| TOBIAS POV |
I drop Tris off at the airport and hop into the same taxi.
I notice Max, the head of Dauntless, text me.
MAX – Erudite are moving.
FOUR- Where?
MAX – We are still trying to get a location, near Lakeshore East
FOUR – Near Divergent HQ?
While Max is typing I look out the window and notice that I am near Lakeshore East which is past the Gold Coast which where I live. The taxi driver must just want some extra cash. I notice the drive starts to speeds up.
"Hey!" I say before the impact of my head hitting the seat in front of me makes me black out.
A rush of cold water hitting my bare torso and face wakes me up. My head is soaring in pain; my ears are ringing and my throat is unbearably dry. My lips are cracked and split, I can feel a black eye forming and my cheekbone bruising. I feel coarse rope tightly and masterfully wrapped around my wrists. Normally I can undo the rope but not if it is tied like this.
"Why the infamous Four is awake." I hear a familiar voice. Eric.
I open my eyes to see him in a blue suit. Erudite wear
Eric was in my initiation class. He wanted to become an Elite agent to impress his father, Max. But I always beat him which gained me attention, especially when I had four fears. His father, Max, also the head of Dauntless, paid more attention to me and looked at me as a role model for Eric. That just made him hate me. But I never he would stoop so low to help the Erudite.
"Do you even know how many times my father said your name with such adoration." Eric hisses
"I thought you were better this Eric." I spit
"They promised me a portion of the money in the chip in that girlfriend of yours."
"I never thought I would see Four with a girlfriend." Another man says. Peter. Jeanine's minion. "She's pretty damn hot, ugh, that ass of hers, maybe when they're done with her, I can have her."
"Stay away from her." I say in the most intimidating voice I can muster.
"Now, now, no need to get your panties in a twist." Eris says
"Leave him alone," a blonde young man enters. His eyes scan over me, lingering more on my toned torso before returning to my eyes.
"I can see why Tris liked you, she was always into the men that were practically double her size." The person says.
"Who are you?" I spit
"Caleb, Caleb Prior." He says Prior. Prior. Tris Prior, her brother Caleb.
"Your Tris's brother." I say. They kind of look alike, the face structure and the nose but he had green eyes.
"Ahh, so she told you, she doesn't tell many that she's adopted." he says
"Why would you do this?" I ask shaking my head
"Why?" he says "Because I love her, she has a chip in her foot that has the encryption code that can access everything in the governments funding and the main banks of America, I'm going to take it out of her and then she doesn't become a target anymore."
"And how are you doing to do that?" I challenge
"We're Erudite, you know the one that creates new technology." Caleb says "We have created a machine that can remove it out of her."
"And what are you going to do with the chip?" I ask
"I'm just giving it to Jeanine." Caleb says.
"You can't do that."
"Why not?"
"She's going to take the money and ruin everything."
"Correct." Caleb says with a sarcastic smile "She is going to change America back into the faction system, America will collapse and so will the government, Jeanine will stand and everyone will be following and coming to her since she will be America's saviour."
"That's fucked up, Tris will never forgive you."
"She won't forgive me when I kill you, I guess I'll just have to live with it, or wipe her memory." he says
Caleb gives Eric a look before leaving out of the room with Peter.
"Now, where is she?" Eric asks
"I don't know." I lie
"That's a lie." Eric shouts before punching me on my already bruised cheekbone from the car crash. I quickly recover from it and spit in his face.
"I'll ask one more time kindly, where is she?" Eric screams in my face.
"I don't know." I repeat calming.
"I have something that might make it easier for you to tell us." Eric says with a sadistic smile. He picks up my throwing knife I keep in my shoe. I take a deep breath in and out. He's going to torture me.
He runs the sharp knife lightly along my back as he walks around me.
"Where is she?" he says calmly
"I don't know."
I scrunch my eyes and only let out a grunt as he drags the knife down my shoulder blade.
"Where is she?"
"You stay away from her, you asshole." I spit
I let myself shout as Eric drags another line down my shoulder blade.
"Where is that little girlfriend of yours?"
"Your father is going to be so disappointed with you and what you have become." I say.
I shout as he stabs the knife in the lower left of my torso.
Peter pops back into the room.
"Caleb told you not to kill him now and I gave her the call." Peters says before going back out.
I glare at Eric as he exits the room. He didn't even need to torture me. They had my phone.
Black spots start to appear in my vision, probably from the blood loss. Stay awake Tobias.
I focus on trying to untie the rope around my hands.
| TRIS POV |
I stand in front of the rebuilt house. All the memories of firefighters, my parents burnt bodies and all my stuff turned into ash. This new and perfect looking house with a shamrock green front lawn was where my old house stood. With my old house burnt down my future, my parents, my family, my hope and my happiness. I enter through the unlocked door. The house was unfurnished. I see Caleb.
"Caleb?" I ask. "What are you doing? Where's Tobias?"
"Tris, I'm here to take the chip out of your foot."
"Where is he?"
"I need to get that chip out of your foot, the longer it is in you, the longer you are a target."
"I don't care, where is he?" I scream at him "I'm nothing without him."
"I'm sorry Tris." Caleb says
"Wha-." I collapse.