Tris stared in horror at Adam, lying still on the cold ground. She began to hyperventilate. No. No. No. NO! This isn't happening. He's not…he's not…He's just NOT! No…Oh please no… Darien began to cackle. "Oh, this is just too perfect. Now I can kill you and be satisfied. You've watched at least one of your friends die right in front of you." He looked her in the eyes. "And you killed him. It's all your fault." My fault…Tris thought numbly, it's all my fault. "If you hadn't come with me, trusted me," He began laughing again, "loved me, then this wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have gotten your powers, he wouldn't have died. Congratulations." Tris looked at him helplessly.

"Kill me." She whispered, "Now." Darien regarded her thoughtfully.

"No." He replied. "No, I think I'll let you live a little longer." Tears formed in Tris's eyes again.

"But…You can't do that. I can't live. I don't deserve to live. You can't do this!" She cried at him, helplessly. All of a sudden, the cave began to shake and pieces of the ceiling began to fall down. Yes! Tris thought desperately, looking up at it, Yes! Fall! Fall down! A big chunk fell and hit Darien in the head. He fell to ground and did not get up. The cave stilled. Evvy, Briar, Dan, Elizabeth, and Daja entered. Daja ran over to Tris as Dan and Elizabeth went to Adam. The chains released Tris and she watched Dan and Elizabeth anxiously, hoping they could save him. Elizabeth looked up again, tears in her eyes. She shook her head.

"He's gone." She said. Tris's heart hit the floor. She ran over to his body and threw herself on top of it.

"No. No. No. No." She kept repeating as sobs finally took her, racking her body as she let flow all of the emotion she had been keeping locked up for so long. "Noooooooo!" She wailed. She looked at his face, determination and love frozen in its features, and did the one thing she had wanted to do for months. She kissed him.

Adam gasped and his eyes flew open. (A/N: Come on, I couldn't kill him in the last story, did you really think I'd do it now?) He smiled. "I should get knocked unconscious more often." He said, "Every time I do there seems to be a girl over me when I wake up." (A/N: In the last book, Elizabeth was over him, remember?) Tris looked at him in surprise.

"But…" Elizabeth said, "You…you were dead." He looked at her in confusion, but Evvy spoke up before he could say anything.

"I don't know if you noticed, but we're once again in a cave at an ungodsly hour of the day. I think it's time we get back home. We can ponder over Adam's apparent rise from the dead there." They agreed. On the way home, Tris filled them all in on what had happened. Adam had a fixed frown on his face the whole time and fury burned in his eyes as he listened to Tris recount her ordeal at Darien's hands. If he weren't already dead, I'd kill him. He thought. When Tris got to the part where Adam saved her life, Elizabeth explained what happened while he was dead. Adam looked at Tris in surprise and shook his head. "I must have gone deaf." He said, "I thought I just heard Liz say Tris kissed me." Tris looked away, her face burning. Finally she forced herself to meet his eyes. She stuck out her chin stubbornly.

"So what if I did? It was very traumatic to watch you…to see what I saw. It must have caused me to go temporarily insane." But there was no vigor behind her words, and instead of stalking away from Adam she slung an arm around his waist and rested her head on his shoulder. Adam put his arm around Tris as well and hugged her tight to him in a comforting gesture.

"I just don't understand it!" Elizabeth had just finished telling Rosethorn and Lark about how Adam had come back to life. She had called her own teacher, Luna, over as well. Luna frowned.

"Neither do I. Once someone is dead, they're dead. There's nothing we can do to undo that." She looked at Rosethorn and Lark for help, "You two got any ideas?" Lark was silent for a moment.

"I think I might." She said. "I think it was Tris." Here, Elizabeth shook her head emphatically.

"It couldn't have been. Darien took her magic from her. That's how he killed Adam, with Tris's magic."

"Besides," Luna agreed, "Tris didn't have any healing magic whatsoever. Not that it should have mattered since we can't heal the dead." She added as an afterthought.

Lark shook her head. "There was one magic Tris had that no one would ever be able to take away. It's the most powerful magic in the world, and I believe it could have the ability heal the dead as well." She paused to look at them all. "Love." She said. "Tris must have put all of her love for Adam into that kiss. And it revived him." (A/N: Say it with me now: aaaaaaaaaawwwwwww!) A smile crept onto Elizabeth's face. Then she broke out into laughter.

"You better be the one to tell her that." She said once she had gotten herself under control. "And make sure to put everything sharp and heavy out of her reach beforehand."

Daja sat by the window of the forge. Kirel was next to her, waiting for her to tell him what was on her mind. He could always tell when she was upset, and when she needed to talk. He knew if he waited her out, she'd tell him what was up. She sighed and looked away from the window and into his face.

"Have you ever had a feeling in the pit of your stomach that something isn't right?" She asked him. "That something is horribly wrong?"

"Yes." He answered, "On the night of the pirate attack. I had an anxious feeling all day, sort of like I was waiting for a storm to break. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what." He searched her face for a moment. "Trust your instincts, Daja. They've never let you down before." She nodded and went back to work. Though I can't say I don't want them to let you down now. Kirel thought, watching her worried face before he, too, went back to work.

Adam went down to the seashore for a walk. Usually he chose the woods, as there were more animals there, but he felt he needed a break from them. I need to tell them. He thought. No. I don't. His rationalizing self argued. After all, he's dead. What does it matter now? Because, his other half argued back, there's something wrong and you know it. Keeping this from them may be a bad idea, depending on what that something is. Adam continued to argue with himself, one half of his brain saying it didn't matter because Darien was dead and the other saying it mattered anyway. He sighed and went down to the shore. He stopped for a moment to look at a pool of water in the sand. A child must have made it while playing there earlier. Looking into the water, Adam gasped. How? Ugh! Damn it! Why does this always have to happen? I must have been a horrible person in a past life to deserve this. He began the walk back, planning what to say to them when he got there.

Dan looked up as Adam walked through the door. "Hi. How's it go-" Adam held up his hand to silence him. Dan looked at him questioningly.

"Darien's alive." He said.