The next day I wake with a jolt. Startled, I look to the left and then to the right and realize my alarm clock is vibrating, creating a rapid buzzing sound. I turn it off and my head touches the pillow again, dreading the moment when I have to get up. Confusion wipes through me, but only for a second as I recall what I am going to do today: travel to Candor.

Hours, minutes, seconds pass and I attentively, with a slow motion try to re-open my eyes. Immediately, my eyes squint (still in denial to wake up) when they notice the striking artificial light in my room, and I turn to see what time it is. Two minutes have slipped by. Despite my brain not functioning right at this godly hour, I twist myself on my side, wondering if Tobias is awake. His handsome features are calm; the darkness highlighting his cheekbones and the edges of his smooth lips. His eyes are shut tightly.

'Tobias?' I whisper, groggily.

'Yeah?' He responds. His voice is raspy and deep, sleepiness evident. I twist back towards the alarm clock to loom at the time again. The big red light depicts: 7:05 a.m.

My eyes forcefully open, slightly wider than before. My arms move up in front of me to stretch, forming a shadow.

'It's time to wake up.' I yawn.

'Let's stay in a little longer,' Tobias lazily states, grabbing my middle half gently to pull my back close to his front in a warm cuddle.

'We can't Tobias,' I say, absent-mindedly, drawing with my fingers on his hand around my waist.

'Do you remember how you woke me up a couple of days ago? I think you should rein act it for me.' I can't see his face in the darkness but I can almost feel his smirk. So I decide to play.

'Oh, I think I do remember. Did it involve ice cold water and a bucket dripping over your head?' I tease, 'I can easily do that again if you would like.'

He laughs, a deep rumble in his throat. I can feel his eyes on me.

'You know that's not what I meant,' he responds, whispering in my ear, his mouth gently grazing my ear, 'I can show you how you woke me up.'

'You can, can you?' I whisper, grinning and turning my head so that my eyes are looking into his desired filled mesmerizing, blue eyes.

'It went something like this,' he whispers in a sexy voice he only gets when he wakes up. He places a kiss on my neck, embracing a hot spark of nerves to formulate there. His nose gently tickles my side of my neck as he places yet another hot opened -mouth kiss. He moves his finger up gently, along the curves of my body, kissing his way down from my neck. As he passes my hair, he softly swipes to the other side and continues to kiss until he reaches my chest- which is aching for him now.

'Tobias! We have to get up now!' My breathless voice echoes around the room. At my words, he looks up with such a desirable face it makes me explode.

'You really want me to stop?' he whispers smirking, pulling his mouth back up to my neck then my mouth. Luring me into a deeper state of affection.

'You're being very cocky,' I laugh.

'Cocky?' he replies half-heatedly. He busies himself with my neck.

'Yes,' he kisses my neck again. 'You think you're that good;' his warm luring mouth is making me forget my speech. 'That I would undoubtedly,' he kisses the knack where my jaw and ear meets, 'want you not' he kisses my jaw, 'to stop.'

'Is that so?' he laughs still manoeuvring me with his lips.

'Yes,' I crock out, unable to stop the moan forming.

'Should I stop now?' He whispers.

My mouth becomes dry and I want to say we should stop. I almost do. The words are on the tip of my tongue.

'No,' I demand, pulling his mouth fiercely against mine.


The shining whiteness in Candor Headquarters reflects into my eyes so forcefully, I feel as if I am being stabbed by daggers. Deathly stares peer at me from black and white dressed Candor, as I walk, fully dressed in Dauntless black clothing and my hand in Tobias' hand. Striding confidently, Tobias and I slide straight to the auditorium where the conference will take place. A rather well built man, dressed in black, his back towards us, stands the distance of the room away from us, talking to another Candor. From his slick black hair I can instantaneously tell the man is Jack Kang. We wait until he has finished his conversations, and then we drift over to him.

'Good morning Jack, it is good to see you.' Tobias' 'Four' mask is on as he speaks.

'Same to you Four,' he firmly shakes Tobias' hand. 'And you Tris,' he shakes mine. 'The interrogation will happen at any minute as soon as all the representatives are here. Please take a seat.'

We do as he enquires and take a seat near the front of the auditorium near the entrance. There is a slight, calm, monotone murmuring present in the room; it's pleasant in a way. My eyes graze the floor, studying the squeaky clean, symmetrical, white and black square tiles when I feel a dark shadow form on the floor in front of me. My head rises automatically, expecting someone fierce, instead and to my delight, I see the two people I have been longing to see the most.

'Mother!' I exclaim happily, rushing to her and wrapping my arms around her slim body. 'It's so good to see you too, Beatrice,' I can hear a smile in her voice. She squeezes me tightly; surprisingly. Over her shoulder I look up to see my father, smiling profoundly. She lets go of me and goes to shake Tobias' hand. 'Hello Four, how are you?'

'I'm fine, thank you Natalie,' he responds. His Four demeanour portrays him to be calm but I know deep inside that he is very tense at seeing his father at any minute. I receive an awkward but pleasant hug from my father.

The buzzing sound of Jack Kang announcing the interrogation is about to start, pulsates everyone's eardrums and quickly there is a hazardous silence in the room. The sunlight dims through the glass windows, creating a similar atmosphere to a film starting. A thin, wide-eyed Tori and Lynn step through the metal door. The dramatic tension in the room rises faster than heat circulating in the room.

We begin the interrogation.

Jack Kang's voice is so luring but dangerous, I'm surprised I haven't heard it more often. Every single word echoes in the silent walls on the interrogation room where faction representatives sit, deeply focused on what is going on. Lynn sits, slumped in the metal chair, her back towards us.

'Lynn, what was your involvement with Max's murderer?' Jack questions.

Her body jolts a little bit, I can't see her face but I can tell she is in pain. 'I...' she stammers. 'I didn't kill Max,' she exclaims, breathless. 'I just I wrote the note to that Jane woman and I told Tori where the cameras where because I overheard Four and Zeke talking about it. I didn't know what she wanted to do, I was blackmailed!'

'What were you blackmailed with?'

'I-' she starts. 'She knows something about me,' Lynn cringes in pain from the serum, 'I don't know how she knows, its something embarrassing,' she trails off, her fingers twirl into a fist as she screams out in pain.

'What did she blackmail you with?' Jack repeats.

'She knows that I-,' Lynn screams, the effect of the truth serum is making her body slash in pain. She must answer immediately or more harm will come to her.

'Stop!' An old Candor man demands. 'We do not need to know what she was blackmailed with. Continue the interrogation.' Jack Kang raises his head a little, challenging the old man, but then abruptly drops his head and continues. Relief floods Lynn's body, it so visible. Her muscles untense a little, as if she dropped a couple of invisible tons.

'To clear things up: you helped Tori because she was blackmailing you. Why did Tori do this?'

'To get revenge,' Lynn spits out. My head snaps to Tori, her arms tied back with chains. She's slumping in a chair near Lynn, there are black bags under her eyes, and she looks ashamed. She will be undertaking her truth serum interrogation in a mere few minutes.

'I don't know! For her brother! She's right there, go on and ask her!' Lynn screams, her fierce nature imbued in her voice. Jack is silent for a mere few seconds.

'Last question for you Lynn is a question we ask everyone, what is your deepest regret?'

'Not telling Tris I knew, sooner,' she spits out.

'Thank you for your honesty.' The murmurs in the room quickly grow from tranquil to fairly loud. 'Quiet!' Jack Kang orders, his voices echoing in the spacious.

Lynn's numb, weak, lethargic body is dragged out quickly by the guards. Lynn's place is soon replaced with Tori. An assistant of Jacks inserts a needle in Tori's tattoo covered arm. A liquid is pushed into her arm and the questions begin.

'What is your full name?'

'Tori Wu.'

'What is your faction of origin and the faction you chose?'

'I was born in Erudite. Transferred to Dauntless.'

'Do you have any siblings?'

'I have one brother, George Wu.'

'Did you murder Max, former leader of Dauntless?' Jack demands

'Yes,' she replies smoothly, emotionless without hesitation. From the angle I can see her, a coil smirk etches onto her face and in an instant it's gone. Her body lies perfectly still without an ounce of pain inflicted. My mind begins to race as soon as I hear her response. I realise why she replied so smoothly. She's Divergent. If my thoughts are correct, then why on earth would she reply with a yes? Thoughts race through my head drowning me. A sinister feeling creeps over me; I remember her second-lasting smirk. She is planning something.

'Yes I killed Max,' she states again calmly. Her dark, long straight black hair, ruffled from being in cell dangles along the back of her chair. Outside, I hear the faint chipping of birds singing.

'Why did you do this?'

Faint, but unmistakable laughter escapes her body. The noise makes a shiver go down my spine.

'Why?' She demands. 'I'll tell you why! He allied with Jeanine Matthews and killed my brother! That's damn why!' Tori cringes in pain for a few seconds before her side of her face from which I can see returns to an unreadable expression.

'How did you kill him?'

'Well quite simply really. I shot him.' She spits out with a horrendous tone, her knuckles turning white from being implicated with sudden pain.

'Explain how you did this.'

'Oh, I'm sorry you should have been a little bit more specific!' As her high pitched screaming voice bounces along the room, she clings onto the metal chair for dear life. Her attitude is surprising along most of the Candor. She is definitely divergent. 'Max and I argued before I killed him, he was nervous, apprehensive. He knew I was coming. He had been warned. Max said it was a 'mistake' being involved. I didn't comprehend or even bother to listen to what he was saying until his last line,' she takes a deep breath and is abruptly hit with an ounce of pain. 'Max said that George was still alive,' she takes another breath, 'outside the fence. I didn't think about it at all for ages. I knew Max was lying. But I know now he isn't. And I had made it my plan to go out the fence and find him but Max's followers stop me.'

'But why did you attack Tris Prior and Jane Jackson?'

'I attacked Tris because she was getting on my nerves,' all eyes penetrate to me 'and because she was getting in the way. I attacked Jane because she had said that she knew George was alive. I had hope then and I didn't like it, not when it was false hope. '

What's bothering me the most is why is she letting out all this information when she is Divergent? Surely she could lie? Outsmart the system? I feel Tobias wrap his strong arms around me in a protecting gesture. I look at his sharp features and recognize the same confusion that lies on my face.

It seems that even Jack Kang is lost for words. The implications of what Tori is suggesting silences the entire auditorium. Jack's stinging black eyes rises up towards the old man that had spoken before, and then they glance up around to Tobias and I. We know what this means. There is nothing left to say. The interrogation may be over but so many ideas bounce in my head, dizziness starts to become apparent.

The light outside is penetrating through the windows less evenly now. The pool of amber and orange outside makes the conference room a swirl of light orange.

The Candor conference room oddly looks similar to the one in Dauntless, full of glass, clean. But somehow it feels so unfamiliar. The room holds 20 odd people now; the buzz of the talking has been electrified ever since Lynn's and Tori's interrogation. It is Louise sharp voices that bring me out of my daze- like it so often does.

'But Jack, with all due respect, tell me this: why on earth should ten or so of our bravest Dauntless members risk their lives to go outside the fence, outside to the unknown just because one hysterical member killed our leader because she thought he killed a person who is now apparently living outside the fence! It makes no sense, and he could be dead for all we know!'

'I understand what you mean Louise, I truly do,' I middle age female from Erudite argues, 'but we need to experiment, we have a vague understand of what is outside the fence and it only makes sense if someone from Dauntless goes as they are the most strongest. Whoever you want to choose for the task is up to you.'

'It's Erudite that wants the information! They should send the troops in!' A senior Dauntless member Carson rages.

'It is the Dauntless that is the most prepared.' The Erudite calmly informs.

'Who will go then? Surly no one would want to volunteer!'

My mind is buzzing now; the words are on the tip of my tongue. I scan over to Tobias, his face is white, he knows what I am about to do.

'I volunteer myself.' All eyes suddenly sprint to me as the words leave my mouth. Tobias looks painful and my parents just looked shocked.

'No Tris, you can't do that.' My mother argues gently. 'It is too risky.'

'I will do it.' I'm stubborn. I know that. My mum and dad look speechless but I can also see the hint of pride in their eyes.

'And I will join her,' Tobias states without an expression. I look over at him, trying to decipher what he really feels about this.

I smile develops on the most of the faction representatives. 'Then it is settled.' Jack starts 'Tris and Four plus whoever they want to bring will go outside the fence in hope that they find George.'

'This is absurd.' Louise huffs. 'Tori KILLED MAX! And we are repaying her by giving her brother back!'

'We may not even find her brother. But inevitably it is important that we know what is outside the fence. Tris and Four will report back to us.'

'And when will they return?' An Erudite lady asks.

'If they return,' I hear Louise whisper.

3 words.

That's all it takes to silent a room full of perceiving faction representatives. As if my bubble has been popped slowly, her words fully penetrate into my mind:

Is this really that dangerous? Could I really die for just going outside the fence?

Of course it is.

'Until the time is right for them to return,' Jack explains.

The debate is now closed.


My hair blows in the soft wind around me. Outside of the Candor headquarters, exposed to the striking sun, I stand with my parents, Caleb and Tobias. My arms swing around Tobias's and the wind makes my clothes to flap against me. The few birds from before are singing around me again.

'You are so brave, so selfless, you know that?' My mother asks, a gentle tear sliding down her cheek.

'I'm hardly selfless mum, if anything I am the opposite,' I reply, embracing her.

'I agree with your mother, Beatrice. You are so selfless and brave, I am so proud to call you my daughter,' my dad says pulling me into an unusual hug. 'I'm going to miss you so much,' my dad whispers, kissing the top of my head, very non-abnegation like.

'Four,' my mother says addressing Tobias, 'take care of her please.'

'I will Mrs Prior, even if my life depends on it.'

'Please call me Natalie,' my mother pulls Tobias into a hug and he stands awkwardly for a little while but then I smile at him and he melts into the embrace of my mother. 'You are like family Tobias.'

My mother illuminates us, in the theme that her confidence and love is resembled through her voice and actions.

His head tilts to my mother's level and through the sparkle of the sun I can faintly see a swell of emotion in his mesmerizing blue eyes.

'Thank you Natalie, you don't know how much that means to me.'

My dear mother doesn't speak another word after that; instead she pulls Tobias more forcefully into a hug. She whispers something in his ear that I can't comprehend and Tobias' nods then smiles.

Although the sun is slowly dipping below the horizon, the path along our line of vision is brilliant with brightness. Tobias and I sprint to aboard the rustic train, bidding farewell to my parents and with ease we pull ourselves in. Our surroundings are empty, beside the faint dust in the train.

'What a turn of events,' I start the conversation, looking at Tobias.

'Hmm,' he responds. 'I don't understand why Tori wouldn't lie under the truth serum, she is definitely Divergent right?'

'Yes she is! I don't understand it either.' Then it hits me. 'Tobias,' I whisper, fear escaping in my voice, 'what if she did this to purposefully make us get her brother back?'

His eyes lock to mine for a mere second. 'That,' he appears stunned 'could be possible.' 'Let's just forget everything and enjoy our last days in Dauntless okay?'

'Okay,' I smile. I lift my chin up after licking my lips and reach up and kiss him. He kisses me fiercely, gentle gliding his tongue along my lips for entrance. I smile into the kiss and my hands rise to cup his face. His hands roam down to my waist.

'I love you,' I say, pulling back just enough to speak.

'I love you too,' he replies, desire filled in his eyes.

His gentle mouth meets mine again. I kiss him for as long as I want. Longer than I should.

The blur of the Chicago buildings wipes past us in the distance, the colours are mashed up forming the works of an abominable painting. Faintly, I can still hear an echo of vibrations from the birds singing. The commotion of the train vibrating lures me into sleep and I welcome it, my head laid against Tobias' chest.

Tomorrow we adventure into the unknown. But for the rest of today, it's just us two, together and that's all that matters.


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