(continued from Allegiant's Chapter Fifty)
The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
I feel the serum clinging to my skin like oil, but the darkness recedes. I slap a heavy hand over the floor and push myself up.
Bent at the waist, I shove my shoulder into the double doors, and they squeak across the floor as their seal breaks. I breathe clean air and stand up straighter. I am there, I am there.
But I am not alone.
"Don't move," David says, raising his gun. "Hello, Tris."
I don't even look. He couldn't shoot me. He couldn't.
And then the bullet is there, in my side, but I do not feel. His lips start to form another word when I shoot him in the shoulder, knocking him down. He's not dead yet. I can't aim well in my condition. I stumble closer to his bleeding body, shut my eyes, and fire again. Nothing. No bullets. I start to panic, ideas racing through my mind, but I find my small knife in my back pocket. Do I really want to kill him like this? He is not someone I hate passionately like Eric. But Eric fought back. Eric was brutal and physical. But David is smart, dangerously smart, and is probably going to be the next Jeanine. Still, does David deserve this?
Yes. My thoughts become cloudy and I can't think straight any more. I stab him where his heart would be and I fall to my knees, out of strength. David's death will be long and agonizing, and I will have to hear his cries while I attempt to release the memory serum. "Tris," David pants. "Don't." Then his blood flows out of his mouth, bubbling up like red foam. His eyes are still there though, still alive and burning, like the inferno burning inside my own body. But this is different. I know this is one fight David doesn't have the strength to win. More red foam spurts out from David's mouth.
I turn away and make a last effort to stand, then fall on top of the device. I can remember the pass code to release the memory serum and change everything forever. Stop the experiments. Stop the genetic discrimination. Stop the factions. Do I want to do it? I looked down, back at my bullet wound. I am bleeding heavily, and I hardly acknowledged it. I feel like my body is being drained of blood. The wound is bad, deep in the side of my body. I could not feel it until now, as it sets my remaining blood on fire and starts eating away at my existence piece by piece.
I struggle to find the button for the last number of the code because of the black space growing larger in front of my eyes. The device unlocks but I can not hear. I am still in the Weapons Lab. I still exist in this world, though I am not very sure.
White light surrounds me. The pain is shredding at everything now, my legs, my head, my being. I feel like nothing. I feel like an empty body floating dead in the water. White light. Everywhere.
When am I done? I ask myself. My mother. She is approaching me in a dreamlike manner. Am I done?
She gives me a kind of sweet, sad smile. This must be it. I never got to say goodbye, I never got a last hug from Christina, a last laugh from Uriah, a last touch from Tobias. It was over. But I can't think about the past anymore. I feel a wave of peace wash over me, my pain gone and my body restored. I'm done. Right? It's all over. My mother looks at me with the same body, the same hair, and the same face I last remember her having. A tear rolls down her cheek. That isn't right. I feel so peaceful; it seems impossible to see tears when I feel so complete.
Then, before I can register my surroundings, the wave is gone. The white light is gone. My reality, struggles, and pain come thundering back to my brain, and now there is only darkness.
There's a short first chapter! I haven't been on Fanfiction for like a year! Now that I finished the Divergent series, I'm glad to be back. My username connects to Hunger Games, but personally I like Divergent more. I hope you guys will enjoy this fresh, new story.
Next chapter: Tobias.
