Tris' POV
Then the shouting begins...
People are crowding around us, Tobias draps his arm around me protectively, a gun fires. Silence. Everyone turns and sees Evelyn, with a wild look in her eyes, holding a gun in her hand,
"Listen up!" she shouts "I will ask you questions and you will all answer truthfully!" we are all silent, "Now, what the hell was that!" she yells
"It's the truth!" shouts Tobias, "It's the information that you wanted to destroy!"
"And who gave you permission to play that video!" Evelyn shouts,
"I don't need permission I'm Dauntless Leader!" he retorts,
"Well not anymore, I'm the leader of the new goverment, and anyone who refuses my power will be executed!" a shout raises from the crowd, "You have no power over us!" Evelyn lifts her gun and shoots, the man crumbles to the floor. Dead.
"Now I can be taken seriously," she says "My first job as leader is to dispose of Beatrice Prior,"
Tobias' grip tightens around me "If you want to kill her your gonna have to kill me too," he says
"Well, we all have to make sacrifices," she says, What a Bitch! She'd kill her own son to kill me!
She lifts her gun and points it towards him, I start to panic, while he remains completely unfazed, she pulls the trigger, what happens now is completely unexpected, Caleb runs and pushes me and Tobias out of the way, the bullet hits him in the chest, he is slowly dieing,
"Caleb!" I say crotching next to him, tears spilling over my cheeks, he may be a traitor, he may of help someone try to kill me, but he is still my brother, he is still family,
"Tris listen to me, it's okay, you're going to be okay, you gotta get out of here," he says weakly,
"Where do I go?" I ask,
"During initiation I found a leak into a different control signal, it came from a different community outside ours, I need you to go and find them, all I know is that if you continue going north from Amity you wiil reach it, but I don't know how long it will take," he says, only me and Tobias, who is by my side, can hear him, everyone else is to far away and listening to Evelyn, who rambling on about how we can't rebel because we are out numbered,
"Four?" Caleb says,
"Yes?" Tobias says,
"Please take care of my sister, make sure she's safe,"
"I'd do that even if you didn't ask me," Tobias says, relief floods into Caleb's pale face, he closes his eyes and takes his last breath. He's gone.
What he has said is still going through my mind there is other people, people outside the fence and my brother's dieing wish is that I go and find them, I will do it but I need to get out of here first.
I look at Tobias who is looking around, probably for the nearest exit, Evelyn's voice breaks his daze, "Edward will you take Ms. Prior to the holding cell please," Edward clamps his hands around my shoulders and starts to drag me away, Tobias is up in an instant, punching Edward in the jaw, taking my hand and running out the room, he leads me in to a supply room and locks the door, he picks up a backpack and starts to fill it with food, weapons and clothes from different aisles across the room, he shoves a first aid kit in the bag along with four big bottles of water, there's a knock on the door, "Four, Tris! Come on open up!" it's Uriah, I look at Tobias and he goes over and opens the door, Uriah, Zeke and Christina come in, Tobias locks the door behind them,
"What are you doing?" Christina asks,
"Getting Tris out of here," Tobias says,
"Wait, me? What about you?" I ask, he shakes his head,
"I have to stay here, but I promise I'll come and find you when I can,"
"No I'm not leaving you here," I say
"You have to, I'll make sure they don't find you," he says, he hands me a backpack and pushes me, gentally towards a window, I look around at Christina, Uriah and Zeke, they look at me sadly, but don't stop Tobias, he opens the window and gestures for me to climb out, I turn to Christina, Uriah and Zeke, I walk over to them and pull them into a hug,
"Be safe Tris," whispers Christina,
"I will, I'll miss you guys," I say,
"We'll be out there with Four when we can to bring you home," says Zeke,
"Don't forget about us, Tris," Uriah says
"Uriah you're so dramatic how can I forget about you?" I say, we all pull away from the hug and I turn to Tobias, he hugs me tightly and buries his face in my neck, he pulls away a little and kisses me, when we pull back he leans his forehead to mine, "I love you, Tris, be brave, I promise I'll find you," he says quietly,
"I love you too," I choke out, he kisses me again and lifts me on to the window ledge, he hands me a locket, it has a engraving of one of my ravens on it, I open it and see a picture of the two of us just after initiation was over, in the second half there is a compass,
"I had it made when we were in Amity, never thought you'd have to use it," he says,
"Thank you," I say and kiss him again, "Good-bye," I say
"Bye," they say, and I climb out the window, I shrug on a jacket and the backpack, I run off into the distance.
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I've been walking for two weeks and still no sign of life. I'm beginning to think that there is no life here and Caleb made a mistake, when I hear it, a faint melody coming from a head of me, I walk slowly towards it, to my surprise I see a group of people, a girl about a year older than me leaning against a tree singing:
'Are you, are you, Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope side by side here with me,
Strange things did happen here no stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight, at the hanging tree.'
I step forward trying to get closer but not get noticed, but I step on a twig and it snaps, it seems to echo in the silence, no birds are tweeting, it's like they're listening to this girl sing, everyone turns to look at me and almost immediately have guns trained on me,
"Put your hands behind your head!" says a tall man, who looks a lot like the girl; I do as I'm told,
"What's your name?" he asks
"Tris Prior," I say,
"Where do you come from?" the girl asks,
"Dauntless," I say,
"What?" she says,
"I'm from the faction Dauntless," I say slowly,
"Faction, What district are you from?" she asks,
"District- Look I'm not from here I'm from a separate community," I say,
"Wait, you're from the faction program?" Says a different man,
"I guess so," I say, he walks over to me and shakes my hand "I'm Plutarch, this is Katniss," he says gesturing to the girl who was singing, "this is Gale," he says pointing to the man that looks like Katniss, "and this is Cressida, Castor and Pollux," he says pointing to what looks like a camera crew,
"Hi," I say, they all nod hellos,
"If you don't mind me asking, Tris was it? How did you get outside the fence?" Plutarch says,
"It's kind of a long story," I say,
"Well we have plenty of time to listen, let's get you back to thirteen and cleaned up," he says, I nod,
"Wait, are we seriously just going to trust her we haven't even searched her," says Gale,
"Well you can search her then if you're so excited to," says Plutarch, Gale comes toward me and takes the backpack from me, he starts to go through it and dumping everything on the floor, he gives me a death glare every time he pulls out a gun or knife,
"I didn't pack the bag!" I say after another glare, he just rolls his eyes and pulls out two envelops he looks at who they're addressed to he hands one to Katniss and one to me, me? I open it:
Tris,
If you're reading this you've probably found people
And they've probably searched you,
Or your curiosity has got the better of you,
I'm writing this letter to tell you that I will not stop trying
To find you, I will make you safe again, but you have
To promise me that you won't lose faith in me,
I swear that I will find you, if it's the last thing I do,
I love you,
Tobias x
I have tears in my eyes; I look up and see Katniss reading the other letter.
Katniss' POV
I open the letter that Gale gave me:
To whom this may concern,
(Tris if you're reading this stop, it's not your letter)
My name is Tobias Eaton, if you're reading this it means
Hopefully Tris is safe, please keep it that way, because I
Don't know what I'd do if she got hurt,
The reason she is here is because she is not safe here,
Her life was threatened, so I made her go,
I will be out there to get her as soon as it's safe for her to come
Back, but until then you need to make sure she stays strong,
I will be forever grateful to you and I owe you big time,
-Tobias
P.S. If she looks broken tell her to be brave she'll know what it means
I look at Tris, she has tears in her eyes, this Tobias guy must be very important to her, she's been torn away from the one she loves, I know what that's like, when I was forced to say goodbye to Prim before the games, she's like Prim in many ways, she has blonde hair, blue eyes and is petite, small, I walk up to her and hug her she stiffens a little but then relaxes.
"It's okay, we'll keep you safe," I say,
"Thank you," she whispers,
We get on the hovercraft, Plutarch tells her who I am and what I've been through, when she asks about what the hunger games are Gale storms off, and doesn't hear her story, she explains everything about her life, about things called aptitude tests, choosing ceremonies, dauntless initiation. She explains how she is different to other people because she is Divergent, she explains how the war that brought her here ripped her to shreds with guilt and loss, she leaves out personal details though like what she went through during her initiation and the war, because she claims she doesn't want to relive them, by the time we get back to thirteen I'm mentally exhausted, this girl has been through so much in such a small amount of time, I mean, I went through a lot of things, that have scared me for life, but her life is just as bad in a way.
I take Tris to the hospital, where my mother examines her and checks her cuts and bruises, from her travel, my mother's eyes widen when she sees her shoulder,
"What is it?" I ask,
"There is a bullet wound," says my mom,
"Oh that happened a little over a month ago," says Tris, my mother shakes her head,
"But it's further along in the healing process, are you sure about the timing?" she says,
"Yeah, I have been using this slave that is meant to speed healing," Tris says, handing a container to my mother, my mother looks through it and says,
"Where did you get this?"
"Well back home the intelligent faction, Erudite, created all sorts of things like this," Tris says,
"Do you have any other things like this?" my mother asks,
"No, I was only given that when I was shot in the shoulder to speed the healing," Tris explains, my mother nods,
"Well that's you all done," my mother turns to me "Can you get her some new clothes and some food then find her a compartment she needs to rest," my mother says,
"Okay, come on Tris," I say, I lead her down the various hallways of thirteen, I get her the drab grey uniform, give her the bland tasteless food and a tiny apartment next to mine, I never really thought anything like this would happen, ever, I wonder if Gale and I had left when we said, would we have found the factions? And if so would they have taken us in like we did for Tris, I don't know