les sequelles - Eric Coulter 1

167.2. Transfers

You went to visit Tris in the infirmary the next day. She had to stay overnight and you were a bit worried about her but when you got there she seemed fine. You were sitting on the edge of her bed, talking.

"I can't believe you beat up Peter." Tris says and laughs.

"Yeah me neither...he'll never leave me alone now. I probably should have let him hit me, at least then he wouldn't bug me."

"No way! That was awesome. I wish I had seen it."

"Anyway, when are you allowed to leave?"

"I can go actually the nurse was here just before you got here."

"Great then lets get out of here."

You leave the infirmary with Tris, when your halfway back to your room she suddenly stops.

"Shit, I forgot my jacket."

"I get it for you go on ahead."

"Thanks."

When you get back you find Tris jacket stuffed under the pillow. You leave in a hurry and promptly crash into someone. The apology is stuck in your throat when you see a cranky looking Eric staring back at you.

"Have you seen the nurse?"

"No, I think she left a bit ago." You answer.

"Great..." He says angrily, "You'll have to do then."

"W-What?"

"I have a dislocated shoulder." He sits down on a bed an gestures for you to come over, "Have you done this before?"

"Done what?" You stutter. There was no way you were going to do that.

"You have to put my shoulder back in place."

"N-No I haven't and I certainly won't. What if I hurt you."

"You couldn't hurt me even if you wanted to, sweetheart." He puts his other arm to his shoulder to show you where you have to push, "Put your hands here and don't hesistate when you do it."

"Eric I really can't do it." You had always been bad at this kind of stuff. Back in amity you were once supposed to stitch up a wound and almost threw up. Beating the shit out of people was no problem but fixing them up was a different thing.

"Just do it, cause I really start considering to just jump against the next brick wall." He says annoyed. This guy had no patience.

"Fine if it stops your complaining." You say and roll your eyes at him. When you put his shoulder back in place you hear a loud cracking sound. Eric groans beside you but it seems like he can move his shoulder again, so you must have done it right.

"I thought I couldn't hurt you, tough guy." You say, looking smugly at him.

He looks at you with a pissed of expression. Before he can say anything you go on, "How did this happen anyway?"

"I had a little discussion."

"Do they always end like this?"

"No, normally I don't throw people into the chasm."

"You did what?"

"Oh don't worry, they got him out in time." He says and smirks.

Your time in dauntless passed quickly and you were doing rather good. You and Tris were at the top of everyone. The only thing that worried you was the Fear Simultation. You had your doubts you'd pass it as easily as the physical stuff.

You opened the door and walked into the room. Eric was sitting there, serum already in hand. When he saw who had entered he smirked at you.

"Finally I get to see what's going on in that head of yours."

"You could just have asked, no need to drug me." You answer sarcastically.

"I did before, you didn't answer."

"Well, I can't tell you all my secrets at once."

You sit down on the chair and Eric injects the serum. You don't feel very different, you close your eyes for a second but when you open them again your somewhere different. Your standing at the top of a huge building, with no evident way down. Of course it would be something like this, you thought. You know it's a simultation, so you step at the edge.

"I can fly." You whisper and let yourself fall over the edge.

You snap out of the simultation and sit up abruptly. Eric is staring at you, which means you have majorly fucked up. That probably wasn't something a dauntless would have done. It's something a divergent would do. You can see it in his eyes, he knows.

"I...might not have given you enough." He says in a monotonous voice, "We'll try again another time, you can go."

You leave the room as quickly as possible. There' no way he hadn't given you enough and Eric knows it as well. The only thing that's irritating you is that he didn't say anything. You can only hope he really believes it was his fault.

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