Divergent, What if There was no War?

Chapter 6

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I wake up the next morning tired. Then I remember we didn't get back last night until around 3 am. I glance over to the other side of the bed and see that Tobias is not there, then I realise that shower is going. I hop out of bed and write a note saying I'm going back to my apartment. I slip on my pants which I pulled off last night, and walked out the door. (I wore my tank top to bed.)

When I get back to my apartment I have a quick shower and pull on new clothes. We get a week before we have to start work, so I'm not sure what I'll do with my days. Tobias has to go back to work today though. I think about my job. What will they want me to do? What position will I hold? I'll have to work with Eric. I grit my teeth and remember that in this position I will be on nearly equal foothing with Eric. He can't hurt me, it's not like initiation. Then I remember why I chose the job. To help initiates in years to come, I'm sure Eric would hate to be reaplaced by me. 

I realise I haven't had breakfast and grab a slice of cake from the fridge. I. am. bored. On my first real day of being Dauntless, this is not ok. I decide to go for a walk. I'm not sure where I'm going and let myself wander aimlessly until I end up at the net again. I notice now that there is a ladder going up to the top. That must be how the leaders get up and down. I climb it bit by bit remembering when I climbed the ferris wheel for capture the flag. It seems like only yesterday, but an infinity ago at the same time. I arrive at the top and look down. Like on the day I came here, you can't see the bottom and I get a rush of adrenaline. I step to the edge, and jump. Like the first time it feels like I am falling forever, but eventually I hit the net.

I just lie there for a while. Thinking, about everything. My Divergence, which had seemed the end of the world in initiation seemed to mean nothing now. I wondered though, what my life might have been like if I'd chosen Abnegation or Erudite. I could've lived in peace, always trying to be selfless, married my neighbour, and never had met Tobias. Or, I couldv'e lived a life of learning, letting my curiosity take over, but I couldn'tve done either really. I don't think so anyway. I feel like I belong here now, more than I've ever felt like I belonged anywhere.

I slide myself off the net and decide to go somewhere. I can take a train and go anywhere I want now. Well, not quite anywhere, but I don't have to stay inside the compound. I walk quickly to the main exit and run over to the train tracks. I walk along them for a while, then I feel a train coming so I start running, and as the train catches me up I jump on. I land on my feet. I'm getting better. I sit on the edge if the carriage and watch the world go by. It's facsinating. All of the factions, everyone in their place. It seems wrong somehow, but I try to banish the thought from my head. No, it works, it's how it's meant to be...