A/N- I do not own Divergent or any of its characters. All rights go to Veronica Roth.
"Tris? Trissss?"
My eyes ping open. Ouch, shouldn't have done that, the bright light is blinding. I lie on a bed that raises my back slightly, and I'm hooked up to a couple of machines, covered in a yellow blanket. I must be in the infirmary.
"Damn Four slow down she's not even awake yet." I think I hear Uriah say in the distance.
"I just wanna see her please please what's wrong with that?" I don't know who this voice belongs to. Uriah said Four's name, but this voice is certainly too upbeat to belong to Four.
"Because man, like this you're gonna be way too much for her." Uriah says.
"I'll be quiet I promise." I hear a man's laugh.
Then, Four and Uriah walk into the infirmary. Uriah looks at me and shakes his head in what looks to be an apologetic way. Why would he be apologising? Then I look to Four. He is beaming with a large toothy grin, what's gotten into him?
"Four?" I croak.
"Hey, Tris!" He rushes up to me and grabs my hand. I wince because he crushes my hand way too hard, when he sees me wincing, he springs his hands open immediately. "Oh, sorry." He still smiles.
"What's going on?" I turn and ask Uriah.
"Tris I don't even know. Those two Amity men dragged him into a room after he beat up Peter, and he came back out like a completely different person. Zeke said that they gave him something called peace serum." Uriah doesn't look amused, instead he looks annoyed.
"What is that? What does it do?" Whilst me and Uriah are talking, Four is looking at me, playing with my hair.
"It's an injection and it like, chills you out to the point where you may as well be insane." Uriah says, shaking his head.
"No they just made me happy, what's wrong with that?" Four whines, pouting.
"Nothing, I guess…" I can't hold in the laughter any more, even though I am in pain.
"I like it when you laugh." Four mumbles, smiling at me.
"Right Four lets get you back to your room, Tris needs to rest." I silently thank Uriah. Even though seeing Four like this is pretty funny, I feel terrible.
"Okay one minute." Four is touching the bruises on my face. "You look tough with these bruises, Tris."
I laugh "Don't you mean to say I look awful?"
"No." He shakes his head at me, and then moves his head close, so that he's whispering in my ear. "You look good, Tris."
He pulls back and I stare into his eyes. He smiles at me, and then him and Uriah walk out of the infirmary. What just happened? I know I can't possibly look good right now. Well, to be honest, I never look good. I am skinny, small and plain. In all ways unremarkable. But Four makes me feel different.
…
A few hours later, Caleb comes to get me from the infirmary.
"Hey, you're allowed to leave now."
"Brilliant." I reply.
"We can go get some food, everyone's at the cafeteria." He says in an upbeat tone.
"Sure." I heave a sigh. Caleb gives me a sceptical look, but he helps me off the bed. We walk down to the cafeteria in silence, I don't have anything to say to him anymore. Then again, I never have. Once we get to the cafeteria, we look around and notice our friends sat at a table in the far corner. Susan notices Caleb and waves him over. He smiles at her and starts to speed up. I roll my eyes at him. I sit down next to Uriah and look up to Four who is sat opposite me, he puts his head down. I take it the peace serum has worn off, I can't help but smile to myself.
"Yeah Mr. Grumpy is back in town as you can see." Uriah says in my ear. I start to giggle and look at Four, his face is going red.
"Uri shut up will you?" he mumbles.
"Aw what's wrong Four? Don't want to go dancing amongst the daisies anymore?" When Uriah says this, Zeke spits out his drink.
"What!?" Zeke shouts, laughing.
"Oh yeah, whilst Four was high on peace serum, he kept saying that he wanted to go outside and-" Uriah is cut off by Four.
"Shut it Uriah or I swear I'll take this knife-" Four is then also cut off, this time by an Abnegation man running into the cafeteria, shouting "Erudite are coming! Everybody run!"
We all freeze. We look at each other with wide eyes. I drop my fork onto the table and start to tremble.
"How much time do we have?" Zeke shouts.
"None. There coming up to headquarters now." The Abnegation man replies.
"Quick, everyone get up. There's no time to hide. We need to run to the back of headquarters. Leave through the orchids." Four instructs.
We all nod our heads and rush up out of our seats.
"Anyone who needs to come with us, get up and follow us now!" Four shouts.
I try to stay close to him as we run through Amity headquarters. I see him pull a gun out of the back of his pants. Had he been keeping a gun this whole time? We barge through the doors and into the orchids. We can see the Erudite vehicles in the distance. Figures start to pile out of the cars, some are heading into the building, and it looks like a few are shooting at us. We sprint as fast as we can to the wire fence that runs alongside Amity. It isn't that tall so we will be able to climb over it, but I don't know where we will go from there. There are a few Abnegation members trailing behind us, including Susan and Marcus. I can hear more gunshots, and sadly, I can hear someone fall behind us. I don't have chance to turn around and see who has fallen. I feel disgusting and selfish for not turning back and helping them, for valuing my own life over theirs.
Marcus shouts "Split up!" I don't know who stays with us and who goes with Marcus.
Eventually we reach the fence, and the Dauntless wrap their fingers around the wire that makes up the fence, and start to climb over it. The rest of us follow, struggling, but still managing to make it. We fall over the fence and thump onto the grass. I look at the faces that surround me for the first time and see that I am with Susan, Caleb, Four, Zeke and Uriah. We get up and begin to run out of view from Erudite, and luckily, the cars won't be able to make it through the fence. Susan collapses onto the floor, crying. Caleb consoles her, but I just want to keep moving. It doesn't feel safe to stop here.
"Where are the others?" She sobs.
"I'm sure they'll be okay Susan, they'll find another way out." Caleb whispers to her.
"Come on, we need to get moving." Four says. He puts his hand onto the small of my back to press me forwards. I feel electric at his touch, no matter how scared I am right now.
Eventually, we hear the familiar sound of screeching metal from the train tracks. A train is approaching, and fast. We run along side it and I struggle with great difficulty to get on. But this time, I manage to get on by myself. My proudness cheers me up for a second, until we see what's on the train. Then, my heart sinks.
...
It's the factionless. I have only ever engaged with them during my initiation, when I had to bing them food. But even then I wouldn't talk directly at them, or look into their eyes. Sometimes, I even left the food for them in a crate outside the doors of the abandoned buildings where they live. This was a very selfish thing of me to do, but the factionless scare me. They make me feel uneasy, and I would never trust them.
"I've never seen the Amity armed before." A factionless woman says. She's holding a knife, its too close to me for comfort.
"That's because they're not Amity. Some of them are Dauntless." A factionless man says. He's holding a plank of wood with nails sticking out of it.
"Edward." Four nods his head at the factionless man. Do they know each other?
"Hello, Four. Didn't think I'd be seeing you again." Edward snarls. He has an eyepatch covering one of his eyes, he looks damaged to the point of insanity.
"Four?" I hear a factionless woman shout. She pushes her way through the crowd and stands directly in front of Four. Her face only a few inches away from him. "Alright dimwits, put your weapons down."
Is she addressing us or the factionless? Four is the only one who has a gun. Zeke and Uriah hold knives that they picked up when we fled the cafeteria. Then she turns around to the factionless. "I said put your weapons down god dammit! This ones okay. So they're coming with us, got that?"
The factionless give restrained nods. They are confused but look forced to comply with this factionless woman. She must hold some kind of authority amongst them.
"He's just a mindless initiation instructor from Dauntless and these are his lackeys. Why would we let him come with us?" Edward fiercely complains.
"Because I said he's okay, alright? If you give this guy any crap, you'll all lose an arm." The authoritative factionless woman spits.
I keep my head trained to the floor and try to control my shaking. I stand next to Zeke who whispers to Four, "What are you to them?"
"They know an old friend of mine." He replies, his voice low.
We continue to ride the train for what feels like a long, long time.