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"Eric I swear to God. Answer me."

"Evangeline I am not going to tell you anything until you calm down." He moved from behind me, giving me a tiny fraction of time that allowed me to to get m breath back. I was moved so that I could lean against the wall still too weak to sit by myself. The pain medication wasn't strong as I would like it to be, there wasn't enough to dull anything; my head was still beating at a constant painful thump, causing the stars to dancing across my vision. Blinking back tears as the ripping sensation in my chest continued at such an intensity that was making it very hard to focus on anything else. I watched as Eric moved around the bed standing so he could face me. His arms were crossed, a defensive stance that I wasn't expecting, he had been so gentle when Jeanine had been in the room, it was if a switch had been flicked. He was looking at me as if I were the enemy, as if I was a problem in this mess.

"Stop treating me like a child." I shot back, irritated that he too was hiding secrets from me. I chose to ignore for his look for the meantime. I should be able to trust him, he held a part of my heart. I do believe that I held part of his as well. That should mean something too him, honesty was something that Candor strived for, but it was something that I did too, something that I thought was admirable. Relationships built on lies are relationships that collapse, and I needed mine. Especially when there was a bullet in my chest. You would think that brought couple together... Not drag them apart.

"Well, stop acting like one." He reply was mean. It was a totally and utterly unnecessary low blow. I was healing in a hospital bed, for a reason I still didn't know, wanting to know if my family and friends were okay. This was no a childlike act, it was an act of the heart. An act that I was going to defend. I may have chosen Dauntless to be my faction, but I grew up with my Abnegation family, I would always worry if they were safe. That shouldn't be mocked or written off as a childish act. There wasn't anything wrong with that. The fact Eric even considered treating me in this mannor was cutting beyond belief. In a time like this I should be able to depend on him, he was severely letting me down.

"Don't patronise me. Whats happened." This time it wasn't a question, it was a statement. An order.

"Jeanine's already told you." I snorted at his reply. Jeanine had told me nothing that I couldn't of already figured out myself. She was hiding something, something that I guessed she thought would damage any chance of me giving the information she was trying to squeeze out of me. "There was a simulation in which she was testing divergents. We got you guys up and moving, a rebel shot you. I moved you here so that you would be safe." Clearly from his voice and expression he wanted that to be the end of it. He did at least give me little trinkets of information. A rebel, that meant someone was able to resist the simulation. Someone was different.

"Wheres Tris?" He sighed, his position relaxed a little, he was expecting this question I guessed. It wasn't the first time I had asked it today.

"Your sisters whereabouts is currently unknown." Unknown? I repeated the word in my head. That didn't suit Dauntless, they normally checked their soldiers. I was under no illusion that every movement we took at Dauntless was monitored. Soldiers had trust, but we also were the most likely to rebel. To keep your soldiers under control you make sure that there is no chance that they can't even start to make plan. Tris missing? She was a rebel, there was no other explanation. My sister had found a way to rebel. Perhaps I wasn't the only rebel in the Prior clan.

"Is Four with her?"

"That is the general consensus" I nodded, that was good news. Four was a good man, he looked at my sister right, it was clear that he loved her. He was also a strong Dauntless warrior, he had the ability to keep her safe. Not that Tris would need too much help, but having a support who was good with a gun. Well, that wasn't a bad thing. Some of the panic that had filled my every breath, calmed.

Erics expression darkened when I spoke of Four. He, like my sister, was another who struggled to conceal his emotions from his face. It was clear he hated Four, for a reason that I wasn't yet told. Some rivalries were not hard to guess. Eric hated him even more when I spoke of him. Jealousy. Seeming as he was hiding stuff from me, in doing so was ripping my heart apart I took a little glee in my next comment, it was petty, it was mean. But it felt good.

"Good, I trust him." Erics face darkened further, I had done exactly what I wanted to do. I had pissed him off. "This is Erudite right?" I said, looking around, changing the subject quickly so that I didn't have to listen to some snappy result. Although I was in a crap tonne of pain I knew that I had received that most modern of treatments. Erudite were know for their brilliance, they medical knowledge was beyond all compare. Tris had once broken her arm when we were children, she started the morning with her bone snapped in two, left before noon with it fully repaired. So, at least I could take knowledge that I was in good hands that within the next 24 hours the pain would subside. I would be good as new.

"Yes." Erics reply was blunt, he had risen to the bait I had laid out.

"My brother, Caleb." I could feel the pain medication being upped again, my head was getting heavy. It would be nice to see Caleb, I missed my brother. "Is he here?" I needed a member of my family here.

"No, it is believed he is with your sister." Oh. That was okay, there was a part of me was upset that I had been left out of the loop. But I was under the sim, I had no control of what I was doing. Hell, I don't even remember what I was doing. I wasn't able to made the choice to go be with my family. So being left out was okay. If they were together... Well that wasn't a bad thing, families should be together at times like this. Perhaps that was why I was so desperate to have someone by my side. I could feel myself slipping back into sleep, the exhaustion from the constant battle for answers was finally starting to win. Clearly Eric noticed this as well, relaxing his body slightly, he moved over to me so that he could help me slip back down into bed. I only had enough energy to answer his last statement.

"Good."

"Fuck sake man. We are meant to be quiet." It wasn't the shout that woke me up, it was the crash that came before it. Someone had dropped something which had caused an offensively loud noise to echo throughout area. Idiots. For two people who were meant to 'be quiet' they had failed somewhat fantastically.

"Do you think we woke her?" The next comment was followed with a quick shuffling of boots, someone was taking a peep at me. Well, not at me specifically. But at my state of consciousness. Deciding that it would be better to just ignore those who were waiting for me outside, I allowed myself to relax. Trying my best to go back to sleep.

"Nah, shes still out cold."

"Wheres her bodyguard?"

If the two Dauntless men outside my door were trying not to wake me they were doing a pretty shitty job. The deepness of their voices were far too loud for anyone to sleep, why they could even think that there was a slight possibility that I might be was beyond me. The bodyguard, I assumed was Eric. So he did eventually leave. Romantic, leave your girlfriend when shes been shot it the chest... Brilliant.

"Dunno man, do you think he's going to tell her the truth?" The second one, the one that complained about the noise replied. His voice was less grating against my senses, but still annoying no the less. The question he posed however... I kept my eyes shut so that they wouldn't see that I was awake and realise that they should probably stop talking. Secrets had a way of getting out when those telling them were unaware that others could listen. I wasn't sure to me amused or annoyed that after all the effort I had put forward to try and pry information out, all I had to do was wait for these dunderheads to give them too me with no effort needed.

"What do you mean?"

"She's one of the stiffs that transferred. How long do you think he's going to hide that he okayed the attack on her birth faction?"

Its funny isn't it. How the answer to the questions you want to know often aren't always what you want to hear. He okayed the attack on her birth faction. Eric had okayed an attack on Abnegation. I wasn't involved in a normal sim after all, it was a way to control... He new that many of the Dauntless would not agree, killing innocents wasn't brave. It was cowardly. It was an act of an unjust war. On a faction that lived only in peaceful, selfless acts. A faction where I grew up, where my parents remained. I never asked about them. They're Abnegation, they would have been in the attack. I could feel a coldness sweep over my body, this wasn't an anger that would burn out. At that one moment it wasn't the bullet that was causing the pain in my chest, it was the ripping of my heart. The man I loved, the man I had trusted my secrets to, lead an attack on my family. On my parents the people who raised and moulded me into who I was. He had put a needle into my friends, into my new family knowing that it would take away their control to attack innocents. He put it into me... with the full knowledge that I would now pose a threat to those I loved. I need to find my sister.

This was one of the hardest chapters to write, its more of a filler one.

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