Divergent: If War Hadn't Happened: BOOK ONE

Chapter 7

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Reminders; Tris doesn't know Tobias is Divergent yet because in the actual book Divergent she found out Tobias was Divergent during the attack on the train. So Tris does NOT know Tobias is Divergent yet. 

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When Christina and I get to the pit, my expression goes blank. I knew 'Divergent' was a secretive and dangerous thing, just like Tori and my mom told me. So, what is with this Divergent message? Now Divergent is widespread all over Dauntless? What if they find out that i'm Divergent and what will they do to me? I try to calm down, slowly inhaling and exhaling.

When I see Tobias, I rush to his side and give him a worried-look. He's one of the people who knows about me being Divergent. I wish he was Divergent also so, he would know how panicked I am right now. I lock my fingers with his and rest my head on his arm.

The projector starts playing and it's an Erudite woman at her desk. 

Jeanine.

She has her hands folded together and on her desk then, she begins to speak.

"As many of you may know, I am Jeanine. Leader of Erudite. I have been examining some important things in our society. Our people. And that is the Divergent. Divergence is when you have been given more than one aptitude result. We need a Divergent to report to the Erudite headquarters, and if is not, this will happen again."

The projector goes off, then a gun goes off, shattering through the window. I gasp and scream when the bullet hits Will in the chest. He slumps to the ground and I rush to his aid. Everyone else surrounds. 

I notice Christina standing there, her mouth open, tears swelling in her eyes.

Blood begins to soak his shirt and I shake him.

"Will." I say  "Wake up."

Christina stands in the crowd of people and once she reaches to the front she screams.

"Will!" She screams and she kneels down beside me.

Tears begin to feel my eyes, when I feel his pulse and there is no respond.

He's dead. Will's dead.

"WILL" I scream. "You can't be dead."

By now, I am sobbing and I look to Tobias.

"He has no pulse." I say. I slowly get up, and just walk out, tears spreading in my eyes.

Then I run. Run to, where I don't know. I just want to get away, from the pain of seeing my best friend dead, infront of my eyes. Seeing him get shot, the bullet wounding him in his chest

Once I turn into a hallway, I slouch down, and sob into my hands, not caring who see's.

I mean, I could have saved him. But how? If I were to go to the Erudite. If no one else goes, more people are going to die, and who knows, the next one could be Tobias. I couldn't picture Tobias dead.  But. But it's too late, all the things I could have done, I can't do them because he's dead and he's gone and he's not coming back.

I cry even more than I did before.

This can't be real. It doesn't feel real, but it's real.

I have to stop this. I mean. I can stop this. I can. All I have to do is, go to Erudite headquarters and i'll give myself to Erudite and let them examine my divergence. Yeah. I can do that. Then they won't kill anybody else.