DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE DIVERGENT SERIES. VERONICA ROTH DOES.

TRIS

Can I be forgiven for all that I've to get here? I want to. I can. I believe it.

*two years later*

Pain is a strange thing. Sometimes it is the worst thing in the world, and other times, you use it to get through the bad. Right now, I can't believe that anyone would use pain for their benefit. I can barely move, I am hurting too bad. I open my eyes, and soon regret it. I only see blinding light. I squint and blink repeatedly to get rid of the dots in my vision. There is a machine next to me that is beeping like crazy. I want to yell at someone to shut it off, but 1. There is no one here, and 2. I'm pretty sure that if I tried to yell, I would explode. So I wait. I wonder what happened after I released the memory serum. Did Tobias stop the war? How long has it been? When can I see my friends? My thoughts are interrupted by footsteps and the sound of a door slamming. I close my eyes and pretend to be asleep. I hear cursing, and a man's voice. The guy fiddles with the machines that I am hooked up to, and I open my eyes to look at him. He is older, with graying hair, and a short, fat body. He sees me looking at him, and I try to close my eyes before he sees me, but he just chuckles.

"Gee. You really gave me a fright there missy." He says while shaking his head. I just continue to stare at him.

"When your machine is beeping like that, it either means that your patient is waking up, or that they are dead. When I saw your eyes closed, I thought that it was the latter." I nod and look away from him at my surroundings. I am in a small white room. There are no windows, and I am laying on a hospital bed in the right corner of the room. On the left corner next to the door, is a large receptionist desk. On it are three computers. I want to say something, but my mouth is too dry to speak.

"Would you like something. Food? Water?" He asks and I nod vigorously. He stands up and leaves the room. I count the seconds until he returns. Twelve minutes and thirty six seconds pass until the doors open again. The man walks in carrying a large tray featuring many types of food. He places it in front of me and I stare at it, not knowing what to think. There is a bowl of some sort of soup, a sandwich, fruit, celery, and a large slice of dauntless cake. I wasn't really hungry when he asked me, I just wanted water, but when I saw the cake, I had to eat it. I dig in and eat it as fast as I can. I avoid the celery though. I hate celery. Tobias hates celery. I inwardly sigh as I think of him and my friends. What happened to them? I need to know. I clear my throat and try to speak. I remember the water siting on my tray and take a long swig from it and try again.

"Where am I?" I finally manage to grunt out. "What happened to me?"

"Let me ask you something, Miss Prior. What is the last thing that you remember?"

I think for a minute before telling him that it was blood. The dark crimson color of it. I do not tell him about my mother. That is simply not something that he needs to know.

"Interesting." he mumbles. "They thought that it would be much worse."

"What would be much worse?" I ask, getting worried. He replaces the intrigued look on his face with a polite smile.

"You better get some sleep." He tells me. "You have had quite the fight." Then he is gone. I don't go to sleep for a while, though. I stay up, and think of Christina, and Tobias, and Zeke, and Shuana. I wonder if Uriah pulled through out of his coma, or if he was unplugged. I even think of my parents, Will, Marlene, and Al, who were taken too soon, some by me. I think of what people are doing without me, and if the war was stopped. I wonder why I am in this bed right now, and not with all of the people that I lost. I was dead, right? My thoughts are not full of pain, though. They are filled with the memories that I had with my mom, dad, Will, Marlene, Al and everyone else. I drift to sleep slowly, then all at once.

TOBIAS

I rub my fingers over the tattoo on my wrist. It says 'hold love loosely, then it won't hurt so bad to be torn away from you'. I got it done last year, on the first anniversary of Tris' death. I remember the day clearly. I went ziplining by myself, and twisted my ankle getting down, with no one to catch me. I walked the entire way back to the Dauntless compound, and got a tattoo. Then later, Zeke made me go to the infirmary to check it out. Today, I will go zip lining once again, but Chris, Zeke, and Shuana are coming with me. The Erudite helped Shuana with her legs in an attempt to persuade Dauntless, Candor, Amity, and what was left of Abnegation, to keep the factions up, but me, along with Johana, and Zeke shut down the idea, and now run the new city. I don't mind the job. It distracts me from the pain. I am laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling when Chris walks in. She is wearing a black t-shirt, black shorts, with black tights underneath. She looks very dauntless. In fact, if I ever had to point out one Dauntless person to someone, it would be her.

"Get up Four. We are all ready to go except your lazy ass."

She throws a shirt at me, and I realize that I was in the middle of getting dressed, and was only wearing a pair of jeans. I blush and pull the shirt over my head. She leaves, and I get up and look at myself in the floor length mirror on the wall in front of my bed. I look so different. I am skinnier, for one. And there are bags under my eyes. I try not to sleep, because when I sleep, I dream. And then I wake up thinking everything is ok, then the truth comes slamming back at me with such force, that I will have to cry and stay in my apartment all day long. I haven't left my apartment much in the last two years. With my job position, I am able to work from my computer, so the only times I go out are emergencies, when Zeke makes me, or on Tris' death anniversary, like today. I throw on some shoes and head out the door. When I get to the platform, I realize that the train left without me. I must have taken longer getting here than I thought. I sigh and start jogging towards the Henock building. Today is worse than other days. Every little thing is reminding me of her, and the others. When I see a raven in the sky and feel tears threatening to spill out of my eyes, but it is when I see an empty Dauntless cake container is when I break down. Uriah. I killed him. I crouch down and silently sob. I feel a hand on my shoulder, and I whip around and punch Zeke in the face. I hear a crack as he falls to the ground.

"Dude! Don't do that to me." I say wiping tears off of my face. I help him up and see that his nose is bleeding and crooked. It is broken.

"Ok. Remind me to never sneak up on you again." He says holding his nose to stop the bleeding. "I just saw you on the ground and I thought-" His voice trails off when he notices the cake container. I look down. Zeke had a hard time forgiving me after Uriah was unplugged. He ignored me for months until his mother and Chris made him talk to me. He forgave me after he saw how guilty I felt.

"What are you even doing here?" I ask him.

"I missed the train. What do you think that I am doing here? Taking a lovely thirteen mile stroll?" He says sarcastically. I shove him and start to walk again. He has to jog to keep up with me.

"Hey listen, I am going on a date with Shuana tomorrow, and there is this girl-

"No." I cut him off coldly.

"Why not?" He asks. He is so stupid. Of course he knows that I am not going to go out on a date, with some random girl. I would have a hard time doing that before Tris.

"Because, it has only been two years." I say back to him in a whisper. We have both stopped walking. "It is too soon."

"And what amount of time will be long enough?" He asks me.

" I did not plan on being with someone else when Tris was alive, and I do not feel any different now." I say. Then I run. I run as fast as I can without stopping until the Hanock building is right in front of my face. I look over my shoulder and look for Zeke. I can't see him. I open the door, and step inside.