Tris-POV
Darkness. That is the only adjective I could use to describe the feeling boiling in my stomach. Suddenly my eyes shoot open. I look around. It is dark. Really dark. I start walking forwards, only to run into a wall. After a few second of pain and holding my hand up to my face, I look around at the suddenly visible glass box I am trapped in. Something about this seems vaguely familiar. I reach my hand forward to feel the wall. Glass. Of course its glass…. Maybe breakable glass? I take off the brown jacket I was wearing and wrap it around my elbow. Then, I try hitting the glass as hard as I can.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" I scream at the pain of my elbow hitting unbreakable glass. Unbreakable. Got it. I am relieved when I feel something very soothing around my feet. Wait, what the hell? I look down at the water starting to pool at my feet, slowly climbing up. Wait, am I in my dreamscape? That doesn't make sense. I'm not at dauntless, I don't think. Abandoning my thoughts, I look for a way out. One of the things I remember Tobias telling me is that I have to get my heart beat to calm down, then the land scape switches. So I need to get my heart beat down. Then thoughts of Tobias flood my brain. Oh yea, Tobias… mmm… fighting Tobias… mmm… shirtless fighting Tobias…. Mmmmmm…. I shake off what I expect to be a drooly face. Thinking about Tobias doesn't usually get my heartbeat down. I look down. The water is now at my waist. Anxiety washes over me. I take a few deep breaths. as soon as i am done, the water is over my head and I am drowning. I would start freaking out, but in my mind, I know it wouldn't help. I then start to feel very sle… slee… sleepy. Probably from the lack of oxygen.
YAAAWWWN" I can't help but try to say underwater as by body stretches to a point of flexibility that I didn't even know was comprehensible. Then I hear something. Words. They are muffled, but they are there.
"Tris? You n…. to ….." says the voice. I look around. The voices disappear. the water disappears. The landscape changes and I am in my old abnegation house. My mom is there.
"Mom?' I say as tears come to my eyes. She looks so happy. She looks up at me and says, "Hello my darling Beatrice."
I blush and look down at my stomach. My eyes open very widely at the extreme amount of blood pooling out of it.
I look up.
"Am I done?" I ask, not quite sure what I am asking.
"Yes, and you, you my dear, have done so well." She replies, tears threatening to fall down her face.
"What about the others?" I ask. "You know, Tobias, Christina, my friends?"
"They will care for each other." She says. "That is what people do."
"But what if I don't want to?" I ask.
"Then let me ask you one question." She says. "Why are you here?"
"I don't know." And that is the truth. I didn't want to die and leave all of my friends. "All I know is that I don't want to be."
"In that case, my darling child, wake up." She says. At the last part of that sentence, her voice gets much deeper.
"Tris, wake up." She says, still not her voice.
"TRIS, YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!" she screams and my eyes burst open to a bright light and my lungs once again are filled with air. I look around and notice that I am in a hospital room. I see Tobias and Caleb, both looking at me with a relieved face.
"You didn't think that I would actually go, did you?" I ask?
"What? No, no, no…" Tobias replies, while looking away.
"Maybe you were cut out for candor, because you are a terrible liar." I say.
We all share a well needed laugh.
This is going to be the start of a new adventure. One unknown, crazy, death-defying adventure, but hey, at least we don't need to jump off a building to start it.
