AN: Your reviews have been so encouraging and wonderful I didn't want to leave you hanging any longer. Thank you!
Enjoy! :-)
I wake to a loud knock on the door. Tobias' arms encase me in an iron grip and I struggle to break free.
"Tobias!" I shout at him, "Tobias, wake up." I shake his shoulder as hard as I can manage. He jumps up with a start and reaches for the gun we keep on a table beside the bed.
"Tobias, calm down, someone's at the door and I couldn't get up." I explain quickly to him. He shakes his head, still trying to wake up from the deep sleep he was in. I quickly pull on some shorts and a top noticing now that Tobias must have taken my other clothes off before he fell asleep earlier. I throw open the door to find Zeke mid knock, bouncing on the balls of his feet.
"They're done with Christina's surgery. Everyone is heading down there to wait for her to wake up." He tells me quickly. By the time he's finished Tobias has emerged from the bedroom now looking much more awake.
"We'll be down in 20 minutes." He tells Zeke and then shuts the door practically in Zeke face.
"20 minutes, Tobias I want to go right now." I whine slightly.
"Let's shower first and grab some breakfast." He counters. "I am sure she won't wake up right away."
I don't want to give in, but I know I haven't showered in a long time and my stomach grumbles loudly. This causes Tobias to chuckle. "Fine." I concede.
I jump in the shower and wash quickly. Normally I would enjoy the warm stream of water, but today I can't help but think about getting to Christina before she wakes up. Once I am out I am greeted by Tobias holding two muffins. He tosses one to me.
"You can head down there. I'm going to grab a quick shower and then I'll meet you there." He tells me. I nod my head in agreement, get dressed quickly and head out. Once I leave I start to worry about what condition Christina is in. Since Zeke didn't say anything bad and seemed to be in a rather good mood I decide that she can't be doing too badly. Still I want to see her and these thoughts put some urgency in my step.
I make it to the infirmary and walk through the doors to be greeted with all of our friends lounging around the waiting room. Uriah spots me first and gets up from his seat, offering it to me to sit down since there is no available seats left. I wave him off though.
"I just got out of bed Uriah, I'd rather stand right now, thanks though. Have they said anything about her?"
"Not much. Cara came out a little while ago and said that everything went really well and she doesn't see any reason why Christina won't make a full recovery. They let Will go back to sit with her until she wakes up."
I smile in relief at receiving some good news. "So we have the meeting with Amity tomorrow, right?" Uriah interrupts my thoughts.
"Oh yeah. We should probably start planning for that."
"Yeah. I was thinking about running to get Dee and seeing if we could use one of the doctor's offices to do some planning since I know none of us will want to leave here until Christina wakes up and Cara said that could be awhile." Uriah rambles quickly.
"Sounds good." I tell him. Uriah gets up whispers to Marlene and then leaves to find Dee. A couple minutes later Tobias walks through the doors and, upon spotting me leaning against the wall, he makes his way over.
"Hey. How's Christina?" he asks me right away, knowing the most important thing on my mind right now is the welfare of my friend.
"They said she should be fine. We just have to wait for her to wake up." I explain to him in a shortened version of what Uriah told me.
"That's good." Tobias smiles and hugs me gently. I hug him back and breathe in his scent.
We are stilled locked in our embrace when Uriah walks back through the doors followed by Dee and Daniel. Uriah talks to one of the staff at the front desk quickly and when she motions to one of the closed doors behind her, I assume it's regarding us using one of the offices. He nods in my direction and I follow him into the room. Uriah, Dee, Daniel, Tobias, Zeke, Marlene, Lynn, and I all crowd into the rather small office.
Dee unrolls a map of the city on the desk and I notice several locations have already been marked in red. "These are the first three locations that we will meet Amity at." She tells us pointing to the spots indicated. I notice that all of the spots are far from Erudite, along the fence line and near the railroad tracks. This will make it less likely we will run into Erudite patrols and easier for us to get the supplies back to Dauntless.
"The first trade will be food in exchange for some hand guns and ammunition." Dee tells us.
"What about water?" Lynn asks.
"Dauntless water reserves are larger than our food stores, so we are going to wait until the second exchange to get some water." She explains. "Especially since we can carry more food if we aren't weighed down by water. And we will only be trading for drinking water. All other water used within Dauntless will have to be rationed until we can make a filtering system."
"I bet Fernando and Cara can help with the filtering system." I tell everyone.
"Good." Dee says. "Now we will want a large enough party to go meet Amity and carry the supplies, but I was thinking we should also send another party towards the Candor section of the city as a distraction in case they have Erudite watching our movements. We will all get on the same train, but the Candor party will get off first."
"That's a good plan." Tobias tells her. "Uriah, Lynn, Zeke and a few others should go to Candor. While Dee, Daniel, Tris, Marlene and I will go to meet the Amity." He suggests. No one argues with their assignments and with those plans completed so quickly we have nothing else to do besides go back into the waiting room and wait.
After waiting for over an hour I have finally settled for sitting on the ground resting my head against Tobias' shoulder. We talked for a little while about meeting Amity and then about what our next steps against Erudite should be, but those topics only keep us occupied for so long. Uriah is a source of amusement as he keeps running around trying to play jokes on certain people or waking anyone, who dares to fall asleep, in a strange way. It becomes less funny when he almost gets stabbed in the face by Lynn's knife as he wakes her up by tickling her with a feather.
After what seems like hours and my butt feels like it has fallen off, Cara finally walks through the doors leading to the patient's rooms.
"She's awake." She tells us with a happy smile of triumph on her face. I quickly jump up from my seat on the floor.
"Can we go see her?" I ask.
"Yes, but one at a time, we don't want to cause too much commotion around her right now."
I look around at everyone, silently asking what my selfless nature would never let me ask out loud.
"Well what are you waiting for Tris! Go on!" Uriah finally urges me on. I grab him into a bear hug with a giant smile on my face and whisper my thanks in his ear. I see Tobias smile softly at me before I turn around and walk back towards Christina's room.
As I walk I rub the sweat off of my palms against the sides of my legs. I've never been this nervous to see my best friend before.
When I walk through the door and see Christina talking softly with a smiling Will, it almost breaks my heart. I rush over to her side and gently wrap my arms around her shoulders.
"I was so scared Christina. I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you. When you came back we didn't know if you would wake up and I…" I ramble on, but I am stopped by a hand flying up to my mouth. I laugh when I realize it is Christina's.
"Stop right there Tris. I am here and I'm fine." She tells me. I smile at her again and sit down in the chair next to her. She asks me about what's been going on and I update her on everything that happened in the day she was out. She thanks me for taking care of Will and I shrug it off telling her that's what best friends are for. After some time of chatting lightly I notice she looks tired and I tell her I should go so that the others can come visit and she can rest. Before I get out of my seat she grabs my hands. I notice her grip is still weak, but it's firm.
"There's something I wanted to tell you and I never got a chance to before I was shot." She whispers to me, tears are filling her eyes. I wait patiently for her to continue. "I wanted to tell you that since initiation you've become my best friend, more like a sister and I love you like a sister." She smiles at me once she's finished. When she's done I have tears in my eyes too and I am taken aback and thoroughly touched by her words.
"Christina, you are the best sister I could ever wish for." I tell her sincerely. "and I love you too."
We hug again before I get up and smile at both her and Will and leave the room. When I walk out into the waiting room Tobias approaches me immediately and becomes concerned noticing the tears in my eyes.
"Is everything okay Tris?" he asks as he places his hands on my upper arms as if to steady me.
I smile back at him, "Everything is amazing." I brush the tears out of my eyes and he stares at me with a confused look on his face.
"Then why are you crying?"
I laugh lightly, "I'm crying because I'm so happy." I tell him as he pulls me into a big hug smiling lightly himself. With my face pressed against his chest I mumble to him, "Christina said she wants to see you next." He releases me and nods his head. I lean casually against the wall as I watch him walk back to Christina's room. The happiness and pure joy I feel at this moment is something I haven't experienced much of lately. This war has deprived us all of laughter and love and joy. I am determined to end this war before it goes on too long. Before many more people are touched by grief and sadness.
AN: I hope that their reunion was worth the wait. I really have loved the reviews everyone has been posting. Christina is actually one of my favorite characters so I didn't really want to kill her off :-)