As the second day of the weekend rolled around, I slept in. After a rather comforting and peaceful sleep in a long time, I woke to see a scowling Christine pacing in the semi crowded dorm.

"What happened woman?

Seems like someone's not in a great mood this morning.

Please tell me you aren't hung over. "I pleaded almost whining.

According to Christian, both drunk as well as hung over Christine could be a force to reckon with, or just a pain to handle.Given the fact that she was always a handful on the day to day basis.

My words, caused her to stop pacing as she slumped down on my bed, beside me.

"I want to experiment." She answered, a bit of both excitement , and conflict evident in her tone.

"Experiment with what?"I pried.

The smile that graced her features made me wary.

'This is definitely not going to be good.' Warned my inner self.

"My appearance."She replied, as I visibly relaxed and sunk into the soft covers.

"What's troubles you then?"

"I don't wanna go alone, but Christian resufed to accompany me and said that I looked cute the way I was , and then we had a sibling quarrel and he simply walked away. Will you go with me? Please? "

Her face expressed the various emotions she shifted though finally settling for hope and an adorable duck like face.

I wondered if I had any plans for the day, besides a few hours of training, I had nothing to do, so fifteen minutes later, we found ourselves walking down several corridors and halls, returning to the place where we had collected our basic necessities on our arrival, the very first day .

"Ooooh! I want that."Exclaimed Chistine, pointing at a dress, almost jumping up and down, where she stood.

"I'm right behind you! Go ahead." I promted, as she happily went through attire after attire and dress after dress, all in black.

Half an hour later, Lissa joined us, I raised my eyebrows in curiosity.

"I'm looking for something cute but classy, so decided to drop by. What are your plans?" She said, addressing the question to me, for Christine was far too excited to pay much attention to the exchange.

"Christine wanted to 'experiment' " in air quotes, "with her appearance, so I'm accompanying her, just that. See how pleased she is!" I replied, gesturing towards, Christine.

Once she was done, we decided to wait and help Lissa, followed by which Lissa lead us to a self care fascility, which Christine almost went crazy over.

" I didn't know they had one here. "She remarked, genuinely surprised.

Lissa just led us in with a small smile tugged on lips. Both the girls, had haircuts, Christine, looked appealing, whereas Lissa, looked like her angelic self, they even bought various paints, and pigments. Somewhere the abnegate in my mind was panicking, at the frivolity, as I tried hard to maintain my composture.

"Won't you be low on your points after all the expenditure?" I finally asked unable to help my unsettled self.

Points were like general currency of the Dauntless, each initiate was alloted a fixed amout at the beginning of every week, and we had been told that we wouldn't be allowed to deal in currency until we were officially a part of the faction.

Lissa only shrugged in response, while Christine answered smugly, "I borrowed some from Christian."

By the time we left the fascility it was almost evening, I bid the girls goodbye and headed for practice. Hours later, joined the gang at the communal hall for dinner where Mason and Christine were excited about some activity that they wished to part take in that night.

"Will you be there?" Eddie asked me.

My replywas a single word, " uncertain", looking confused.

But today, for the first time, Lissa sat with us, completely at ease and went as far as to agree to join us that night, so I gave in for her.

Three hours later, the gang met at the old ground and from there we headed towards the desired location and I was surprised to see that I hadn't been to that part of the compound yet.

It was old, a part had crumbled, some of the walls had vines creeping up while most of the rest had been covered in art work, consisting of a variety of patterns, from odd symbols to huge colourful words and scenery, some were beautiful, some crude a few rude and so on.

The guys kept up with the flow of the conversation while, I observed my surroundings . I couldn't help but feel as if someone was keeping an eye on us, somebody was following us and the feeling had persisted eversince we had left our bunker/dorm room.

I tried my best to prevent my paranoia from ruining the moment, but it helped me notice some things, things that the others had been missing and couldn't help but smile at my discovery.

Once we were done participating in the event of the night that turned out to be the art of graphitti, I grabbed Lissa's hand urging her to stay as the group seemingly dispersed.

"Hey Liss, do you want to tell me something?"I questioned seriously, trying to mess with her.

She appeared stunned for a moment, but then I saw her decide on an answer but before she could state it, I shoved her out of the way.

A figure we hadn't noticed so long , made its stealthy appearance from behind the nearby wall, tossed a black round flickering object at us and ran away on noticing my presence.

I acted instinctually saving Lissa, but forgot about self preservation.The beeping from the object gradually increased and I felt the surrounding swirl, my vision blur, my body shut down and darkness engulf the world around me.

DPOV

I was at the far end of the compound when I noticed, Rose roughly push Lissa away. Deeming something wrong, my feet picked up pace and I rushed towards the scene only to reach in time, to see Lissa and Adrian stand shocked and Rose, unceremoniously drop to the ground.

The sight caused something in me to snap, not paying any heed to the outcome, or cause, I hurried towards Rose, frantically checking her for injuries, an unknown terror gripped me, as I fought not to lose control of my emotions, it had only been a week since she had been here, a week and she was already in trouble, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Noticing the black object, lying at a distance, its purpose fulfilled, I tried to get Rose to respond but was unsuccessful, thus picked her up and hurried to some place safe hoping that she would recover for she couldn't be gone.

The deemed safe haven turned out to be my room, Adrian and Lissa followed me, and Ivan was informed and requested to meet us in my room.

I gently lay her on the bed, and sprinkled some water on her face, waiting for anything a sign, a twitch but nothing happened.

Adrian had had the mind to pick up the offensive device and left Lissa under Ivan's care in order to examine it, whereas all I could do in the meanwhile was sit down on the floor beside her bed, with a fuzzy mind and conflicted emotions.

On one hand I was ashamed to have failed my charge and put her at risk, had I been there Rose wouldn't have been in that condition, and Lissa wouldn't have been scared, whereas on the other hand I couldn't process all the emotions that I had begun feeling for this abnegate, I was ashamed of having lost control earlier, I was scared to know that she already had an effect on me , a control on my mind and one could use her to get me.

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