Josh's POV

Josh gently wipes the excess ink and blood from the customer's shoulder as he finishes up another tattoo. Being of the wildness called the Dauntless faction with brightly coloured hair and weird piercings Josh wished they'd come up with something more creative than the Dauntless symbol for a tattoo, it was becoming boring very quickly. The man grinned happily as Josh wrapped it up and followed Bud to pay. Someone cleared their throat beside him and Josh looked up. Standing next to him was one who'd he had been told stories about. But the question was, where's the other one?

She glanced down then back up at him. "This may sound like a stupid question but do you know where I could get a decent pad of paper and a few drawing pencils?"

Josh smirks at her, amused at how awkward she made the question sound. "Follow me." Josh walks away from the tattoo stations and into the back room, what's used as a staff room of sorts. He gestures for her to sit on one of the many couches in the room while he rummages through the cupboards. He glances back just for a second to see her look around the room. "You're Issy right?"

"Yeah. . ." She drawled. Josh could hear her suspicious tone with his head in the cupboard as he moved box after box and he chuckled silently. "How do you know of me?"

"There's a lot of talk going round about twin initiates whose eyes glow gold. You've both earned the nickname Golden Eyes I believe." He grins at her. "I'm also friends with your brothers so that kinda helps."

"Oh god, what have they said?" He chuckles as she groans.

"They told me stories of how you'd all get into trouble. They'd tell anyone who'd listen." Josh moved back onto his heels, clutching a pad and some pencils. "Did you really bullshit your way out of nearly blowing up a part of Erudite?"

"Ha, yes." She grins widely. "I still can't believe I got away with it."

Josh stands up, striding towards her. "Names Josh by the way." He sits in the chair opposite her as he hands her the pad. Her eyes flicker to his viper tattoo on his finger and he curls his fingers into a fist, almost to hide it. "Sketch me something."

"Now?"

"Yeah, anything that comes to mind." He smiles at her hesitance.

"Okaay." She drawls, shuffling back and flips to the first page. Josh watches as she pauses the pencil above the paper and her eyebrows scrunch down. For a moment she sits like that before she leans forward as she starts to draw like a light bulb just went off above her head. From where he is sat Josh can't quite make out what she's drawing. Some kind of animal, a dog maybe? Issy stops, looking at her drawing before she rubs some of it out. She redraws around the animal and adds something around it. She pulls back, her eyes flickering over it as she nods her head and hands it to him. His eyes widen subtly as he analyses a flaming wolf jumping through the Dauntless symbol. The detail is –

"Good. . ." He nods his approval. "This is really good. I thin –" the door slamming open interrupts Josh from what he was going to say.

"Josh! I need my –" Eric stops walking and his sentence when his eyes land on Issy. "Initiate what are you doing?" She opens her mouth to answer but Josh beats her to it.

"She was just looking for a sketch pad and some pencils." Josh stands up as Issy does. He hands her back the pad. "You're a good drawer Issy. Come back when you've filled the whole pad."

"Thanks Josh." Josh watches her as she stares back at Eric. It surprises him that she doesn't break eye contact as all initiates that Josh has seen have always cowered away from Eric. He didn't expect any less of the sister of Declan and Hugo Vince. Once Issy walks past him and almost gets out of the door Eric turns around, grabbing her arm and pulling her back. Josh raises an eyebrow to Eric's back as he mumbles something to her and fights the smile that threatens to overtake Josh's face when he notices the small smile on Eric's. Eric dips his head at her and walks into the room as she walks away. Straining his ears, Josh hears the Candor transfer drag Issy away. Shutting the door Eric turns to Josh. He can't help it but the smile breaks free. Josh stands there with the biggest grin ever as Eric stands with a frown on his face and his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"What?" Eric walks further into the room. "What is it?"

" 'Good work today Issy'?" Josh grins wider as Eric huffs and falls back onto the couch. "Have you really been out of the game that long that your flirting skills have gone dead?"

"What? I wasn't –" Eric breaks off and rubs his face.

"Oh my god, you were!" Josh sits back down, staring at Eric as he returns the gaze unamused. "I totally ship it. Eris." Josh ponders out loud, ignoring his friends hard glare. "No, it doesn't sound right. . . How about Erisy?" Josh looks to Eric and shakes his head. "No, not that. Oh, oh! What about Isric?" He laughs gleefully as Eric groans.

"Can you not?" Eric scowls.

"I could, but where's the fun in that?"

"God, you're as bad as Dec."

"Does he ship it too?" Eric's huff is all he needs. "Now what did you want?"

"Oh have you finally finished making fun of my non-existent love life?"

"Non-existent for now." Josh winks at him and looks to the door like he could see Issy through it. "I can see the appeal though. She's certainty different from your average Dauntless girls: Bold in a funny way, mischievous, the eyes are a bit weird. Hot though –" Josh is cut off by a growl coming from Eric. Josh looks back to him, noting how tense Eric's shoulders are and his clenched fists by his sides. "Woah, chill man. You know I don't swing that way dofus. It's like shopping with no points on your card, you can browse but you can't buy."

Eric quirks an eyebrow in his direction and suddenly grins. "So how's your crush doing? Have you made a conversation that lasts for more than three minutes?"

"Go fuck yourself. Now honestly, what did you need?"

Half an hour later Josh and Eric come out of the back room in deep conversation. From the corner of Josh's eye he sees Issy nod her head in their direction. Eric freezes as he notices it too.

"So red, black, blue and gold?" Josh confirms the colour scheme that Eric wants.

"Yeah."

"Are you sure about this? I don't need to remind you it's permanent do I?" Josh glances back to Issy as Alec takes off his hoodie.

"I'll take a drawing to size first and then when I'm perfectly sure I'll have it as a tattoo, yes?"

"Kay." Eric slaps Josh's shoulder and walks out of the shop with one final look at Issy. Josh sighs as he rubs his face and makes his way over to the twins and their friends. When he approaches he notices one of the boys is holding a design. Grinning wickedly, Josh sneaks over quietly and clamps his hands down on his shoulders, making him jump in surprise and Josh snorts at his reaction. "Have you got a design? Come on then." Josh leads the boy – Cody – and Issy to his work station and motions for him to sit down. Issy sits on the chair on the next work station and reopens her sketch pad. While Cody gets inked up she sits in her own world sketching something out. Footsteps approach and Josh looks up Hugo walking to Issy. Josh nods his head to Hugo as he controls his emotions. He is suddenly aware of every movement Hugo does as he talks to his sister. He can feel Hugo take a step back as he calls for Declan and Alec. Once they near Hugo shove the pad in their faces. They mumble to each other as Josh wraps up Cody's tattoo and sends him off to Bud to pay. Josh tenses subtly as Hugo turns to him and tries to make himself look busy clearing up his work station.

"Josh are you clearing up for the day or do you have time to do a few small ones?" Josh took in Hugo's posture before looking back at his face, nodding slowly.

"Yeah, I have time. Who's getting tattooed?"

"All of us." Alec answers.

"Okaay, who's first?"

Declan sits down in the chair as Josh gets his supplies back out. Dec points to the first design with the black star at the top of the column. "I'll have it on the side of my left pointer finger mate." Josh quickly get on with it and Declan hisses in pain as the needle touches to bone. Josh leaves Dec to wrap it up himself as Josh turns back with a questioning look. Hugo replaced his brother in the seat, pointing to the second design and twisting his right arm so that his wrist was facing up. Hugo stiffened as Josh placed his hands on his wrist to steady him. Warily, Josh glanced up at Hugo to find him staring back down at him. Pushing the many thoughts out of his mind, he cleared his head and started the tattoo. Josh sighed in both relief and disappointment as Hugo got up to wrap his tattoo. Once again Josh turn back and noticed Issy shaking lightly.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm not overly fond of needles."

Alec snorted almost mockingly and his sister shot him a glare. "Understatement of the century."

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Josh sighed when she nodded. "If you need a break, tell me to stop. Now, I'm going on a whim here but I'm guessing you want the third star black?"

"Yeah."

"So where do you want it?"

"On the back of my neck."

Josh's jaw drops slightly and he looks to her brothers for confirmation. "On the back of your – do you realise that's gonna sting like an absolute bitch?"

"Bring it." She turns her back to him and lifts her hair out of the way. 'No wonder Eric likes her.' He shakes his head at her. "Fucking nutter." He mumbles under his breath and starts slowly. Issy winces in pain but ever so slowly starts to relax. Declan stands in front of Issy and holds her up, snickering lightly. As he finishes the tattoo, he looks round to see her eyes closed and her mouth parted slightly. Lightly, he shook her awake.

"I cannot believe you started to doze off." Josh shakes his head. He tells her to come back if there's any swelling or redness and allows Declan to wrap it up for him as he refills his needle.

"You've already finished?"

He scoffs. "Golden Eyes, I was finished at least ten minutes ago. Now up you get, one more to go." He motions for Alec to sit down. Alec got his done on the heel of his left hand. Josh looked at them all in turn like they were aliens. "Seriously! What is with you guys? Can't you choose a less painful place to put it?"

"The pain was already there, what's some more?" Dec looks down at his shoes and shuffles a bit. Josh look at each of them individually and notices something about their eyes. They've lost their spark. Since Declan transferred to Dauntless and started these peculiar chain of events his eyes have always been sparkling with some sort of mischief that soon evolved into pure cheekiness. Hugo's have been the same but also hold a silent challenge that unnerved a few people. Alec and Issy have been different from the start. He's noticed that the gold in Issy's eyes is slightly stronger than in Alec's but no less strange. Their eyes are always changing colour; from blue with flecks of gold to gold with flecks of blue to fully gold to a blueish-goldish-white colour that Josh can't quite name and anything in between. But now all Josh sees are blue eyes from all four of them, so similar that off handily you can tell they're related but still different to make them their own person. As an artist Josh can tell the difference between shades of blue that stand before him, all dulled down in their saddened mood. Cerulean. Caribbean Sea. Cobalt. Indigo. All of the gold has melted away from the twins eyes leaving just blue, in a weird way it felt too normal, if that made sense.

Issy turned to Declan with her lips parted slightly. "That is the deepest shit I've heard you say on the subject. But anyway, this is a happy time, of remembrance and now I want to see more of Dauntless." They all smile at each other, laughing silently.

"You're right." Hugo turns to Declan. "The guys should be in the Pit by now right?"

"Yeah. Tris said this morning that she'll meet us there." Dec grins and Hugo turns to Josh with a – dare Josh think it? – hopeful look.

"Coming Josh?"

"Nah," Josh glances down at his viper tattoo on his finger. "I've got stuff to be over-looking tonight." The older brothers drag their younger siblings out of the shop with final good byes of the night. When the door closes Josh shakes his head in amusement as he picks up his jacket, leaving the shop himself and walking deeper into Dauntless to his second, more exciting job of Dauntless.

So that's the third Outtake/Alternate scene, what did you think of it? What do you think Eric wants Josh to do for him? What do you think is going on with Josh and Hugo? And where do you think Josh is going?