AN: Sorry it's been so long. I promise to make another chapter soon. I want to say thank you to all my reader that have made it this far - my 52nd chapter!

Recap:

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.

Tris POV

"Da-dale." It's getting harder to breathe, my lungs feel deflated, like my body doesn't have enough energy.

I take a few unbalanced steps and manage to cling onto the side of the lab and catch my breath trying to focus through the haze clouding my brain. I know there's something important in my pocket I take it out and examine the silver flask.

"I got the…" I try and focus on the right word but it's hard to form words.

"cure."

"I'm just over here, a few meters away. I can't walk so you're going to have to come to me." Dale says as simply as he can, hiding the fear in his voice.

A few meters. I can- I can walk.

Dale's POV

Alaska looks worse than I thought. She's paler than she's ever been and her lips are almost blue and are drained of the rosy colour they once had. She's dying. I wonder if Alaska looks like that right now. What if she's worse than this? A horror of dreadful thoughts come into my head but he dismiss them. No, that can't be possible. If she was any worse than this she would be dead. I can see the confusion in her eyes and hear the way she grunts with each moment as if it takes all of her energy to do it. Maybe it does.

I try to shuffle closer to her but the pain in my leg makes me incapable of moving more than a couple of inches.

"Tris. Come on!" My makeshift bandage made from my shirt is now soaked with blood and my heart rate is low, despite the adrenaline cursing through my body. I'm not sure that either of us has enough time left to make this cure work.

Her eyes dart around the room blankly and then for a second she relaxes. Her legs cave in and she falls by my side, without bothering to put her hands out to stop herself. I grab her jacket and pulls her closer to me. It takes her a while to look at me in the eyes, even then I'm not sure if she sees me. Her face if plastered with confusion as her eyes shake as if she's trying to clear her mind. I take the canister out of her weak hand, the coldness of her hand sends chills through me body that she said it hold the cure.

"Tris. Hold on. I'm going to save you but you've got to stay with me." I wipe my forehead to find it covered in sweat, though I have hardly moved.

I unscrew the lid, hoping to find out that what I told Tris wasn't a lie. There's a card, "Only to be used in extreme circumstances."

I toss it aside and look at what's underneath it. There's a needle. I take it out expecting there to be something underneath, but there isn't. I tip the canister upside down, desperately. Nothing falls out of it and my heart sinks. We're going to die in here. I put the canister on the floor and examine the clear needle in my hands, thinking how to use an empty needle to save Tris.

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