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She's lay in a hospital bed on top of the black covers, her hospital gown covers her wound so I don't know how bad it looks. She still has her leg though, which is lucky, I thought she would have lost it.
"I'm sorry Tris, I knew I shouldn't ha–" Gemma says miserably.
"No you shouldn't have but you did. Do you have any idea of what this gas does to people? The affect it can have to people." I say.
"Wait. You didn't get gassed did you?" Gemma asks confused.
"We both did. What was your part in this exactly, were you the engineer or did you just help them set it off?" Alaska says sourly.
"Neither. Listen to me, I had nothing to do with your gassing," she looks at Alaska. Then she turns her head towards me. "I may have helped kidnap you but I certainly didn't know you were gassed. I heard about some people trying to escape, which I assumed was you but Chloe tried to convince everyone that you weren't there in the first place."
"You could have helped us escape, you knew she wanted to kill me and you did nothing."
"I know I should've helped. After all that, you and Four showed me kindness and nursed me when I was almost dying. I feel sick to my stomach, when I remember what I've done to you, to everyone."
"Well, I don't kill for pleasure." I spit.
"What was it that you wanted to tell us?" Alaska asks sounding frustrated.
"There's a cure. It's this serum that you inject, it reverses the effect of the gas but it's heavily guarded."
Dale look happy and Alaska looks less angry. I walk out the room before they do and I think I said 'thank you' before I left. I heard Dale call my name and Alaska say to leave me alone for a bit and that I need time to process this.
I should be happy, I know I should but I'm just angry at how unfair everything is. Gemma helped me get gassed she got shot by her own people and I helped even though she didn't deserve it. She's fine now, she is probably able to walk while Alaska and I have been suffering from the gas. Alaska is dying now because of it and so am I probably but at a much slower rate and Chloe only decided to leave now. Then there's Tobias, after he got forced to be with Chloe, he finally find me but I can't remember him and his heart breaks. Straight after, we get put into this glass room and we both think we are going to die but no, he has to watch me die. Luckily I got saved by my friends and in the journey home I barely to him and when I finally do get my memory back, the gas is already messing things up. Now I managed to kill his only family member and he won't let me comfort him. At the same time he's expected to lead Dauntless.
The cure is supposed to help. I'm not going to let other people risk their lives to break in to retrieve it. If i don't get it, at least there will be minimum casualties. Alaska, she needs it desperately and I know I'll have to get it her because I don't want her to die. I bet she still wants to go, even though she is barely functioning. This will properly mean that Dale will put his life at risk and I suspect that some of our friends will try and help us.
I could leave. Do it all on my own. It's tempting but I can't leave Tobias though, he will never forgive me. This time, I'll see what he thinks. The funeral has to be finished by now. Most people will be in the cafeteria now, Tobias won't want food but since he's the leader now, he will be expected to sit with them.
I don't know what to expect, do people hate me now? A couple have certainly tried to avoid me in the corridors. I open the doors and put on a mild scowl, most people look at me while I'm trying to navigate through the tables to Tobias'. I only look at them with I quick glance but as far as I can tell they look... understanding. That's not a word I would normally say about the Dauntless and the Erudites but they are. A few people that used to help Evelyn, crowd around Tobias on the table and Christina and Colin are on his left side. Nobody is sat next to him on his right so I sit next to him, he half smiles at me. The rest of them quickly look at me and then they start talking.
"Our aim is to stop them from gassing by destroy their ammunition. They want to kill us as much as some of us want to kill them but first we must give them a chance to surrender. This way nobody else has to die." Tobias says powerfully
"I'm not sure that's a very good idea, even if they did surrender, how do we know that there not lying and they won't gas us all. Do I have to remind you that they have already starting bombing some other 'experiments' which are too scared to fight back?" One of the women says.
"Not all of them are fully committed to their cause, they might be able to convince the rest to agree. This could happen, they are not stupid people, and they know how big our army is. And what if they were going to but we never gave them the chance and all our soldiers died because you didn't want to take that chance?" I say as calmly as I can manage too.
"Fine."
"So that's sorted then. I need you to make sure everybody is either packing weapons, cooking food or sorting out the essentials. There needs to be enough for everybody."
"How many gas masks are there?" Tobias asks.
Gas masks? Since when did we have those?"
"Enough for three quarters of us."
"Make sure the weakest and the youngest have them first." I say.
"Of course."
Tobias stands up and bellows, "We leave tomorrow night, anyone who doesn't want to come with us, stays here. Tomorrow we will gather some supplies to take with us. In order to be the bravest we can be, we've got to be strong. This means we have to stick together no matter what." He bangs his fist on the table several times to form a sort of chant and everybody in the room repeats it.
