Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
I gasp, and feel a sharp pain in my neck. I'm in a bed next to Uriah. Uriah? Uriah's dead. And what am I doing here? Suddenly, everything falls into place. I remember the gun going off. I remember the conversation with my mother. I'm dead. But I'm not. I'm alive. "Uriah?" I say.
"Yeah," he says, his voice shaking.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know," he almost whispers. "I just woke up here about an hour ago." I take a look at the room around me. It's small. The walls are made of metal. There are lots of machines, including a hear monitor. There is a cart in between me in Uriah. The cart consists of syringes, vial's full of purple liquid, and a computer. There is a black screen on the wall. In the right corner of the room, there is a camera, as well as a microphone. The screen suddenly turns on, and David's face appears. He laughs.
"Hello, Tris and Uriah. I've seen that my serum has worked on you. I bet you're really confused. I will give you a brief explanation of what happened." My cheeks get hot. I think of all the things he did wrong. He is responsible for everything that has happened after my initiation. He is responsible for the attack on Abnegation. He is responsible for my parents death. "I inoculated myself from both the Memory Serum and the Death Serum. After you two died, I preserved your bodies. It's been three days since you have died, Tris. And for you, Uriah, it's been about a month. Anyways, after Uriah's death, I started working on a serum to bring Divergents back to life. And you guys are the strongest Divergents I've seen yet. I will be running tests on you to make another serum. " I think of the time at Erudite Headquarters where Jeanine ran tests on me. I shiver. "With that serum, I will have the ability to make everyone genetically pure. And with a world with all genetically pure citizens, the world will be just how I want it. I have recently selected a group of fifteen former Bureau members that were affected by the Memory Serum and explained to the what I was doing. They will be helping me." He laughs again. "And unfortunately for you, you have no way out. Only I have that ability. All your friends and family think your're dead." A vision of Tobias crawls into my head. I remember everything. How he told me that he couldn't wait for the next day. How he said we would get to decide what comes next. How we kissed in the atrium before he left. And now, he thinks he'll never see me again.
"David." I say, my voice rising. "Let us out of hear now!" He laughs for the third time. "This is not a joke! Let us out!"
"Do you really think I'm afraid of a seventeen year old girl?" Another laugh. "Well, you're thinking wrong. And by the way, that boy of yours is taking the news of your death really well," he says, sarcastically. He laughs more before the screen turns black.
The first thing Uriah says is, "Zeke. Zeke thinks I'm dead." I try to stay calm but it's not working. My breathing is heavy and my hands are shaking.
"We're going to get out of here," I say. "We have to. We just have to wait. We should try to relax. Calm down a little." I can't help but notice how tired I am.
"Good idea, Tris," he says. Before I can reply, I doze off to sleep.
I wake up to the ground shaking. Suddenly a piece of the wall slides open and David walks in. He carries a case. "Tris. Uriah. Nice to see you."
"David," I sneer. He takes out syringes already filled with liquid from his case.
"Tris. You will be going first." My heart starts beating fast.
"Tris. You will be going first," I say, mocking him.
"Mocking me will only make the situation worse," he says.
"Mocking me will only make the situation worse," I repeat. Uriah snorts. David pulls out a gun from the case.
"Do I really need to use this," he says to Uriah. Uriah stiffens, shaking his head. "That's what I thought." He holds out the syringe and holds it up to my neck. "Be brave, Tris," he says, and I know he's mocking what Tobias said to me before my first simulation. Then, he inserts the needle and everything goes black.