Allegiant: Alternate Ending
(A/N: Hello, So I finished Allegiant and, as much as I loved the rest of the series, I was very upset with the ending! I have much respect for Veronica Roth and her books but I have taken it upon myself to write an alternate ending to make myself (and anyone who disliked the ending too) feel better. Enjoy!)
Where You Should Leave Off:
Page 489:
"What is it?" I say
Cara shakes her head.
"Where's Tris?" I say.
My Ending:
End of Fifty One
Tobias
Cara just kept staring down at her shoes and I was starting to get annoyed.
"For God's sake Cara! You're being ridiculous! Where is Tris!" screamed Christina.
"Tobias I'm sorry. Something happened when her and Caleb went down to the Weapon's Lab. Tris ended up going in instead of Caleb. She survived the death serum but David was waiting for her when she got through. She managed to release the memory serum but he shot her before she could stop him" she said.
For a minute I just stood there in shock. Cara probably expected me to lash out because she just stood there staring at me expectantly, but all I could do was stand there in silence.
"Is she..." but I couldn't bring myself to say the words.
"No. Some of the doctors took her into surgery a few hours ago" her voice faltered on the last words.
"That's impossible" I said flatly, "If Tris released the memory serum then none of the surgeons would be able to remember what a surgery is let alone how to perform one".
"I know that. But as soon as she left Caleb, he went back to the lab He, Matthew and I had been working in, to get more of the inoculation serum. He used it on some of the surgeons before the memory serum could get too far. He has basically been holding them at gun point since then" she paused to let me process then continued, "Please don't get your hopes up, it's a long shot".
I stood still, trying to process all of it. I probably should have run to the hospital, but all I could do was stand there and listen to the pounding in my ears. Why would she go in Caleb's place? She wouldn't do that. But I knew she would. No matter how much she hated Caleb on the surface she still loved him. She would rather die herself than see more of her family die.
I looked at Christina to see how she was reacting. She looked back at me in shock but then a look of grief crossed her face. We stood looking at each other for a moment, but then she just took off, to the hospital I assumed. I stared at her as she ran off down one of the hallways and thought about following her, but I stopped myself before I could get too far.
Tris is in surgery fighting for her life. I didn't know if I could stand at the observation window like some useless bystander and watch her life slip away. If she died in there, and I had to watch, I don't know how I would deal with it or even if could. I had seen it plenty of times in my fear landscape and it terrified me more than anything, but in the end I always knew I would wake up from it. I knew that I could go to her and feel her arms around my waist when I woke up. But this was different. If I saw her die, and knew that it was something I couldn't wake up from, knew that I would never feel her arms slide around my waist again, I didn't know if I could deal with that.
Cara put her hand on my arm, and for a minute it felt like the way Tris used to, and it reminded me of her, which felt wrong. I shrugged her off and started walking in the direction of the hospital.