Hello again lovelies! So to make up for my lack of updating I have written a super long story that i hope you will all love! It is the first part of Tris's trial told in the point of view of the prosecuting lawyer. Hopefully you will love it! REVIEW AND LET ME KNOW! :)

I do not own any quotes or characters! All are owned by Veronica Roth

Testimony

Noah Mclean (prosecuting attorney Pov)

I arrive to the courtroom in Chicago a little early so I can look over my notes and make sure that everything is in place for the start of the trial today. It was a long flight from D.C, and I was past out during most of it because of the long hours that I spent prepping for this case. Officially this is my first major case since graduating from law school last year. Until now I have been handling demeanor crimes, a couple of murder cases and one malpractice suit.

Before the war I guess there were many different lawyers who handled particular crimes and services but since then the government as tasked all lawyers with all crimes and suits. Which has made my job a lot more extensive and complex. But I can honestly say that this is the first case in a while where I feel the passion that I felt when I first decided to become a lawyer.

When my boss, the Attorney General, handed me this case I first thought it was a joke. I am a new, young lawyer who probably shouldn't be handling such a high profile case. But my boss told me that the people of Chicago and my clients would most likely trust someone who is new to the justice system because they will believe that since I am new I have not been corrupted like some lawyers in the system have. Another thing that has changed in the judicial system as apposed to what it was centuries ago is that there are no private law offices. The government employs lawyers and they work for the United States of America. The offices are located in D. C and when there are cases, like this one, outside of the D.C area then we fly out to the cities and go from there. It's the same way with judges too. Juries are still however picked from the local residents. Because of the fact that all lawyers are placed in the same company, the competition for some has died and now lawyers are just in it for the money and could not give a crap about their client or their client's concerns. I however do care about my clients. And I guess that is why I was chosen for this case. Because I still care enough to get justice.

The issue of this case is proving that the former Bureau leader, David Smith, is guilty for murdering millions including Tris Prior. Unfortunately I can't prove the death of his other victims without enough hard evidence and his crimes have been going on for years. But I can still charge him and convict him for killing Tris, seeing how recent the murder was. And D.C scientists have developed some new technology that I know will prove and put David away for good. My clients are Tobias Eaton, Christina Davis, Caleb Prior and the many other friends of Tris's. Today my job is to make sure their testimonies are true and will help the case.

As I shuffle my papers in the order I want them, I hear a door close and look up to see Tobias walking towards me. Thankfully I have met with everyone before the trial and I know that Tobias just wants this to be quick and painless as possible. The only thing I can guarantee is that it will be quick.

"Tobias." I put on my hand and he shakes it and I continue, "The trial will begin shortly. Is everyone else coming in so we can go over again what will happen? I know this is a little different then how this city use to run trials so I just want to make sure everyone knows what will happen."

"Yah everyone will be here soon." He nervously fixes the dark blue tie of his black suit.

"You alright?" I ask as I continue to fix my papers.

"Fine."

Out of all of my new clients, Tobias is the hardest to communicate with. I know that all of his is hard for him, seeing as Tris was his girlfriend and she did just die two months ago, but still he is very reluctant to trust me, which I haven't really experienced yet.

Christina, Caleb and the others file in and it is almost time for the trail begin. I stand in front of the bench where they are all sitting and begin to explain the new technology that will be on display for them.

"Alright so today we have a new advancement to the law that will really help our case. After all of you testify, David will then testify too. But instead of giving him a chance to act like he didn't do the crime in questioned, the scientist in D.C have developed a new serum that allows the member of the court to see into his mind. We will be able to see the events of Tris's death. This way there will be no reason for the jury to have any doubt about what happened. The screens will be able to project his mind for us so we will be able to see everything."

"Are you serious? What makes you think that any of us want to see that! She was our friend!" Christina says angrily.

"Christina it's the only way that we will be able to get David into prison. You know how he persuasive he can be. If he is allowed to speak on the stand without this, there is a very high chance that the jury might not find him guilty."

"Do it." Tobias says as he looks up at me. "Whatever it is or does just do it. I want him to rot in prison."

Christina looks at him and then I say, "Alright. So we all know the order right? Christina, Caleb and then Tobias. Remember just tell the truth. Unlike the truth serum that you are use to, if you don't tell the truth here you will be charged and thrown in jail."

"Why aren't we using truth serum then?" Caleb asks hesitantly.

"Well Judge Taylor thought that it would be better for you all to testify on your own free will and not be forced to tell the truth through a serum. He is one of the judges who doesn't like truth serums."

"Then why is he allowing the other serum to be use on David?" Caleb, who is always curious, asks again.

"Judge Taylor knew David from school and he knows that he would somehow persuade the jury to believe him. And he also wants to do right by this case. He knows that everyone will be watching."

Caleb seems satisfied with my answer goes quiet. I go back to my seat and wait for the judge to come in. Before hand, the guard lets David in. David, who is handcuffed and in an orange jumpsuit, walks right past my clients and each of them exchange their own expressions with him. Tobias glares at David while Christina moves to hop over the bench when David starts to laugh at them and Tobias has to hold her back. And surprisingly Caleb looks down not wanting to engage.

Judge Taylor calls court into session and calls the first witness, Christina. She sits on the bench and looks at the clerk.

"Christina Davis do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?"

"Um sure…" she answers.

"Mr. Jesse you can ask the first questions." Judge Taylor asks the defensive attorney and the trial is on its way.

"Ms. Davis where were you on the night in questioned?" Mr. Jesse gets straight to the point which he always does as I was told by other lawyers.

"Well in order to stop your client's stupid plan of wiping the memory of our friends and our families, I was with a couple of other people including Tobias, and we went into the city to try and get out as many people as possible. We wanted to make sure that our loved ones where all right just incase Tris and Caleb could not stop the release of the memory serum. But thankfully it didn't come to that."

"Now Ms. Davis what was the nature of your relationship with the victim?"

"She was my best friend."

"So you were in the city when Tris was killed. And you were successful in stopping the impending war that lead to my client's decision to swipe the memories of the city right. Don't you think your faction system is to blame for my clients decision to swipe the memories?"

"Yes you could say that. But to say that the problems of the city lead to David's justification of wiping the memories of millions is stupid. David has been planning something like this for a while and whether or not our faction system was crumpling didn't warrant him to act on his pointless decision to swipe memories and kill millions for being different. And the fact that he killed my best friend who was trying to stop him and help her home just proves that David should be locked up with the key thrown away. He is a desperate, evil man who deserves everything that will be coming to him."

Mr. Jesse stammers and flips some papers and I take this as my cue to ask my question. Luckily, Mr. Jesse is one of the worst defensive lawyers in the country so there is a reason he was chosen for David.

"Christina do you think David Smith killed Tris Prior for trying to stop his plan?"

"Yes."

I smile as I tell her she can take a seat and Mr. Jesse is still trying to get his shit together. When he does he calls Caleb to the stand. Caleb swears on oath and the questioning begins once again. Caleb explains to the court what happened before Tris went to stop the serum from being released and how it was suppose to be him. That it was the plan but Tris was too selfless to let him die so instead she took his place. Some members of the jury are teary eyed when he begins to choke up. Behind me, I hear Christina try to calm down Tobias.

"He is kidding me right?" Tobias whispers angrily.

"Calm down Tobias. He is helping the case. Caleb isn't doing anything wrong."

"Well maybe if he just followed the plan we wouldn't even be here. Caleb did everything wrong and you know it Christina." Tobias snaps at her.

"Do you think Caleb had a choice? You know how Tris was! She held a gun to him just so he wouldn't follow her. So right now you need to calm down and stop blaming Caleb for once. Alright?"

Christina seems to calm him down because for the rest of Caleb's testimony, Tobias is silent. But for the constant shaking of his leg that is shaking my chair a little bit. He must be nervous to go on the stand and maybe that was the reason for his outburst. I never know with him. When Caleb is excused and sits down, it's Tobias's turn to take the stand.

"Tobias Eaton do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?"

"Yes." He answers stiffly.

He sits down and waits for the questions from Mr. Jesse.

"Mr. Eaton-"

"I would prefer it if you just called me Tobias please." Tobias interrupts him and Mr. Jesse continues on with his examination now a little peeved.

"Fine then. Tobias where were you on the night in questioned?"

"Well if you listened to Christina's testimony then you would know I was with her in the city."

"Doing what?"

"Trying to stop that madman from ruining the lives of millions of people."

"Well according to police records and video footage, you were also there trying to some your parents from starting a war between the factions. Is that true."

"I don't know is it?" Tobias quips at Mr. Jesse.

"So if you were in the city with Christina then where was Ms. Prior"

"At the Bureau compound."

"Tobias what was your relationship with Ms. Prior?"

"I was her boyfriend. But I don't see why that would be relevant to the last question you asked me." Tobias asks Mr. Jesse bitterly.

"Well it is because if you cared for Tris then why weren't you at the Bureau? If you supposedly loved her then wouldn't have you stayed and helped her? Isn't that what a good boyfriend would do? Instead you were in the city with her best friend trying to stop your parents from fighting and supposedly helping the citizens. And you can't expect me to believe that you and Ms. Davis are just friends. I mean c'mon Tobias. What loving boyfriend would leave behind the person they loved in a very dangerous environment? Unless you were already with someone you loved."

I can see Tobias jaw clench and his nostril's flare in obvious anger and rage. He answers in a quiet voice, which somehow makes him seem even more dangerous. And I honestly didn't believe Mr. Jesse would take that kind of a defense but he will do anything right now because he knows he is going to lose.

"I wasn't at the Bureau because I was helping the city and trying to not let the serum wipe out its members who had no idea what was coming. Trust me I wanted to be there helping and being by Tris's side but we talked about the plan days before and decided that our plan would be the only way that we could stop it and save everyone. And Tris was strong. She didn't need my help. She was able to still set off the memory serum in the Bureau, even with a bullet in her. She never needed me to help her because she was capable of handling it herself. And you don't know anything about my feelings for her. You don't know how everyday I regret not being there and stopping that psycho from shooting her down. I love her and I don't know if she would consider me a good boyfriend but I know I respected and trusted her enough to make the right decisions and she did. And for you to insinuate that I was cheating on her with her best friend and left her to die is pathetic. All you are doing is fishing for some kind of a defensive to get your client off the hook for killing millions of people because you know that this is a done deal. David Smith has been killing people for years and when his precious operation was crumpling because the faction system and the serums weren't working anymore he panicked and tried to start over because if he didn't then his job would be terminated. Those are the facts and the truth so you can stop trying to find something that isn't there.

Once again Mr. Jesse is stunned and angry because now his whole plan is out in the open but he recovers and snaps back at Tobias, trying to be as equally damaging

"Well then if she loved you then why didn't she stay?"

This obviously strikes a nerve in Tobias and I object but the judge allows it. Tobias recovers quickly but says in his same dangerous tone," Because she knew that it was the right thing to do and that was who she was. She was selfless and brave and it would have been against her nature to let her brother die for her. And I know that she didn't want to leave me."

Behind me I hear Caleb sniffle a little bit and I realize that it must have been something Tris said to him to tell Tobias or something.

I stand and ask Mr. Jesse if that is all the questions for Tobias. Mr. Jesse nods and I dismiss Tobias because there aren't really any questions to ask him. He sits down next to Christina who pats his shoulder.

And then it's finally time for David's testimony. As the guards bring him to the stand and start hooking up the device to his temples, I turn around to my clients and say, "Now this might get a little too graphic so if you don't want to look then look down alright."

All three of them nod and I turn back to face the large screen placed in the courtroom. The guards start the machine and David goes into a deep sleep and the screen opens up with large flashing lights and sirens.

What's going on! Why are the sirens going off! No this wasn't supposed to happen there was a whole plan that we were to follow! Noooo!

"Get me that girl that was playing with the lights…Cara!"

"Sir she knocked herself out."

Damnit! I turn to the computer screen geeks.

"You there play me the current feed on the hallway before the lab. NOW!"

Tris Prior. I knew she would turn on me just like her mother did.

"Release the death serum!"

"But sir that won't kill her! We already have studied her DNA and-"

"I know that you idiot! But it will slow her down enough for me to get to the lab and stop her! Do it now!

And here she comes just like I knew she would. Shoving her shoulder into the door, she comes in and stands up straight, thinking that she has won.

"Don't move." She jumps and slowly turns to face me. "Hello Tris."

Behind me I can heard the quicken breaths of Christina, Tobias and Caleb. What is coming will be very hard to watch for everyone. But I guess now they will know the truth. Maybe it will help them heal. At least I hope so.

"HOW DID YOU inoculate yourself against the death serum?" I ask.

She blinks at me, still dazed and surprised.

"I didn't," she says.

"Don't be stupid," I lie acting like I am equally surprised in her ability when all along I knew she was a special kind of GP. "You can't survive the death serum without an inoculation, and I'm the only person in the compound who possesses that substance."

She just stares at me, not sure what to say.

"I suppose it no longer matters, We're here now."

"What are you doing here?" She mumbles.

"I knew something was going on. You've been running around with genetically damaged people all week, Tris, did you think I wouldn't notice?" I shake my head. "And then your friend Cara was caught trying to manipulate the lights, but she very wisely knocked herself out before she could tell us anything. So I came here, just in case. I'm sad to say I'm not surprised to see you."

"You came here alone?" She says. "Not very smart, are you?"

"Well, you see, I have death serum resistance and a weapon, and you have no way to fight me. There's no way you can steal four virus devices while I have you at gunpoint. I'm afraid you've come all this way for no reason, and it will be at the expense of your life. The death serum may not have killed you, but I am going to. I'm sure you understand—officially we don't allow capital punishment, but I can't have you surviving this."

Some people in the courtroom gasp and the jury quickly write down notes for their deliberations later. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Caleb starting to tear up again.

"I know what you did," she says. Tris starts to back up but I know what her goal is and it's not fooling me. "I know you designed the attack simulation. I know you're responsible for my parents' deaths—for my mother's death. I know."

How DARE SHE.

"I am not responsible for her death!" I scream, "I told her what was coming just before the attack began, so she had enough time to escort her loved ones to a safe house. If she had stayed put, she would have lived. But she was a foolish woman who didn't understand making sacrifices for the greater good and it killed her!"

"Did you love her?" She asks. "All those years she was sending you correspondence . . . the reason you never wanted her to stay there . . . the reason you told her you couldn't read her updates anymore, after she married my father . . ."

I sit still because it still hurts and because she is asking too many questions.

"I did, but that time is past."

"My mother wasn't a fool," she says. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."

"She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. That's why I need to stop you from 'sacrificing' all those people and their memories. Why I need to rid the world of you once and for all. "I didn't come here to steal anything, David."

Suddenly she twists and lunges toward the device. But I already knew where she was going and fire my gun. The gun goes off and hits her right in her back.

But she is still typing and I fire again, hoping that I will hit a deadly shot. The gun goes off again and this time I hit her once in her neck and upper chest.

She gasps in pain and pants. Her body starts to fall, but she slams her hand into the keypad on her way down. A light turns on behind the green button.

I hear a beep, and a churning sound.

The last thing I see before the fog hits me is her body sliding to the floor. But I know she is dead…or at least going to be soon.

When the video goes black the courtroom is silent. Even though it helps convict the criminal, I am not sure I ever want to see a crime through the criminal's eyes again. It just was…awful. I quickly turn to my clients.

Christina is sobbing along with Caleb while Tobias is…gone.

"Where did Tobias go?"

Christina sniffles and says, "He ran out as soon as she was shot the first timTestimony

I nod and I completely understand. For Tobias it's hard enough coming to court and talking about the girl he loved but to see her final moments must be torture. Hopefully the jury will be quick on their decision and my clients will all be able to move on and be mended. I hope they will be able to sleep better knowing that we will get justice for Tris. Because that was the one thing that I wanted accomplish as a lawyer. I wanted to achieve justice for those who can't.