Eli POV

The pain I feel is excruciating. It shouldn't hurt this bad, especially since I have been shot before, I trained through it, I will get through it, Toby needs me. I will not let him down. I should be able to walk without wincing, I know someone is watching me, I have to show them that I can fight this. That is what will get me through this, my determination to show that I am not weak.

Turning the corner I see a guard with his back to me, how does Erudite have guards anyways? It's not like they have been trained unless Eric came and trained some people especially for me, but they seriously cannot be very good, can they? Don't underestimate them, Eli, you know better than that.

I cannot fight too much, it will cause me too much pain, they already could use my injury as a weakness, but I could use that as an advantage, or I could just be stealthy. I feel a pang of pain as if helping my decision, stealthy it is.

I walk slowly, steadily and most importantly silently towards the guard, not even my shoes squeak on the marble floors. I smirk when I find myself right behind the guard, I grab him from behind my arms wrapping around his neck finding his pressure point, my hand covering his mouth so he could not scream. I feel him wriggle and fight under my grip,

I hold him tight, ensuring he doesn't wriggle as much, whispering in his ear, "Do not move, I could snap your neck by mistake." This instantly causes him to stop moving, I smile as I feel his weight slowly grow heavier and heavier as he falls asleep. I look around and see a room to left. I start dragging his body, gritting my teeth as the pain hits me once more, I open the door to see it was a cupboard, I throw him in and shut the door.

I rest against the closed door taking a few deep breathes holding my chest, I feel wet liquid touching my hand so I pull it away to see my hand is covered in blood, "Shit." I mutter under my breath. I don't have time to find bandages, I have to get out of here, my family could already be here. Erudite could know I am missing.

Looking around, I see the corridor is quiet, I need to find a window, I need to know where I am in Erudite, I will plan from there. I walk cautiously down a long corridor, the corridor soon splits into 3 directions, left, right or carry on walking. I groan sliding my hand down my face. "Which way?" I mutter to whoever is watching even though I know they cannot reply, I look left then right, sighing deeply I just carry on walking straight ahead, looking behind me every now and then to ensure that no one is following me.

I groan loud falling to the side hitting the wall, my vision blurs, making it impossible to see where I am going. I close my eyes taking deep breaths that caused pain to ripple through me, letting a sob escape my lips. "I am not weak," I say to whoever is watching though I believe it's more to convince myself because right now I feel extremely weak.

I open my eyes my vision is clear, for now. I carry on my journey down the corridor until I feel a presence behind me, I come to a stop, my jaw working. "if I don't make it, I am sorry, I love you all." I whisper, before turning around to see three guards.

"How did you get out?" one of the guards acts brave, though I could see sweat trickling down his face.

"I'm dauntless, how do you think I got out? we are trained to get out of these situations. You, on the other hand, are not." I reply, I don't want to fight but I will if I truly have to, I will even kill if I have to, I would rather talk my way out of it though.

"We are trained to think of every way out of that cell and it is impossible to get out of it without contro…" he never finishes his sentence when I pull out the tablet. Think, I can't fight in the state that I am in, I can't negotiate my freedom…or can I?

"You mean this? I believe this is Jeanine's tablet too. I could just make you all factionless, just by a few buttons then if you are seen in Erudite you will either be kicked out or killed." I look down at the tablet as I taunt them, I hate doing this but I cannot fight without injuring myself more, I have to be smart about this.

"You are Dauntless, not Erudite you wouldn't know how to do that." The same male shouts thinking he is smart, thinking I knew nothing, honestly I shouldn't know anything but I learnt a lot in Abnegation whilst hacking Marcus's computer.

"Why don't we just test it out?" I reply with a smirk playing on my lips, I look at the tablet, I look at the screen clicking Erudite, looking down the page I see search, I type in the description of the male who is mouthing off, 6 foot 3 inches, brown hair, green eyes. That narrowed my search down to 4 people, luckily for me, there are pictures. I click the picture of the male in front of me, I turn the tablet around to show him I could see his personal information, I turn it back to face me as I read out his information.

"Dean Boridon, oh you have always been Erudite, have you? Don't know how you aren't very smart. You are 24 years old, 10 years older than me, yet I am far more intelligent. If I scroll down I will see a button that says, factionless. Just hit that button, oh I have to submit a reason behind it." I bring my hand to my chin pretending to think though I already know what I am going to put, I look up at him to see him sweating more, though he doesn't stop me. "aiding a prisoner in their escape." I type away on the tablet hitting enter.

"You are now officially factionless." I grin, though I feel sick to the stomach at what I had just done, I ruined his life. This isn't me, it is what they have turned me into, I have to use force to escape, whether it be physical or intellectual.

I look at the other two standing beside him, "Now are you going to let me go or be factionless too?"

They both just turn away and go ahead to do their business, "mmm, smart choice."

I turn my back to Dean who I just made factionless, I walk down the corridor, the plain white, damn everything is so white. How does that help anyone be intelligent?

I finally see natural light as I continue walking, I see a window, thank god, now I can get my bearings. I walk towards the window to see I am on the third floor, which is when I hear the blaring of the alarm. "Damn it." I turn left and start jogging along the wall till a door leading to stairs, I try to push it open but it locked, I lift up the tablet once more to see the screen red with the words. 'LOCKDOWN' printed on it.

"Harder than I thought it would be," I mutter to myself momentarily forgetting people are more than likely watching me. I look out the window once more, I look down trying to see if there is another way down, there has to be something. I see a roof below me, though it is from the ground floor which would be a large drop, could cause death. My mind automatically calculating the possibility of death, the result, a high chance of my condition.

I was so busy concentrating on the probability of death I didn't hear the sound of people approaching, two men grab my arms. I start fighting in seconds, slamming my foot down the foot of the man holding my right arm, causing him realise grip on my arm which I use to my advantage, elbowing him in the face, using my free arm to grab him throwing him through the glass window without a second thought about killing a man I turn my attention to the other male, I see its Caleb. Well, he grew some balls that for certain.

I grab him by the collar, lifting him up from the ground, he instantly lets me go, I punch him in the face not holding back at all, punching him in the gut, I hear him gasp in agony, I feel him tremble, I hear the sniffles of his cries. I shake my head throwing him to the ground kicking him, once, twice, before I stop. I kneel beside him, I watch as he cowers away from me, I smirk tilting my head. "Caleb, you are lucky that I know Tris and that I respect her enough to not chuck you out of the window like I did your friend, maybe just maybe you will think twice before crossing me again." I pause for dramatic before continuing, "If you cross me again, I will not hesitate to kill you, do you understand?"

He nods his head up and down still trembling, "Good, now you are going to show me the way out and then you are coming with me, I am sure your sister would love a word with you."

"She is not my sister." He mutters under his breath almost silently but I heard it, I slam him against the wall.

"No, she is my sister, and I would do anything for her, I would protect her with my life, I would protect all of my family with my life, rather than turning them over to some experiment like you did. You are a nothing, a nobody. I personally hope she beats the crap out of you." I half-heartedly shrug. "we shall see though, won't we?" a thought pops into my mind at that moment, a smirk appearing on my lips, I knew it frightened Caleb even more as his trembles even more. "Maybe just maybe she would let my brother. You know my bro, right? Four?"

Caleb gulps down hard as he nods, "The one that turned my sister into a slut, I don't even recognise her anymore."

I automatically send my knee into his abdomen, he hunches over coughing and groaning, "Your sister is nothing like that, she is one of the best people I have ever met, I cannot wait until the two of them get married, I cannot wait to call her my family, then I can replace you and give her a real sibling. Someone who has her back whenever she needs it, she doesn't need a weak sibling holding her back any longer."

I pull him away from the wall and walk him down the corridor, "Get me out of this building and if you show me the wrong way there will be severe consequences."

"I will not show you the way out." he replies, he tries to use a strong voice but it cracks from fear halfway through, "because you will not do anything to me, you respect Beatrice too much. It's a weakness."

"Forgive me, Tris," I mutter before my fist makes contact with his cheek, his eye. He falls to the ground trembling, I lift his right arm up, twisting his arm, turning him over so he is on his front, I force his arm higher and higher up his body till I hear the pop to tell me that I have dislocated his shoulder, a scream echoing through the empty corridor.

I stand up but to quickly, the world spins so fast, I can't see where I am going I feel myself swaying back and forth. I have exceeded my limits, I knew I shouldn't have, I knew I shouldn't have fought, it was my natural instinct though, now I am screwed because of it. I feel myself falling to the side, I hear the smash of glass and soon after I feel a cool breeze hit under my back, my arms and legs seem higher than the rest of my body, because they are lighter, that is when I realise, I am falling.

I remember the details perfectly, a two-story drop in my condition, deadly. I probably wouldn't make it, not after this fall, if I wasn't shot, I possibly could have made it, I do not know if I am strong enough to fight the bullet and the pain that will come as soon as I land on the roof. I wanted to say my final goodbye to the world before I feel the pain before I see the darkness.

"Goodbye." I manage to mutter, "I love you all, stay strong for each other." Then pain struck but I couldn't scream, I couldn't cry nor could I move, all I see is darkness, I tried to fight to open my eyes but nothing.

I heard Caleb's voice scream, "No!" but why? he shouldn't care whether I am dead or not, or is it because I know where the secret tunnel is and no one except Marcus knows that information. That's more like it, after all, I just dislocated his shoulder, which I am partly sorry for but he called me weak, I am far from weak, Tris does not make me weak, she makes me strong just like Toby does.

Toby, my Toby, he is going to blame himself, it wasn't his fault, it was my fault, I shouldn't have pushed myself, he always told me not to push myself when I was injured but I never listened. Why didn't I listen to my brother? He is older, he knows these things, I will listen to him, I want to listen to him, I don't want to die. I want to see my brother I want to hear his voice. I need to hear his voice, I need to hear him yelling at me for pulling such ridiculous stunts.

I feel a single tear fall down my cheek, I don't want to die, not yet, I just found Toby and Tris the two people I love most in this world, I made a group of friends that support me no matter what, I have to fight, I have to get through this for them.

I try again to open my eyes, I try with all my might, I manage to open them the tiniest bit, a slit, my vision too blurry to make anything out, all I knew is that I am outside, the cold breeze on my skin told me that. That is all I knew though.

I try to move any part of my body, my arms or my legs, all I could manage is a twitch of the fingers, I start growing frustrated with myself, I can do better than that, I can fight through this pain, I can move my arm, I know I can but my body will not comply with what I want.

Then I hear it, the voice I have been wanting to hear so bad, though I didn't want to hear it sound so lost, so panicked. "Eli, Eli, stay with me, ok? I got you." I feel arms slide under my arms and knees, a flash of memory appears before my eyes of when I carried a beaten Tobias to his bed, seeing to his wounds, loving and caring for him. Now he is doing the same to me, how the world has reversed.

"Toby…" I breathe out, though it hurt just to say that word, I don't know how I fell, I don't know if I will survive, I just know that my brother came for me, just like I knew he would. He never lets me down, I love him.

"Eli, yes, stay with me, fight it, I know you can, you are the strongest person I have ever met." His voice breaks half way through his sentence, he is crying, I don't mind in the slightest though, it doesn't show weakness, it shows strength to cry for another being, to let your heart feel the pain shows strength.

"I love you," I mutter, just in case I didn't make it, I wanted him to know that I needed him to know that he was and always will be loved by me.

"Don't you dare give up on me, do you hear me, Eli? I have just gotten you back, I will not lose you now." I hear his voice hard, I know he is trying to be strong for me but it is alright for him to cry, I would cry if the roles were reversed, then again he is smart enough not to fall out of a glass window.

"Eli…Eli!" I hear him shout my name once but it getting further and further away, by the time he shouts the second time I am too far gone, I have no strength to fight the darkness anymore. I know I will be safe in Toby's arm that is all that matters so I let myself drift into the darkness, hoping, praying that I will wake up.