An: Sorry for the very long wait. I had Prom just recently and a lot of school work so, I'm practically jam packed at the moment (Not to mention all the chores my grandma wants me to do). So, I'm really sorry. Being a junior is hard work especially if you want to get into a good college. Just saying. Anyway, enjoy the chapter my fellow initiates!
CHAPTER 4
"Hello Beatrice, Caleb." Max greets. He knows my brother. I wonder why. From the moment I saw Max, I knew that he's not here for a friendly talk. "What happened today was not pleasant." He starts. "Now, that Jeanine knows your whereabouts, we are going to hide you in the agency compound so that no one can touch both of you there. Plus, you will train while staying there in case of situations like that happen again." Max is not only a Dauntless leader, He's also an agent. I knew this because I always see him in the house talking to Aunt Edith about the agency and stuff like that.
"So, when are we going there?" I ask him.
"Right now. We are just going to send your belongings there tomorrow." He says
We reached the headquarters, which was hidden underground. I thought it was smart of then to hide underground.
There are so many benefits of being underground. One, is that enemies will not spot you easily. Not unless someone betrays the organization. Second, is that underground tunnels are made for traveling made easy. It's less traffic too! And third, is that in case enemies try to bomb us, we won't get affected that much. The only disadvantages are, that when an earthquake occurs, we get the worst kind of scenario. And when flooding happens, we're the first ones to drown. It's a good thing those rarely happen here. Not that I heard of at least.
A tall blonde guy who appears like he's about in his mid-thirties, shows us around the place. He introduces himself as Garret Richardson and he tells Caleb and I that every agent here in this compound are either orphans, runaways or offspring of other agents. They start training at a young age. Specifically, seven to twelve year old kids train. But my case is different. Caleb had been trained of course, but not here.
As Garret was showing us the dining hall, a boy, about my age, walks up to us. "Hey Garret! Eric needs you in the control room now." The boy says.
"What does he want?" Garret sounded annoyed.
"I don't know. It was something along the lines of, "Where's that son of a b*tch, Garret? He never gets his job done right." and then he throws a chair across the room." He says.
"Oh boy…" Garret says then, rolls his eyes and makes an annoyed expression.
"I can continue whatever your business here is." The boy says.
"That'd would be great! Thanks. Uhh… Beatrice, Caleb, I-"
"Please call me Tris." I cut him off.
"Okay Tris, Caleb, I have to go, duty calls. This guy here will continue the tour. Feel free to ask him questions OK? Good." He leaves us with this boy while muttering something I couldn't understand.
"Hey, I'm Tobias but the people here call me Four. Don't even ask why." The boy says.
"Hi. I suppose you already know our names." Caleb says.
"Yup. Everyone's fuzzing about it, actually." Tobias says.
"Why? Did they announce it or something?" I say.
"Something like that. Now, what did Garret show guys so far?"
"Well, he showed us the classrooms, the Strategic C enter, the laboratories, the Medical Center, and this hall." I say.
"Well then, our next stop is the Training Hall." He says.
The Training Hall is huge. There were different stations on what we can train on. Hand to hand combat, knife throwing, sword wielding, archery and gun firing. You name it. As we entered, I got excited and went to my favorite weapon, knives. I examined the knives carefully and threw the sharpest one at the target and it hit the bullseye.
"Looks like your sister has a penchant for knives." Tobias says to my brother.
"Yeah she's been obsessed over them ever since we were kids. We kept it a secret form our parents." Caleb tells him.
"Oh really?" Tobias chuckles.
"Yeah. And to think that we lived in Abnegation." Caleb chuckles with him. I guess he has found a new friend.
"Anyway, Tris! Let's move on! There's plenty of time to do that tomorrow." Tobias calls out.
I nod and head back towards the boys. Tobias showed us the Control Room next and we saw this guy unleashing his anger at Garret. "That guy is Eric. He claims that he is the best agent the government has ever seen, but in reality, he's just a phony." Tobias says.
"Huh. Seems legit. He looks drunk. And he's holding a beer bottle." I say.
"He's always drunk." Tobias says.
"Drinking on the job? Isn't that against your rules or something?" Caleb says.
"It's okay as long as he knows what he's doing." Tobias says.
"I doubt it." I say.
"Well, It's for Max to decide if he wants to fire him or not." Tobias says.
Tobias wraps the tour up by showing us the dorms. Caleb opens the doors and I stare in awe. It's a huge living room with five doors which, I'm assuming are bedrooms. It's like the dorms in Harry Potter, but smaller. A girl with dark hair and dark skin comes out of one of the rooms. She notices us and says, "Oh hi! You two must be the new trainees. I'm Christina. Will and Dustin are still sleeping lazy heads, as usual."
"Hey! I heard that!" a boy shouts from one of the rooms and comes out. Christina rolls her eyes.
"Hi I'm Dustin. So, you two are the newbies. It's a good thing you're in our dorm." He smiles and winks at me. Flirt. Dustin has tan skin, bronze colored hair and about five feet and seven inches. And he's about my age, like Christina.
"Don't worry, he has a girlfriend." Christina tells me.
Not long after that, the other guy, Will, shows up. "Finally! The nerd is alive!" Christina says.
"Whatever afro head." He answers back. Will notices us and says, "Oh you must be Beatrice and Caleb, am I correct?"
"Yeah. Call me Cal." Caleb says.
"Please call me Tris. Never call me Beatrice." I say.
"Why? Beatrice is a nice name." Christina says.
"Let's just say I always get the wrong impression if people call me by my full name." I say.
The five of us heads down the dining hall and Dustin goes straight to one table with Lynn seated on it and kisses her. Wait a sec? Lynn? She has a boyfriend and she never told me. No, scratch that. How did she end up here?
"Um I have to talk to someone. Give me a sec." I say.
"Sure." Christina answers.
I walk towards Lynn's table to at least say hi, but she says it first. "Hey Tris! They brought you too here huh?" Oh so that's why she's here. One question left.
"Yeah. So, if you're here then Marlene and Uriah are here too."
"Yup."
"Hey have you met Dustin?" She asked me.
"Yeah. In fact, He's my dorm mate." I say.
"Really?" She arched an eyebrow.
"Yeah. But I have Caleb, Christina and Will in there too." I say and "Oh', is all she can say.
"Well I'll be going now. Talk you to later Lynn."
"See ya."
"In today's training session, you will learn how to throw knives." Garret says. Caleb felt my excitement rising up. "Hey calm down Tris. I know this is your thing. Try your best not to show off." He whispers to me. "So you're saying that I should suck today?" I say. "No. What I'm saying is, that don't brag. OK?" He tells me.
"Fine." I say.
An: Sorry! Did you know I wrote this chapter in the hospital? Why you ask? Because my grandmother got admitted and I had to stay. So I asked my mom to bring me the laptop. Having no internet sucks. HAHAHA anyway, I'm so jam packed but, if I have time to write, even its just mere minutes, I'll definitely write. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.