AN: SORRY, it's been too long, enjoy this chapter guys and leave a review if you want to have more chapters.
Tobias appears at the door way and sees me on the ground. I can feel a smile form on my face. I can't believe he's here.
"Tris! I've been looking for you everywhere. We've got to go!"
"What? Go where?" Excitement creeping in my tone.
"There outside waiting for us, Tris. Our friends are waiting for us."
Chloe screams Tobias' name and Tobias walks to the door. He looks inside to see Chloe. He looks at me and then at the door again. I brace myself for shouting or relief or something but he doesn't react.
"Let's go." Tobias says choosing to ignore the situation.
"I put her in there…"I say, making sure he understands the situation.
Tobias shakes his head, "It doesn't matter."
I examine him and the room and wonder if this is a simulation.
"Are you real?" I ask suspiciously.
Tobias scoffs and kneels down next to me.
"If I'm not, would I have beaten 12 guards to get to you?"
He smells like him and his eyes stare at me with the same intensity but his personality seems off.
"You haven't asked me if I'm alright." I say bluntly.
"What? Tris. Were kind of in a rush right now. The guard could be here any minute."
If we were in a rush, he would have forced me to move already. Fearing that we could be separated again if we got caught.
Everything goes hazy and I start to feel sick. I think I've woken up but then I get put back into the simulation again.
"I know you're not real. So why haven't I gone back to reality?" I ask him.
He looks really confused but then he seems to come up with an answer.
"I'm not a simulation anymore."
"Stop trying to convince me you're actually here." I say angrily.
"No. Tris. I'm not a simulation anymore, you're imagining me Tris." I stare at him sceptically.
"Why would I do that?"
"Because you want my acceptance for what you did to Chloe but you can't fully picture it because you don't know how I would react and, if I had to guess another thing, you don't want to die without me being here."
He right.
"I need to save you." I say with a hitch in my throat.
"I know and you're almost there."
"I am?" I ask confused.
"You're almost out of the room. Open the door and Dale will be there. Come and get me Tris, I'm waiting. Waiting for you to save me."
I try to force myself out of whatever this, my haven I made in my own mind?
"It's not working." I say with anger.
"Think about what's happening around you."
"I collapsed so I'm probably still by the table a meter from the gassing room."
"What can you hear?" Tobias says persistently.
I can hear a faint murmur of shouting, the more I focus on it, the brighter the room gets. I recognise the word, the rhythm it has to it and way it sounds when it's shouted. The word is on my lips but I can't think of it. I listen harder and harder and concentrate as hard as I can. My eyes widen when I process the word.
"Tobias!" Chloe shrieks breathlessly.
I ignore her, grab the vial that contains the cure and head towards the door. My head hurts more than it ever has before and I can only see about a meter in front of as my eyes struggle to focus on anything further than that. My feet drag, my body decreasing of all its energy by the second. I finally get to the corridor. I cough and red blood pours down my right side of my face and when I wipe it off it feels warm and poisoned.
My wet hand grabs the cold handle and I get goosebumps. I push it open with the whole force of my body and enter the room where I left Dale with a bullet in his leg. I wipe the blood of my face again and try to look around but it's getting increasingly harder to focus.
"Dale? Dale?" I can't hear a reply. He must've died, tears start to form in my eyes as I start feeling more hopeless.
"Alaska?" He says weakly with an hint of urgency.
The word she kept hearing was Tobias because Chloe kept saying it in the gas room, probably while she was in a simulation.