Four x Reader (Insurgent)

Twenty - Because you're so known for doing the right thing.

Catching Tris out of the corner of my eyes check her watch only made me check mine, seven o'clock in the evening, twelve hours until the meeting between Jeanine and Jack Kang. My adrenaline kept slowly spiking, wondering what would happen at the meeting was making my stomach churn and I was silently willing a training room to poof into existence.

I never really realised how much of a routine I had in Dauntless, it wasn't a true - do this at this time, and that thing at that time, but I always had a plan for a certain way I was feeling. I always had a place I would go to or a person to speak to and I was trying to ignore how it felt like my whole world was crumbling around me. I suppose it already had long before Dauntless, but it felt more noticeable now.

Sitting in the cafeteria was the last thing I would have done in Dauntless when I felt like this, sitting and picking at my food with Tris beside me doing the same, with Lauren and Tobias talking and Lynn occasionally speaking up... with Christina sitting at a different table with her Candor family and periodically sending looks to Tris. But there wasn't anything else to do.

There was a time I wanted to be anywhere but Amit and I never really hid that fact. There was something about the fields and the gardens that were nice and I used to tell myself I would collect plants to decorate my room - but I never did. But the people... I already had the problem of thinking I was different and I would have done anything to not be, and the people in Amity didn't help with that thought at all. But I would rather be in Amity right now than at this table, and for maybe a split second as Christina sent another dirty look over, I wished I hadn't changed factions.

"I wonder if we'll be able to return to the old way when all of this is over." I stopped picking at my food as Lauren spoke, keeping my eyes on my half-empty plate. Her and Tobias had been talking about Dauntless initiate training methods non-stop, seemingly the only thing they had in common, but it still made my stomach churn that with everything happening and how fucked everything had turned, that was all they talked about.

"If there's a faction left after all of this is over." Lynn chimed in, and for the most part I agreed. I watched as she placed mash potatoes onto bread and closed it.

"Don't tell me you're making a mashed potato sandwich." Tris said with light disbelief.

"And so what if I am?" I chuckled quietly at Lynn's response before going to speak on the fact of any faction being left after this, but I closed my mouth quickly as five Dauntless passed our table, they looked older than Tobias, but it couldn't have been by much.

My eyes narrowed as a girl leaned down and hissed the word 'coward' into his ear, the other four following suit as they walked away from the table and past him. My eyes followed them for a moment before looking back at Tobias who stayed quiet, we hadn't spoke since Tris pulled me away and I wanted to say something but I didn't think anything I said would make him feel better.

"What idiots," says Lauren. "And the Candor, for making you spill your life story for everyone to see... they're idiots too." I looked at Lauren for a second before nodding along. Swallowing my pride I went to say something before watching Tobias look up and lock eyes on something across the cafeteria.

I sat slightly straighter and looked where he was, unable to see what could possibly have his attention due to the crowd of people, my attention only going back to him when he pushed his chair away from the table and stood up. "This needs to stop..." He muttered, my eyes narrowed more as I looked at him, watching as he walked away from the table as if on a mission. I looked at Tris for a moment who looked back at me before we both stood up and followed after him.

I watched as he moved between people and tables as if he was liquid, my body turning rigid as I finally got eyes on who he was walking towards, Marcus. "Four, not the place." I said quickly and sternly as I quickened my pace, the Candor already voiced their disagreements about Dauntless being here, starting trouble was not something any of us needed to happen.