Divergent meets the shadowhunters

Let's ride off into the sunset

Following this petite frame to the back of the institute seemed strange to Tobias. Since being around Triss, he had begun following more often instead of leading, but still the notion of following someone smaller than him seemed to be insulting and queer. As she moved expertly in and around the large trees that crowned the walk way to a large wooden buildng, he noticed that the were getting further away from the institute.

"Um..wha-"

"Cecilia"

"Cecilia, yeah, um, where are we going? it's pretty far from the institute.."

all this time, he had not even thought to ask her, being to busy preoccupied with thoughts about where Triss was, what could she be doing? where could that bastard be taking her? What sort of advances he may be trying, what Tobias was going to do to him when he found out that he had offered her his stupid puny arm to help her down the stairs. For all he knew, she could be leading him to his death and he woud have walked right into it unaware due to his mind being so focused on Tris.

"To the stable"

what, a stable? what sort of joke was this? This was no farm. Where were the chickens and pigs, cows and sheep? This was supposed to be a fighting ground. He couldnt imagine them being mid way though a bloody heart-wrenching fight and a pig decides to wander across the battle field. This was not happening. As they got closer, the smell of horse manuer wafted past his nose and he realised, that this was indeed real. She pushed open the 12 foot wooden stable doors and entered the structure that seemed to go on forever with an endless number of horses, each occupying one stable room. He stopped and stared. absolutley astonished, he was frozen in place.

"Whats wrong?"

his mouth was agape, but no words could formulate any sort of meaningfull sentence that wouldnt leave him looking like an idiot. Seeing this, she chuckled to herself and walked further down the corridor of horses. He followed her untill they arrived at NO. 15. This particular stable held a room full of straw and tall beadie eyed muscular and proud mammal. Its black shiny coat catching the rays of sun and its full and unruly main falling to the side. Encapsulated by the horses beauty, he was shocked to find cecilia staring at him with a look of amusment.

"have you never seen a horse before?" she laughed. he gave her a baffled look.

ofcourse he had seen one before, but never had he appreciated it.

"Come on"

she opened the stable door and they both entered the small area. she picked up a stiff bristle brush and began to comb the coat of it.

"you can do this"

she handed him the brush and almst immeadiatly he picked up where she left off. She began to rumage through a trunk near the door and began pulling out all sorts of equipment.

" Tell me a bit about yourself. i have not yet had the chance to aqaint myself with you"

she looked at him expectanly. what was there to tell? more like what could he tell her that would blow the cover?

"well, i, uh...Im from the Lewis order, and we-"

"no, not about your order, about you"

"about me? there isnt much really.."

"thats not what your scars say"

he looked down immeadiatly to face his marks of which were a living story book of his life.

"tell me about you first" he countered. She stopped and looked up supried.

"Thats not important"

"ofcourse it is"

she stood there silently and began loading the horse with equipment. finally words began to flow out f her.

"I grew up in a family of 5. I had my older brother, Will, and an Older sister. We were very close, the three of us."

"what was her name?"

"I'd rather not say, her name brings up painful memories"

a minute of silence passed between them before she continued.

'One day, a demon had attacked my brother, and my Older sister had come out to protect him, but instead, she had died in the fight. He soon ran away to the london institute and wouldnt come home. We never knew why and tried on many occaisions to bring him home, but he would never face my parents, so when i became of age to fight, i went to the london institute to try and bring him back. I didnt miss my fake friends in the human world. They were boring and didnt hold the same interests as me. While i liked to fight, they liked pink ribbons and bows. Finally i came here and learnt to fight, made some friends and so on."

She reminded him so much of triss. disrupting him from his contemplative state, she brought the horse to him.

"Get on"

while she stood there expectanly, he stood there frozen. getting on a horse just happened to be one of the things he had not done before, and somehow he was meant to pull off this bad boy tough act and he couldnt even get on horse? ridiculous. Not wanting to look like an idiot, he attempted fearlessly. swinging his leg over the horses body and attempting to pull himself up with his arms from the saddle left him still on the floor, with a now very sore crutch for trying to split his legs so far and a laughing cecilia in the corner

"what are you doing?" she laughed.

giving up, he moved away from the horse and let her show him. she hooked her foot into the styrrup and pulling herself up from the saddle, she swung her other leg over with ease and sat comfortable. pulling both feet out, she slie off the other side

"now you try" she commanded

he did almost exactly the same and was victorious in getting on, but staying on was another story. his knuckes were tightened around the front of the saddle. she got on again and sat right behind him. holding the reigns, she led the horse out into the paddock. getting his hands, she put them ontop of hers and his legs behind hers. every movement she made, he copied, untill finally she was confident that he could ride solo. She slid off and left him for a minute before reappearing with another Tall slender structure. This horses white coat gleamed in the sunlight as she got closer. almost on instinct, tobias's horse bagan following her and they went off further into the woods.

meanwhile Jem and Sohpie had taken triss to BLACKFRIERS bridge