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Anyways, after all that, I just couldn't NOT update-that would have been cruel. And I will not do that to you guys. And this is Chapter Four... ;)

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*Tobias POV*

Not. Good.

Gritting my teeth, I force myself to focus on Tris. I remember her strong but slight frame, her pale skin, her beautiful blue-grey eyes. I take a deep breath and relax my shoulders. Some of the knots unravel.

Tris slams her hand on the glass, hard, but it doesn't move an inch. "What's this fear about?" I ask her. If we can figure out what it is, we can beat it.

"Strength," she says, her voice strained. "It's about everyone always thinking I'm weak. I have to convince myself I'm strong enough to break the glass."

And then I remember, and a chill travels through me. What did Max say just the day before?

You have to solve the problem.

"Tris," I say quietly. "That won't work anymore."

She stops banging on the glass, turns to face me. "What do you mean?"

The water travels up our legs, above our knees.

"They've changed the simulations. To make the simulation move on, you have to solve the problem. That's why you couldn't find the gun to shoot the crows. You were manipulating the simulation."

Tris's eyes lock with mine, and she realizes what I'm saying. "They want everyone to do it the way the Dauntless do," she whispers.

The water surges past my waist.

The tank seems to close in on me. The glass walls enclose me, trapping me in. I push at them with my hands, but I'm not here anymore. I'm a million miles away in another enclosed space, my back aching from the lashes inflicted upon me.

"Tobias."

I back away from him, but he advances towards me. His eyes are dark and glimmer with an emotion I cannot decipher. It cannot be sadness anymore-the man isn't capable of feeling sad for anyone. Not even his own son.

"Father. Please. I'm sorry." My voice sounds desperate, even to myself. It's a futile hope. He will never spare me.

He shakes his head. "I cannot let you repeat this mistake. You have to learn."

The belt curls around his wrist, and I know what will come next. I know it like it's my daily routine, because it is. I know the words he will speak next, and how the belt will move, lashing across my face and back, the blood running along my skin.

He takes a step toward me and uncoils the belt. And then he speaks.

This is for your own good.

My hands come up over my head to protect myself, and I can feel the lash of the whip as it comes down on my skin, again and again-making marks in my skin, tracing its path as the blood flows.

And then I'm screaming, screaming at him to stop, to leave, to let me go…

"Tobias? Tobias!"

Tris cups my face in her hands, rests her forehead against mine. I feel the water against my chest. Tris looks at me, and I see the glimmer of tears in her beautiful eyes. "Is it him? Was he hurting you?"

"The whip," I mumble. "He was hitting me, and then he threw me in the closet, left me there…"

Tris says nothing but stands on her tiptoes and kisses me. It's a soft kiss, a sweet reassuring one, to let me know I'm not there anymore, that I'm free from him, that I'll never have to see him again.

She brings me back to the present, and I realize that if we don't do something, we're going to drown. I pull away from her, keeping my arm around her waist.

My eyes scan the floor of the tank, and I see the pipe, releasing water into the tank. If we plug up the pipe, the water will stop flowing, I realize. I look at Tris, and I see that she's looking at the pipe too.

Without a word, I shrug off my jacket, and she takes it, diving down to the pipe and stuffing the jacket in, clogging it.

The water stops flowing, and we both sigh in relief. I turn to her, and kiss her head. This was her fear; but she was the one comforting me. She's my anchor, my grounding, and I'll never stop owing her.

I lean down to kiss her.

And that's when I'm ripped away from her.

So, I'm the kind of wicked person who likes to leave cliffhangers on every chapter.

Sorry!

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