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Chapter 4
Caleb POV
We had been driving in the truck for the past 3 hours. I knew it was going to be a long trip but if we went all the way in silence then I might start going insane. I take a deep breath and then decide to ask Kyia some questions.
"so when were you in Chicago?" I start trying to think of a simple thing that hopefully will get her to open up.
She looks at me for a second and I can see her trying think about her answer but she stutters when she speaks
"I I Well my family come from there. Well my mum my sister and me. We left about 6 years ago. My father died and mum couldn't handle being there anymore. Nita is my Aunt and we kept in touch."
Her voice was quiet and I wanted to press her to find out more.
"But I though Benjamin was your Dad?"
She half smiled but it doesn't reach her eyes
"Benjamin is my dad, he is all that I have left. The Bureau killed my dad they just kept taking people form the fringe. Often the children were tested to see how Pure they were they Adults…they were just used for experiments to see what serums worked. One-day Dad just never came home. 2 days' later mum packed up and we left in one of the food trucks going to Boston. When we got there I don't know what mum had thought would happen but it was just the same as Chicago. No were to live no food no safety. Then mum met Benjamin. I think at first it was the fact that me Sky were safe, Benjamin kept us safe so mum was happy. "
I saw tears slide down her face I hadn't meant to make her cry I just wanted to know more about her. The wars in Chicago had been bad but that had been for such a short period of time in my life I couldn't begin to imagine what it would be like to constantly be at war trying to protect your self-trying to find food. I didn't go in to the fringe with Triss and Tobias when we had been in Chicago but I was now starting to get a Glimpse at how hard life truly was out on the fringe. She started to speak again with more strength in her voice this time.
"after we had been in Boston for 2 years' members of the Bureau came out and said that they needed staff to help inside the facility. It would mean that they would be protected earn food and that their families would be safe also. Benjamin Pleaded with my mother not to go he didn't trust them but she wanted to provide for us give us more then she had been able before. Many people went to them that day offering to work. All that happened was they never came out again. We don't know where they went or if they are still alive but mum was gone. After that we tried to lay low then Nita came to see me asked me to help her they were going to stop the Bureau. I stayed with her in Chicago until we saw Erudite take over the Dauntless and kill all the Abnegation. I knew things were going to happen quickly and went home to see Benjamin and Sky. But when I got there he told me that soldiers had been through the fringe scanning people testing DNA to find anyone who was pure. They had found my sister and taken her. After that I promised to stay with Benjamin we only had each other left."
This time when she stopped talking I could see tears running down her face she had to stop the truck and she couldn't see. Without thinking I leaned over towards her I pulled her over on to my lap holding her head against my chest stroking her hair telling her we would find her sister. We fell asleep with me holding her in her arms and for the first time in my life I realised that I would do anything to protect her
We woke when the sun was just starting to come up over the Horizon Kyia looked embarrassed when she realised where she had slept she crawled back in to the driver's seat and Started the engine.
"Sorry" she mumbled
"if we don't go now we won't make it make until its dark we still have a good 12 hours driving ahead of us. "
This time we drove in silence and I watched her out of the corner of my eye for the first time really looking at her. She was taller than my sister but still only slight in build. she had dark black hair and her skin was tanned from working out in the sun. Her eyes were green and she continually looked around whilst she drove. I remember Susan the person if I had stayed in Abnegation I would have married. The 2 were like chalk and cheese and Kyia had a vibrancy about her that made me want to know more about her. With everything she had been through she had been so strong but she never gave up. She caught me staring at he
"What" she laughed as looked at me
My cheeks were bright red I felt like a naughty school but who hadn't done his homework.
I smiled back at her
"nothing well may I will tell you some time." Once again we continued the drive in silence and I just wanted to get back to Chicago so I could tell Tobias that Triss alive so that we could go and bring her Home.
Sky POV
Crap crap carp was all I could think. If Matthew sees these results he will only do one thing and I am not going to let that happen. Triss may be a prisoner here but I am not going to let them take away the only bright thing left in her future. I was planning to Contact Daniel next week and tell him that she was here but it will have to be sooner. I won't be able to hid this for long and when Matthew finds out I won't be able to protect Triss.
I look at the screen in fount of me that gives the pregnancy test I had done on Triss a positive result. I delete the test and quickly run one on myself that I now will be negative. It will also highlight deficiencies in vitamins and minerals that I now Triss is going to need. That way I will be able to add them to the medication that she gets given to help strengthen both her and the baby. When they come to rescue her she is still going to need to be able to fight back against the Bureau. I have to give her a fighting chance. With the new results fed into the computer I organise the medication that she is going to need before she goes in to the First Sim he had to choose Dauntless first didn't he. Goodness knows what her memory will conger up for her to fight. I can't imagine that what she has been though in her life so far that has been that easy.
As I walk in to the Simulation room where Triss is still tied to the bed I look over to the monitoring equipment. I notice that Matthew isn't there and I immediately start to reset the systems so that the heart rate and cerebral stimulation will read at a higher level than it really is. That way Matthew will only be able to run one sim at the most before Tris's life signs will start to look unstable. This way at least I can lessen the amount of work she will have to do. I finish what I am doing with only seconds to spare. I hear the door open and Matthew walks in. He doesn't even glance at Tris he comes straight to me and before I can react his hand pulls at my hair and he crushes his lips to mine it makes me want to vomit but I have long since learnt not to push him away it just makes it more painful. And I do understand that I am only here and alive because he decided that he liked me. Thankfully he hasn't gone any further than this so far but I dint think it will be long. In that second I know that when I help Triss to escape I will leave at the same time and never come back.
When he's finished he takes the blood test results from me and I look him in the eye.
"have you got the medications ready that she will need?" he questions me I simply nod my head and walk over to Tris with a syringe in my hand.
Tris POV
I still have the weird floaty feeling in but I don't want to laugh any more I have just seen that man practically paw at the nurse you could see from the look in her eye that she didn't want it to happen. I can see her trying to blink back tears. She comes over to me and smiles.
"this is just something that will help to keep you strong whilst you are going through the sims."
After injecting my neck, she attaches electrode to my head so that they can start looking at my brain and DNA make up. Matthew doesn't even look at me he just sneers. I feel another injection in my neck then everything is Black.
When I open my eyes there is a familiar scene in front of me I am Back in Abnegation Jeannie is standing in front of me
"I can control what you see and hear," she says. "So I created a new serum that will adjust your surroundings to manipulate your will. Those who refuse to accept our leadership must be closely monitored."
Monitored—or robbed of free will. She has a gift with words.
"You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however…" She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting."
I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink the tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes.
"No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look is stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die."
"I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in the matter," replies Jeanine lightly.
Tobias takes my face in his hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end.
Then he releases me and I have to lean against the wall for support. With no more warning than the tightening of his muscles, Tobias lunges across the desk and wraps his hands around Jeanine's throat. Dauntless guards by the door leap at him, their guns held ready, and I scream.
It takes two Dauntless soldiers to pull Tobias away from Jeanine and shove him to the ground. One of the soldiers pins him, his knees on Tobias's shoulders and his hands on Tobias's head, pressing his face to the carpet. I lunge toward them, but another guard slams his hands against my shoulders, forcing me against the wall. I am weak from blood loss and too small.
Jeanine braces herself against the desk, spluttering and gasping. She rubs her throat, which is bright red with Tobias's fingerprints. No matter how mechanical she seems, she's still human; there are tears in her eyes as she takes a box from her desk drawer and opens it, revealing a needle and syringe.
Still breathing heavily, she carries it toward Tobias. Tobias grits his teeth and elbows one of the guards in the face. The guard slams the heel of his gun into the side of Tobias's head, and Jeanine sticks the needle into Tobias's neck. He goes limp.
A sound escapes my mouth, not a sob or a scream, but a croaking, scraping moan that sounds detached, like it is coming from someone else.
"Let him up," says Jeanine, her voice scratchy.
The guard gets up, and so does Tobias. He does not look like the sleepwalking Dauntless soldiers; his eyes are alert. He looks around for a few seconds as if confused by what he sees.
"Tobias," I say. "Tobias!"
"He doesn't know you," says Jeanine.
Tobias looks over his shoulder. His eyes narrow and he starts toward me, fast. Before the guards can stop him, he closes a hand around my throat, squeezing my trachea with his fingertips. I choke, my face hot with blood.
"The simulation manipulates him," says Jeanine. I can barely hear her over the pounding in my ears. "By altering what he sees—making him confuse enemy with friend."
One of the guards pulls Tobias off me. I gasp, drawing a rattling breath into my lungs.
He is gone. Controlled by the simulation, he will now murder the people he called innocent not three minutes ago. Jeanine killing him would have hurt less than this.
"The advantage to this version of the simulation," she says, her eyes alight, "is that he can act independently, and is therefore far more effective than a mindless soldier." She looks at the guards who hold Tobias back. He struggles against them, his muscles taut, his eyes focused on me, but not seeing me, not seeing me the way they used to. "Send him to the control room. We'll want a sentient being there to monitor things and, as I understand it, he used to work there."
Jeanine presses her palms together in front of her. "And take her to room B13," she says. She flaps her hand to dismiss me. That flapping hand commands my execution, but to her it is just crossing off an item from a list of tasks, the only logical progression of the particular path that she is on. She surveys me without feeling as two Dauntless soldiers pull me out of the room.
They drag me down the hallway. I feel numb inside, but outside I am a screaming, thrashing force of will. I bite a hand that belongs to the Dauntless man on my right and smile as I taste blood. Then he hits me, and there is nothing.
