Tobias POV
I nearly killed Eric. I wanted to so bad, everything within me just snapped when I saw him. The hatred just boiled within me. I needed to end him. That is all I could think when I beat him. It is his fault that Eli was taken, how could he betray his faction like that? How could he hurt Eli like that? The most amazing, loyal, strong person probably here in Dauntless.
I sigh softly at my own thoughts looking down to see sleeping beauty breathing softly in my arms. I smile just a little that is all I can manage right now. I need to find Eli. I need her in my arms just like Tris is right now. I need to hold her tight and never let her go, never let her out of my sight again.
The waiting room door opening quickly with Max breathing heavily. Fear and pain covering his face. No. No. "M-Max…" I stutter his name, his eyes turn to land on me and I see sorrow in my eyes.
"Four, I am so-" was all he could manage to say because I cut him off.
"No, don't say it. She can't be." I stare at him not for any reason just because it hurts, my heart hurts. I gently move Tris of me laying her across the chairs. "Eli wouldn't leave me." I mutter mostly to myself but everyone seemed to hear.
"She didn't want to leave you, Four." Zeke says softly, I turn to look at him and I could see he is fighting tears, I don't bother fighting them I just let them stream down my face one after another after another.
"She isn't dead. I would know, I would feel it. I would know something is wrong. I would feel her gone but I don't because she isn't. she is alive." I pace back and forth somehow my voice stays low for Tris's sake. She needs rest.
"Four, Eli was shot, the screen is just black." Max looks at me knowing I won't believe it unless I see it for myself. "Why don't you check, I will complete the truth serum with Eric. I will get all the answers." He holds his hand out for the serum. I hand him the serum and walk past him.
I sprint faster than my legs have ever taken me through corridor, through the pit with tears streaming down my face, everyone gives me strange looks but I don't care, I need her to be ok. Please be alive, please. I need you. I spin around the corner into the control room and walk to my computer, Max had logged out. I sign back in quickly clicking on 'eye spy' all I see is a black screen.
I bang my fists against the desk hard breaking down into tears, I put my head in my hands crying hard. "I just got her back." I mutter to myself. I put my head on the desk crying for I do not know how long. That is until I hear voices.
"What happened?" A woman's voice I recognised instantly as Jeanine questions filled with panic.
"Someone Marcus sent shot her at point blank range." A male stuttered, his voice cracked. Is he crying?
"Well is she alive?" Jeanine's voice demanded. My heart stops for a millisecond to find out the answer. I need to know the answer. tell me.
"I…I didn't check, the bullet was right near her heart. I…I assumed she would be dead." He same male voice's trembled and cracked some more.
"Well check you moron!" Jeanine shouts at him, which just seemed to make the male angry because he is now shouting.
"This would never have happened if you just left her alone! You took her from her family! You took a 14 year old girl from her family just to torture her about something that we do not need to know. If she is dead then it is on you! If she is dead I hope the brother comes here and kills you like you may or may not have killed Eli!" I raise my eyebrows in shock, Did Eli get to him too? Is there anyone that she cannot effect? Everyone loves her.
"I will just check myself, you are dismissed." Jeanine commands.
I hear movement then someone being slammed against the wall. "Don't go near her, you have done enough!" the male voice echoes through the monitor.
I sit in my chair stunned, this male is attached to her, and he cares about her just like everyone else. I hear movement closer, right next to Eli when I hear. "Please be alive Eli. You have too much to live for to die like this."
I hear a deep breath then I wait impatiently as I assume that the male is checking to see if she is alive or dead. I hear laughter of pure joy. "Oh Eli, you are fighter. I should have known that it would take more than a bullet to kill you."
"I…need…to fight…for my family." I hear it the voice I love so much, so weak but so strong at the same time. She fought for me, for us. The screen is still black for now but that is enough for me I log out and jump out of my seat grinning like an idiot.
I walk back through the pit and people give me a strange look again, I walk to the infirmary, I walk to the waiting room and see everyone looking at me expectantly, but my face seems to give me the answer because all smile back at me.
"She is alive! I heard her voice. One of the male Erudite stood up to Jeanine for her and he seemed to care about her and when he found out she was alive she said she was a fighter." I pause smiling as I hear her voice as the memory comes back. "She said, 'I need to fight for my family.' She is alive!" I cheer with pure happiness.
I am nearly bouncing up and down with happiness. That moment of happiness disappeared when the door opens again. "Eric is waking up."
That happiness turned into hatred in a second. I look at Max who just nods at me. I look at Tris to see she is rubbing her eyes, I must have woke her up. Oops. "Tris, Eric is waking up, Zeke any chance you can go to my computer? I know you know my computer password and the file password is '8629'."
"8629? Why that?" Zeke questions confused, he had no clue as to what that meant.
"I don't know, Eli made it up, I am guessing it means something though. I'm sure she will tell us when we get to her." I speak with complete confidence, she is fighting for us and we are fighting for us. That is what family do, look out for each other and never give up. "Also look back to the attack and see if you can identify who the attacker is. Remember Eli hacked into Erudite footage. See what you can do."
Zeke nods, "Sure thing, I won't let you or Eli down." He walks out and towards the control room.
"I know you won't." I call after him, then walk towards Eric's bed. Max walks to the other side of the bed, whilst Tris and I stay on the other.
Eric looks at each and every one of us, he gulps ever so slightly then looks at Max. "Sir, what can I do for you?"
Max just tilts his head to the fight, "You can start telling the truth." As he says 'truth' he injects the serum in his neck.
Max looks at me, "I'll ask the basic questions first. Then you can question." I just nod folding my arms. "What is your name?"
"Eric Coulter"
"What faction were you born into?"
"Erudite."
"Which faction are you in now?"
"Dauntless."
"One last question from me then I will let Four ask you some questions." Eric turns to look at Max waiting for the question. "Which faction are you most loyal too?"
"Erudite, I only came to Dauntless because Jeanine said she needed someone on the inside." Eric replies. Max hands are in fists, but he looks up to me and nods.
"Why did you help Jeanine take Eli?" I start with the easy questions, before I build up to the harder ones, only because I am calm right now and I need to stay that way.
"Jeanine needs Eli to get the location of a tunnel, she knew that there was no way Eli would just hand over the location especially after last time. Eli was abused in the worst way possible." He laughs a little. "Yet Jeanine cannot get the information out of her."
Anger fills me when he laughs at Eli's pain. "Yes but why did you help her. Faction before blood. You are in this faction now."
"I hate her, she thinks she is so good, that she is a hero because she saved me, because she beat me in a contest. She is nobody. Her father saw it and now I see it. Marcus done the right thing to beat her, maybe you should carry it on." He gloats even under the serum.
"I would never lay a finger on her." I reply through my teeth.
"Not as you are now no. Jeanine has built a serum were she controls people, I will let you guess who the first person she is testing it out on?"
"Eli." I mutter instantly, I gulp hard, I have to get her out of Erudite. Eli cannot be under her control.
"Yes, the first thing she is going to do is get the location of the tunnel, then she is going to see how far the serum will go. She is going to see if she can get Eli to hurt you." Eric smirks.
"Eli would never hurt me! Just like I would never hurt her." I shout at him, Tris takes my hand and squeezes it.
"If it works she will not know what she is doing. We are testing it on her because she is the strongest. So far she has been able to beat every strength we have gave her for the memory. We still do not know the location of the tunnel. So Jeanine planned to bring Marcus in to hurt her just enough so that she would be too weak to fight the serum." Eric lays back, his eyes are conflicted now as if he wants to fight what is going on.
"Just enough? He nearly killed her! Shot her right next to the heart! You never ask Marcus for help, he is inhumane." I spit at him, before turning away walking away from Eric and out of the infirmary. Tris walking at my speed which is fast for her, she is practically jogging to keep up with me.
Max runs and stops in front of me before he even says anything I start speaking, "We need to get a team together to get Eli out of there!"
Max smirks and nods, "I was just about to suggest that, you and Tris of course will be on that team. If they have this serum though we have to be careful, we cannot be injected by them."
"We? Are you coming too?" I couldn't help but ask, if Max leaves then who would run dauntless?
"Of course I am coming, Zeke can stay on the computer, we will have coms so he can tell us where we are going and he can watch out for Eli too. We all know how stubborn Eli is, she maybe severely injured but it doesn't mean she will not stop trying to escape. In fact to make things easier all of your friends can be the team that includes Christina. So gather them together and we will meet at the control room where Zeke is." Max commands which I nod, I take Tris's hand and walk to the food hall where I know all of our friends are.
"Tris you go find Christina. I will tell the others." She nods and I walk over to my friends table. I rest my hands on the table they all turn to look at me, "I need all of your help, Eli has been taken by Erudite and I need a team to get her out, Max says the team should be us since you all know why I care so much."
They all nod and stand up, "Of course, she is one of us, let's go and get our friend back." Shauna says speaking protectively of my sister which makes me smile.
"Thank you, we are meeting in the control room, don't be surprised about what you see there, Eli designed it all." They just widen their eyes but nods, I look over to Tris who looked back at me nodding, I nod back and we all walk towards the control room.
As soon as I walk in the control room I hear Jeanine on the screen, "You are too stubborn for your own good Eli."
"Zeke, did Eli get out of the restraints?" I asked shocked as I look at the screen that had Eye Spy open, I see Jeanine right in front of Eli.
"Yeah she got out as soon as she entered the room to show that she isn't weak, to show that even a bullet wound wouldn't stop her."
I watch the screen as Eli replies, "I have to be stubborn, because you won't leave me alone."
Jeanine seems to smirk, she pulls the tablet out and types a few things before looking back at Eli through smug eyes as she says, "Eli, where is the location of the tunnel."
I freeze, she injected her, I watch as the screen tilts to the side, then I hear laughter, Eli's laugher. I frown confused, what does she know? Jeanine frowns deeply too. "You think your little serum would work on me? Anyways, even if I wasn't strong it still wouldn't work, I already have a serum in my mind." My eyes widen in realisation at the message my sister was giving us.
"She is sending us a message, we all need to inject ourselves with Eye Spy, that way Jeanine won't be able to control us."
I turn back to the screen just in time to see Eli punch Jeanine in the face, I smile in satisfaction, "Oh, did I break your nose again?" I watch as she drives her foot in Jeanine's abdomen, chest, and then the face. I wince at how much it would hurt. "That is for taking my away from my family and for making them worry. I swear to god if you come anywhere near my family I will kill you without a second thought."
I watch as Eli picks up the tablet, she clicks on her file deleting everything that was stored before clicking on the backup and deleting everything from that, she clicks security and opens her door, she walks out and the room, I hear her groan and fall against the wall.
"Come on Eli. Come on, you can do this, Toby needs you, just get up kill as many guards on the way out and get home to Toby." She speaks to herself before taking a deep breath and slides up the wall, she turns the corner, spotting a guard already.
"We don't need to go and get her, she is coming to us." I mutter under my breath though I know everyone can hear me.
"I am going to Erudite, I will meet her at the entrance." I tell the others before running out the control room and out of the Dauntless compound.