Convergent

Chapter 16

I felt Connors hand lightly squeeze mine, a comforting squeeze. We were sitting in Candor's courtroom. It was filled with white and black colored clothing, basically all of dauntless and candor were there, a couple people in blue, obviously reporters, if my eyes weren't playing me, I thought I saw a man in grey. But everyone's eyes were on the man in the middle of the stage. Max sat in a chair in the middle. He still looked menacing, I needed to get out of here.

"Lizzie, breathe." I felt Connors breath on my neck as he whispered in my ear. I closed my eyes and sighed.

"I want to go home." I tell him. I also reach for my brother's hand. I needed him as badly as I needed Connor, maybe more, he is my brother after all.

Tobias must have felt me getting anxious. I felt his arms wrap around my shoulder and kissed my head in a protective way. Like when we were kids and I was crying from nightmares, or my dad, "It'll be over soon." He tells me.

Jack Kang, the head of Candor walked out to the stage with another man holding a needle. Inside the needle was truth serum. Once under the effect, I would be impossible for him to lie. Every single thought he ever had of me will be out in the open. Things I'll never want to hear.

The audience hushed once Max was injected with the serum. It was about to start; I was going to relive a week of hell.

Kang started talking. Welcoming us there and bringing up the charge against him.

"The faction of dauntless is accusing you of raping new initiate Lizzie. How do you plead Max?" Kang asked him, Max had a smug but disturbing grin on his face. It sent chills down my spine.

"I did it. It was easy, she had been tempting me since she got here. That small little body of hers her-" I had to cover my ears, I didn't want to hear him violate me like that. "that long dark hair. She's sexy." He looked around the audience for me.

"How has she been tempting you, Max?" Kang asked.

"well, she only tempted me in the way she looks. I knew I wanted some of that, I mean look at her she's sexy and a little feisty personality to go with it. When she became an initiate too dauntless she had a bit of a legacy. Her older brother was also in dauntless, Four. He is also the trainer for the transfer initiates. I couldn't let anyone think she would get in just because her brother was the one training her. She did hold her own throughout the first week. But I needed to find a way to get to her. So I took over the second week of initiation, we make them face their fear head on. While she was unconscious in her fears, I took advantage of her right then and there. Feeling her up, getting it in. When she woke up she tried to fight, she ran to the door to go tell her big brother, So I told her I would make her factionless if she didn't cooperate with me. Then the second day, she couldn't finish going through all the fears, she woke up, I accused her of being divergent. I made it up so I could keep her for my personal fun. I said I would kill her for being divergent. But I couldn't let that little perky body go to waste. I made her keep quiet about what we were doing. But then she had to ruin it. The day of the test when all the heads would watch and see how the initiates would handle their fear. Lizzie did really well, it was clear she would make it into dauntless but then of course she had to add a fear that last day. Which exposed everything. I wanted to kill her right then." He laid everything from that week. I was mortified.

"Is she Divergent Max?" Kang asked.

"No, it was a lie to get her to keep her around as my toy." Max answered. I needed to get out of here. My breathing became short and quick. Connor squeezed my hand comfortingly. Tobias had tightened his grip on me, like he was trying to restrain himself from charging up on the stage and killing him with his bare hands.