I walked into the training room with Eric to see the transfers were all paired up. Eric walked right up to Four. It seems this morning someone had pissed Eric off and he was taking it out on my brother.
"Are they ready for some real fighting?" Eric stopped slightly in front of Four and only turned his head back slightly. I came and stood beside Four.
"Not even close." My brother crossed his arms and scowled at Eric.
"First jumper! In the ring. Last jumper, time to fight!" Eric's glare deepened when Tris stood up to the ring with the tall muscular Candor in tow.
"How long do we fight for?" the Candor, Molly, asks.
"Until one of you can't continue." Eric stated stepping closer to me and away from my brother slightly.
"Or until one of you concedes." Four added crossing his arms and glaring at Eric before his roamed Tris' body quickly.
"According to the old rules. New rules, no one concedes."
"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others," fours eyes were now on Eric and I. I had decided to keep my mouth shut while they did their thing. I knew neither liked the other so I just let them have at it.
"A brave man never surrenders." Eric stated crossing his arms, and scowling to the point where I thought it might end up being permanently etched onto his face.
"Lucky for you, that wasn't a rule when we fought." Four scoffs at Eric.
"You'll be scored on this so fight hard." I tried not to giggle when Eric turned back around to face me, his face contorted into the deepest scowl I had ever seen on his face.
Tris was knocked out after a few punches from Molly and I inwardly cringed. I could see Tobias flinch when molly landed the final punch and Christina and Al carried her off the mat. The rest of the initiates fought for the remainder of the day once Eric left. I stayed to oversee Tobias which was my actual job for the next couple of weeks.
Every night after training Eric would knock on my door and see if I wanted to get drinks with him. Every night wasn't the same as the first though, thank god. My head and liver would never be able to withstand that amount of alcohol. But a few drinks with Eric became normal for us. Sometimes I had even been approached by some of the initiates which I didn't mind but Eric just stared at them like he did with the Mark guy from the first night, but I couldn't actually decipher what the look was. On the last day of stage one Al had come up to me before his fight with Will. He seemed to be slightly nervous his cheeks were tinged pink and he kept rubbing the back of his neck.
"Hey Amaya, c-can I ask you a question." I shrugged thinking there was no harm in a simple question. "A-are you and Eric together?" my eyes widened and if I had have been drinking water I'm sure I would have spit it out.
"Ah no were not, we work together and hang out a bit that's all." I frowned slightly at this thinking about how much I just wanted more with him. My ears pricked up when I heard the door to the training room open and close. I knew Eric was supposed to be here, but it had been half a day already and he hadn't shown so I had hoped it was him, but I didn't take my eyes off Al. Defence mechanism I had picked up during my initiation thanks to Eric. Never take your eyes off someone.
"Oh, ah good, um can I take you out one night after training? Or once I'm a full member here?" al asked me rubbing the back of his neck and biting his lip gently. Yes I will admit that Al wasn't horrible to look at and I would even call him cute, but he just wasn't my type. I don't even think he would be able to handle me. I heard my brother scoff from where he was. He had superhuman hearing I swear.
"I'm sorry Al, but I have to say no. I just don't really want to date or anything, sorry." I told him placing a hand on his shoulder when they sag and he nods and walks off. He was so sweet, but I just couldn't see myself with him. I shook my head and walked over to Tobias and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, he instantly wrapped his around me before my eyes caught Eric's blue ones. My heart reached out to him but I quickly shook it off as Al and Will got into the ring to fight. Al easily wins against Will, but that would only have something to do with his size. Al was like a big giant teddy bear but that also made me twice the size of Will, and even though Will was faster and was able to hold his own for a short while, Al still ended up with the upper hand and knocked him out cold. Al looked almost heartbroken as he tried but failed to get Will to regain consciousness. I walked away at this point not wanting to deal with any guy at the moment.
Eric's P.O.V
Once Amaya walked away I sent Al a glare as the initiate under him started to stir and get off the ground.
"Get him out of here." I yelled and waved my hand out towards the group. The stiff and Al helped get him off the mat so the next lot could fight. Molly and Christina were next and I felt my mind wander to thinking about what Amaya was doing and what she said to Al when he asked her out. I know that the transfers think she and I are a thing so why did he think he could just ask her out. My blood started to boil and my hands balled into fist at my side. I could feel Four give me a glance out of the corner of his eye. The smaller of the two girls, Christina, yells out while she's on the ground.
"Stop. I'm done." She holds up a hand to stop molly from ending the fight. I go over and stand above her holding out my hand for her.
"You need to stop?" she nods, "Okay let me give you a hand." She takes my hand and I help her off the ground and slowly we make our way out of the training room. "Alright everyone take a break. Follow me!" I yelled towards the other initiates. They all scampered over to us as I held Christina by her waist. I know I can be quite forceful at times even when I don't mean to, but this time I was trying to be a little bit forceful.
The roar of the chasm could be heard as we turned into the hallway that connected to it. As I pushed Christina ahead of me on the bridge hanging above the water I decided what I was going to do.
"You feeling a little better?" I asked her in a soft voice.
"Yeah a little." She said as she rubbed her arm. I knew Amaya would have something to say about this but at the moment I didn't care as I pushed Christina's tiny body over the railing and held onto her hand so she didn't actually fall to her death.
"Grab the rail, or don't." I shrugged and let go of her hand once the other one was in place on the railing. "You've got three options, hang there and I'll forget your cowardice, fall and die, or give up, but if you give up your out." I leant back against the rail on the other side as she continued to whimper. I didn't take my eyes off her but I knew that the rest of the initiates really hated me at this stage, there was water dropping from every rock jutting out and even right above Christina's head. The stiff had the audacity to say something, when I shot her a glare from where I stood. I knew I was terrifying to the transfers and it was just how I liked it. No one ever got close to me. I rolled my eyes at the stiff as I yelled time. Two of her friends came over to help her up and that was when I saw her walk up to the group.
"What the fuck is going on here?" she pointedly looks at me and suddenly I don't feel so in control. I don't feel so terrifying, because right now there was a fire in her eyes that could rival Satan himself, I put on my steeled façade as she got closer to her, she can't know she has this sort of control over me.
"She needed to be taught a lesson." I shrugged and walked away from her. I couldn't hold this façade for too long before it would start to crack under the pressure of her gaze.
Amaya P.O.V
"That is not how you teach someone a lesson. You're supposed to give her a punishment for after training." I said quietly to him as I jogged to catch up to him. I watched Tobias dismiss everyone for the day as Eric turned his body back to me.
"Do not patronize me in front of the initiates!" he yelled at me as he got closer to me. I saw something flicker in his eyes for a brief moment before anger took over. "I was handling the initiates the way I see fit for them to be able to be Dauntless. She tried to concede in a fight. I can't just over look that Mya, she needed to be taught." I could almost see the anger radiating off him which just caused me to become angry with him as well.
"Well how about next time either consult me or Four. I will not lose transfers because you can't get over the fact that Four can beat you every fight you guys have. Neither one of you is better than the other. It was 3 years ago, you're a leader now and he is just in the control room because he turned down leadership. We need all the Dauntless we can get and you know it too. The factionless have been quiet for far too long and it isn't sitting right with me. But for now get off your high horse and go and apologise to Christina. If you had have done that to me during my initiation I would have much preferred to become factionless." I poked his chest for good measure before stalking off in the direction I came from. Fucking men. I gripped the base of my hair before I turned around to punch the nearest wall to me. Fuck fuck fuck. He was too cocky for his own good and it was starting to annoy me. He needed to brought down a peg or two, but he was still technically my superior so I had to be careful about how and when to do it.
A loud banging was heard throughout my apartment. I groaned but got out of bed and headed towards the door.
"I swear to god there better be a good reason as to why I am being woken up at this ungodly hour of the morning!" I yelled as I swung the door open to reveal Eric standing there in his mission clothes. His black military pants with a black long sleeve and a tight black vest on over the top. I bit my lip before glaring at him, I was not awake enough to stop the blush that crept across my angry looking face. I was stood there in my doorway wearing only a short pair of purple pyjama shorts with a large black sweater. The one that I had borrowed of Eric last year and never given back.
"Capture the flag in half an hour." He let himself into my apartment and sat on the sofa. This was the first time he had actually been inside my apartment. I rolled my eyes and closed the door before making my way back to my bedroom.
"Sure come in make yourself at home." I grumbled towards Eric.
I looked at the clock on my bedside table. 3 am! I was going to strangle him when I woke up a bit more. He knew I didn't want to do capture the flag this year, but apparently he didn't give two fucks about it. I angrily pulled on my black utility pants with a long sleeve and my big warm jacket, I knew how cold it got out there. But I also knew I could move fine in this jacket. I gathered my hair up into a pony on the top of my head before deciding that contacts were the best for this type of training.
I walked back out to find Eric looking through all of my books in my bookshelf.
"Interesting collection you have here Mya. I'll have to show you mine one day and maybe we can exchange? I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this for years." He held up my copy of Harry Potter; The Tale of the Beadle and The Bard. I was slightly taken aback at his statement. That was until it hit me that he had been an Erudite before transferring to Dauntless. Of course he would have books and love books. He ushers me out my door as we wait for Four and the initiates to join us before the train gets here.
A/N: Please if you like this story, comment. also i left it here because i just couldn't focus on doing the capture the flag scene, and the two scenes from the book and the movie and vastly different and im not sure which way im going to do with it just yet. i mean im doing Jai's Eric so i guess i should just go for the movie version of it but im just not sure. any feedback is muchly appreciated. thank you and have a great night/day.