Life during a war
Chapter 16: Attack
I am nineteen weeks pregnant and today is the day that Tobias, Christina, Will, Marlene, Shauna, Uriah, Lynn, Tori, Bud, Harrison and Zeke, as well as other Dauntless, go to Erudite and fight, they're also going to find and release the video that Erudite started this war because. Hana is going to be staying with me whilst they're away, we'll be sitting by the TV, waiting for the video to be released.
I'm scared. Terrified that they aren't going to come back to me. I know it makes me sound weak, but I need them.
They leave in an hour and right now we're all in the living room of mine and Tobias' apartment, talking and laughing, just having fun. But it isn't like it usually is, there's a different feel in the air. It's like they know they might not ever come back, but they're trying to hide it, for my sake.
"So, Tris, are you planning on finding out what you're having next week?" Christina asks.
"I don't know. We decided a surprise would be nice, but maybe." I answer.
She just nods.
That's when I feel it. A light pressure in my huge stomach. I breathe in and put my hand over the spot where I felt it.
The others look at me, worried.
"Are you all right, Tris?" Tobias asks me.
"Yeah, the baby just kicked." I say, smiling slightly.
They all smile as I take Tobias' hand and put it on my stomach where our baby just kicked for the first time. The baby kicks again and I see a tear fall out of his eye and slide down his cheek. He kisses me sweetly before kissing my stomach.
"I love you, Tris, and our baby." Tobias says.
"We love you too, Tobias. Just make sure you come back to us." I say as a tear slips down my cheek.
"I will always come back to you, Tris. Always." He says.
"We'll all come back to you, Tris." Christina says before embracing me and feeling my stomach for the kick.
It isn't long before we all end up in a group embrace.
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Hana and I are sitting on the sofa in the living room, waiting for the video to appear. The others left five hours ago and I'm starting to get scared, surely it doesn't take five hours to raid Erudite headquarters.
We have been sitting here, talking and laughing about random things, like a mother and daughter would, when the screen goes from black to showing a woman with brown hair. The background is dim, all I can see is that she is sitting at a metal desk.
"Hello, my name is Amanda Ritter. In this file I will tell you only what you need to know. I am the leader of an organisation fighting for justice and peace. This fight has become increasingly more important-and consequently, nearly impossible-in the past few decades. That is because of this."
Images flash across the screen, almost too fast for me to see. A man on his knees with a gun pressed to his forehead. The woman pointing it at him, her face emotionless. From a distance, a small person hanging by the neck from a telephone pole.
A hole in the ground the size of a house, full of bodies. And there are other images too, but they move faster, so I get impressions of blood and bone and death and cruelty, empty faces, soulless eyes, terrified eyes.
The woman reappears.
"You do not remember any of that, but if you are thinking these are the actions of a terrorist group or a tyrannical government regime, you are only partially correct. Half of the people in those pictures, committing those terrible acts, were your neighbours. Your relatives. Your co-workers. The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature itself-or at least what it has become. That is why you are so important. Our struggle against violence and cruelty is only treating the symptoms, not curing it. You are the cure. In order to keep you safe, we devised a way for you to be separated from us. From our water supply. From our technology. From our social structure. We have formed your society in a particular way in the hope that you will rediscover the moral sense that most of us have lost. Over time, we hope that you will begin to change as most of us cannot. The reason I am leaving this footage for you is so that you will know when it's time to help us. You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others. The name you should give those people is Divergent. Once they become abundant among you, your leaders should give the command for Amity to unlock the gate forever, so that you may emerge from your isolation. The information in this video is to be restricted to those in government only, you are to be a clean slate. But do not forget us. I am about to join your number, like the rest of you. I will voluntarily forget my name, my family, and my home. I will take on a new identity, with false memories and a false history. But so that you know the information I have provided you with is accurate, I will tell you the name I am about to take as my own. My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget."
Prior.
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