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"Tris!"
Christina pushes me to the ground and darts in front of me. I get onto my knees and start to run after her but Tobias jumps on top me and my legs give way. He pins me down and I try to explain that I have to save her but he just says, "I'm keeping you safe."
My face is forced to the ground but I can tilt my head forward. I can see Christina shouting for them to stop and surrender. I can see them throw a poisonous smoke grenade at her. She hasn't got a gas mask. I can see her silhouette crawling around in the smoke. I'm forced to watch and it goes on for what seems like an eternity. And it won't stop. With a sudden burst of adrenaline, I push Tobias off and run towards her.
...
I wake up with a jolt without Tobias next to me.
"Tobias!" I yell.
"Tobias!"
The door flings open and a nurse rushes in. He names Shannon, she's an Erudite, she was on the team that helped me get my memory back.
"Are you alright?" She asks quickly.
"Yes. I'm sorry I startled you. I just had a bad dream. I'm alright now, I swear."
"It wasn't just a bad dream and you are not alright, you are still shaking."
"Do you know where Tobias is?" I ask angrily.
"Nobody has seen him. I thought he might still be sleeping here but apparently not."
How can he just run away? We are almost at war. He can't abandon me, not now.
"He was here though, last night. He slept right next to me."
Somehow he managed to sneak about without waking me.
"We are looking for him, we've got a few search teams out but if he doesn't come back soon we will have to leave without him."
"They need reassurance, Evelyn's gone and now Tobias is missing, I wonder if they know what to do." She says frustratedly.
"I'll come down there soon and 'reassure' everyone."
She mutters some kind of thank you and leaves the room. She closes the door softly and I hear her loud footsteps get quieter and quieter. I wait until I can't hear her anymore. I keep thinking why he has impulsively gone missing and I come up with two of the more plausible reasons: he was worried about my safety and has gone to The Smokers on his own or the enemy how he managed to s taken him from me. Seriously, I don't understand how I didn't wake up when he left.
Colin. What if he disappeared when I went to the pit and bumped into Colin. I can't remember if he was sleeping when I came back. I could've have convinced him or stopped whoever might have taken him. I could have helped. Without bothering to shower, I put on some random clothes and get out of the room as fast as I can.
After talking to the two deputy leaders, Emma and John, I find out that all of my friends except Christina and Alaska, are out searching for Tobias and I have to stay here. If I leave, they wouldn't be so friendly to me, to say the least and apparently people look up to me so I would be more helpful staying in Dauntless. If they don't find him, I might have to find him. I visit so many people in Dauntless, almost everyone. I keep telling the Erudite's to either help make gas masks or train and the Dauntless to make sure they help the Erudite's and make sure our plan of attack is followed and understood. I know roughly what the plan is, they deputy's told me not to worry about the details . It's probably because they know I wont follow it anyway.
I head to the Simulation Room, I don't want to induce a simulation, I just want some quiet. I can hear two people talking outside the door and after a moment of eavesdropping, I realise it's Christina and Alaska and choose to join them.
"Hey."
"Tris!"Alaska shouts.
They have both drank a fair amount of alcohol but they're still alert.
"Hey."
"It actually must suck to be you right now." Alaska says bluntly.
"What if he's dead right now?" I ask even more bluntly.
"He isn't Tris. You know, it's actually easier to find a dead body than an alive one." Christina says.
"Why haven't you two gone to find him?" I ask.
"I was asleep and Colin didn't wake me up. I planned to spend the whole day with him today, you know just incase something happens to us in the war."
"And apparently I'm too much of a liability and I wouldn't help them. It's a shame because I'm actually feeling good today and I could have helped."
Christina shoots me a discrete disbelieving look.
"Why didn't you go?"
"I'm supposed to be more of a help here so I'm not allowed to go. They basically said they would punish me if I did. And if I'm honest, I'm scared what state he will be in when I find him.