God, I feel terrible for not updating so long.

But updates are going to come kinda slow, given that I have three stories to update weekly and I have school.

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Chapter V. The Offer

BEATRICE

My eyes flicker and I see blurry shapes.

My head feels like it's spinning non-stop.

I groan out in pain quietly.

I try to move but my muscles are bound together.

I look down and find myself tied up by a rope.

There is no source of light in the small room whatsoever.

I can hear muffled voices and I try to breathe properly; my mouth is tied up with a bandana.

"Did you have any difficulty on your way from Dauntless?" A familiar feminine, stern voice asks.

Dauntless? I stop fumbling and wiggle my way to the door, putting my ear against it.

"Ah. Yes. No one suspected a thing." The male voice responds. "Except… someone was following me." My eyes widen.

It's the Dauntless I followed.

"Oh no," The female voice says, worried. "Did they figure out…" She trails off.

"No," the male replies. "It was just an Erudite girl. Seemed like an initiate, she was quite young." A humorless laugh echoes outside the door.

"Oh. So that's the girl you tied up and left in my office?" the female voice says, monotonously.

"Yes."

"Oh." She says. She sighs. "Well, bring her here."

I hear footsteps coming closer and closer and scooch backwards.

The door opens and I look up, gazing into hard, stone grey eyes.

He leans down and places me over his shoulder roughly, and I squeal out in pain.

"Let me go!" I yell, but it comes out unintelligible.

I look around, expecting to find a jail cell, but instead is a glass, blue and white tidy room.

The man tosses me on a chair and the rope cuts into my wrists.

I look up and my jaw drops, if it even could tied up.

The woman staring back at me has an expression of shock on her pointed face.

"You tied up and beat one of my initiates." Jeanine says, giving the Dauntless a look.

He shrugs. "What? She was following me, and I had to do what I had to do!"

Jeanine sighs, and I realize that we are in her office.

What would a Dauntless be doing meeting up with Jeanine in secret? I think.

"Beatrice, I am so sorry for this whole interaction," she says.

"We need to give her memory serum. She cannot remember this whole thing. It's crucial." The boy says.

She fixes her glasses on her nose and looks at the Dauntless. "No." Then looks at me, her blue eyes examining me like an Erudite does.

"You will be taken back to the Erudite initiate dormitory. Once again, I am sorry for this whole mishap. Do not mention any of this to a soul, understand?" I nod, and then wince at the sharp paper tag of the bandana cutting me.

"Oh, let's remove this." Jeanine snaps her fingers once and two Erudite emerge from the other room. I almost scream at how quick they appear.

The two Erudite men hold a knife in hand and I'm frightened for a moment, until they cut the tight rope around my body and the bandana around my face.

I shake out my wrists, taking deep breaths.

I study my painful wrists, the cuts starting to sting.

Jeanine tuts. "We can't have the other initiates seeing that, now can we? Joyce," she calls.

A woman in a blue petticoat comes from the same room and holds a first-aid kit in her hands.

She applies a cream to my wrists and wraps them in a large, blue bandage.

I open my mouth, about to ask about the bright color—because questions will definitely be asked, this is not Dauntless—when the woman, Joyce, shakes her head.

She coats the bandage with a small amount of cream, and the wrap slowly fades, the color matching my skin tone, and is now invisible.

I'm pretty sure my mouth is agape, as I am fascinated with the technology, because Jeanine chuckles.

"Amazing how the level of technology is, right?"

I nod, smiling slightly.

Joyce makes me drink a pain-reducing pill and I nod at her in thanks.

"So if you need help going back to the dormitory, I will send an Erudite member with you." Jeanine offers.

She looks at the clock, which reads half past midnight.

"Actually, I will. James, Madeline," A blonde and a brown-haired man step into the room.

"Take Beatrice back to the initiate dormitory." The two nod and approach me.

I stand, and they hold open the door for me across the large room.

"Wait," Jeanine says, and I turn around. She looks like she's thinking about something before speaking. "Actually Beatrice… you might be of use for me," She says, her blue eyes twinkling.

I notice just now the similarities between us. Blonde hair, blue eyes, thin figure. Except her hair is a bit lighter and her eyes are bluer, blue as the color of Erudite.

"Hmm?" I ask, finding the word "yeah" or "yes" a bit rude, especially to the head of my new faction.

"James, Madeline, you may report back to the lab room." The two nod and walk out the door.

What would the Erudite be doing at this ungodly hour? I think. With a Dauntless?

I mentally shake the thoughts out of my head, and focus at the task on hand.

"Sit down," Jeanine says, gesturing to the chair I sat before, the one next to the Dauntless man.

I reluctantly do so, fidgeting my hands nervously.

She leans forward on her desk.

"I want you to become a spy for me."

My jaw drops. "A spy?"

"Yes. You will be posing as a Dauntless initiate, when you will be helping us find the… ones, and follow through with the war plans in the meantime."

War plans? I shiver.

But me, a Dauntless initiate, really an Erudite spy?

"What do you mean by… the ones?"

Jeanine nods at the Dauntless man, who faces me.

"Have you ever heard of the word, Divergent?"

I feel like I'm having a mini panic attack.

I furrow my eyebrows and shake my head, my head starting to hurt of the strong vibrating sensation that my heart is giving off everywhere in my body.

I gulp inwardly. "No," I say as monotonous as I can, shaking my head. "What's this… Divergent?"

Tori's warning rings in my head.

Jeanine seems to believe my act because she doesn't look suspicious at all. "It is a very dangerous thing. Only a few people are Divergent. And I want you to help me find them. And you'll be one of the most important people in this whole operation."

I raise an eyebrow, jaw dropped. "Me?" I ask incredulously. "Why me?"

Jeanine leans back in her chair. "Because I can trust you, Beatrice. You and Caleb."

When I hear my brother's name, I am even more surprised, if it is even possible.

"Caleb?" I whisper. "Wh-What why?" Is all I can say.

"Like I said earlier, your father was a good friend of mine." She looks down, almost saddened for a moment, then looks back up and conceals her emotions with a mask.

"Your father was Erudite."

I feel like my eyes are bugging out of my eyes.

My father.

Who hates Erudite.

A former Erudite.

"Um… okay." I mumble.

"In Dauntless, we have a branch of Dauntless members and leaders working together. Same here in Erudite. We are planning to use the unsuspecting Dauntless members who are not in our program as weapons against the Abnegation."

My heart pounds.

"Now, that might be difficult considering the fact that you are former Abnegation. You would be working with Eric over here mostly," She gestures to the Dauntless man.

Eric.

The name seems familiar.

Because it is.

Eric is one of the three leaders of Dauntless.

Jeanine continues. "You will be dismissed from Erudite initiation, and partake mostly in Dauntless initiation. But are you in?"

My heart rings and I have to clench my fists to stop them from shaking.

I just got out of bed for a bottle of water, and now I'm conspiring with the leader of my new faction and the leader of the faction I might be spying at.

I contemplate the pros and cons in my head.

Pro. I get a chance at being Dauntless.

Con. I stab them in the back.

Pro. I get to be a spy.

Con. That'll cut into my time at Dauntless.

Pro. I don't follow through with Erudite initiation.

Con. If I help Jeanine, Abnegation will be attacked.

But Abnegation will be attacked no matter what.

Jeanine has a ton of people helping her in both factions.

"Well?"

I shake my head. "I don't know. Yet."

Jeanine nods in understanding. "Very well. More details will be given if you agree. You can have as much time as you need to decide."

I nod.

"But, I need to speak to Caleb as well. I want to see if he wants to be my personal assistant. Please give him that information that I want to see him."

I nod, and stand up, wiping my sweaty palms on my pajama pants.

I have a lot to decide.

"I can have James and Madeline escort you back to the dormitory."

I'd refuse, but my mind is too cloudy for anything. I find myself nodding.

James and Madeline walk into the room from the other door at the side of Jeanine's office, and approach me.

"Goodbye, Beatrice." Jeanine says.

"Bye," I try to say as clear as I can.

-o0o-

After James and Madeline brought me to the initiate dormitory, I tip-toed back into bed.

There I lay, staring at the blue ceiling.

I groan inwardly, unable to sleep of the strange encounter I have experienced.

I don't even think about leaving the dormitory, who knows what will happen this time. I roll out of bed and look at the alarm clock on the desk, which reads a quarter past one.

I try to sleep, but thoughts of the conversation between Jeanine, Eric, and I come flooding into my brain.

To try to clear my mind, I decide to read a book.

I hold 'A Dangerous Love' in my hand and crawl under the covers, covering my head and whole body.

I flip open the book to a random page and start reading.

Chapter Three

I sat in the chair, shocked. "You want me to spy, spy in Future Industries?" I asked, bewildered.

"Yes," Samuel, the head of TechCorp said. "You will be posing as a worker there."

I shivered. I had always wanted to work at Future Industries, but somehow fell into TechCorp.

"What would I be doing?" I asked.

"You will be working, doing your daily job, and then meeting up with the other TechCorp spies and steal Future Industries information." He said.

I can't help but think that this book is eerily similar to my life right now.

Most people want to live in a book, or have that book become reality.

But currently, not me. Why me?

I continue reading for a long time.

Chapter Five

I had burst into Samuel's office. "What do you need?" he asked, annoyed.

"I want to help you. I will be a spy for you." I said.

He grinned. "Very well. I need your younger brother. He will be offered a job as my personal assistant in this whole operation."

Not Chase, I had thought. "Okay," I said with a nod.

Just like me right now.

When will I tell Caleb?

I shake my head.

I continue reading until I reach the middle of the book, and place it back on the desk.

I yawn, and try to fall asleep.

"I want you to become a spy for me." Runs over and over in my head.

No matter what, Abnegation will be attacked. Maybe I can do something about it.

I sigh.

I shut my eyes, and doze off.

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*Okay so the sneak peek is just a few fragment sentences of important events.*

Sneak Peek

"Yes, but what if they don't believe that we are lovers?" I ask.

...

"Then show a public display of affection,"

"Wait, you're telling me that I have to kiss my initiate?"

End of Sneak Peek

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~TrissyPoo