Chapter 12
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TRIS'S POV:
I patter down the steps leading to the underground compound Dauntless keeps secret from the other factions.
The compound is eerily quiet though I suppose people aren't here because of the bad weather.
I smooth down my hair tying it up in a tight ponytail.
The shops are all dim with lights and the Pit is quiet. Usually the compound is buzzing with lively Dauntless, pounding and shrieking exhaled through the whole faction.
I needed some fresh air so I decided to visit the place I had initiation in. Where I placed first in Dauntless initiation.
I skim my thin fingers across the cool walls. The touch sends me shivers and I pull Tobias's jacket tighter around me. The jacket still smells like him, of metal and sweat and that distinctive sweet aroma a male carries.
My feet lead themselves to the training room. I notice I memorized the way although I hadn't been back since training. When I arrive in the room, I take a deep breath filling my lungs with a considerable amount of air. My hands skim the punching bags and the guns, lightly caressing the training tools. The fluorescent light is set dimly making the room seem dangerous, quiet, and eerie. I gaze at the weapons and breathe in the sharp scent of metal against air. The training room usually isn't left unattended but it doesn't peak my mind why it's not attended now.
My eyes rake up and down the walls and hallways as if I haven't seen them in the right light in eternity.
Dauntless.
I can hear my instructor's voice echo in my head.
Stand straighter and don't let your guard down.
Knees and elbows.
Because you're Dauntless you idiot!
The impact of initiation rushes back to me and I blink rapidly to adjust my wobbly vision.
I swallow and keep my gaze level with a punching bag.
Suddenly, I'm by the Chasm looking down at the hazardous water. In the darkness of the compound, the water is almost black looking although at a certain angle you can see the pureness of it.
"Hey Tris," a snarky voice says behind me.
My heart jolts being scared so suddenly.
Feet clatter on the rough stone ground and I whip around.
Peter, Al, Drew stand behind me.
Peter his usually slick black hair is rumpled and his lackey Drew stands just staring. Al, I thought who was at least an acquaintance, stands broad-shouldered with a sad expression.
Peter flicks his head toward me in a gesture that confuses me.
Suddenly a hand grabs me and lurches me backwards. I almost scream but the hand clamps over my mouth not permitting me to speak.
"Don't let her talk!" Peter warns looking my body up and down as he, with Al grabs my body.
"Hey the Stiff still looks like a twelve-year-old," Peter snickers.
Hands slam my body. Up and down and bitter bile rises in my throat. I try to scream, I do but the hand clamps harder down making me breath through my nose.
My spine hits coldness. Chasm.
I inhale and exhale rapidly my heart pounding in every place, blood rushing and flowing.
A hand slams into my ribs and I shriek. The pain, the bruises that will be left over if I'm not killed.
Stupid Tris, so goddy stupid.
I shouldn't have gone here alone, when nobody is around in the compound.
The lights don't seem as bright as before, when I was standing alone.
"Ha finally! You did not deserve that first ranking, you're just a damn Stiff," Peter growls his eyes gleaming maniacally.
Drew chuckles behind Peter and I want to spit in his face.
Drew starts prodding my ribs and I try to not let the tears flow.
Don't give them the satisfaction Tris.
The warmth in my eyes burn and my vision blurs from the pain.
"Blind fold Al," Peter says flicking his head to Al's general direction.
Al hands him a cloth and fingers fumble tying the blind fold around my. It tightly grips my head searing down to my skin.
I can't see.
A hand grips at my throat cutting off the circulation. I try to breathe but the breaths don't come, aren't allowed to come.
I rip at the fold letting my vision free again. Peter holds me up by the throat over the roaring waters of the Chasm.
I scream. The scream isn't loud enough to attract attention from above the black steps leading to the ground above though, just a jagged scream to tell Peter how evil he is.
"How you feeling Stiff?" Peter says grinning.
The look makes my stomach churn. I shouldn't have eaten.
Suddenly I remember Christina and Tobias. Have the read my note by now?
Might wander for a while. Don't worry.
I squeeze my eyes shut.
"Do you like water? I thought you did, well we'll find out," Peter whispers still clenching my throat.
His hand tightens and then loosens repeating the order consecutively. I feel the bruises forming turning purple, blue, black, and then slowly washing over with a sickly green.
No more, please, no more.
My spine collides with the Chasm's metal railing.
I remember our instructor.
It has happened and it will happen again.
"Hey! Get away!" a voice yells.
Patter of footsteps, shuffling of feet.
"Go! Come on let's go!" Peter screams at Drew and Al.
Peter drops me roughly on the stone compound ground and I hear a low moan escape my lips.
My ribs ache so I slowly shut my eyes reveling in the secure notion that the ground brings me.
I hear punches, yells, and pleads the voices of my attackers.
The sounds although welcome to my ears are secondary, subordinate- profoundly- to the pain aching through my limbs and my throat. I breathe concentrating on my breaths.
Footsteps patter next to me and I muster my strength to lift my head.
The darkness of the compound descends on me but I make out familiar eyes. Dark blue a sea of navy sparked with a beautiful neon aqua.
"Four," I moan.
My voice sounds weak, utterly pathetic at the moment. I don't care though.
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care.
He lifts me up gently easing an arm underneath my knee and hooking the other where my arm joins with my shoulder.
The burning in my eyes doesn't retreat but it eases as I'm lifted.
I press my forehead into his collarbone and there is a sudden hollow silence.
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