For a brief moment Delilah felt like she was flying, but that bliss feeling was short-lived as made contact with the gravel roof. Just as Delilah had managed to stand, she heard a loud she her a high pitch scream, she looked round to see where the noise had come from, what she saw had terrified she rushed over to a girl that was clinging to the edge of the building, Delilah rushes over try and help the girl and sees Beatrice running over to do the same, it must be the Abnegation in us, Delilah thought to herself as she saw nobody else go to try help the girl. The two Abnegation reached the girl in no time they both reached for one of the girl's arms, but as Delilah's fingers were about to close round the girls wrist, the girl's hand slipped from the ledge she had been barely holding onto, "Nooooo!", Delilah shouted as the girl fell, helpless she watched the girl plummet to the concrete pavement, horrified as she saw the body on the ground, limbs contorted in ways which shouldn't be possible, no matter how dead someone might be. Shaken Delilah and Beatrice turn back and follow the others to a hole in the middle of the roof. A man is standing on the ledge, he is in no way scared of the fact he could fall in at any moment and is acting as if he is merely standing in the middle of a pavement. The man introduces himself as Eric one of the leaders of Dauntless, he is wearing all black, with a long sleeved jacket with dark purple panels, his boots so polished Delilah could've sworn she would be able to see her reflection in them. He looked at the crowd surveying the initiates figuring which ones probably wouldn't make it through initiation. He has a very bored look on his face it was clear he had done this many times before. His hair is short and a dirty blonde, the piercing above his eyebrow glistening in the sunlight.
"If you want to enter dauntless, this is the way in" Eric says glancing down at the hole in the roof, "and if you don't have the guts to jump, then… you don't belong in Dauntless". As usual there was the barrage of questions about how dauntless must be mad and what was at the bottom, Eric just stood there he really couldn't be bothered with listening to all the whining so he told them "I guess you'll find out… or you won't. So who's first" Eric asks as calmly as if he was asking the group if they wanted ice cream.
There is a long silence and nobody volunteers, just as Eric expected. He is about to pick someone when he hears someone say "me", he looks round to see the source of the noise and to say he was surprised was an understatement, it was the stiff from Abnegation, but he wasn't going to let anyone see his surprise so he just stood there watching. He clearly wasn't the only one surprised as Delilah swivelled round stupidly fast and looked incredulously at Beatrice as it had been her who had volunteered. Delilah watched as Beatrice made her way over to the ledge, she took her time getting onto the ledge and when she was up she just stood there looking down at the seemingly endless hole, worried for her friend, Delilah's eyes flickered over towards Eric's who caught her gaze, he didn't say anything he just stared her down, a small smirk on his face as if daring her to look away. Delilah kept eye contact for as long as she could but his intense glare was getting unbearable and she quickly diverted her gaze back to her Beatrice was still on the ledge, she was still on the ledge and Delilah was sure Eric was getting impatient, Delilah thoughts were confirmed when Eric barks at Beatrice sharply, "Today initiate!", Delilah sees Beatrice practically jump out of her skin and out of the corner of her eye, she sees Eric smirk triumphantly, he clearly gets a kick out of scaring people, Delilah thought. Next thing she knows Beatrice is no longer on the ledge and everyone is rushing to jump next, clearly none of them like the thought of being beaten by a 'stiff', as Abnegation were often referred to as. Delilah just stood back and watched the rest of them fight to jump next, it wasn't that she was scared of jumping, not at all, she just wasn't bothered that Beatrice had jumped first, after all they were both Abnegation and Delilah liked to think they were friends.
Delilah watched as the last person jumped from the ledge, following the others down into the dark abyss. Soon it was just her and Eric left on the roof, she looked over to him, half expecting him to say something about her clearly not being as brave as Beatrice. To her surprise he doesn't, he just looks at her studying her, refusing to look away Delilah stares right back at him, he stands there watching her for a while, before laughing to himself saying "two stiffs huh?", and with that he motions for Delilah to go ahead and jump, she does so but not before she turns around so she is facing him, her back to the hole, once again he doesn't say a word, he merely smirks at her in mild amusement. Deciding to could play at whatever game he is play, even though she doesn't even know for certain what that game is, Delilah doesn't say anything either and jumps silently, never screaming once.
She lands heavily in the net and barely has time to register she has landed when she feels the net being pulled down at one end, she blindly grabs at the hand offered to her and is pulled up out of the net. It's when she finally feels her feet hit solid ground again when she looks up at the person who helped off the net, once she looks up it takes her only a few seconds to realise who the guy is. Before she can say anything to him, he asks her in a very bored tone, "name?" it's clear he hasn't looked to see who he is talking to and she takes a while to answer, and before Delilah can say her name, he speaks again, "You can pick another one, but only this once, so pick a good one", Delilah thinks quickly, she decides on using her middle name, as it was what Tobias always called her by and she wanted to not be associated with Marcus any longer than she has to, "Parker" she says angrily, she can't believe he hasn't bothered to see who see was, he knew she would be choosing this year and that she would be following him to Dauntless. Upon hearing the name, the man spins round and stares at her open mouthed, he's finally looked at her and recognises who she is, but he shortly gets over his shock and announces Delilah new name as Parker. He then goes on to introduce himself as Four. Parker is infuriated he hasn't even said as much as a hello to her, she starts to think he's ashamed by her. She cannot control her anger any longer and before Four has time to continue his introductions, Parker has marched upon and she barely realises what she's about to do when her fist connects with his jaw. She has to get out her anger and just continues hitting him and screaming at him about how he left her, he doesn't fight back and she knows why, he would never lay a hand on her out of fear of turning out like Marcus so he just stands there trying to defend himself but refusing to hit her. She barely registers the large pair of arms pulling her off of her brother and dragging her down a corridor away from the rest of the initiates and her brother. Parker doesn't try to resist, but she continues to shout at her brother all the time she being moved away.
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