Chapter 9!

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Four

Amar shifted on his chair, I'd never seen him this nervous. 'By taking you away from Marcus and his search for you, we are left with only one option, Tobias,' Amar started. 'We have to destroy all files on Tobias Eaton and you have to take on a new identity,' Damon finished. I nodded slowly, taking in all the new information. Taking on a new identity meant letting go of my old one completely. 'So,' I started, 'Iris and I can't be...' Amar's face said it all. His eyes showed the pity he felt for me, which made me... Well it kind of made me mad. 'I can't oblige to that, I'd rather have my father find me again and do whatever he always used to do than breaking up with her. She's taken care of me, always! Amar, I'm grateful for being saved, but you know how much I care about her,' I said, my voice firm and angry.

Damon shook his head. 'Tobias, a lot is happening at the moment and we need you to help us. Marcus appears to be involved in some serious business, together with Jeanine from Erudite and they aren't exactly gaudy about it. We need your help to find out what it is, which indeed includes that you can't communicate with any of your old friends. That won't last forever, we just need to know what Jeanine and Marcus are up to, because it is probably life-threatening.' I put my head in my hands, torn between two emotions. Of course I wanted to help them find out what was going on, but how could I just ignore Iris when she got here? Me ignoring her would be preposterous, I possibly couldn't even do it. I mulled over this for a few minutes when Damon placed his hand softly on my shoulder.

'Tobias, I suggest me and my wife Eliza adopting you, you'll have a new family. We have a little girl Beth, she's two years old.' He said, then looked into my eyes. 'Think about it today, and if you decide to agree with our proposal, you can find me in my office. Amar will be around, he'll take you.' He explained, then smiled and walked away. Amar turned to me again and eyed me. 'What are your thoughts, T?' I sighed. 'The thought of having a new family is great, he's trying to coax me, isn't he?' He smiled and shook his head. 'Ever since I told him about you, a few weeks ago, he's been wanting an update every day. I actually think that he cares about your well being,' he said, to my surprise. I tried to sit up again, because I felt like I wanted to move. 'So, if I help, I'm not supposed to talk to transfers and I'll be a "Dauntless-born"?' I asked, using finger quotes. 'Yes,' he said nodding, then quickly shook his head. 'Well, not exactly. You can talk to them, but you have to pretend like you're... Rude. You have to make sure the transfers think you're a guy they want to avoid.'

I sighed deep, once again. 'Then I have to be rude to my own girl, she'll hate me once she sees me and I'm rude after I put her in the presumption that I'm either gone or dead.' Amar slightly grinned. 'You know her, T. She's feisty, she'll either be rude back or she'll figure it out. It'll be okay.' I nodded. She probably would, all would be fine. Then I smiled, for the first time that day. 'So I'll have a baby sister?' He grinned fully now. 'Beth is the cutest kid ever, seriously. Eliza is a wonderful woman as well, you'll love her. She reminds me of my mother,' he explained. Bree was the most loving mother ever, if Eliza was anything like her, I was in for the best mom ever, and it excited me. The thought of being rude to Iris was ludicrous, but we could get through that. We had gotten through Abnegation and Marcus, we could handle this.

'The thing is, we hacked into Erudite and Jeanine has actually ordered a 16-year old guy to go to Dauntless and spy for her. We don't know why, but that's what we want you to find out,' Amar explained, fiddling his hands. Ah, so that's what my job was. 'And you want me to spy on the guy?' Amar shook/nodded his head, strange movement. 'We want you to befriend him to get as much information out of him as you possibly can, his name is Eric.' I nodded, 'right. I can do that.' Amar agreed. 'Now can I leave? I'll tell Damon that I'm on board with your proposal,' I asked pleadingly, really wanting to leave the bed. He laughed and heaved me up. It was quite an abominable feeling, and once he had gotten me to stand up, I teetered after him.

'Welcome to Dauntless, T,' he said as he showed me around. I saw a huge cafeteria and all people in it were yelling and showing puckish behaviour. Dang, I was going to love it here. 'This is the Pit, where everyone hangs out. Above the Pit you'll find all the apartments, you'll get one once you pass initiation. Until then, you'll sleep in a dorm with the rest of the initiates,' he said. I looked up and saw people walking high above me. A shiver went down my spine, I was afraid of heights, and seeing them walk there gave me the chills. Amar caught on to my feelings and grinned. 'Afraid of heights, right? I remember. You and Iris used to climb trees so carelessly, until you fell out once,' he said, bringing back memories. I nodded, 'stupidly, I've been afraid of heights ever since, and so has she.'

He continued walking and stopped again at a sort of bridge. 'This is the chasm, it represents the thin line between bravery and idiocy, never be tempted to jump or be foolish here: you'll die. It's happened before. Follow me,' he continued as he showed me the way through lots of narrow hallways. It was like Dauntless represented my fears. Those hallways were so narrow, it felt like they were creeping up on me. 'Do these fears ever go away?' I mumbled as I stumbled further, causing Amar to stop in his tracks. 'You've never been so open about your fears, T,' he said as his eyebrows shot up. 'Dauntless seems to be representing three, currently.' He looked at me, his eyes doubtful.

It had been 1,5 years ago when Amar and Tori started training Iris and me, but before we started fighting, they wanted to know our fears. They snuck us into Dauntless at night, and performed a test on us. They called it the fear landscape. Tori accompanied me in mine, and Amar accompanied Iris. Tori knew about my father ever since that moment, but I had made her promise she wouldn't tell anyone else, not even Amar. We had told him my total of fears, which was four. It was legendary, as no one had ever had so few fears. Most people had between 10-12 fears, but Iris had five, which was great as well. Tori and I told Amar that my fears were: heights, small spaces, doing something to an innocent person... And losing Iris.

'Right, the small spaces,' Amar said, nodding. 'Let's get moving then.' We finally arrived at Damon's office, and Amar knocked on the door. 'D, it's Amar. We've got news,' he said, and opened the door. Damon was sitting behind his desk and smiled at us when we came in. 'Close the door, Amar, we have a lot to discuss,' Damon said. Amar helped me sit down, to my discontent, and he laughed loudly when he saw me glowering at him. 'Face it, brother, your wounds are too bad,' he said. My heart skipped a slight beat. It wasn't the first time he called me brother, but it reminded me of his sister, and I missed her.

We talked about a lot of things, from Eric, to Marcus' part in Jeanine's plan, and what they could be plotting: but we couldn't seem to figure it out, which brought us to the last thing on Damon's agenda. 'Since we're about to destroy your files, Tobias, we need to find a new name for you. Tori has your new file ready, but it's just the name that's missing,' he explained as he sat back in his chair. All three of us suggested some things, but it just didn't sound right. 'Jace?' Amar suggested. 'Jake?' Damon said, his face doubtful. 'I feel like it shouldn't be a name, it should be a nickname,' I said, and the both of them agreed. 'Let's think about it later,' Damon said and stood up. 'Do you want to meet your new family? Eliza is dying to meet you.' I smiled and nodded. I denied Amar's help and crawled up, looking proud as I did it. He rolled his eyes but grinned, 'you're a true Dauntless member.' We walked out and walked back to the Pit through all those narrow hallways. 'I'll see you later, T,' Amar said when our ways parted. 'Bye,' I told him, and I followed Damon through the Pit.

He was just about to tell me about his family when I heard someone scream. 'WATCH OUT!' I heard, and turned around quickly. I saw a ball, but it was too late. It bumped into my face and I groaned, wondering how many more bumps my face could take. I tried to maintain my balance as I caught the ball and stumbled against Damon. 'Sorry,' I mumbled, but Damon laughed. 'This is the usual course of a day in Dauntless, son,' he said. My head perked up when I heard him say the word "son". It felt somewhat strange, yet good, as it indicated my new life. 'Hey, dude, I'm sorry,' the guy who'd yelled said as he ran up to me. 'My little brother is an idiot,' he explained, pointing at the boy across the Pit. I grinned as I looked at the two guys. The one who had thrown the ball looked younger than me, but the one in front of me seemed to be from my age. He ruffled his dark hair nervously.

'No, man, it's fine. Don't worry, no harm done,' I said. His blue eyes lit up and his face flashed a cheeky grin. 'Good,' he said, then stared. 'I haven't seen you before here, have I? Are you a Dauntless-born?' I shot Damon a look, who smiled. 'Hello, Zeke. How's your mom? Please tell Uriah to stop hurting people.' Zeke laughed. 'Will do sir, he's an idiot. Mom's doing fine, I'll tell her you said hi.' Damon nodded. 'Good, Zeke, this is my son.' Zeke's eyebrows shot up. 'Bro, where have you been all my life, if I had known you were here I wouldn't have spent so much time with my brother!' I burst out in laughter, Zeke was funny. We'd probably become good friends. 'I kept him in, you know, leader's son and all,' Damon said quickly, 'but we have to run, his mom is waiting for us. Never keep a woman waiting.' Zeke grinned. 'Right, my mom would flip. I'll see you around,' he said, and stuck out his hand. 'I'm Zeke, by the way.' Damon's eyes widened and my heart skipped a beat. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO SAY, THINK, TOBIAS.

'Nice to meet you, Zeke,' I said, my eyes not meeting his as I quickly looked up. Wait... All those people who were walking up there. My fear of heights... One of my fears. Didn't all my fears make me the man I was becoming? I looked back at Zeke and smiled. 'My name is Four.' Zeke grinned, 'damn your name is cool.' Damon smiled, somewhat relieved and put his hand on my shoulder. 'Let's go, what else your mother will go ballistic on us. I'll see you later Zeke, have fun during the choosing ceremony, don't scare the transfers too much, all right?' Zeke laughed and nodded. 'You got it, sir. Later, Four. Let's meet up tomorrow yeah?' I nodded in response, and followed Damon quickly.

'That was CLOSE, how did you come up with that name?' He asked surprised as we walked around the corner. 'Four is the number of all my fears, I've been through the fear landscape before,' I explained. 'You're a genius,' he said. My face flushed as I shook my head. 'Just came to mind.' He smiled. 'Let's go, Eliza would really go ballistic if we're late.' I laughed and followed him quickly. I couldn't believe how familiar and close I already felt with everything here and especially with Damon. We walked through a few hallways, up a stairs and we arrived at their apartment. 'Welcome home,' He said, and opened the door. I saw a large living room, it looked bad ass with black colours, yet enough lilac and green influences to make sure it also looked a bit female-ish. 'Damon?' I heard a woman call. 'Is he here?' The woman belonging to the voice entered the room and the first thing that struck me was: she looked so sweet! How could she be Dauntless.

Damon started laughing, apparently he'd noticed my surprise. 'I'm more Dauntless than I look, darling,' the woman- Eliza smiled and walked up to me. I smiled. 'I'm sorry. I get it though, my girlfriend will be choosing Dauntless in two days, and she looks way too sweet as well. I can tell you, she's feisty.' Eliza smiled and stood still in front of me. 'I understand that it's probably quite strange for you to have a new family all of a sudden, so you can have all the space you need. But if you need anyone to talk to or anything else, we're here,' she said. I was in doubts. Should I... Should I do it? Should I hug her? No, I wasn't ready for that. I smiled, 'thank you so much for taking me into your home and life, Eliza, I am really thankful.' She shook her head and grabbed my hands. 'It's all we want, you deserve it.' She was so much like Bree, which made it somewhat easier for me to feel at home. Eliza had brown curls and blue eyes, and it looked like she pitied a day without smiling.

It was funny how intimidating Damon looked and how sweet Eliza looked, yet how well it fitted together. I imagined Iris and me looking the same way later on, once we could be together again. 'I'll show you around!' She said happily and gave me a tour around the apartment. 'I know you're just here for a few days, because you'll be sleeping in the dorm and getting your own apartment after initiation, but we've decorated a room for you here,' she said excitedly. She opened the door to my room and I was astonished. The room was amazing, mostly black because of Dauntless. A black bed, black sheets, and when I saw my drawer I felt a lump forming in my throat. I saw a framed picture of Iris on top of it, and grabbed it immediately. It was a picture of her in Abnegation. Her hair was down, so I guessed it had been taken on a night she was with me. She looked slightly down and smiled. The way she always did when someone had just given her a compliment. Since we lived in Abnegation, that hadn't been an everyday occurence, it happened mostly around me.

'How...' I started, but she cut me off. 'Amar, he gave it to me to give to you. He thought you'd need it, during the next few days. He wants it back when you move into the dorm,' she laughed. I smiled and looked at the picture again. 'Iris is beautiful,' she said softly and put a hand on my shoulder. 'Thank you, Eliza, for everything,' I said thankful. She shouldn't have done this, but this woman was kind to the bone. 'You're welcome. Tobias, you'll always have a home with us,' she said. 'His name is Four now, love,' Damon said from the doorway. 'That's great! Perfect name for Dauntless,' she said with a wink, and continued the tour. I walked back to the drawer and put the picture back down. 'I love you, see you soon,' I whispered under my breath, and followed Eliza.