AN: it's been way too long, I know but this chapter is full of feels so it should be a good read. Leave a review if you enjoyed reading it?
I turn the handle and push my shoulder against the fresh wooden door. The metal handle rattles but remains stuck. They must've barricaded the door.
"Let me in." The door doesn't move for a second and for a moment. What if I was too late? No, no, no. This is all my fault. This can't be happening.
"Chris? Chris. Come on! Come- Just open the door. Just open the door…" My voice cracks.
I kick the door and Gemma looks at me angrily. I should be quiet, it won't help anyone if we are get killed right now. I hear the sounds of metal clanking and smashing against other metal objects behind the door and the thump of them slamming against the wall. The handle clicks and rotates and I run inside.
"What if I kill your friends, will you be thankful then?"
I know it's a simulation but I can't snap out of it. She drags Alaska by her hair and throws her to the ground. How can she- It's not real. She probably dead already or she's…
"Dying, A-Alaska's dying. Tris, are you even listening?" Christina sobs and yells.
There's ruby blood dripping from Alaska's mouth, her eyes are closed but I can still see her eyes darting around desperately. Her body twitches, she's probably fighting someone in her simulation.
"Are you hurt?" It takes her a while to understand the question, "Christina, is any of this blood yours?"
"No, no... I'm fine. Tris, where are you going?"
"I'm going to find the cure." I mumble as I stagger towards the door.
"Tris. You can't just risk-"
Gemma stands up to leave with me but I shake my head and she sits back down.
"I'm going to get the cure." I say louder this time as I close the door from the outside.
I remember Chloe saying the lab was on the back left corner of the building in a lab. I run down a corridor only to find a group of them waiting around the corner. I run back the way I came but more soldiers appear from both sides. I'm trapped. I can't die here, this wasn't what was supposed to happen.
"Kneel." A guard spits at me.
I'm out numbered. I can't fight everyone here. I do what he say and put my hands on the floor
Suddenly, I have the urge to throw up. My stomach tightens and my throat becomes sore. I instinctively raise my hands to my face and cough. Spots of blood appear on my shaking hand. A few soldiers pull out there gas grenades and are about to throw them, they must've thought that I was going to shoot them. But then all at once they lower their arms. Someone must be giving them orders. An image of Alaska pops into my head and I shake even more.
I cough more blood up. My whole body jerks and I fall to the right. I land onto my stomach.
"Gas mask." I hear someone whisper to the right of me. I look, expecting to see someone standing there but there's just a wall. A blue wall. I can't be going insane, maybe I can't block out my gas induced simulations anymore. What if they have now started blending into reality?
Blood slowly trails towards me, between each tile.
"Put your gas mask on!" A small voice whispers angrily, nobody else hears the voice.
I look up at the wall quickly and I see tiny outline of a door, if you weren't looking you wouldn't see it. It has to be the secret door to the lab. To the cure.
I cough some more and use that as an excuse to curl up to a small ball, quickly I pull the gas mask out of my green trouser pocket at shuffle towards the speaking blue wall. I can't let them see it, I keep my face down so they don't see it. I splutter once more and hundreds of gas plastic box hurtle towards me.
The secret door open inwards. The boxes start hissing.
A bright light burns my eyes and a hand reaches out and pulls my shirt toward them. As soon as my body is through this entrance, the door closes behind me.