"I had her." Eric screamed as he jumped down off the truck he'd been dragged on to and charged towards Four who was standing in the middle truck yard directing people. "I had Dresden, everything in the room was under control then you burst in and ruined everything."

"You were going to let Tris die!" Four shouted back pointing towards where Tris was being helped back into Dauntless.

"Tris would have been fine. I gave Peter a sedative it was taking hold she would have passed out stopping the sim and appeared dead. But instead you barged in with the factionless and now we've lost Dresden! Again!" The look of shock on Fours face couldn't be hidden. The idea that Eric had a plan a way of saving Tris.

"Dresden will be fine. She is Dresden Coulter." He was dismissing it, but Eric could see it in Four's eyes. He was worried, scared even. He knew he had made a mistake and that mistake might have just cost Dresden's life. But what could he have expected really, Trust. What right did he have to ask Four to trust him when he would never have trusted Four.

"You can't know that she was already hurt and weak and her escape attempt had only weakened her further."

"She lived with the factionless for the past year they aren't going to hurt her."

"And the Erudite security that where still fighting in there would they not hurt her? Factionless turned on you why not her too!"

Two hours earlier

Eric could see Dresden been dragged out of the room struggling as the big long-haired guy dragged her out the doors. He tried to reach her but Dresden wasn't the only one suffering. He'd been trying to hide his pain all day but the bullet wound in his shoulder hurt, the stab wound in his abdomen had reopened his black shirt was soaked in his blood. He was running on pure adrenaline as he managed to take his attacker to the floor driving his knife into the young lads' throat. There was no remorse as he looked at the kid this was war and this kid was in his way.

Three steps were all he managed towards the door. Collapsing to his knees he'd just about seen Four rushing in gun in hand with Tori and Mathew following him in. But his vision was blurry at best everything sounded so distant as he bent over struggling to stay even on all fours. He could just about see Four, Tori and Mathew make light work of the remaining Erudite guards in the room. It didn't surprise him that four ran straight for the stiff. What shocked him was Tori running to him.

"Dresden?" Tori asked dropping to her knees in front of him her bag off her shoulder open she was pulling out medical supplies.

"They took her." He managed to get out through gritted teeth as Tori stabbed him in the neck. Whatever she'd hit him with did nothing to the pain but gave him energy enough to move.

"Can you walk?" This time his head snapped up to look at Tori still crouched in front of him. "We need to get out of here, Erudite is over run and the Factionless made it clear we are welcome to stay. You know this place better than anyone you need to get us out!"

"I am not leaving without her." Eric argue stumbling to his feet no longer feeling quite as good as he had on the floor. But Dresden was here she was still in Erudite he knew it he just had to find her and as Tori had pointed out he knew this place better than anyone.

"We will get her back Eric. I promise we will get Dresden back but we can't do that right we don't have the numbers or the strength. We need to regroup in Dauntless and then we can come back for Dresden."

He tried to push past her and ignore Tori's words refusing to leave Dresden. But he was so weak in so much pain he barely managed to get to his feet before he was stumbling into her. "You're bleeding you are in no state to go after her. We need to leave now." Tori reiterated as he leant his weight on her.

He managed to guide them to a back entrance a team of about sixty Dauntless once outside he found the trucks waiting. Tori had bundled him into one and that was the last he remembered lying on the floor of a truck covered in blood struggling just to breath leaving Dresden alone in Erudite.

Eric came too on the floor of the truck Tori leant over him patching him up as they came to a stop in Dauntless. He could hear Four shouting ordered outside the truck, rage surged through him as he dived from the truck.

"Why are you doing this Bell?" Dres asked as Bell directed her to sit on the sofa in the room he'd locked her in. He'd returned not two minutes ago carrying food water and medical supplies. He'd dragged her out of the fight and caught her as she'd collapsed in his arms finally somewhere safe. Her best guess was she'd been out between two and three hours before waking up locked in this room. It had been another hour before Bell had walked in.

"Because things need to change Dresden!" Bell stated opening the medical kit he had picked up and checking her over. He'd never been more afraid when she'd collapsed in his arms. His Dresden, his brave strong Dresden didn't just collapse. Rushing her into this room he'd frantically searched for a pulse desperately watched her breathing. He'd wanted to stay with her to watch over her but the fight wasn't done. They needed to secure Erudite he needed to make sure it was safe.

"And this is how?" The venom in her tone told him Dres didn't approve. He'd always knew she wouldn't. But he'd also known this would always happen. You could only supress people for so long before they would rise and rebel.

"Something had to be done!" Dres couldn't believe what he was saying. She was utterly disgusted, they'd stormed a city building. Children, they gas bombed and killed innocent Children. Dresden stood at the glass wall of the office she'd been held in and looked down at the Erudite courtyard covered in bodies of the erudite who once called this place home.

"Innocent people died here today Bellamy! Children got caught in the crossfire, Children!"

"And now we control Erudite and soon we will control Dauntless… they are weak they'll fall easily then with Dauntless out of the way it will be easy to take the other factions." Dresden's head snapped up at Bellamy's words. He was going to attack Dauntless, the factionless forces would slash through the remaining dauntless. But Four and Tori, hell even Tris wouldn't just stand aside and let them in. More people would die. People just trying to protect their homes and families. Bellamy had always talked of a new era of peace where the factionless and divergent could live safely. Where your faction didn't dictate your whole life just your job and just because you chose something didn't mean you couldn't change your mind. He spoke of a beautiful world where an Erudite could love a Dauntless or a Candor could marry a factionless. But this wasn't beautiful it was as ugly as it came.

"Take Bellamy you talked about peace. Now you plan for a war!"

"War is inevitable Dresden don't be naïve. We need a war!"

"War is the reason we live in these walls. The factions where created to ensure peace…"

"Really you of everyone are going to use that one. How can you hide behind a system you don't even fit into?"

"People have always been afraid of what they don't understand Bell. That isn't anything to start a war over… I agree some changes need to be made the acceptance of Divergence needs to be taught we need to show them we are nothing to be afraid of. And the treatment of the factionless needs to change their children given a chance to enter society but still… This isn't call for a war."

"We are already at war Dresden. The sooner you realise that the better. Dauntless will be the next to fall I would prefer to do that with you at my side but make no mistake Dresden Dauntless is done for."

"You murdered innocent people Bellamy! Is that who you are now?" Dresden turned to walk away. Reaching for the door she knew she had to get out of there. She couldn't be near him not when he was like this.

"Where are, you going?"

"Home! You might have just started a war that will kill us all but maybe I can save some of us."

"You can't just leave!"

"Watch me."

"Dresden!"

"I am done running!" Dresden screamed spinning back to face Bellamy. Her anger at years of hiding who she was please everyone else. Her father, her trainers, society. She was done with it. This was who she was divergent. "I am done hiding who I am and I am done doing what everyone else thinks I should. So, you can try and stop me but I swear to god the only way you will be keeping me in this godforsaken building is if I am in the morgue!"

"I am sorry Dres… really I am but until you can see this is the only way I can't let you leave." Bellamy held his forehead to hers placing a kiss there before he pushed her back and made a dive for the door. Dresden to jumped for the door slamming into it as Bellamy swung it shut in her face dead bolting it. Stepping back before slamming her foot into the door trying to break the lock.

"Please try and get some rest. I'll make sure you get regular meals and water." Bellamy called through the door as Dres continued to try and break it down. Giving up kicking she'd taken to running and throwing her whole-body weight against the door. But the heavy wood just wouldn't budge.

"Don't do this Bell." Dres begged falling against the door tears in her eyes knowing her friends where going to die and she could help them. Eric was going to die. Though she couldn't be sure Dres felt it in her heart Eric had gotten out of Erudite he was alive most likely back in Dauntless. But she wasn't sure for how much longer.

"I need to keep you safe and this is the only way I can see to do this." Bell leant against the door. "I love you." He whispered pressing his hand to the heavy wood.

"BELLAMY JAMES DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME IN HERE!"

Eric didn't need to be told he knew his room would be deadlocked from the outside. He was under no illusion that he was no longer a prisoner, that he was trusted. Tori had pulled him from Erudite because they needed his knowledge of the Erudite building. Tori might have been a transfer too but he'd been the son of the leader and for months he'd run security in Erudite. Unable to sleep Eric headed back out to the balcony jumping up onto the wall and taking a seat. After his fight with Four Tori had forced him into the infirmary to get new stitches before he'd spent hours with Tori going over what had happened before the factionless had ruined everything.

The city was so dark. Darker than he'd ever seen it Erudite no longer lit up the night sky with their solar power lights. Majority of them having been smashed by the first wave of factionless wanting to use the incoming dark as cover.

Dresden was out there somewhere. Hurt, weak and tired. His only hope was that she'd fallen into the hands of the factionless she was close to. Those that wouldn't hurt her. They'd dragged from the fighting. To protect her? It was one of many options.

God, he wanted to smoke so badly. He just wanted to numb the pain and sleep. None of that was possible his last pack was crumpled on the floor. He knew no matter what he took for the pain sleep would never come. The pain might dull but it wouldn't allow sleep. So instead he leant back against the wall balanced on the edge of the balcony and closed his eyes.

It was the clicking of the door lock that alerted him to someone entering his apartment this time. He hoped it was not the stiff with another of her wise idea's. With little patience for visitors Eric stayed on the balcony. He doubted they would look for him out here. And yet it was the first place the footsteps headed. They stopped in the door way. His intrigue not enough to open his eyes he waited to his intruder to speak.

"You'll freeze out here one night."