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I screamed out in pain as the man breaks one of my fingers. "I knew you could feel pain." he says with a wicked grin on his face. He breaks another one of my fingers and this time I held back the scream, I had to bite my lip in order to, and I could taste my blood. "Go to hell." I said and the man smiles, he punches me. "You think you're that tough huh, I've been here for years, suffering." he says and breaks another one of my fingers.

~David's POV~

"Okay as you all heard. Maria has been captured. Now the question is how do we save her? Factionless no doubt are expecting us to run there and get her." James says. Everyone was chatting, some saying we shouldn't go save her. "Why should we go and save one person?!" someone yells and James looks at the group. "EVERYBODY SHUT UP!" he screams and everyone goes silent again. "Thank you. Now I know most of you don't want to waste your energy to go save someone but remember this. This girl stopped all of us from murdering Abnegation. Now I won't force you all to go and help us, but at least consider it. So if anyone doesn't want to go and risk their lives to save Maria Clinton you may leave. Those who do can stay." James says and 95% of the room left.

All there was left was me, Dia, Vincent, Danny, Natalie, George, Sam, Abby, Clare, Max and fifteen other Dauntless members stayed. "Let me first say that thank you for wanting to go and help save Maria. Now lets get to planning. We need to know exactly where she is and when we need to go and save her. We can't go and just run in and shoot. So we need to get ready." James says, we get to planning.

During the planning I got to know some of the Dauntless members that want to help, one was a transfer from five years ago, her name is Ash and she's from Erudite, she's about Maria's height and has red hair. Another is a Dauntless born who's name is Eren who's about 6'3 and has blonde hair and gray, he was in the initiation I was in. "Okay so we'll go do reckon, we can see where the Factionless spots we can get through." James says, we pack some things together and run to the Factionless compound.

James, Dia, and I are hidden on a hill, the others were the other areas. James and I were looking through binoculars. "See anything?" Dia says, she was guarding us from any factionless sneaking up behind. "Nothing- Wait I think I see something." James says, he pointed with his finger to where I should look and I follow. A distance away is an old house, moss was growing on it and it looked like it was completely made of wood. I see a single window and see someone standing in the room, I adjusted the binoculars to zoom in to see Maria in there. She was bloody and her hand was wrapped. "Holy shit..." I trailed off. I handed Dia the binoculars and she looks to where I was looking and the binoculars almost fell from her hands. James takes out his walkie talkie and turns it on. "Guys we found Maria, she's in a house with moss growing on it, it's in front of us and has about four Factionless guarding it." James says, we waited for a response.

"Copy that. We found a potential weakness from where Vincent and I are at." we hear Eren saying, the others reported saying nothing potentially useful was around where they are all at. "Alright meet you guys back at the tracks we can start planning from there." James says, we start getting up to leave when I see someone walking in the room Maria's in. I look through my binoculars to see it was the leader of the Factionless, Maria backed away from him but he grabbed her arm and she seemed to wince, he struck her and she fell to the ground. The man seemed to be kicking her and I felt rage boiling in me. James puts a hand on my shoulder and I look at him and he shook his head. "We can't get her now, it's not the best time. But I promise we'll save her soon. She's tough, she'll be able to get through." he says, I look at Dia who's back was turned from us, but I can see her tensed up. Dia was shaking too, I knew she wanted to go save Maria too, but she knew we couldn't at least for now. We started to leave, I look back at the house one more time before leaving. Hold on Maria.

~Maria's POV~

After being beaten the fourth time today by Mark, who I learned the leaders name was, I find myself curled up on the bed. I didn't cry, not during any of the beatings, I know my hand was broken, and that half of my face is probably bruised along with my ribs. I hear the door unlock once again and turn my head slightly turn to see Tony, a boy who's about sixteen years old, walk in with a tray of food. Tony was the only one to actually treat me kindly, he didn't punch me like the others, he even brings me some pain killers that he was able to get. "Here." he says sitting at the edge and gives me a pain killer and a glass of water. I gladly take it and take the pill and drink half of the cup.

"Any word?" I asked, Tony would tell me what he heard from Mark of what they're planning to do to me or the war. "Yeah... they plan on executing you tomorrow night." he says, I look at the tray to see it had the usual, a piece of bread, I took it and ate it, didn't fully satisfy my hunger but it'll do. "Oh." I said, Tony looks at me like I was crazy. "That's all you have to say about going to be killed tomorrow?!" he asked, I shrugged.

"I knew that I'd die, I just didn't expect that they would execute me this early."

"You're okay with this?"

"Yep."

Tony was about to say something when Mark walks in, Tony looks at the ground and gets up with the tray and exits the room. Mark looks at me and a grin is on his face. "So we plan on killing you tomorrow night." he says, I don't say anything, just shrugged. "You know you can keep up this tough act as long as you want but I know that deep down you're terrified of us." Mark says bitterly.

"Not really. You either suck at reading peoples emotions or you became blind to it."

"I know that you're scared."

"I also know that all of you will get your asses kicked at one point."

Mark slaps me across the cheek, he looks at me with bitter hatred in his eyes. "You know this ain't gonna solve anything, killing me right? If I know my faction they'll come here on a rampage when they learned that you killed me. And trust me, you do not want to see a pissed off Dauntless member, let alone an army of them." I said, smirking a bit. Mark punches me in the gut and I doubled over, he punches my back and I fell to the ground. Mark kneels down by at my side.

"You're lucky that I'm not going to beat you up like I've been when you got here. I'm in a good mood." he says, he gets up and walks out of the room. I get up, my legs were shaking, and I stumbled to the bed and collapsed on it. I slowly closed my eyes.

I was standing in the Dauntless compound, in the pit and hear the rushing water. "Maria!" I hear a familiar voice call out and I turn to see it was Alec, running at me with the goofy grin on his face. He arrives but his expression turned into serious. "Maria I know that you think sacrificing yourself is the best idea. But know this, it wasn't." Alec says, I frowned slightly.

"Alec it was when I thought the Factionless would stop."

"Maria there's two kinds of sacrifices. There's the one where it happens suddenly and you sacrificed yourself to save the person you care about. The one I did. And then there's where you don't know the outcome and you still had time to think about it. The one you did."

"They were killing people!"

"I know, but Maria. The sacrifice I did, I knew you'd be able to live a great life."

"So would you if you lived."

"I would've been a farmer, Maria."

"And you'd be the best damn Farmer in Amity."

Alec laughs, he stops after a bit and looks at me with the same smile. "Maria... Just remember whether you live or die. I'll always be at your side." he says and everything goes black

I woke up with the light showing from the window. I sat up feeling no pain and brought my knees up to my chest, and put my head in between them. 'Alec, I'll see you soon, brother.' I thought to myself

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