stiff sisters // thg & divergent

3. Back Again

1 and a half years later...

Tris P.O.V.

Today was the day, my choosing ceremony. I got three results in my aptitude test but if you're reading this book then you probably already know that. I now had three choices excluding staying in abnegation. 1) I could go to spend my life with my brother. 2) I could go spend my life with my sister in the really cool dauntless compound. 3) Go somewhere else entirely and make my little sister's choice harder when the time comes. Let's rule option number 3 out, I can't make anything harder than it already is.

As we walk up the stairs with the rest of abnegation, I make my choice. Erudite is too smart, they would figure it out in the first week. I already decided that I couldn't go somewhere new, so that leaves, Dauntless. We walk over to the abnegation section and I see Katniss at the back in the dauntless section, she's waving at me. I grab Prim's arm and she looks at me then I wave back at Katniss and she smiles. The ceremony starts and I zone out until they get to P. "Annie Peacher, Amity!... Margret Patterson, Candor!... Beatrice Prior," I sand and look towards Katniss "I'll always love you, Prim." I say, I can't even look at her face case I know she's crying and If I see her tears now I might just choose abnegation. 

Suddenly I'm at the bowls and my hand is cut. I let the blood drip into the coals, "Dauntless!" Marcus yells, he looks disappointed but he has no reason to be, I barely know him. The Dauntless pull me over to there section, I'm no longer abnegation. I am a dauntless initiate. I like it, I like this. 

Once I'm on the train I sit next to a Candor girl named Christina.  We talk for a bit until I hear some one to my right. "Who's this? Does my little sister have a friend?" I hear a voice from behind me say. "Katniss, I missed you!" I turn around and gave her a hug. "Did I miss something?" Christina asks. "I'm her big sister, Katniss. What's your name?" My sister asks. "Christina, it's a pleasure meeting you." She says, "Likewise, and your a Candor so I'll tell you this now, just in case. Eric threw this Candor guy in the chasm last year for interrupting his big, intimidating speech with a smart remark. He's dead." She says, "He was my boyfriend's brother." She jumps onto the rooftop that we're approaching so we jump off to.

"Is she always so... blunt?" Chris asks when we are sitting on my bed before dinner. "Katniss, yes. But she has a good heart, she was genuinlly trying to protect you." I tell her, she nods. "Let's go get dinner." She says. When we get down there, almost every table is full. I see Katniss sitting at a table with her friends that I met on visiting day and a few others. There is a few empty spots next to them and there is less and less spots by the minute so we go sit there.

By the time we get there, someone has already sat next to Katniss so we sit across the table. I just happened to sit next to Four. We get our plates out and start piling up food. "It's a hamburger. Have you never seen a hamburger before?" Christina asks. "No,I...I've seen one, I just have never eaten one." I say, Chris looks at Katniss disbelieving, she nods. Will says something about abnegation diets and they start talking about there old factions. i don't mind this but Four does. "I don't wanna hear about your old factions. You're dauntless now." he says coldly and the whole table goes silent.

"Were you a transfer too? Or dauntless born?" I ask, at least 6 people at this table know the answer to that including me. But I hate it when people make my friends uncomfortable. "Are you kidding?" He looks dead into my eyes, still not scared. "No." I reply honestly, "What makes you think you can talk to me?" He says, that shocks me, I'll admit. I can't loose this, "It... must be because you're so approachable... You know, like a bed of nails." I mentally clap myself on the back for that one. We turn back to our food. "Careful, Tris." I hear him say, then he gets up and leaves. "You, my friend, have a death wish." Christina tells me and Katniss and Finch nod in agreement. We all laugh and conversation returns to the table.

Katniss P.O.V.

I get up after I finish with the excuse that I have some errands to run before tomorrow. I say goodbye to Tris and leave. I get out the doors and down the hallway before he's next to me. "Your sister has a smart mouth." he says, I roll my eyes. "It's genetic," I answer. He nods, "I can see that." he remarks. "You always have to have the last word, don't you?" I ask, he chuckles. "Maybe..." he trains off, we've reached my apartment now and I unlock the door. "I have to keep them scared of me or they'll learn nothing at training." He says. "Have a good night, Four." I say, he mimics me then turns around and leaves. I shut the door at go to bed, I'm a leader, I need my rest. 

The next few weeks are much the same, Tris got a tattoo, I got a promotion and Peeta moved in with me. Tris has changed but I think she's changing to be more like her. In a twisted way, it makes me wonder what we could've been like if we were born here, like mum. We're growing apart, Tris and I, but at the same time we are closer than ever. I blame it on maturity, we are our own people now, she doesn't rely on me anymore but that doesn't mean she's not my best friend. She spread her wings like her tattoo of three birds, she told me they're for the 3 family members she'll never see again. I miss our parents but most of all I miss my twin brother, he was my partner in crime, my get-out-of-jail-free-pass, he was my room mate, the one person I could trust anything with, he was one of the reasons that I'm where I am today. I pull out the letter I got on my 2nd week of initiation, the one thing I have of him except that photo of us all. 

The thing is, visiting day was yesterday. If Prim doesn't join dauntless, I'll never see her again, I'll never see mum again or dad or Caleb. And as much as I make it seem, I still miss them like hell. We all have different ways of coping with loss, mine is to bury my feelings down. Tobias' is like mine but he lashes out, I suppose I do too. Tris' is to feel the pain, and then pretend that part of her life never existed.  Peeta tries to distract himself so much that he doesn't have time to think about it, and then he gets a big shock wave of sadness all at once. Prim doesn't let herself feel, at all, anything... for a while at least. But nothing could have prepared me for this.

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-Gigi