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"Jane?" A cautious female voice breaks me out of my internal panic attack.

I jump slightly shoving my Mother's letter into the pocket of my skinny jeans. "Oh! Hey Tris," I smile innocently.

"Tobias is just using the shower he should be out in a minute. He never spends a very long time in the bathroom, to enclosed I guess. Are you ok?" Tris makes a gentle attempt at a conversation.

"Yeah thanks." I reply bluntly cutting off all possible branches for further conversation.

After a few moments of awkward silence, I try to make a stab at it myself deciding to give Tris a chance. "So did you… I mean were you umm in uhh Four's initiate class then or.." I cringe inwardly at my own embarrassment.

Tris laughs revealing a set of slightly wonky white teeth. "No he was my trainer, I only became a member this time last year."

A small frown creases my forehead, "He dated his pupil?"

"We..uh.. only announced it after I had passed initiation, we didn't want people to think I slept my way into the number one spot." Tris laughs slightly, so faintly I'm not entirely sure I heard it.

Before I can ask more about my brothers time in Dauntless, the man in question emerges through the slightly open bathroom door, hair dripping wet wearing just a towel around his naked body.

He inclines his head slightly in my direction before pulling a pair of boxer briefs from the chest drawers opposite the double bed. I blush slightly and turn my head away from my very naked elder brother.

"Four, play nice." Tris chastises him in a playful warning tone.

"What? I'm not doing anything!" He mumbles pulling on a pair of tracksuit bottoms,and a black t-shirt. "What did you want anyway, I mean other than to tell me that you've spilt more of my preciously guarded secrets to your initiate class."

I roll my eyes at his childish attitude. "Don't exaggerate Toby.."

"Don't exaggerate Toby…" My Brother mimics in a bad impression of my voice.

"I do not sound like that!"

"Yeah you do."

"The two of you are ridiculous, and I hope you realise that." Tris chips in disappearing into the kitchen, as if trying to avoid catching our childish attitudes.

My hand brushes casually past my stomach the rustle from under my clothing reminding me what I have found, and what I have to do.

"I'd better go, training tomorrow and all,"

"Yeah sure I'll see you later." The two of us cross the room together, making a scuffling sound with our feet along the wooden floors. Marcus would have told us to pick our feet up properly.

Tobias yanks it open with small creak, and clatter of the silver chain on the inside of the door. "See you tomorrow,"

I nod silently before disappearing down the black cloaked corridor.

0o0o

That night the familiar sound of muffled sobs fills my small dormitory, and I don't drop off until around 1 in the morning, so the six o clock wake up call seems woefully early.

"You look like death." Brianna smirks as I sit myself across from her in the dining hall during breakfast that morning.

"Yeah well it was loud last night."

The conversation is finished by Claudia slamming her breakfast tray down onto the table. "I hate mornings. Officially."

"I can see that." I laugh examining her rumpled pixie cut and heavy eyes. "Had a nice night?"

Claudia answers my question with a death glare before sinking down next to me. The rest of breakfast is spent in sleepy silence, and I'm dying to get away so I can phone my Mother at one of the Dauntless payphones.

I know Four will be angry but he can't keep me from my mother forever. I can't even remember her. What does she look like? Is she more like me or Tobias? Why did she leave?

The questions I have for my Mother are endless, as are the possibilities.

"We`d better get going." Claudia groans."We have to be there in 2 minutes."

A long sigh escapes my lips as I push myself up dragging the bench back with me.

'Let's go then."

0o0o

"Today you will be fighting each other for real! Everything you do know will go towards your final ranking so wise up, or get out! There is an odd number so one of you won't be fighting today." Tris gestures to a large blackboard behind her that I hadn't noticed before.

I scan the board quickly to find my name alone at the bottom of the board. I am not fighting.

Claudia's name is next to the brute of a Candor; Andrew. She is chewing on her top lip and casting worried glances to where her opponent is stood on the other side of the room flexing his muscles.

'Theres no way I can beat him." She looks terrified.

"It will be fine, maybe you can take a few hits, and concede."

She shrugs and turns away from me, eyes cloudy with thought.

"First fight; Claudia vs Andrew." My Brothers voice echoes around the room as he gestures towards to two initiates.

When they are both stood in the ring my brother begins to talk again. "The loser is the person who can no longer fight at the end, other than that there are no rules! Clear?"

"Are we not aloud to concede?" Claudia squeaks she looks petrified, as she runs her hand nervously through her short hair. Andrew smirks.

Tris looks apologetic as she answers. "Sorry, the rules state that you have to fight until somebody can't continue."

This forces Andrews smirk into a face splitting grin.

"Three, two, one… GO"

Claudia kicks a small, agile leg into Andrews stomach, but he seems not be affected by it and he grab her foot and twists it round at a painful angle, which makes her topple over with a yelp of pain.

I turn away unable to watch my new best friend being beaten to a pulp by another initiate.

The fight lasts for a few minutes before there is a resounding thud and Andrew is stood triumphantly above Claudia's lifeless body. If flinch, and run up to my unconscious friend. Shaking her shoulder gently.

"Claudia? Claudia?" A quiet groan escapes her lips and she sits up groggily.

"What happened?" She croaks, her voice raw and painful.

"Andrew happened." A look of realisation crosses her pretty features and she scrambles to sit up.

"You two can go down to the infirmary." My brother tells us matter of factly. "Take a ten minute break," he whispers leaning down to whisper in my ear.

I nod and encircle Claudias small arm in my hand, helping her up, her movements slow and forced.

I lead her out slowly, thanking the lord the infirmary is only a two minute walk from the training room, in normal circumstances. Of course it takes four with Claudias dead weight.

A soon as I step across the threshold dragging my friends body behind me, a tattooed, slightly plump nurse rushes up to us. "What happened?"

"I think she's got concussion." I explain pointing to my groggy friend.

"Yes I see, well I'll take care of her." She pulls Claudia away from me and guides her into the nearest bed shooing me away with a vacant wave.

I glance towards my standard Abnegation issue watch, and notice I have around five minutes before I need to be back, I consider going back early anyway until I notice a black payphone on the wall opposite from me.

I shove three twenty pence pieces into the phone and jab in the number I have read ss many times in the past 12 hours.

It rings twice before a woman's voice sounds on the other end. "Evelyn Johnson. Who's speaking?"

"Mum." I breathe.

Ok, I know its been so long since I last updated and I'm really sorry :) I'll try to be faster next time! Also I didn't know what currency they would use in Dauntless, so I went with the one I'm familiar with, which is pounds. So yeah thats why!

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