A/N: The time line: Beginning-Middle of Mockingjay, and right after Insurgent (as if the third book had never existed). I recommend that you have read both series (of Hunger Games and Divergent) before reading this fan fiction.
Also important: Ill be following Mockingjay's plot but of course with the twist.
Thanks!
I will be changing POVs Between Katniss and Tris.
CHAPTER 1
(As you might recall at the end of insurgent, the last line: "that's when the shouting begins")
TRIS POV:
I close my eyes. Everyone is shouting and I can't think clearly. Prior, Edith prior? Realization is still dawning on me. And someone is saying my name but that's not what's important right now.
"Tris!" the voice says again.
But all I can think is that we have to leave. We need to, and soon.
I feel a quick hand slapping against my cheek, and I snap my eyes open.
"Tris! Goodness! Open your eyes! We're talking to you!" Christiana says.
For a moment I just stare at her.
Her face is only inches from mine. I expect angry eyes to meet mine, instead she just looks annoyed.
"Sorry, what?" I ask.
I look around the Room, I turn my head over my shoulder to get a better look at what they're staring at, but it's just the plain white Erudite building's walls.
"Tobias?" I say, subtly nudging his arm with my elbow.
"Yeah?" he says leaning closer to me.
"Why is everyone staring at me?" I say quietly, so only he can hear.
He chuckles softly, "because everyone knows who you are, you're a prior, and because you were right."
Evelyn 'looking angry' is a major understatement, she's clutching the gun in her hand in a way that makes me think she's seconds away from shooting someone, probably me. I debate with whether I should just ignore her, or be very terrified. Especially knowing what she is more than capable of doing.
Everyone is standing there awkwardly now. a couple people look a bit pale, and unmoving.
"I think we should leave." I say softly. Suddenly tired, even though adrenaline is pumping through my body and my eyes are wide.
"I think so too, we can go look for somewhere to crash for the night," says Tobias.
I shake my head, "No I mean leave the city, the factions. We need to go see what's out there. You heard her! They need us." I say, ending the last part a lot louder than I Intended, I see a couple frightened looks from the corner of my eye, but some are actually nodding their head in agreement.
People start talking all at once, everyone sharing their opinion.
"Are you serious?" someone says.
"Didn't you see all of them? They're probably all dead," someone else says. Many nod their head in agreement.
"Were the cure," I say firmly, repeating the words of Edith- I mean Amanda Ritter.
"At this point, your more like a disease," says Johanna, I turn my head to her, and I realize she's right. We're not exactly the team of super heroes that Amanda Ritter made us seem that we needed to be. We've lost so much of what we all stood for, how could we be a cure if we're barely hanging on ourselves?
I don't know what to say, but Christina does.
"Look, we're all screwed up here, maybe we shouldn't leave now, at this moment, but we should eventually, probably soon." she replies but not just to her, to everyone.
I feel a small smile tugging at my lips.
Some of the Factionless look weary. We are still trapped here, they still have all our weapons, but how much power does Evelyn really have? A flash of all those bodies from the video crosses my mind, and I feel a sick feeling in my stomach, rising to my throat, but I swallow hard, it's too much like what we just went through.
"Look, if you all want to be a bunch of pansy-cakes that's fine. But I know what Edith prior or Amanda Ritter wanted us to do, and if you guys don't want factions then whatever, this isn't even about us anymore. It's about them! if you want to stay here in a box then fine. If you're going to let whoever is still out there" I say, pointing to the now blank screen, "...hopeless, then FINE." I pause, making sure I'm capturing their full attention,
"But I won't."
I have everyone's attention, I know I do. Even the faction-less look interested. However Evelyn looks like I slapped her, I hear what she said to Tory earlier echo in my head, "I have not been starving for more than a decade just to give in to a dauntless woman with a leg Injury,"
I can't imagine what she's thinking. I don't have any intention on leading anything, but I don't want her in charge. She's just as manipulative as Jeanine.
She's staring at me. Oh! If looks could, I'd be shot, stabbed, and choked 100 different ways. But honestly I really don't care. Because we both know: that wouldn't help her in any way. Tobias would probably declare war with her. I look back up to him, happy that he believes in me, happy that he's still here, that I didn't lose him, to me I won. I thought for sure I'd lost him, I had made my choice, but I still have him here. He's clutching my hand, but his face wears a plain mask. I give his hand a squeeze because if I've learned anything, it's that behind every mask there might be someone terrified.
"We've all fought enough battles for today" he says evenly.
Evelyn jerks her head in his direction, "I agree" she says icily, squaring her shoulders, she instantly puts on a face that holds no emotion, but with authority. She knows that her 'loyal subjects' might be wavering, and a wrong move on her part, could cause everything she built to completely fall to ashes.
All the Factionless twitch their faces toward her at the sound of her voice, but they seem a bit resistant.
She stares them all in the eye, like a silent reminder of what they've been through together. It seems she's almost pretending that she was never interrupted by that video.
I look at Tobias and he wraps an arm around me, but as we all file out of the building, before anyone can make it to the door, Evelyn's' voice reaches everyone's ears, "we'll all meet back here tomorrow about an hour before sunset. Everyone but the extremely wounded will be required to come, if you're not wounded, then we'll fix that" she says with a smirk.
The message is clear. And it makes my stomach turn a bit.
I close my eyes again, and lean against Tobias, already feeling my energy dissolving. I hadn't slept in what seems like forever. I feel him lifting me up easily into his arms. I feel the wind on my face and bear arms, as I suppose we exit through the doors. I breathe in, and I smell the damp air, it's now only drizzling, Tobias pulls my head further into his body; I let my shoulders relax, melting into him. I snuggle into his jacket, feeling and smelling his sweat, and maybe blood. But I probably smell the same. I don't fight my exhaustion. I start to lose consciousness and fall into a dreamless sleep while I hear his soft heart-beat against my ear.
My eyes snap open as I feel light pouring through curtains, and onto my face. I look around the room confused, until I see Tobias on the corner of the bed, putting on a black shirt. Just as his tattoos are covered by his shirt, he turns his head slightly towards me.
"What time is it? Where are we?" I ask groggy.
"I think it's almost noon. I figured you needed the sleep," he says with a small smile.
"Yeah, thanks"
I lay my head back down with the full intention to only close my eyes for a couple seconds, but before my head even touches the pillow, exhaustion pulls me back into Sleep.
Someone is shaking me gently; I mumble something that I don't even quiet recall made sense and roll my head back into the far too comfortable pillow. Butter shaking has turned to tapping my arms annoyingly. I decide to turn toward the source, I'm met with Tobias' face right in front of mine; I frown, but when he smiles innocently back at me I can't help but smile back. at the last second, before he moves his head away, I blow in his face. He crinkles his nose. I laugh, and in that moment I almost forget about everything. I pull myself up on my elbow as I stare at him, taking in his face, which in now cleaned, with a few cuts and bruises on his face and arms.
I finally get up, and Tobias points toward a door "you can take a shower if you want," he says as he hands me some clothes, pressing his lips to my dry lips, momentarily. He takes a step back and leaves the room, as I make my way to a bathroom. I quickly shower, scrubbing the dried blood and grime off, wishing it would wash my faults and sorrows out too. Afterwards, I towel dry, and I change into the clothes that were given to me, they're only a size or two bigger than me, my outfit consists of black pants and a black t-shirt. I throw the amity clothes that I was still wearing before I took the shower into the trash can next to the sink.
I'm not sure whose house I'm in, but I recognize the style of the house, I'd know it anywhere: I was in one of the abnegation houses. As I went down the stairs, I see Tobias eating something out of a can. He's sitting on the floor, and as I reach him he hands me the spoon and the can, and when I have my grip on the can with the eggs he made. he pulls my wrist down towards him so that I fall on his lap. I finish the rest of the eggs, though I'm not too hungry, while I lay my head against his chest, moving with the rise and fall of his Breathing. The house were in is surprisingly quiet, I hear voices outside, people already trying to re-build what they can.
"We should be leaving soon" he says quietly.
I nod my head silently.
...
We walk hand in hand back toward the Erudite building.
Most of everyone is already there. And it seems that Evelyn has everything figured out because she tells everyone to find a spot and sit, while looking directly at us. I let Tobias lead me to wherever he wants us to sit, and slump next to him. Not long after, I feel Christina sit next to me, a bandage around her thigh.
"How are you?" I ask, looking down at her leg
She shrugs, "fine, and alive. That's what counts right?"
It does.
Evelyn stands in front of everyone and begins her little speech:
"okay, so I believe we've all have had time get our thoughts in order, so I've decided it would be best to just get the whole leaving thing over with. We'll organize a small group that will leave in 1 week time, they're mission will be to go out and find whoever is out there and figure out what's really going on, and then return with information, while the rest of everyone fix back our city, I stand by what I said yesterday; were not going back to the system of the factions.. There will be a new type of government. The details will be revealed later on. For now let's put the groups In order. Raise your hand if you'd like to take part in leaving the city."...
~~~1 week later...
Tobias takes my hand, and we stand there as people from amity figure out how to open the gates. I feel the small hard drive with the video In my pocket, i hold on to it. Tobias had went back and gotten it, something about it possibly being useful when/or if we meet anyone.
Behind us stand a small group of people, some like Christina, Zeke and Uriah I recognized, but most of the others only look slightly familiar. Caleb isn't with us. They have him guarded with the rest of Jeanine's little minions. He's no longer my family. But I can't think of that now, so instead I think about what could be out there: more war, Corps? Probably. Civilization? Not likely. But we just have to make sure. I'm not exactly sure what were going to do, if we find anyone. I just know we have to go.
I turn slightly to my right and can see Evelyn from the corner of my eye, standing still, with her right hand poised beside her gun holster, In case something unexpected happens. I really don't know how I feel about her, and I don't trust her, but right now there's not much I can do, for the time being I've shot enough people. I'm kind of surprised that she's coming, but my best guess is that she wants to represent herself as our leader to whoever we find. I think she left a couple of her best Factionless to take care of things while were gone. but Her "very" best are here with her though, almost like body guards.
To my left I glance, and see Christina is standing with her arms at her side. She catches my glance and gives me a small nod; I can see a mixture of anxiety and excitement through her intense brown eyes. I look back up to Tobias, and he gives me a small smile. My heart quickens at the sight of him still here with me.
We avert our eyes toward the, now slow-moving gates, and feel the vibration through the ground, as the gates heavily slide open. My palms begin to get sweaty. And that's when the doors open at full length. I let out a small gasp just like the others. We stand there in awe, never seeing so much open space until then.
A couple of people begin to take a step forward, while others stay planted where they stand. Some take a step back, probably overwhelmed. I look at Tobias. He nods with determination set in his eyes, and we step forward... together.
We all walk out. Almost everyone hesitates, a few look back as the gates begin to close behind us all.
I don't look back. No, because even when or if we return, there's no one waiting,
no one to look back for.
a/n: Thanks for reading!
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