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"Mum?" I whisper my voice scratching against my suddenly raw throat.
My Mother looks up flicking her long, curly hair behind her shoulder. "Jane, come in and sit down." She gestures to the seat on the other side of her desk.
My legs shake so uncontrollably I find it hard to walk further into my Mother's office. I manage it somehow though, and collapse delicately into the stiff wooden chair.
As I get nearer I can see the hooked nose that sits so well on the face of my brother, looks slightly off on the thin, pale one of my Mothers.
Her eyes widen as she scans me up, and down almost as if she's shocked to see me. Thats crazy though, she invited me I didn't even know she was alive.
"I…. I know this must be a shock for you Jane-" My Mother begins cautiously as if I am a bomb ready to explode at any second.
"A bit? I've been told you were dead, since the day I was born! Why did you do it Mum?" The last part slips out of my mouth involuntarily, and I have to fight to stop myself from blushing.
"I couldn't do it anymore, I couldn't keep pretending to happy in that hell hole. I had hoped you would understand." My Mother doesn't sound sorry, she sounds like she's reciting something from a book as she addresses me. Maybe she is.
"You couldn't do it anymore? You choose that life Mum. Me and Tobias were just dropped into it, and abandoned by our own Mother! You can't possibly understand what it was like growing up with him, and you couldn't do it?" I shout years of pent up rage towards my Father, spilling out of me like an erupting volcano.
The sad look her face adopts tells me she knows exactly what I'm talking about. "Jane… I am sorry, I hope you can believe me on that." Her face hardens slightly and she scans the room, as if to check for intruders. "Look Jane, somethings happening in the faction system. We don't know what and we don't know when but it's something big."
My Mothers voice is dangerously low as she addresses me. "What do you want me to do?" I ask confused as to why she wanted to tell me.
My Mother's eyes sweep round the room once more before she leans in closer to me. She smells of dirt, and sweat. "We need a spy, someone who has access to Dauntless records, or has the ability to steal them."
I gasp, "I'm an initiate I don't have access to that sort of thing, I might not even make it in!" What my Mother's asking me to do, is crazy and impossible.
Evelyn rolls her eyes as if it's obvious. "Not on you own you don't, but with Tobias the two of you could get in easily."
I laugh, a short bitter sound that seems strange leaving my mouth. "He'll never agree to it."
"He might if you ask him."
A long sigh pushes its way out my mouth. This wasn't quite the joyful reunion with my Mother I was hoping for. "I'll try but there's no guarantee that he'll go for it."
"Just call me either way, you've got my number. Anyway I have to go, it was lovely seeing you, give me a call." With that she sweeps out of the room. Yet again leaving me with nothing but confusion, and lingering disappointment.
0o0o
It's getting dark by the time I make it back to the Dauntless sector, and I know I have missed dinner. I almost reach the initiate dormitory when a deep voice sounds from behind me.
"And where exactly have you been all day?"
I groan, and whiz round on my heel. Tobias.
"You know you could get kicked out of Dauntless for that disappearing act! I had to make up some bullshit excuse to cover you from Eric! Where did you go?" He's mad, but not nearly as mad as he's going to be when he finds out where I've been.
I take a deep breath, and look my brother straight in the eye. His face is red and the veins are protruding from his skin, but behind his rage is the lingering worry, that must have been covering him all day.
"I'm sorry Four, but I-uh went to- uh- ," The words fumble in my mouth as I try to be brave about the repercussions of my actions.
Tobias gazes at me expectantly, "Yes?"
"Iwenttoseemum." The words rush out of me like water from a newly unblocked tap, and my face burns red in a very unsubtle manner.
"Pardon?" Tobias' face crumples with genuine confusion.
"I went to see mum." The words come out clearly this time, and my brother knows exactly what I said.
"Why would you do that, after I explicitly told you not to? How did you even know how to find her?" Tobias' voice raises a few decibels.
"I found a letter in your room." I mumble with a shrug in his direction.
"So you stole it, and decided to skip out on training to see her? Do you even want to be a Dauntless?"
"Look Four, she's my Mother you can't stop me from seeing her." I say glaring at him defiantly, fear evaporating suddenly.
"She asked you to spy for her didn't she?" He says suddenly as if he can read my mind.
"Shouldn't we talk about this somewhere more private?" I ask, desperately searching for more time.
Tobias rolls his eyes, and takes off towards his apartment. For the second time today I am left scrambling after someone moving much faster than I could ever hope to.
0o0o
The walk towards Tris, and Tobias' is stony silent. Which allows me to decide how I am going to persuade Tobias to help me.
As I enter the large apartment I notice Tris' blonde head over the edge of the worn, black sofa her head crouched over a book.
Tobias shuts the door with slightly more force than required and turns to face me impatiently. "Well then? Are you going to spy for her?"
Tris' head snaps up, and she closes her book making her way over to where the two of us are standing about to launch into a full blown argument.
"She's got a point Tobias, and you know it! You know somethings about to happen so why do you insist on ignoring it?" I shout not understanding how somebody with so little fear, can stand by while our whole system crumbles.
"And you think giving the Factionless, confidential files is going to stop the world from falling to pieces?" Tobias makes a wild hand gesture.
"I think it will stop it from becoming worse than it is."
"I think Evelyn's playing you, and you're just so happy to have found you're Mother you're being blinded by it! Think it over Jane!"
I gasp, shocked by his narrow mindedness. "I think that the system is corrupt, and Evelyn knows how to sort it out."
Tobias opens his mouth to answer but is stopped by Tris' gentle hand on his arm. "Leave it Four."
He opens his mouth again, before snapping it shut, and nodding curtly. "I'll see you in training." He dismisses me pointing to the door.
As I walk back through the black cloaked halls of Dauntless I can help but think I might have lost him forever.
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