| TOBIAS POV |
I've been here for roughly two hours and most of the bleeding has stopped since Eric pulled the knife out of me. I was thirsty, tired and needed to get out of her. I was still fiddling with the rope but it just wasn't budging. My vision was getting blurry and my eyelids were getting heavier. I let them droop and nearly close until I hear a familiar feminine voice.
"Just take me to him." I hear Tris scream.
"Tris, give me back the chip and I'll take you." Caleb lies.
They took the chip out of her.
There was a moment of silence until I hear the door open.
I see an angelic girl in a shirt and jeans. I look down at her foot, it was professionally bandaged. She limps towards me.
"Tobias, Tobias, oh my gosh, what did they do to you, stay with me, please." She says frantically.
"The chip." I manage to get out of my dry throat.
"I have it here." Tris opens her palm and shows the circular chip. "I injected Caleb with the stuff he gave me before the surgery."
"You shouldn't be walking."
"I need to, to get out of here at least, I have to get a knife out of the kitchen, stay awake please." She says as she runs out, leaving the door open.
Tris quickly limps back to me with a knife and cuts the rope quickly.
I hear a loud pounding on the door.
"It's Dauntless, open up." I hear a familiar voice say, Max.
Before I know it, I see Peter and Eric run into the room.
"You." Eric says pointing to Tris "Just cut short your boyfriends life by an hour."
Eric storms towards Tris who is still cutting the rope. Tris tries to throw a punch at him but he catches it and throws her onto the ground.
Tobias. Do something.
I was tired, cold, dizzy and had a blazing headache from all the blood loss. Peter came towards me with a gun. I use all my energy to take hold of the gun and punch him as hard as I can. I see him collapse onto the floor from the impact of the punch but then I fall on top of him. As I fall I toss it towards where Tris was. I try stand up someone roughly picks me up, I feel the cold barrel of a gun against my temple. Eric is going to kill me.
| TRIS POV
That fucking son of a bitch punched me. I pick myself and the gun up to see him with a smug smile and a half-unconscious Tobias with a gun to his head.
I look into his black, ruthless eyes.
"Put the gun down or I'll shoot." Eric says
"You put the gun down or I'll shoot." I say will all the bravery I can muster
"You wouldn't shoot, you're a little girl who probably just touched her first gun."
I hesitate and I begin to shake. I can hear the ruckus above us, the Dauntless against the Erudite.
"You're going to shoot him anyway." I say trying to hide my fear.
"Yeah but if I shoot him now, you'll have to live knowing that your choices killed him." He says.
Be brave Tris I just hear Tobias say.
"Just give the chip and put down the gun and we'll be gone forever." Eric says "You can have your happy little life with him, just put the damn gun down and give me the chip."
Be brave Tris. Be brave Tris. Be brave Tris. I hear Tobias say in my head.
I am brave.
Breathe in. Aim. Breath out. Shoot.
Within a second I hear Eric scream in pain from the bullet in his elbow. I run to Tobias with both feet, trying to ignore the excruciating pain. I support him as we run out.
"Tobias, stay with me." I scream as his weight of me becomes heavier and heavier. I hear Eric shoot the gun missing us by a hair.
"Both of you aren't leaving this room alive." I hear Eric scream as we get closer to the open door.
I see him aim at Tobias and fire.
"No." I scream
Tobias collapses, but not because of the bullet, because of his dead mother in front of him. There was a ruby red river flowing out of the wound near her heart. I hear two other Dauntless soldiers shuffle in and say some stuff to Eric before cuffing him.
"No, no, no, she can't die." Tobias says with a voice so weak I could barely hear him.
I feel a tear roll down his face and drop onto her.
Evelyn takes her hands and place one in mine and one in Tobias.
"I love you Tobias." She say "And Tris is good to you, she has help you become the man you are today more than I ever will be able to, I am proud to call you my son and I'm sorry and will forever be sorry for leaving you, I love you."
Her body goes limp.
"No, no, mum." Tobias shouts shaking her.
"Tobias, I'm sorry but you're going to have to step back, we have to take all of you to the hospital now." Some person says before shuffling us into an ambulance.
Short I know, there might be another one later.