Transition - a fanfiction (Divergent)

Chapter 23 - Danger

Attempting to open the door again, it won't budge, and I realise it can only be opened from the inside.

I shout and shout as loud as I can for someone's attention, but the solid, steel door seems to be blocking the sound out. Nobody seems to notice me.

I stand there helplessly, and watch Ava walk to her death after Max has called her.

Ava

Max is preparing the injection, and I am now waiting to go into my simulation.

What could my fear be? Will one show up out of the fears I'm already aware of?

The needle is inserted into the side of my neck.

I let the serum put me to sleep, closing my eyes.

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I wake to discover that I'm in the ocean, trying to keep myself afloat. My worst fear has always been ending up alone at sea. This is my first experience within that fear.

I don't need to stay above the water. Surely if I die here, I'll just wake up in the chair again.

I countdown from three in my head until I let myself sink down to the depths of the ocean.

Three. Two. One.

I'm slowly sinking further and further. I don't need to open my eyes to know.

I can't think. I can't breathe. Drowning seemed so much more peaceful when I thought about it in my mind back in Candor, but there's nothing peaceful about it. It's horrible.

The last thought in my mind before I die is Tobias.

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Jumping from the chair, I breathe heavily, and I lean forward to retch from the shock. Nothing comes out.

I raise my head and notice that Max is staring right at me. Not through me, at me.

He's looking at me with pity and... shock.

"Is there something wrong?" I ask innocently.

He doesn't answer.

"Your result was undetermined. You will have to come with me," he finally speaks.

I gulp, wondering what he is possibly about to show me.

He guides me out of the simulation room, and leads me towards the Pit.

At least, I thought that's where we were heading. He turns right and we are now heading towards the Chasm.

We stand next to the edge and look out to the rocks below and the running water. He gently places his hand on my back.

"Every once in a while, we get an initiate who is different from the rest. They have advantages nobody else does. However, they are disliked by the factions, especially by leader of Erudite, Jeanine Matthews. They have to be eliminated from the system. They are the Divergent."

Max takes a step back and uses all his force to push me in the blink of an eye, and I topple over the edge of the Chasm. Before I have acknowledged what just happened, I am about to fall directly into a sharp