les sequelles - Eric Coulter 1

88. You Can't Kill Him!

Imagine: Talking Four out of shooting Eric.

*Note: I'm using a mixture of the book version of Eric's death with my own version added into it in this imagine!*

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Shit, you knew something was going to go wrong as soon as you saw Eric holding Tris to gunpoint and leading her out of the building, and of course, you were right; Tris takes a knife out of nowhere and slashes at your boyfriend. You see Eric fall; you don't see where she stabbed him for tears are blurring your vision. He's dead, the fucker deserved it. He left me. He's dead. You don't know where the Candor take him, you don't know what happens next or how you end up in bed or how you manage to fall asleep, but somehow you do.

You jolt awake the next morning and remember all the past events, you instantly jump out of bed and rush to find Four or Tris or anyone for that matter.

Before you had transferred from Erudite to Dauntless, someone had told you that it wasn't good to run in the halls, and for all the right reasons as well because you both fall smack on your asses as you run into Uriah, "What the fuck are you doing Y/N?"

"Wh-where is he Uriah?! What happened," The horror hits even harder as you repeat the words aloud, "He's dead isn't he?"

To your surprise, Uriah shakes his head, "The cut was deep enough to make him go unconscious, but not enough to kill him, especially not when Jack Kang asked for him to be taken to the infirmary. Something about treating your prisoners with humanity; sounds like BS to me."

"W-why?"

"Because, Erudite promised to be peaceful with Candor if Eric was returned safely, that's why Kang wants to send him back. Four tried to talk to him earlier this morning, he isn't seeming to budge," Uriah suddenly drops his voice to a whisper, not many of the Dauntless knew about your relationship with Eric due to the fact that you were only an initiate before the war started, "Four and Tori are planning on executing him tonight."

Your stomach drops and you feel as if you're about to vomit, "Ex-executing him?! I-I gotta go Uri, I'll talk to you later!"

You rush towards the infirmary, and after a few threats, they finally let you see Eric. He's asleep when you sit next to him so you gently shake him awake, "Y/N? What are you doing here?!"

"Eric, what's going on?! Why are you doing this?!" He sighs and turns his head away from you, "Eric I know you're not bad, but you have to tell me why you're doing this, they're planning on executing you!"

"I'm not afraid of death Y/N."

"You were the one who once told me with great pride that 'Eric doesn't make many promises, but when he does he keeps them'" He looks at you as if to say 'and?', "and you once promised me that you would keep me happy, do you think I'll be fucking happy if you're dead?!"

"Alright Y/N, I'm the Dauntless leader and I want the best for my faction, if I can save hundreds of my people from dying by sacrificing one little ex-Abnegation girl, then I'm gonna do it!" He looks exhausted, "I did this because I care Y/N! There's nothing more I can say!"

You run down from your room later that evening to see what the commotion downstairs was and you find your boyfriend tied on a chair with Four holding a gun to his head. You quickly push past the crowd just in time to hear Four say, "Be brave Eric."

"NO!" You scream just before Four pulls the trigger and everyone turns to look at you.

"Y/N?" Four questions, at the same time Eric whispers, "Y/N, don't."

"Four, Eric isn't a bad guy! He was only trying to help, he wasn't trying to hurt anyone, he just wanted to help his faction!" You ramble.

"Y/N, do you even know how ridiculous you sound," At this point you are standing between the gun and Eric, "This man if responsible for the murder of countless people, you can't possibly want to save him!"

"Four, I know I sound crazy but you have to trust me!"

"Get her out of the way," Two Dauntless men begin to drag you away.

"TOBIAS EATON THIS MAN BETTER ALIVE TO YOU THAN DEAD!" This gets Four's full attention.

"How so?" He asks venomously.

"Four we're in Candor you can get all the information you need from him by putting him under the truth serum!" You pull out a syringe that you had been hiding, "If you still this he's bad then-then you can kill him."

"Alright Y/N, but if you're wrong-"

"I won't be!"

Once Eric is completely under the truth serum Four asks a few simple questions to warm him up including, "What was your past in Erudite?" or "State your full name?" or "What is your relationship with Y/N?" all of which he answers truthfully. Finally Four asks, "What did Jeanine want with Tris and why did you join her?"

"I joined Jeanine in beginning because I had no choice, I could either join her or be put under the simulation myself, so I joined. I wanted to take Tris to her because as a leader of the Dauntless faction, it is my duty to protect my people, and I'd much rather have one girl die than hundreds of other innocent people. As for what Jeanine wanted from Tris, I don't even know, all I know is that she needed the 100% Divergent, but I don't know why, she never told me."

"That'll be all Er-"

"No, I have one more question," You interrupt, "Eric; do you promise that from this day forth you will join us loyal Dauntless and fight with us against Jeanine?"

"Y/N-" You once again gesture to stop four from speaking.

"I-I do. I promise that I will join the loyal Dauntless in their fight."

"Then it's decided," Four announces, "Eric will live."

You let out a sigh of relief and smile victoriously. 

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