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As she ran Nix berated herself for being so stupid, talking back was a bad thing but talking back infront of her class then proceeding to walk out of training whilst defying her superior, that was worse.

She'd never been one for lacking good sense but since she'd joined dauntless she found herself making frequently mindless decisions...she was going to be in so much trouble for that.

Eventually she slowed to a walk then stopped after realising she had no idea where she was, she had gone down a few unfamiliar deserted corridors then up a few random sets of stairs that she'd come across, in the whole two weeks she'd been in dauntless she'd never went up that many stairs, nevertheless though, she'd kept going.

After rounding some more corners and going down never ending corridor after corridor she was eventually met by a much longer and wider corridor that had doors spaced out along it, that's when she had stopped.

She saw numbers on each of the doors and that's when it dawned on her that this must be where the dauntless apartments started and that confirmed she really was lost.

She looked around the dimly lit corridor for a moment before she sighed, she was too wound up and out of breath from running to even try and find her way back through the maze that she'd just come through in that moment, instead, she leaned against the wall next to one of the doors and found that although uncomfortable it was cool against the exposed skin of her arms, she slid down it slowly to her bottom and leaned her arms over her bent up knees before looking at the roof, she then began to inhale and exhale deep long breaths.

After a beat passed she looked down at her feet, she had been barefoot in training and still barefoot when she left, looking at her feet now she realised they were slightly red and were a little sore, consequences of a poor decision.

She sighed again then leaned her head back as what she'd said to Eric replayed over and over again through it, also the image of her walking out as he bellowed her name haunted her and she cringed at the memory and found herself saying aloud, "Why are you SO stupid Nix?"

"That's EXACTLY what I'd like to know!" a loud and angry voice replied.

She gasped and turned her head to see him marching down the corridor towards her with a murderous look on his face.

She shot up to standing as he approached her wondering as she did how he had even found her, she had taken off in a run the second she'd left the training room and he had still been in there.

The thought of how quickly he'd managed to find her was terrifying, more so now because she had nowhere to hide from him, not that she'd even have any chance of running from him now if she tried.

"You've got some nerve stiff." he told her and she began to speak but gasped with fright when he shoved her up against one of the doors with a hand around her throat, instinctively her own hands flew up and held tightly onto his wrist in an attempt to pry his hand away if he tried to choke her.

"You think you can just get away with a stunt like that?" he asked her as he moved his body more towards her, her breathing was suddenly heavy at the thought of what he might do to her although his hold on her neck wasn't tight, it was actually surprisingly loose.

She inhaled a deep breath as he suddenly leaned into her and pressed his forehead hard against her own, in a way that resembled two people getting ready to fight one another.

Before she dared to speak she closed her eyes briefly, "Eric, I'm sorry I...I was angry, you...you pushed my buttons."

Her final few words were a whisper and he huffed out what she thought might have been a laugh but she wasn't entirely sure, whatever it was it was gone as quick as it came and it unnerved her.

"Do you know where you are right now?" he asked her a beat later in a strangely calm voice for someone that was as mad as he seamed to be.

Her eyes slowly trailed up to his face and she found him staring hard at her with his jaw clenched, she shook her head lightly then felt him flex his fingers on her neck, she expected him to then squeeze and crush her windpipe but instead he leaned back a little so he was no longer invading her personal space, he then glanced at the door she was against before he reached into his pocket and produced a set of keys, he held them up infront of her face briefly before he then used them on the door to unlock it.

"This is my apartment." he told her in a low voice seconds before he pulled the door handle down, as her mind was processing that statement her body moved backwards with the door as it opened but he steadied her with a hand against her lower back before she could fall.

He then suddenly turned from her, yanked the keys from the door and slammed it so hard it hurt her ears.

She quickly took a few steps back from him then watched as he slowly turned back to face her and she was met with another glare when he did, she glanced down briefly whilst biting her lip and thinking about how inappropriate it was that she was in here with him, in his private accommodation.

She hesitantly glanced around the room to find that, what she could see, was mostly all dark, there was a kitchen area with a table and chairs to her left and to her right was a desk with a computer and next to it was a bookcase.

She swallowed as a thought suddenly came into her mind, if he murdered her in here...would anyone even know?

"I pushed your buttons did I?" he asked, interrupting her thoughts and she looked at him, noticing as she did that he was moving slowly towards her.

"Yes." she answered after inhaling deeply and she hoped she didn't sound or look as nervous as she felt.

"What I said was the truth." he replied and she let out a scoff as her anger had suddenly returned.

"The truth? That wasn't the truth, the truth was that I beat her, I TRIED to beat her and all you did was belittle me for it infront of everyone." she replied sharply.

He smiled at her and she was momentarily blinded by it, it was a nice smile, really nice in fact...his wide mouth was full of straight white teeth and even though she assumed he had intended it to be sinister it reached his eyes so it turned out as a genuine one, it made him even more attractive than she hated to admit that she thought he already was.

"You hesitated." he said as he took another step towards her, his smile now gone.

No longer distracted she rolled her eyes and replied, "You sprung it on us that we would be fighting each other and the pause, that was because she'd already lost."

"Every time you roll your eyes at me from now on I'm taking points from you." he told her and she frowned.

"Points?" she asked whilst thinking 'what?'.

"Five." he answered.

Her mouth opened slightly at the statement but she quickly recovered and said, "Five points...that seams a bit harsh does it not?"

"Ten when you make comments like that or whine." he replied and she gasped louder than she'd have liked.

"But I wasn't whining, that's un-" she began to say but stopped herself.

"Sorry stiff, didn't catch that...want to repeat it?" he said, his tone baiting.

"No...I have nothing to say." she said through gritted teeth and he smirked.

"Yeah I thought so...and just for the record, I would have had you all fighting on your second day of training...it's Four that didn't want that." he said with a scowl.

"Four didn't want that." she mused briefly then continued on without thinking and immediately wished she could rewind, "I thought with you being a leader you'd be the one making the decisions, not Four."

His scowl gradually changed to a sardonic smile before he said, "That remark just lost you fifteen points."

"Fifteen?!" she all but screeched at him.

"Another ten for whining about it." he replied and she let out a noise of irritation because she couldn't form any rational words to respond with, "And for that...another ten."

Her eyes widened at his concluding words and she had to suck in a deep breath because she was so mad, he watched her reaction with a smirk playing on his lips and that was it, that's what did it for her...she knew it was a bad decision, an EXTREMELY bad decision but she needed to get it out, she couldn't STOP it from escaping her lips.

"Fuck you." she replied with a glare and his eyes widened in astonishment.

She was slightly surprised at the choice of words herself as she'd never openly cursed aloud before and especially never AT anyone, her surprise didn't really linger long though as the reason for her saying it flashed in her mind and right on cue she narrowed her eyes at him as she decided in that moment that she couldn't care less about the cursing at him because he deserved it.

Time seamed to slow after that and a long moment passed before he did anything and what he did was move towards her, one foot at a time...each step seamed to pause longer than the previous and the way he was staring at her when he had finally stopped infront of her, so close that he was almost standing on her toes, should have made her cower in fear but she couldn't do that.

She stood her ground and didn't back down from him...she had to.

"Man you really are a pain in my ass." he eventually growled at her before he grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her roughly towards him.

His lips came crashing down on hers as soon as she was against his chest and she was so shocked by his actions that she froze on the spot, she was unable to move anything other than her eyes and they widened considerably the second his lips had touched hers.

Her heart began to pound furiously against the inside of her chest as the seconds ticked by and a million thoughts were suddenly running through her head, however, when his mouth started to move against hers that is when she was brought back to reality and able to form any type of movement.

Using all the strength that she could muster, she pushed him away from her then stared up at him open mouthed and afraid before backing away from him, thinking as she did...why on earth would he do this to her?