Chapter 11

"Just remember what I asked. I will be messaging later for sure now." He pulled me up to stand after he stood on his own then handed me my jacket. He walked me to the door and looked at Tris. "Make sure she gets to Shauna's if that is where she is staying. If needed have Zeke leave Control to take her."

Tris smiles "Uriah is going to take her over there."

He nods and kisses my forehead before I go into the room.

When the door closes Tris turns to look back at me. "So that just happened."

We all break out laughing and Tris and Tori take a moment to look at my dermals before I strip out of everything but my underwear. I gave up trying to wear sports bras all the time when in my casual wear because of Team Shauna and Astrid. So I wear their idea of a bra, which is a strapless thing and is a blue/green color and black lace with black lace boy short underwear.

My tattoo, which no one besides Tori and Tris has seen is a massive one. It currently starts from my left thigh and goes up all of the way into my stomach and under my left breast and wrapping around to my back. It doesn't cover the entire back just a portion of it on the left side. The end result with have it going down my left leg all the way into my foot and then going up into my left shoulder and down to my wrist.

It is the body of a phoenix. The wings are what is stretched over my left abdomen, stomach and just over the spine on the left side of the back. There are the dauntless flames that are threaded throughout the body and the flames will be what continue down from my thigh into the foot and also up into my shoulder and down the arm. It is all done in shades of black and greys with some of it in a white ink that just makes the skin raised. In those places are the shapes of the symbols for the aptitudes I have; Erudite, Dauntless, Abnegation and Amity.

Five years ago having a tattoo like that would at the least get me in trouble as a faction traitor at the worst I would be thought to be Divergent. I am Divergent. But Divergents aren't a big deal after my Aunt Jeanine had started research and I helped her. Maybe if I hadn't have been with her and she didn't have me to ground her she might have been more fearful. But she did have me and we both knew where I was going. We both had known since I was still a child I would be going to Dauntless.

I was her control subject and when compared to others including herself she had found we all have some of all of the faction's aptitudes. Based on the old testing it picked up on those by trying to force a person into one way of thinking when we don't normally process things like that. We aren't computers and a myriad of factors come into play. What makes a person truly compatible with a faction are the sum of their parts and actions not just a few. In the end we can test a person to see where they will be the most happy and productive but it would still be up to them to choose. That whole free will thing can be a real bitch.

There were plans to revise the entire faction system to be a bit fairer. Until then I needed to make it here so I could help when that came about, to protect everyone in the city. Some people would be happy about the changes but there were going to be a few that might now be as happy. The factionless were unknowns at this point and that was one of my personal goals. Try and make contact and see what could be done to make things more stable for them. Maybe they could be incorporated back into the society but I doubted they would want that though. That was one of the main reasons doing well and getting the choice for a good job meant so much to me. I couldn't help my faction or this city if I didn't.

There were other images and symbols that were meaningful to me. Some were symbols of different languages that I had learned and that held special meaning to me. The plan was to finally bring the path of the Dauntless flames that also threaded along the tattoo and to finally have them go all the way down my leg wrapping it around until it ended in the foot. Then to bring them up and around the breast to the ribs and side then go up to the shoulder and wrap around almost like a pauldron of a knight's armor. They would wrap around my arm ending in a tattoo wrist cuff of the dauntless symbol. We were starting on the leg, side of the breast leading up to the shoulder with the shoulder included and arm portion tonight.

Once I had gotten settled was laying on my side so they could both reach the part they needed to we started to pass the bottle of whiskey around and talk.

I had responded to my Aunt that I loved her gift to me and just had them put in. She messaged me back almost immediately and said she couldn't wait to see me and them on visiting day. I replied that I couldn't wait either and that I had finished the fighting portion undefeated. She was happy to hear it but I think she already knew. I would have to ask her who kept her updated.

"So what was that about with you and Eric?" Tori asked getting started on grilling me.

I frowned in thought. "I honestly don't know. I don't know where it came from either. I mean obviously you both know I have mentioned that I found him attractive and he confuses the hell out of me. I could never read his looks and I am pretty fucking good in reading almost everyone. Not Eric though at least not usually. After the fight when he stopped me from going after Shane anymore there was something different. He wasn't yelling at me or glaring at me. He actually talked to me and I liked it. He umm…kissed me in the training room but just briefly. Then before we came in he did it again and then you saw earlier I am guessing."

Tris smiled a bit mischievously. "Oh yeah we did. We also saw you both as you got the gauges and dermals. I will say that everyone in control probably saw it Raven. And if everyone in Control saw it then Four saw it. Be prepared for Fourzilla to be storming the castle soon."

"Great, just great. I mean I can handle that. But Four won't just stop at yelling at me Tris. He is going to confront Eric too."

She shrugs "They can work that shit on their own. I am not going to try and mediate."

"Will Eric get in trouble for it?" I ask worriedly after I take a large swig of whiskey.

Tris shakes her head. "No it isn't against the rules and he doesn't have final say on any rankings or scoring. That is all of the leaders and instructors combined to prevent any favoritism and to make sure we are being fair in our scorings even when we don't like someone."

I nod "I am not sure what exactly brought all this about. Because lets be honest I am just an initiate and I am sure there are plenty of much more experienced and beautiful girls that he could find."

Tris stops working and slams down her gun then marches around to me "What the fuck does that mean Raven? I will have you know I think YOU are too fucking good for ANYONE, much less Eric Coulter. You are fucking gorgeous and if you don't believe me, go ask almost every fucking man you know and they will tell you. Ask every guy in your initiation who they think is the most bad ass girl not to mention the most beautiful and they will all say you. Shane was hated because he had you and because he treated you like shit. Don't let me hear you say that shit again Raven because that is your piece of shit Father talking. Am I clear?" I nod and she jerks the bottle from me and takes a swig before handing it back and going back to work.

Tris was right about Four seeing some of the kiss. Just that last one at least. Not all of control saw it though. We found this out when Four decided he was going to try and bust into the room. Tris heard him yelling long before he barged in so was ready at the door and jerked it open enough to slip out and close it behind her.

I heard her yelling something to him but couldn't hear what was being said by either. Tori had already finished my leg and the foot part and had moved up to help with the shoulder and arm part. I heard more than one male voice confronting each other and I sighed.

"Tori, stop working please. Get ready for a show." She snickers and stops.

I grab the bottle of whiskey and open the door to the back room. Tris apparently got Four and Eric moved to Bud's area. They were staring each other down yelling so I walked into the area and leaned casually against the doorway.

Tris saw me and had to turn away from the guys because she was about to laugh even though she was pissed. I just sat there watching them, taking swigs and handed the bottle to Tori who came to stand by me.

None of the guys in Bud's little area noticed us as they kept bickering. Until Bud turned around and dropped something glass and it shattered.

"Holy Mother of Mary." Bud yelled looking at me and I threw my arm around Tori who turned into me to stop herself from fucking laughing.

This did get Eric and Fours attention but they looked at Bud. I winked at him and took another big swig and Tris came closer to me.

"I think you just gave poor Bud a heart attack Raven." She said smugly.

I pass the bottle to her. "It would appear so Tris. Tori, does Bud have a history of palpitations? Do you need to go perform a little mouth to mouth resuscitation on him?" I wiggled my eyebrows at Tori and Bud.

Tris snorts and hands me the bottle which I take and take another swig of. Time for the countdown to tantrum time.

"5,4,3,2…" I count out loud.

"What the fuck Raven!" Four bellows.

"And boom goes the dynamite." I smirk and take another drink. Tris and Tori bust out laughing, hanging on to me.

"Get the fuck back in there right now!" Four yells.

"I would but you see I was just very fucking rudely interrupted from the only ménage trois I would ever be able to get behind because you can't keep your mind on straight. So I thought I would just catch the show until you remember you're a man. Because all I see is boys standing in front of me right now throwing tantrums."

Bud starts blubbering so I look to Tori. "Told you his little mind wouldn't be able to actually handle the thought of us together. You might want to escort him to his lair and give him a bit of a lie down." I wink at her.

She stalks to him. "No need to tell me twice." She growls and once their gone I shudder.

"I love Tori. But I really do not need that mental image." I tip the bottle back. Tris laughs shakes her head and then glares at Four.

"Room now Tobias." She gestures to another room to have an argument with Four.

"Not with her out here like this or with him!" He points to Eric who had been oddly silent and just staring at me. I wouldn't allow myself to blush. I would control this shit.

"I have worn bathing suits skimpier than this. And it isn't like he hasn't seen a fucking woman before Tobias. Go before you do piss me off for real today. Send my girl back to me soon so I can get this shit done. Or fuck, Eric I think I heard them say you have done tattoos before. Think you can color between lines?" I don't even wait for an answer I just turn around and walk back into the room.

I hear Four still ranting and Tris dragging him off. I also hear Four yelling at George. "I will cut it off George, don't go near her!"

I position myself back in the chair and take another big swig and close my eyes sighing. "He is just going to get worse. Maybe I will just go live in a fucking nunnery, but then he would worry what the nuns would be doing to me. Do they even still have nunneries?" I say out loud to myself.

I hear the door click closed and turn my head to see Eric who gives me a tight smile. "Did you really want me to tattoo you or did you just want to get me out of the way?"

I shrug "I wouldn't mind if you did and I wasn't trying to get YOU out of the way more like make a point to Four."

"Yeah well, point fucking made I guess. Do you mind…" He didn't even wait but just took the bottle and tipped it back. After a second he put it down and shook his head.