Updated as soon as I got chance after school and a lot of reviews for the last chapter, thank you! xx
Tobias
It goes on for hours, each time worse than the last. Each of her screams sends my blood curdling, and I know I should do something, anything, to stop it, to stop her pain. The pain that she is suffering because of me.
Another of her cries reaches me from my post I have been assigned near her cell, and it takes all my willpower not to run in the opposite direction, but I keep my feet firmly planted. If I want this to work, I have to keep up my act. I have to act like I don't care about Tris if I want to get her out of here, and I have to gain Jeanine's trust in order to do that.
It wasn't until the train ride I that had decided I couldn't go through with it. I couldn't just hand Tris over and just leave like that. She thought I didn't know she was staring on the train ride over here, and she didn't know that I was staring right back when she wasn't looking.
When we first arrived here yesterday and they began to take Tris away, I couldn't bear to look at her, knowing the pain, worry and betrayal I would see in her eyes, but I didn't need to look to hear it in her voice. In a way I was thankful when she was out of sight, some would say out of sight out of mind, but that didn't apply in that case. My memories have since been plagued with thoughts of Tris, some happy, like before any of this had started, during initiation when she had almost broken my arm for trying to help her hold a gun, but some sad to, like the plea of her voice as she called my name, or more recently, the sound of her screams.
Speaking of her screams, they had stopped, for the most part. I look up and down the corridor and see Jeanine heading towards me, her face blank of emotion as if she handing just been torturing a seventeen year old girl. She stops swiftly in front of me. "She needs to be taken back to her cell until she shuts up," she snaps before continuing down the hall.
I wait until she has turned a corner before almost sprinting down towards the room where Tris is. I gingerly push open the door, slightly afraid to what I will see inside, and brace myself as I look towards the metal table where Tris is still strapped. Her eyes are closed, tears streaking down her cheeks, fists clenched in pain, as she whimpers through laboured breaths. The serum must not have worn off yet. I slowly walk forward into the room towards the metal table and stop above her. "Tris," I say gently, slowly moving to undo the restraints around her wrists and ankles. She doesn't respond, only clenches her fists tighter causing her nails to dig into her palm and draw blood. "Tris," I say again. "It's me, Tobias. I'm going to lift you up now, okay?" I don't wait for the okay from her, I just clench my teeth and scoop her up, her body flimsy and limp in my arms. I hold her still as her neck arches back and a strangled sound between a sob and a scream makes its way out of her lips. "Shh." I start to walk out of the room carefully, slowly, as to not jostle her.
Her cell is not a long walk from the other room, but in the time it takes to get there Tris has relaxed slightly in my arms and has her head nestled in my chest, her fists gripping the material of my shirt in her shaky grasp. I manage to open the door without putting her down and walk into the bare white cell with nothing but a crappy bed and a toiled in it. On the bed I notice my jacket bunched up used as a pillow at one end, and her hoodie, which I only now realise is missing from her, is under that.
I gently lay her down on the bed, and as I ease her hands off my shirt she mumbles something. I don't quite catch it the first time, but when she says it again I know what she is saying instantly. My name. Well, not my real name.
"Four," she mumbles and I am at her side in an instance. I take her hand in mine ignoring the red rings around her wrist left from the restraints, and stroke a piece of her hair away from her face. "It hurts." I can barely make out her words.
"I know, I know it does," - really, I couldn't have told a bigger lie - "but I will get you out soon, I promise." I brush the pad of my thumb over her cheek and watch as her eyes fluttered behind her eyelids. I don't want to leave her side, but I hear footsteps coming from outside the door. "I have to go, but I'll come back, I promise. I promise." I stand from beside her bed and walk out of the room, looking back once more before I close the door.
When I am half way down the hall, I hear her scream.
Tris's point of view next? And don't worry, they will eventually kiss and except their lover for each other, just not yet.
And does anyone know when Divergent comes out in the UK? I've searched it but there is so many different dates! It would be a lot of help x
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