Resurgent: A Divergent Fanfiction

Chapter 14

Tris POV

The remaining rankings come up. Uriah is second, Wilson is fourth, Carlos is seventh, Alec is ninth, and Andrew is tenth. The rest are Dauntless born initiates. Maddie is out.

"WHAT?!" She screeches beside me. "No way no no no no!"

Applause booms and Dauntless members bang their cups loudly.

I stifle a grin, and someone taps me from behind.

"Told you so. By the way you look nice Tris." Tobias smiles. "You think a kiss would give too much away?" He says in a quiet whisper

I glance and make sure Maddie's looking at us, "You know Four, I could honestly care less." And I press my lips firm to his.

He embraces me and I swear Maddie dropped her mouth over Christina's gagging. When I pull away Tobias wraps an arm around me.

"You, you cheater." Maddies lip quivers, tears in her eyes. "Your dating T-Tobias" her hands shake.

"What did you think Four was his real name?" I say smirking.

"I, I ARGHH!" Maddie lunges and aims a fist at me

I forget that I am in a slightly tight dress and find it hard to move. Four grabs her arm and bends it around her back. He pushes me aside with his other hand. She screams and starts crying. What a pansycake.

"I'd rather die than see you two together." She growls, "Why the Stiff Four?"

"Hmm, why don't you recall what happened. You could've passed initiation if you called her Tris." He says disapprovingly, like he's talking to a child.

"Let me go!" She yells over the applause. "I'm gonna kill her!"

"Why? It's not going to make you any more I'm Dauntless. I suggest you leave now, or things won't end well. Cowards do not belong here." He says in a low monotone. Very Four styled

He pushes her away and grabs my arm, taking me to Zeke's table. I can't help but smile. Double victory today.

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I sit in Four's room meanwhile, after the banquet, changed back to my regular clothes.

"I wonder if anyone got suspicious that it wasn't my first time through initiation." I mutter.

"Nah. They know your divergent, so you can go through the stims extra fast. You would've had advantage on them either way. And you were just really strong in stage one. Kinda like I was." He says

"Plus it would've been hard to convince leaders like Jacob to just let you in. That's not allowed. Everybody makes it into Dauntless from initiation, so you have nothing to worry about." He smiles.

I still can't believe tomorrow I will be Dauntless, with a job and everything. The life I've longed for so long is finally mine.

"Yea. True" I sigh.

Shouting occurs outside and I stand up with Tobias.

We jog to the sound origin and see people hauling a body out of the Chasm. Two Dauntless haul a body over the metal railing. I look, and see a girl, with pit black eyes, her auburn hair entangled around her neck and face.

Maddie.

"Oh my god." I whisper and back up. Four holds me and turns me into him.

"She wasn't kidding... " I whisper

She didn't pass the final test. There isn't anything you did wrong." He whispers back.

"Looks like we will have more than just a celebration tonight. Funerals too." I mutter.

"You don't have to go you know." He replies.

"We should." I say as much as I dislike it, "Something she would have wanted probably"

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Jacob stands on a box next to the metal railing. "We're here tonight, because Maddie, who failed initiation, jumped into the Chasm an hour ago."

Everyone gasps, and I hear a few mutters of pansycake or what a coward. Maddie was afraid of me. She committed suicide cause of me. A minute bit of guilt fills my gut, but I brush it past. People will die sooner or later, and I must accept and forgive myself to conquer my fears too.

"We shall forever remember her as she now explores an unknown world, for life as Dauntless is not easy. To Maddie!" He raises the flask and the crowds of Dauntless chant, stomping their feet too.

After the funeral, Four walks me down a different hall, "I'll show you to your new room, since you've already moved out of the dorms today."

He leads me down a hall, with sets of doors across from each other, stopping at one and inserting a key.

"Thanks," I smile, "it's nice."

He grins and points across, "That's Christina's room by the way, and mine is down the hall to the right."

I nod, "So tomorrow I'll be picking a job?"

"Yeah."

"Okay." I glance at my watch. It's getting late.

"I should go, you should get some rest." He says.

I stand up to my tiptoes and kiss him directly on the lips.

"It wasn't your fault that she died Tris." He whispers after he pulls away, "She was out of choices, and it has nothing to do with you."

I nod, my face emotionless.

"I'll see you tomorrow then." He smiles and walks away.

I watch his shadow disappear down the hall, sigh, and go into my new room. I shower and lie in bed thinking. I finally drift off in bed, with one last thought.

I couldn't have done anything to save her. And that's that.