Divergent: An Untold Love Story

Chapter 7: The Train

"Nothing in this wake,
Will ever change my mind,
And if the stars align,
What will you say. . ."

"Sierra! Sierra! Wake up, please!"

"But now I'm falling,
And we are failing,
Doing this is so hard,
I'm in the middle of you. . ."

"Sierra, please. Don't go. . ."

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It was all black. Black night. It was freezing. And I had no clue about what was going on. All I could remember was falling asleep. So what the heck WAS going on?

"What the heck was that!" It was more or less a statement than a question. I didn't know who was talking, but I knew that it was a he.

"All I want is to get rid of her, Max. She's nothing but trouble. And a distraction." Eric. Heck. He was the one who. . .

"Well maybe next time you should tell me what you're problem is instead of trying to kill her!" Max screamed at Eric. "If I would've known any better, I would think you're jealous of her."

Eric scoffed. "No, I'm not. She's just a distraction for me, uh, I mean the Initiates. And I want her gone."

Was he trying to say that he-

"No, we still need her if we want the plan to succeed. So that means that you can't try to kill-"

Too late. My eyes popped open when Eric's hands wrapped around my throat. His face turned red when my eyes began bulging out of their sockets. His hands' force never ceased, but his expression changed when, for the second time today, it all went black.

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"Swing with me hallelujah,
Take me into your arms,
My wake is come,
And all is free of the chains. . ."

I shot straight up. That stupid song. And I don't know where I heard it from. The room was black and I was laying on a gurney. I don't even know what was happening, how it had happened, why it had happened, when it happened, and where it happened. All I knew was that my head was pounding and I was in a neck brace. And one of those hospital gowns that left your whole back planned exposed. Ugh, what if someone came in?

And with my luck, Max came in. Smiling like a lunatic. "Good evening, Sierra. I know this is a horrible and confusing time, but let me reassure you. Two days ago, Eric threw you into the chasm that was full of horrible boulders and spikes. And glass, thanks to the drunk idiots from the night before the Choosing Ceremony. But it caused you great hallucinations and, and, and, and, never mind. Don't move."

He pressed a knife to my throat. "Sierra, don't do this."

"What, Max?" I managed to ask.

"I AM NOT MAX!" Slowly, before my eyes, Max began to change back to a form of a woman. "Sierra, fight it!" The girl screamed.

"Max. . ." The woman's eyes began to blaze a fiery red and orange.

"Fight it! Don't stop, run. Keep running!" The woman's voice screamed again. I seen her again. And this time I thought I had seen her before.

Max/woman's eyes stilled glowed red, and I finally remembered. The girl was. . .

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"Sierra?" Tris asked. She sat at the end of the gurney, sweating.

"Yeah?" I responded. What was wrong with me?

"No, don't try to talk. Simply nod or gently shake your head," she explained. I finally understood her meaning when I seen the neck brace. Great, what a day it had been.

"Okay, let me bring the light to you: two days ago, Eric threw you into the chasm. You blacked out and injured yourself horribly. You screamed in your sleep a lot, and the nurse, I always forget her name, was forced to give you peace serum. But that only made it worse. And it snapped your arm and your leg. How, we don't know. It was quite amazing, except for you being in pain and screaming. But the reason it's amazing is that you lived."

This was too much. I didn't know what was going on, and all I wanted to do was crawl in a hole and die. Eric wanted to kill me. Simple as that. I nodded to Tris.

She said again, "But I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, Eric left yesterday at dawn after he came out of the nurse's room. Max was in here, and it sounded like you were screaming at him. I don't know how, but I also heard singing. It was very confusing." All I could do was nod. The pain in my body was increasing and I felt like crying. And I did. The tears flowed like a stream and I couldn't scream. I laid back down and let Tris try to comfort me. It was no use. What was going to happen now? I would never recover in a day. My body ached all over and I felt horrible. I closed my eyes only to reopen them. Above me was a small square hole in the roof. I looked through it and seen Eric's face. I couldn't see it really well, but enough to see that he was smirking. He began to walk away and the song that I kept hearing began to play.