Hana: "Quite honestly, I don't understand how their skulls are so thick it hasn't yet sunk in that you don't own Divergent, Kat."
Kat: "Honestly, I question it too."
Hana: "Anyway, I better get going, Six is apparently calling a meeting with the 'family'."
Kat: "Have fun with that, Hana, bye!"
Chapter 17
Are You Shitting Me?
Six:
He nodded and stood up, racing out of the apartment and pulling out his phone as he ran. I sat there for a good ten minutes before getting up and making my way over to my training room.
I sighed while I continued to thrown knives at the targets. I know what to do. I have a plan, but… I'm afraid of the outcome. I've contemplated the different people this could be. It could be Marcus, but I very much doubt he'd escape prison just to talk to me about whatever it is he wants to talk about. It could also be my mother. Ever since the note arrived, I've been thinking of the possibility that she abandoned me, and sadly, it seems the most likely to happen. There's also the option that someone's been stalking me all my life, but I very much doubt that would happen without me realizing it.
Suddenly, while I was about to throw the fifteenth knife at the target, the door opened to reveal Hana, followed by Zeke, Amar, and Tori. The three people behind Hana looked around the training room in amazement, and Zeke grinned when he noticed the weapon rack. To Zeke's annoyance, I threw a knife directly in front of him before the boy could go running at my weapons and using them, and possibly hurting the rest of us.
"Do not touch anything," I stated, my voice firm as I glared at Zeke.
Hana grabbed the back of Zeke's collar and dragged him outside while I motioned for the other two to follow me after I cleaned up my knives. We walked back to my room and sat around the room. My friends and family, aside from Hana, looked around the room, having only been in it on very rare occasions.
Hana looked directly at me and asked, "What's this about, Six?" Her voice was full of concern and worry. I've never had a meeting with my family unless it's absolutely serious.
I took a deep breath, "I received a note. It was in my apartment. In my room. And the information on it was only something three people, both living and dead know." I began, "Those three people are myself, Marcus, and my dead mother."
Everyone looked at each other and I pulled the note out of my pocket and reread it.
On the day you hated most
At the time when she died
In the place where you first jumped on
"On Wednesday, tonight, at 2am, at the train platform near the Hub," I stated, watching the expressions of concern as they spread across my family's faces. "It couldn't be Marcus, he's in jail under heavy guard. It definitely wasn't me sending myself a note. It could be my mom, I've already started entertaining the idea that she abandoned me. There's also the possibility of a stalker, but I doubt it. Who would stalk me all my life and how wouldn't I or anyone around me notice it?"
Everyone nodded in agreement at the last statement, but they all looked apprehensive at the third. We knew it was possible, but no one wanted to believe that my mother would leave me with an abusive man. Hana looked especially ticked off at the idea a mother would abandon their child with such a terrible person.
"What do you plan on doing, Six?" Zeke asked, breaking the silence that had followed my statements.
My gaze traveled across each and every one of my family. Starting with Hana, followed with Zeke, and then over to Tori who sat next to Amar. My Aunt, my brother, my Mother, and my Father. I thought for a few moments as my gaze traveled and the perfect idea formed in my mind.
I looked at Zeke, "I'm going to meet whoever it is."
Everyone, except for Zeke who just nodded, started to complain and protest, they obviously wanted me to be safe, and felt that going wasn't safe at all. Before I could even say anything, Zeke spoke up, "She has to go. There's only one way to know who sent that letter and that's if she goes. You have a plant, right?"
Smiling and nodding, I said, "Of course I have a plan. I don't go in blind. Never have, never will." I began, "My plan is simple, you guys are going to hide in the shadows, and if anything gets messy, or if I give a signal, then you come out. Now the signals will be different. If I do this -" I hold up one finger - "behind my back, then I'm signaling for Hana to come out. If I hold up two fingers behind my back, then I'm signaling Amar to make his appearance. Three fingers mean that Tori comes out, and four means Zeke does. If I hold up five fingers then I'm signaling for all of you to come out altogether. Understood?"
"Understood!" Everyone repeated.
We smiled at each other before I started to yawn, "You guys can stay in the guest rooms if you want, just remember to set your alarms for around 1am. That'll give us time to get ready," I proposed as another yawn escaped. It was, in fact, 9pm, and I had woken up at 5am, just like every morning.
Everyone nodded and left the room as I collapsed backward. I quickly set my alarm clock to 1am and carefully took out all the knives and guns I had strapped and hidden in my outfit. I replaced three of the knives in different pockets where I know I won't get hurt if I move in my sleep. The minute I collapsed back onto my bed and my head hit the pillow, I fell asleep.
1am
My alarm blared in my ear and I groaned as I pushed myself up and out of bed. I was confused for a few seconds as to why my alarm was set to 1am before everything from last night came back to me. I quickly began to get ready. Grabbing my clothes, I quickly changed in a tight, black t-shirt with a pair of black, ripped skinny, but stretchy jeans. Following that, I pulled a belt on as well as a black, leather jacket. I pulled the knives I had hidden in my pajamas out of the pockets, grabbed the other knives and hid them in each of the pockets of my new outfit. Following the knives, I also grabbed the guns I had hidden in my outfit yesterday. I silently made my way out of my room just to see Hana and Zeke leaving their rooms. We smiled at each other and each of us said a variation of good morning. I motioned for the pair of them to follow me. They did and we made our way to the training room that also held my many weapons.
"Zeke, I'm going to trust you with some of my babies. Lose or break them, I will slowly break every one of your fingers and toes." I threatened as we entered the room. I wasn't worried about Hana. In fact, I've let her borrow some of my weapons before and she's always brought them back safe and sound.
I trusted the woman with my life and in turn, I also trusted her with all my belongings, and I don't even trust Zeke with everything. Zeke's expression when he finally noticed the number of weapons that I have, was very entertaining. Last night he wasn't able to comprehend the number of weapons that hung on the walls, though this time he has enough time to do so. His mouth was open in pure shock and it was quite an amusing sight. Zeke's eyes shone with curiosity and bewilderment at the amounts of different types of weapons I held in my apartment.
Zeke just nodded, knowing full well that I would follow up with my threat. Hana just laughed good naturally. She wasn't worried about her son, even though she knows I follow up on my threats. Hana knew that the friendship between Zeke and I wasn't going to lead to Zeke being insanely injured. She knew what we were like and that no matter what the other did we'd be by each other's side.
I moved over to one of the racks full of different times of pistols and pulled down two black coated Beretta M9s and handed them to Zeke, followed by a pair of black coated SIG Sauer P226s and gave them to Hana. I then made my way over to the knife rack and pulled out a pack of 6 SOG FX41N-CP Fling throwing knives and handed them over to Hana. I looked through another rack before pulling down a pack of 6 Magnum Bailey Mini Bo-Kri throwing knives and handed them over to Zeke. A knock echoed over at the door to the room and Hana went over to open it. Tori and Amar entered the room and I began looking for a pack of knives for both of them. I pulled down a pack of 12 Perfect Point PAK-712 throwing knives. I reached up and grabbed two empty packs with 6 pockets and quickly distributed the 12 knives between the packs and handing them over to Tori and Amar. I then made my way back over to the gun rack and grabbed a pair of Walther P99s and gave it to Tori, followed by a pair of Glock 19s which I handed over to Amar.
The all said some variation of thank you as we left the room. I quickly checked the time and informed my family that it was currently 1:35am and that we had to hurry or else we'll miss the train. We quickly ran out of my apartment and out of the compound and towards the station. I checked my watch and it said it was 1:59am, a minute before the next train arrived and a minute before I have to be there for my mystery meeting,
The train arrived right on time and we all jumped on. We began to plan where everyone would hide so that they could see my signals. It didn't take long for us to get everything planned before we arrived at the station near the Hub. I jumped off the train first, and once the train was far enough away, the rest jumped off and snuck over to the platform.
It was 2am, but the platform was empty. I scanned the area around before I spotted a form briskly making their way over to the platform I stood on. I could barely tell it was a female, maybe a bit over 40. The figure made her way closer to the platform and gracefully made her way up the stairs.
"Beatrice," the figure gasped as she finally noticed I was standing there.
I'm sad to say that recognized her voice. I recognized her voice perfectly. It was Evelyn Eaton. My supposedly dead mother, who, it now turns out, abandoned me with that scum of a man I had to call father.
I was about to call her mom, but then I realized, she lost that title the day she left, so I just opted to say, "Evelyn."
My voice was stern. It didn't waver. It didn't show shock at the sight of her, which was odd because her voice clearly showed shock at seeing me, even though she knew I was alive.
It took her a few minutes to grasp what I called her before she managed to stutter out, "W-why didn't you call me mom? Beatrice… I'm your mother…" Her voice grew slightly quieter and wavered just a little at the end, but it was obvious to me that she expected me to just up and call her my mother and accept her back into my life after she so obviously abandoned me without a second thought.
I laughed. I couldn't help myself. I just laughed. This woman in front of me calls herself my mother after she abandoned me with the mistake of a man she married. "My mother? Really?" I finally gasped out between laughs, "My mother died when I was eight, you are not my mother. You are just the woman who gave me life. You are just the woman who left me to get abused. My mother sacrificed her safety to protect me. She sacrificed her well being to protect me from the man we had to live with." My voice grew steady again as I told Evelyn who my mother was and who this woman in front of me was.
"B-Beatrice, please! I would have taken you with me, I promise!" She tried to reason, "I wanted you to be able to choose a life for yourself! I didn't want you to be stuck being factionless with me…"
I interrupted her statement with a laugh and held three fingers behind my back as I did so. Thankfully, Tori saw the signal and stepped out of her hiding spot. She made sure to not be noticed by Evelyn until she was far enough away from the spot that no one else would be able to be pinpointed. Tori appeared beside me, startling Evelyn who surprisingly hadn't notice her when she used to be a very vigilant person. She knew where every camera around anywhere she passed was.
I smiled at Evelyn and leaned against Tori, "Evelyn, this is Tori, she's my mother figure. She's been a mother figure ever since I got to Dauntless. Tori, this is Evelyn, the woman who abandoned me with Marcus all those years ago." I introduced sweetly as if I wasn't introducing Evelyn to her replacement, who just so happened to be far better than she was.
"It's so nice to meet the person who left Six with the man who nearly destroyed her," Tori exclaimed sweetly while I held two fingers behind my back, signaling Amar to make his appearance.
Evelyn growled at Tori, but she proceeded to just smile sweetly at my so-called mom. Evelyn was startled out of her staring contest by Amar's appearance on the other side of me.
I smiled at Evelyn as she got over her shock and I introduced them to each other, "Amar, this is Evelyn, my abandoning mother. Evelyn, this is Amar, he's my father figure." I explained while I held four fingers behind my back, "Did you know that I had severe Androphobia because of Marcus? Well, I did, and Amar along with Zeke-" I said Zeke's name right as he appeared behind me, startling Evelyn worse than Tori and Amar did "-my new brother, helped me get over it. They also helped me get Marcus arrested for what he did to us."
Evelyn stared at my new family, completely shocked that each of these people beside and behind me have had more of an impact on my life than she ever did. While she stood there, in complete shock, I held up one finger behind my back, signaling for Hana to come out. She barely registered the arrival of Hana, who stood behind me and next to Zeke. They all had a hand on one of my shoulders, probably in an act of reassurance for me.
"And finally, this is Hana. She's like an aunt to me, which is pretty weird seeing as she's Zeke's mom and he's like my brother," I introduced as she finally came over her shock. It was really amusing, "Hana, you can chew out Evelyn for abandoning me if you want." I suggested to Hana whose eyes already shone with her protective nature.
Every one of us stepped aside, letting Hana make her way to the front of our group. All of us, minus Tori, zoned out of the lecture. Tori gave her input whenever she felt it necessary. I finally took my time to see how my mother looked after all these years, and surprisingly, the only difference is that now she has a few grey hairs, and is dressed in clothes of the factionless. Her hair wasn't as well kept as it once used to be, but that's understandable seeing as she's stuck in the factionless sector and they hardly have anything hygienic. It was amusing, watching Evelyn get chewed out by Hana and Tori. It didn't take long for Evelyn to shrink under the scrutinizing gazes of my new family.
Evelyn sighed as Hana finished her rant, "I'll… I'll take my leave then…" She stuttered out as she turned to leave. She shot one last glance at me and said, "I just wanted the best for my baby…" before leaving.
I tried to control my emotions as my so-called mother left. I was mad. I was sad. I was confused. I didn't know how to feel so I just collapsed into my family's arms. I was emotionally exhausted. My mother abandoned me and left me with an abusive man. My mother, who I thought the world of, had just up and left me to fend for myself. I didn't know what to do, though I really wanted to run after her and slap her across the face for what she did. Though, I didn't want to accept the fact that my mother had left me with the same man who abused her without thinking of what I would go through. I could feel Amar, Zeke, Tori, and Hana holding me as all these emotions came crashing down.
I muttered a single word, "Why?" as tears finally escaped me and sadness became the most prominent emotion that I could feel.
Hana took one glance at me before pulling me into a motherly hug that Tori joined, "We don't know why Evelyn did such things. She was and still is a terrible woman, but she doesn't matter anymore. We are your family now," Hana reassured as everyone pulled into a group hug.
"If… if you want, Six, you could call me mom…" Tori suggested, "We are family after all."
I smiled a small, shy smile full of sadness and nodded at her as tears slipped down my cheeks. Everyone smiled at the exchanged before Amar spoke up as well.
He surprised everyone with his statement, well… everyone except Tori, "You could call me dad if you want. Just like Tori said, we are family, even if we aren't actually related."
Everyone laughed slightly at his last statement as we slowly pulled apart, but everyone was startled when I tackled Tori and Amar and whispered to the night, "I love you… mom and dad…"
This caused everyone to smile with joy as I referred to some of the most important people in my life as my parents. We pulled each other into another hug as the train arrived. Everyone silently jumped onto the train, reveling in the serene comfort of the rumbling of the train as we made our way back to the compound. I curled against Tori and Amar who were cuddling each other. We were like a big, happy, mismatched family that was pulled together through hard times, and that's sorta true. We were pulled together through the fact they've all helped me get through the abuse in one way or another.
I couldn't have asked for a better family.
A/N:
I'm sorry? I really don't have an excuse as to why this took me so long to write. I think it was a combination of writer's block and procrastination :P. I really am sorry that this took so long to write and it ended up to be pretty short. Honestly, I got nothing to say about this. I hope you guys enjoyed, and just… I guess, look forward to the next chapter because that'll be when I bring Tobias into the mix. I hope you guys enjoyed, again, I'm sorry this took so long, and I hope you all have a great day!