Life during a war
Chapter 13: Rescued
I don't know how long I've been here, in Erudite. There are no windows in this room so I can't see if it's morning or night. My baby bump has gotten bigger and my morning sickness has stopped, but the room still smells like puke, they didn't clean up the puke from my first day here.
Since I have gotten here I have been through god knows how many fear simulations, all of them have given me nightmares. They included Tobias, my baby, my parents. In all of them I had to watch them die. It was horrible. Terrible. Painful. But they still haven't found a serum strong enough to work on me.
Marcus also beats me. Yeah, he's here too. Somehow Jeanine managed to make him betray his faction. He knows I'm carrying his grandchild yet he still beats me. It's only five whips a time, but it hurts, a lot. And there is dried blood and things on my back. Blood splatters on the walls. I can barely move.
It only hurts more when Peter comes and yanks me around, getting me to the room where I have to face the fear simulations.
Unfortunately I have seen Caleb, even though he says he loves me, he hasn't done anything to stop them from doing what they're doing. I hate him. He's a traitor.
I can't sleep at night because of nightmares. My back hurts. My stomach hurts. Everything just hurts.
So, I am just lying there, on my left side, facing the wall, thinking, when I hear the door opening.
"Tris?" I hear Tobias' familiar voice.
At first I think I'm having a nightmare; that something bad is going to happen.
"Tris, look at me." He says, I can tell he's worried, I'm not surprised with the blood and scars on my back.
"I can't m-move." I tell him, quietly.
"What happened to your back?" He asks.
"M-Marcus." I say.
"Right? I have to get you out of here; we only have an hour before the serum will wear off." He says, he puts one arm under my knee and one under my neck. "This is going to hurt."
He twists me and lifts me up and I scream out in pain.
"I'm sorry; I have to get you out of here." He says.
He rushes me out of the room and down many hallways. Tears are pouring down my cheeks.
It isn't long before we're outside and I see my friends (Christina, Will, Zeke, Uriah, Shauna, Marlene, and Lynn), waiting, there is a truck.
"Tris!" Christina calls.
Tobias puts me in the truck, so I am on my left side again and they all climb in. Zeke sits in the drivers' seat and starts driving.
"Christina, call the infirmary and make sure there are people with a stretcher there when we arrive." Tobias says as he sits next to me and takes my hand in his. Christina nods and takes out a phone and calls them.
"What happened to your back Tris?" Marlene asks.
"Marcus!" Tobias answers angrily.
"Tobias, can you lay with me?" I ask. He nods and lays down so he is facing me.
He tucks a loose strand of hair behind my ear.
"C-Caleb betrayed me. He was w-working for them. He h-helped them. He told them how to b-break me. He was going to kill m-me." I cry.
"It's okay, I'm here." He says.
"I'm s-scared."
"I know. But everything's going to be okay."
"Toby, my stomach h-hurts, r-really bad." I can see tears form in his eyes.
"Tris, it's okay. It's going to be okay. Our baby is going to be okay. Zeke, could you dive a little faster, please?" He says.
Zeke starts driving faster.
"T-they tested on me. They tested new fear serums on me. They wanted to find ones strong enough for divergents. I had to keep watching you, and the baby, and my parents die and get hurt. But I knew it wasn't real." I tell him.
"It's okay. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere." He says.
"I c-can't sleep. O-Or move. I'm scared." I say.
"I'm here. It's over. Nothing else is going to hurt you, okay." He says.
I nod.
It isn't long before we're pulling into Dauntless and Zeke stops the truck. My friends get out and some medics run over, with a stretcher.
"This is going to hurt. I'm sorry." Tobias says as he gets ready to pick me up. I just nod and he lifts me, I scream as he does.
He places me on the stretcher, on my left side, and I can see that he is crying. He grabs my hand and squeezes it before letting go and the medics rush me to the infirmary. My friends and Tobias are running behind us.
We are still on our way to the infirmary when everything turns black.
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