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The sun seeps through the gaps in the curtains that fall lazily over the windows. I have been awake for a while now, just lying on my bed. I look over to Tris's bed hoping she would be there but when I see she's not I think at how stupid I was being.
I can't stay in here anymore, not with all the memories that are here. I throw my legs over the side and lock my knees as I stand up, hoping my legs won't collapse beneath me.
The floor is cold against my bare feet and a shiver makes it way through my whole body.
I look around at the bodies that lie in beds around the room. My eyes skirt over each body until they reach Christina, her eyes lock with mine - I don't know how long she has been awake. She doesn't hold my stare for long as her eyes fade from mine and move to Tris's bed.
"You wanna leave? I don't wanna stay here either," she says. I nod and quietly put my shoes on so I don't wake anyone up. Once we are both ready, we walk silently out and through the corridors.
We don't say much, make little conversation as our feet unintentionally guide us towards the hospital wing. As we become closer, we begin to see people wearing white lab coats. These people have been brought in from some other cities to keep control of the compound after the memory wipe.
When we reach Tris's room, Christina walks into the room with ease. However, I yet again freeze in the doorframe. I don't stand there for long though because Christina drags me in and shoves me into a chair. She stands in front of me with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Four, I may sound harsh but you have to hear this. You need to get over the fact that Tris is in a coma because it's is taking over you. We need you here not in some distant fantasy world where you are now. So just wake up and deal with it." She walks around to the other side of the bed avoiding my eye contact.
"Christina," I say. "Christina, look at me," I repeat sternly. Reluctantly she looks up at me from under her eyelashes. "I'm sorry, I really am. I didn't know my behaviour was affecting my friends."
She stares at me blankly. "Wait, what? Friends?" I nod. "You hear that Tris! I'm friends with your scary boyfriend who hated me from day one!" She shouts. And then for some strange reason, Christina starts jumping around the room shouting at the top of her voice: "I'm friends with Four!"
At first I try to hold in my laughter but soon it becomes to strong to hold back and my laughter fills the room with Christina's shouting. Christina starts becoming breathless from shotuing so lies on her back on the floor; however she joins in laughing with me. I don't remember laughing this much for a while now, actually I don't remember last time I had a friend to laugh with.
Out of the blue, the door opens revealing a young man with a confused expression across his face. "Can you please reduce your noise level, you may wake up some of the paitents." Christina and I look at each other over the bed and begin laughing again. We look back at the man who now looks quite angry and begin laughing harder. Soon we are in hysterics with tears streaming down our face.
By the end of it, neither of us can breath steadily and we are both holding our stomachs from the pain that we have made by laughing. I look at my watch on my wrist that I took from my bedroom and see that it is only half an hour till the meeting. I stand up and walk around the bed so I can help Christina back onto her feet. "Come on crazy, we have to go now." She accepts my hand as I pull her up. Christina holds my arm for a moment so she can regain her balance.
"Hello Johanna."
"Dean," Her arms stay by her side as she stands opposite the man. Its an odd sight to see; someone from Amity not being happy and welcoming people and greeting people with hugs, the faction system is already wearing off of Johanna.
"Study their body language," Dean says to the people with clipboards who arond by him. Their eyes go straight down to their clipboards and their hands move quickly as they write down notes on us. "Its fascinating. In other experiments, it took longer for the different factions to fade from people, however, Chicago is quite open to not having the factions."
"We are no longer an experiment, you have no right to study us!" I swipe the clipboard out of the hands of the closest person to me who was writting. They go to pick it up but I quickly stand on it making it muddy from the soles of my shoes.
"Leave it," says Dean to the young male. He stands and makes his way to the back of their crowd to be with the other people who don't have clipboards. "Tobias Eaton. We have studied you quite closely. You are genetically damaged yet you are aware in simulations. An Abnegation result in your aptitude test but we think you are a special Divergent, hardly even able to see it, so close to normal that you just go through as normal. You did well in Dauntless, passing both of the physical and mental stages. Back to you aptitude result, we believe that you were meant to get a Divergent result but your farther told you what to do and you knew what was coming. You didn't want another beating so you did what your farther told you to do, so you could get an Abnegation result. Its a shame, if you did get an inconclusive result we would have got you out at the same time as Amar."
"I never wanted to be saved, I enjoyed it in Dauntless and that why I chose it, becuase they were free." I don't want to talk to Dean any longer. I want to go see Tris and be able to hold her close to me and her hold me back. But I know both of them are just wishes.
"Yet you were planning on leaving Dauntless and going to join your mother in the Factionless. Why were you going to do that if you enjoyed being in Dauntless?" Dean smirks as me as whispers come from behind me. I know Zeke and Christina already knew that but I'm guessing that Hana and Johanna didn't.
"I was planning on leaving because I didn't belong in Dauntless. Although I think selflessness and bravery are the same thing, I was meant to be in Abnegation." As I say it i try to hold Dean's stare but i can't look into those snake like eyes any longer, My eyes drfit away and I consontrate on a point just over his shoulder.
"But you stayed because of Beatrice Prior, no Tris she changed it to," the sound of her name makes me snap to attention. I lock my eyes to his and my body becomes tense, waiting for the next thing that is going to come out of his mouth. "Poor thing that she is in a coma, but I guess it is her fault seeing as she was stupid enough to go after Cal-"
Dean isn't able to finish his sentence before my fist smashes into his jaw. He falls back into the crowd who fail to catch him as they move away from me, Dean hits the floor with a loud thump and lies on his back with his hands over his face. Without even thinking I lift my leg up and kick him hard in the ribs, a sound escapes Dean's mouth, I don't know what it was. A scream? A groan? Again I kick him, my foot hitting him in the chest. Dean moves his hands down to his side to protect them from another kick from me. The idiot. He has left his whole face unprotected. For one last time, I lift up my leg and smash my foot down on his face, knocking him out cold.
"Tobias!" I hear someone to the left of me scream. I turn my head to find the face belonging to the voice, I see someone running towards me. They reach me quite quickly and pull me away from Dean's crumpled up body. Once I am away the person leaves me on the floor and walks to Dean. I can't really see much due to the tears that have fromed in my eyes and I don't know who the person is.
"Hey Four," I recognise the voice immediately. Christina. She sits down beside me and rests her arm across my shoulder. "It's alright, if you didn't punch him then I was going to myself."
Another voice enters the converstion. "I had to hold her back," laughs Zeke.
"I'm sorry," I say. I look to where Zeke has crouched in front of me, now my vision is clear I can see that his cheeks are quite red and he has a frown on his face.
"There is nothing you should be sorry about Four, you didn't do anything wrong." I know Christina is only trying to make me feel better but i know what I did wasn't right and I should have just held back my anger for the rest of the meeting - then punched him.
Doors open at the end of the room and a group of guards come in. Evelyn - who I'm guessing is the person who called me earlier - walks over to them. I know she will try and not allow them to arrest me but soon enough they begin the walk over to me. Again Christina and Zeke say that I have done nothing wrong but the guards don't listen to them. My hands are tied behind my back and I'm lead out of the room.
I spend the rest of the day in a cell. They give me dinner but I don't eat it. A nurse came in to tend to my split knuckles, at first I don't let her but the throbbing pain of them is too much. She also tried to make me eat but to no success. Half an hour before we are planned to leave, Zeke comes into collect me.
"Nice room," he jokes. "Nice and... homely." I laugh at him as I walk over to the door. "They looked at the footage and said that it wasn't your falt and they aren't going to press charges."
"Well that's kind of them, maybe next time I'll ask them to decide a bit quicker."
Zeke laughs and begins to walk down the corridor to leave the building. I'm was put near the end so we have a long distance to walk. On the way, Zeke gives me a muffin because he heard that I didn't eat earlier. As we come out the men's cell block I walk towards the door so we can leave, however before i can leave Zeke grabs my arm and pulls me down to the women's cells. "You weren't the only person to get arrested today."
"What do you mean?"
"After you left, Christina started shouting and arguing with everyone. Then she saw one of Dean's minions writting about her behaviour, she well... punched him in the face."
"God, I missed that?" Zeke nods. "How shit."
"Oh and Amar then started arguing with the guards about arresting you both. He didn't get arrested though, just cautioned."
"I wish I saw that," I grumble.
"I don't blame you." Zeke stops for a moment to listen to something then continues walking. "Well this is going to be fun."
At first I don't understand what Zeke is talking about but soon I hear Christina's screaming. It isn't very clear what she is saying but I know that she is arguing with someone. We round a few more orners before we see a guard standing at Christina's door.
"Who do you think you are! You are no better than me just cause you are a Divergent! My friend is a better Divergent than you will ever be!" A fist flies out but the guard dodges it.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, you stupid girl. They will keep you here over night if you keep lashing out at everyone." The guard remains calm with her so I tell Zeke to hold back for a moment.
"I'm not staying here! I am going home whether you like it or not," Christina snaps.
"Don't worry, I want you to leave and your friends are coming to collect soon. If you would just quieten down and stop annoying others around you."
"You arrested me and Four for no reason." The guards nods at her. "Can I just go now? I just want to go home and see Tris, Four and Zeke."
The guard looks down the corridor to where we are standing. He smiles at us, "you don't have to wait long Christina."
A head appears from the doorway and a smile comes across her face. Christina disappears again and the guard steps out the way. Although its not a long distance between us, she runs at us and throws her arms around my neck. I hesitate for a moment before hugging her back tightly. When we break, she wraps her arms around Zeke and gives him a hug. After a moment, she pulls back and looks between us both; "Lets go home."