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Chapter 8:
The dull grey walls surround me, taunting me. Two hours ago, Tobias was admitted into the infirmary, after Peter and some other guys ambushed him at his apartment and bashed him to a pulp. By the time I found out, Peter was left responsible... well, Peter was admitted to the infirmary one hour ago. Uriah, Lynn and Zeke were happy to use him as their new punching bad. Never the less, I am proud of the new fist shaped dent in Peter's right cheek. My knuckles are bruising now.
"Where is the scum of the earth?" Tori storms through the doors to the waiting room, leaving them swinging ferociously behind her. Uriah slides in meekly shortly after her.
"He better think that as SOON as he comes out of the operation... HE IS FACTIONLESS" Tori rages. Her eye is twitching dangerously as she makes her way towards me. People jump out of her way, and I presume it has nothing to do with her being a leader. It has more to do with the fact that if anyone talks to her she will make them factionless as well.
"Tori, Peter is with some doctors, he was knocked out by Zeke, and Tobias... He is unconscious as well and is also being injected with morphine to ease some of the pain," I say as Tori approaches me. If I had it my way, there would be no pain to ease but of course, that bastard is still alive.
"Peter better not wake up anytime soon, or else I swear to god..." Tori cracks her knuckles violently.
"This could put us WEEKS behind schedule for our attack on Erudite. Months even." Tori then bursts through the set of doors that lead to the medical wing and no one stops her. That sparks a thought in my head, what if Peter did it for that very reason? Tobias hasn't even woken up since the attack so, who knows why it happened?
"Tris?" Uriah sits down in the chair next to mine.
"Mmm?" I mutter.
"What happened?" He asks. When I told the others what happened, I only told them enough to make them want to turn Peter mutated.
"He was being… bashed, by Peter and some cronies who had a grudge." I say.
"Is he okay?" Uriah asks. My eyes sting at this, I don't even know. He was admitted hours ago and I have no clue if he is going to be okay. Suddenly, the doors burst open and a tall thin woman with dark hair and a hooked nose bursts in. The first thing I notice is how out of place she looks. She wears grey pants with a tear in the thigh and an oversized faded yellow shirt. A black jumper that could hardly be classified as a jumper, hangs off her shoulders. She is not dauntless. She is storming up to the desk, making pointed looks at anyone who even looks at her sideways. Then I realise I that I know her. I know her from Abnegation.
She was Marcus Eaton's wife. Evelyn Eaton. Tobias Eaton's mother. Four's mother… She has a loud conversation with the nurse at the front, but I don't pay attention, I am dazed. Only yesterday I found out she was alive, only now I see her. I went to her funeral. I still don't understand why she is still alive.
"Miss… we don't have any confirmation of who you are? We can't let you in to see the patient under any circumstances. If you'd like, you can wait with that lady over there, she is also waiting for his release." The nurse says bluntly, pointing in my direction. Evelyn blinks at her. Eventually the nurse stares her down and Evelyn sits down next to me.
"How do you know my son-" she stops mid-sentence when she finally looks up at my face.
"Beatrice Prior…" I nod. He eyes bore into mine, recognition flooding her face. I might as well be admitted to the infirmary now, I might faint.
"We are his friends," Uriah says holding out a hand. Evelyn shakes it warily. I make a mental note to thank Uriah, I did not want to go into details about my relationship with Tobias, with his mother, who until yesterday I thought was dead.
"How did you know he was in the infirmary? How did you know something happened?" I ask.
"Erudite are not the only people who have security cameras," Evelyn mutters grimly. I feel sick. Does no one have any privacy? I thought the dauntless disabled all security cameras?
"Don't make that face, we have a few, not as many as Erudite," Evelyn spits the word 'Erudite' out violently.
"Still a violation of privacy…"I say nonchalantly, avoiding Evelyn's harsh stare. The doors burst open again, but these are the doors that lead to the wards and it is Tori who paces out and straight over to me. She stares at Evelyn for all of two seconds. Brushing herself off, I assume she knows nothing about whom she is and why she would be here.
"Tris, he is awake." She heaves out a sigh. "He want to speak to you but they aren't going to let anyone in, I practically got shoved out…"
Tori's eyes dart around the room and she throws her hands in the air.
"WHERE IS MURPHY?!" I quickly step aside as Tori then scatters from the waiting room. I need to see Tobias, he can't think that I don't want to go in. To my left the nurse is eyeing me beadily, waiting for me to snap and demand to go in, but I have a better plan. I sit down calmly next to Uriah who looks at me quizzically.
"Can you create a diversion? I need to get through the doors." I ask looking down on him. Uriah's eyes light up, he is in his element at these kinds of things.
"Paintball? I could get a whole lot of people in on it and then draw the fight down here?" he smiles mischievously.
"Perfect," I say, delighted. Uriah runs out and Evelyn looks to me.
"I'm coming with you," she says. I bite my lip but don't respond.
Twenty minutes later, loud bangs echo into the waiting room from the hall outside. A smile plays on my lips as I know that Uriah has succeeded. The nurse on duty glances up, but dismisses the sounds, this is dauntless after all. The doors crash open and Zeke and Shauna burst in, followed by Lauren and Uriah and various other dauntless. Paint sprays the walls above me and the rooms is suddenly in chaos as guns are chucked out to everyone. Zeke is yelling at the top of his lungs that 'a huge paintball fight is going on in the pit and that everyone needs to get down there'. The nurse is frantic and I can't help but gleam at it. Uriah winks at me and I burst through the doors, Evelyn hot on my trail. Looking back through the small window, the nurse does not seem to notice, as Zeke is doing some sort of dance on top of her desk. A whole lot of beds, surrounded by curtains line the edges of the room. Some patients poke their bruised heads out of them, trying to glimpse at the commotion going on outside the doors. I rush past each one, swiping the curtains open to reveal who is in them, not having any luck. I open one ferociously towards the end of the row and stop when I see Tobias' blue eyes gleaming at me.
"Tris… Evelyn?" He says, his battered body sitting on the bed, staring me right in the eyes, confusion reeking from his face.
"Tobias." Evelyn chimes in before I get the chance. A surge of jealousy overcomes me, I used to be the only one who called him Tobias. As if sensing my jealousy, Tobias ignores Evelyn's presence and looks straight towards me.
"Evelyn, I'd like to talk to Tris in private please," he says, mustering all his energy he can to sound as strong as possible. I catch a glimpse of how Evelyn takes this, not well it seems.
Her face scrunches up and she mutters, "That's the girl you spent a year looking for. Pfft," What is that supposed to mean?
"Please take your hostility outside, I need to talk to Tris." Evelyn storms out but, I can tell that's not the last we'll be seeing of her anyways. I walk up to his bed wearily. Tobias' face is covered in bright purple bruises and I feel absolutely no remorse for Peter in his unconscious state. He deserves it. I hold his hand in comfort, remembering how I had for Edward when he was stabbed.
"Why did they do this to you?" I whisper, suppressing the tears that will inevitably come.
"Peter's mother. She was under mind control," he mutters, disgusted with himself.
"How is that even possible? Peter was originally Candor before he swapped?"
"Peter was adopted. I remember Lauren telling me how it was such an anomaly. His birth mother originated from Candor but it so happens to be that she was pregnant. At the age of sixteen.
She hid her pregnancy for nine months until eventually she had to give birth. This was all covered up by her mother to avoid Erudite rumours and controversy; she put the baby up for adoption."
"Oh God." I whisper, Tobias continues quietly. "Choosing day approached and she then ultimately transferred to Dauntless. She escaped her old life and made a new name for herself here," he gestured to the room. "She was very kind, more suited to Amity I always thought. Cand-"
I cut in, slowly piecing the story together, "Candor found out about the rumours and so did everyone else. This caused controversy. The Erudite were in the habit of mind controlling the Dauntless anyway so, by killing two birds with one stone, they put her under." Tobias eyes are pained by the reality of the story.
"Do you think that Candor are conspiring with Erudite then?"
"Maybe,"he whispers.
"She caused a threat to the faction. You had to do what you had to do," I say softly. He's stopped masking his pain by this point and allows one single tear to roll down his cheek. I take him into my embrace. Even though he is weak, he holds me so strongly. The safety I feel is perfect, but too dangerous. I love him too much.
