When the alarm sounded in the one way ear piece Tris had to stay in contact with Four, Uriah went to leave but Samantha and Tris both hesitated, watching the stairs with urgency. Neither one of them wanted to leave their man behind and had to be dragged away by Uriah, who had difficulty pulling both girls with him.
"Snap out of it! We need to get out of here now or we won't be able to help them later!" He whispered harshly to them.
"What if Eric's too hurt to fight and Four needs the backup?" Sam asked, unsure if they should leave.
"Those two are the best Dauntless has, they could fight missing one arm. They will be fine, they will find a way out and we need to be ready for when they do." He replied.
Tris who must have finally agreed with him, stopped struggling and said to Samantha, "He's right. If anyone has a chance against those soldiers, it's them. Four told us to get out if the alarm went off and so that's what we'll do."
They managed to backtrack the path Four lead them there with to the entrance with the net. Samantha stared at the large hole, high above them and shook her head. "How are we supposed to get up there?"
Uriah who was rummaging through stuff along the wall came over with a coiled up rope. "With this." He grinned and wiggled his eyebrows.
Samantha's stomach dropped. "That's worse than jumping."
"What do you mean?! We just throw this end with the hook up there until it catches something and then we climb it to the top. How is that worse?" Uriah asked indignantly.
"Umm, I don't know, maybe the fact that our weight could unhook the rope and we fall to our deaths, seeing as we don't know for sure that it will be secure up there." Samantha ranted.
"There's no other choice, Sam. We need to take the risk." Tris said calmly.
Samantha lost count the amount of times Uriah threw the hook up, just to fall back down again until finally it stuck. To what, she had no idea and prayed it would stay. Uriah went first, after pulling on it a few times to see if it moved, and Tris forced Samantha to follow him. Her upper body strength wasn't too much of an issue since she was used to hard work in the fields, but the height bothered her. She had more time to contemplate her fall and grisly death if the rope fell or her hands slipped, because climbing up took longer than it did to jump down.
The knots they tied really helped to get a good hold for her hands and her feet as she climbed her way up. Thankfully they gave her something to concentrate on as well. Eventually they made it to the top and Samantha laid there panting, glad to be back on solid ground, even if it was the roof.
Tris touched her ear piece in relief when someone started talking through it. She smiled and told them, "Eric and Four got out." But her smile faded as the conversation continued. "Eric's been injected. He's already showing signs of the enhanced abilities, which was how they fought their way out. Four's taking him to an old jail, in hopes the cells there can keep him in if Jeanine takes over. Eric thinks he has another day before that happens." She repeated what Four told her through the one way connection.
"Ok, let's go." Samantha was in a hurry to see Eric and make sure he was ok with her own eyes, but Tris shook her head.
"First we need to pick up Cara, sounds like they have a theory to stop the serum. We don't have much time so we better hurry." She said and they made their way back down the rickety fire escape and through the city to the Divergent headquarters.