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When I reach Dauntless its pitch black and my shirt clings to me from sweat. Gasping for a break I heave the box through the doors. I bend over as I try to find my breath. After a couple minutes of sputtering on my own breath, I stand up straight.
"Okay." I mutter bending down to pick up the box. "I just gotta carry you to Jastin and then I can shower." With shaky steps I slowly walk down the hallway and into the Pit. I know its late, but I see some people leaning against the walls talking in low voices. My mind flashes back to when Peter tried to throw me over the chasm. My eye tingle with tears as I think of his familiar lemongrass smell. No, I tell myself. I will not remember Al. I will not think of him at this moment, I command myself. When I shuffle closer towards the people I hear my name being called.
"Kit?" Tobias leans away from the wall and advances toward me. I notice the brown bottle held closely in his hand.
"Hey Tobias." I say, trying to make my voice not sound strained.
"Where have you been all day?" He asks, eyeing the box in my hands. I try to move it around so I can look him in the face, but I'm unsuccessful.
"Oh you know, just lugging this thing from Erudite." He can clearly see i'm struggling.
"Here, let me take that." He sets his bottle down on the ground and opens his arms out to take it from me, but I back away.
"Hey now, i'm not weak." I joke, though secretly i'm begging for him to take it away from me. He inches closer to me.
"Come on, you had to carry that thing from Erudite. Hand it over." This time I do as he says, and practically shout for joy when its out of my aching arms. I feel like I could do twirls and jump over rainbows right now, but i'm by Tobias so I keep my cool. He rearranges the box so he can see me over it.
"Jastin wanted it." I mumble and start to lead the way towards his office. Its quiet on our walk there. For once in my lifetime it's awkward with Tobias.
"So, what's Jastin getting from Erudite." I turn to look at him. His curiosity is just as bright as mine was.
"Oh, you know," I shrug, "Just some Dauntless initiation simulations." He nods his head. As we descend down to the offices I sneak a look at him. His hair is shorter than it was before I died, back to the way the Abnegation cut it. When we reach the door leading to his office I turn towards him and hold my waiting arms out.
"No." He chuckled, shaking his head. My arms drop to my sides.
"What?" He still has a smile on his face.
"Come on you carried this thing all day. I can handle carrying it through a door." I want to argue with him, but I fear if I do we would be out here all night. So I turn to reach for the door and pull it open. Its pitch black inside, weird. I thought Jastin would be in here stalking me on his home videos. I flip the switch on and turn towards his desk, catching my scream before it can escape. My hands cover my mouth and I stumble backwards into Tobias at the sight in front of me. "What?" He mutters, not having seen what I have seen yet. He slightly shoves me out of the way and I see him falter with his steps. In front of us the leader of Dauntless lay, sprawled out on his desk in a puddle of his own blood.
"Oh my god." I mouth through my hands. Tobias sets the box down and steps closer to Jastin's body. I reach for his arm, yanking him back. "What are you doing?" I hiss. He looks down at me and yanks his arm from my hold.
"Checking to see if he is alive." He replies.
"I think laying in your own puddle of blood is a sign for being dead." I snort. He doesn't say anything back. I carefully follow him around the desk. "What is that." I mumble, indicating the small silver dart in the back of his neck. I reach my hands toward it, ready to pull it out when Tobias closes his own hand around mine.
"Don't." He mouths. I look up at him and pull my hand back to my chest.
"Tobias what do we do." I stutter, not finding any joy in this.
"We have to get out of here, we can't be here when they find him." He starts to walks back to the desk when I catch sight of a glowing red dot.
"Tobias they already know we were here." I whisper, pointing up to the camera. He turns slightly, only enough for him to see it through the corner of his eye.
"Come on Kit." He whispers and then he quickly exits the room, me following in pursuit. Once out in the hallway we jog back into the Pit. I scan the walls searching for any sign of life. The guy Tobias was with earlier must have left because we are the only ones out here. I shiver with that thought. The last time it was this empty was when I had stopped the simulation and my father was killed.
Tobias look down at me, as if he is asking if i'm okay. I nod my head and follow him up the path on the right side of the Pit and start to climb. I'm breathless when we reach the top of the glass room, overlooking the city. My head pounds and its at this moment that I realize I haven't eaten since my talk with Jace and Karmen this morning. Tobias leads the way to the elevators on the right side of the room, level eight. When the doors close I lean my head against the cool glass and count the beeps in my head.
One..two...four...six...eight.
The elevator reaches the eighth floor and the doors open, greeting us with silence.
"Shouldn't someone be on guard." I whisper so only Tobias can hear me. He walks quickly down the hallway, turning right at the end.
"Someone should. Only question is where are they." He mutters. There only one door ahead of us, but I already knew that. Tobias opens it calmly. The opposite wall is still covered with screens, but instead of the city its Dauntless. The Pit, the cafeteria, and the chasm. Every square inch of Dauntless is shown on the screens. Tobias eases himself into one of the chairs and starts typing away on a keyboard fiercely.
"What are you doing." I mumble standing beside him.
"I'm pulling up footage from Jastin's office." He turns to look up at me. "We can see what happened and delete the footage from when we came." As he talks he pull up the footage on one of the screen, rewinding it. I watch as we enter the room and then quickly leave, taking the box with us. He clicks another button and the video rewinds faster. "Here." He shouts, playing the footage and pointing at it.
I watch as Jastin is sitting at his desk, flipping through some papers when the door opens. He looks up and says something that I can't hear.
"Can you make it so we can hear them?" Tobias shakes his head.
"We don't record noise." I turn my attention back to the video and see that whoever has entered the room has come into the frame. Both are dressed in black, with masks covering their faces. I can tell they are having some kind of argument when Jastin rises from his chair. One of the figures places a hand on his arm pushing him back down while the other inches behind the desk. Jastin is distracted with the one shoving him in the back of his chair that he doesn't see the other one pull out a small slender gun, almost like the ones we used when we played capture the flag.
He tenses up when he feels it being pressed against his neck, then he turns to his computer and starts typing away. He points to the corner of the room where I remember a printer was. The first person leaves the view of the camera and then its just Jastin and the other one. Something passes in his face, fear? And then he sags forward from the force of the blow on his neck. Almost instantly blood starts to pool around him and then the two hooded figures vanish.
Tobias types away for a couple of minutes and then when he finishes he turns to look at me.
"Done. Now we were never there." I cross my arms and shift my feet around.
"Shouldn't we tell somebody?" He shakes his head and gets up, he stands in front of me. He is about a foot taller than me still. He places both of his hands on my shoulders.
"Hey, its okay, We're okay." I nod along with what he says, but I can't help thinking that I don't feel okay.
"I can't believe he's dead. I mean I hated him just as much as anyone else but...wow" I stutter, not really knowing what to say.
"Come on." He pulls me with him towards the door. "I'll walk you back to your room." I smile and lean against him. He reaches for the door when I hear a crack. I instantly freeze up. I don't have to say anything because he hears it to.
"Tobias.." I whisper under my breath. He straightens up and doesn't move. Then we hear it again. I crane my head to look behind us, but Tobias hisses at me.
"Don't." I still my head and close my eyes. I can feel his muscles clench together as he slowly twists the knob. When we open the door the hallway is just as empty as it was when we arrived. He closes the door behind us and we swiftly make it back to the elevator. "I'm not walking you back to your room." He mutters jabbing a finger into the button. I turn to look at him.
"Why?"
"You're coming to my room tonight." He locks eyes with me and I nod my head. The closer the elevator gets to our floor I start to hear the beeps until it settles on our floor. We step back when the doors open and aren't given a moment to process what happening when two guns are pulled on us and I hear the echos of the trigger getting pulled around me. I feel the sting in my shoulder and i'm jerked back by the force. My head slams into the ground and my vision grows dark and every breath i'm able to take in burns even more than the last one did. Finally with one shaky breath I close my eyes and I don't have the strength to try to open them again, when everything fades to black.
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