A/N: Here is chapter 5! Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I've been really busy! Hope you like it! Please read and review! :-)
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Divergent fanfic - island
Chapter 5
Jeanine's POV
I stand over my screen in the control room at Erudite. All I can think about is how tedious this is. I've been bored out of my mind for the past couple of days watching these cringeworthy idiots play around like 3 year olds. I just keep telling myself that eventually this will be over and I can fill my time with better things. Hopefully the results we get will be worth the wait. I intend to observe behaviour and find out who is divergent and how they behave in different situations. The island is just for a bit of fun watching them struggle and an excuse for the situations we will be putting them in. At the moment, they aren't doing very much that is exciting or can give us results and I am tempted to add things to the island to try and make it more interesting but one of my top advisors for this, Caleb Prior, thinks we should leave it, so we will. For now. Later I will go to a meeting with Max about identifying the divergents but now I will go and interview some of the families of the subjects of the experiment to try and find divergent behaviour.
I walk into the consultation room just outside my office and find Marcus Eaton, a fellow faction leader sitting on my side of the desk. He sees me and says, "Hello Jeanine. How are you?"
"That is my chair." I tell him coldly.
He nods and goes to sit on the other side of the desk. I sit in my chair and tell him,"I would like to talk to you about Four."
"Who is Four?" He asks.
I sigh, "Your son"
"Oh, Tobias. Well I know that he is a traitor because he left me, his loving father, for the dauntless." He says with certainty.
"I know that" I tell him, "When he was still at home, did you ever notice any... unusual behaviour? Anything that might have suggested he wasn't right for the faction system?"
"Well, after he left for dauntless, I went into his old room and found a sculpture there. I have no idea where he got it from since it was certainly not a possession of any of the abnegation. But he put it there, as if he was trying to tell me something." He tells me.
"Interesting" I comment. I stare at my notepad. I have been taking notes on everything he has been saying.
"Well, you are free to go now Marcus. I will order one of my guards to take you back to abnegation." I say and he leaves. I turn over a page in my notebook as Natalie Prior walks in.
"Hello Natalie. Please have a seat." I tell her. She looks suspicious and doesn't say a word.
"I would like to talk to you about Beatrice." Natalie looks slightly alarmed at this but nods anyway.
"Before she left you for the dauntless, did you notice any unusual behaviour that suggested she wasn't fit for the faction system? " I ask. She still seems nervous.
"Um... not for the faction system, but she never fitted in with the abnegation. We could guess that she was going to transfer to dauntless. She found selflessness a chore rather than something that came naturally to her. She was always daring as a child and was never right for abnegation. She seems to be fine within the faction system though. I saw her on visiting day at dauntless and she seemed to fit in perfectly there. She told me she had lots of friends, it was great fun and she was doing well in initiation." She tells me. My page is full, I have again been taking notes the whole time she was speaking.
"Thank you Natalie, you are free to go now. I will send you back to abnegation with one if my guards." I say. It is now unclear whether or not Beatrice is divergent or not. She seems like she is, but based on what Natalie just told me about her, she seems to fit in fine in dauntless. I will look further into Beatrice. I tuck away my notebook and head to my meeting with Max.
I arrive at dauntless at 3 o'clock exactly, the time of my meeting. I walk into Max's office and sit down, notebook in hand.
"Hello Jeanine. How is the experiment going?" He says.
"Tediously. Now, I have some questions for you. Where did Beatrice Prior rank in initiation? Also Tobias Eaton." I say. He taps something into his computer and says, "Um, first and... first."
"Hmm.. Interesting" I say quietly. "Did you observe any kind of divergent behaviour in any of the following: Beatrice Prior, Tobias Eaton, Uriah Pedra-" I am cut off by Max commenting, " I know the members of the experiment Jeanine."
"Don't ever interrupt me. Are any of them divergent as far as you know?" I say firmly
"Yes, it seems some are" he tells me "What will we do with them? We must do something obviously, divergents are dangerous. But what?"
"We let them finish the experiment, then we kill them." Max smiles at this.
He just says, "That can be arranged"
A/N:Ooh! Don't worry - all will be revealed at the end of the fanfic! Thanks for reading! Please review!
