{Authors's note}
So I'm going to try to fluff this a bit. (Maybe not immediately) I don't usually write like that. I normally write thriller, horror, sci-fi so I have no experience whatsoever with romance. (wish me luck!) Sorry in advance if I screw up so bad.
PS. How the heck did I get the nickname moose?! ~ E
Subject: Rea
Condition: Unstable, missing
Bright lights shine on me from all around I don't move, or even open my eyes farther than a few millimeters. I'm completely restrained to the table. There is no way that turning to avoid the light will work. My arms are tied down to my sides, my leg straight ahead, and my head restrained at the chin and forehead. It's been this way for as long as I can remember.
A machine ahead of me changes colors every few second and beeps slowly. I can hear other machines behind my head wiring, purring and occasionally beeping.
The blue windowless door ahead of me opens and a Erudite intern comes in rolling a silver, clattering cart. Most likely with more syringes and needles to jab me with.
Jeanine leans over my head and takes off her glasses, "The subject is still not responding. But..." She held up a large lime green syringe, "This should do it. This is the final touch."
She brought the point down right onto my eye lid.
I sat straight up and grabbed her wrist, holding the needle in her hand away from me I screamed, "No more! It hurts! Why are you doing this?!Who am I? What am I? What the heck?!"
Jeanine's face melted into a scared girl's, who held a pained expression. Shocked, I let go of her wrist and moved back on the bed. The large leather straps that held me down were gone.
"Who the heck are you?! Why are you stabbing me?!"
The girl's face twisted into a confused expression, but she responded, "I'm Christina. I wasn't stabbing you. I was putting eye liner on you, Four said that since somebody was looking for you, you needed a bit of a makeover." She held up a mirror for me to see.
Just then I realized that my hair no longer went down to the center of my back, it now stopped just below my shoulders; it had also changed style and color, it changed from dark brown with two color streaks to bleached blond with black lowlights. So it looked blond on top of my head with blond bangs that cover half of my face, then it curled down into loops of grey and black. It looked like I originally had black hair, then somebody spilled blond paint on it. Yet it still looked good.
She also did make up and changed my eye color to a stunning green with contacts, I admit I looked like a different person. I smiled.
"You see?" She smiled back, "I was in the process of doing eyeshadow on your left eye, not injecting you."
I nodded and looked down embarrassed. Only to see an IV in my arm. My eyes widened. "Heck no." I reached for it with my left hand and yanked it out. The machine it was attached to started beeping in protest, but I didn't care. Nobody was pumping anything into me.
Christina looked at me wide eyed, yet fearless, "Why are you so afraid of needles?"
"I'm not afraid. I just don't like them because they bring back painful memories." I turned to show her the bruises on my arm. "Look closely at the bruises."
She leaned in and gasped when she saw what I was referring to. In or near the center of every bruise is a tiny red circle, from the tip of a needle. "What ever they injected me with got under my skin and made colored lumps there for hours to days, until it flushes out of my system and leaves the irritated skin."
"But..." She gaped, "Bruises cover nearly every inch of your skin!"
"A needle for every square inch." I responded solemnly.
Subject: Tris
I sat on Tobias's bed quietly waiting, with my legs cris cross apple sauce. Tobias should be back from working in the control room any second now and I want to be ready to go out and eat as soon as he returns. As soon as the clock on the bedside table hits5:30, his apartment door flew open.
He looked around for a second then his eyes met with mine and he smiled.
"Bad day at the control room?"
He half heartedly smiled, "Yea, but it just got ten times better now I've got you with me."
I jumped off the bed and ran for the the door, "Great, let's go eat now."
"Hey." He grabbed me by the arm before I made it to the door, "Can I at least get a welcome home kiss?"
I smiled and leaned into him. His kiss was warm and inviting as time slowed around us. Then there was a knock on the door. Something always ruins these moments. Before I broke off to reach out and open it, it just flew open instead.
Tobias pulled back, "Now what does that accomplish! Knocking and then just barging in?"
Two stood there in a grey hospital gown looking disheveled. "You're right!" She smiled, "I shouldn't have ever knocked. I forgot proper door etiquette. Don't knock it till you try it! I should have just tried to see if it was unlocked."
Tobias sighed, still holding me close to him, "That saying, Two, does not apply to doors. Now why the heck did you feel the need to ruin my perfect moment?"
It made me warm inside to know that he thought our kiss was perfect.
"Well first of all, I need you to time me, second of all the nurse lady tried to inject me with some healing crap! So I ran, and I needed somebody with the leadership position to protect me from all the doctors looking for me." She smiled sweetly as if this was a perfectly normal sentence. Dang, I hate her already.
Subject: Rea
Location: Still unknown, condition unstable
Running to Four for help was the last thing I wanted to do but there really wasn't any other option. I have no weapons, little strength, and no more leadership power over the Dauntless. I needed somebody to cover for me.
Thank goodness some part of me still remembered the way to his apartment, for reasons unknown the number just kinda popped into my head when I wanted to find him. The doctors are trying to find me because they consider me unstable and unmedicated, so I have to go the long way to the next place. I led Four and his girl friend he called Tris to a place I think I remember the Dauntless called the Chasm. I ran ahead of them weaving by people and around corners faster than I remembered them.
I finally came to a halt at the rapidly running water I remembered. Tris and Four came running up shortly behind me.
"Now what?" He yelled over the water, "I'm getting tired of your tricks Two!" I climbed up on a particular part of the railing I remembered and stood on the top rung. Then I turned around at the couple clinging to eachother and smiled.
"Time me."
Subject: Tris
She stood on the freaking top rung of the railing smiling at us. With the water pouring behind her and and the makeover from Christina Tobias ordered, she really looked good. I clung to Tobias just to make sure he was still mine. All I can think about as she stands up there is, 'Is this what Al did?' I closed my eyes and turned into Tobias to protect myself from that memory.
"Time me." She said.
Tobias looked at his watch, "5:47."
"Remember that." She smiled deviously as she leaned back into the Chasm, slipped off the top rung, and fell down to the waters.
{Authors note}
Haha! Sweet! How's that for exciting?Almost literal cliffhanger! ;) Reviews are epic! Stick around for more! ~E
