Protector

Chapter 6

Isabella's mother has been cutting her hair for the past 5 minutes, claiming that she 'shouldn't let her dead-end grow out'.

That was it. That was before Issy woke up.

She awoke to bright light in her eyes, squinting she noticed Christina and Will.

Will was smiling, while Christina had a worried look on her face.

"Wow you look," Christina started.
"You look bad," she said truthfully.

"How long have I been here?" Issy questioned both of them waiting on a reply.

"About a day," Will replied.

"A day?"
"Have you seen the scoreboard?"

They both stayed silent.

"Where am I," she asked them both.

"You're below the line Is," Christina said looking down at her lap.

Issy took a look at them both, to her surprise they were in vests.

"Why are you wearing those vests?" she looked back up at them both.

"Where's Tris?" She questioned noticing she wasn't with them.

Will and Christina both looked at each other.

"War games," Will gave a sad smile.

Issy sat up as soon as the words left his mouth.
She wasn't going to miss out because of a beating, she had already missed out on a lot of training.

"Woah, what are you doing?" Christina tried to push her back down.

"I'm coming," Issy sat up fully.

"You can't,"
"Eric said you're done," they both said.

"What?" Issy asked in disbelief.

"He said you were out," Will gave her another sad smile.

Issy started to shake her head.

"Tris' father is in the council, Is maybe they'll make an acceptation to let you go home, back to abnegation," Will told her.

Issy lied bad down with tears welling in her eyes, she didn't let them fall, just let them sit there.

"I'm sorry Is," Christina spoke up.

"We gotta go,"
"We're gonna miss the train."

"Yeah okay," Christina whispered.

Christina gave her a little hug and a kiss on the forehead, Issy didn't return the hug because she was too upset to even hug her.

Will patted her shoulder and mutters a short 'bye'.

Issy lay there still not letting her tears fall. She couldn't be out. She told herself she wouldn't be faction-less.

That's when she had to make a quick decision, either run and catch the train or become faction-less.

As one would do she put on her boots and started sprinting towards the train.

As she got outside she could see that it was already leaving, filled with a lot of people.

That's when four took a look outside to see her sprinting towards the train.

She was right on the tail of the train. Issy knew she wasn't going to give up when she was this close. She couldn't.

That's when four put his hand out and pulled her up into the train.

"Thanks," she mutters.

Four walks off without saying a word, he went to the side to sit down.