MEMORIES
FOUR POV
I am woken with my alarm going off. I feel Tris stirring next to me. "We need to get up," I whisper into her ear.
"I know. I can't wait for this to be over so I can get a sleep in," she says.
I laugh. "Hopefully everything will go to plan today and you can," I say. I get out of bed and go and have a shower. I am meeting Eric in half an hour and then we have to start putting our plans into effect. We haven't heard from Cara so we don't know if Eric's mum is safe. He was here for hours last night worried. We couldn't afford to have any contact with Cara or Abnegation. So until we get to Abnegation in a few hours we won't know whether she is safe or not.
There is a knock on the bathroom door. "Eric is here," Tris says.
"Tell him I'll be down in a minute," I call back to her.
I leave the bathroom and walk downstairs to find Eric, Tris and Fernando sitting around the dining room table eating breakfast. It looks like Tris has cooked enough food to feed an army. How she could cook eggs, pancakes and bacon in the short amount of time I was in the shower is amazing.
She must see the look on my face because she says, "Don't get excited I went down to the dining hall and got all this. There is no way I had enough time to cook all of this." I just smile, she knows me so well.
"I thought we could all do with a big breakfast, who knows what we are going to be up against," Tris says.
I quickly eat some food. Eric and I need to be at a leaders meeting in fifteen minutes. Fernando is going to stay here with Tris until it is time for us to leave for Abnegation. Zeke, Uriah, Marlene, Lynn and Shauna are meetings us here at six. Along with Tori, Bud and Harrison.
I am standing outside the meeting room. Max and the other leaders and his lackey's are all inside. Max walks out of the room. "Four are you coming in? We need to get this meeting started. Where is Eric?" Max says.
"He is on his way. Max are you sure you want to go through with this? There must be another way?" I ask him.
"Four it is too late now, we need to do this."
"Are you sure? I'm sure we can find another way," I say. Forever hopeful that I can change his mind. This is the last chance he is going to get. I've spoken to him a number of times, trying to get him to reconsider.
"No Four. I am not going to change my mind. I know you don't like the plan, but we need to do this. Go and find Eric and get him here now before my patience runs out," he says.
I watch as Max walks back into the meeting room and I signal Eric. He walks up to me and says, "You've given him so many chances to change his mind Four. It's too late now, we have to start this."
Eric pulls out the two canisters from his back pack. "Ready?" I just nod. He pulls open the doors and releases the canisters into the room. He then gets a key out of his pocket and locks the door from the outside.
"How long will it take?" I ask.
"Cara said to give it ten minutes, just to make sure," Eric says.
I can hear Max banging on the door and screaming at us to let him out. We just stand there waiting for the ten minutes to be up. "How many others do we have to find?" I ask.
"They should all be in this room. But if they aren't we will have the others track them down while we are in Abnegation," Eric says. "I have a list on my desk in my office, I'll go and get it while we wait for this to work. Is Tori meeting us here or at your place?"
"My place," I say. "Then we can give them their assignments and we can get going."
We walk into my apartment to find Tris, Fernando, Zeke, Uriah, Shauna, Marlene, Lynn, Tori, Bud and Harrison all sitting around waiting for us. "Okay so we have a lot to tell you but first I need Tori and Harrison to go down to meeting room two. Don't let the people in there out. I will explain it all to you when we get down there," I say.
Tori and Bud nod their heads and walk out the door. "What is going on Four?" Harrison asks.
"Okay, so the tracking device you were all injected with yesterday isn't a tracking device. It is supposed to put you into a simulation. After the simulation was to start you were going to be sent to Abnegation to kill the entire faction," I say.
"What?"says Zeke.
"Are you joking?" says Shauna.
"Stop!" shouts Eric. "Before anyone else asks stupid questions. What Four said are the facts. Now Four and I and some others are in the middle of stopping it from happening but we need your help as well."
"Tris, Eric and I are going to Abnegation to stop the Erudite that are trying to control everyone. Zeke, I need you Shauna, Marlene and Lynn to check that everyone on this list is in meeting room two. If they aren't you need to inject them with this," I say holding up the bag with the needles in them.
"What are we injecting them with?" Zeke asks.
"Memory serum," Eric says. "Now let's get moving we have a lot to do."
We get back to the meeting room and I quickly explain to Tori what is going on. We unlock the door to the meeting room and confusion is written on the faces of the people in the room.
Max walks up to Eric and says, "who are you?"
"I'm Eric," he says.
"Oh, so um, who am I?" Max asks.
"You are Max," Eric says.
"Geez are they all going to be like this?" Uriah asks.
"Yes," I say. "Zeke I need you to work out who is who, anyone on this list that isn't here you need to go and find."
"Tori and Bud you need to tell each person what their name is and explain they are members of Dauntless and that there has been an accident. Do not let them know what their occupations were because they won't be doing those jobs again. If they are lucky they will be guarding the fence for the rest of their lives, we will work out the details later. If they give you any trouble then lock them in the cells until we get back," I say. "Does everyone understand their jobs? Now if you have any problems Fernando here will cut the power to the compound. But it has to be a dire situation for us to do that. Fernando is going to cut the power to the control room now and we are going to set off another canister of memory serum in the control room to stop the Erudite that are in there from starting the simulation. Uriah and Harrison once the serum has worked we need you to drop the Erudite back off at their compound. Then come back here and help Tori and Zeke. We should be back in a couple of hours," I say.
We jump on the train and Eric is pacing back and forth. "I'm sure everything is fine with your mum Eric," I say. I have never seen him look this nervous before.
"Yeah, I'm sure you are right. It's just, what if it isn't? What do I do?" Eric asks.
"Let's worry about that when we have too," I say.
"We are going to have to find three new leaders Four," Eric says. "We are also going to have to do something with the memory affected."
"I think Four had the right idea before. Make them fence guards. Give some of the fence guards the chance to work in the compound. Let all the initiates get jobs other than the last five becoming fence guards," Tris says.
"That is a great idea," I say. "We are going to have a lot of work to do over the next few weeks. We are also going to have to try and explain all of this to everyone in Dauntless."
"What are we expecting when we get to Abnegation?" Eric asks.
"All the children were moved out last night, along with as many other members as they could without raising suspicion. Your mum is going to be there Eric," I say. He just nods and continues to pace the train car.
We jump off the train and start walking towards Abnegation. We are meeting at the Prior's home first. This way Eric can see him mother, I don't think he is going to be able to function properly until he does.
Tris knocks on her parent's door and Natalie quickly opens the door and ushers us in. We walk in to see Andrew and Marcus sitting with another woman I haven't seen before.
Eric walks in and says, "Mum." He walks over and hugs the woman with blond hair and the same steel gray eyes as his. Thank goodness she is safe.
"Eric, I am so glad to see you," she says.
"Cara said there should be twenty Erudite here with Jeanine. We are going to have to do this quickly. Do you know if they have arrived yet?" I ask.
"They got here ten minutes before you got here. They are down in the meeting hall," Natalie says.
"Should we use another canister on them like we did the Dauntless?" I ask.
"No," Eric says. "I want us to be able to personally inject Jeanine."
"What are we going to do with her once she loses her memory?" Tris asks.
"The council has decided that she is going to become a member of Abnegation," Marcus says.
"You're kidding me?" says Eric. "You want that woman to live in your faction?"
"No, but we think it is the best place for her to be. We can watch over her and she won't be near any type of technology," Andrew says.
"Okay let's get this done," I say.
"Tobias," Natalie says. "I need a gun."
"What? Mum, no," Tris says.
"It's okay Beatrice. I know how to shoot a gun," Natalie says. She looks at me and says, "I used to be Dauntless, I think it would be better to have another armed person here."
"You were Dauntless? Why didn't you ever tell me?" Tris asks.
"I chose Abnegation," Natalie says. There isn't anything else to say about it. Once she chose Abnegation there would be no sharing such information with her children.
"I am going to come back after this for answers mum," Tris says.
"I'm sure you are darling," Natalie says with a smile on her face.
It was decided Tris, Eric and I would confront Jeanine and the other Erudite that are in Abnegation. Natalie will be a few buildings down just in case. Eric's mum wants the honour of injecting Jeanine. No one has any objection to this, so far she is the one who has lost the most from all of this. Once we know that we have them under control Marcus and Andrew are going to inject the rest of the Erudite with the memory serum.
We walk into the Meeting Hall. "Good morning Jeanine," Eric says.
"Eric, where is everyone? They should have started arriving by now," Jeanine says.
"They aren't coming Jeanine," he says.
"What do you mean they aren't coming?" she says.
"The Dauntless aren't coming. We have stopped the simulation Jeanine," he says.
"I don't think so Eric. You know what will happen if this plan doesn't go ahead," she says.
"Well Jeanine, you would need to have my mother to be able to make that threat. And I can tell you that you don't have my mother Jeanine."
"You really think you three can stop me?" Jeanine scoffs.
"We already have Jeanine. Everyone at Dauntless has already been stopped. While we are standing here there are friends in Erudite stopping any plans you have there. Now we need everyone to get into two lines," Eric says.
Nobody moves, they seem to all be waiting for Jeanine. "Now!" Eric shouts. He pulls his gun out and so do Tris and I. Lucky for us the Erudite aren't stupid and they all seem to value their lives a little more than they do following Jeanine.
"What are you planning on doing with us?" Jeanine asks.
"Well your friends here will be given a little injection and then taken back to Erudite," Eric says.
"And me?"
"Well this is the best part Jeanine. I have someone special who is going to inject you with memory serum and then you will be making a new life here in Abnegation," Eric says.
"You can't do that Eric. You have no authority to do this. I am the leader of Erudite. My faction gets to decide what will happen to me," she says.
"We thought that might be the case. So we had an emergency meeting held by the Council last night Jeanine. Because you are a leader, they are able to make such decisions" Eric says.
While we have been chatting with Jeanine the rest of her party have been injected. It is then that we hear a heavy vehicle coming our way. We walk outside to see Uriah and Harrison.
"We thought you might need some transport to get these noses back to where they belong," says Uriah as he jumps out of the front of the truck.
Natalie and Eric's mum have now reached us and there is only one thing left to do. Eric hands his mother the syringe and she walks up to Jeanine and without a word she injects Jeanine with the memory serum.