Life during a war
Chapter 27: Alive
I wake up to Tobias' voice calling Hana to help him. I look at him and watch as he places a body onto the empty bed next to ours, he moves away, everyone is awake now and Hana, Tori, Bud and Harrison rush over to the body. I gasp as I see whose body it is.
It's my mum.
Tobias comes over to me and sits next to me as the others try to make my mum's body better.
"She's going to be okay, Tris." He says as he wipes something wet off my cheek. It's then that I realise I am crying.
"W-where was she?" I ask.
"There was a door open just down the hallway, I heard voices and screams and went through it, down the stairs and continued walking. There was another door open. I looked in it and found David whipping her. I shot him in the back and rushed her up here, he's still unconscious in the room right now." He tells me.
"How is she alive?" I ask.
"I don't know. You're going to have to ask her when she wakes up. Though, she's been forced to watch everything that has been going on in our lives. There was a TV in her room that was showing you guys sleeping in here." He says.
"So, she's watched everything. Caleb betraying me. Marcus beating me. Me being tested on. Everything?" I say.
"Yeah, at least I think so. She knows you're pregnant and that I'm the father. So I assumed that she had been watching. You can ask her when she wakes up." He says, embracing me.
We just sit there and wait, waiting for my mum to heal and wake up. Everyone watching as Hana, Tori, Bud and Harrison try and fix her up. Watching and waiting.
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I don't go back to sleep that night. Even when the others start going back to sleep, when my mum's wounds have been stitched and cleaned and bandaged and she has been given morphine, which Marlene went and stole, for the pain, I just sit there, in a chair next to her bed, waiting for her to wake up. Everyone is asleep. I can tell by the slow breaths and quiet snores erupting from them.
I wait, and I wait, and I wait.
It takes her two hours to wake up, slowly she opens her eyes. There is a small nightlight on next to her bed and I can see her expressions clearly. She looks at me and smiles. I smile too, before getting off the chair and sitting on the edge of her bed, embracing her. She embraces me.
"I missed you, mum." I tell her.
"I missed you too, sweetie." She says, sadly.
"H-how are you alive?" I ask her.
"I was shot by those men, but David got Zoe to come and get me, she was waiting round the corner when I got shot, so when you had left she came over to me and took me to her truck. She took the bullet out and stitched me up before heading back to the Bureau. I have been in the room downstairs ever since. David kept beating me and shouting at me and everything. He forced me to watch everything that happened to you, your father, and Caleb. But all I really saw of Caleb was him betraying you. Mostly I saw what you were going through and it killed me that I couldn't be there for you. But I'm here now, I promise I'm not going to go anywhere for a long time." She tells me.
"I love you, mum." I tell her, crying.
"I love you, too, Tris." She says.
"C-can you be there, when I give birth?" I ask.
"Of course. I wouldn't be anywhere else." She says.
"Caleb's here, so is Marcus and Peter. I-I'm scared." I tell her.
"I know, I'm here. I'm not going to let them do anything to you or my grandson, I know your friends won't either." She says, pulling away from the embrace and wiping my tears away with her thumbs. "Everything is going to be all right. I promise."
I nod because I don't know what to say.
"C-can I sleep with you tonight?" I ask her.
"Of course." She says before budging over and laying on her side. I lay on my side so that I am facing her, it's hard with my bump, but we manage to fit.
She wraps her arm around me and I snuggle into her chest, like I did when I was a child after I had a nightmare.
"Goodnight, Beatrice. I love you. Sorry I haven't been there for you." She says.
"Goodnight mum. I love you, too." I tell her, I feel her kiss the top of my head before I drift into a peaceful sleep with my mum, who is alive.
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