Chapter 7

Tobias POV

She is alive, I am so sorry I didn't listen to Caleb, all I could feel was pain I didn't know what to do how to deal with it, she was my life. When I got back here all I wanted to do was forget. It hit me as I remembered that thought. I was really going to do that, but if I had I wouldn't be here now getting ready to save her. I looked around the apartment for the first time with hope maybe just maybe I would be able to share this home with Tris. No not maybe I was going to go down there get her back and then she would never be allowed to leave my side. I can imagine all of the arguments but none of them were ever going to work on me again. I heard the door open and looked around. I saw Zeke walk in he was followed closely by Lynn Shauna and Christina.

Christina started

"I have been to Abnegation and Candour; Only Susan Black was willing to come from Abnegation I have no idea why but Marcus Eaton was trying to convince everyone that we shouldn't be helping it would only make things worse. Thankfully Susan wouldn't listen but in honestly I don't know if she will be much help but as soon as I mentioned Tris there was nothing that could stop her. Candour was a no go Jack wouldn't even let me talk with people saying that for once the truth should not come out and that he would protect his people. Caleb and Kyia have gone to speak with Amity and Erudite." Christina looked down at the floor then looked at Zeke.

"Ok so as soon as you mention the name to Tris to any one in Dauntless it is hard not to have people who want to help. Molly and Surprisingly Drew have both said they want to come and help but if we take to many I don't how much help it will be. I have got some one though who has said they want to help but I don't know if you will want their help but he was one of the top in the initiates class and he has helped many time and usually comes out on top. It's Peter"

I look at the floor drag my hand across my eyes and then down the back of my neck.

"I was expecting Marcus not to want to help he is a coward and still clings to the thought s that Abnegation knows everything because they held the file they chose to release it. He believes we should be embracing the people beyond the wall not trying to go to war with them again, he wasn't happy when Johanna and Evelyn Joined the Council but he still has some clout."

As I finish speaking with a lot of venom in my voice this time Caleb comes through the door I look at him hopefully but I can tel that he has had as little luck with the other factions as evetone else I look at him and wait for him to speak.

"Amnity was pretty much a bust but the Prior name dose still make old friends want to help Robert Susans brother and a good friend of both mine and Tris's wants to help and I think he mentioned something about peace serum but after there was no one else I knd of stopped listening I don't now how much help he will be. I also spoke with Evelyn her opinion of Tris hasn't exactly improved she said she wouldn't stop any one but at the same time she wouldn't encourage anyone either. She also told me to remind you that there are no factions everyone is the same and sooner that was learnt the better. As I said she hasn't changed at all."

I looked at everyone in my apartment these my closest friends ready to put their lives on the line once again but this times it wasn't to save everyone it was just to save my Tris. I felt tears growing in My eyes and I turned round and wiped my face trying to gather my thoughts I wanted to be out of her now but knew that we had to plan properly first. I turned back.

"Ok anyone who is willing to come we will take let every no wait, Caleb I didn't ask how did you get here?"

"took the train" Caleb mumbled

"What" I snapped

"Sorry" may patient's starting to wear thin.

"I said I jumped on the Train with Kyia. We left a truck at the gate and to talked our way through some guards but it was easy when I mentioned Evelyn Johnsons son."

He had a smug look on his face.

"Ok as I was saying get everyone to meet by the Ferris wheel at Navy pier midnight tonight. I think we need to hit the gate on force otherwise I am sure that Evelyn is not going to let us through without a fight."

Tobias POV

8 hours later

I am waiting at the pier I look up at the Ferris wheel I can't believe that it was only 7 months ago that Tris was climbing that prove to every one she was Dauntless. I look around at the mix of people who have come forward and what to help this time not to save the world but to save Tris my Tris and we are going to bring her home.

Everyone is here.

"Right let's go" I shout,

"We will take the train. We may need to fight when we get to the gate I don't think that Evelyn is going to make this easy for us but we know why we are going to do it. Once we are through the gate we need to get to the airport. I don't know what reception we will get Kyia has said she is sure Nita will help regardless of her agenda and we also have George and Amar and I am very sure they will help as well."

I look around one last time then we head out. I still have all the train times memorised and it is there with in seconds of us waiting. I run a long side it for a few seconds until I reach out my arm and swing in to the carriage. Everyone else follows there are a few who are not as fast and I put my hand out and help Susan and Robert to jump up I see Christina next to me with her hand out to pull Caleb up and the last one in is Kyia. I look over at Christina and she has a mad grin on her face one I have seen in a long while not since she past initiation. We all know that there is no certainty what is going to happen but we do know that if Tris doesn't come back with us nor will we. Christina backs in to the carriage towards Zeke I stand by the door and look outside the wind in my face. I decide there and then that we will get back and I would do this with Tris again. I see the wall going up and yell for everyone to get ready to Jump.

We all land together some not quite as grace full as others but we were all there in One I piece. I cautiously approach the gate. There are only 2 Guards in place and Drew goes to speak with them before I know what he is doing he has them both unconscious in choke holds. I key in the codes to open the gate and it slowly moves open. With a small amount of apprehension, we head out. 2 trucks stand parked outside the one from when we Brought Uriah back and the one Caleb used to get Back here. We all pile in Me driving one and Kyia behind the wheel of the other. Christina sits up fount with me I have been quite for a while and she looks at me and says

"ok what are you thinking every so often I see the grin trying to escape your mouth and you now you're no good at hiding your emotions so you might as well tell me."

I look at Christina and this time I can feel the grin spread over the whole of my face.

"you really are a candour Smart mouth aren't you? For your information I was trying to work out what I am going to do or say to Tris as soon as I see her I'm going between shouting at her for letting herself get shot and braking her promise not to leave or just wrapping her in my arms and promising that I am never going to let her leave again. Then I was thinking of Proposing"

I look up at Christina and she is Laughing her head off.

"What …what "I say trying not to laugh myself.

"You're going to propose to Tris have you thought this through have you even though of the most important thing you need to have to be able to do it?"

I look at her confused but the serious look in her face evaporates.

"Well you're going to need a ring you not going to Propose to my best friend I can't let you do it without one" She is laughing as she finishes speaking.

"for your information" I smirk at her

"I have one already "

"show me show me show me" she screams

"Nope" I replay "no one sees this before Tris.

We quiet as we get close to the airport the last time we left here is was after we said goodbye to Tris this time we are here to get her Back. We leave the Trucks and start to walk towards the main doors as We get There George and Amar come out and welcome us with open arms. I quickly explain what Caleb has found out and they immediately agree to Help and George goes inside with Kyia followed by Caleb to find Nita. I am in two minds about letting he help me out but I know that she will know more about getting into a Bureau than anyone else and I am not about to refuse help when we don't have anyone else that will be able to do what she can.

After a number of hours, we have everything that we need to head to Boston. George and Nita try to convince us to rest before we leave but I am not wasting anymore time Boston is a 14-hour drive and knowing that I am that close to Being with Tris again means I am not going to Stop now.

Tris POV

I have onec again been taken to the Simulation room and I don't want to think about what I will experience this time the only comfort I have is that so many of my memories that they are using have Tobias in and it means that I might at least have a few minutes with him before I and woken again.

As I lie on the table Matthew walks in to the room and smiles at Sky and can see her swallow quickly he checks that the straps are tightly fastened the walks over to Sky he kisses her again the same as last time and I really feel for. When he finishes he says to her I have been sorting everything out and in only 48 hours you will be moving and you will be living with me. I will be able to keep proper tabs on you and you will be able to do everything I ask of you. I see that Sky is blinking back tears and I still don't understand why she hasn't smacked him in the face and left. Sky walks towards me and this time I am expecting the jab I feel in my neck and everything goes black.

I Wake up and see the Black and white of Candour and I know the memory that I am about to relive.

Niles stands in the centre of the room with a needle in hand. The lights above him make it shine. All around me, the Dauntless and the Candor wait for me to step forward and spill my entire life before them.

The thought occurs to me again: Maybe I can fight the serum. But I don't know if I should try. It might be better for the people I love if I come clean.

I walk stiffly to the center of the room as Tobias leaves it. As we pass each other, he takes my hand and squeezes my fingers. Then he's gone, and it's just me and Niles and the needle. I wipe the side of my neck with the antiseptic, but when he reaches out with the needle, I pull back.

"I would rather do it myself," I say, holding out my hand. I will never let someone else inject me again, not after letting Eric inject me with attack simulation serum after my final test. I can't change the contents of the syringe just by doing it myself, but at least this way, I am the instrument of my own destruction.

"Do you know how?" he says, raising a bushy eyebrow.

"Yes."

Niles offers me the syringe. I position it over the vein in my neck, insert the needle, and press the plunger. I barely feel the pinch. I am too charged with adrenaline.

Someone comes forward with a trash can, and I toss the needle in. I feel the effects of the serum immediately afterward. It makes my blood feel like lead in my veins. I almost collapse on my way to the chair—Niles has to grab my arm and guide me toward it.

Seconds later my brain goes silent. What was I thinking about? It doesn't seem to matter. Nothing matters except the chair beneath me and the man sitting across from me.

"What is your name?" he says.

The second he asks the question, the answer pops out of my mouth. "Beatrice Prior."

"But you go by Tris?"

"I do."

"What are the names of your parents, Tris?"

"Andrew and Natalie Prior."

"You are also a faction transfer, are you not?"

"Yes," I say, but a new thought whispers at the back of my mind. Also? Also refers to someone else, and in this case, someone else is Tobias. I frown as I try to picture Tobias, but it is difficult to force the image of him into my mind. Not so difficult that I can't do it, though. I see him, and then I see a flash of him sitting in the same chair I'm sitting in.

"You came from Abnegation? And chose Dauntless?"

"Yes," I say again, but this time, the word sounds terse. I don't know why, exactly.

"Why did you transfer?"

That question is more complicated, but I still know the answer. I was not good enough for Abnegation is on the tip of my tongue, but another phrase replaces it: I wanted to be free. They are both true. I want to say them both. I squeeze the armrests as I try to remember where I am, what I'm doing. I see people all around me, but I don't know why they're there.

I strain, the way I used to strain when I could almost remember the answer to a test question but couldn't call it to mind. I used to close my eyes and picture the textbook page the answer was on. I struggle for a few seconds, but I can't do it; I can't remember.

"I wasn't good enough for Abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless."

"Why weren't you good enough?"

"Because I was selfish," I say.

"You were selfish? You aren't anymore?"

"Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even."

The answer surprises me—but why? I pinch my lips together for a moment. Because it's true. If I say it here, it must be true.

That thought gives me the missing link in the chain of thought I was trying to find. I am here for a lie-detector test. Everything I say is true. I feel a bead of sweat roll down the back of my neck.

Lie-detector test. Truth serum. I have to remind myself. It is too easy to get lost in honesty.

"Tris, would you please tell us what happened the day of the attack?"

"I woke up," I say, "and everyone was under the simulation. So I played along until I found Tobias."

"What happened after you and Tobias were separated?"

"Jeanine tried to have me killed, but my mother saved me. She used to be Dauntless, so she knew how to use a gun." My body feels even heavier now, but no longer cold. I feel something stir in my chest, something worse than sadness, worse than regret.

I know what comes next. My mother died and then I killed Will; I shot him; I killed him.

"She distracted the Dauntless soldiers so I could get away, and they killed her," I say.

Some of them ran after me, and I killed them. But there are Dauntless in the crowd around me, Dauntless, I killed some of the Dauntless, I shouldn't talk about it here.

"I kept running," I say, "And . . ." And Will ran after me. And I killed him. No, no. I feel sweat near my hairline.

"And I found my brother and father," I say, my voice strained. "We formed a plan to destroy the simulation."

The edge of the armrest digs into my palm. I withheld some of the truth. Surely that counts as deception.

I fought the serum. And in that short moment, I won.

I should feel triumphant. Instead I feel the weight of what I did crush me again.

"We infiltrated the Dauntless compound, and my father and I went up to the control room. He fought off Dauntless soldiers at the expense of his life," I say. "I made it to the control room, and Tobias was there."

"Tobias said you fought him, but then stopped. Why did you do that?"

"Because I realized that one of us would have to kill the other," I say, "and I didn't want to kill him."

"You gave up?"

"No!" I snap. I shake my head. "No, not exactly. I remembered something I had done in my fear landscape in Dauntless initiation . . . in a simulation, a woman demanded that I kill my family, and I let her shoot me instead. It worked then. I thought . . ." I pinch the bridge of my nose. My head is starting to ache and my control is gone and my thoughts run into words. "I was so frantic, but all I could think was that there was something to it; there was a strength in it. And I couldn't kill him, so I had to try."

I blink tears from my eyes.

"So you were never under the simulation?"

"No." I press the heel of my hands to my eyes, pushing the tears out of them so they don't fall on my cheeks where everyone can see them.

"No," I say again. "No, I am Divergent."

"Just to clarify," says Niles. "Are you telling me that you were almost murdered by the Erudite . . . and then fought your way into the Dauntless compound . . . and destroyed the simulation?"

"Yes," I say.

"I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say that you have earned the title of Dauntless."

Shouts rise up from the left side of the room, and I see blurs of fists pressing into the dark air. My faction, calling to me.

But no, they're wrong, I'm not brave, I'm not brave, I shot Will and I can't admit it, I can't even admit it. . . .

"Beatrice Prior," says Niles, "what are your deepest regrets?"

What do I regret? I do not regret choosing Dauntless or leaving Abnegation. I do not even regret shooting the guards outside the control room, because it was so important that I get past them.

"I regret . . ."

My eyes leave Niles's face and drift over the room, and land on Tobias. He is expressionless, his mouth in a firm line, his stare blank. His hands, crossed over his chest, clasp his arms so hard his knuckles are white. Next to him stands Christina. My chest squeezes, and I can't breathe.

I have to tell them. I have to tell the truth.

"Will," I say. It sounds like a gasp, like it was pulled straight from my stomach. Now there is no turning back.

"I shot Will," I say, "while he was under the simulation. I killed him. He was going to kill me, but I killed him. My friend."

Once again everything goes Black I expect to wake up in the Simulation room but when my Eyes open Again I am in Amity.

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