Tori: "Kat doesn't own Divergent, she's not old enough!"

Kat: "Thanks, Tori!"

Tori: "No problem, anyway, gotta go congratulate Six!"

Kat: "Have fun! Imago curl in a corner and write!"

Tori: "Thanks, and you too!"

Chapter 13

Initiation Ends

Six:

This is my family now and forever. I thought, watching the Dauntless argue and laugh and joke and fight and love and live. This is my faction and nothing will change that.

Time Skip (Last day of initiation)

I sighed as Zeke and I sat in the fear landscape room, the Dauntless members have come to watch. It's a tradition for the members to watch the initiates on the last day where they go through their landscape, but I don't really understand it.

"Zeke! You're up!" Amar called out, motioning for Zeke to go over to him and face his fears.

I patted Zeke on the back and whispered, "Good luck," as he got up and made his way over to Amar who injected him with the serum and steered him into the center of the room. I watched as Zeke struggled against his invisible fears, running in place, punching, kicking, and silently screaming. I know I'm going to be one of the last ones to go due to being ranked first of the transfers. I have no idea where I'm ranked in total, but I have a feeling I'm either first or second in total ranking between all initiates.

I must have been lost in thought for quite a while because the next thing I know, Zeke's finished with his landscape. He looks pale as he comes back over to me and I look him dead in the eye. Zeke just shakes his head no, not wanting to say anything. I just nodded as he sat down, and I slug an arm around his shoulder and pulled him closer, but before he could react I pulled him into a headlock and proceeded to give him a nuggy, messing up his hair.

I chuckled as Zeke tried to pull out of my grasp, but he soon gave up when he realized it was no use. He grumbled in annoyance once I finally let him go and he "fixed" his hair. "Can you stop doing that?" He asked in annoyance, seeing as I constantly find ways to pull him into a headlock. I shook my head no and chuckled when he grumbled in annoyance once again.

Many people believe that Zeke and I are dating, but really, we're just extremely close friends. We trust each other with anything and everything, including our lives. Zeke knows everything about me, including my fears and the fact I'm Divergent, and I know everything about him, including his fears as well. It's obvious that Zeke still likes Shauna, but he wants her to better herself before he tries to date her again. We've both noticed how Shauna's gotten much better at fighting, but she's changed in other ways that neither of us agrees with. Shauna goes after other boys, dating and kissing really, I doubt they ever have sex, but you never know. She's been trying to get Zeke jealous, but really, all she's doing is hurting him more than she thinks. Whenever I notice Shauna out with another guy, I steer Zeke away, he knows why I do it, and I'm not ashamed, I just don't want to see him hurt. I don't like Zeke like that, god no, he's just my best friend, and that's it. I don't think I'll ever date, and Zeke respects that, he knows about my Abnegation like tendencies, as well as the fact I don't like opening up to anyone unless I have to.

Thanks to Amar and Zeke, I got over my androphobia, though there are some tendencies where that fear can resurface, but not for long. I have yet to figure out what my androphobia was replaced with if it was ever replaced with anything. I've figured out a way to get past my sim of Marcus before anyone get to realize what it is, though I can't help but fear that when the time comes, I won't be able to do it. I also know that I have a plan for after initiation, and that plan includes getting my "father" arrested. I can't wait for the day to come, but I will have to be patient, and I know that I definitely can be patient. There's also Tori, who, just last week, finished up the tattoo on my back, and I'm absolutely grateful she did it. The tattoo covers the majority of my scars and the ones that aren't covered are barely visible.

Lauren and I have started talking again, she apologized for everything she said and we've slowly become friends, though I doubt we will ever be close. As for Uriah, Marlene, and Lynn, they're really chill, though I do find that I like Lynn the most out of those three. Uriah may be a lot like Zeke, but really, I can only handle one of them at a time. Marlene's too smiley and cheerful for my liking, but I know that on the inside she's a fighter and a true Dauntless. As for Lynn, she's badass. She's sarcastic and strong and has been training for Dauntless for who knows how long. I know for a fact that during her initiation, she's going to be ranked in the top three. I've learned more about the games that I was deprived of during my childhood, including Candor or Dauntless where if you pick Candor you have to answer the question truthfully and if you pick Dauntless you have to do the dare and if you don't you take off an article of clothes. I've also learned about Dare, a game where someone gives you a dare to do and you drink a sip of whiskey before doing the dare, and then you ask someone else. These games, I learned at Zeke's party a couple weeks ago, and I wouldn't have gone if Amar and Zeke hadn't dragged me, stating that I needed more friends.

I'm pulled out of my thoughts by Amar calling for me, "Six! Get your ass over here!" I must have been in my thoughts for longer than I expected because it seems that I am quite possibly the last initiate to go.

I chuckled and stood up, making my way through the dwindling crowd of initiates as they've all been called already. The Dauntless members cheer for me as I make my way over, probably excited to see how I, the new Dauntless prodigy, will act towards the fear simulations. I stand beside Amar and I don't even wince when he gives me the injection before steering me towards the center. I stood there for a few seconds before everything went black.

I open my eyes as a gust of wind pushes into my side. I brace myself and look around, feeling the wind get stronger. I look to the side and see an open window. Ignoring the fact that I am quite possibly fifty, or more, stories above the ground and start cautiously inching my way over to the window, bracing myself every time a strong gust of wind blows through. I make it to the window and quickly crawl through, finding myself in a vent like tunnel, just large enough for me to crawl in. As I begin crawling making my way to the tunnel, the minute I reach the end I stand up just for a wall to slam into my head, and multiple others to slam into each of my sides. My breathing grew heavier, but I tried to keep myself calm. This isn't real, spread through my mind until it was the only thing I could think off. I curled into a smaller ball, for once, grateful for my small stature that allowed this to be just a little easier to endure.

Suddenly, the walls around me collapsed and I stood up. I looked around to see a wide-open field of yellow, dead grass that grew up to my knees. I gazed up at the sky as I noticed the many shadows passing above me, instantly knowing that it's the crows. I looked around the field, noticing branches on the other side of the field. They looked sturdy enough, so I ran towards them as quickly as I could and grabbed the strongest branch I could carry. I swung it around as the shadows drew closer and the screeching of the many crows growing louder. The branch slammed into the side of a few of the closest birds and I swung it back around, hitting a few more. I continued the motion until everything went black, and I know that one more fear has been completed.

Three more to go, I thought to myself as everything came back into focus. I looked around the room to notice that the Priors have been replaced by Amar, Tori, and Zeke. My new family, I thought, I have to kill them. I looked at the three people I now call my family and didn't even notice when the lady next to me handed me the gun.

"You know what to do, Six," simulation Amar stated as he watched my movements.

I looked at him for a solid three seconds before my gaze moved to Tori who was on the left of him. My gaze rested on her for another three seconds before I looked at Zeke. He's like the brother I've never had and Tori's the mother that I lost, while Amar's the father I wish I grew up with. I looked at the three people I call family and couldn't bring myself to shoot them.

"Shoot them, or else I shoot you," a monotone-voiced woman interrupts my thoughts. I looked over my shoulder to see the same woman who handed me the gun. I ignore her and look back at my new found family and then flip the gun on myself. Without a second thought, I pull the trigger and everything goes black.

I wait for everything to refocus and I'm pulled into another fear. This time, I have no idea what's to come due to me having gotten over my Androphobia and having no idea what my next fear will be. As everything refocuses I realize that I'm now in a nearly empty room, similar to the previous one. I try to stand up, but I can't move. I look down to realize that my hands are tied behind my back and my feet tied to the chair legs. I look around to see that a man has now positioned himself in front of me, a gun in his hands. I'm not necessarily afraid of death, I know that much for sure, especially because once in my life I wished for death to take me. I think this might just be a fear of not being in control or feeling helpless, or being restrained. I looked around and tried to find something while trying to feel for anything that could possibly be behind me. After a while of feeling around below my hands, I felt a sharp prick against my fingers and then tiny droplets fall down; I kept up my poker face, making sure the man in front of me doesn't suspect a thing. I grabbed whatever it was that cut my finger and the minute it was in my hands I realized that it was a piece of broken glass. I carefully maneuvered the glass until it was pressed up against the ropes and began cutting into the ropes, but before I could get through them, everything went black and I know the simulation ended.

I waited for everything to refocus and realized that my last fear has come. Marcus. I'm standing in my Abnegation home and I let my mind shut down. I've mastered this, over the many years of being beaten. I had to let myself shut down, all of my senses, gone. Feeling. Taste. Touch. Hearing. Smell. Everything. Just like I've done many times before. If I didn't shut down during the beatings than I would have screamed and cried and it would have been worse. As I shut myself down, I also caused the fear to disappear with any other emotion, causing the simulation to end before anyone could ever see what my last fear is.

I let myself restart and it's always such an odd feeling after shutting down every one of my senses. I opened my eyes to see the shocked look of the Dauntless leaders as they finally began to comprehend what I just did.

"H-how did you just shut down all your senses?!" Max asked in shock, speaking the thoughts of every other leader in the room. "And why?" He continued, looking at me as if I was an anomaly and I wouldn't be surprised if I was.

I looked Max dead in the eye and stated, "Practice. There are many things none of you will ever learn and one of those things is why I know how to shut down." I stated, keeping my gaze level with Max's as he listened, shocked by my stern tone after living through my fears. "As for why, well I shut down during that fear because that fear happens to be a secret of my past that you will have to find out some other time."

Max looked at me in shock as I turned around and slowly made my way out of the room, the Dauntless members, suddenly quiet, parted for me as I passed through them. I could hear the quiet, but quick footsteps that indicated to me that Zeke had gotten up and is now following me. I was the last initiate to go through the landscape and during lunch, the rankings will be released and everyone will know who goes where once and for all.

Time Skip - Lunch

It's time for lunch. It's time for rankings. Time to see who made it and who failed. Zeke and I have to have made it. We've worked too hard to not. Zeke and I silently made our way to the cafeteria where the Dauntless members sat, anticipation filling the room and everyone looked as if they were going to explode any second.

Zeke sat down at our usual table and automatically grabs burgers for us while I make my way to the line, automatically going through our routine for every lunch. It was an unspoken agreement that we fell into, where every lunch and dinner, Zeke would go to our table and make the food that was already set there while I go over to the line to grab us some Dauntless cake and during breakfast, I'd grab us a coffee and a bagel and we'd leave.

It's been our everyday routine ever since the nightmare I had at Tori's apartment. We've stuck together, keeping each other as sane and safe as we can. It's an unspoken statement between us that we're siblings from different parents, and the minute we can speak with Uriah without some stupid rule preventing it, he's going to unspokenly become my brother and I will become his sister, though we will never be as close as I am with Zeke.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by the sudden shout of "Shut up!" echoing throughout the ever so loud cafeteria. I looked over to the stage to see Max standing there with Amar and Tori on either side with a TV propped up behind all three of them. I listened intently as Max congratulated us for our hard work and for the skills that we've shown and listened as Max shouted "This year's rankings will now be revealed!" before the TV turned on.

I began scanning the screen from the bottom up and began to panic as I didn't spot my name, but the panic dissolved into pure joy when I saw my name in first place. This is what the rankings read:

Six (Transfer)

Zeke (Dauntless-born)

Lauren (Transfer)

Gabe (Dauntless-born)

Avery (Dauntless-born)

Izzy (Transfer)

Linx (Dauntless-born)

Jack (Transfer)

Alisa (Transfer)

Abigail (Dauntless-born)

Axel (Dauntless-born)

Denis (Transfer)

Shauna (Dauntless-born)

Dylan (Dauntless-born)

Daine (Transfer)

Mia (Transfer)

Michelle (Dauntless-born)

Grace (Transfer)

Anna (Dauntless-born)

Oscar (Transfer)

Thomas (Transfer)

Avery (Dauntless-born)

I screamed with joy and tackled Zeke with a hug as I realized that we both came in first and second place respectively. We laughed and screamed with joy as the Dauntless cheered around us, but everyone grew quiet as Max screamed into the mic for everyone to shut up once again.

"Due to the unfortunate little event from those cowardly transfer bastards, we will only be cutting the last two ranked initiates and those ranking from sixteenth to twentieth will be stationed at the fence." Max stated, his voice growing somber as he said, "Avery, Thomas, you will have today to pack your things and tomorrow you will have to be gone. I'd also like our… graduating initiates to stand up."

Zeke and I stood up as strangled cry emitted from the back of the cafeteria, it sounded like a male, most likely being Thomas. I always suspected that he'd be kicked out, especially after his performance with the fear landscape. It was pitiful. Took him nearly an hour to get through the landscape and most of the time he spent it crying and whimpering like a little baby. I overheard from the leaders that he was stuck in one fear the entire time, and that was his fear of spiders. I scoffed when I heard the boy's strangled cry once again, he doesn't even deserve to be called a man. I could tell Zeke is not nearly as disgusted by him as I am, but he's still fairly disgusted by the boy.

My disgust for the boy was quickly diminished when the Dauntless started to cheer and clap and stomp their feet and slam their mugs, making as much noise as they possibly could. Suddenly, the members stood up and began to lift Zeke, the other initiates, and myself up, and carried us around the room. Shouts of congratulations were thrown our way as we were carried across the crowd.

Six's Fears (in the order they came):

Heights

Claustrophobia

Devoured by Crows (Powerlessness)

Shooting Zeke, Tori, and Amar (Being the reason her family died)

Being tied to a chair (Lack of control, helplessness, restraint)

Marcus

A/N:

I hope you guys enjoyed. Why yes, Six has a new fear of lack of control which also blends into her feeling helpless which makes her have a fear of being restrained. Don't ask me how I put that together, I just did and don't actually know how I did. I hope you guys enjoyed, have a great day! :D