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Nate POV
We are SAFE! We are still tied for first and the unlucky initiate to go home was Rickey!
Alright Initiates tomorrow we start Stage two! Be here in the Training Center by 6! At that time Six and I will lead you to the next place we will be training at!" Yells Four
Now that we have passed stage 1 with flying colors, Alexis and I decided to head down to Tori's Tattoo place to grab exactly that, a Tattoo.
Once there, we find that we both want the Dauntless Symbol on our Forearm, to show our allegiance lies with Dauntless.
After our tattoos Alexis and I head to the Chasm but we go under it.
"Alexis? You and I need to talk. I tell her.
I see her eyes and she's about to break down.
So I quickly add "its nothing bad its okay Lexi come here.
Nate POV
She lays her head on my chest and I say, "what I want to talk to you about is well, what were your Aptitude Test results?"
"I will tell you if after I do you tell me yours." She says. "Deal" I say.
"My test results were ummm... Inconclusive I got Dauntless and Abnegation, and Erudite.
I stare at her in shock. She laughs, "what's so funny?"She says as she kisses me. "Wh-What? Wow. Mine were exactly the same as yours." I tell her. "You're serious?!" She says
"Yes I am." I verbalize to her.
Lexi what was your home faction?
"Umm my home faction was A-Abnegation... Yours?" She asks me.
"Abnegation I answer bluntly.
"Nate there's something I need to tell you... When I was in Abnegation, late at night so no one would notice my father took his belt and beat me." I say choking on that last part of the sentence.
"Oh Lexi, I am so sorry. I won't let anything happen to you not as long as I am around." He says.
Alexis POV
Here I have the scars to prove it look, I pull up my shirt a little to show him the scars on my lower back. "Oh Lexi. I am so sorry Nate says. Then he actually starts to cry, and he hasn't cried since Initiation has started, which tells me he must seriously be scared. "Nate? Hey shhh I am okay, shhh it will be okay shhh. I love you." I tell him. "I am scared Lexi I mean really really scared. Nate sniffles.
"Hey do you remember the night we were worried about our ranks and when I fell asleep I had that nightmare?" She asks after she kisses me to calm me down.
Which thankfully it works.
"Y-Yes." Nate replies with a shaky breath.
"That was what my nightmare was about." I say as Nate wraps his arms around me tightly then even with his arms around me, the memories all come flooding back and we both stay like this for about an hour.
Then we fall asleep and thankfully no nightmares come this time.
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Nate POV
The next day, we wake up and get ready like usual, however this time we meet Four and Six outside of the Training Center holding Alexis's hand as we arrive to both comfort myself and Alexis, because we knew what we were getting ourselves into. "A kiss for good luck?" I ask.
"She giggles, "you're silly, and yes." Alexis says.
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Once there we sit down on a bench together, and wait for our names to be called to go through one of our fears.
I soon hear "Alexis Hope Jade!"
My heart stops, "Wow she has such a beautiful name, and she's mine." I think to myself.
Alexis POV
I walk into the room that Four and Six had led us to, I see them both in a room that looks almost identical to the Aptitude Test room. "Hello Alexis have a seat in this chair for me." Six says. I see Four walks over to me with a needle, "this will go in at the side of the neck, inside the injection we have a serum that triggers the part of the brain that induces fear." He explains.
Once he injects it, before I go into the simulation I hear them both say at the same time "Be brave Alexis."
I am inside of my own head, weird!" I think to myself.
Though before I can finish thinking I am tied to a burning stake and all my friends even the closest of them are laughing, saying "wow Alexis you are definitely the weakest among the Dauntless how'd you manage to get first! Nate I get but YOU?!" They just start laughing at me.
I cry and cry until I hear a familiar Voice "Lexi listen to me okay? "Nate?" I say. "Yep! You need to keep calm control your breathing and relax." He tells me.
"I don't know if I can." I sniffle.
"Wait how are you able to talk to me?" I question.
"Once you get out of this I will tell you." He states "Now come on I know its hard but you can do it!" Nate tells me.
"Okay!" I say with newfound confidence that even surprises me.
"This is not real..." I think to myself.
"Directed towards the group I say "this is all fake! My true friends wouldn't dare say anything like that!" They know I am capable of more than I let on." Now I think there's an extremely sharp knife in my hand. Sure enough there is. "I easily cut through the rope binding me to the post. Next thing I know I am back in the room and I am crying again. Nate meets my eyes, and says "good job Lexi!" I smile, and he earns a soft light giggle from me, though it came out more like a choked cry.
"Lexi? Do you know how long you were in the simulation?" Asks Six.
"I uhhh don't know 10 minutes or more?" I say.
"No try 2 minutes flat." She says.
"You're Divergent aren't you?" She whispers so the cameras can't pick it up.
Y-Yes. I say. I look at Nate as to say "is it okay to tell them?" He nods.
"Nate and I both are." I whisper matching Six's tone.
"What factions?" Six asks referring to both of us. "We have the same factions" I reply.
"Those are?" She says. Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. I whisper.
"She stares at me in absolute disbelief. "T-"Those were my factions as well" she whispers.
Both you and Nate have to meet me at the Train Tracks at 10 tonight. She commands. "We both nod. Then after I leave the room I hear "Nate Alexander Jacobson!" Called by Four.
"Well that's my cue!" I kiss him "good luck my sweet man I love you." I love you too. He says back.
Nate POV
I walk back in the room and I lay down in the chair and out of habit I tilt my neck to receive the injection. I hear "inside the injection we have a serum that triggers the part of the brain that induces fear." I nod. Before I go under, I hear, "Be brave Nate."
Once I am inside the simulation, I notice that I am in an empty Dauntless Compound. "Hmmm... Thats weird where is everyone? The Dauntless Compound is never completely empty..." I ask myself.
"Wait... Who's laying in the middle of the floor?" I walk up closer, and once I get close enough to see who it is I spring up sprint to her side and I notice she's no longer living." My Lexi is dead.
"No no no no no NO!" She can't be. I feel her pulse. Nothing. I look to see if anything makes her in a death-like state. I find nothing. "SHIT! No I cry. "Wait I am in a simulation this isn't real." I say. Then I wake up and start bawling and Lexi rushes to my side and hugs me and plants a kiss on the top of my head. "Its okay whatever happened in there its over now." She says.
"Th-Thank you." I stammer out but just barely because I am choking back tears.
After us came, Naomi, then Drake, Aaron, Darren, Jake, and Joan.
After we all went through our fear we then had to go through it again the next day, it turns out I had five fears; getting burned on a stake while everyone I love(except Alexis) laughed at me, getting drowned, enclosed spaces, heights, and seeing Alexis die right in front of my eyes.
Alexis POV
I went through my fears and I have six fears just like my instructor.
I have a fear of; spiders, drowning, killing my little brother Daniel Kyle Jade, getting lost, tight spaces, seeing Nate die right in front of me, and my Dad.
The moment that Instructor Four saw this one he actually started to cry. I wanted to ask why he was crying but he didn't answer and Six whispered "I'll tell you later." I nod to her in response.
I think she goes to see if Instructor Four is okay, and ask if she can tell me why he is crying but I didn't catch any of it, except a nod at the end.
So later that night, Nate, Six and I leave the room, and she walks us to a place with no cameras. Underneath the Chasm.
Once there she says "Nate, Alexis, the reason Four was crying earlier, is because his father Marcus?" You both should know the name coming from Abnegation. Marcus. Eaton, is his full name. We both stare at her in shock. Marcus Eaton is Four's Father!" We exclaim, trying to wrap our heads around that new information.
"Yes. Six says, and his father just like yours Alexis was abusive towards him, every night he would receive a beating for 5 years this went on unnoticed." She says.
"What did your father say to you before you received the beating?" Six asks.
"He'd say This is for your own good." I choke out. Only to be held by Nate. I smile up at him, and he kisses the top of my head.
Six? I ask.
"Yes?" She says.
Can you have us take our final test early?"
"I will have to clear that with Four." She states.
"Oh okay." I say.
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Six POV
"Hey Four." I say.
Hey. He kisses me. I smile up at him. Alexis was wanting to know if she and Nate could possibly take their Final Test early." I say cutting right to the chase.
He ponders this for a few moments.
"Uhhh yeah I guess that is okay. I just need to make the necessary arrangements..."
"I love you Four." I tell him.
"I love you too Six." He says.
Alexis POV
I am standing outside of the door to that room we just finished up in.
That's when I hear footsteps and I see they belong to Six. When she gets there, I see a smile on her face.
"Four says he'll arrange it for you two only." Now why did you want to take the third and final test early?" Six wonders.
"We want to get the final test over with because wewanttomoveinwitheac-hother." I say quickly without breaths in between.
"Hahahaha! Definitely Abnegation." Six laughs.
Alright well you two will take the test tomorrow.
As for the rest of the group- they will take it in a week." Six says.
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Four POV
I walk into the office, and see if everyone can make it tomorrow for Nate and Alexis's final test, thankfully they all can make it all that's left to do is get the room ready and that's exactly what I do.
Nate POV
The next day, the day of our third and final test, we were nervous I mean really nervous. "A kiss for good luck?" We say at the same time. "We are so silly" Alexis says. Then gives me a kiss before I hear, Nate Alexander Jacobson!
"Are you ready?" Four asks.
"As I'll ever be. I respond.
Okay then lets begin. He says.
My first Fear; getting burned on a stake, that one wasn't so bad I was able to calm my breathing thanks to practicing with Alexis the night before.
Up next came getting drowned. All I had to do for that one is swim deeper, and not think about it just like I had practiced.
Then came enclosed spaces, I was able to find a nail and stop the movement and right when I found a door the scene changed to heights, I walked across the shaky beam scared out of my wits but I kept moving and eventually got to the other side. "Now comes the one I can't do well" I think to myself. Seeing my Alexis die right in front of my eyes. I am in an empty Dauntless Compound. I remember this one. I walk up closer, and once I get close enough to see who it is I spring up sprint to her side and I notice she's no longer living." My Lexi is dead.
"No no no no no NO!" She can't be. I feel her pulse. Nothing. I look to see if anything makes her in a death-like state. I find nothing. "SHIT! No I cry. "Breathe Nate you have to calm down"
Eventually my sobs turn into silent cries and thats when my I am brought back to reality.
I hear "Good job Nate!" I look and see Six and Four with smiles on their faces. I smile up at them though it is a weak one.
Next I hear Alexis Hope Jade!"
I then walk up to her and kiss her.
Once we break apart I say "good luck baby." She giggles at the new nickname. "You like that one?" I ask. She just nods and gives me a quick kiss and a hug and goes into the room.
Alexis POV
Once there I instantaneously have the needle put in me, then I go into the first of my six fears. Spiders, which I already overcame thanks to Nate. So that went quickly. Drowning, I swam deeper then my mind ever thought possible. Killing my little brother Daniel Kyle Jade, I start to cry and "I-I'm sorry Daniel I love you." I say through my tears, I turn away and am handed a gun. I shoot.
Thankfully I don't have to see my brother because I am moved to the next fear getting lost, so I just calm my breathing with practiced ease and I am moved to the next fear tight spaces, I sit there and breathe slowly and thankfully it works. My fear of seeing Nate die right in front of me, I cry and say "wait you have to calm down Lexi." Nate is safe Nate is safe. I repeat that over and over until my breathing regulates.
My final fear I start to cry before The fear comes. my Dad.
"Sarah... This is for your own good. " He says as he takes off his belt.
He beats me over and over then When the next lash comes I stop it with one hand and I punch him. Then I am back in room and Nate is smiling up at me and so is Four and Six.
Nate and Alexis POV
"Well you both have... We must look scared to death because Six smiles. Have done an excellent job and you both pass!" Says Four.
"Here's your new room key. "It says "5+6 forever" we repeat it and smile up at them, and hug them both. "Thank you guys so much! We love it!" we both say.
Wait whats our room number?" Add them together. 5+6 is 11 so our room is room 11?" Crap our Erudite sides are showing." We say. And Four and Six laugh. "Congratulations, you both did wonderfully." they say.