Eric is 24 (his birthday just after choosing day)
Tris is 21 (her birthday just before choosing day)
Peter and Uriah are both 22 and I want Uri to be an Xmas baby just for shirts and giggles, doesn't even have to be used. Just knowing this is enough XD
Prompt: Max helped Eric cover his divergence by suggesting losing to Tobias and causing some trouble including being an asshole to everyone.
Eric used this method to help Peter during his initiation and when Peter attacked Edward who threatened exposure after realizing Peter was divergent Eric and Max helped clean up that mess. (Bye, bye Edward)
Now Tris is in charge of initiation and Eric realizes there is another divergent in the batch, causing him having to intervene once again and bringing trainer Uriah and leader Tris into the intimate group of people aware. Those revelations, all of the, cause Tris to finally see Eric and voila…
Sorry If this isn't what you thought when you came up with the prompt but it all just poured out when I remembered you saying you need a distraction. Maybe it'll make you laugh? I tried lol
"Tris, I have admired you for way too long. Please put me out of my constant misery by accepting my offer for a date-ughhhh" I pull my hair in frustration. Why the fuck can I not stop talking like a Nose when I am nervous? Better yet, why am I nervous? There are only two answers to my question and if she says no, it's not she's the last woman in the world, I try to rationalize but my heart cracks at the thought of Tris not wanting me. Fuuuck!
"Okay, let's not stress out. I will get ready and go to Tris' office and say something at the moment. Yes, I can do spontaneous," I try to comfort myself. It's not like she would recognize my divergence unless she is one herself too.
With another sigh, I let myself out of my apartment.
The walk to Tris' office takes less than five minutes and my palms are sweating again. I knock and bite the inside of my cheek to not say something stupid. I am supposed to be trying to recruit her for helping the Divergents but it seems my mind and heart aren't in agreement.
She opens the door and smiles at me and holy shit! She looks hot in that tube top. The shorts make her ass look perfect.
Fuck! The cause can wait for a few more weeks. And just like that, all thoughts of talking go out of my mind as I pin her to the wall and kiss her senseless.
"So what made you believe I wouldn't slap the shit outta your pretty face for kissing me that day?" Tris asks with a smirk, running her hands down my naked chest.
I roll my eyes. My girlfriend loves to bring up my epic first date proposal every chance she gets.
"Talks about the awkwardness of your majestic boyfriend are not twelfth date material," I tell her and this time, she rolls her eyes. I stifle a smirk, knowing how much she hates me keeping track of everything, including our dates and how, when, and where we have had sex.
"Eriiiiic," she pouts but then her expression changes from playful to closed off. Oh goody!
"I saw Jeanine today, she was talking to Four about something, you happen to know what it is she needs from MY instructor?" she emphasizes the word my to remind me that she is in charge of Four's employment.
"I, Tris, there's something I need to tell you," I am pretty sure I can't hide my secret for long, and what's the point when she has a similar one?
She sits up and wraps the blanket around her, raising an eyebrow at me and I take a deep breath.
"Do you know what Divergent means?" I ask and her breath hitches and she shakes her head. Lies!
"I won't hurt you, Tris," I tell her and she looks at me, confused.
"I won't turn you in, or Four. I mean why bother when I am Divergent too," I tell her, hoping to hear her confession of divergence.
Her eyes widen and she gets off the bed and starts redressing herself. Now I am confused. Did I tell her I know about her the wrong way?
When she's done dressing up, she gives me a once-over and walks towards the door. She leaves but not without saying something that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
"What makes you so sure that I am Divergent?"
It feels like my heart leaped in my throat at the realization. My girlfriend isn't Divergent and she knows that I am one. If she isn't Divergent, she must be 100% Dauntless. That just means I set myself and other possible Divergents up for slaughter.
Please, Tris, please don't do anything about it!
I haven't seen her for an entire week and it seems Max or Four haven't either. Of course, she eluded all the cameras; she's a leader and knows where all of them are. Shit!
The thoughts of dying when Tris tattles on me keep on churning in my brain and by now, I have thought of two hundred twelve different ways I can 'die' of unknown causes.
I must've been too absorbed in my theories that I don't hear my office door opening nor do I see Tris walking in until she has pulled me out of my chair and to some unknown destination.
"Tris," I know my voice sounds relieved because as much as my own and other Divergents' lives are dependent on Tris right now, she's my girlfriend and I love her too much to not worry about her.
"Shut up!" she snaps and I heed her advice. Sarcasm.
She pulls me along the train tracks and we wait for the train.
"Will you tell me where we are going?" I ask and she ignores me.
The train approaches and we break into a jog, jumping in as the train speeds away.
She glares at me and shoves me into a wall, hard and I try not to wince.
"Do you know what a predicament you put me in? Why the fuck did you tell me your fuckin secret, Eric? I am a loyal Dauntless leader and it's my duty to turn you in or were you feeling particularly suicidal that day?" she spits and I realize what a stressful position I had put her in
"I am …sorry?" I ask and her scowl deepens. I have never seen my Tris like that, not when she's with me.
"Baby," she sighs and I pull her in my arms. My poor girlfriend is exhausted and I know it's all my fault.
"What made you think I was Divergent, Eric?" she asks me and I decide to tell her why I had assumed.
"You came from Abnegation is the first reason, second is the fact you were always so selfless. And you're smart as fuck too, with your strategy in capture the flag and the pranks you help Uriah with," she laughs at that.
"Darling, my aptitude test gave me a Dauntless result. And as for the selflessness, it was me following our manifesto like a true Dauntless. 'We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for the other, We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.' That is why I always stood up for others and will continue to do so," she tells me with a small smile and I can't help but kiss her, short and sweet.
"And as for being smart," she smirks as she pulls away from me, "My dad was from Erudite and Intelligence isn't limited to Erudite. You need to be smart so you can protect others, you need to be smart to be a Dauntless leader, you need to be smart to beat those simulations and most importantly, 'We do not believe in empty heads, empty mouths, or empty hands' also states we need to use our brains right?" and I gotta admit, everything she said is true and very valid.
"And unless you think aptitude testing isn't accurate…" she trails off and I sigh.
"So…what now?" I ask her and her features harden once again.
"I didn't tell anyone what you told me, Eric. It's not my secret to tell but I did lots of research on Divergents and if I say what I think, it's that they're just born with more aptitudes so I don't think that's too dangerous. Besides, we all have some of the other factions in us. Look at Uriah, he says he's crazy like that because he was conceived in April and born on Christmas but I think he has had a little too much peace serum in his bread," she smirks and I chuckle. Uriah's reasons are legendary.
"So what are your plans now?" I ask her, feeling lighter than before and she looks at me with a stern look.
"I won't tell anyone of your secret if you marry me and promise to be a nice husband forever," she tells me seriously and I laugh loudly.
"I don't have a speech prepared, eloquence is for the Erudite, but Tris Prior, love of my life, will you marry me and make me the luckiest man in the world?" I ask her and she smirks.
"Who says you're a man?" she asks and my mouth drops open. "Kidding kidding and even though it was a lame as fuck proposal, I will still marry you since I love you and all," she says it so casually like she didn't just agree to become my wife and said she loves me for the first time.
"Good, because I love you too," I tell her and proceed to kiss her senseless.
"So…how are we going to throw Jeanine off our tails?" my wife asks and an involuntary smile makes its way on my face. She must've noticed it too because she smacks my chest and pulls away from my embrace.
"Be serious, Eric, we can play later," she scolds and I have to stifle a chuckle. Wouldn't do me any good if I piss her off again when she's clearly PMSing.
"How about…" I think and a brilliant plan appears in my mind. "We host a new event. An Annual Dauntless prank week?" I ask and she smiles widely.
"That sounds perfect! Anyone is free to prank anyone during the week. Pranks can be held anywhere even in other faction compounds, we can prank other faction members or enlist their help too. It's gonna be tons of fun. Ooh and we can pay the factionless generously to clean up all the shit we do in the week too," she claps her hands excitedly.
"That'll show Jeanine that we all are nothing but brainless hellions," I tell her haughtily and she falls off our bed, laughing loudly.
"We'll have to establish ground rules and start looking for volunteers to help," I tell her, helping her back on the bed again.
"I vote for Uriah to be head prankster of Dauntless with Zeke as his second in command," she tells me.
"I vote Peter as the second head prankster with Lynn as his second in command," I smirk and she grins at me.
"Ground rules! You can't prank anyone younger than eight," she says.
"You can't prank anyone older than sixty,"
"Faction leaders can be pranked,"
"Vandalism and pyromania are prohibited,"
"Don't do something that can risk yours or someone else's life,"
"Infirmary, control rooms, cameras, weaponry and vehicles except the trains are off-limits,"
"Prices of things will go up by 5% for prank week, we do need the revenue after all"
"no permanent damage to property or anything,"
"dauntless will be exempted from all punishments during prank week if they follow the rules,"
"Factionless will be hired to clean everything up,"
"Attention, Dauntless! You all are allowed to participate in our new annual event, The Annual Daunltess Prank Week!" my sound is drowned in the loud hoots and hollers of my faction mates. Tris smiles and Max takes the mic from me.
"Now, Shut the fuck up everyone, and listen to the ground rules. If you break any rule, you will be punished,"
"Rule number one, You cant prank anyone younger than eight. Rule number two, You cant prank anyone older than sixty. Rule number three, Faction leaders can be pranked. Rule number four, Vandalism and pyromania are prohibited. Rule number five, Don't do something that can risk your or someone else's life. Rule number six, Infirmary, control rooms, weaponries, and vehicles except the trains are off-limits. Rule number seven, Prices of anything that can assist in a possible prank will go up by 5% for the entire week. Rule number eight, no permanent damage to property or anything else, and lastly, no damage to cameras and other surveillance equipment in any faction will be allowed. And now for some instructions," I tell them and I can see my faction members itching to start talking and planning.
"We will have a crew of 'peacekeepers' who will be aged between forty to sixty. They will be posted outside forbidden areas, headquarters, and government buildings. Their purpose is to stop anyone from going too far, exploiting forbidden areas, and getting the pranksters out of trouble if they land themselves in any. Dauntless will be exempted from any punishments if they haven't broken any rules," the cheering starts and some whistling can be heard too.
Tris snatches the microphone from me and yells, "The Factionless will clean everything up after the week is over at midnight. They will be compensated handsomely. "
"Remember anyone, no hard feelings if you're pranked. This week is for fun and de-stressing us. It will boost our morale and overall camaraderie. Volunteers from each department will constitute the skeleton crew that will run Dauntless during the week. Peacekeepers will be chosen from volunteers. You all have one week to plan your prank and order supplies accordingly. Supplies will arrive and be available for purchase a day before prank week which will start on April first. Uriah and Peter are our head pranksters with Zeke and Lynn as their second-in-commands. You can run your pranks by them. Orders for equipment will be collected by Max. Pranks will be filmed by city-wide surveillance and will be played the next week for the entire city to see. You will get a list of rules for the prank week." Tris says and the applause and hollering are enough to deafen a person.
We both smile at each other and tell everyone to go back at their duties. Something tells me that prank week will be fun and memorable.
April 1, 23:50
A bucket of screws was delivered to Jeanine Matthews' personal office with no context just a note that read. 'You're welcome, by the way, :)'
"Who in the world!" the blond raged as she gathered a team of Erudite's most perceptive detectives and went on a tour of Erudite to look for things with missing screws.
April 1, 23:54
A statue of Erudite faction's symbol, the eye enclosed in a circle weighing close to 50 kg was found in the Candor lobby.
"Holy hell!" Niles said as he went around asking everyone on the night shift about it. None of the sleepy skeleton crew saw where and how it came in from.
April 1, 23:58
Dauntless leader Eric walked into his office and turned the light switch on only to see his entire office walls covered in blue slime, confetti, and the occasional toilet paper sheets.
The poor thing with OCD laid on the surprisingly clean ground to steady himself and when he opened his eyes, he was met with hundreds of empty champagne flutes stuck to the ceiling.
A post-it note fell on his chest and as soon as he read it, he fainted as a thousand colourful paintballs rained down on him.
'Enjoy your new decorations, Coulter. Oh and there's a hidden appreciation gift for you as well. Love, :)'
April 1, 23:59
Marcus Eaton Walked out of his house late at night, thinking he heard a dog barking.
As soon as he was a safe distance away from his residence, he felt like he was being watched and before he could do anything, innumerable balloons filled with mustard sauce, mayonnaise, ketchup and god knows what else was thrown on him. Before he could run away, sausages shaped like penises were launched from the sky. It took him a long while to flee but he didn't know that he'd find a huge surprise in the morning.
A huge erect penis was made of the fallen sausages which were covered in ketchup and strings of mayo while the mustard and cheesy sauce wrote in huge letters,
'We know you're a huge cowardly dickwad so please accept our heartfelt gift. Happy forty-fifth birthday to the world's biggest, most selfish cock owner :)'
April 2, 23:00
A tractor was found in Amity's cafeteria, hanging from the ceiling with a note in huge white letters written on the ceiling.
'Had been watching you for years, my love, but now that you married THAT MAN, I decided to watch over you like a guardian angel. Love, your creepy stalker tractor :)'
April 2, 23: 35
A guard decided to do a routine sweep on the lab and found that the Erudite testing lab had hundreds of watermelons rolling around with huge smiles painted on each of them in glow-in-the-dark paint.
When the guard turned on the lights, he saw a note in blood on the wall.
'Science doesn't believe we exist, many don't. But you definitely will :P'
And the man's mouth opened in a silent scream as vampires with bloody teeth and sharp claws surrounded him.
April 3, 07:50
The Principal walked into the school humming a tune and fell face-first on something.
Opening his eyes, he saw the ground covered with sleeping kids in PJs and some of them even had their stuffed toys. It took him a long while to reach his office only to scrunch his nose at the stench of animal droppings.
As soon as he unlocks his office door, many chickens, goats, pigs, cats, and ducks knock him down and escape the office, running around the entire school. Scowling, he looks back to his office to look in the eyes of a big-sized dog baring its teeth at him.
The lights in the office flickered and the electricity went out, filling the atmosphere with the sound of snoring kids, excited kids, and different animals.
April 3, 18:45
After a particularly long day in the office, Jack Kang and the Chief Justice of Candor walk out of the office and their jaws drop open as they take sight of the Candor walls decorated with tons and tons of different chocolates and candies.
Running didn't help either as they encountered a dead end and turned to look back, screaming in horror as a huge wave of vanilla ice cream approached them at supersonic speed, covering the two with ice cream for a few long moments before being sucked in by the ground.
It wasn't the worst of it as a huge number of Candor kids chased them around, wanting a lick of the treat while hundreds of them were busy plucking the sweets off the walls.
April 4, 20:00
Evelyn Eaton walked into the Factionless HQ, feeling smug about all her accomplishments as a leader. With the way she was tooting her own horn in her mind, she didn't see what was right in front of her until.
"Ow,!" she yelped, clutching her foot and glaring at whatever made her trip and stub her toe.
Her eyes widen comically as she sees the complicated interwoven web of school desks linked together with red string all across the HQ. She has to hop and slink around in order to reach her personal quarters which look exactly the same except for a note that seems to be compiled in the form of post-it notes at her door.
'They say the red string is the string of fate, congratulations Evey, you're future looks bright as a high school teacher! J'
She screams in frustration and kicks a desk, stubbing the same toe once again.
April 5, 08:00
The monthly Council meeting is held in The Council building. Every Abnegation (except the dependents) are supposed to attend where they discuss ideas of city's benefit and all that.
Natalie Prior taps her foot, waiting for Marcus Eaton to grace them with his presence so they can all enter and take their seats. He finally shows up and unlocks the door, the Abnegation file in after him and he turns on the lights.
Loud gasps and wails are heard as the Abnegation takes in the sight of their huge meeting room turned sex room. There are sex toys lying around and attached to the ceilings, huge penis balloons along with many other inflatable sex dolls. There are games such as pin the sperm on the egg on the walls. Clothe lines covered with sexy lingerie hang over their heads as loud sexual songs play from the loud as fuck stereo system.
"Who the fuck did this, answer me?" Marcus Eaton bellows as many Abnegation cover their eyes or ears.
Natalie Prior covers her mouth, pretending to gasp while she's stifling a smirk. She out of everyone knows who must be behind this.
She pulls a shell-shocked Andrew Prior along with her towards the sex toys, deciding she could smuggle some away as the majority of Abnegation members try to run away, their innocent minds, scarred for life.
April 6, 03:25
Jeanine walked around the simulation testing labs, exhausted beyond measure but she had work to do. The anti-Divergence serum wouldn't make itself. Behind her, Caleb Prior followed with his clipboard and tablet.
As soon as Jeanine reached the library, trying to find some more books on divergence and divergent brains, the doors shut, lights went out and everything went dark.
Within minutes, a disco ball appeared out of nowhere and so did big speakers.
"Are you ready for a partayy!" someone said through the speakers and the entire library was filled with deafening sounds of party music.
Jeanine scrambled around, looking for a way to stop it all but nothing happened. She tried to scream but her voice was drowned by the heavy music.
Behind her, Caleb discreetly pulled out a pair of noise cancellation mini-ear pods and plugged them in his ears, smiling at Jeanine throwing tantrums.
It continued until seven am that day, Jeanine had resigned herself to fate and was mumbling some lyrics to a song she heard on loop while she dozed.
The disco light turned off and the ceiling lights flickered a few times before opening in a pattern. When she looked up, Jeanine tried to breathe as she saw the bright lights illuminate the ground in a note.
'You work too much Jeanine, have a break AND partaayy! :)'
April 7: 23:58
The entire city (faction people, leaders, and factionless alike) waited with bated breath. There had been no pranks for the entire day and they waited for the other shoe to drop.
They all kept their ears open, looking around paranoid that something or someone would spring up on them but nothing happened.
At exactly April 8, 00:00 all leaders got a delivery which consisted of a full Dauntless cake, apologizing for everything and saying it was all in good fun.
The leaders and council members didn't want to forgive them but couldn't pass an opportunity to try the infamous Dauntless cake so they all did.
And they all sang and danced and did a lot of stupid shit till early in the morning when they all fell asleep in a pile of politicians outside the council building, hopefully sleeping off the truckload of stolen peace serum found in the apology cakes.
"Did you see their faces!" Uriah high-fived Peter as they laughed their asses off at the human pile outside the council building.
Prank week had gone off without a hitch with hundreds of pranks small and large scale on various people in the city.
Alliances were formed and Dauntless camaraderie was strengthened and above all, they had made history.
"Let's wait for the factionless to clean everything up before showing them everything," Lynn smirked and the other three head pranksters nodded and agreed.
It took the factionless and faction crews an entire week to clean the whole city up.
Two weeks after the ending of Prank week, Four and Zeke hacked into the city's network and broadcast all the pranks to every screen around the city.
Everyone saw the leaders getting pranked, the factions and civilians getting pranked, and their reactions.
At the end of the day-long transmission, there was an announcement from Dauntless leader Tris.
"Everyone, we want to congratulate you all for enjoying the first-ever Annual Dauntless prank week! Your support was valuable and we hope to bring more fun in the future. Now, let's give a big hand to the pranksters behind the tricks played on all leaders!" there was hooting and hollering as they displayed the names of allies from each faction and Jeanine glared as soon as Caleb and Cara's pictures were shown.
The other prominent helpers were Therese, Peter's parents and sister, Drew and Myra, Susan and Robert Black, Natalie Prior, and lastly Mia, the fence guard for Amity.
It didn't take too long for the leaders to connect the dots and realize that the people most privy to secrets and private rooms were in on this all.
Natalie Prior waved at everyone as Andrew chuckled.
Peter's harsh-looking parents broke into fits of laughter and kids from each faction had a good laugh at the elders and especially the loved the prank on their principal.
And Eric and Tris were hugged by many well-wishers for humiliating Four's abusive parents.
Tris and Eric walked up to Tobias and squeezed him in a hug, knowing that in a way, both had made his parents pay some of the price of what they did to him.
"I don't know what to say," Tobias sniffled and the couple laughed.
"Then don't," Tris said and Eric gave him a manly slap on the back.
"We're your family, man, and that's what we do, protect each other and in your case, we'll help you move on from your past," Eric told him and got a hug from Four, while Max fake gagged at the two leaders turning mushy.
They got a call from various faction leaders for the next couple of days but the one they rejoiced the most was Jeanine's.
"How dare you?"
"We just did," Max laughed way too loudly, making sure he irked Jeanine more.
"You trespassed on my property and vandalized my faction!"
"The faction HQ is not your property and neither is the faction your god-given right, L O L" Max chortled, making sure to say 'lol' at everything he said.
"You are all insufferable hooligans! I can't believe you turned my faction against me!" she seethed.
"Loosen your corset, Jean, we didn't turn anyone against you. It was all in harmless fun. Though your reaction to the pranks and peace serum will forever be treasured."
"You didn't! From now on, Erudite and Dauntless only have a business relationship. We want nothing more to do with you uncultured baboons," she said and hung up, not knowing that the entire faction of Dauntless was hearing each word.
They all laughed and partied hard that night.
They had done it. They had driven Jeanine crazy to the point she only thought of them as hellions with no brains. They were safe from Divergent testing and the leaders couldn't be more proud of their faction.
"May I have this dance, Mrs. Coulter?" Eric asked his wife who beamed at him and pulled him to the dance floor.
And they all lived happily ever after with no Jeanine and no divergent hunt for Dauntless, at least.
Did I forget to mention they had mistakenly destroyed all research Jeanine did on divergents and an anti-divergence serum?