Tobias drags me across the hall to the empty examination room that's becoming more and more familiar to me to wait for news on Tori. I hurry to the back of the room and park the double stroller beside the hospital bed then lower myself into the black metal folding chair beside it. I check on my girls, making sure they're alright and find them both still sound asleep. I collapse back in the chair and rest my head against the wall, wondering what's going on in the examination room across the hall. Did she succumb to her injuries or did something illicit happen? Where's her guard? Did Molly or one of her cohorts somehow sneak in to finish what they started? The suspense is killing me.

"She's dead," Tobias mutters. "They killed her." I watch as he restlessly paces, not taking his eyes off Tori's door. I imagine he's wearing a groove into the floor as he walks back and forth at a clipped pace.

"You don't know that," I say even though that's exactly what's running through my mind at the moment. "Do you think you could stop pacing please? You're making me dizzy." He stops in his tracks and looks up at the ceiling and groans. These deaths are really taking their toll on him. I pat the bed beside me, needing him close. "Sit." He mopes over and takes a seat on the mattress. He pulls his phone out of his pocket, glances at it, then sighs.

"I wonder what's taking so long?" he says.

"She has a lot of injuries," I say, taking his hand in mine. "I'm sure Zander is doing his best for her." A tall, large Dauntless guard walks by our door and Tobias hollers at him.

"Yes, Four?" he says when he sticks his head though the door.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm relieving Tori's guard, Sir," he says. Tobias and I look at each other with the same confused expression.

"Tori's room is right there," he says, pointing across the hallway at the ominously quiet room. "Where were you going?" The guard pulls his phone out of his pocket and scrolls through his messages.

"That's strange," he says. "It's gone."

"What's gone?" I ask.

"The message from Simon telling me to go to room 109 to relieve Tori's guard for lunch," he says. "I don't remember deleting it but I must have."

"May I?" Tobias asks, holding out his hand. The guard sets his phone in it, and Tobias double checks his messages. "I need to keep this, um…"

"Charlie," he says. "Charlie Brand."

"Charlie, do me a favor. Go to room 109 and bring the guard back here … if there is one. I need to speak to him right away. Also check and see if there's a guard on Will's room, which is 102."

"Yes, Sir," he says. "Do you want me to bring him back here, too?"

"That isn't necessary," Tobias says. "Oh and don't call me Sir. Four is fine."

"Yes, Si … um, sorry, Four," Charlie stutters. He turns and hurries out of the room as Tobias gets his phone out and makes a call.

"Hey, Zeke, it's me. I have a question. Is there a way for me to text you but make you think it came from Tris … It's hypothetical you idiot … Okay, you're only a partial idiot … I'm sorry. That was uncalled for. I'm more than a little stressed right now. Tris and I are waiting on news from Zander about Tori. Her heart monitor flatlined. I don't think she's going to make it … We don't know what happened yet but there was no guard posted outside her room when we got here like Tris requested, and the supposed replacement guard said he received a message from Simon to go to room 109 and relieve Tori's guard … Actually, there are two problems with that. One, Tori is in exam room 2 not patient room 109 and there is no message from Simon on Charlie's phone … I confiscated it. Can you run diagnostics on it … I don't think he's lying. I don't get that kind of vibe off him. He seems very eager to please … Charlie Something. Um, Brand I think … I have no idea. I don't recall seeing him before now … No, you're right. I'm totally off today. Anyway, can you answer my original question?" He sighs dramatically and rolls his eyes. "Is it possible for me to text you but when you read the text, you think it came from Tris … I see … Actually, that's not a bad idea … Okay. If I find anything out, I'll let you know. Oh and can you keep this quit for now … Thanks, Zeke."

"What was that all about?" I ask.

"Apparently, there's a computer program that spoofs a cellphone number so anyone could have sent that text to Charlie using Simon's phone number. Why? I have no idea," he says. "How it was erased from his phone is another problem all together."

"How would Molly get Simon's phone number?" I ponder out loud.

"I guess we have more questions than answers," he says. "But I'm sure that if Molly wanted some kind of information, Lauren would have no trouble getting it for her. She's a computer whiz after all."

"You're probably right," I say.

"But?" he asks, hearing my hesitation.

"Can we trust Simon and Tony?" Not trusting them has never occurred to me before but with Lauren betraying Dauntless who's to say that Purple-Hair and Snake-Tattoo aren't doing the same thing.

"I trust those two with my life," he says.

"Didn't you trust Dante and Samuel with your life at one point?" I ask. "I'm not saying that Simon and Tony aren't trustworthy but shouldn't we err on the side of caution? After all, I texted Simon and told him where to put the guards. How did they get changed?" Charlie walks into the room followed by another faceless guard. The one thing they all have in common is their size. These men are huge. I'm sure if they set their mind to it, they could break me in two.

"Four, Tris, this is Brett Tomas," he says. "He was guarding room 109. And for your information Kyle Peters is at Will's room."

"I have a couple questions for you, Brett," Tobias says. "Please tell me how you were assigned to an empty room."

"I got a text from my supervisor, Tony Weatherly. He told me to guard Tori who was located in exam room 2. I immediately left my post near the Pire and started to the infirmary. Before I reached the Pit, he texted me back and told me that Tori had stabilized and that she was being moved to room 109. I passed Kyle who was already posted outside Will's room, and I took my place outside what I thought was Tori's room. As I was coming down the hallway, a nurse came out of the room so I didn't think anything about it."

"You never thought to look and see that the person you were supposed to be guarding was actually in the room you were guarding?" I ask. He takes a deep breath and squares his shoulders before he answers.

"No, I didn't," he says.

"Thank you for your honesty," Tobias says. "May I see your phone?"

"That's another strange thing," he says as he gives him the phone. "The second message I received from Tony isn't there anymore." Another missing message? Are these two to be believed? I think Zeke asked the same thing when he was talking to my husband.

"Charlie, did you say your text was from Simon?" Tobias asks.

"Yes, Si, Four," he says. Tobias gets up off the bed and starts pacing again.

"What faction were you born into?" he asks Charlie.

"Dauntless," he answers, although it's obvious he's wondering why he's being questioned about his faction of origin.

"And you, Brett?"

"Candor," he says.

"Do you know a girl named Molly Atwood?" Tobias asks.

"Molly Atwood?" he repeats. "I don't believe so. Was she from Candor, too?"

"Yes," I say. "She was a transfer last year."

"Sorry," he says shaking his head. "I don't know anyone who would be that young. I joined Dauntless 10 years ago.

"She does have older siblings named Michael and Margarete," I say. "They too are younger than you but do the names ring a bell?"

"Atwood. No, I can't say that they do," he says. The door across the hallway finally opens up and Zander comes through. He looks exhausted, downtrodden.

"I need to speak to Dr. Parrish," Tobias says. "Can you two wait with Kyle outside of Will's room? I'll be with you as soon as I can." They exit the room and Zander closes the door behind them. He grabs the black rolling stool and sits down. We all look at each other, not speaking.

"She's stable," he finally says. "Until I run a full tox screen, I won't know for sure what exactly happened. The alarm in her room went off, and when we responded, she wasn't breathing. We worked on her, trying to restore her airway and then her heart stopped. We had to shock her multiple times but we got her heart restarted and her breathing normalized. She's not out of the woods yet but she's awake, and I think you can talk to her if you keep it short. If you like I can stay here with Tessa and Teagan."

"Thank you, Zander," I say. "We didn't mean to interrupt earlier."

"You didn't," he says. "It isn't easy seeing a friend or a loved one being worked on by medical professionals. I try to make sure that all procedures happen behind closed doors but sometimes mistakes happen."

"Come on, love," Tobias says. "Let's see if we can get some answers." I take his proffered hand, and he leads me across the hall into the examination room. There's still evidence of Zander and his staffs' efforts to bring Tori back littering the floor. I squeeze Tobias' hand when my gaze falls on Tori's face. She doesn't look any different than she did yesterday. Maybe the bruise on the side of her face has yellowed minutely. "Tori?" Her eyes slowly open and she focuses on our faces.

"Hi," she says. She looks around the room then back to us. "Where am I?"

"You're in the infirmary," I say. She reaches out and takes my hand.

"What happened?" she asks.

"We were hoping you could tell us," I say. She stares up at us, obviously confused.

"What's the last thing you remember?" Tobias asks. She furrows her brows as she concentrates then surprisingly a smile turns up her lips.

"Frankie made me a romantic dinner," she says. "He proposed. I'm getting married." Pain spears my heart for her. I can't believe he proposed the night he died, and it's obvious she doesn't know his fate or she doesn't remember. I wouldn't want to remember if I was her. "Where is he?"

"We'll look for him after we leave," Tobias says. A startled gasp leaves my lips, and he gives me a warning look.

"You need your rest, Tori," I say, knowing that we won't get anything useful from her at the moment … if ever. "We'll come back later."

"Thanks for stopping by," she says as her eyes flutter shut. I very gently remove my hand from hers then we go back across the hallway. I can see that Zander is dying to learn what we found out but I can't say it. My heart is breaking for her.

"As of right now, her last memory is of Frankie proposing," Tobias says. A horrified look crosses Zander's face.

"Oh, God. That's horrible."

"She asked for him. I told her I'd look for him."

"I know that it seems cruel but what you told her is for the best," Zander says. "She just suffered a cardiac arrest. The shock of learning he was murdered, and she was kidnapped and given a form of death serum could be too much for her."

"Do you think the memory loss is temporary or is it more than likely permanent?" I ask.

"You probably don't want to hear this but the best thing for Tori is if she never remembers the trauma. I know that doesn't help your case but the shock of losing Frankie on top of already losing Harrison alone is going to be difficult for her to overcome. If you add her having to endure her worse fears for however long it was and the trauma of the kidnapping, she might not make it."

"She's so strong though," I say.

"But every mind has its breaking point, Tris," Zander says. "Once her vitals stabilize and I'm satisfied she's out of danger, I'll move her to a private room. When I feel she's stable enough to learn the truth without causing a setback, I'll tell her about Frankie. I'm limiting her visitors to just you two. That should reduce the risk of her finding out prematurely and going into shock or cardiac arrest again."

"I'm going to assign guards to her room," Tobias says.

"To tell you the truth, I'm surprised you didn't do that before," he says.

"I did," I say. "We have reason to believe that Molly orchestrated them being moved to a different room. We don't think Tori went into cardiac arrest naturally. We think it was another attempt on her life. She may not remember anything from her ordeal at the moment but she knows something and Molly's scared. We've got to keep her safe."

"I thought it was too much of a coincidence that she was steadily improving throughout the morning to just crash the way she did. I'll put a STAT on the toxicology report." Peanut starts fussing, and I pick her up so she doesn't wake Tessa but it's too late. Her little eyes flutter open, and she whines as she shoves her fist in her mouth.

"If she needs to be moved for any reason, tests, labs, etc., make sure her guards go with her," Tobias says as he picks up Tessa. "Since she needs her rest, can we go over the DNA test results?"

"Of course," he says. "Let's go to my office." After assigning the guards to the correct room, we follow Zander through the labyrinth to his office and sit in the chairs opposite his desk. "The DNA collected from Tori's neck is a perfect match to the male DNA from our other cases. She also had female DNA collected from her wrists and ankles. It matched what was found on Frankie's autopsy results. There was trace DNA on the sweatshirt and sweat pants but it's from a third unknown female."

"Two females and one male," Tobias says. "Molly, Lauren or Olivia, and Drew, although that's only a guess."

"I suppose we can't just ask them for samples of their DNA?" I ask, knowing that this could all be over if we could just get samples of all our suspects' DNA.

"We could but I doubt they would comply," Tobias says, a thoughtful, faraway look on his face. "I was just remembering a plot from an old movie I watched when I first came to Dauntless. The police needed a suspect's DNA but because there was no probable cause for a warrant to compel him, they followed him around and got a sample off a spoon or fork he ate off of. Could we do something like that?" We both look at Zander.

"Yes," he says. "Although we would need absolute proof that whatever was being tested came from the suspect, a video or photograph or something like that."

"So I could have guards follow our suspects and collect anything that might have their DNA on it as long as we have proof it's theirs?" Tobias asks.

"Basically," he says.

"Finally, some good news," he says. "It's about time we got some. I should be going. I've got some research to do on how that car got to Amity. Maybe if I can figure out who the weak link is, this whole conspiracy could come crashing down." Tessa seems to have regained her good mood after her nap so Tobias is able to put her in the stroller without her crying but Peanut, on the other hand, is just miserable. Thankfully I have an extra sling in the diaper bag. Once I get her situated, she falls back to sleep, although it's a restless nap. We say our goodbyes and thanks to Zander, reminding him to contact us if there's any change in Tori's condition then we decide to drop in on Will and Christina.

"I hope we aren't interrupting," I say as we walk past his guard and through the open door. Tobias closes it behind us.

"Of course not," Will says.

"How are you feeling?" I ask. "You're looking better. You have a little more color than the last time we saw you."

"My head hurts but not as bad as it did," he says. "I've been trying to remember for you but there's just nothing there."

"Take it from me," Tobias says, "don't try to force the memories. They'll come back when you least expect it."

"Everyone keeps telling me that but it's so frustrating not to remember," he says. "Maybe the key to capturing Molly and Drew is locked up in my head."

"Don't worry about that," I say. "We have a plan."

"We're going to have the patrol officers who are following Molly, Drew, and Olivia get items with their DNA on it to compare to the DNA that's been collected from the autopsies," Tobias says. "I have something else I need to tell you. Tris put guards on you and Tori."

"Christina told me," he says.

"Well, someone intercepted her texts to Simon and Tony and sent Tori's guard to the wrong room and we think an attempt was made on her life. She went into cardiac arrest. Zander was able to get her back, and she's awake and improving. As of right now she has no memory of what happened to her. She doesn't realize that Frankie's gone and apparently, he had just proposed."

"Oh, my God!" Christina gasps. "They need stopped! This has gone on long enough."

"Calm done, Christy," Will says, recoiling from her ranting.

"I'm sorry," she says. "I didn't mean to yell. I'm just so frustrated."

"We all are," Tobias says. "I grappled with the idea of giving you this news or not. I hope I made the right decision."

"You did, Four," Will says. "It's not easy to hear but I need to be kept in the loop. I don't think I can do much to help but it makes me feel like I'm contributing."

"We just want you to get better soon," I say.

"Can I visit with Tori?" Christina asks.

"Actually Zander has limited her visitors to Tris and me," Tobias says, "and he's taken it upon himself to be the one to break the news about Frankie when he thinks she's stable enough to hear it. She damn near died today."

"I understand," she says.

"Well, we'll leave you three alone," I say. Liam is asleep in his mother's arms. "Get some rest, both of you. You'll be home before you know it."

"Thanks, Tris," Christina says. I bend over and give her an awkward one-armed hug because of the babies. "I'll see you soon."

"If you need anything at all, just let me know," I say. "That goes for both of you." After we say goodbye we go out into the hallway and give Will's guard the same instructions we gave Tori's. Neither of them are to be left unattended for one second. If they are, jobs will be in jeopardy. We then swing by the pharmacy and stock up on supplies and pick up the prescriptions Zander sent in. Before heading home, Tobias and I stop at the daycare center to pick up Tyler as promised and find that he's down for an afternoon nap. I situate both girls in the stroller as Tobias carefully picks Tyler up and, miraculously, he doesn't wake up then we head up the path to the Pire. We see someone lingering outside his office, and for a moment I become anxious but when I make out who it is, I relax.

"Hello, Jennifer," Tobias says. I think we forgot all about Jennifer Chaucer and the trouble she's been going through, at least I have. "You must think I'm terrible to make you promises then not be here for you."

"It's okay, Four," she says. "I heard Tori and Will were found, although if I'm being completely honest I didn't know Will was missing. I know you have more things to deal with than a pathetic woman who can't take care of herself."

"First of all, I didn't forget about you and second, you're not pathetic. Not by a long shot," he says. "Why don't we all go into my office?" He unlocks the door, and we let Jennifer go in then we follow. I sit down on the couch, and he carefully places Tyler in my arms so he can finish his nap. "Why don't you sit down." He motions to one of the chairs opposite his desk, and she takes a seat. "I have a list of jobs that are available throughout the compound but I have one in particular that I think you would like. It's full-time in the clothing boutique. The hours are 10 to 6 Monday through Friday. Christina Drake would be your direct supervisor. The woman in that position now is taking a different job in the salon in two weeks. I looked at the apartments in the area, and there are two I think you would be interested in. They are both three bedrooms. The first is on two floors, and it was updated three years ago. The other is all on one level and is newly renovated with brand new appliances. Both would be a good option in my opinion but, of course, I'll leave the decision up to you." He gets a sheet of paper out of his top desk drawer and gives it to her. "These are the job openings. If something else jumps out at you, by all means, take it." She reaches out with trembling hands and takes the list from him.

"I forgot how nice people could be," she says. "I'm still having a hard time believing that I deserve all this."

"Of course, you deserve it," I say. "You deserve to be happy."

"Your husband was transferred to Candor yesterday afternoon," Tobias says. This is news to me. "He confirmed the abuse under truth serum and was sentenced to one year in jail and then he'll live factionless. You will be granted a divorce within the month." She gasps. Is it possible that she still loves that animal?

"I don't know how to thank you … both of you," she says, her bottom lip quivering. "The job at the boutique is perfect. I've always loved fashion. I think I'll take the newly renovated apartment. It would be nice to have everything in working condition. When will we be able to move in?" Tobias opens another drawer and takes out a thick binder.

"Apartment 221," he says as he hands her two keys. "You can move in at any time. If you need help, call this number." He hands her a card. "This is the head of maintenance. He'll make sure you get moved in in a timely manner."

"Thank you, Four," she says. "Thank you, Tris. You don't know what a difference your help has made. It's been less than 48 hours, and I've already noticed a profound change in Bobby. He's smiling and so much happier. I wish I could take responsibility for the change but it's because of you."

"No, it's not," Tobias says. "If you hadn't told the truth, if you had allowed his abuse to continue we wouldn't be here right now. But you confided in Tris, you stood up to him, and you made sure he paid for his crimes. You made all that happen so you need to start taking the credit, not give it away."

"Thank you," she says then she glances at the clock on the wall. "I need to go pick up the kids. Thank you again." Tobias sees her out then sits on the couch beside me.

"You look tired, love," he says.

"I am," I say. "Physically and emotionally."

"Is there anything I can do?" I lean up against him, and he wraps his arm around me.

"Just five minutes without any drama would be nice," I say but as soon as the words leave my lips Peanut starts fussing. He gives me a swift kiss then picks her up out of the stroller.

"Maybe next time you should ask for five minutes of nothing but drama and you'll get some peace and quiet," he says and I can't help but chuckle.

"Tyler, buddy, it's time to get up," I quietly say as I rub his back. His eyes flutter open and he stares up at me. It takes a moment for him to comprehend where he is then he smiles at me. "Hi."

"Hi."

"Mommy needs you to walk so Daddy and I can get the babies upstairs. Okay?"

"Otay," he says. Tobias hands me Peanut then picks up Tessa and her diaper bag then we head home.