Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Chapter 10: Stiff


The morning after Christina has to hang off the edge of the chasm, Tris comes back from the showers with ‘Stiff’ spray painted all across her bed and stuff because people are jerks. Tris is talking to Al and he mentions that she was first jumper. Maybe I was first jumper, but I suspect that’s where my Dauntless fame begins and ends.
Yeah, I highly doubt that she’ll only be remembered for being first jumper. I feel like she’s a bigger deal than she gives herself credit for. That same day, she’s assigned to fight Peter (who obviously, because he’s a jerk, was the one who sprayed her stuff). She’s pissed at him, which plays to her advantage for a very little time, mentally, because she doesn’t want to be the one to be begging on the ground. She’s getting pushed around and beaten badly, and she catches a glimpse of Four walking out instead of waiting around to watch her get pummeled even more. She gets knocked out and goes to the hospital infirmary for the first time. She and Al talk a little bit, about how he doesn’t want to hurt anybody any more.
At the end of the day, Tris leaves the infirmary, and cries herself to sleep.
The only thing worse than letting Peter put me in the hospital would be letting him put me there overnight.

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