CHAPTER 36

FOUR POV

I get back to the Dauntless compound and go to see dad. I walk into his office and I am shocked to see that Jeanine and Caleb Prior are sitting in there.

"Four," dad says. "Come in I don't think you've been introduced to Jeanine." I shake her hand. "And this is Caleb Prior; he is being trained by Jeanine as part of his initiation." I shake Caleb's hand.

"You must be excited to be trained by Jeanine as part of your initiation Caleb?" I say. I find this highly suspicious. Why would Jeanine be training an initiate? She must have better things to do than this. Then I think of Tris, does Jeanine know she is divergent? Is she using Caleb against his own sister?

"Yes I have been fortunate to have Jeanine take an interest in my initiation," Caleb tells us.

"Four, Jeanine would like to show Caleb how our fear simulations work," dad says.

"Really?"

"Yes I would Four. We are always trying to develop our serums. I thought this would be an excellent way to show Caleb how Dauntless run their simulations," Jeanine says.

"Would you like me to put Caleb into a simulation?" I ask. I sure as hell don't want to have them watch any of my initiates go through theirs or mine for that matter.

"I don't think that would be necessary. Maybe one of your initiates would be willing to take us through theirs. Caleb's' sister is a Dauntless initiate I believe. Maybe she could take us through hers," Jeanine says.

"I am not sure she would want her brother seeing any of her fears," I say defensively. "Plus we have just completed fear simulations. I don't believe making Tris go through a simulation unnecessarily is a benefit to anyone."

"Well maybe we should ask her," Jeanine says. I can see that she is not going to take no for an answer. I look at dad and I can see that he is just as concerned as I am. We are both wondering what she is up too.

"I think we can have you look at a copy of a previous simulation that she has been through," dad says.

"That will suffice," Jeanine says.

"I will go and get you a copy," I say.

"I don't like it dad," I say. Jeanine and Caleb have just left. "She is up to something and now she has involved her brother. What the hell is going on?"

"I don't know. We need to tell Tris what has happened. She deserves to know what is going on," dad says.

"We don't even know what is going on. And I may not have given them Tris' fear simulation," I say.

"Whose fear simulation did you give them?" he asks.

"Peters'." Dad starts laughing. "Well won't they be pissed when they see what is on the disc," he says.

"How did it go with Marcus?" He asks.

"He is at Candor. He wouldn't listen when I gave him the option to let it go. I told Jack to keep everything quiet for now. I told him we would deal with Marcus after initiation was finished. He can rot in their holding cells for a couple of weeks. Andrew Prior knows what is going on, he is going to keep Abnegation going and keep people from finding out where Marcus is for the time being," I say.

"It went that well did it?" he says.

"Yeah. He was impossible. I had Andrew sit in on the meeting. We had a long chat after Marcus was arrested, he knows the truth," I say.

"Well hopefully we can have all of this resolved soon. I will be interested to see what Marcus has to say when we finally get some truth serum into him. Hopefully he can tell us what he is up to with Jeanine while he is under," dad says.

The phone rings on Max's desk. I zone out at what is being said. He hangs up. "Gus just caught Eric talking to Jeanine Matthews on camera. He is watching him on the monitors now. Go down to the control room and see what is going on. Eric must be about to make his move."

CALEB POV

I am glad to be back in the car and moving towards Erudite. I felt extremely uncomfortable in the Dauntless compound. Dad had always called them Hellions and I think he may be right. At least he was right about something. I could never have imagined that my life would be as perfect as it is since leaving Abnegation. I think Jeanine is right; they don't deserve to be running the government. They are holding the whole city back and more importantly they are holding up our chances of eradicating all the divergents. If we could have more money we could run more experiments.

Hopefully Marcus will help us with that soon, with the test subjects that he could provide for us we will have our new serum for mass control up and running in no time. I have seen the suspected divergent list from Abnegation and my mother is on that list. I would love to be able to test on her; it would be very satisfying to see how her mind works. I suppose I should be grateful that she didn't pass any of this down to me genetically. But Beatrice seems to have not been so lucky from what Jeanine has told me. I don't know how she knows, she did say there were alarm bells ringing in her ears when we had our aptitude test but I'm not sure. I trust Jeanine and I know she wouldn't lie to me. She has been so good to me, she has taught me so much since I arrived at Erudite.

I can't wait till we are back and I can look at the footage of Beatrice in her fear simulation. I wonder what she is afraid of. I couldn't imagine that she is afraid of much, she always seemed so fearless to me. Always running off and getting into trouble, she was never afraid of getting into trouble. She was never afraid of what people thought of her, so I wonder what it is that she will be afraid of. The thought of seeing it both fascinates me and excites me.

We walk straight up to Jeanine's office; I know I am anxious to see this video. I can feel the excitement in the air. Jeanine has been trying to get a hold of fear simulations from Dauntless for some time now. Jeanine logs into her computer and starts the video.

I am looking at the video but I don't see Beatrice. In the bottom corner of the screen there is the name Peter Hayes and a date and time code. What? This isn't the video we are supposed to be looking at. I look at Jeanine and I can see the anger in her eyes. I want to ask her so many questions but I am afraid she will go off on one of her tirades. If something doesn't go the way she wants it too she can be quite cruel.

"Should we even bother watching this?" I ask.

"Just because it is not your sister on here Caleb it doesn't mean we can't learn from it," Jeanine snaps. She now has an evil smile on her face. Sometimes I wish I knew what she was thinking; a brain like hers would make an amazing test subject on so many levels.

I sit and watch the video. It appears to be in Candor. Peter is in a fist fight with a younger boy. The younger boy has just punched him in the face when three adults have run over and stopped the fight. "What is going on here?" asks one of the men. Peter has started to cry and he points at the younger boy. "He started it, I didn't do anything and he just started hitting me," Peter says.

The younger boy starts to protest, "I did not you are a liar Peter."

Just then another man arrives. "Why do you have my son?" he asks. He walks over to Peter and puts an arm on his shoulder. "Are you alright son?"

"He started hitting me," Peter says while producing more tears and pointing at the other boy.

"We saw these two fighting so we came over to break it up," the man tells Peters' father.

"Well I think you can see that my son was not at fault," Peters' father says. Peter's tears have stopped and he now has a smirk on his face.

"Come on Peter we are going home," his father says. Peter and his father get home. Once they are in the door his father starts yelling at him. "I know you lied Peter. How could you do this to your family?"

Peter goes to say something but his father puts his hand up in a motion to say stop. "You are a liar Peter. You are a liar." His father keeps repeating this over and over again.

Peter has slumped onto the floor and is covering his ears with his hands. He has started to rock back and forward while keeping his ears covered. While his father keeps yelling at him.

The video stays like this for another seven minutes until Peter finally gets up and yells back at his father, "I am not a liar." Then the video is over.

I sit there stunned; I don't really understand what it all means. But Jeanine seems to know, she has a smile on her face and she says, "interesting." I don't know what was so interesting about that. I am sure she will explain it to me later or she will get Cara to do it.

Thinking of Cara puts a smile on my face. I love working with Cara she is so smart. I don't think I would have survived here if it wasn't for her. I know she is only a few years older than me. There have been a few times where I have not done a task for Jeanine to her high standard and Cara has helped me out before Jeanine has had a chance to find out. It always worries me that Jeanine will work out that I'm not as smart as the other initiates. It worries me that she will stop me from training under her when she finds out. That is why I have to do exactly what she wants no matter what. I need her to like me. I need her to help me to get a great job here.

Jeanine has told me that I need to remember faction before blood, that it is very important here in Erudite. It has helped that Jeanine keeps reinforcing this mantra too me. That is why I would like to test on both my mother and sister, prove to Jeanine that I will do anything to fit into Erudite. That I could one day be a great leader for the Erudite people.

A quick thank you to Hplcgirl for giving me the idea to write Caleb POV.

Also to leek812 whose review gave me the inspiration to write Peters' fear.

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