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Bleeding Out
Prologue
Oh, how we lost our minds when we fell in love that night. I never thought that I would ever leave your side. Oh, how we lost our minds when we fell in love that night. Promise me you won't cry, this is our last goodbye. ~ Last Goodbye, Kesha
My entire body hurts. Everything, even breathing brings a new round of pain. I can feel a tightness in my chest but I can't remember why it's there. All I can remember is David. David shot me after I released the memory serum.
That's when I realize it. That's when I realize I'm probably dead.
I think of Tobias and Christina and Caleb, the last bit of any kind of family I had left. I hope all of our fighting will have paid off for them. I hope they'll get to live in a world that is much more stable and peaceful than the one we've grown up in. I hope that they'll move on from everything they had to do and be happy.
I see Caleb with piles of books around him. Maybe he'll teach at the school when they reopen it after things calm down, or maybe he'll work in a lab to help develop new technology to help Chicago survive. He'll find Susan and they'll get married just like they were always supposed to. They'll have a house full of kids and teach them about how the world used to be; about their aunt who died for the cause.
Then I think of Christina. I told her she would always have me and that I would never leave her and here I am. She lost Will early on, because of me, and then she just lost Uriah. I know she'll be okay, though. She'll find happiness in the new lifestyle Chicago will create and live in a world that is far more enjoyable than before.
I picture Tobias with a new family. He'll have a wife; someone who is prettier than I ever was, with a tiny version of himself running around. He'll move on from me and he'll be happy. I always knew he would be able to move on quickly, and I hope he does.
It is when I picture Tobias' life without me that I can feel my heart ache and I wonder why, even in death, that I'm in pain. Shouldn't death be more peaceful than this?
A/N: Well… better late than never, right? I just looked back at my other story and saw how many reviews/follows/favorites it had gotten and wanted to say thank you by finally getting this out. I'm getting back into the swing of writing, and thought what better way than to finally get this out? I haven't read or really thought about Divergent in years (since that disastrous last book), so this may get to be a bit OOC, but I'll try my best to keep it cannon. You guys get a prologue and chapter 1 now because they're both pretty short – but future chapters will be longer! Expect about 8-10 chapters total. I was going to wait to post this until I had everything written, but as I write I get so excited to see what people think so I can't wait anymore! But, you can most likely expect a chapter a week. As always, let me know what you think! -DR13