I Am Divergent - bishova

Chapter 4

Dauntless were the first to exit, running up the steps to leave the Hub. They walk past the grey-clothed men and women— people who Katherine referred to as her faction members only moments ago but not anymore.

She stares determinedly at the back of someone's head who was clad in black clothing, this was her last chance to see her mother but she didn't turn around. She didn't want to see her mother staring at her in disappointment or contempt. So following the saying, ignorance is bliss — she chose to imagine her mother smiling, proud, that her daughter had gone against the pressures she faced in her previous faction and made a decision that would make her happy.

Katherine shook her head, ridding her mind of redundant thoughts and like the soldier she just signed up to be, she fell in line with the rest. Albeit, she was at the end. The Dauntless were unpredictable and she didn't want to get trampled on by all of the members who were much taller and buffer than her. So when they made their way to the stairs and not the elevator she internally both chuckled and groaned at the irony, I guess abnegation isn't the only one who takes the stairs.

Still, the difference could be spotted a mile away. Dauntless filed out in a different type of synchronization than the Abnegation. Abnegation was slow and laborious, Dauntless was free and chaotic.

Katherine tried to keep up with them, following them out to the train. The Dauntless members slid open the doors to the carts before they swiftly jumped in.

"You've got to be kidding me" she muttered under her breath, trying to regain her energy having gone up twenty floors and back down all twenty, as she watched some of the members jump on. Despite having spent so much time watching the Dauntless, the small details of their lifestyle slipped her mind when choosing a faction.

Most of the Dauntless born made it onto the carts with ease while others uncoordinatedly made it on in a less than graceful manner, the Dauntless initiates had the advantage— they did this on the daily. She paused for a moment standing still, but seeing the end of the cart of the train made her realize that she would have to jump soon.

Katherine ran as far as the platform would let her before haphazardly throwing herself at an open cart, gripping at the side handles.

She struggled pulling up her body weight for a moment before someone grabbed a hold of her wrists and pulled her into the cart. She felt like she had been cut off from oxygen as she was hanging, fearing of falling to her death. She panted, catching her breath as she looked at the platform, two people didn't make it: an amity and an erudite.

"Thank you, I'm Katherine Bishop," She said with a grateful smile.

"Of course, I'm Peter. Oh uh— Peter Parker" The boy smiled, shaking her hand.

"You know, I'm not going to lie, I didn't expect to see any Abnegation initiates here" Peter said.

"Well your honesty is expected" Katherine snorted making the both of them chuckled as they stared at his white Candor uniform.

There was an unspoken friendship formed as the both sat in silence. Katherine scooted so that her back was right up against the train wall and rested her head on her knees which were pulled up to her chest. She listened as the wind roared, it must have been at least half an hour before one of the initiates shouted, "They're jumping off!"

The train has slowed down in the past few minutes, and the boy who shouted was right. The Dauntless in the cars ahead of the initiates were jumping out as the train passed a rooftop.

Katherine paused both in awe and horror.

The tracks were seven stories up, the idea of leaping out of a moving train onto a rooftop — knowing that there was a gap between the edge of the roof and the edge of the track made her want to throw up.