THERE ARE ONLY TWO MORE CHAPTERS LEFT. WE'VE ALMOST ACTUALLY FINISHED. PRAISE THE LORD.

Chapter 25

As the Abnegation sector nears, so does the noise.

"We must fight!" An overpowering female voice bellows. "She has gone too far! Has turned families, Friends, Factions against each other!"

My eyebrows raise as I give Tobias a pointed look.

"If it's a war she wants. It's a war she shall get!" The crowd roars in agreement. And as we turn the corner to the large remains of abnegation. We see who is responsible.

Evelyn stands a top a large rock. Hundreds, gathered together. Colours from every faction littering our view. All of the factionless, Dauntless and Abnegation listening. Clearly, this was a speech meant for the masses.

"The factions caused this! It's time we fight to destroy the destructive system!"

"This is insane!" A low voice hisses. Causing a shiver down my spine. "The only thing war will bring us is mass murder and extinction! What we need is peace!" Marcus stumbles up beside Evelyn, also keen to get his voice heard.

"And without factions how would we know who we are? How would we keep ourselves together? You only want to start a new system so you can lead it!"

"You're a damn coward Marcus Eaton! So cowardly you can't see the greater good. You want everyone to have their place and yet you wont allow my people any sort of life."

"Better to be a coward than to lead hundreds to their death!" He bites back. And then, the real yelling starts. So loud that my ears feel violated.

"Typical stiffs." A dauntless tuts. "Think they can solve everything with a hug."

"Oh you're right, better use the dauntless approach and solve everything with a gun!"

A hiss more animalistic than human reaches my ears. And I feel the fatigue from the last week shatter me. Collapsing my rational thoughts.

"Why are we even listening to the factionless?" A close by dauntless asks. "They've never done anything for us, how do we know they're not trying to trick us. We have no idea who's side they're on."

Then the sound disappears. All I hear is my heart beat, loud and rapidly. Liquid fire spreading through out my body.

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" I scream. Silencing the crowd as they turn to see who produced the racket. Marcus and Everlyns eyes widen. As the murmurs from the crowd begin.

"I thought she was dead."

"I heard she was being experimented on."

"Someone who would actually give themselves up to Jeanine has to be crazy."

"Tris..." Tobias tries, but I hold a hand to his face silencing him. The embers of anger had been building for weeks. Now it wasn't a flicker. It was a forest fire. And nothing could stop it.

"I have been battered," I announce, walking towards the boulder that holds two of the faction leaders. The two idiots that are only making the mess worse. The crowd parts leaving me a walk way as I continue. "Bruised, Shot at, experimented on, given more serum than I care to remember, almost been killed at least five times, had to escape plenty more and have constantly been lied to. So I don't know about you lot but I want a break."

The crowd nods in response.

"But what the hell do I get after a week of capture?" I ask. Stopping at the beginning of the crowd, just a meter away from Tobias's parents. "You two making everything goddamn worse."

Evelyns face turns a deep purple, her hands shaking. "We are trying to solve-"

A bitter laugh escapes. "By a full out war and rebellion? With you leading the survivors." I ask. "Oh yeah, you're right lets swap one evil bitch for a new one. Only difference is we'll only have a quarter of our population left for you to control."

"Exactly." Marcus states. A smug smile filling his face.

"I don't know what you're so happy about. You're as much of a moron as her." I glare. "You want to sit and do nothing? We'll be sitting ducks."

"How dare you I-"

"Why are you guys in charge anyway?" I ask with a cocked brow. "What exactly have you done to help us?"

The crowd of dauntless begin their rowdy sneers, their aggressive yells. All agreeing with the simplest fact. Why do they get decide.

Evelyn and Marcus try to settle the angry crowd. And when that fails they turn on me.

"So tell me miss Prior, if our ideas are so terrible." She sneers. "What would you suggest we do?"

I give her a small smile. "What we've always done. Have factions."

"And how exactly is that going to stop what is happening?"

"You want me to spell it out for you?" I shrug. "Fine. If you need that much help. We just go back to the way we were. Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless, Candor and Amity. With just three simple changes."

I hold up three fingers. "First, the Factionless become a new faction and Dauntless will have to become two separate factions."

"Erudite would never allow that." Marcus states. "There will still be the war. They will still want the government."

I give him a pointed look. "In case you didn't hear me, I said three changes. No one has the government."

A laugh escapes both their throats, bubbling together in an infuriating burst. "With out a government society will collapse."

The urge to jump up and knock their skulls together is almost to much to bare. "I'm not saying no government you idiots. I'm saying we have a joint government, The faction leader from each faction will be the government. Seven Factions, Seven leaders of government. The factions will be ruled by all the faction leaders working in a team."

The crowd is stooped to silence, and to be honest I was pretty shocked myself. The idea was insane, had never been done. But it did make sense. It allowed every faction to have a say in everyday life, and to add to the shock, it came from me. From a lone night locked in my little Erudite cell.

"Do you really believe Jeanine would agree to that?" Marcus snickers.

"Actually." I say, thinking of Calebs arm. "I have a plan for that too."

"And why should we listen to a little girls plan?" Evelyn mocks. "What exactly have you done for us."

Why do they always use the little girl card.

"That little girl." A familiar voice shouts behind me. And seconds later Tobias stands by my side. A proud grin on his lips. "Killed Jeanine Mathews."

Shocked gasps fill the audience as both Marcus and Evelyns faces pale.

"Well now that that's been decided. I'm going to sleep." I state. Feeling my body almost scream in agreement as I leave the group and trudge towards Marcus's house. The crowds eyes never leave me until both me and Tobias are through the door.