Tobias POV:
Tris collapsed in my arms. Her face is turning pale and her body is going limp. I don't know what to do or what caused this. "Tris, Tris!" I yell as I shake her, but its more of a plead than a yell. My instincts kick in and I pick her up and I just run. I don't know how running is going to help or where I'm running to but I just need to run. The trees are only a blur past me but I can only look at her face. It's pale and lifeless but I still can only run. My legs feel like they are a rubber band that is going to snap and my lungs have a fire lit inside of them but I keep running. Out of the corner of my eye to the left I see somewhat of a cave created by rocks pressed up against each other. I stop running and jog towards it. It looks stable and I peer my head into it. It about the same size as my room back home. It has a lot of trees around it and is a good place to hide until it is safe for us to go to amity. The cave is cool, but it still has the humid air, but the shade protect us from the sun. I lay tris down and slowly place her head on the ground. The color is coming back to her face but her body continues to be still. I run my fingers through her hair and just wait for her to wake up. Tris hasn't been acting normal lately but there has been a lot going on. I don't know what I would do if I lost her. How I would be able to continue on to amity and tell everyone else there that she had died. Just thinking about it makes me wonder how I could carry on at all. I love Tris so much and I haven't even told her yet. There's a lot of things that I haven't told her and we haven't even been able to live normal lives together. I look back down at Tris and she looks the same. Still some color to her face but she hasn't improved. I check her pulse again, only to make sure that it is still there. It's weak, as it was before, but it's still beating. Then I feel it getting stronger and stronger. It's determined, just like Tris. Her fingers start to move and her eyelids begin to flutter open. I call out to her again. "Tris! Tris!". Now her eyes stay open and she sits up fast with a gasp. I let out a sigh and a laughter of relief then I wrap my arms around her as fast and as tight as I could. It takes her a second to realize what is going on but then she hugs me back. "Where are we?" she asks as she spins her head around to get a view of the cave. "It's a cave that I found after you passed out" I tell her. She looks confused. "I passed out? How long ago? What happened?". "Do you not remember" I ask her. "The last thing that I remember was trying to find a place to camp" she tells, still with a confused look on her face. "ok", I tell her "you started to get pale and you couldn't stand up and couldn't respond to me about ten minutes after we started walking. You passed out about an hour ago and I found this place when I was trying to find somewhere that you would be safe". "Yeah I'm starting to remember" she tells me while she walks around the cave. "So what did I miss?" she asked as she sat down next to me again. "Nothing much" I tell her as I chuckle. "Just me freaking out about you". She does a little laugh. I don't want her to realize how much I was actually worried about her. She rest her head on my shoulder and I put my head on hers. I have a second chance to tell her everything that I was worried that she wouldn't have a chance to hear. It doesn't seem like the right time but I might not get another chance. I grab her hand with mine and clasp are fingers together. "Hey" I tell her. "there's something that I wanted to tell you". "go ahead" she says as she moves her thumb in circles on the back of my hand. "I thought that I was going to choose abnegation, marry a boring girl and live the perfect yet horrible life that my father had planned for me. But, instead I chose dauntless and I met you". Now she lifts her head from mine and looks at me right in the eyes. "I didn't know how I felt about you because I had never felt it before but when I thought that I might loose you I suddenly knew". Her face is so still it seems like she isn't even taking a breath. My heart is beating so much that I can hear it in my ears. The words are caught in my throat but I have never been more sure of anything else that I have said. I push back a strand of hair that has fallen to frame her face and I just say it. " I love you".
