The secret life of Tobias's daughter

Chapter 4

        As I got ready, I could not stop wondering about the dream I had last night. It almost felt like simulation. I shook the thought from my head and put on my converse and walked out of my apartment thinking about todays training.

        I walk into the training room and saw that my dad made a schedule of what my initiates would be doing in training and when and where it should be done. I wonder, he usually comes and visits me, huh, weird. Just as I looked down at the schedule Alex came running in. "5, training has been delayed, Tobias needs you in the simulation room." I almost dropped the schedule. "For what?" I asked. "He wants you to demonstrate the simulations." He says with a hint of curiosity in his voice. "Oh." Was all I could manage to say because he has never used me before to demonstrate the simulations. "Can I come... to see your fears?" Alex asked. "Not this time maybe another time, I just have never had anyone else see my fears except my dad." I say with a scared look on my face. He notices my face and says "Hey 5, there is no need to be afraid of other people, just remember to be brave. May I walk you there?" It takes a couple seconds to understand what he said. "Umm you can walk me half way there." I say with a smile. "Alrighty let's head there now." He says .

        We walk to the half-way point and I turn to him and say "This is the point where we split up..." he looks at me with a hint of saddness. "Oh ok... see ya during training?" He asks. "Yea... you will." I say. Just before he leaves, he hugs me and then whispers in my ear "Don't be afraid." and turns around and walks away. I stand there like an idiot, letting the hug linger, but then I snap back to reality and realize that my dad needs me. I turn around and run down the hallway turning right until I see the stimulation rooms and my dad. "Sorry Tobias I was in the training rooms, am I late?" I ask. He looks at me trying to figure me out but then answers "No... your right on time. Follow me." He turns around and walks into the stimulation rooms and I follow him. "Attention Initiates! I know you have heard your family members talk about the 'dreaded' stimulation rooms, and guess what, now you are old enough to go into the stimulation rooms and face your fears! One of my fellow instructors is here to demonstrate how to do so, which yes, is gonna project her fears on this screen. Only the name for it, not the actual fear landscape." He says to the dauntless born. I remember being in their position, Learning about the fear landscapes and stimulation, also my dad was my instructor my whole life. "Five are you ready?" He asks. "As I will ever be..." I say with no emotion. Then a stimulation chair comes out from the ground. "Sit." Tobias says. I take a deep breath and walk over to it and sit in it. My father then gives a step by step procedure on how the stimulation works and when he gets to the injection part, he injects me with the serum and whispers "Be brave 5." Then that was the last thing I saw before I entered my fear landscape.