It's quiet, in the hallways. No one is out of their homes at this time, it is 2 am. Blake's small hand is tangled within my own as I pull her with me through this maze. We come to a corner and I turn my head to the right then to the left to make sure there is no guards, clear.
We are on our way to meet Amar and George, they have a truck waiting for us at the front gate. I can't stay here any longer, it is just full of lies and bastards. Knowing David has power over me is driving my mind insane. I need to go home to my boys, I need to be with them.
As my mind is turning, we go around a corner and I completely forget to check. In my sight is a guard, I try to quickly get me and my daughter out of sight but he sees us before we can get away.
"Hey you stop!" He shouts, I know this guy. He was in my trainee class, I won't be able to out run him especially with Blake. Maybe I can talk my way out of this situation. "What are you doing out in the halls at this time of night" as he comes closer realisation spreads across his face, Ash, that's his name.
"Hi I'm sorry Ash, it's just I wanted to take a look at the control room with Blake" he stands there with a light blush on his cheeks, he always had a little thing for me even though I'm probably 5 years older than him.
"Oh it's okay Tris I didn't realise it was you" he nods his head then returns to the patrols. Me and Blake continue to walk, me being more careful now.
Soon we arrive at the doors where I arrived at this hell hole, Amar said he had all the cameras covered and that no one will notice us leaving.
"Mommy, whewe we gowing?" My daughter whispers. I hold my finger to my lips and shush her to be quiet. She obliges immediately, both of my children are really well behaved. The sound of our boots against the white tiles blare around us, every step makes me cringe, hoping that no one hears it.
A shadow stands next to the doors, I can already tell it's George by his perfect posture and dark hair.
"Come! We have to go, your late" he exclaims.
"I'm sorry, a guard stopped us but I talked my way out of it" I answer as we walk through the door he has held open for us. Outside, the normal lights and beams are all turned off, a pitch black atmosphere surrounds the bureau.
A lonesome truck stand a few feet away, we jog lightly arriving at the vehicle. Inside sits Amar in the front, he checks around the perimeter; making sure no one followed us. George joins him in the front as I place myself on the back seat with Blake next to me. I would put her on my knee but I want her as low as possible.
I don't know how Amar got all the lights off and the guards to go on break but he did and right now the huge gates are opening, allowing us to leave. My little girl is whimpering beside me, shes obviously confused and scared at this whole situation. She has never even been outside the walls of the bureau. I look at her petite figure, her bright blonde hair is glowing off the moon light as the breeze makes it whip her face. Tears are forming in the aqua blue eyes that are staring right at me with hope that I'll comfort her.
Now that we are a couple hundred yards away from the bureau, I lift her into my lap and start cradling her like I used to do when she was the size of my arm. Both of my children are growing up so fast, it seems that it was yesterday that I received the news that I was pregnant with Corey. At the time I was terrified but now I think that him, his father and sister are best things in my life.
There's been no sign that anyone is following us or have realised we have left, I have no idea what David's reaction will be but I know it'll be pretty bad. He could easily send someone to Chicago to bring me back or he could threaten Tobias again, but I need to go go home and I need to take the risk.
It's been around 20 minutes since we successfully escaped the bureau, Blake is sleeping peacefully in my arms because she's not used to being awake this late in the night. George told me that we should arrive at Chicago in another twenty minutes. I am so relieved that I have left that place but then my mind wanders to Mathew, I didn't give him an explanation or say goodbye. Neither did I to Emma. They will hopefully understand because they both know how much I hate it at that cruel science lab.
I look outside, when I came here they were blacked out but now I can see bare land surrounding us. There is basically nothing here except for the odd rock, the world seems empty. I know it isn't though because during my time at the bureau, they learnt me all about the earth and countries etc. It's amazing how oblivious we are inside the fence and to think that they are all living lives as experiments. It's ridiculous.
Blake is starting to shuffle, and moan a little off the bumpy terrain. She mustn't be very comfy in this truck, I've tried to make her comfortable to the best I can. My hoodie is rolled up and placed under her head whereas my jacket is draped over her long sleeved, baggy, grey jumper and her dark grey leggings. It may be August but it's still cold in the middle of the night.
15 minutes have passed so I turn my head around the drivers seat and look through the front window, in front of me are numerous of lights; spread across a large range. I notice them as the lights of the fence, the fence that surrounds my home. We're finally here, the place I haven't seen in over 6 years.
"Tris, the plan is that we're going to leave the truck here and walk the rest of the way. Once we get there, George knows the passcode for the gate to open then we'll get a train to dauntless. I know you want to go straight to Four but we need to sort out where we are going to live and how we are going to deal with the leaders. They are the whole reason me and George left in the first place, they'll kill us if they know of our existence." Amar explains to me, I frown at the plan because all I want to do is run into Tobias' arms and get my son back. I simply nod my head and place Blake against my shoulder. She starts to mumble a little as I move her but keeps her eyes shut closed.
Cautiously, I step outside the truck and turn my attention back to Chicago. It isn't too far to walk, maybe 1/2 a mile but with Blake weighing me down as well as my back pack it's going to be a hard walk. I think Amar notices my struggling so he offers his arms out and I place my sleeping girl with him. She doesn't wake at the exchange and I sigh in relief.
For the next 10 minutes we walk in silence, surrounded by the deadly darkness which acts as our camouflage. I'm dressed in a dark red vest top, black skinny jeans and my leather jacket. I also wear my black leather converse which I'm glad I wore because my feet would be killing in anything else. Eventually we arrive at the gate and after George enters the passcode code, it opens to reveal the dark city of Chicago. All the lights have been turned off because of the rules but it has never looked brighter to me. I've missed my home so much.
Blake is starting to stir so I retrieve her from Amar and start stroking her blonde locks. She lifts her head at me with a confused look, she has no idea where we are.
"Hey baby, we're here. We need to go to dauntless though before you can go back to bed" I whisper to her.
"What daunwess?" She asks but struggling over the big word.
"It's mommy's old home and we are going to go back there" I explain "Corey and daddy are there"
She stills looks confused but she doesn't question me. I look at my watch and see that it is 2:56, the train should come in around 7 minutes. I may have been gone for a long time but I still remember the train times. We approach the tracks and place ourselves on the floor waiting for the train to come. Amar will have to carry Blake on, I trust him with my life but it's hard to let someone jump on a train with your child, especially when it's still moving.
To my left I can see the headlights of our transportation coming, I stand up and hand Blake back to Amar then grab both of our bags. We start running, getting ready to jump on. The fresh air consumes my lungs, I haven't had a good breath since I arrived at the bureau. It may of been clean but it still felt as if you were trapped within its confinements.
I leap first, grabbing a hold of the bar and hoisting myself in. Soon the others join me and Blake looks startled and in shock. I chuckle at her demeanour, then scoop her into my arms. My heart is till racing at the amazing feeling off being able to witness jumping on a train again. I seriously thought I would never get those butterflies in my stomach ever again, I'm glad I can though.
We sit on the cold, metal floor for 30 minutes before we start to see the rooftop that leads to dauntless. I haven't been back here since I first jumped into my new life the first time.
We stand up and not long after jump the few feet gap on to the roof. I land on my feet unlike last time with Christina, behind me the boys landed safely as well. George is going to go into the net first then me and Blake and after Amar will follow. We approach the drop and look over the edge, just how I remember it. I checked the security cams this morning to see that they definitely still had the net because it would have been pretty bad if one of us was to jump in without a net.
George stands on the ledge and without any hesitation jumps, he doesn't scream or make a sound. Soon we hear is call from the bottom telling us it's okay to come down. I step on to the ledge, blake's legs are wrapped round my waist as I hold her tightly, my heart is beating just as fast as it did the first time so I just take deep breaths. Don't think just jump. So I do.
As I'm falling my arms keep Blake still in a protective cocoon, it's all a blur as I fall down to the net. Finally I land, the ropes dig into my body as I lay there, a content smile on my face. I feel alive again, I feel free.
As expected my girl is crying, but who wouldn't at 3 years old. She continues to scream, the horrible sound echoing through the caverns, I climb out of the net and into George's arms. I wish it was tobias' though, I can remember is tan, broad arms pulling my thin body to safety.
It just dawns on me that I might actually see Tobias today, my heart flutters at the thought. I have so much explaining to do, he probably hates me at the moment. Why wouldn't he, Corey told him about Blake so he must think that I moved on but he doesn't know how I came to be her mother.
Amar arrives shortly after me and we start our trek to Tori's apartment, we'll be safe there. She lives just passed the tattoo parlour so we head towards the pit. Once we arrive, George receives the spare key from behind a rock hidden somewhere, if we knock on the door she'll think we're just some teenagers wanting a tattoo during a game of candor or dauntless.
He unlocks the door and we enter into the shop, Blake is still whining a little off the big jump so I try to quiet her down so we don't startle Tori. What am I saying, of course we are going to startle her. Three people she believes to be dead are in her house.
A light in the back is turned on so we start to walk towards it, the doors open and there sits Tori surrounded by papers. They all have designs on them, she must have been up all night just drawing. George holds his hand up to signal to wait here, he starts to approach closer as we stand still.
"Tori?" He ask barely says louder than a whisper, tears are starting to form in his eyes. Her head quickly snaps in his direction, her eyes widen in shock. A hand snaps over her open mouth as she quickly starts to shake her head in disbelief.
"Oh my god, oh my god" she repeats as tears are streaming down her face onto the leather couch she is sitting on. In a second they are both running towards each other and wrapping their arms around one another. They stay tangled together for a coup of seconds before she pulls away from him, abruptly a slap is presented across George's face. He stands there with his mouth in a o shape. "How could you leave, you left me heart broken! I thought you were dead!" Tori screams.
Just then Blake makes a giggle noise and Tori turns her attention to us, her eyes keep flicking from us to her brother. "What the hell is happening! You were all dead!"
"Tori listen, there's a lot to explain but we need somewhere to stay" George says, holding her arm gently. She nods and allows us to come in.
I take a seat on the couch and allow Blake to walk around for a bit. She goes to explore the apartment, discovering new and interesting objects on the way, she's well behaved so I know she won't break anything.
"So someone want to tell me how you are all alive" Tori asks getting pretty frustrated now. We all sigh and begin the explanation.
By the time we are finished, Tori looks like she understands more but is still in pure shock. She nods, trying to take in all the information but then she turns towards me. "George explained that only him and Amar left because they were divergent, what about you?" An angry expression is on her face, I wonder why she is upset with me.
"David threatened four, I had to go or he would of been killed." I say simply because I don't want to go into too much detail, all I want to do is sleep now.
"Do you know the hell he has been through with you not here, he's worse than before you arrived and why the hell have you got a kid!" Raising her voice, she asks.
"When I left to go to the bureau I found out that I was pregnant with four's child. Corey, my son, is seven years old now, David sent him here a couple of days ago and I presume you've met him" she nods at this "I adopted Blake when she was a baby because she was abandoned shortly after she was born"
Tori seems to calm down now, we are all pretty tired so she offers me and Blake the guest bedroom and gives the guys some blankets for the couch and floor.
With Blake in my arms I trek to the room Tori pointed out, I lay my daughter on the bed and under the soft covers. She curls into a little ball, her chest immediately starts to slow its up and down rhythm and I know she's out like a light. I sit on the edge of the bed and lean over to untie my shoes laces, once they're off I slide my jacket of also. I lay back on the bed and close my eyes, I'm finally home.
I wake to the shoving of my shoulders, I moan and turn on to my stomach. I hear giggling and I start to pretend I'm still asleep to have a little fun. Blake keeps pushing me while laughing and I just lay there acting to be oblivious.
"Mommy, mommy wake up" she whispers in my ear but I still don't move. She does something I don't expect next, her hands start attacking me with tickles. I scream out in laughter and contort into a ball trying to escape the torture of her small hands. I jump out of bed at the speed of light and turn back to see her on her belly, fists pounding the bed with giggles escaping her mouth. I scoop her up in my arms and swing her around the room.
Back at the bureau all three of us would have fun mornings like this, I wish my little boy was here. We eventually start to get tired so I change myself into a baggy dark grey, crop top and some plain black yoga pants. I tie my converse on as well. This is the only other outfit I brought with me, guess I'll have to go shopping. Next I start to get Blake ready, she wears some black jeans, a dark grey long top and a black bomber jacket. She also has a black beanie on and her black mini combat boots. Aww she looks so dauntless.
"Mommy why do I have to weaw bwack, I wike pink" she protests.
"Because this is our new home now and here they just wear dark colours, no more pink now sweetie" her bottom lips sticks out performing the perfect pout. I'm used to not falling for it now any ways so I shake my head at her then exit the room with the sound of padding feet behind me.
Once we reach the living room, a very tired Tori sits there rubbing her temples. George and Amar are also there so Blake and I take a seat on the floor.
"So what's the plan for today, what are we going to do about the leaders?" I ask curious because I really want to see Tobias today.
"Tori has told us that she's been suspicious about the leaders and how they might be planning something. This works in our favour because if they are up to no good we can get them locked up and we can come out of hiding" Amar explains, I nod at him.
"Well how are we going to get evidence if we are in hiding" I ask.
"That's what we need you for"
Tobias POV
I faintly hear crying through the thin walls so I quickly rush to Corey's room to see him lying on his new bed with tears in his eyes. I wrap my arms around him and pull him into my body, his tears start to drop into my t shirt but after a few minutes he finishes up. His stormy eyes gaze into my own, they look dull and sorrowful.
"Hey bud what's wrong" I ask even though I already know the answer.
"When's mom coming" that's the first time he has called her mom instead of mommy, he must feel as if he has to grow up.
"I told you, I'm going to do my best to find her" I hate saying this but it's true I will try and find her but not yet. I need corey to settle into dauntless before I leave him to find his mother. He nods his head at me then gets up from the bed and walks over to the wardrobe.
We went shopping with Christina yesterday and bought everything he needs such as clothes, a bed, wardrobe, toys and much more. I get up and go help him with choosing some clothes. We decide on a black top with white writing saying "stay rad" and some black jeans. I'm already dressed so we decide to go straight to the cafeteria.
As we are about to leave I hear a knock at the door so I go to answer it, when I open the heavy metal, no one is there. I double check, look left then right but the hall is empty. I'm about to go retrieve Corey when I see a white envelope on the floor. I pick it up then walk back into the apartment.
"Dad come on let's go get some food" Corey insists but I tell him just to go play in his room for a few minutes then we'll go.
Once he has left the room, I tear open the envelope and start to read the message.
Meet at Tori's tattoo parlour in an hour, will explain everything. Bring Corey.
Love VI
My mouth lays open, is this from Tris? Is she in the city, is she in dauntless? My mind can't wrap around the fact that she could have been standing outside my door a meer minute ago. I might be finally getting some answers, it's about bloody time as well.
Corey comes running in disrupting my thoughts, he starts pulling at my jeans. He's obviously hungry, takes after his old man, I'm always hungry. I finally give in and we start to walk towards breakfast.
We take our seats next to our friends, this is going to be one long hour. I get Corey some coco pops and I grab myself some toast, my friends continue to talk and gossip but I don't pay much attention.
"Helloooo! Earth to four. Are you even listening?" My head snaps in the direction to Zeke when he mentions my name. I nod for him to carry on. "Apparently someone jumped in the net last, it was too dark for people to see though"
"Probably the new members going out to have some fun" I state but somewhere inside me there is hope that it was a certain blonde who jumped into the net last night. I stay silent for the next half hour, Corey has no problem getting to know everyone better. Guess he didn't get that trait from me.
I sense someone staring at me so I turn my head to see cold dark eyes, looking straight at me, Eric. He's got one eyebrow filled with piercings lifted and a smirk on his face, I wonder what he's up to. He abruptly stands up and starts walking towards us. I scowl at him, definitely not wanting to talk to him. He ignores my looks and places himself right in front of me.
"Hey four, haven't seen you around much." He greets with a sickening grin. I ignore his words and stare him in the eyes. "So I was just noticing that you have a kid following you around, knock some girl up. I guess you finally moved on from that 12 year old" my blood starts to boil and I would love to punch that look off his face but I know I can't do that in front of my son.
"I guess that none of your business Eric" I state through gritted teeth, everyone has turned their attention to is including Corey.
"Who's that dad?" He asks.
I'm about to answer when Eric beets me to it "oh so he is your son, I'm Eric your dads old buddy" he says while putting a fake smile on.
"Stay away from me and my family unless you want worse than what happened in the training room" I whisper over the table so just he hears. He stands up with the same smile and walks away. "Don't ever talk to that man Corey, he very bad. You understand?" He nods in acknowledgement.
I look at my watch and see that it's been nearly an hour since I received the letter, I grab Corey's hand and stand up from the table. We say our goodbyes to our friends and start walking towards the pit.
My anxiety is rising as we come closer and closer to the tattoo parlour. If it is Tris I don't know how I will react, should I be angry that she left me and her son or should I be ecstatic that's she's home.
When we arrive at the shop, all the lights are off and no one seems to be inside. I reach for door handle but someone opens it wide and drags us inside, Tori crouches slightly with her head outside the door checking to see if anyone is there. Once she is satisfied she closes the door and grabs my arm.
"Four, what your about to see may shock you but you need to stay calm okay?" I nod at her getting slightly nervous. Two figures approach from out of the shadows, they are both men and don't seem quite much older than me. Maybe around 28? Once I look closer, my eyes start to widen and my mouth starts to drop, it can't be. He..he's dead. He can't be alive. There standing a few feet away from me is my old instructor Amar, the one who was killed because of his divergence. I drop Corey's hand and start to walk towards the man who used to be the closest thing I had to a father, but he left me. Anger starts to flood theough my vains and before I realise what I'm doing my fist is in the air and towards his chin. He takes the punch without even trying to block it.
"I know I deserve that" he starts while spitting some blood on the floor before continuing "there's a lot we need to explain but first you need to see someone"
As he says that the glimpses of blonde hair catches my eye, I turn my attention to the door way to see my love standing there. Tears are in her eyes just like my own as she stares in disbelief at me. I'm frozen still, not one muscle in my body can move. Her jaw keeps moving as if she wants to say something but then decides other wise.
Finally my limbs begin to work again and I run towards her. My arms wrap warping her small structure and I lift her into the air, her thin legs wrap around my waist as we move in a circular motion. I can't stop the joyful tears racing down my face, I can't believe it's actually her.
"Tobias, Tobias. I missed you so, so much" she keeps repeating whispering into my ear. I let her down after we have hugged each other enough, I stare into her get blue eyes that match identically to our son. Within a second our lips are joined, the passion and love I have missed all comes together in this one kiss. Oh god I've missed her so much.
We pull apart when we heart the giggling of children, I look down to see a little blonde girl who seems to be younger than Corey. I instantly frown, remembering that she has another child. The girl has light blonde hair and aqua blue eyes, which definitely don't belong to me or Tris.
"Mommy!" Corey screams as he races over to his mother then jumps into her outstretched arms. They cradle each other for a minute or so before the little girl starts tugging on Tris' pants.
"Hey baby I missed you so much," she whispers to her son. "I missed you so much as well, I can't believe I'm home" she adds in my direction. I want to reply but my eyes keep flicking to the girl. A horrible feeling is bubbling inside me, is it jealousy?
"Cowey!" The girl screams and throws her arms around her brother.
"Tris I think I need an explanation" I say to her, she nods her head then asks the children to go into the other room. All the adults take seats and turn our attention to Tris.
"Okay so it's a very long story so we are going to be here for a pretty long time, oh please don't interrupt. I'll answer your questions at the end" I nod at this and she begins to explain "nearly seven years ago I received a letter from the bureau explaining that I needed to travel to the fence. They threatened to hurt you and our friends so I had to go, at first I thought maybe it was just some prank of Peter's but then in the letter it started describing who my friends were, what our apartment number was and where we had our first kiss. It also said I had a nice Ferris wheel necklace on. When I arrived at the gate there was around five men there. They tackled me to the ground and brought me to the bureau. Once I arrived there I was brought to David.
"David is the one who is the leader of the bureau, he's in charge. He basically explained how that divergent actually means I have pure genes and that I'm important, I didn't understand then but I do now. He said that he wanted me to live there and work there, I had no choice. I had to stay, to keep you safe. For the next week I was trained to be a scientist by my friend Mathew but during that time I was really ill and being sick everyday. Mathew finally persuaded me to go to the infirmary and there I discovered I was pregnant with your child. For the next few months I worked there until David called me to his office. I was surprised at first because he had not contacted me since I arrived. I soon learnt that he wasn't interested in me but my baby.
"Apparently you are not actually divergent or genetically pure so there was a risk that Corey could be genetically damaged and David didn't want that. He said there was no point in letting a child be born that had the chance of being damaged. I panicked at the thought of them killing my baby so I lied, I told him that Corey's father was Mathew. Mathew is also genetically pure so they let Corey live. I gave birth and a couple of years later I was training initiates. We went on a field trip and there I found a helpless new born baby, she had been abandoned at an hour old. My heart broke for her so I brought her back to the bureau and David let me adopt her after some convincing. Blake is the baby I found three years ago.
"Recently David found out I was lying about Corey's father so he decided it would be bet fitting to send him to Chicago. He took Corey from school and told him lies, told him that I said that my own son had to go on a mission. I confronted David about the situation and begged him to let me go home. He spilled a bit of information though, some that I wasn't supposed to know. My genes are somehow even more pure than others so I can resist death serum etc so he wanted to use my eggs and create more genetically pure children. I would have had loads of children around the bureau that I wouldn't even known if they were my child or not. For the last two days we had been planning how to get out of the bureau and come backs our friends, families and our home"
It's too much information to take in, my mind is spinning with words like genetic, damaged, David, bureau. One thing that I got from that whole explanation is that Blake is adopted so it means that Tris didn't actually have sex with another man. This makes me feel much better.
"So you never wanted to leave, you had to?" I double check and she nods. I wrap my arms around her again and then turn my attention to Amar and Tori's brother, I can't exactly remember his name though. "What about you two then, why did you leave and fake your deaths?"
"You know that we are both divergent" Amar states but more asks so I nod "well Jeanine and the leaders of dauntless were and still are slaughtering divergents. We needed to leave or we would have been killed, we had help escaping the city. Eventually we found the bureau and they took us in because of our divergence."
"I know this is a lot to take in but we need your help four. We need you to do something for us" Tori says to me.
"And what might that be?"
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