Curse by Imagine Dragons and Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons- the theme songs for this chapter. (Did I mention I'm a fan?)
Mia
"Zach!" I scream, running to his side. He's bleeding like crazy and he's got bruises and cuts all over.
"Zach, please... can you hear me?"
He looks at me, his green eyes full of pain and fear.
"Mia..."
A hysterical sob escapes me, and I kneel down next to him, trying in vain to stop the flow of blood.
"Mia, I think I'm dying."
"No. It's all right. You'll be just fine. Please. Don't leave me!" I grab his hand.
"Oh my God. Should I call for an ambulance?" asks the girl I just rescued.
"Yes. Please."
But I'm not sure that it could get here in time. The roads are bad and the life is bleeding out of him.
There's only one thing to do.
"Zach. Do you have some matches with you?"
He nods."Pocket of my sweatshirt..."
I grab some sticks and a knife and start a fire, sticking the knife into the white-hot center of the flames.
"This is going to hurt, okay Zach? But it'll keep you alive."
I hope.
I lay the hot knife on the wound, using it to seal up the cut. Zach screams, and factionless people come out of the ruined buildings, alarmed.
I am exactly as they see me, a desperate, frightened girl trying to save her love.
I grip his hand tighter,and tell him, "just hold on, okay? The ambulance will be here soon."
He nods, but I can tell he's about to go unconscious again.
"Always remember that I love you, Mia," he says, just before he slips away.
I start crying again, harder than before, and lay my head on his chest. I finally had him, and he was snatched away too quickly. I'm not sure he's going to live.
I hear a siren, and the ambulance rumbles into the road. Thank God. Any longer and my Zach would have been dead for sure.
Abnegation paramedics rush over and lift him onto the Burney, wheeling Zach into the ambulance.
"I suggest that you girls go back to the Dauntless compound," says an Abnegation woman.
For the first time, I look closely at the girl whose life I saved. And then I realize- it's Shauna.
This makes it all so much more complicated.
Tris
I'm getting a drink of water when I see Mia run out of her room and towards the Pit. I'm guessing she needs some privacy, so I let her be.
As I go back to Tobias's apartment, I notice that Zach's door is wide open.
What is going on?
About an hour and a half later, I hear Mia return to her room, sobbing.
"Oh, god. Mia?"
She stops short and looks at me.
"What's wrong?"
"Shauna snuck out and Zach followed her to see what she was up to and... and..." Mia is too overcome to finish the sentence.
I hug her and guide her into her apartment, where she tells me everything.
It's all Shauna's fault. She's the instigator.
I have to break this curse.
Somehow.
Again, I am obsessed with Imagine Dragons and I used a line from one of the songs in my story... internet cookies to anyone who can tell me what line and what song.