I had spent three hours at the gym and couldn't seem to accept it, but the toll it took on my body was quite evident when I fell asleep in the middle of the day.

I woke to Christine and Christian arguing in hushed tones, it was probably meant to be something personal I guessed , but on eavesdropping I realized that they were talking about me.

"No need to disturb her lets go."He said.

"Nope, let's just ask her this once." She countered.

"What if you scare her?"

"What if she agrees and you look like a fool?"

"But abnegations have never been the bravest of souls!" His words stung but Christine's reply was enough for now.

"She is Dauntless now, just like us."

"Fine! Do as you please." Christian finally snapped, leaving a scowling Christine behind ,who, turned, sat on the edge of my bed, composed herself and nudged me careful as not to probably scare me.

"Rose! Rose! Rise and shine girl! I've got something interesting for ya!"

Pretending to wake up from a deep slumber, I attempted being groggy, rubbed me eyes, yawned and finally settled for a confused look.

By the time I focused on Christine, she was on the verge of laughing out loud.

" Do you know that you look so cute when you do that?"

My answering shrug was enough for her to have her laughing on my bed, clutching her stomach.

By the time she calmed down my patience wore thin as to what the news was, but I kept my mouth shut waiting for her to continue.

" We are going to get tattoos, its common for Dauntless as you may have seen, so see this as our little welcome ceremony and I was hoping that you'll come." She concluded in a breath.

I didn't know what shocked me more, Christine's politeness or her request.

A second or two later she shook me vigorously, questioning if I was in shock!

" Okay. " I said

" You will? "

Her surprised screech had me wishing I could hear less or was atleast at a distance from the souce.

"But that doesn't mean I'll get a tatoo." I added hesitatingly.

"Fine by me, lets go! You have ten minutes!" she said grinning wide.

The tatoo area, was located above the assembly halls of the pit, needless to say that it was far bigger than I had expected it to be.

By the time we arrived, Mason and Eddie were already halfway through getting their tattoos, Mason's was a flame in black and orange, the piece covered almost half of his right hand, from the wrist to the elbow and it was the first time, I felt inclined to give this decision of mine a second thought, but my fear was stronger, and quickly smothered the flicker of any and all hopes of getting a tattoo, it was too permanent, too bold for me.

Eddie chose the motto 'faction before blood' to be on his left inner arm.

Christian surprised me when he decided to have a circle made on his left shoulder. The circle was made in black appearing as if it has been painted on the skin using a paintbrush, it wasn't a closed shape, just a close one, the artist at the parlour called the tatoo an enso, stating that it had a symbolic meaning.

Whereas Christina had a branch of leaves, appearing to twine around her arms, from her right shoulder to right elbow.

Each tattoo was beautiful, and unique, a piece of art, a bit of color here and there, a thoughtful pattern, a symbolic meaning, to add to their appearance.

All pretended as if it didn't matter , but given their practicality and thoughtfulness at the moment it appeared as if a piece of their being was being put on their skin for display. I wanted to applaud their courage, for I was too much of a coward to do anything of the sort.

The thought that struck me next almost shocked me. It was always said that only Amity cared for something as silly as art, but here were the Dauntless embracing it in full swing, calling it a dare, perhaps a challenge or an act of their bravery. The people who worked here were artists, and good ones, I wonder if any of them realised it.

DPOV

"Ivan, we need to let her know. It isn't safe for her, given the fact that we don't know what they want or who on the inside is associated with them."

"So we find out, Dimka .Informing her will only cause panic, you've seen how she is. For now the people surrounding her can be trusted, I've collected data on them and it seems to be just fine. "

"But we need to dig deeper Ivan, we need to find out, before they can get to her.

You saw what happened to Euryce."

"I wonder how they found out about him. Even I wasn't aware of him. How many of them are there this time?"

"Till yet I've almost found four, its been her, Mason, Johanna and one, that I still am not sure about, apart from the old ones."

"Has Adrian been in touch?"

"Yes, Ivashkov knows about all of it, he is the one who found Euryce."I concluded sighing.

The previous week had been getting onto my nerves, too much was happening and all to soon, it seemed as if things were reeling out of my control.

"How's it going with Tasha?" Ivan asked.

His question causing me to slump back on my chair, as the last week came flooding back to me.

"She threw herself at me, while we were on patrol duty, the last week. I tried pushing he away but she just wouldn't give up." I replied sighing .

She had almost been desperate, enough as to not notice the person who had almost walked in upon us. I had heard their soft retreating footsteps, but had not been able to see them.

"The woman doesn't like 'no ' for an answer Dimka, and that's all you are offering her." Ivan said, pity evident in his features.

"I've been honest to her about my feelings towards her, it had hurt her but she isn't willing to let me go and I don't know what to do Ivan."I added.

The silence that followed was not uncommon to us, we just needed some time, some quiet to come up with a solution, just this time instead of plotting and planning, I fell asleep and Ivan didn't disturb.

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