Complicated Love (Divergent Peter Fanfic)

Stage 2

I don't think you understand how never racking it is to sit in a room with no windows filled with every other Dauntless initiate as you wait for your name to be called only to be sent in a room with Four. I have been waiting close to an hour now and only five people have gone in but haven't come back out. Peter was the second to be called, after a bald Dauntless girl named Lynn. I was hoping he would come back out of the door he had entered but he didn't.

Every one of us were silent, even Christina and that's saying something.

"Florence," Four calls out next and my heart starts beating like crazy. I wonder what's behind that door. All I know is that I won't be coming out of it.

Four opens the door for me and I silently enter in front of him. I'm surprised that all there is in the room is a reclining chair that looked a lot like the one when I did the aptitude test that would determine in which faction I belonged in. Beside it is a machine that I haven't seen before and in the corner of the room is a desk with a laptop laying on it, its screen facing away from me.

I don't need to be told what to do as I make my way towards the chair before laying down in it. Four follows and stands beside me. He turns around and mumbles something that I can't quite hear.

"What?" I ask him.

"Move your hair," he says in a dull voice as he turns around, holding a syringe with a long needle and an orange liquid in it. The sight doesn't bother me at all, I've never been afraid of needles, not with everything that's happened in my life.

"What's going to happen? In the simulation, I mean," my voice came out strong as I did as he told me, moving my wavy brown hair to my other side, leaving my neck bare.

"You're going to face your fears. You'll be sent in a simulation where you'll encounter your worst fears and you'll have to control your emotions to get out of them,"

Without giving me time to react, he injects the syringe in my neck and I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt. I dig my nails in the palms of my hands to distract the ache in my neck to the one in my hands. As soon as the liquid is in my body, he pulls it out.

"In sixty seconds, the serum will have taken affect and you'll be in the simulation. Calm your heart beat and breathe normally and the simulation will finish. Don't calm your heart beat, you'll be in there longer than you would ever want to. Try to get out of it as fast as you can because we are administering your results to see if you pass through initiation." He told me in a bored tone, turning his back on me to put the syringe in the trash.

I want to answer him, but all I can do is nod because already I feel my pulse getting faster, sweat is starting to accumulate on my forehead and my chest is tightening into knots. These are the same symptoms I felt when I was at my house back in Candor.

Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't good.

The last thing I heard was Four telling me something about the first time being the hardest but I wasn't sure.

When I opened my eyes again, I was standing in the center of the Pit. It might have seemed alright if it weren't that the Pit was empty and that no sound was coming out from the chasm or anywhere around for that matter. The only light came out from the windowed ceiling, casting an eerie glow in the Pit with the setting sun.

I quietly made my way towards the chasm, wondering if there was water in the bottom on the gagged rocks but I was surprised to see that it was empty, not even a single drop of water to be seen.

Just that made my heart beat a bit faster than it already was. This was not right, sure I might have been in a simulation but this wasn't right.

And that's when I heard it, fast moving footsteps coming my way. I quickly looked to the source of the noise, wanting to see who else was here with me. In the distance, coming in through the door of the Pit was Peter. He looked like he was running for his life with his eyes wide and full of fear.