Enigmatic - Divergent/Eric Fanfiction

Chapter Eight

"What happened to your arm?" Talulah asked when I arrived at the initiates accommodation. She, Nathan and Freddie stared up at me from where they were sat on her bed.

"Knife training got a bit out of hand." I answered, sitting on my bed beside them.

"What do you mean by 'out of hand'?" She questioned.

I shook my head and sighed. "Don't worry about it Tee." I told her.

She frowned and switched beds to join me on mine. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah." I replied. "Did I miss much?"

"We went to watch Lu get a tattoo, then ended up getting our own." Nathan said, pointing to the part of his arm that was wrapped up.

"Without me?!" I joked. "What did you all get?"

"I got a wolf, it looked pretty awesome." Nathan replied.

"I got some small stars on the back of my shoulder blade. It reminded me of working nights with my Dad." Talulah informed me.

"Very nice." I smiled and looked at Freddie. "What about you?"

"I got my family's initials separated by small dots on the back of my neck."

"Can I see?" I questioned. It sounded interesting.

He nodded and pulled his shirt off, the neck line at the back too high to see. He shifted on the bed so that his back was to me and I quickly stood up and gently peeled back the bandage. As he had explained, there was six small italic letters on the back of his neck.
PS • JS • CS

"It's lovely." I smiled and stuck the bandage back down with the small bit of tape that was on it.

"Thank you." He said, then pulled his shirt back on.

"So other than getting injured, what did you do this afternoon?" Talulah asked.

I hesitated for a second. On my way back from Eric's apartment I had been contemplating telling Talulah everything. I'd hoped that she would've cheered up by the time I got back, and she had, but I was still unsure whether she needed all of this burden on her as well. "About that... I need to talk to you alone..."

She raised an eyebrow, then looked at Freddie and Nathan. "Didn't you two want to get some new boots?"

Nathan slowly nodded. "Trying to get rid of us already, you've only been back five minutes Jac!" he joked.

"Sorry.. I've just got something to discuss with Talulah."

"It's alright." Nathan smiled.

"We'll be back in about twenty minutes!" Freddie said, then I watched as they left the room.

I double checked to make sure that no one else was in the room, before explaining completely everything. What Eric had said on the first day, Four's warning, Rita, the photographs, everything.

"And that's why you've been so spacey recently? It wasn't the pills.." Talulah mumbled, then looked up at me. "So Four thinks that Eric killed Rita because he couldn't control her?"

I nodded. "But today... I don't know, it was weird. If that was Rita in those photographs, why would he have kept them? And why would he have reacted the way he did when I saw them?"

"Possessive over them maybe?" She suggested. "Probably kept them to remind himself of his victory."

"Yeah, but there was one of Calvin and the woman... Why would he keep that?" I asked, putting my head in my hands. "This is all so confusing. I wish Four would've just kept his mouth shut!"