Chapter 5
(three days later.)

It's only been three days but I feel like its been three months after all the stress that being acting mayor has been. Everyday I wake up and already have 100 emails in the morning and by the time I get to the office I have already been on the phone with someone for an hour. I have barely came home and only to change and shower. The decisions and choices are over whelming and what's worse is that Johanna is still in the hospital in a coma. They don't know if or when she will wake up and I really want and need her to wake up. I don't think I can handle being mayor for four years.

Besides dealing with Johanna's condition, Zeke and I are still trying to figure out who did this. 12 people were killed, one of them being Bob. It's been a major discomfort for the city and I have given multiple addresses to the public telling them to remain calm and that the police have it handled. But we don't have it handled. We don't even know why or who did this. There have been some speculation that it was just a independent anti-GP group who came to the city but I honestly think it is something bigger then that led by someone who knows the city. And based on my encounter with Tris in the simulation, something is coming and it's going to be bad.

It's been three days and I have visited the hospital all three days. The doctors today believe that Johanna should be waking up within the week which was the best news I heard in awhile. Although the doctors don't know how much damage she will have they remain optimistic that she will make a fully recovery. After I speak with the doctor, my phone rings. I roll my eyes seeing as my phone has been ringing every minute of everyday. I check it and notice that it's Christina. I haven't spoken to her in a while and I probably should.

" Hey Chris sorry I haven't called-"

" Tobias. You need to come here quick. Hurry. "

She sounds very angry and upset and I just nod and agree before going downstairs and into my car.

When I arrive at Christina's new house I find Zekes and some other cop cars. Panic seizes my heart and I run up the stairs.

" Chris? Zeke?!" I call out to my best friends.

" In here!"

I follow Christina's voice and find her, Matthew, and zeke sitting with a note in front of them. They all look deeply troubled and upset so I ask," Guys what's wrong?"

Zeke hands me the note and I look at him wearingly before opening the note. It reads:
Tobias-
I decided that I should at least make your pathetic job easier and tell you myself that we are coming for your city. Or should i say my city before i was senselessly kicked out. So I have decided to reclaim what is mine. For the past three years I have formed a group of GDs who want to get justice for their mistreatment. And I wanted to have a chance at a new life like you have had while I haven't gotten the chance to do so. I have lived in the worst places barely making it by while you have been living in luxary. Well i shouldn't say its been all good for you. I heard that Prior girl got killed. You probably messed something up and thats why she is dead. What a shame. But I will burn this city to the ground to give rise to a new city where I can fulfill my dream of a perfect society. I can restart the faction system and fix whatever problems there was in the past. I am coming back and I am coming for you.

~Marcus

I crumple the paper and throw it across the room with my hands shaking and get up to pace.

" Tobias calm down. He isn't going to hurt you again" Christina says calmly

" I don't care about me. I can defend myself...but he did this. He killed 12people and put Johanna in a coma because he is coming after me. He wants the city and now that I have it he will hurt everyone that I care about to take it back. And he is right about Tris-"

" We have been through this over and over again man. It was not your fault. Your dad knows exactly where to hurt you and that's all he is doing. Don't let him get into your head." Zeke says.

" But he already is Zeke! Who knows what he is going to do to get power! He is dangerous!"

" We know Tobias. We know who is behind the attacks now and we can get some intel on what Marcus has been doing these last few years and try to see what he is up to. But let me and my guys do our job. You need to run this city and make sure everyone stays calm. Can you do that?"

I nod but my whole body is still shaking. I thought I would never see him again and now here he is, trying to ruin everything that I have accomplished just like he always has. I have finally gotten over him and now everything is back to square one.

-page break -

" So your father was behind the attacks?" Johanna asks quietly

" Yes he sent a note telling us he is coming for the city to reclaim what he thinks is his." I tell her.

She finally woke up yesterday and all day I have been briefing her on what has been going on since she was gone. She will be in the hospital for a week more due to her gun shot wound but other then that she will recover. And thankfully she is able to go back to being mayor so the pressure has been lifted off of me now.

" Alright until we have anymore information I don't want anyone to know about Marcus or his alleged plans. The public needs to carry on with their lives and we need to act like everything is still unclear. "

I nod and get up to leave for home seeing as Johanna ordered me to take two days off to catch up on sleep. I go to leave but Johanna stops me,"Are you okay?"

I turn and lie," Yah. "

She rolls her eyes and says," Don't lie to me. I know you are not alright. Don't worry Tobias, he won't hurt you again."

I shake my head and scoff " I can care less about what he does to me...I have lived through it once and I can defend myself if need be but...I am just worried that whatever he has cooked up for this city that it's going to be bad. And if I know him he won't stop until he gets what he wants. I can't let him hurt anymore innocent people. This is between me and him. Not you or anyone else in this city."

" Tobias we will catch him and make sure he pays for his crimes. We won't let it get that far. I promise. Go home and get some sleep. You need it."

" Ok. See you tomorrow-"

" No I will see you on Wednesday. You need a couple of days off."

I smirk and leave her hospital room which is immediately filled with her other advisors and news reporters.

It's raining hard outside and I quickly walk home to my apartment. By the time I get in my room, I am exhausted and I don't even take my wet clothes off before I drift off to sleep. And then the nightmares visit me once again.

I find myself on a deserted road where grey smoke is fuming around me. I look around to try to see where I am and I finally hear screaming. I run towards the piercing noise only to be greeted by another booming noise and a blast that sends me flying backwards. I hit a side of a building hard and my vision is hazy as I look around. Flames and crumpled buildings surround me and dead bodies are scattered in front of me. Blood stains the streets and there are cries for help and mourning all around me.

" This is what I was warning you about Tobias. " A familiar voice says next to me. I look up and there she is. Looking at the chaos in front of us with her stern blue eyes. She is surrounded by a faint glow which shows off her beautiful white dress. There she is again. Tris.

" What-how did this happen?"

" Your father is planning to blow up the city with multiple bombs. He wants to take control of Chicago's government by force. And he will succeed unless you stop him. Only you can do that Tobias. "

I stand up next to her and she looks at me.

I ask," How can I stop him when I don't even know where he is?"

Tris smirks and says," If you weren't clouded by your fear of becoming him you would know exactly where he is. You are not your father. As soon as you realize that the sooner you will know where he is."

" But how can I stop him...he won't even listen to me even if I tried to talk to him."

" Your father is smart but he isn't that smart to build a bomb. He is working with someone else. Someone who he is using. I know your pretty good at being persuasive. Persuade your father's lackey that this isn't the way to power. You can do it."

" Tris...how are you even here right now?"

" Oh I'm not. This is just your brain fitting all the puzzle pieces together. This isn't the simulation again. This is all due to your brain working overtime when you should be resting."

She leans and kisses my cheek for a moment and then smiles before walking towards a white bright light. She turns and says happily," I will see you soon though. "

I startle awake and grasp onto my chest for air. My father is going to blow the city up with some help from someone. Where can my father be hiding? And what did Tris mean when she said I would know where he would hide. I mean I barely knew this man who was claimed to be my father. How could I possibly know where he would hid-. And then it all adds up.

For months there has been reports from teens and people passing that the old Abnegation section had some ghost living in the old buildings. The witnesses notice that there was sometimes a loud boom and then the ground would shake. And my father wouldn't have hide himself. He doesnt believe in hiding when you have done nothing wrong. He believes this is right and just and he hasn't been hiding outside of the city limits either.

He is back at the place where he found the peak of his power and control. Just like. How I liked going into the training room because that is where I first felt strong, Marcus went back to Abnegation because he had power and respect, something he wants back. In those days of glory, he was at the top of his game. He ran the government and everyone thought he was a kind man. He had the undying belief of his moral good from people who barely knew him. But that is what he liked. He was blindly trusted by all and through that he was able to be who he truly is, a man who enjoy the power of control and forced it upon very one he knew. He is back at the place of his power and he is back at the place he calls home.