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We only stopped because I tripped and fell over a rock that I couldn't get my foot over.

"Can you hear any water yet?" I ask Uriah as he tightens the blood soaked shirt around my thigh again. I winced with his final tug to tighten it.
"Nope, but I'm guessing you already knew that considering your hearing it better than mine" Uriah says. "We're going to have to keep going, you are losing to much blood Tris"

I looked down at my leg, it's completely soaked with blood. My black pants, now stained a dirty dark red all the way to my foot, my head feels foggy and my head and beginning to get dizzy – but I can't let myself feel it, we need to reach bureau.

"Ok, let's go," I say. It takes every ounce of strength in my body to get of the ground and begin to walk again but somehow I do it. Uriah watches me as I lean against my walking stick, his eyebrows pull together and his lips turn down at the side... somehow it reminds me of Tobias when he knew I was hiding something from him.

"How long until you tell me how bad the pain's getting Tris?" Uriah voice comes out light.

I give him a weak smile, "Im ok, really," but my voice comes out tense and high pitch.

Uriah sighs and places his hand around my hip, "At least let me help you, even if its just for a five minutes."

I let out sigh, "How is it that i got shot and you didn't... I mean you are bigger than me in all ways" I say as I let a laugh slip through my lips.

"Well, I'm faster and you're the stronger divergent... I would bet my left foot that Patton ordered for you to be captured and brought back to her and I would have been her last resort if they didn't." Uriah replied to me, no humour in his voice.

"You were captured at the same time as me Uriah, stop believing everything she said to you... You are just as strong as I am, we are equals." I say, a little too harshly. Uriah knows my angrier towards the pure and damage gene war our leaders created all those years ago.

We stop talking for awhile. Uriah and I don't like to fight with each other, we've had a fair share over the time in Erudite but it slowly stopped once Patton started to use it against us. The memory of Uriah slamming open the door one night, charging his way towards me as i slept, grabbing my by my throat and slamming me against the wall.

I remember his face being expressionless, no emotions showed through his eyes as he gripped my neck tighter.

Tears build behind my eyes as I push the memory away.

Suddenly the sound of water breaks through my mind, I grab Uriah's arm to get him to stop.

"What?" He says, reaching for his gun.
"Water!" I say with a little too much excitement. I listen for another moment and take the lead. We walk for another ten minutes or so before we find the creek. I lean against a tree trunk and let a sigh of relief out.

"For a few moments there I thought we were headed in the wrong direction." I say to Uriah with a laugh.

"Ha, for just a few moments? I thought that the moment we started walking" Uriah says with a laugh as he leans over the side of the creek wall and dunks him head in the water. When he brings his head back up he throws his head around letting the water splatter everywhere.

We fill out bottles up with water and sit for a moment.

"How far off do you think we are?" Uriah asks me

"We should be there by night fall" I try to sound confidant but honestly walking here took longer then we both expected, even with me having a bullet in my leg.

"Do you think your parents are there?" Uriah asked

"I hope so." The memory of discovering my parents were alive could not be clearer in my mind. It was a few days after Patton drugged me with the new serum she had created. I was thrown into a dark room when she discovered the serum didn't have an effect on me, I crawled to a corner and began sobbing when someone began speaking.

"Who is that?" The voice spoke softly.

I gasped as I snapped my head up, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the dark.

"Its ok, we wont hurt you," they began. "My name is Natalie and my husband whom is asleep next to is named Andrew Prior"

My sobbing stopped. All the warmth in my body fell out of me, my mouth hung opened as I tried to take in what I just herd.

"I think there has been some mistake." I say my words slowly. "My name is Beatrice Prior and I watched my parents die some time ago." This must be stimulation, I watched my parents die at the hands of dauntless solders who were under the stimulation Jeanine created in order to try and over throw the government. I watched as they both sacrificed their life for me, watched as their clothes filled with blood and their body became lifeless.

"Beatrice?" My stimulation mother whispered. I heard her get up; her hands brush against the stonewall as she found her way to me.

"This isn't real, you aren't alive." I say as tears began to build behind my eyes again. I hug my knees closer to my body, preparing myself for the emptiness when I finally wake from the stimulation.

"My dear daughter, this is not a lie." My mother said as she placed her hand on my cheek softly. "This is real, I am alive, your father is alive and you, you are alive." She wrapped her arms around me and held me tight as my sobs exploded out of me like a wild animal.

"Tris!" I jump at the sound of my name and look around until I can see Uriah. I look up and spot him standing at the top of the tree.

"I can see the fence" Uriah yells down at me with a smile and drops himself down so close to me, I move my head back and hit the tree trunk behind me.

"If we start walking now I think we could reach bureau by late noon for sure" he says reaching out hand for me to take and pulls me to my feet.

"What did I wake you from anyway?" Uriah asks.

"Nothing, just another memory" I say with a smile. "The memory of finding out my parents were alive after all that time."

"What about the memory of finding out I was alive after the explosion?" he says teasing me.

"Oh right, the memory of me walking in my room and finding you laying on my bed, and quote" I raise my hands to make speak marks. "So, I'm not died after all, what a game changer!" I laugh as I remember the look on his face when he got up to hug me. We were the only family we had left while in there, my parents were taken away a day after Patton reunited us. All part of her plan I gathered.

"I think my attitude has been what saved us throughout our time in there, without me you would have gone crazy and well lets face it, without me carry you out of Erudite gates you would have been died." He says as he throws the small bag over his back and gives me a light shove on.

"Mm, and my shooting abilities didn't help us at all as we broke out of Erudite?" I try to match is tone but I can never be as happy as Uriah. As much as I've tried over the past two years, I seem to think too much into the situations.

"Ok, maybe we are even but without me you'd still be trying to get over that fence."

"Oh get over it," I say with a laugh as we begin walking to towards burear and hopefully, our new home.

We walk in silence for a while, only hearing our footsteps as we disturb the grass beneath us. I look up at the sky; I've never taken much time enjoying the openness off it but after 2 years of looking at the ceilings of the Erudite building I've decided to begin enjoying things like, looking at the sky.

"Honest moment for a second Tris?" Uriah asks me quietly.

I stop looking at the sky and try to look at his face through the spots in my vision from the sun.

"Go for it" I say as I reach for the drink bottle in his hands.

"We have been gone for 2 and a half years" He looks to the side, not wanting to show me whatever emotion he is feeling. "They have grieved for us, they said their good byes to us" This time he turns his head and looked straight at me. "We heard their good byes, we laid there on the table unable to say anything to them, to let them know we were actually alive."

This is not a memory I want to remember, I begin to adjust the knot around my thigh in hope he may realise and drop the subject.

"My family, I heard their cry's as they walked from the room for the last time, heard you saying your goodbye to me." I look up and meet Uriah eyes, his eyes are empty as he looks over me looking at nothing. He's reliving his last days inside what was meant to be our safe house.

"I don't" I began but realised I don't have anything to say to him. I know the pain he is feeling, I remember the cry's as they found me laying on the ground believing I was dead – just what Patton wanted. I push the heel of my hands into my eyes, trying to push the memories from my mind but there's no point– they have over taken.

I can feel Tobias hand brush mine as he walks away from me, trying to hide his sobs. Christina's cry's as she whispers in me ear.

"Don't be gone, we need you Tris, we need you"

A lump rises in my throat. I try to swallow it and push the emotions back down into my stomach. I drop my hands and begin to shake my head- I'm not doing this. We are so close. I will not break down now.

I clear my throat and grab Uriah's hand.

"I'm not doing this, I can not do this" I look at him trying to hide any trace of emotion from my voice and face. "We are so close to them!, We are so close to getting you back to your family Uriah" I tug on his arm as I try to get us moving again.

"What about you Tris, you have family there too" Uriah tugs his hand back, turning my body back to him, pain spread through my thigh again with the small new movement.

"You haven't stopped to think about how many people love you in there! Have you?" Uriah and I have never seen eye-to-eye on the issue I have of putting others before myself.

"You want to fight with me about this here?" I say, raising one eyebrow at him.

"Yeah, why not!" Uriah begins to walk in a circle as he continues to lecture me.

"Why can't you see that you have a family in there, a family that is not better off without you! You sacrifice yourself time and time again and you don't realise what it does to the people you leave behind" He stops for a breath and begins again.

"Do you know what you did to Tobias when he woke to find you gone that day you left for Erudite?" He turned to face me this time. Waiting for an answer. I just look away. I don't want to think about this, I don't want to remember the day I walked around the corner to see Tobias standing at the end of the hallway with blood running down his face and Dauntless traitors standing on either side of him. My belief of letting myself die for the ones I loved, almost caused the death of the person i loved the most.

"Tris!" Uriah screamed at me. "You cannot walk through that fence and still expect it to be ok to sacrifice yourself because you think they will be better off, because they wont be." He lowers his voice and steps closer to me. "They lost you once, I watch Tobias when he realised he may have lost you for good that morning and…"

"You think he's still going to be in love with me?" I cut him off. "It's been two and a half ears Uriah, grow up!" I try to blink the tears back into my mind. "We may have been locked up day in and day out for two years, only thinking of them." I stop to catch my breath, not take my eyes from his. "Every morning I wake up thinking off him, every stimulation I was put through he was in it. They used my memories of him to help torture me!" I screamed. I hate when he does this. "I don't do this to you Uriah, I don't torture you with your actions" I say.

"Yeah, because I haven't actually had anything incredible stupid." That's true I think to myself.

"It still doesn't mean you get to do this to me." I say, hoping that he will feel a pinch of guilt and let us move on- but he doesn't.

"You just hate that I'm right, you hate that I am stating the truth" he is staring me right in the eyes now.

"Oh yeah?" I say. Crossing my arms. "And what is the truth" I say staring right back.

"That you would put yourself back in the hands of Patton if they threatened anyone on the inside of burear and if you really are prepared to do that." He lets out a sigh. "Then you may as well walk back to her now."

"Why is that stupid?" I say dropping my head, a lump rising in my throat again. "Why should they suffer just because my brain is stronger then they want it to be?"

"Why should they suffer losing you again Tris? when they can fight along side you and you be safe with them" Uriah says, throwing his hands up in the air.

I clench my hands into fists.

"And you wouldn't do the same to save your family if you had to?" I spite the words at him,

"No" He says loudly. "Because I hear their screams, I hear their sobs every night when I fall asleep! I know they will not be better off if I leave them again" His voice is becoming smaller now but his eyes are still tense. "And you Tris, you need to learn that you have the power to break people by leaving them. There is a difference between selfishness and being selfish." I let his words hang in the air for a few moments before looking up at him again.

Was I being selfish when I left Tobias asleep in bed that night? When I went behind his back and went with his father to find the information out from Jeanine? Am I being selfish right now, believing I can leave them all behind again if I can save them from another war?

When I finally look up at Uriah he is standing on his tiptoes with him neck stretched out as far as possible. I turn around and try and see whatever he is looking at.

"What is it?" I whisper to him.

"It's a truck" he's say. All anger from our conversation gone.