On Each Other’s Team
Fic type: angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, slow burn, I don’t write smut
Peter Hayes x Reader
Heyyyy this is so random but over the summer my sister showed me divergent and I completely fell in love with the universe. I haven’t read the whole series so sorry if some stuff isn’t book accurate but yk it is fanfic. This is just my imagination and movie Peter, I know he’s lowkey a villain (and worse in the books) but why not yk like it’s fan fiction and I’m gonna write him as a better person than he actually is💀. Reader uses she/her pronouns. It’s Peter Hayes x Reader. Reader is basically taking Tris’s place in the plot but Four is still Tris’s love interest, not readers. Hope you enjoy!
Warnings: swearing, other than that nothing in this part just normal divergent stuff
Part One: Stranger
You were born into Erudite. Your older sister chose to remain in Erudite, she’d always been drawn to science and continuous learning. Your father was Erudite born and your mother a transfer, though you didn’t know which faction she was from. Truthfully you had no idea which faction you truly belonged to. You enjoyed helping people but weren’t selfless enough for abnegation. You enjoyed a thrill here and there but weren’t big on authority. Peace and harmony seemed nice but boring. Having to be honest no matter what in theory seemed like a good idea but in practice terrifying. And finally you could handle problem solving and hard work but you had no desire to spend the rest of your life dealing with politics and science. Tomorrow morning you’d choose where to go, early today you took the test. The test that’s supposed to tell you which faction to choose. The problem was the dark haired dauntless girl who administered your test refused to tell you your results and said you should just pick amity and lay low. Staying in erudite was appealing, being with your parents and sister was the obvious choice. Even though you wished to remain with your family you knew you wouldn’t be happy in erudite. Despite your instincts you knew deep down you had to be selfish tomorrow and pick whatever faction seemed most appealing not to your family, but to you.
Morning arrived with sun shinning into your room. You lived in a huge skyscraper apartment building in the heart of the city. Normally at this time your father would be off to work with the courts at Candor, your mother would be heading to school to teach and your sister would be on her way to her research lab. But because today was the choosing ceremony your mother and sister helped you get ready to head to the hub. You wore a blue pleated skirt with a matching blazer. Normally people would wear a white button up underneath but you always preferred a white tank top. Your mother insisted you wear your hair up but you liked it to be free to fly in the wind; you two compromised and you wore it half up half down. Finally you wore thin framed black glasses that hung low under your eyes and touched your cheeks when you smiled.
“I have something for you,” your mother says with a soft smile. She reaches in the pocket of her blue blazer for a small blue jewelry box. She opens it to reveal a silver necklace with a black gemstone.
“It’s beautiful,” you say as she helps you put it on.
“It was mine when I was a kid,” she says.
“It’s from your old faction?” You asked her. She never spoke of her old faction but you’d always wanted to know.
“It is, my mother gave it to me. It’s all I have left from my time in Dauntless,” she says.
“You were Dauntless?” You say loudly.
“Shhh,” she hushes you. “I was, don’t mention to anyone I told you. Sweety of course I want you to stay with your father and I and your sister but I also want you to follow your heart. Even if your heart tells you to choose Amity, Candor, Abnegation or Dauntless.” “I want you to find where you belong and no matter what I’ll always love you.”
You walked towards the elevator in the hub. As you stepped in with a family from Candor you saw a girl your age with her family headed for the stairs. They were Abnegation. She had long pulled back honey colored hair and wore gray robes. You recognized her from school, her name is Beatrice. In the elevator is a boy your age from Candor with his parents. They’re dressed in back and white. He’s the tallest person in the elevator with dark brown hair and sad eyes. You wondered if it was tiring, having to tell the truth and be yourself all the time. Despite his sad eyes he had an arrogance about him. You noticed though, he was quite cute.
Getting out of the elevator was like stepping into another world. You couldn’t stop thinking about the power you finally had to change your life. Since you were a kid everything was mapped out for you. Erudite beliefs were pushed on you and that was just the way it was. For the first time ever you have control over your future, it both excites you and terrifies you. Once everyone filed into the hub the ceremony began. One by one kids were called up to drip blood into whichever bowl symbolized the faction they wished to commit to. The first four stayed with the faction they were born with. The fifth kid, a boy from amity, switched into erudite. You wondered how someone raised in such a peaceful place could subject themself to such stress. Next up was the boy from the elevator. Confidently, he walked up to the bowls, he didn’t even hesitate before leaving Candor and joining Dauntless. You glance at the Candor crowd to see his parents expressions deadpan, unchanged by his actions. The next two stayed. Beatrice’s brother Celeb was next. He hesitates before dropping his blood into the Erudite bowl. Then Beatrice from school switched from Abnegation to Dauntless. You looked to the Abnegation crowd, curious to see their parents faces. Their mother and father looked sad, you didn’t want your family to wear the same expressions. Next was a girl from Candor named Christina who went into Dauntless and then she was followed by Will from Erudite, you knew him from school. Finally your name is called. You hug your Father and sister and say “see you soon.” Then you hug your mother who whispers, “I know you don’t know what to pick, be brave.” As you walk to the bowls you think about everything your mothers told you. You don’t know which to choose but you do know your mother was born dauntless and she said to be brave and selfish. Using the control you finally have over your future you pick up the knife. You walk to the Dauntless bowl and carefully and slowly drop your blood in. The Dauntless crowd cheers as you walk over. You look back to your family with a worried smile. Your father has his arm around your mother and your sister looks sad. She was never one for being sentimental but you were still her little sister. Someone at Dauntless gets up allowing you to take a seat next to the girl who’s name you believed was Christina. “I’m Y/N,” you said putting out your hand.
“Christina,” she replied shaking your hand.
Not even a minute after the ceremony ended Dauntless began to run out of the hub. Normally Abnegation hangs around to clean up and chat with Erudite about the failing political system and how it’s the others fault. But Dauntless simply pushed past everyone and sprinted to the stairs.
“Why are we running?” You asked Christina knowing she wouldn’t have an answer.
“No idea,” She said with a smile. Everyone hurries down the stairs and outside. You and Christina stop for a moment but everyone continues. You see two other transfers also looking confused, it’s Will and the boy from the elevator, you think you heard someone call him Peter. The four of you stand for a moment separated in twos. Then Peter begins to run after the group, you, Christina and Will join him. Everyone begins to climb the side of the train tracks. You realize Dauntless might’ve not been the best pick for someone as uncoordinated as you. Regardless of your lungs fighting for air and the burn in your muscles, you climb. Christina is ahead of you and aside from Beatrice your last. Everyone runs along the side of the train and you see people starting to jump inside.
“What the fuck,” you say to yourself out of breath. Christina jumps in after Peter and Will. You jump once and almost fall off the track. “Shit!”
“Here,” says Christina as she extends her hand to you. You jump again and she pulls you in causing you to fall on top of her.
“Thanks,” you say breathlessly. You look out of the train to see Beatrice behind. “Come on!” You shout to her. “I know her from school,” you say to Beatrice. “We gotta help her she’s nice,” you say.
“Come on Beatrice!” Christina shouts. You extend your hand like Christina did for you and pull Beatrice inside the train.
“Oh my gosh, thank you so much,” she says.
“Course, I remember you from school your names Beatrice right?” You ask.
“Yeah, I think I’m gonna go by Tris now though,” she says.
“Well it’s nice to meet you Tris,” Christina says. In the train you, Tris, and Christina make small talk, conspiring on what Dauntless will be like. Across the train is Will, Peter, and another boy. It’s been ten minutes on the train so far and you’d made awkward eye contact with Peter about four times. You see Dauntless born walk to the open door.
“We must be there,” Christina says standing up. Suddenly the Dauntless born jump off the moving train.
“The hell!” Will yells with concern. You look outside to see they’re jumping across an open space onto the roof. You Christina and Tris walk over to Will Peter and the other boy who looks like he’s gonna puke. More and more people jump. Suddenly without hesitation Will throws himself across the gap onto the roof, dragging the other boy with him.
“Together,” Christina says taking your and Tris’s hands. Tris nods but you shake off Christina’s hand. Them two run and jump leaving just you and Peter.
“Fuck we actually have to do that don’t we,” you say.
“Now or never right,” he says. He starts running but sees you frozen in place. “Hey if those losers can do it so can you,” he says attempting to be encouraging.
“You don’t even know me,” you say.
“If you jump with me maybe I’ll get the chance to,” he says with a smirk. He extends his hand and you take it. Without thinking you two run and jump off the train, roughly landing on the gravel covered roof. Your hands fall apart as you two jump and fall. He hurries off to Will and the other boy while you stand with Christina and Tris.
“Dauntless born!” A man with dirty blonde hair yells. “You know the way! Initiates,” he says stepping aside to show the ledge of the roof. “Who will be the first to jump!”
“Is he serious,” Tris whispered.
“Unfortunately I think so,” you replied quietly. Everyone was silent but you saw Peter mutter, “what the fuck,” under his breath.
“Is it safe?” Someone asked, she was from amity.
The blonde man smirked, “doesn’t matter…I say jump, you jump.” “Now are we gonna stand here all day or is someone gonna step up!” Suddenly you feel someone push you forward, you turn around to see a boy from abnegation. He must’ve pushed you cause you’re Erudite. “Well well an Erudite for our first jumper!” The blonde says referring to you. Your nervous, you don’t want to jump first but then you realize it’s to late to back down. If you back away you’ll be labeled as a coward and that’s not something you can afford. You carefully walk over the edge of the building, you look down to see nothing but darkness. With a leap of faith, you jump.
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