I have never been more nervous than I am right at this moment. Tobias holds my hand as we walk up the steps together, toward Jeanine's office. This main building is empty as everyone else is in the main Erudite building for visiting day. My heart beats hard against my ribs as I try to keep my breath steady. Tobias squeezes my hand and it helps to calm me. I swallow when we reach the landing and Jeanine is standing there. I wonder if she is surprised about the turn out, but I would never ask her point blank. I don't care that much about her feelings.

"So let's get this started then," Eric says, sounding a bit annoyed.

I look at him and narrow my eyes. "You don't get to control this," I tell him. "You don't get to control anything."

He glares at me, but surprisingly doesn't say anything. Jeanine clears her throat and we all turn our attention back to her.

"Shall we?" she says, gesturing down the hall to an open door and we follow.

I keep my distance from the woman, even though I know everything that has happened, and I know that she is not in charge anymore, she had done more damage to me and my family than I would like to admit. I still don't know where Caleb is, but I know that he and I need to talk to each other, to see what he remembers...to see what he knows. Tobias and I sit in the second row of the room, waiting for the rest of the group to file in and I turn to look at him.

"Are you not nervous?" I ask him.

He doesn't say anything for a few moments, but brushes his thumb against my hand. "No," he says looking up and meeting my eyes.

"Why not?"

"Because whatever this is...whoever is controlling this, it doesn't matter," he says. "I got you back, Tris. And that's all that matters to me."

I smile softly at him and lean in to press my lips against his. He rests his head against mine and I let out a sigh. I wish that we could have put his meeting off as long as we could. I wish that we could have ignored the facts and just lived life the way that we had. I could have just stayed quiet and not done anything, but everyone in this room knows that that goes against every thing that I stand for. The door closes and I pull away from Tobias to look up at Jeanine who is coming to the front of the room. She looks just as I remember her. Stern, cold, and completely unforgiving. I follow her gaze to Tori who is standing by the door keeping watch. I would be uneasy around the person who killed me, too. But that doesn't mean I feel bad for her.

"What did you find out?" Tori asks.

Jeanine looks us over before answering. "Unfortunately I did not find much out," she says. "There's not really much I can find inside of the fence. But going outside of the fence would probably be more risky. Uriah mentioned there is a Bureau outside of the city?"

"Yes," I say, sitting up straight. "The Bureau of Genetic Welfare. They've been controlling experiments like this for years."

"I'm sorry, experiments?" Jeanine says, looking confused. "The city is an experiment?"

"Yeah," I say. "We weren't the only one either. But we've been the only one to survive as long as we have."

I proceed to go into further detail about everything that we had learned at the Bureau, keeping out the parts about genetics and pure genes because finding out that the Bureau classifies you as damaged after coming back to life is the last thing that they need. No one needs to know that people think of them as damaged.

"They are dangerous people," I say. "And they've been watching us for years."

"So why haven't they done anything about this yet?" Jeanine asks. "If they know that we know about them?"

"I don't know," I say. "That's what's been stressing me out. I don't know why we're back, or what we're doing here. Or what they want with us. And it makes me nervous because I don't know how long it's going to last."

"You think that they'd just kill us again?"

"They brought us back to life just because they felt like it," Lynn says. "They can take it away just like that."

We're quiet after she says that. Because even though we've all been thinking about it for the past few days, no one has ever said it out loud. Because going down that road and finally admitting to the fact that it could be taken away from us isn't something that any of us really want to think about it. I turn to look at Tobias and I lace our fingers together. The muscle in his jaw is clenched and the one in his temple is throbbing. He doesn't look at me, and I don't blame him.

"So what do we do?" Tobias asks, his voice is hard and tense. "Just wait?"

"That's what it looks like," Jeanine says. "I don't see what other option we have at this point."

"What about going after them?" Eric asks. "Finding out what exactly it is the bastards want from us?"

"And risk dying all over again?" Al asks.

"Don't we risk dying if we don't do something?" Will says.

I close my eyes and take a breath. I didn't think it would be like this. I thought that we would get an answer. I thought that we would found out what was going on. I thought we would figure out the truth. The reasoning behind all of this. Isn't that why we came to Jeanine in the first place?

"Tris?" It's Christina. I open my eyes and turn m head to look back at her. "What do you want to do?" she asks me.

I shake my head because I honestly have no idea. "I don't know what to do," I say. "All of you are right. If we stay, we risk dying, if we go we risk getting killed. There is no finding out what they want."

"Tris, what about the cameras?" Tobias says.

I turn to him. I had completely forgotten about the cameras. I had forgotten about the thousands of cameras that the Bureau and hidden inside every building of this city so that they could keep an eye on their precious projects. I jump up from my seat and grab a marker and begin writing on the white board right behind Jeanine.

"What cameras?" Jeanine asks.

I stop and look at everyone who is staring at me curiously. "In order to keep and eye on their experiments, they have cameras everywhere. I don't know where they are, or how many there are, I just know that they are here and they can see everything. So..." I say before turning to erase everything that is currently on the board. I contemplate for a second trying to figure out what I want to write, before I write three words.

WE WANT ANSWERS.

"The cameras are the best way I can think of to send them a message."

"How will you know if they get it?"

I shrug. "We just have to wait." I cap the marker and set it down on the desk. "And I know that we hate the waiting...I hated waiting for this meeting, but there's not really anything else we can do right now. This is it. And because we don't know how much time we have left, make the most of it. Live. We have a chance to do things right this time. Before...we were pushed into the word that Jeanine wanted for us, war. It's different now. There's no one trying to kill us now. We can survive."

I find Tobias's face and can't help but match the smile on his lips. He jerks hjis head to the side and I nod and he gets up and we leave the room together.

"You should be a leader," he tells me as we head down the stairs.

I make a face. "Really?"

"You have a knack for words. They were hanging on every word."

"I was just saying what any of you would say."

"They look to you, you know?" Tobias says. "You're strong and you know how to talk to people."

I look at him as we reach the bottom of the stairs and he opens the door for me. "You really think so?" I ask him.

"Definitely," he says with a grin, pulling me in for a kiss.

"You sure you aren't biased?" I ask.

"If I wasn't in love with you before, you in that meeting made me fall more in love with you."

I kiss him again before he takes my hand and we continue walking. "Do you want to take the train?"

He shakes his head. "I think walking will be good for us," he says. "We have time to live, right?"

"Right."

He squeezes my hand and I can't help but smile at him as we start walking through the city.