"He feels so unlike everybody else, alone
In spite of the fact that some people still think that they know him"
Remember the Name by Fort Minor
Petra pushed her glasses up her nose. She hurried down the hall. Eric had gone to lunch earlier and couldn't walk with Petra. Petra felt vulnerable so she hurried up the stairs scurrying like a mouse. She needed to grab a book from the library before lunch.
"Oh look," A Dauntless boy stood in front of Petra, "A little Nose all by herself." he looked at her through squinted eyes. "And where are you going in such a hurry?"
"To the library," Petra snapped. "Somewhere you obviously don't frequent." she sassed.
"Ouch," the boy grinned maliciously. "This little Nose has some bark." he twirled Petra's braid around his finger. "But does she have any bite?" he smirked.
"As if you're likely to find out." Petra scoffed and pushed the boy's hand away. She started past him and he grabbed her hand, sending her books flopping to the floor. He pulled her into him and Petra yelped. "Get off me!" she balled up her hand in a fist.
"What are you gonna do Nose?" the boy smirked. Petra then punched him square in the nose. She simultaneously kicked him in the groin.
"Don't touch me!" Petra trilled as he fell onto her. They both toppled into the floor.
"Hey!" another Dauntless appeared on the stairway. "What's going on here?"
"That girl is psycho, Zeke!" the Dauntless boy held his bleeding nose.
Zeke rolled his eyes, "Get out of here." he shoved at a couple of the others. The Dauntless scattered and Zeke turned to Petra.
Petra looked up at him through defiant eyes. She looked tiny with her chin tucked in between her knees. Her eyes dared Zeke to make a wrong move towards her.
"Chill it with the dagger eyes." Zeke held up his hands. "Just trying to help." he held out his hand. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Petra said quietly. She took his hand and pushed herself to her feet. "Thank you though." she picked up her scattered books.
"These are a lot of books…" Zeke picked one up. It was immensely thick like Zeke's biceps and he debated seeing if it was bigger before just handing it to the Nose.
"Yeah," Petra shrugged. "I like to read." she said softly.
"That's cool," Zeke nodded. "Well I'm Zeke." he smiled.
Petra nodded, "I remember." Zeke looked a bit startled and Petra blushed. "I memorized the roster of every class in school. I have worked in the office every year since Mid-Levels." she explained. "I have an exceptional proclivity for names." Petra then shook her head at how dorky she sounded. "I'm Petra Carlisle." she reached to push her glasses up her nose. "Oh," she touched her nose again.
"What?" Zeke raised an eyebrow.
"I don't know where my glasses went." Petra knelt down and looked around for them.
"Are these your glasses?" Zeke had picked them up and put them on his face.
Petra turned around and broke out in giggles. "Yes those are mine." she held out her hand.
"I like these." Zeke looked at Petra. "But do you even need glasses?" he asked her.
"I'm Erudite." Petra replied and shrugged.
"Well anyways let me walk you to lunch." Zeke motioned. "Just so you know true Dauntless don't bully people weaker than them." he offered.
"So you think I'm weak." Petra looked at Zeke out of the corner of her eye as she walked.
"Well you're a Nose," Zeke said awkwardly. "It's not like they have hand-to-hand combat class in one of your labs." he shrugged.
"Well I think that kid's nose has a different story to tell." Petra said slyly with a smirk.
"Wait you punched him and did that?" Zeke asked.
"What did you think I did?" Petra looked at Zeke weirdly.
"I thought you just hit him with a book or something." Zeke shrugged.
"Not likely, my books are worth more than that." she said factually. "My younger brother studies all forms of combat and I may or may not have also read a book or two." she shrugged. "The Erudite believe in the pursuit of knowledge and all knowledge is equally important." Petra smiled slightly.
"Very nice, Little Nose." Zeke squeezed her shoulder.
"Thanks," Petra smiled with a hint of smirk. "You know you can call me by name too." she punched Zeke's arm.
"Well fine then Petra." Zeke drawled her name in a dramatic fashion.
"Well thank you Ezekiel," Petra returned the dramatics as they entered the lunch room.
Petra saw her Erudite friends at their usual table. Eric was stabbing his lunch purely out of boredom. The others were all reading or writing.
Zeke saw his Dauntless friends loudly jeering at some joke. He noticed that Gage was toying with her food and sneaking glances at another table. Gage then saw Zeke. She looked at him weirdly and he waved.
"Thank you again Zeke." Petra said to him. "But I'd better get back to my faction." she held out her hand for glasses.
"Oh yeah." Zeke forgot that he was wearing her glasses. So that was why Gage looked at him weird. "I'll see you around Carlisle." Zeke grinned at her.
"I'll be counting on it Pedrad." Petra smirked back at him and disappeared between the tables.
Petra read at a reckless and feverish pace. Her finger scrambled along the lines, sloppily attempting to keep up with her eyes. Someone loomed over her and Petra startled. She looked up and saw a Dauntless boy and a Dauntless girl standing over her. "Hey tell all your friends that there's a huge fight today after school. It's between this Erudite punk and a Dauntless guy." the boy said in a hushed voice.
"It's gonna be really interesting." the girl bobbled her head.
"Where?" Petra asked before she could stop herself.
The boy grinned, "Just meet us by the sculpture and we'll take you." he nudged the girl beside him. "This is Ashley." She smiled. "And I'm Quentin." he motioned to himself.
"Petra," she shook their hands.
"See you after school Nose." Quentin winked at her. Petra smiled slightly and waved.
The two Dauntless went on whispering in other people's ears about the upcoming fight.
The girl sitting across from Petra looked at her strangely. "What, Heather?" Petra asked.
"You aren't really going to that are you?" Heather asked distastefully.
"I thought it would be fun to watch…" Petra drifted off.
"More like highly spurious." the boy to Petra's right sneered.
"Well nobody asked you to go." Petra snapped and stood up. She marched over to a different table. There was an Amity girl sitting by herself, reading. Petra angrily sat down in the seat across from the girl.
The girl looked up at Petra and gave her a strange look.
"Sorry." Petra said. "I can move." she stood again.
"No it's fine." The Amity girl shrugged. "I don't mind." Petra smiled.
"Thank you." she sat back down. "I'm sorry to encroach upon your table. My friends were just giving me a hard time over there." Petra said.
The Amity girl merely looked at Petra with slightly raised eyebrows.
"Oh I'm sorry," Petra said shamefully. "I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Petra Carlisle." she put out her hand.
The Amity girl shook it, "I'm Amelia Rhodes, but call me Mia." The girl was dressed strangely for an Amity. She wore skin-tight red pants with a baggy yellow sweater that hung off of her shoulders. She had her hair pinned back with a large red bow on the back of her head and an intricate leaf-patterned headband. The only thing normal were her brown Amity boots.
"Wait you have the locker beside mine don't you?" Petra asked her.
"My number is 21," Mia shrugged.
"Mine's 22!" Petra grinned. "Well it's a pleasure to finally meet you." Petra smiled and turned back to her book. Mia did the same and Petra soon realized they were both reading books on hand-to-hand combat. "Oh hey are you going to the fight after school?" Petra asked the girl.
"There's a fight after school?" Mia's eyes glinted excitedly.
"Yeah between a Dauntless guy and an Erudite guy." Petra smiled. "I'm going with two other Dauntless people if you want to join me." Petra offered.
"Are you being serious?" Mia asked skeptically.
Petra looked confused, "Of course I am."
Mia nodded, but her expression was still suspicious, "Sure, I think it'd be cool."
"I'm meeting them at the sculpture after school." Petra checked her watch. "Well after this class ends in like five minutes." she shrugged. Mia nodded as she and Petra both shut their books. Petra went to put her library books and gathered up her binders. The bell then rang and Petra grinned at Mia who returned it.
"Is it sadistic that I'm really excited?" Mia laughed as she and Petra walked down the hallway.
"I don't think so…" Petra drifted off, but continued to giggle with Mia.
"Turning into a regular Amity are you Carlisle?" someone's arm wound around Petra's shoulders.
"Wouldn't you like to know, Pedrad?" Petra grinned up at Zeke.
"Oh I would." Zeke gave her a dramatic look. Petra giggled more and them motioned to Mia.
"This is my friend, Mia." she said. "Mia, this is Zeke. He loves wearing glasses." Petra teased him.
"Har de har, har." Zeke rolled his eyes and removed his arm. "I bet that you're the top of the Erudite wit class aren't you?" Zeke said sarcastically.
"But of course." Petra smirked. "Oh Ezekiel, are you going to the fight?" she asked.
"Yeah, why?" Zeke looked at Petra strangely as he stood beside Petra's locker. She put up her books and Mia did the same.
"Well I'm going with Mia, Quentin, and Ash." Petra smiled proudly.
"Ash?" Zeke raised an eyebrow. "Quentin?"
"Yes," Petra nodded. "We have to meet them at the sculpture, but I'll see you at the fight!" Petra grinned as she shut her locker. "See you soon, Zeke!" she and Mia then darted around the corner. Zeke looked after them with a confused expression before shrugging and going after his own friends.
Petra and Mia met Quentin and Ash at the sculpture. There was a huge crowd of kids mainly Dauntless surrounding it. Petra tapped Quentin's shoulder.
"Petra, hey!" he grinned and slapped her hand in the air. "You're just in time, we have some pre entertainment." he smirked. "Some dumb-asses are climbing the sculpture." he motioned to three figures scaling the sculpture.
"That's insane!" Mia exclaimed. Quentin looked over at her and she blushed.
"Pretty Amity that I don't know," he winked. "How do you do?" he drawled charmingly.
"Excellently." Mia tipped her head to him with a smile. "What about you?"
"Darling since I met you." Quentin smirked. "I'm Quentin." he held out his hand.
"I'm Mia." she blushed slightly and shook his hand.
"Not to interrupt, but I'm Ash." the blonde piped up.
"Mia," she waved. "Petra, invited me I hope that's cool."
"It is, but only for you." Quentin smiled.
"You said_" Petra was stopped when Quentin put his hand over her mouth. Quentin smiled adoringly at Mia who blushed pulling her hands back into the sleeves of her baggy sweater.
Suddenly people were yelling louder than before. All eyes turned to the sculpture. One of the girls was losing her hold. A few of her friends were trying to climb towards her and help her, but they weren't quick enough and she tumbled down the side of the sculpture. She screamed and Petra winced at the cracking sound. Everyone began to crowd around her, but at a safe distance. Petra looked around and saw a tiny Abnegation girl standing off to the side watching with wide eyes. She had blonde hair and her eyes were wide and blue.
Petra ran up to her, "Go get the nurse!" The girl looked at Petra with startled eyes, but nodded and turned on her heel. She sprinted back into the school. Petra then ran back to the crowd. A couple of Erudites were attending to the girl. They were splinting her leg as Petra knelt beside her friend Finn. "I sent an Abnegation after the nurse." Petra told him.
"Okay good call." Finn said as he tied the splint in place with a strip of black cloth. "It's definitely broken." he said under his breath to Petra. "These doltish Dauntless wouldn't know common sense if it hit them in the face." he hissed. Petra merely patted his shoulder consolingly. Soon the nurse appeared.
"Finn, excellent work on this splint." the nurse praised him. Finn humbly bowed his head and backed away.
"So Petra, what are you doing out here?" Finn asked. "I figured you would be in the library or on Eric's coattails." he teased.
"I'm going to watch some fight with a couple of Dauntless." Petra said proudly.
Finn raised an eyebrow, "You're going to that too?"
"Of course." Petra smiled serenely.
"Well then I'll you there." Finn grinned. "I need to go find Cara," he patted Petra's shoulder. "See you around." he winked and walked off.
Petra returned to her friends.
"We better go," Ash checked her watch. "We'll need to make sure we get there in time." Quentin nodded in return and ran a hand through his quaffed brown hair. Ash turned on her heel and Petra noticed a tattoo on the back of her neck. It was a balloon just below her hairline and the words beneath the balloon read: let it go.
"Of course this way ladies." Quentin winked at them and began walking.
"Where is the fight?" Mia asked already falling into the friendly camaraderie of the Dauntless.
"Why the Rock where else?" Ash said lazily. Mia and Petra exchanged glances. The Rock was notorious. It was a place where the Abnegation and the Amity never dared to go. A place those factions only heard whispers and stories about. The Rock was a flat, stone plateau that fell off into a harbor. The young Dauntless were the most frequenters of the Rock and then the Candor and lesser yet the Erudite. Petra had heard of the Rock and had even been once or twice. Eric loved to go to the Rock, but he only brought Petra the first couple of times he started going.
Petra knew the Rock wasn't a good place. There was always alcohol and fights going on, but it was always the place to be. Quentin led them through the trees and there was the Rock. Petra deduced a long time ago that the Rock was an old concrete building that the ground just continued to swallow until only the top poked out. People were milling about casually. Some had cups in hand and some had their own bottles. Petra stuck close behind Ash and Mia stood brazenly on Quentin's left. Petra watched as Dauntless boys looked Mia up and down. Some smirked at the idea of a conquest and some looked in surprise at the fact that an Amity was here.
"Quint!" a couple of Dauntless walked up. Petra noticed that Gage Holston was among them. All Eric ever talked about these days was Dauntless and fighting and Gage. How pretty she was and how Eric was going to impress her and date her once they were both in Dauntless. Petra was tired of hearing her name. It was highly annoying. She knew it wasn't Gage's fault, but still. Gage has a cup in her hand, but it's under halfway full and she doesn't seem to have any inclination to put it to her lips.
"Amity," a blonde girl was talking to Mia. "That's totally rad." Petra believed the girl was Shauna who was almost always seen with Zeke and Gage.
"Thanks," Mia grinned. "Dauntless," she nodded, "That's way more rad."
"You're telling me." Shauna stuck out her hand. "I'm Shauna…"
Petra back toward Quentin and Ash. Quentin had now joined Mia and Shauna's conversation while Ash was showing her new tattoo to the other Dauntless guy. The tattoo was a phrase on her left side in the place were the ribcage and the back blend. It read: she believed she could so she did. Gage was standing there in both conversations, but not really in either. She noticed Petra and gave her a smile.
"Hi," Gage said. "I'm Gage, you're Eric's friend right?"
"Yes it's my most proud achievement." Petra laughed. "I'm Petra Carlisle." she shook Gage's hand. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you. Eric's mentioned you before." Petra tried to remain nonchalant, because she knew that Eric would be pissed if he found out that Petra told Gage how Eric blathered on about her all the time.
Gage merely smiled wider, "Good things I hope." she chirped. Petra found herself wondering if Gage was actually an Amity in Dauntless clothes.
"Of course." Petra replied with a small smile.
"Hey everybody! The fight's about to start!" A Dauntless boy yelled over the crowd. Petra found herself being shoved around harshly by the surging crowd. Suddenly familiar hands were on her shoulders and steering her through the crowd. Petra looked up to see Zeke's face looking out over the crowd. He smiled at Petra when he saw that she was looking at him.
"You looked like you were struggling there." Zeke grinned at her and Petra laughed.
"I was." she sighed in defeat.
"Well don't worry Rosie." Zeke grinned. "I got you."
"Rosie?" Petra raised an eyebrow.
"Well I couldn't keep calling you Nose could I?" Zeke smiled. "So I combined Nose and Petra and added the extra e." he seemed quite proud of himself. He led Petra to where their friends were and they had great seats. Suddenly the crowd swelled like a roaring wave. Everyone was on their feet cheering. A Dauntless girl in tight clothing held up the arm of one shirtless Dauntless only identifiable by his black pants and tattooed chest. Then Petra saw the opposing Erudite who had his back to her. He looked familiar with black hair and a surprisingly muscular back. He then around and the Dauntless girl picked up his hand. Petra mouth hit the floor as she caught sight of determined, storm cloud colored eyes.
The Erudite was Eric.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well hello there. I'm back and I've got a new chapter. So some new characters have been introduced and I'd love it if you told me how you felt about them. If you want to see the tattoos I described then you can frolick on over to my pinterest account: /irelanddawson/ and have a looksie. But yeah so as per usual rotation the next chapter will be Gage-centric. So thanks for reading!
I'd also like to give a special shout-out to the guest and anonymous people who review on the second chapter. To answer your reviews:
anonymous: Thank you for reviewing! Also your couple predictions/suggestions were pretty accurate! Petra and Elijah will be revisited definately. You will get a taste of Eric and Gage with the next chapter. As for Zeke and Shauna well I have a bit of twists and turns for them especially Zeke. Onto the topic of Tobias well he did know Beatrice at this moment, but he did not love her or even like her. He just knew her as Andrew Prior's daughter and so he couldn't exactly be smiling because of her. But never fear I shall leave FourTris in tact! I can promise that I will not break up FourTris after all this story is canon. But thank you so much again for reviewing! :)
Guest: Thank you so much! I'm honestly grinning like an idiot at my computer screen right now! I will definiately keep updating and I hope you come back and read the new chapters! :)
CHARACTER LIST:
Quentin Cunningham: Francisco Lachowski
Ashley 'Ash' Blackburn: Julianne Hough
Amelia 'Mia' Rhodes: Ariana Grande
Finn Anders: Zach Roerig