Tori
A pounding came at the door and Max got up out of bed "Don't move" he motioned towards me to stay put. He grabbed his gun and quietly crept to the door. Another pounding came and he backed away.
"WHO IS IT" He yelled.
My heart was beating with anticipation and I carefully stood up out of bed trying not to make a sound. "ITS CHRISTINA, OPEN UP, Hurry"
Max glanced back at me and I shrugged. He opened the door and there Christina was with a baby cradled up in her arms.
"Oh my god" I whispered. I ran to her "What happened?"
Christina was panicking and laid him down on the kitchen counter. She was mumbling obscenities to the point where it was hard to understand what she was saying. I examined the baby as calm as I could. I knew something was wrong.
"Christina…calm down" Max said grabbing her arms, forcing her to look at him. "Are you hurt? What's wrong? What happened?"
"T-h-h-e baby, I-I think there's a tracker somewhere in him, I don't know. All I know is that someone tried to break in to Tris's house and the first place they went was Theo's room. I found blood on the window. There's something wrong, Max. Somethings really wrong…I think she's found us."
Max continued to stare her down and gave a big sigh. "Run tests on his blood, and vitals every few hours. I want a full report, at least 3, on his feces. We have to make sure that whatever they put in him doesn't stay there for long. Check what he eats, I want everything that looks odd in his system reported so we can report for immediate surgery. I'll make a few calls over to our infirmity team. We are not issuing an attack. This is strictly a run through. We stay alert for the next few days. Warn and call everyone you know. All of us are report to the safe house tomorrow by dawn. Whoever has not showed up, their on their own"
I shook my head in unbelief "Great, more people to just fend for themselves, when we're the ones who are appointed to protect them"
He hit the wall "What do you want me to do, Tori, huh?"
"Protect the ones who need you. Which is all who we've got. This isn't a survival of the fittest mission, Max this is all of us on the line. We can't afford to lose anyone else."
He blew out a huge sigh "I'm sorry, Tori. I'm not responsible for the actions and behaviors of these people anymore. That position ended years ago. That's just…" He choked "That's just how it's going to be"
"And just who are you going to call, Max? Half of us are already dead."
"Not all"
I snorted "Like who"
"The Divergents"
Christina paced the floor in the lab that I held in my garage. She sat on the hood of our car with her head down. She appeared as though she hadn't eaten in days. Once she took off her jacket, her tank top hugged onto her ribs and I noticed a few faint scars and bruises on her body. I shook my head back and forth.
Theo giggled at the telescope that was zoomed in on his feces. He crawled over on the counter towards it until I grabbed him. Ugh, I hated kids. I guess I wouldn't be hating them for long though "Oh, no you don't"
I grabbed him and placed him between me. I zoomed even more to the feces so I could take a picture of it. "Print" I mumbled.
"Hey, 'nervous Natalie'. Go grab me the kid's reports would ya?"
Head still down, Christina quietly strolled over to the printer to pick up the copies. "It's all my fault, If I would have just kept my mouth shut and told her not to-"
"Hey, Hey"I waved her off. I placed my glasses on and handed the baby over to her, "Listen, I'm not going to hear you mumble and whine all night about why you think is your fault or how bad you think this situation is. I don't care, One, and two there are other things to be worried about. Like making sure secret service doesn't come here and slit your throat while they poke those beautiful eyes right out of your sockets. I've seen it happen, you know"
Theo grabbed onto her hair and started to whimper. "You're not helping"
I shrugged "Exactly my point. So, shut up"
She rolled her eyes "Tris is going to flip"
"No, no she is not, because it is safe for all of us that her and Mr. emotionally inept know of nothing that has happened tonight. We need everyone safe. And if we have been found then we need to make sure they stay where they are. They're safer. We can't afford to lose any more of our people"
"Their divergent. It's not likely"
"…But not impossible" I choked.
Christina didn't say anything after that. Thirty minutes went by as I went over Theo's reports. I sighed. "There's nothing here. Maybe the blood you saw was from whoever broke in."
Christina shook her head "No, it can't be. Something's wrong, Tori I know it."
"I've went over these reports 20 times, there is nothing in him. He's vitals and bloodstream is perfectly healthy…I don't see wh-"
Suddenly, I heard a 'beep' alert coming from my computer. Christina came over to see the alert and as I opened the message we both gasped at the same time.
"You might need to call Tris and loverboy after all." I gulped "I'll go get Max"
Tris
He walked inside the doors of the hotel and I followed behind. Slowly and carefully. Where the hell was he going?
I hid behind the bellboy and his cart placing on my sunglasses and hood. I snook a peek over the cart and saw Tobias being escorted to his room and once I saw the elevator doors close, I made my move. "Alright, Mr.…let's see what you're up too"
I picked up my paste towards the next elevator and once I got in I used my thermal heat sketch in my glasses to identify the floor number button they pressed. Before the doors closed, a large body-built man with black sunglasses stepped in and took his place beside me. We stood there for a moment, awkwardly eyeing the door frame.
"Where you doing"
"Excuse me" Who was he to ask me that?
"Number? Of the floor?"
"Oh…" I laughed sheekily. I could feel my cheeks warming up in embarrassment. "Number floor" He sounded familiar, but I brushed it off.
He smiled "That's where I'm going to" I smiled a little back. And leaned on the edge of the rail blowing out a sigh of relief…until I heard his fingers and neck crack. "To kill your husband"
Suddenly he grabbed my throat and held me in the corner. He took his sunglasses off and I recognized who he was. "MARCUS" I squealed. I knew it!
"I'm going to enjoy kicking your ass" He said punching me, causing my body to fling over onto the opposite side of the wall. I leaped up and swung my arm across, but he dodged and through another punch. I hit the alarm button the elevator and high kicked him in the balls, causing him to hit the ground. I swung my left leg back around earning a kick to his jaw and he spit out the blood that began to ooze.
He eyed me in detest as he got up to grab me. I 'swooped' through his legs, kicked him from behind and slammed his head against the rail as hard as I could, knocking him unconscious. I took my broken glasses from the floor and released the alarm from the elevator.
"HELP! HELP! HE TRIED TO RAPE ME! HELP" I yelled for security at the end of the halls. I could see Tobias thanking his escort and putting the key in the door until I caught his attention. He eyed me in pure disbelief, running towards me. Once the guards got to me they checked to see if I was alright.
"What happened, Miss?"
"That man" I pretend to cry "He tried to rape me! Arrest him! Arrest Him! I cannot believe this" The guards rushed in the elevator and pulled a semi-conscious Marcus up off the floor.
"Is this the man ma'am?"
Tobias rushed to my aid, but before he got to me he stopped as soon as he saw the statue and well-being of his long lost father.
"Marcus…." He whispered almost in question.
"Ma'am? Do you know this man" The guards said pointing to Tobias.
"She's my wife" Tobias said as a matter-of-factly. But his eyes never left Marcus's.
"She ain't safe, you know" Marcus smirked at him, spitting out blood. "You think I'm the only one they sent. There's more coming…and their not just coming to arrest. They've got hunters everywhere and their coming for blood…especially for that little twig of yours."
Tobias leaned forward but I stopped him "No, four"
Marcus began to laugh "Tell that little snitch of yours. We've cracked the code"
The guards cuffed him "Your coming with me sir. Ma'am do you know this man"
But before I could answer, Tobias answered "No…never have, never will" He stepped over to Marcus and towered "Rot in hell"
The guard on the left "Trust me, when we run these cameras. Where he's going…he's going to wish it was hell instead"
The elevators doors closed, but I didn't move one inch. I didn't even notice the faint call of my name until Tobias shook me.
"Hey, Tris…can you hear me?" He grabbed me and pulled me close to him, but I shook out of his embrace in anger. Tobias's eyebrows burrowed in confusion. "Tris I-"
"You left us…!" I yelled staring at him in disbelief. He had nothing to say. He just stood there star-strucked. I shook my head and walked away fighting the tears that began to stroll down my face.
