The table is cold. Frigid, seeping into my skin, into my bones. Appropriate, perhaps, because that is what will happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been. As for the rest of me, I am not sure. Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not. Such speculations are no longer useful to me anyway.

One of Jeanine's lackeys steps forward. He slips an electrode beneath the collar of my shirt and presses to my chest, right over my heart. He then attaches a wire to the electrode and switches on the heart monitor. I hear my heartbeat, fast and strong. Soon, where that steady rhythm was, there will be nothing.

And then rising from within me is a single thought: I don't want to die.

All those times Tobias scolded me for risking my life, I never took him seriously. I believed that I wanted to be with my parents and for all of this to be over. I was sure I wanted to emulate their self-sacrifice. But no. No, no. Burning and boiling inside me is the desire to live.

I don't want to die I don't want to die I don't want to!

Jeanine steps forward with a syringe full of purple serum. Her glasses reflect the fluorescent light above us, so I can barely see her eyes.

Every part of my body chants it in unison. Live, live, live. I thought that in order to give my life in exchange for WIll's, in exchange for my parents', that I needed to die, but I was wrong; I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

Jeanine holds my head steady with one hand and inserts the needle into my neck the other.

I'm not done! I shout in my head, and not a Jeanine. I am not done here!

She presses the plunger down. "The serum will go into effect in one minute." She announces. "Goodbye Beatrice." She says it, without any guilt, no conscience, almost happy to get rid of me, a burden on her shoulders since I took my aptitude test.

My heart begins to race. Then, all the muscles in my body relax at once. No. NO. NO! I will not die! I fight the serum. A heavy, liquid feeling fills my limbs. If this is death it isn't so bad. Don't give up! screams one part of me. Just let go whispers another. I must fight this! I think of all my friends; Christina, Uriah, Zeke, Shauna, Lynn. I think of Tobias, my true love. I must do this for him. He would be devastated if I died. I must live! I fight… I fight… I fight… then my world goes black.

Hi everyone! This is...

Ha and you thought I would do that to you! I would not kill Tris this early in the story.

Though believe me... I will leave you at a REAL cliffhanger!

Please excuse my interruption and continue reading.

I wake up on another table, somewhere else in Erudite headquarters. It is an autopsy lab. They already know the cause of my "death" what are they going to do, dissect my brain?

Then I wonder, why am I not dead? Is there something wrong with the death serum they used. No, Jeanine wouldn't be that careless. Is it me. Could I possibly be immune to the death serum?

I suddenly think of Tobias. He will be experimented on now that I am "dead". Not to mention, he will probably is a fragile emotional state. I get up and walk over to the door. Locked. I must save Tobias. I walk over to one of the windows and force it open. I climb up the side of the building, digging my fingers into the cracks between the bricks. My arms ache, especially my shoulder. Only the thought of Tobias keeps me going.

I gasp and haul myself onto the windowsill of a window that has blinds. I rest for a moment. Wind suddenly whips at my hair, almost blowing me off my fragile perch. I stand and start to climb again.

Hi everyone! Thanks for reading this... this is my third FanFic.

Ok, so it isn't a REAL cliffhanger, it is more like a building-hanger, but you get the idea! :)

For everyone who liked this, please follow and review. Also you should see my other stories, though they are both Allegiant-based.

(Have you seen a ghost? and Oh No!, both by me... FactionMixer)

Thanks... I will try to update soon, believe me... this will end up at the end of Allegiant, but since I nipped the whole death serum problem at the bud, Allegiant will naturally be different.

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