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The next morning I groaned as our metal on metal alarmed echoed through the dorms. I hadn't gotten any sleep that night thanks to my mind constantly running over what happened yesterday. Running through how I could fix it, if I could at all. I looked to see who had woken us up.

I eyes met his for a brief moment before he turned and made his way out of the room. I threw the sheets off me and chased after him. It was the first time I'd seen him since he walked out of the training room yesterday.

"Four!" I shouted as I made it into the hall. He looked over his shoulder and stopped.

"You should be getting ready, Initiate," his tone cold and smooth.

"Please. Can I talk to you?" I padded over to him, my bare feet cold against the stone floor. Once I was close enough, he motioned for me to follow him. He led me to a side hallway not far from the dorms. He opened the first door on the left and held it open for me. It looked like some sort of supply room, but it was huge, easily big enough to fit 15 people comfortable.

As soon as he closed the door behind him I began to speak. "I'm sorry, okay? I don't know what else to say. I didn't pick him out of spite, it just happened. I can't change how I feel about him and vise versa, but I don't want to lose you over this," I admitted.

"Alex," he started, taking in a deep breath before he continued. "This isn't something to just forgive and forget. Just because you like him doesn't mean I can just forget what he's done."

"I'm not asking you to be his best friend, I'm just asking you to not make me choose."

"So even after what I told you, you still want to be involved with him?" He snapped. "I don't want you anywhere near him."

"You only have one side of the story. I want to hear it from him. Depending on his answer, I'll go from there," I knew Tobias wouldn't lie to me, but I also didn't believe Eric was a killer. There was a piece missing in this puzzle and I wasn't going to label Eric until I found it.

"You're my little sister, I can't stand the sight of you with him. After all the shit he put you through… he's dangerous." His anger was starting to fade into worry.

"Just trust me, please?" I grabbed his hand in both of mine.

"I trust you, but I don't trust him," he looked skeptically at me.

"I'm not asking you to trust him. I'm asking you to trust me. You can hate him as much as you want, but please just don't hate me…" I begged.

"I don't hate you, Alexandra, I love you," he squeezed my hand slightly. "I just never imagined you ever doing something like this with someone like him."

"People change…" was all I had in response to that.

"Trust me, I know."

We were silent for a few seconds fore I spoke again. "So can I have my big brother back?"

"You never lost him," I could see that he was trying to give me a reassuring smile, but at he same time I could tell that he still wasn't okay with all of this. He squeezed my hand before stepping back to opened the door. I'm not sure we'll be like we were before, but this was a start."You need to get ready, you have a big day ahead of you." I gave him a small smile and made my way back to the dorms.

I stood next to Jake as I anxiously played with the hem of my shirt. The heat of all the bodies around me made it difficult to breath which didn't help the situation. I heard a cheer and stopped to look at the screens that were off to my left. The screens showed a black clothed boy in the fear landscape room; Aidan. I watched him as he moved, his eyes wide, but I couldn't tell what fear he was facing. Thank god no one out here will see my fears either, just my reactions. But Eric would see them and so will the rest of the leaders.

I hadn't spoken to Eric since he walked out of the training room yesterday. He refused to look at me, and when he did, it wasn't a pleasant look. The fact that Eric was back to treating me the way he did in the beginning of initiation made me feel like I took a thousand steps backwards. And now he was going to see my worst fears. He was going to see Marcus, my mother, and every nightmare that kept me up at night.

The order in which we go in the fear landscape is the order in which we ranked, which means I go last. The lights flicker on to reveal Aidan in a crouch. I watched as Eric, Max, Jennifer, and the other two leaders shake off the simulation daze and join Aidan in the landscape room, congratulating him on passing. My eyes followed Aidan as he left the room, his complexion whiter than a sheet.

Jake was called next, leaving me by myself. Eric injected the serum into Jake. My heart beat quickened, dreading the moment when he would have to do the same to me. Seeing Jake go through the simulation made my anxiety shoot through the roof. I was surprised at how fast Jake was moving through the simulations. I knew that he was second only to me, but I didn't think that he was that close on my heels in the ranks.

I lost track on the minutes that it took him to complete the fear landscape, but it wasn't long till Jake was heading out of the room and my name was being called. I swallowed hard and walked to the front of the room, where Eric stood with a syringe full of orange liquid.

His expression was cold as I approached him. I averted my eyes from him, finding the hem of my shirt again. I stiffened at the touch of his hand brushing across my neck as he moved my hair out of the way. His hand lingered on my neck as he brought the syringe up.

"Ready?" he asked as the needle pierced my skin.

"No," I admitted. I didn't look up at him as he pressed the plunger down and removed the needle from my neck.

"Your brother did just fine, so should you," his emphasis on the word brother made me cringe. I finally looked up at him, meeting not a cold expression, but a hurt one.

"Eric," I started.

"Go before the serum kicks in," he dismissed me and motioned towards the room where my worst fears would become reality. For once, I did as I was told without any retort.

I quickly navigated through my fear landscape, making my way past my fears of confined spaces, drowning, being buried alive and being forced to kill my brother. I braced myself for next fear, expecting to end up back in my old home in Abnegation. As I fazed into my next sim, I wasn't met with bare grey walls, but with the dark, damp, walls of a hallway, a hallway in Dauntless that I knew all too well.

I hadn't been here since Seth attacked me. As soon as the thought of him came to my mind, Seth appeared at the end of the corridor. His face wasn't cruel, as a matter of fact it seemed as if he was almost happy. I tried to move by my feet they were firmly plant on the ground. As Seth approached I started to panic. I had never faced this fear before and I had no idea how to get out of it.

"I don't know how you did it," Seth commented as he finally stood in front of me. "I don't know how you survived." Before I could register what was happing he swiftly pulled a knife from behind him and drove into my torso. I yelped as I fell to my knees. "Maybe you'll realize you're better off dead this time."

I could slowly feel the warmth begin to leave my body through the hole in my chest. Liquid was started to creep up my throat. I wondered what would come first, death by loss of blood, or drowning in it. I forced myself to look back up a Seth. But it wasn't Seth standing over me anymore, it was Eric. His face was cold and cruel, a smug smile made its home on his face.

"Eric, please," I begged. I couldn't resist as a cough racked my body, bring blood up with it.

"I should never had saved you. I should have just let you bleed out," he stated, his tone sharp and harsh.

"You don't mean that," I struggled to speak as my blood began to clog my throat once again.

"But I do. You are the biggest pain in the ass I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with," he spoke down to me as I tried to keep my self upright. "You're a coward, you don't belong here. You never have and you never will. You didn't even had the courage to tell who you really were."

"You're right, I'm sorry," I admitted. "I didn't want to lose you," I fell to my side, all my strength drained through my torso.

"You never had me to begin with," was the last thing I was able to make out before Eric faded into the shadows. I was left laying there, minutes, maybe hours ticking by as I bled out. I didn't know what to do or how to get out of this sim. I just laid there, accepting my fate as I felt my eyes begin to water. My vision slowly faded into black and I was transported to my house in Abnegation to face my family.

I stood alone in the empty room with the concrete wall, shaking. I sunk to my knees, wrapping my arms around my chest. I took a deep breath as I tried to wipe the sweat from my palms. It wasn't long before the Dauntless leaders made their way into the room. I forced myself to my feet. My eyes followed their movement as they stood in front of me.

"Congratulations, Alex," Max said. "You've successfully completed your final evaluation." I tried to smile, but I couldn't force myself to.

"Thanks," I nodded in Max's direction but my eyes found their way to Eric. He stood quietly behind his fellow leaders, his eyes to the ground, refusing to look at me.

"The banquet is in two hours," my attention was draw back to Jennifer as she spoke. "Your ranking among the other initiates, Dauntless-born included, will be announced there. Good luck."

I waited till they filed out of the room before I made my way out. I saw Four waiting by the door. As I walked through it, he followed suit.

"6 fears is pretty impressive," he stated as we turned down a corridor.

"Not as impressive as four," I countered. I really wasn't in the mood to talk about it to be honest. All of the leaders, including Eric, saw my worst fears. They saw my abusive father and my new fear that I had just recently learned about myself.

"Last I counted in your training sims you only had five," I was glad that his cold tone was gone and at this moment he was talking to me as a sibling, not as an instructor.

"Well, that was before I was attacked," the fear was based off the attacked, but there was a hidden message there, it had something to do with Eric and I think I was starting to figure out what it was.

"It was your second to last fear, wasn't it?"

"How did you know that?" I stopped and faced him before we reached the dorms.

"That's the fear that took you the longest to get out of," he looked at me suspiciously, like he knew I was hiding something.

"I told you I was rusty," I couldn't tell him it had anything to do with Eric. I didn't know how he was going to react to that and I was already on thin ice with him. "I'm gonna go get ready for the banquet."

He paused for a second before responding. "Okay, I'll see you then."

I turned on my heels, picking up my pace as I made my way away from my brother.

Olivia, Kristen, and I took our seats next to Jake and Aidan once we entered the dinning hall. The room was packed with a sea of black clothed and rowdy Dauntless. I couldn't help but smile at the sight.

"So, how many fears did you guys have? I had eleven." Kristen asked, her Erudite curiosity seeping through her Dauntless exterior.

"Thirteen," Olivia pouted.

"I had ten," Aidan stated proudly.

"Eight," Jake shrugged as if eight fears was no big deal. Eight fears was not a normal number for an average person. Was it possible that Jake was divergent? He would have told me, right? Then again, I've kept my divergence from him.

"Six," I stated last. Everyone looked at me wide eyed.

"Six?" Kristen spoke for the group. "How did you manage that?"

I just shrugged in response. I was divergent that's how. But that was privileged information that I couldn't share with them.

A microphone squealed somewhere, the high pitched sound causing me to cringe. I looked across the room to find Max standing on one of the tables with the microphone in hand, tapping it with his finger. Once the tapping had finished, the Dauntless settled down. Max cleared his throat as he began.

"We aren't big on speeches here. We'll leave that to the Erudite," he started. The crowd snickered. "I'm gonna keep this short. This year we have a new pack of initiates, now new members. We offer them our congratulations."

Before Max could even finish his sentence the sea of Dauntless erupted into applause. "We believe in bravery. In small acts of bravery that strives one person to stand up for another. We believe in the freedom from fear and in the concept of protecting those who can't protect themselves. If you believe in those things, then we welcome you with open arms."

His words made me grin and feel a sense of belonging. Why? Because I believed in those things. No matter what challenges that were presented to this faction, to anyone as an individual, those core values never wavered.

"Tomorrow, in their first acts as members, our new members will choose their profession, in order of how they are ranked." Max's words made me realize that I was so focused on getting through initiation that I hadn't even thought of what I might want to do afterwards.

"I know the ranking are what everyone has been waiting for. As you know, they are a combination of all three phases," I looked around for my brother, but couldn't find him in the crowd. I did find Eric though, who was standing on the ground next to Max. Our eyes met for a brief moment before I looked away. After my fear landscape I couldn't even conceive the thought of talking to him.

"Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for," Max smiled as he point behind him. "The ranks will appear behind me."

My eyes shot to the screen he was pointing too, eager to learn if I had kept my place at the top or not.

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