Persistent

Summary: If you have not finished Allegiant, don't read this, it has spoilers. If you have read it than you know that as good as the last few chapters were, they were missing something important. This is my answer to what should have happened at the end of the book.

Tris survives her time in the Weapons Lab and this is the story's ending where she does not die and can choose to mend her relationship with her brother and move forward with Tobias, hopefully in a healthy way.

T for now for situations and themes, and you should at least be a teen to have read the books. May turn M eventually, but I don't know yet, it depends on how the story and its characters write itself.

Legal stuff: On the topic of the Divergent series, I don't own any of it; I didn't write it, and the writing of this fan fiction story with characters that are not mine is not making me any money.

A/N: I am well aware that in most situations revolutionaries don't always survive to finish out and see what they set out to do. And sadly as much as I hated to see Tris die, it was realistic and it was at least with dignity. As someone who sees the ebb and flow of the reality as written in the Divergent books, it was almost inevitable (we had already lost quite a few main characters along the way, it was just a matter of time before one or both of our beloved main character's streaks of luck ran out). As a reader and one who whishes every story had a happy ending, I hated watching Tris die and felt that empty hollow ach experienced by Tobias as he was learning to live without in the aftermath of her death. As a fanfic writer I can make an effort to right what I feel are the wrongs done to these two characters or at least to their future together.

I do not claim to be Veronica Roth, nor claim to write her characters as well as she does. I only claim to have written the rest of Tris' life and not her death. I wish to give her a chance in the brave new world she has helped to birth. So this is my answer to Tris's death.

A/N: l didn't actually expect to ever write anymore fanfic. My life got quite busy with lots of things. But it would appear that after deciding to stop writing fanfic a few years back the bug never quite left me and now I am back, at least for now with a new story in another fandom that that last few that I wrote. I could not let Tris die without taking a stab at saving her. I hope you all enjoy and please leave a review, it makes my day all the better to know if you guys like what I write.

AN: In this first chapter I have taken a chunk of direct quotes from the book and the chapter that contains Tris' death. In this chapter if it is in italics, it is not mine and was copied directly from the book into my computer. The last line that I copied, I only took part of and wrote in regular from that point on. That which is not written in italics is all I can claim as my own for this chapter.

How it should have been

Tris

Chapter 1

I hear a beep, and a churning sound.

I slide to the floor. I feel something warm on my neck, and under my cheek. Red. Blood is a strange color. Dark.

From the corner of my eye, I see David slumped over in his chair.

And my mother walking out from behind him.

She is dressed the same clothes she wore the last time I saw her, Abnegation gray, stained with her blood, with bare arms to show her tattoo. There are still bullet holes in her shirt; through them I can see her wounded skin, red but no longer bleeding, like she's frozen in time. Her dull blond hair is tied back in a knot, but a few loose strands frame her face in gold.

I know she can't be alive , but I don't know if I'm seeing her now because I'm delirious from blood loss or if the death serum has addled my thoughts or if she is here in some other way.

She kneels next to me and touches a cool hand to my cheek.

"Hello, Beatrice," she says and she smiles.

"Am I done yet?" I say, and I'm not sure if I actually say it or if I just think and she hears it.

"My dear child you have done so well…" her eyes bright with tears. "I love you so very much, but no, you are not done yet. You have much life to live and a man who loves you so very much. father and I can wait a bit longer to hold you again. Go back and live your life and embrace it, embrace your future and those who love you, and make peace with your brother, he needs you as much as you need him. Goodbye my dear child, until we meet again. Live and be brave." She bends down and she kisses the side of my cheek and then she is gone and the darkness that has been creeping at the edges of my vision finally pulls in and the world goes black.

A/N: Well I hope you all liked my latest offering of fan fiction. I know I have enjoyed writing this so far and don't know how long this will end up being, but I know that I hope to get the story to a satisfactory ending where our two favorite main characters survive and thrive together. I already know that there have been a few surprises they have already pulled on me in the writing of the story so far. I know that this has been quite a short little chapter, without much of my own content, but I can promise you that there are some much longer chapters ahead with lots and lots of my own content. I felt that I needed a solid grounding from the book as a jump off point to keep the flow of the book and make it sound most plausible. After this there is only one chapter from Tobias' point of view that is so closely tied to the book, where he discovers what has happened while he was away in the city. After that you can enjoy all sorts of original content with our lovely pair.

Drop me a review to let me know how you liked it. I am planning on posting at least once a week, but hey you never know, if I get a whole bunch of reviews, I might just post faster. In the mean time feel free to go check out some of my other works and let me know what you think of them. Reviews make the fan fiction writers very happy and can sometimes act like miracle grow to our writing abilities. Enjoy. Live, Laugh, Love ~Dragons Quill