry, it'll be fun."
"It better be." She shouts as she watches as Red heads back towards the Pit, no doubt heading back to his flat to get out of his uniform and shower before getting ready for whatever Captain has planned.
When she gets to her door she pauses. Issy frowns before shaking her head after thinking she heard something in her flat. As she unlocks the door, she swears somethings up and when she opens her door she knows why. Cheers roar and she finds herself blushing as she laughs. Most of her friends have squished themselves around the coffee table, which happens to have many glasses scatted across it. Eric and Hugo sit in the two seater opposite the door with Dec sitting in front of Eric with a space to his left and Alec to his right and Josh on the other side of Alec. Sam sits in the chair to the left of the door with Luke on the floor to his left and on the three seater in between the other two pieces of furniture is Noah with Bree sat in between his legs, Flare and Kayden with Lilah sat in front of Flare and Cody sat next to her.
Her first question isn't how they got in but rather she shakes her head in amazement, smiling widely. "What the hell?"
Most laugh in response, sharing secretive and almost giddy looks that she only just managed to catch, and Issy looks to Hugo and Josh for an actual reply. "We're celebrating the fact that you and Hec have finished your training!" Josh holds his beer bottle up to her in a salute. Honestly, she should have expected this. When Cody had been the first to finish his training, nearly everyone had come together to celebrate it and then when Kayden and Sam finished their training on the fence it happened again. Now it just seemed to be the thing to do but Issy wondered just how long they had this planned for and how the hell they managed to do it without her or Hec knowing.
Issy unclipped her keys from her belt loop and put them in a bowl she keeps next to the door which is currently filled several clusters of keys. She pulled her hair out of the bun it was in as she walked across the room but she spotted something that had her halting in her tracks. Most of the room froze and those that didn't, snickered into their hands. In two long strides Issy was beside Hugo and yanking her whiskey away. "Emergencies only! This isn't an emergency!" Her brothers groaned half heartedly as she placed it on the counter before she jumped up and kneeled on the counter so she could hide it on the top cupboard.
"Told you so!" Bree sang from where she sat and Hugo stuck his tongue out in retaliation.
Her friends carried on chatting aimlessly as she jumped down and headed to her room to pick out a pair of leggings and a loose knitted jumper. Issy carried her clothes into the bathroom with her and started to run her shower as she began to undress and throw her training gear in the hamper full of washing. Once washed, changed and now hungry, Issy emerged from the bathroom with thick socks on and her hair braided to one side. She settled herself in front of Hugo and in between Dec and Bree, smirking slightly when she noticed Alec shuffling away an inch or so. Currently Josh was ranting about his opinion about the idea of using a new method of tattooing. As she listened she understood that the new method was just a patch that was connected to a computer. Like scoring with a laser, Luke said, except it was with ink on skin instead. Apparently it was also faster and less painful too, but Issy didn't like the idea.
"I have to agree with Josh on this." She said glancing at Luke, Alec and surprisingly Flare, who were arguing against Josh's claim, and disapproval was clear on their faces as Issy spoke up. Josh pointed in her direction with pride as she carried on. "And, by what I've gathered so far, these computers will need to be very close to the chairs meaning probably at least half of the current stations in the room having to be scraped so the computers are spaced so they won't over heat and die." Issy picked up who she assumed was Hugo's bottle of beer and took a sip.
Cody nods his head at Issy's words. "They'd also have to transfer all of the designs of the books onto a shared system that would take a lot of time up."
"And," Josh beamed, shaking his finger at the trio. "In that time we could lose customers because of the lack of stations and within that time."
"But they're quicker!" Luke argued. "And less –"
Issy cut him off with one look of her golden irises. "I'm sorry but if someone doesn't want any pain then don't get a fucking tattoo." She grins slightly as Josh fist pumps the air and raises his other hand to high five Issy. "Or just get a better tolerance to pain."
"That's easier said than done in all fairness." Kayden interjects with a sheepish look as he shuffles about but the look quickly shifts into something more feral as he looks her over. "But its not like you could do anything about helping with tolerance, could you Erudite?" A laugh bursts from Alec and he quickly slaps a hand over his mouth as she leans forward slightly, her own wicked grin on her face with a small layer of amusement and joking floating between the group.
"Come at me Amity and find out." She taunts and an elbow hits her ribs the same time Flare smacks Kayden's thigh. She turns to Dec with a carefree grin and a small laugh as he watches her with raised eyebrows.
"No fighting children." He points at them and Eric chuckles behind him when she and Kayden pout in response.
The door burst open then and Zeke bounded in followed by his brother and Hec, all of which were carrying plastic bags. "We bring food!" He shouts cheerily in a way only Zeke could do and people get up towards the island.
Uri spins around with a frown on his face. "You haven't decorated yet!" He looks towards Issy as he sets his own bags on the counter for people to dig through. "What, you need help with that too?"
Issy laughs and shakes her head as she gets up. "I haven't had the time and Bree's gonna help me with it this weekend." She slaps Zeke's outstretched arm away from the bottle of whiskey when she gets to the kitchen area. "Ah no!" She sidesteps around him and slaps Uri's arm harder. "No!" She shouts and their friends laugh even more. Almost in a whisper she hisses at them. "Do that again and I might just let slip my almost accident around Declan..." She sees the brothers pale slightly, their eyes flickering to Dec. "Careful, you know how he and Eric seem to be attached to the hip most days." Issy can't help it when a shiver runs down her spine at their reactions. She's joking mostly, but they don't need to know that. Uri and Zeke quickly busy themselves with other things as Issy pulls a draw open to get out some cutlery.
"Did you just threaten them?" Issy turns her head around slightly to Eric's amused smirk and she grins back. He begins to take out the required amount of knives as she takes out the same amount of forks. "By the look on their faces it seems that you just threatened to hang them by their nuts off of the chasm and spin them about like a fan." Issy snorts at his description so hard she has to stop and place her hands on the counter. Eric grins widely at her, watching as she tries to compose herself but the image is far too funny for her to do so.
Dec appears on her other side and takes the remaining forks out before he starts tearing pieces of kitchen roll for each person while she laughs. "Issy doesn't threaten people, she makes promises."
"Promises I intent to keep." She says between gasps.
Eric bumps his hip into hers. "Move, go get food and try to calm yourself."
Issy nods as she does as he said. The containers of food had all been spread around on the coffee table by then so Issy collects a plate from the island and sits on the couch where Hugo sat before as he was eagerly digging into his food where she had sat moments before. Others return to their seats with the Pedrad brothers and Hec filling up the space in between Josh and Sam. Eric comes back and places the cutlery and the pieces of kitchen roll on the table with one hand and in the other he carefully places three bottles of beer down. He pushes one in Issy's direction and leave the other two where they are before sitting back down on the couch. Declan then comes over and hands a plate to Eric as he sits back down on the floor. Feeling slightly parched, Issy picks up her bottle and takes a drink. She finds her eyes slowly traveling towards the Pedrad brothers. The image pops up again and she chokes on her drinks, drawing all eyes towards her. Issy brings the back of her hand against her mouth as she swallows and bursts out laughing. She can feel the shake of Eric's shoulders as he laughs quietly. "That damn image!" She cried, pushing at Eric's shoulders and he laughed louder while Dec watched them both with a hint of worry.
He turned to look up to Eric as his sister continued to rotate between laughing and choking. "Eric I think you've broken Issy."
It was a little over an hour later when Issy finally calmed down. Bree had taken her by the elbow and guided her to her bedroom. When she calmed down enough, Issy had told Bree what Eric had told her and Bree stopped fiddling with the cover of the bed. She started at Issy for a moment, holding up a finger and silently walking out of the room. Seconds ticked by before she heard Bree start laughing loudly and she came back into Issy's room with tears in her eyes, setting Issy off again as she nodded in agreement. And that's how Noah found them more than an hour and a half later, sat on the floor, leaning against the bed with tears streaming and laughing their heads off. He looked at them for a moment before he pulled out his phone and snapped a photo of them. Finally, once they had calmed down again, Noah showed them the photo. They were leaned against each other, mouths open mid laugh and their eyes shining with joyful tears. Golden blue and hazelnut brown looking up to the camera. Bree still had the ends of her dark brown hair dyed red and settled below her shoulders. Issy has hers coming out of her side braid. Their heads are leaned against each other and their hands are clasped.
"That's going on the wall." Noah says with a smile as he takes a step back towards the door. "Issy, Hec wanted said you should be going soon, its nearly twenty past six." She nodded her head in thanks and he left the room.
Bree stayed with her and pulled out a thick pair of dark grey jeans with in-built holsters to pull over her leggings. The jeans were unlike the stiff trousers that was a part of her uniform. As Issy slipped the jeans on and laced up a pair of black sneakers, Bree looked through Issy's draws and threw a fitted long sleeved top, one of Issy's thinner hoodies that are the same colour as her jeans. Bree continued to shuffle through the drawers as Issy changed, her fingers drumming on the wood.
"Do you know what you'll be doing tonight?"
"Nope." Issy paused as she pulled the hoodie over her head. "Captain said that is some kind of tradition and Red said it'll be fun but other than that, no one will tell us anything."
"Hmm. Aha!" Bree grinned as she pulled out a large jacket and Issy paused, a frown gracing her lips. It's exactly the same as the one Issy gave back to Dec. "Exactly what I was looking for." She takes it from Bree, slipping her arms into it. With the added layers it doesn't hang off of her as much and when she lifts the collar to her nose, she smiles as she breathes in the familiar scent of mint and coffee mixed in with a woodland scent. "Now where do you keep your weapons?" Issy laughs lightly, waving Bree to follow. She threw all of the clothing off of her bed and onto the floor. She hooked her hand under the frame at the end of her bed and pushed a button. There was a quiet click and slowly, the mattress rose to reveal a hidden storage compartment which she had filled with weapons, mostly knives, guns and ammo for the gun ordered in size and neatly. Bree's jaw dropped and Issy smirked. She had been surprised herself when Issy had accidentally knocked it one morning, after she had gotten over the shock, Issy knew exactly what she'd store in there and had began to stock up after she had gone with Hec to the weapons shop. "I know you once said you like to be prepared, but damn girl, this is a whole new level."
Issy nodded her head, remembering those words as she slid her hand gun into the holster on her right thigh, another hand gun inside her jacket and picked five knives, four similar to the ones they used in initiation and another smaller one with its sheath. She hid two knives in a hidden sheath on the outer sides of her calves, another two on the outer left side of her thigh. The final knife she left out on the side as she pulled her hair out of its braid. Bree watched in fascination as Issy redid her braid and somehow braided the small sheath into the upper, thicker part of it. Bree gently touched the hilt as if it would unravel and glanced to Issy.
"You need to teach me how to do that."
"Rainbow taught me just how to do this braid but I'll ask her if you want and she can teach both of us how to do other styles." Issy picked up her watch and strapped it onto her left wrist.
"I'd like that."
Issy grinned as she followed Bree back into the front room and was surprised to see it all tidy a part from the amount of bottle scattered across the table.
"Oh Hugo! While I remember, I need one of those tracker thingys, like, by tonight please?"
Hugo turns to her confused. "Do I want to know why?"
"You'll find out relatively soon."
Hugo still looks confused but nods his head anyway.
Hector, she now noticed, was dressed in layers but still comfortably as he leaned against her front door, swinging her keys around. She watched as he did a double take at her.
"Why is it when you're in the most laid back clothing ever that you look the most deadly?" Hec asks and Issy just shrugs. "Even in your patrol gear you don't look that badass."
Bree looks at Issy with wide eyes and shakes her head. "Unless it's an emergency or we're on high alert, do not ask." Bree snorts as she glances at Uri and pats Eric on the shoulder as she passes him. "That's a lovely image, thank you." Eric grins back.
"So baso," Hugo starts and Issy notices Josh is no longer with them, neither are Flare, Kayden, Sam or Cody. Issy remembered then that Cody has a shift in the control room. "You have an armoury somewhere in this apartment?"
Issy huffs as eyes turn to her curiously. "Not an armoury." She picks up her phone from the table and slips it in an inner pocket of her jacket, missing the smirk and wink Dec gives Eric as she walks to Hec. "Don't go looking for it either." Issy warns lightly as she takes her keys and clips it on her belt loop.
"Odds on it being hidden in her underwear draw." Luke offers up as Hec opens the door and gestures for her to go first.
"Eric!" Zeke yells as Issy takes a step out of the door. "You're up!"
Eric laughs, waving them off as Issy rolls her eyes. She turns to face the guys, looking at them from under her lashes, winking at Eric. "Don't threaten him with a good time." She says with her voice just above a whisper. Lilah and Bree burst out laughing as a light blush dusts Eric's cheeks and the guys start choking either on air or on their drinks. Hec takes that as his queue to push Issy out of the door, shutting it behind them.
xXx
The pair met the rest of the squad just by the main entrance. It felt weird to see them not in their patrol or training gear but in jeans, jumpers, hoodies and jackets. Rainbow and Billy threw their arms up and cheered when they spotted them. Captain grinned at them as Issy and Hec drew closer and once they stood within arms reach, he gestured them to follow. He lead them outside, nodding to the guards stood by the door, and continued walking until they stood in the middle of a large patch of grass in a circle that sits between the road that leads further into the city a the train tracks.
"First off before we start I'd like to say that I'm proud of both of you. You've both worked hard to prove your worth to this squad and I'm glad to call you both my colleagues and in my squad." Issy and Hec beamed at him, blushing slightly at his praise. "Sometime tomorrow you'll both get November's rota and I suggest you try to remember it and be at the garage by our truck at eight sharp." Captain wipes the seriousness off of his face before he starts smiling. "Like Cutie – Like Hector here, he refuses to be called his nickname outside of work and the rest of us do the same unless we see each other around the compound and no one else calls us by our nicknames but this squad outside of work. As you both know, I'm Clark. Rainbow is Erin, Red is Danny, Geek is Xavier, Bulldozer is Tony and Billy is Joey."
Issy frowns as she looks around. "That whole thought seems so wrong, its not happening." Now that she thinks about it, she wasn't really bothered about not knowing their real names, in fact Issy's more bothered now that she actually knows them now.
"I have to agree with Issy," Hector says, the same frown on his face. "The thought alone doesn't feel right."
"That's fine." Red, not Danny, Red smirks. "We all thought the same anyway."
"Right!" Captain claps his hands together. "As I mentioned, what we're about to do is a tradition that has gone on as long as the nicknames have. This celebrates the fact that you've passed training and are now officially a part of the squad!" He pauses as they cheer. "Its just really a game of dares. If you do the dare you take a gulp of this," He holds up a thermos with a sly grin. "And do the dare. If you don't, you take off a piece of clothing for now, which I wouldn't advise in this weather, and when we get back to Dauntless there will be a forfeit of our choosing." Issy mentally agrees as the wind picks up and bites at her cheeks.
"Don't worry either," Bulldozer says as he shoves his hands in his pockets. "There's always someone in the control room watching just in case we fuck shit up."
Hec turns to Issy with a wide grin on his face. "I'd laugh if it was Cody!"
"Oh fuck yes!" Issy grins.
Captain looks around the circle, his sly grin wider than before as his eyes settle on Issy. "Issy, since you are the only one here that has yet to be gifted with a nickname, you can go first. I dare you to get a bottle of Amity's finest whiskey."
Issy grins and holds her hand out. Captain throws the thermos to her and takes a large swig, pleased to find the contents are just bourbon and she slips it into her jacket. She takes a step back, glancing at her watch as the train horn sounds in the distance. "Lets go to Amity!" She yelled out, pumping her fist up before taking off towards the train tracks. Shouts and whoops of joy echo around her as they follow her, catching up quickly. They run side by side with the train before they jump in one after the other.
No one talks as the train thunders its way to Amity but grins and smirks were shared whenever anyone made eye contact. Slowly the fields of Amity grew in the distance and they all jumped out. With confidence Issy strode right into the heart of Amity where most of the houses are clustered with the Dome not far away. Her squad a few steps behind, smug faces as some Amity stop and stare. In all honesty, Issy has no idea where she is going but a smirk covers her face when she spots someone she recognises. With her head lifted up in the air arrogantly, she strides towards them, smirking when he does a double take and then looks at her again just to make sure.
"Issy?!" He says, astonishment clear and bright on his face as he slowly checked her out. When he left Erudite she was positive he was gay but now she wasn't so sure. "I – What are you, um, what are you doing in Amity?"
Her smirk widened impossibly so as he stuttered over his words, a hand shoved into his light hair nervously. "Hello Demetri." She watched as he swallowed.
"Hi, um, Dauntless looks good on you."
"Yeah, it does." Issy cocks her hip out to the side and smiles. "You wouldn't happen to know where I could find a bottle of Amity's finest whiskey, do you?" She fluttered her eyebrows for an added effect.
He swallowed again, pointing to somewhere behind her. "I can, uh, show you if you like?"
"Please?" He walked forward quickly, tripping over his own feet for a moment before leading her towards the barns. Rainbow winked at her, her mouth curling into a grin as the guys snickered into their hands. Her friends followed after them as he lead them through a large barn. They stopped to pet a white horse as Demetri went into a storage cupboard and pulled out just what she asked for. "Wait," Her eyes sparkle as she decides to use this moment to her advantage. "There's something else I need as well..." When she tells him what else she wants his eyes flash to hers with uncertainty before he slowly nods and disappears again. Its another moment until he returns and hands her a medium sized string bag that she easily slips into her jacket. Issy smiles cheerily to him, patting him on the shoulder. "Thanks Demetri!" She calls out as she heads back to her friends and waves the bottle.
"An old friend?" Hec asks and Rainbow snorts.
"More like an old ex." She and Issy share knowing smirks.
Issy looks around the squad, wearing the same smirk as Captain did as her eyes settle on Bulldozer. "Fancy going to Erudite, BD?" She throws him the thermos and he catches it, quickly taking a swig and grimacing. "Fucking hate that stuff." He mumbles before an infectious grin covers his face. "Hell yeah!"
He leads the way out of Amity with the sun setting behind them as they race each other. Geek manages to get to the tracks first, followed quickly by Hec and Issy. They walked for at least half an hour before they heard the tracks rattling from the force of an incoming train. As they ran aside it jumped one of the small ledges and pushed the button that opened the door. Their ride from Amity to Erudite was far shorter than the ride from Dauntless to Amity. They jumped out somewhere along the edge of Abnegation, laughing as they did so. They earned some strange looks from the stiffs as they passed the bottle of whiskey around. Rainbow threw her arm over Issy's shoulders, laughing in her ear as Hector, Billy and Geek sang a song horribly out of tune. BD still led the way further into the city but they knew he was going the right way by how more of the buildings around them had fluorescent lights still on.
"Which part of Erudite?" BD yelled back to Issy and she grinned.
"The main building!" She shouts back, grinning wider when BD threw her a wary look.
The stars that had came out moments before were none hidden by the amount of light that was shining out of the main building of Erudite. Everything was pristine, bright and shiny in blue, white and silver. This building held the main library, the Leader's office and labs along with the areas where the new batch of initiates are kept during initiation.
Issy pulled Bulldozer and the rest of the squad to a stop partly away from the entrance with a water fountain and several feet of pavement on either side of the fountain separating them.
Bulldozer clapped his hands together, looking ready for whatever she throws at him. "So what's the dare Issy?" She motions him closer and then proceeds to whisper the dare in his ear. He pulls back from her abruptly, staring at her with wide eyes. He whispers something back and there's a few seconds before Issy whispers back, nodding her head. With his eyes still on Issy he snatches the bottle of whiskey out Captain's hands and downs at least a third of what was remaining before handing it back.
Without a second glance back to them, he walks into the building and straight to the receptionist's desk. The squad followed after him before stopping and clustering together far enough that no one will question them but close enough that they could still hear everything that was being said between BD and the receptionist.
"Hello sir," The young lad behind the desk said, his eyes taking in the black clothes. "Is there anything I can do to help you?" Like other Erudites, this lad seems reluctant to do anything he says to BD, his nose scrunched up.
"Yes uh," BD paused, taking his time to read the lad's name tag. "Mr Prior. I'd like to ask you a question." He says as he proceeds to take off his jumper and kicks off his boots. "It's a very important question," Mock seriousness covers his face while he talks about just how important his question is and the squad are laughing quietly to themselves as a few Erudites stop to stare while others quickly walk away from the scene before them. During all of this, Bulldozer is stripping out of his remaining clothes. Issy had made a compromise that BD could keep his boxers on as long as he finishes the dare. He turns around and looks back at Mr Prior, who is staring at something above BD's head. "Does my butt look small?" Mr Prior clears his throat several times, his face redder than Issy thought possible. "Mr Prior," Bulldozer clicked his fingers in the most sassiest way. "I'm asking you a serious question. Does my butt look small?"
What made the squad laugh more wasn't BD's question nor was it Mr Prior's reaction but it was when one of the male Erudites that had stopped to watch came up to BD and looked him over.
"No it looks fine!" The guy waves it off and tells Bulldozer to stand differently before shaking his head. "It looks brilliant, nothing to be ashamed of!" The guy announced cheerily.
Hector burst out laughing and Red had to slap a hand over Hec's mouth to keep him quiet. "Oh my god!" Hec gasped after he pulled Red's hand from his mouth. "That's Domi! I grew up with that guy! What the hell?"
They could hear Bulldozer politely thanking the man, Domi, for his kind words before picking up all of his clothing and calmly walking back out of Erudite with Domi checking him out as he goes. When the squad re-join with Bulldozer he already has his jeans and his undershirt back on. He points to Hec. "That was Dominic wasn't it?" Hec nods his head and Bulldozer pulls his jumper back on. "Thought it fucking was!" After he has his boots back on, his eyes settle on Billy and grins something wicked.
xXx
Three dares later and it was Hector's turn. By now a light buzz was touching them all which fuelled their ideas. They were somewhere between Erudite and Candor and not that far away from Dauntless where a large lake sits. Surrounding the lake were several metal structures with flat beams hanging over the lake. While growing up, Issy and her other siblings would often come to this lake during a hot summer. Normally there wasn't many Erudites but there were a few Candor and Dauntless that would also come to this lake. She knew it was reasonably deep as she had seen many Dauntless borns jump into the lake from some of the structures.
Rainbow points to one of the sturdier structure. "I dare you to climb up that and jump off of it." She throws him the thermos and he catches it.
"Oh, I can do better than that!" He takes a large gulp out of the thermos before throwing it back. He pulled his trainers and socks off, as well as his hoodie, which he hands to Issy. He flashes them a grin before he takes off towards it. As if he had done it before, Hector climbed the structure smoothly until he stands on one of the beams. They cheer him on, giddy with second hand adrenaline. From where Issy stands, Hec looks so small, but she can clearly see the smile on his face when he looks back down at them. He then ran across the remaining length of the beam and jumps. While he falls, he pivots his body into several twists before entering the water with his body perfectly straight. The squad's response is thunderous, they whoop and cheer as they clap. Issy's hands tighten on his hoodie when he doesn't immediately resurface, but he does so a while after, laughing as he breathes in.
Hector makes it back to shore huffing and puffing and they slap him on the back. He slips his socks and trainers back on and Issy hands him his hoodie back. His eyes are shine bright from under his dark wet hair that sticks to his forehead and he grins so hard his dimples make an appearance. He grins even harder and his eyes shine even brighter when he turns his head to Geek.
xXx
Issy opens her door to a blissfully quiet apartment. Everything is back where is belongs a part from the glasses left by the sink to dry. After Hec's dare there were only two more people to go and by the time Red had finished his dare, they were back at Dauntless and most of them would definitely be feeling hungover in the morning. She wasn't too gone out of it to be stumbling everywhere but she had that pleasant buzz and she couldn't stop smiling.
When she enters her room she is surprised to see a large hoodie laying on her bed, the same-ish size as the jacket. Almost knowingly, she brings it up to her nose and breathes it in. 'Yep.' She thinks. 'One of the same.' Next to the hoodie is one of the trackers Issy had asked for. Hugo said it tracks people by accessing Dauntless' main database and uses the information and the pictures on there to track certain people. There's also a feature where it will videotape who its tracking. She smirks as she turns it on and selecting the person she wants it to track before turning it on standby.
Issy folds up the hoodie and the rest of her clothes after taking out all of her weapons, including the knife in her hair and changing into her pyjamas. She places them on top of one of the drawers, knowing she sort it in the morning. Issy cocoons herself beneath the cover without a second thought, sighing contently as she drifts off.