Chapter 15
Tobias P.O.V
Matthew has his hands on his hips, processing what has been going on. He wears the same expression he did when we were planning our final missions. Can't imagine what thoughts are running through his head, Tris and him started to have a connection at one point. I know, I saw it, when we were almost broken. They were getting along too well. It infuriated me the time, we paused. I didn't want to face the reality that she might have already moving on, that I broke us permanently. They were speaking like they had their own language, I can still feel the hurt in my heart when I thought she might leave me for him. She had so many reasons to do so. She deserved so much better then what I was giving her at that time. Not to mention the secret meetings between Nita and I in the middle of the night. I can't imagine what that must have looked like to her. That time... So much time wasted, we had limited time and we spent it in anger.
"Come with me, I have a friend that owes me a favor. He works in the control room." Matthew says, snapping me out of my thoughts.
We all get up to follow. All of us eager to find out the answers. When we make it to the control room, we agree that all of us going in will cause reason for alarm. "I'll meet you in the cafeteria when I'm done." I say.
"No, I'm coming with you." Christina says as she takes a step closer to me. "Four eyes are better then two." She says making light of the situation.
When we enter the room, we were relieved to find only Brandon alone in the room. After Matthew speaks to Brandon and explains to him that we are in need to investigate some strange activity. Brandon provides us a desk, giving us full access to the cameras. Which we were so thankful for, we knew it would take us awhile to look through all the footage. We needed to confirm if Eric was in fact alive, if David is in fact awake, and if Tris alive. Where to begin?
We decide to look at the footage in the hallway where we met the nurse for directions to Caleb's lab. It felt like eternity passing before we found the right angle and the right timing of the footage. When we spot the three of us (Zeke, Christina and I) talking to the nurse in the medical wing, I slowed the footage down, seeing the footage going backwards. A shock hits me, making me almost breathless. I pause the footage of a man. The man has tattoos through out his neck arms. I recognize the hair style, still the same as Eric's. I froze the picture. Seeing him smirking at the elevators as the doors closed. His body is blocking someone, someone small, he has them by the arm. I decide to rewind little further, trying to see if we can get a good look at the person before they hide in the closet.
There are no words for what I saw then. Even though the camera was angled so I couldn't make out the face of the person. I knew in my heart who it was. The person has a famine shape to her, short, the girl's hair is blonde and lays down pass her shoulder, her hair sliding over her three raven tattoo on her collarbone. She is caring something in her right hand, but the image isn't clear enough to make it out.
"Oh my god!" I say barely a whisper, loosing the use of my voice. I can't catch my breath, and my heart sinks to my stomach. I feel Christina hoovering over behind my chair, and at first there are no words that come out of her mouth. I feel the tension behind me flowing off her. I know she sees what I do.
"Is that... is that... no... no... no way. We saw her body, we have her aches, and him. You shot him in the head. We all saw it. How is this possible?" Christina says, her voice filled with emotions. I feel my heart threatening to stop beating. This is all my fault. I should have come sooner. Marcus warned me, my dreams warned me. Something always telling me something wasn't right, telling me that she is still here. I should have came sooner. I failed her!
"Hey guys, I think I have something here." Brandon says calking for our attention. We all look at the screen he is working on.
"Wait isn't that David?" Christina asks pointing at the TV screen.
"Yes it looks like it." I answer her.
"This is odd, he just came out of a wing that have been abandon for years." Brandon says, looking back at us.
"Where is that?" I ask
"Room 214, in the west wing." He says.
"We need to check that out... that might be where they are experimenting." I say glancing at Christina.
"What about Tris, and Eric?" Christina ask.
"Let's go meet the others. Obviously David and Eric are working together here. It's the only thing that makes sense." I say, my hands rubbing my face trying to wipe the stress off.
"Four" She says barely a whisper.
"I know... we gotta get to her out of here." I say.
We make our way out the control room and down the hall towards cafeteria. Matthew looks just as pale as we do.
"Four, I didn't know. Caleb and I had no idea. God! This was happening right under our noses. What the hell?" He says, frustrated.
"It's David, he tricked us all. I swear, when this day is through I will kill him and Eric. This ends today!" I say, and for the first time ever the gun in my waistband in hotter then ever.