Cruel//Eric Divergent

12-Capture the Eric

So I made a mistake in the last chapter, this is the one which is meant to be dedicated to phoebeirisa because she actually helped me with the idea for this chapter and sat there fangirling over it😂 anyway go read her amazing stories if you haven't already xx

➖Addi's POV➖

We all board the train and stand against the walk for a few minutes, in which I watch in amusement as Eric shoots Molly in the leg with a neuro stim dart. Then Four and Eric explain we will be playing Capture the Flag, and begin to divvy up teams.
"I'll take Addi," Four says with a slight smirk. I walk over to Four and look at Eric who has a scowl in his face but isn't saying anything.
"I'll take Edward," he says in a monotone, which I can't help to smile at softly. We finish dividing up teams and our team jumps of the train. We began to walk towards an old merry-go-round, and I realise we are in an abandoned amusement park. Tris walks next to me but doesn't say anything. Tris, Alex and Hanna are also on my team, but unfortunately Em is on the other team, sucks to be her, stuck with Eric, who isn't exactly her biggest fan as well as some randoms, but at least she has Christina.
We reach the merry-go-round and half the team starts fighting over where to hide the glowing flag while the other half starts fighting about the best battle tactics. I decide not to join in these arguments and instead think about the situation calmly and logically. I look around the amusement park deep in thought for a while until I see the old ferris wheel moving. What the hell? Who in their right mind started that thing up, it will give away our exact position. The Ferris wheel stops moving after about 20 seconds and in the 10 seconds after that Four and Tris run over to us.

"We know where their flag is, Tris climbed the Ferris wheel and saw it. It's in the old tower," Four says in one long breath. I wonder what happened with the Ferris wheel, there seems to be some sort of underlying tension with Tris and Four. Four looks toward Tris and indicates for her to tell us the plan.

"Addi, you're good at this sort of stuff, what's the plan?" Tris says to me instead, leaving me flustered with no idea what to do. I stand there awkwardly for a few moments looking around desperately trying to pull a plan out of thin air. Suddenly, I've got it.

"Okay, here's what we're going to do..." I say as we form a huddle.

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I run with my in my arms, tense and ready to shoot at the first sight of movement. I'm in the scouting group, ready to take out anyone who gets in the way of Tris and Four getting to the flag. My aim is to stay hidden in and around the large cargo boxes that are in a very convenient cluster about 20 meters from the tower with the flag in it, making it perfect shooting range. Unfortunately, this also means that members of Eric's team, or even more scary, Eric himself could be hanging around here to shoot at our team. I crouch down low behind one of the cargo boxes and poke my head around the side only to see Eric walking about 4 meters from me. I retreat and flatten myself against the cargo box and try to calm myself and see what Eric does, hoping he turns and walks the other way. Today isn't my lucky  day as I hear his heavy footprints coming closer. He is almost at the cargo box I'm hiding behind and I decide that the best option is to attack him before he has the chance to attack me. I wait for a few extra seconds and then jump out and quickly fire a dart into Eric's thigh. He grunts in pain and collapses but I don't stick around to see anymore of his pain. 

"Sorry Eric, it was just too tempting!" I say over my shoulder with a breathy laugh. 

I run around the cargo boxes and find a good one a far distance from where I shot Eric. I manage to shoot two of Eric's team before I am shot in the calf and drop to the ground only to see Eric smirking at me.

"Sorry Addi, it was just too tempting," Eric says with a small chuckle as he starts backing off slowly. He looks like he is about to make a run for it so I army crawl to where I dropped my gun and manage to graze his side which stops him, but doesn't render him fully useless. However, this gives me the time I need to make a run for it.

"Catch me if you can!" I yell to Eric as I run. I hear his footsteps behind me and suddenly I'm swooped up off the and swung in a circle, screaming like a little girl while Eric laughs at my reaction. He finally puts me down directly in front of him, not removing his hands from my waist.

"You how I said I like being how I am around you? It's true. You make me a different person, a better person. I want to be that person, I want to be that person for you, Addi," Eric says while staring directly into my eyes which were wide in disbelief. Eric looks at me like he is waiting for me to respond to his speech, but I can't seem to find any words, so I do the only logical thing I can think of. I reach up and connect our lips.

We kiss to the sounds of cheering from the other initiates, not that either of us notice. We kiss with the stars twinkling down on us and the presence of anything around us faded in the background. I feel as though I am pouring all my emotions into this kiss, like the world suddenly got brighter, but less important because Eric is with me. We only break apart when we need air, and even then keep our foreheads touching, content to just live in this moment.