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Three event fics from last month have all gone public, so enjoy!

Title: An Unlikely Pair
Rating: T
Pairing/Characters: Eric/Tris Prior
Critical Tags: Canon-Divergent, Mutual Pining, Oneshot
Summary: Tris gets assigned to work with Four one-on-one after Initiation wraps up. Only problem is, he doesn't think it's suitable since their relationship fell apart. Someone else has to step up to train her instead and, well, why shouldn't that be Eric?
Excerpt:

Max gave a chuckle which wasn’t shared, based on how Four - already standing with his arms crossed at the front of the group - was glowering. “You didn’t get your hands on the list beforehand, did you, Four?” Max laughed. “You’re with Tris Prior.”

The nausea that she had barely been able to keep in control surged in her throat. Heat flooded her face. She took a few rocky steps forward - she had to just put on a good face, right?

Four’s head shook. “Absolutely not,” he said firmly. It stopped Tris in her tracks more solidly than a punch to the gut. What, she was able to put what had happened between them aside yet he wasn’t? Not even to maintain a professional, working relationship? Hell, he had been the one to break it off. How hard would it have been to just stick to the script? It wasn’t like he was the one now standing in the center of the mentors with all eyes on him.

Max’s head cocked to the side. “...Beg pardon?”

“Absolutely not. I can’t work with her. Conflict of interest,” Four spat.

Title: Sealed in blood
Rating: T
Pairing/Characters: Four/Tris Prior
Critical Tags: Vampire AU, Initiation Fic
Summary: Dauntless has a secret. One that Initiates aren’t supposed to find out about until after they’ve been accepted to the faction. Tris has pretty bad luck stumbling into it.
Excerpt:

If Tris felt eyes on her when she held her hand over the burning coals during the ceremony, she told herself they were just from the stunned Abnegation aghast at losing one of their own. With her back to the crowd, she wasn’t able to tell the hungry glances that came from her new faction.

To be fair, though, they stared at everyone as they bled into the five bowls. It wasn’t an Erudite curiosity or an Amity politeness. There was hunger in Dauntless. That was what drew Tris to them. Something more lurked under their reckless courage.

Title: Don't Shoot the Messenger
Rating: T
Pairing/Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov
Critical Tags: Canon-Divergent, CA:CW
Summary: It’s a race between Natasha, Sam and Steve, and Ross’s international team to get to Bucharest first. Once she’s there, Nat needs desperately to get Barnes to trust her before they both end up in custody.
Excerpt:

She approached the apartment block with one hand tapping on her leg and the other holding her phone open to the GPS. Once she was confident she’d found the right place, Natasha slid the phone away in favor of a tiny set of lockpicks. However the backdoor was unsecured and she found herself immediately in the spiraling stairwell. The hair on the back of her neck stood up and she considered briefly taking out her gun. But that would be premature and would certainly set Barnes off on either fight or flight. Neither was the goal.

While she debated the next best approach, Natasha heard too late the sound of a door creaking behind her. Twisting down and dropping low, she avoided the hand that had reached to clamp over her mouth. Her leg kicked out to ensnare her foe. She collided hard against solid shins. Barnes let out a grunt, not completely invulnerable to the hit. He didn’t go down.

“Don’t!” Natasha shouted as Barnes tried another grab, this time for her shoulder. She heard servos whirring as the metal hand whiffed past her chest. She had to lunge backwards, once again on a bad foot. “I’m not here to hurt you!” she insisted.