Hey guys, this is the second chapter. So for the first few chapters I think I'm going to be posting them more frequently and then I will start posting them once a week, but I'll let you know when that happens. Also, thanks for all the positive reviews guys x

CHAPTER 2

September 22nd 2157

I walk into the cafeteria like it's any other day, and really, it is. Grabbing some food, I make my way over to the table with my friends and wait for Tobias to get here, we're going to tell them today.

Ten minutes later Tobias sits down next to me and begins eating. Well here goes nothing.

"Hey guys, we've got to tell you something." I say, everyone quiets down.

"You're pregnant! No, You're getting married?" Christina blurts out.

"No Chris, we're not having a baby or getting married. We, sorta decided to end our relationship." Tobias states quickly. It looks like he's in more of a rush to get it out of the way than I am. All we're waiting on is Christina's explosion.

"WHAT? WHY?" Yep, there it is. "What do you mean you have ended it? You two were perfect together, you're like the power couple of Dauntless though. You can't end it."

She looks more upset about this than we were. Well we weren't upset at all, we were actually happy about it.

"Chris, we both lost feelings for each other, we feel more like siblings than lovers." I explain, "I guess it was just the abnegation in us that pushed us together because it was what we were most comfortable with, but we've changed now. I still love him and I always will, I'm just not in love with him."

"Guys," Chris whines, "you're the worst! Now I have to throw out all your wedding plans. It took forever to plan."

"I'm sorry, but what? What wedding?" Tobias asks. She starts looking guiltier and guiltier.

"Well, you see, I kind of, sorta organised most of your wedding for you when you were going to get married. I like ordered the cake to be made a few days before whatever date you picked, I planned flowers, I planned everything but the location and the dress. I'm sorry but I got excited."

"Well fuck." I breathe out. "Have fun cancelling all of that."

Standing up I bid goodbye and make my way to my office, I have a lot of work to do today seeing as I didn't come in and do anything yesterday.

Walking into my office, I find a very new and neat stack of folders that weren't there last time I was in. Picking them up I notice they are for the upcoming initiation, it starts in two weeks and being the youngest leader I get to oversee it. Oh goodie. I've been doing it the past two years and it is not as fun as Eric made it seem my year.

Oh shit, Eric. What am I going to do about him? Maybe I can just avoid him for the rest of forever. Nope I can't do that can I? He just has to be head leader.

Eric became head leader once it was made known that Max was part of Jeanine's war, he was then executed for his crimes, and a man named Amar became another leader after Harrison was discovered dead in his office.

Amar was thought to be dead although it was proved that Eric helped him fake his death and he had been hiding out in Amity for the past four years. He came back after Max and Jeanine's plans were ruined.

A knock on my door brought me out of my thoughts. Looking up to find Eric I internally panic, what am I going to say to him? What is he going to say? Is he going to give hell? Instead, he just waltz's in and takes a seat oblivious to my internal freaking out.

"Hey Stiff. Would you be able to tell me what happened the other night?" He asks with a smirk. "Because I can't remember a thing and I woke up to find myself naked."

If he can't remember maybe that's a good thing. I can just tell him I dropped him home or something.

"Well, I, ah, only really remember parts of that night. We drank and danced. I think you had too much because I remember trying to get you to your room and dumping you on your bed, then going home." I say carefully so I don't slip up. "Although I don't know how you got naked."

"Oh thank god, so we didn't have sex, did we?" He asks like it's a bad thing.

"No. We didn't. Am I really the undesirable that you wouldn't want to sleep with me?" Well don't I feel great.

He just growls at me and walks out. No insult or compliment from him. Just a growl.

Instead of doing anything about Eric I just go back to looking at the folders about this year's initiation. We're changing the cutting system to thirteen instead of ten and if anything happens to an initiate it doesn't change the ranks, so if an initiate is to die or drop out the people who were already getting cut will still get cut. There isn't anyway to save them once they've been cut.

We're making the initiation longer for the first physical part so the initiates have more time to train rather than a week of little experience. So instead of initiation going for three weeks it will go for six. Four weeks for physical, one for practicing singular fears and one for practicing in a trainer's fear landscape, as well as a couple of days to themselves before the final test.

We aren't changing the conceding rule but we are making it clear that once the opponent is down and can't get back up the other fighter has to back off immediately otherwise they will have points taken off their rank. We are also making it known that cowardice is not tolerated.

The point system for the ranks is changing as well. Points will be given to the initiates when they show that they can work in a team and have no problem helping other initiates out. If an initiate attacks another outside of training, that initiate will lose points and move down the ranks. The reason this is being done is to make sure Dauntless knows how to work in teams, it makes it so that once they have made it through they will have it ingrained in them that this faction is about protecting and helping those that are too weak to help themselves. This teaches the members to not practice being a coward, Dauntless is brave and we are always willing to helping each other.

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Finishing off all my paperwork for today and yesterday I notice that I've missed lunch and its time for dinner, so I pack my work away and make my way to the cafeteria.

I'm half way through my food when all my friends join me and I notice Christina practically jumping out of her seat.

"What is it Chris?" I sigh.

She squeals and shoves her hand in my face, "Will proposed!" She practically shouts.

I jump up and give her and Will massive hugs asking them when and how it happened.

"Well, we both had the day off today and he asked me if I wanted to explore one of the abandoned buildings and I said yes so when I got there he covered my eyes and we went inside and when he let me see it was amazing." She said all in one breath, "There were little lights and candles everywhere and then he put on some music. We sat and had a picnic and just before we were about to leave he asked me and I said yes. It was so romantic."

We all give them our congratulations and I tell Chris to use everything she picked out for mine and Tobias' 'upcoming wedding' knowing that what she picked would most likely have been for her instead of us.

Almost every time I see Will, he reminds me of the time I lost my mother in the war. He was one of the mindless drones that attacked us, my mother was telling me to just shoot him but I couldn't, he was my friend so I shot him in the shoulder so he would be out of action not dead. The wound was fatal but it wasn't pretty either, it took him a while to gain use back in his right arm because I had severed most of his shoulder muscle.

Christina and Will forgave me straight away but I still felt guilty for a long time.

Towards the end of dinner Eric made an appearance out our table.

"What do you want Eric?" I sighed.

"Well Stiff, I just wanted to let you know that you and I will be going to the monthly council meeting tomorrow instead of Amar, he's sick." He tells me smugly. It's like he makes it his life's mission to piss me off.

"Okay, I'll be there bright and early tomorrow morning." I grumble out and he stalks off. I hate waking up early for these meetings. Usually we just videoconference all the factions every week, we only have one in person meeting every month and each one is held at one of the factions, this one is in Abnegation.

This means I have to see my father, its always hard to be around him because I can't run up and hug him and be a normal family because it is 'unprofessional'. My father hasn't been the same since my mother died. We almost lost him too in the war but Marcus Eaton pushed him out of the way and got shot instead, my father only got a bullet to his left arm rather than his heart. When Marcus died my father stepped up and was made head of the council.

"Well guys, I'm off. Got an early start tomorrow. Night." I tell them.

When I get to my door I feel eyes burning into my back. I turn around and find Eric at his door staring straight at me, when he notices he's been caught he just glares and goes into his apartment.

Well okay. And here I thought we were getting along. With him, every time we take one step forward in our friendship, we end up taking two step back because he's moodier than a teenage girl.

I'm too tired for his shit, I'll deal with him later.

I will be posting the next chapter either tonight or tomorrow, depending on when I have time.