Divergent: An Untold Love Story

Chapter 20: The Powers

Yep. I was going insane. I dreamt about Eric. Again. Which made me remember that I needed to talk to him. In the dream, I was given a choice of whether or not to save Eric or the factions. Eric, of course. But how honest was I being with myself? It is probably easier to say that you would save someone's life than to actually do it. For all I knew, Eric could be using me. I sat up to find that it wasn't my room, and it wasn't Eric's, either. I was becoming used to waking up in anyone's room but mine.

My feet touched cold concrete floor. Strange, I thought. I stood up only to fall back down. I tried to stand once more, but my knees buckled and my legs went numb.

"I would stay seated if I were you," a coarse voice said behind me. I peeked over my shoulder to see Bram.

"What are you doing here, brother?" I asked with total disgust.

Bram's stupid smirk faded. "Is that how you greet your brother, Sierra?" I wasn't in the mood for his playful conversation starters.

"Just shut you mouth and tell me what you're doing here," I snapped. I turned around and glared into his eyes.

"I'm here to warn you. During stage two is when you will discover some people are Divergent. What will you do with them?" Bram met my gaze, and his eyes seemed to try and find my expression.

"I'll shoot them on the spot." That got his attention.

"What have they done to you?" Bram looked mortified and heartbroken. I wanted him to see the Divergents for the monsters that they were, but then again, he was a Rogue Divergent himself.

"They opened my eyes, and if you would just open yours-" he cut me off.

"Shut up, sister! You don't know what they've been doing. You have no idea how much they have deceived you," Bram shouted. He made my blood boil over.

"Don't tell me to shut up, brother! I know what a Divergent is capable of, and if I get the chance to see one, I'll pump their guts full of lead," I told him. He opened his mouth, but I wasn't finished. "They killed our parents, Bram. They murdered them. They threaten our society," I walked towards him, power building inside me. I felt a tingly feeling begin at my fingertips. "I want them dead. ALL of them! And if you don't go now, you'll be the first to die!" I looked to my fingers and I gasped at what I saw. Shocks of lightning and energy swirled around them, although I didn't know how. I looked to Bram, who looked terrified to the core.

"Sierra! Your powers aren't meant to go against your own kind! They're meant to go against them!" Bram gestured to Max and an Erudite, who had busted in. "Your pupils!" I turned to the mirror that I hadn't noticed before. Instead of bright green, they were an electric blue with flecks of grey. Lightning flashed across them like a storm. Use this power wisely, daughter. Your brother is not the enemy.

"Get him out," I demanded. Max and the Erudite man grabbed Bram and drug him out of the room without another word.

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I decided not to go to the first day of stage two training. Too much was on my plate and I was trying to make sense of how my eyes changed color. And more importantly, how electric strands of energy sprouted from my fingers. How had I gotten so angry so quickly and intensely? How did I fester so much power that I felt powerful? I rubbed my temples, trying to release stress when a knock sounded on the door.

"Come in," I called. Eric walked through the door.

"Max told me about what happened today," Eric made known. I snorted, not wanting to talk about what happened with my pathetic brother.

"Bram made me angry." I clenched my fists and my jaw. Eric laughed half-heartedly. "Why is that funny?"

"You are a force when you're angry. Max told me that he could feel so much power being used, even before he busted into the room. He said that when you demanded that he take Bram away, he seen the potential of a leader," Eric explained. Me? Be a leader? That sounded like suicide because the thought occurred to me: what if what happened today happened again? And what if I hurt someone? Like Eric.

"I don't know what it was or how it happened. I just remember getting really angry with Bram and loosing it," I admitted. "I love my brother, but he doesn't know how awful the Divergent really are." It didn't feel right to let Eric know that Bram was a Divergent himself. A Rogue Divergent. Though that didn't make it any better, if not worse.

Eric sat there, tapping his chin and pursing his lips, as if in deep thought. "I don't know how you did it, either, but I would've loved to have seen it." Eric reached his hand to me and cupped my cheek, running his thumb over my bottom lip. I shivered, not sure of how to respond. I put my hand on his other, and I leaned into his chest.

"Why did you choose me?" I asked. I wanted to know badly, because he seemed to hate me before... Well before the moment in the river in the chasm.

"What do you mean?" Eric questioned, never once moving my head from his chest. His breathing was calm and steady, and it was relaxing.

I told him, "I mean, out of all the girls you could've chose, you did you choose me?"

Eric sighed and said, "You are different. There was always something about you that intrigued me. That was why I was so cruel and horrible to you. The feelings that I felt for you were feelings that I had never felt before, and I was, uh, scared to let anyone in. But when I kissed you, that fear melted away." I looked at his face. Sharp jaw line, fine nose, and I had to admit that his piercing above his eyebrow was amazing. Everything about Eric made me go crazy, and I wanted him. I pressed my lips to his, and he parted his lips, letting me in. I crashed my tongue with his, and our passion danced with one another's lips.

After about five minutes, Eric and I fell asleep side by side on the couch, not caring who's apartment this was. All I wanted was right here, his strong arms around me, bringing comfort to me. I closed my eyes and fell right asleep, letting no thoughts, not even the woman's voice, enter my mind.

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"So, she's finally where we want her," Jeanine beamed proudly. "She woke up, found her brother, he made her angry, and she released her powers for the first time."

"I do say, her powers are quite amazing," Xavier acknowledged quietly.

"After our meeting with Eric, we agreed that if he would pledge his allegiance to us, I would allow him to be with her," Jeanine said with self-pride.

"So now what?" Xavier couldn't answer this.

"We simply let her be with Eric and see what a Divergent is capable of. We plan our attack and army." Jeanine crossed her arms and typed in the coordinates of the attack on her tablet that held all the information.

"And what will she be useful for?"

Jeanine laughed. "She'll be the leader of our army. We will use her to erase the memory of Divergents for good."