Authors note: Here's my chapter! Sorry it took so long, it was accidentally deleted from my laptop twice! I will try to write a chapter every week. Read on!
I look closely at the Erudite. Dressed in a blue shirt and trousers, both with rips and dirt which cover them entirely. She has dark rings under her dull green eyes and her hair is untidy. Her nails have aggressively been bitten, probably because of worry, and are covered in little splotches of blood around each nail.
"Escape from the hospital?" She asks, eyeing up my hospital gown.
"I'm not going back, besides there's nothing they can do." I reply with a weak smile.
"I'm not going either." She sighs and sits next to me.
"What's your name?" I question.
"Alaska. Don't ask me why they called me that. It's a stupid name, I know." She says slightly angrily.
"It's a pretty bizarre name. I like it." I say while I wipe my damp face with my shirt.
She smiles at me and then loudly laughs, "Everybody in Erudite hated it. You're the first person to actually like it."
She quickly changes to a puzzled expression. She looks to the left and stares at the same place for ages. Then her lip wobbles and she shakes her head.
"Go away!" She screams at the empty space.
"Alaska! There's no one there." I shout. She still looks at nothing, she must be imagining something that's not here.
"Alaska?" I cry.
I try to move her head away to look at me but she won't move. She is fixated at the imaginary thing.
To try and get her attention, I move in front of her face, to block whatever she is looking at. After a minute or so of calling her name, she looks at me and snaps out of her trance. She shakes her head whilst she clasps her hands tightly.
"It's okay. It's over now." I say.
I don't know what to do. I don't know how to react. Should I leave? Maybe she likes to be alone with her troubles. No, she helped me when my mind was being pestered by the voices. She needs someone right now. I just wait quietly until she wants to talk… Finally she breaks the silence.
"Weird things happen to me, I got gassed." She confesses.
I should have guessed because frankly it was obvious. I just thought only I was infected by The Smokers. I feel guilty about feeling like this, but I did, I am glad, glad it happened to someone else too. Maybe we can help each other through this.
"So did I. Sucks doesn't it?" I say.
"It sure does." She unexpectedly smiles.
I am surprised at the gesture, she was just completely startled and now she's happy. Thinking about it, I did the same thing earlier. Wow.
"Are you joining in the war?" I ask.
"Yes, you wouldn't believe how many lies I've told to be able to fight. People don't even know that I was in the Erudite building when it happened. To be honest I'm starting to feel uncomfortable about lying to everyone." She admits.
"Why are you telling me this? I don't mean to be rude but isn't it supposed to be kept a secret?"
"You won't tell anyone except your boyfriend, I can tell." She says.
How did she know I'm in a relationship? Hundreds of answers circle around in my head and I chose the most logical one, she must've seen me with him and just guessed that we were together.
"You sure have a lot of trust in someone you've only just met." I mumble.
I wish I could trust somebody that easily.
"What about the Erudites? Surely they could diagnose your condition."
"Not if I do a better job. We just have to keep convincing them that we are fine. If we just do that they won't lock us in a hospital and we can fight." She says with full determination.
"Are you training tomorrow with the wannabe warriors?" She asks.
She told me a lot about herself, it's only fair that I share something with her.
"I'm forced too. I didn't exactly keep my condition a secret so pretty much everyone knows now, even Johanna and Evelyn. Still, I need to pretend that everything it's okay."
"Well I'm going to be there too. We can do this if we try hard enough." She declares.
"If both of us has another episode, we have to snap each other out of it, especially if there is a crowd of people." I say.
"Yes! That's a good idea." She exclaims.
After a moments silence Alaska says, "Well, I'm too cold to sit out of here all night."
It's cold? I'm quite warm. I'll add it on the list of things wrong with me.
"What else are you going to do?" I question.
"Try to sleep I guess but we both know that's difficult. Nah, I'll probably just walk the hallways until I either crash or get bored." She replies.
"Crash?"
"Yeah. Crash. It's when your exhausted body forces you to fall asleep. It's great, you'll love it." She smirks while getting up.
"I'll see you tomorrow then." She starts walking away, heading to the nearest entrance to Dauntless.
"Wait!" She turns around, "I never told you my name."
"You didn't have too! Who doesn't know the famous couple Four and Tris?" She shouts.
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