Four's POV

Four huffed as he jumped off the train just outside the entrance of Dauntless. 'Idiots.' He thought. The day had been long and tiring as what originally seemed as an important technical error turned out to be a moron who misplaced his USB stick which hung from the chain on his belt. He cursed them again.

Looking to his watch he realised it'll be dinner soon and that means the transfers have arrived. He nodded to the guards that stood on the entrance door and sighed. That means Declan and Hugo's siblings could be in the compound. Four smirked when he remembered the stories they were telling at breakfast. 'Did they really nearly blow up a part of Erudite?' He smirked and shook his head. By the sounds of it, they'll be worse than Declan was in Initiation with the pranks he pulled with Zeke and on a rare occasion, Eric. Four had wondered often how someone like Declan became friends with someone like Eric, less now than in Initiation. Declan reminded him of Zeke and Uriah, always laughing and making jokes whereas Eric always had a face of indifference on. That was until he saw the mask crack, allowing him to see that Eric isn't as cold as he originally thought. Things were hard when Eric lost the final fight of stage one and the mask came back into place, even more so when Eric came second in the final rankings. More often than not it was Declan who could crack the mask down during that time and the first few years as members. And despite that fact Four and Zeke were still good friends with Declan even if he was best friends with Eric. Slowly, over the course of four years through Declan, both Four and Zeke became good friends with Eric and then when Blake and Hugo joined the ranks they became closer. Four respected Eric enough to put their differences aside for Declan.

"Hey Four!" A voice called out to him, bringing his mind back to the present. Footsteps thundered quickly along the rocky floor as he came face to face with Blake.

"Hey Blake."

"Everything alright at the fence?"
Four huffs and shakes his head. "Everything's fine unless you count the idiot who can't keep track of a USB stick that he keeps on his belt." He grumbles.

"You're joking?"

"I wish." Four followed Blake into the dining hall and to an empty table. "How many initiates did we get this year?"

"Nineteen: eleven transfers and eight Dauntless born."

"Ouch, really? And I thought last year was worse. . ." Four trailed off as he sat down, remembering the amount they had to train last year. Twelve Dauntless born and twenty two transfers. He thought they'd get more Dauntless borns than transfers this year but apparently not.

From the other side of the room Hugo walked in with the biggest grin Four has ever seen. Behind Hugo were five transfers, two of which drew stares from nearly everyone in the room. A boy and a girl with golden eyes shining brightly as they took everything in. If that didn't attract attention then the unnatural hair colour of the girl did. It was obvious that they were twins and by the way that Dec and Hugo guided them into the hall that meant that that was Issy and Alec. 'So they did transfer after all.' From beside Four Blake muttered out loud the same conclusions that were currently swimming in his head. Eric followed after them at an almost lazy pace, sitting down in between Declan and Blake.

"Corrupting initiates already Declan?" Four asks.

"Funny." Dec says with a mock sneer. "And no actually, this is Issy and Alec; our younger siblings." He pauses, narrowing his eyes as he focuses. "And this is Bree, Cody and Noah."

"Initiates," Eric begins in the same old cold tone he uses every year when dealing with the initiates. "This is Four, your instructor." Four fixes his gaze on them as he lifts an eyebrow, challenging them to say something, someone does. Every. God-damned. Year. But to his surprise, no one does. Declan and Hugo restart a conversation they were probably having with the initiates before they sat down. Four payed little attention as they debated how Cody (Four thinks it was) became Dauntless. As their conversation drops Four reports to Declan and Eric what happened at the fence when Issy starts choking as Alec sits by her side smirking. The attention of the whole table is drawn onto her but she ignores it as she turns to Alec with eyes blazing gold.

"I dare you to ask him that!" The twins stare at each other before Alec turns to Four. Four internally sighs, he was almost a hundred percent certain what Alec was going to ask.

"So Four," 'Here we go.' "I bet you get a lot of people whether or not it's like the number but I can't help but wonder if it's short for something." Four scowls at the pair who are obviously trying not to laugh. Four was annoyed but also curious. 'What else could it be?'

"Short for what?" He takes the bait, snapping slightly as he raises his mug to his mouth.

"I dunno," Alec pauses, his eyes glinting gold as his smirk shifts into a shit eating grin. "Something along the lines of 'foreplay' for instance?" Surprised, Four starts to choke. Out of all the things Alec could of said he said something like that. Dec, Hugo and Blake start laughing uncontrollably, not giving Four a second glance as he tries to regain his breathing. As tears collect in the corner of his eyes Four notices that some of the tables around them have taken interest along with the leader's table where Max has risen from. Blake slaps his back and Four stops coughing just as Max walks up to the table.

"What's going on here?" Max's voice carries across half of the hall and those who were staring with interest turn around quickly, still eavesdropping.

"Nothing sir." Four clears his throat. Max simply raises an eyebrow, not believing a word.

"It's obviously not nothing if Declan, Hugo and Blake can't stop laughing and clapping like retarded seals, gasping for air?" The men – or children – in question carry on clapping, laughing silently.

"It's just an initiate has pointed out something that we've never thought of before." Eric's lips twitch up, smirking at Four. Eric schools his emotions as he turns to the initiates on the table. "Initiates, this is the Leader of our faction, Max. Max, this is Noah, Cody, Bree and Issy and Alec." Max's eyes travel across the initiates until they settle on the twins and narrowed. Max looked to Dec and Hugo and back at the twins.

"Yes, we're related. They're our siblings." Hugo states.

"How many more of you are there?"

"Only one more." Four subtly narrowed his eyes at Declan when he stopped laughing almost to quickly and watched the laughter drain from his eyes. If you didn't know him you'd think he was fine but Four had known him for six years and he knew something was wrong. Four glanced around the table to see if anyone else had noticed. Blake and the Initiates seemed unfazed whereas Four saw that Eric had tensed so Eric knows what happened – if something did happen – and that the twins smiled solemnly.

Max also must have noticed as he smiles and changes the subject. "Are they as bad as you two?"

The older Vince brothers place their hand on their hearts with mock hurt. "Ouch. We weren't that bad." Hugo pouts. "And if anything, they're worse."

"Worse?" asks Alec.

"Pranks."

"Oh, haha, well. . ." Four half listens as Issy slyly embarrasses Declan by mentioning the videos and pictures on her phone, making Declan blush and stutter and Eric grin at his discomfort. The twins then smirk as they talk in turns about the lengths that Dec would have to go to to delete the evidence. Their eyes shine and glimmer brighter as Declan turns redder. Personally, Four is slightly freaked out by the whole golden-eyes thing. Like, what the hell? So far he hasn't seen just blue but blue with small flecks of light gold or equal parts of blue and gold or even fully gold – which, Four thinks, is fucking weird – they literally have irises that colours flicker and change.

Four internally shivers and pushes the thought away as he observes the table once more. Issy and Alec are still going back and forth as they embarrass their oldest brother. What he notices is that surprisingly most of the table is captured by the twin's enthusiasm as they laugh and get Declan in shit. But what actually surprises him more is the little smile playing on Eric's lips as he watches Issy shrug her shoulders and smile. Max too from the end of the table smirks at Eric and Issy before looking up to meet Four's eyes and wiggles his eyebrows. In the very back of Four's mind as he gathers the initiates is the sudden realization that how Eric had looked at Issy is the very same way how he had looked at Tris when he thought no one was watching.