ANOTHER CHANCE (Divergent Story : After Allegiant)

CHAPTER 25 : Weeks

Tobias P.O.V.

I am currently sitting in my living room just staring at the group. Everyone is here, trying to figure out what we are going to do next.

Tris has been missing for 5 weeks now. 5 Weeks of absolute torture. Zeke, Amar and George are still looking for Tris through the police, Johanna through the government and me in the streets. In the 5 weeks, Caleb found that the serum was a new type of memory serum and he thinks that it will be a clean wipe, even for someone like Tris. I nearly killed Caleb when he told me that news. Zeke and Amar had to hold me so I didn't rip someone's throat out.

At this time Christina was trying to make me get ready for the worst. I threw her out of my apartment when she suggested that. It is the first time that she is back here after that incident. I just sit there with the group around me. They are talking, but I can't process anything atm. I have been a wreck, I know I have. I have been in the streets searching for her about 18 hours a day, only coming home to sleep for a few short hours and then head out again. Christina and Zeke have been forcing me to at least eat, without them, I think I might have forgotten to do the most basic things.

The police can't do much regarding her disappearance, as she is still pronounced dead to the government. We never thought to have her death certificate destroyed through all of this. If I get her back, that is the first thing that I will do.

"Four!", I hear someone scream. I am taken out of my thoughts and look around the room to the person that just called me. "What?", I ask.

"Did you hear anything I said?" Matthew asks me. I look down at my lap and answer no.

"I said, we have a strong enough case to start with the court case against the Bureau. With all the data from the machine and the vial evidence, we can start if you still want to." he tells me.

"Yes, I need to find her, and they need to pay for this. I can't take it anymore, they have ruined our lives so much already, if you think we can take them on, then do it." I answer him truthfully. He just nods his head and they continue chatting. I go back to my thoughts. After a while I tell everyone that I need to leave. He tells me he will keep me up to date about all the proceedings etc.

I greet everyone as they start to leave, Christina turns to me and says, "You need to get more that 3 hours of sleep per night Four. Please, you won't be any help to her if you carry on like this. She might need you more that ever now." With that she leaves.

Wow, a week ago she told me to prepare for the worst and now she tells me there is still hope. Damn, woman are so confusing. I head to my room, get changed into comfortable walking clothes and head out the door. I have been leaving the door unlocked, just in case she comes back. She never took a key. I head into the streets of Chicago, it is afternoon already and I head to the last place we know Tris was.

Johanna accessed the street camera's data just after Tris' disappearance. We now know the Bureau never took her with them after they injected her. They just left her and with her memory gone, she wandered in the streets and there we lost her. I only have this one lead, so I have been retracing her steps and trying to figure out where she would have gone. I am guessing the Bureau only injected her to forget everything and perhaps test their new serum.

I am aimlessly wandering the streets and alleyways, but still come up empty. I look into shops and ask around, but it is just as if she vanished into thin air. No-one has seen her. Johanna gave me extended time off at work, James is covering everything for me. She has helped me so much already, I will never be able to repay her. She has came to drop food off at my apartment a few times, making sure I eat. Between Christina and her, I never have to cook. Which is fine by me, I am not gonna waste time to cook when I can spend that time to looking for Tris.

A while later I realize it is starting to get dark and the street lights and night entertainment starts. I don't really care, I still search for her. I feels like I know every street and alleyway already with the time I have spent here. My heart is so heavy and it really hurts, but I try not to cry. I keep that for when I am alone, which I can feel might be tonight again.

Why does all this happen just when I think that everything will get better?

That me and Tris may have a future?

Is the universe so against us being happy, that is needs to rip my heart out every time by taking Tris from me?

All I ask is that I get one good thing in my life. Did I do such cruel things in my past that I am not allowed to be happy?

With these thoughts I head home as it is already one o'clock in the morning and I need to get a few hours of sleep so I can get up early and start my search again.