This was originally part of the first meeting with Melissa, but it just didn't feel right at the time and so I clipped it and then made significant edits.
"Beat." He corrected, "I didn't bludgeon anyone."
"Is there a difference?"
"Bludgeon implies I used an object."
"He's still in the hospital."
Four shrugged, "Maybe he gets the message."
"What was the message?" She finally looked down, satisfied at the start of his reluctant responses.
"Record's sealed." He smiled smugly. "I'm not allowed to discuss it."
She sat back in the chair, eying him over, contemplating the categories that required sealing records.
"So tell me about punching the wall, what was the point of that?"
"The conversation was over." He folded his arms.
"Do you always end conversations with punching something?"
"Only when they don't end." He flashed his brows up and flared his nostrils.
"It says here that you and your mother were abused." He grimaced, "Did you witness her abuse?"
"Yes."
[There is something missing here that would have been Melissa testing an assumption to get a reaction or figure out how Four feels]
"No." He spit back against her accusation quickly, before he had a chance to think.
"So it's an empty threat, good." She smiled, sitting back, he sighed in annoyance. "Do you find you become violent with your friends?"
"It's Dauntless." His knee started to jump.
"Outside of training, do you use violence towards your friends."
His jaw clenched thinking of losing control with George, with Zeke. The split lips and bruised bodies he'd left behind recently and in the distant past. No of it deserved.
"Yes." It was no use to lie in Candor.