Previously on Flipped
"You probably don't remember me but I baby sat a young Tobias Eaton when we lived in Abnegation I went by the name Beatrice." I say. He looks at my face as if struggling to remember something. "I won't tell yours if you don't tell mine."
He nods in agreement. "Follow me" I say he walks quickly behind.
We walk into the fear landscape room. He looks around apprehensively. "I got my new name do to me fears maybe you could to," I suggest. "So this room shows us your greatest fears most have anywhere from ten to fifteen, I hold the record with six after conquering one of them. You move on to your next fear by calming yourself down or passing it, if you're afraid of drowning swim deeper." I inject the serum in his neck and whisper "be brave Tobias." I move towards the screen.
He stands on top of a tall building with no windows or doors wind blowing from all sides, strangely a fear of highest not too common in Dauntless. I can't help but wonder how a kid with a fear of highest managed to be the first jumper. Tobias plays this smart as he slowly moves his way down the building climbing all the way down till he reaches the bottom, once he is there he is surrounded by four walls closing in around him, they constrict getting closer and closer. Claustrophobia, that is very common, but everyone deals with it differently. He breathes in and out and after five minutes he manages to calm himself down enough to move on to the next fear. The walls expand giving away to a faceless woman tied down on a chair with a gun on a table.
"What do you want?" he asked. "Who are you?" he unties the person but she doesn't move. He stands there confused until it occurs to him what his fear is, he grabs the gun and points it at the woman, he turns away and shoots. He hits her right in the head and she crumples to the floor. The scene shifts and the white room turns into a standard Abnegation house; for a minute it's hard to realize that it's not mine since they all look the same. Marcus suddenly appears with his belt in his arms readily. Then he multiplies surrounding Tobias on all sides
"This is for your own good," they said. One comes down to smack Tobias with the belt, he caught in on the wrist. Ouch I think. The simulations may not be real but the pain is and that has to hurt.
"I'm dauntless now he can't reach me," Tobias jumps out of the way avoiding the next whip. "I'm dauntless now he can't hurt me!" he says again more confidently. The belt comes up and Tobias reaches for him. He hits him in the face. The screen goes blank as both Tobias and I wait for the next fear. It doesn't come. He sits up and I look surprised. I move over to him, he is panic struck and I throw on my smile. It's over? That's it he only has four fears? That kid broke my record. I glance over at Tobias and realize that he's freaking out. I walk over to him with my serious Six face Christina helped me perfect.
"I have good news and bad news," I say.
Without missing a beat he says "I want the bad news first."
"The bad news is you beat my record, the good news is you now have the lowest number of fears in Dauntless. Congrats," I say. He looks at me and I wipe the smile off my face. "That's enough for today Four," He looks at me confused. "Four, go before you totally miss dinner," I snap. He smiles and he leaves. We walk into the dining room together, over to my table because it's the only one with seats available.
"Guys Four, Four this is Chris, Uriah, Marlene, Lynn, Lauren, Will and these are the dauntless born initiates Ezekiel and Shauna."
"Hey you were the first jumper right? Stiff?" Chris asked.
"It's Four now actually" I said. "He beat my record for lowest fears." The eyes pop out of my head.
"Tris? Where were you? You have to make the welcome speech," Peter complains. I follow him up to the front of the dining hall up the stair to our make shift stage. A few people notice me but most keep talking not bothering to look. I walk over to the front and clear my throat.
"Hey everybody SHUT UP! I'm here to welcome the new initiates. Initiates you have chosen Dauntless the faction that holds bravery as the highest quality in a person." I pause before reciting parts of the dauntless manifesto. "We believe that cowardice is to blame for the world's injustices. We believe in freedom from fear, in denying fear the power to influence our decisions. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. We believe in acknowledging fear and the extent to which it rules us. We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves. We believe, not just in bold words but in bold deeds to match them. We do not believe that we should be allowed to stand idly by. We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery." I pause as the crowed repeats the last line back to me. "With that being said if you believe in that we'll have one hell of a fraction!" I pause again for the applause to die down. I love the dauntless applause because it's not like the silent clap of abnegation or the finger taping that the erudite call applause but its table banging shouting and screaming for joy that can only come from dauntless. I continue "The initiates are already starting to show potential. A special shout out to the second person ever to hit the bullseye target with their first knife Zeke!" I wait for the applause to die down again I here Uriah yell out 'Fluke"as many burst into laughter, god I'm never going to finish. "I am sad to announce that my record of lowest fears has come to end, but glad to welcome Four!" I motion for him to stand up, when he does the screaming gets louder than I thought possible. "My record of shortest time in the fear landscape is still held. With that I welcome this year's initiates." Whooping and cheering fill the room. A chant of Four and Six blends together. I walk to my table determined to get something to eat.
"Good job Tris and thanks four the shot out" Zeke grins at his own joke "And thanks for not calling me Ezekiel." I grab a bite of a hamburger nodding.
"Trainers meet in training room A," Lauren says. The three of us walk out and I pile my plate with food. They stare at me weirdly and I just shrug it off.
"You know they're just gonna steal my food anyway."
Authors Note: Hey guys I'm soo glad you liked the first chapter let me know what you think of this one :) Let me know what you like and what you don't like. And if you can recomend a Beta reader let me know. Love you guys, Thanks for reading.